The Only 8 Types of TV Shows That Get Made | After Hours

[@JeffCorpening]

Seven years later and I’m still re-watching episodes of the show hoping I stumble on one I haven’t seen.

[@KuueenKumi]

I rewatch them whenever I remember that I've forgotten them. It's like they're all new again! ... :(

[@WhereNothingOnceWas]

Ifn yalls willin to pay, then im sure willin to give yall some of this here content you damn well might not know about

[@charlestoncooper5265]

@@KuueenKumi me too

[@apollo_0405]

Saem dude

[@kiwikick4203]

9 years later, still doing the same 🤣

[@AvianSavara]

Those title cards is why I come back to re-watch this episode every 3 months.

[@melonlemonade2]

See you in a month man.

[@poorlittlesmartphonekids1777]

Lol, White People is my favorite.

[@finnthpjac3457]

Maxime Boileau welcome back

[@AvianSavara]

Hey there! :)

[@imitationinfinity7962]

Only 3 months!?

[@gianni206]

The 8 shows: Sympathetic anti-hero/anti-villain Rich white people problems Dysfunctional cast Quirky charming guy with a twist Aggressive, Inescapable good guy Bad boys that are right all the time and a holes Comedies few people see The Wire

[@FyidRants]

Eh. Fargo perfectly fit with the description they had of The Wire. And the new show Preacher on AMC seems pretty similar too.

[@helloohelloo3948]

what would deathnote be? or the walking dead?

[@helloohelloo3948]

oh and orange is the new black

[@FyidRants]

helloo helloo I think the description for The Wire works for that show.

[@vulture_5212]

The Walking Dead would be The Wire, and Death Note's protagonist is an anti-hero who kills people, so I think that's pretty self explanitory.

[@Kabitu1]

Daniel (as always) shows incredible knowledge of even the most obscure sides of pop culture. 15 seconds pass. "Dan isn´t an expert at anything".

[@azsli2]

i agree hes a tv expert.

[@jamesl7709]

Because he;s an expert in everything...

[@pigeondoesthings]

Very very very true. Daniel is unappreciated. He's a 1/4th of the reason I watch After Hours.

[@HelloItsMikkan]

Kabitu1 pretty sure hes a pop culture nerd of all genres but the the master of none

[@jordanr.2120]

I love hearing Katie say HBO isn't going to "listen to some internet comedy dicks" now that we know that one of these four people went on to write for a multi-Emmy-winning HBO show.

[@360FireFallen]

Who was it?

[@billyweed835]

@@360FireFallen Dan O'Brien works on HBO's Last Week Tonight.

[@afterdinnercreations936]

@@billyweed835 Ahh, the sexy friend got his time to shine

[@kevinwillems8720]

@@afterdinnercreations936 you have refined taste

[@Sabrowsky]

Soren went to work on American Dad, and while that's kinda eh at times, its nothing to scoff at

[@OpDownfall93]

I like how whenever Michael brings up a topic, everyone always ends up agreeing with him.

[@linnea6527]

I love Michael. In a way, I feel like he's the smartest one of all of them.

[@mikethole2877]

I totally agree with that. It is an extremely bizarre yet intensely focused kind of smartness!

[@ChickenGeorgeClooney]

+ZeldaFan217 You know you can edit comments, right? You don't need to make three separate comments

[@ILuvKonata]

I really want to hear the other seven versions of Dinosaur Detective.

[@zoraluigi]

ILuvKonata DinoSORE Detective--a detective, who's also a dinosaur, with a sore back.

[@steampunkerkai]

ILuvKonata DINEosaur Detective - A detective investigating dinosaur deaths by food poisoning.

[@nikoincroatia]

ILuvKonata Dinosaur Detective: It has become common to clone dinosaurs and our main character is the head of the dinosaur-related crimes department. Dinosaur Detective: It's like the show Dinosaurs where in dinosaur times dinosaurs are smart and live like people, except we're looking at a detective in that world. Dinosaur Detective: Our detective protagonist is so old and old-fashioned that everyone calls him a dinosaur, but his old school techniques show up those lab nerds as often as not. Dinosaur Detective: A National Geographic show where a scientist looks at various dinosaur remains and tries to figure out how they died. I could keep going but that's enough

[@ILuvKonata]

Well, we got six! Who shall supply that final Seventh one? =O

[@ewoksinspace]

ILuvKonata Dinosaur Detective: a show in which the main character is a drugs cases Detective, fighting both family problems and the mysterious new hot drug sweeping the nation into cases of believing themselves to be cannibalistic, known simply as Tyrannosaur.

[@jacobwright6309]

How about a show about World War II, and it would start with a certain soldier and follow him through his pains and greifs of fighting in the war, but then, a plot twist five or so episodes in. He dies. And a new character on another side of the war (Russian, British, German, Japanese, or any of the other countries that fought in WWII) would be the new main character, and it would show the war from their point of view. Sometimes the character would live and get sent home sometimes to wait out the war because he did enough or something. It could show the hardships of being a U-boat first mate, or a soldier on the front lines, or a soldier that flew in a plane. Every episode would be thrilling because you wouldn't know if the guy died or not. It would be hard in the fact that you would need historical accuracy for it to be good, and you would have to make the character likeable, and someone you would want to see survive the war. But maybe every now and then, there is someone you just hate because they had been changed by the war so much, that they lost all of their humanity. And sometimes their stories could cross together, with a German commander shown killing a previous character. Every episode the war would progress, and it could be shown somehow maybe in the beginning of each episode? I would really like to see a show like this with four or five seasons in it, and not to be carried out to long. And maybe a memorial at the end of each season for soldiers that had fought for their countries in WWII. I think if it was historically accurate, had likable characters, and correctly showed what it was like in WWII, I think everyone would love to watch it.

[@jacobwright6309]

TL;DR I want a show about WWII that has a different main character every few episodes. Some of the main characters can die, or sometimes live, and some of the main characters are on different sides of the war (Russia, Germany, Britain, etc.). It should be historically accurate, have likeable characters, but not be carried on for too long (with only 4 or 5 seasons).

[@John-iv2oz]

I actually think that would be a good idea. By changing the main character every so often you can keep the story moving in different directions as they center around a new main character and it would get very difficult to get stock in a dead end story line.

[@ered203]

OK - I'm stealing this. It would be very expensive to make however. I like the seasonal aspects to each character. Sort of like American Horror Story or True Detective. Nice. I also like that you used your real whole name, that way I can have the lawyers ready and know which numbers to block. Welcome to Hollywood, kiddo. ;)

[@jacobwright6309]

ered203 Make sure to put me in the "special thanks" portion of the credits when you make the show XD

[@taekinuru2]

I would buy the dvd box set of that.

[@GdoubleWB]

Dexter: Quirky, family man working as a blood splatter analyst in a police department who, TWIST, is a serial killer.

[@maxnaz47]

Loved Dexter, right up until the last episode, similar to Lost series and the last 2 episodes... Best TV series ending i've ever seen, Battlestar Galactica reboot. Without knowing a thing about the original series or how any of it played out, i was completely mind blown at how they chose to conclude it, 10/10.

[@KunalKMehta08]

This is the smartest KZbin show ever. Been 5-6 years they recorded their last episode, and still, this one show rules. Wish them the best, wherever these guys are, whatever these guys are doing

[@donnadelgado8164]

Dan is a writer on Last Week Tonight on HBO. Soren works on American Dad. Michael has a podcast. Katie was a producer for a show on Quibi til they shut down but I think she's working as an artist now.

[@JITCompilation]

If you’re interested in more Swaim, his KZbin channel is called SmallBeans. Occasionally, people from Cracked come on and guest star on their various podcasts.

[@KunalKMehta08]

@@JITCompilation thanks a lot, dude. I will subscribe to it right away. Thanks again

[@KunalKMehta08]

@@donnadelgado8164 thanks a lot for sharing the information. I knew about Dan but no one else. I am glad that all of them are doing well. Thanks again.

[@danielgyte8460]

​@KunalKMehta08 daniel and soren have a podcast called quick question, been going on for a while but theyre doing filmed episodes on youtube now. Also swaims small beans have alot of great podcasts

[@DodderingOldMan]

I am stupidly proud of how quickly I picked up that they were talking about The Wire in that last bit. And I do mean stupidly.

[@WalterLiddy]

Buffoon1980 Egads. So am I. And I see we look alike as well. Creepy.

[@DodderingOldMan]

Ha, clearly you, too, are a man of taste, distinction and stunning good looks!

[@Iaminationman]

Buffoon1980 Their description of The Wire bears uncanny similarity to Orange is the New Black

[@JonathanMartin884]

Nigel Foster-Jones Could just as easily say they were talking about the Walking Dead, too.

[@MrFrostburner]

Jonathan Martin Except, interesting instead.

[@Michaela_ZC]

1:57 it's called the "Pretty White Kids with Problems" genre

[@belias360]

+Michael Cutler MADTV did an excellent parody on their show about that, lol.

[@quizzlie]

+belias360 And thanks to the internet, you can watch the skit on youtube.

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

+Michael Cutler And all four examples of that kind of show were produced by HBO.

[@TheBlackDoor]

at the end I thought they would come up with Community. It fits with all the conditions

[@TheBlackDoor]

+Mark Lester Celozar (Marcus Leicester) oohh... yes. you're right.

[@TheTardisDreamer]

+TheBlackDoor #AndAMovie :(

[@PaperbackWizard]

So does "American Horror Story"; especially the part about changing up the location all the time.

[@vicky248123]

@@PaperbackWizard Also Black Mirror and even Scream Queens to a degree. So I guess any horror anthology

[@LuisMedina1]

They could've come up with Fargo the show, too.

[@AlexRamirez-ng7hg]

At 4:49 to 4:54 it's Lin Manuel Miranda from Hamilton I didn't know that until now

[@julesk2629]

Me neither!!

[@futureangelica1125]

that's what I said.

[@dawnvamp1400]

Julianna Kopa k

[@shardonayM]

Alex Ramirez omg I see it now

[@potatoluna3389]

I was gonna say something about this.

[@Twilord_]

Isn't Game of Thrones about rich white people in a fantasy world with problems no real-person would have?

[@josephhan1777]

The south have incest problem

[@OrdinaryGuy571]

Well there is the constantly getting killed thing.

[@Twilord_]

+OrdinaryGuy571 I guess African Americans can also kinda relate to that? As a note, because tone doesn't convey easily via text - my implication was an attack on a culture enabling that phenomena.

[@kirsten2535]

+Awesomeness Continued In Braavos you have people of colour (Grey Worm, Missandei)

[@OrdinaryGuy571]

Twilord Well, there's also the struggle for power which we all face in one form or another. All I'm saying is the show isn't exactly "Friends."

[@csgrambauer5852]

All the variations of 'Vagina Whisperer' had me laughing so much. xD

[@MerkhVision]

Then u have a terrible sense of humor lol that stuff was so dumb :/

[@ShawnRavenfire]

"Theodore Rex" was about a dinosaur detective. Shit, everything has been done!

[@angelkingsley5299]

Shawn Ravenfire or alternate, clone version of teddy Roosevelt sent to fight crime.

[@Novasky2007]

what we need is some kind of genre breaking space western with comedy charecters where the real protagonist we care about is their ship. Maybe they could pick up a couple of wanted fugitives from the evil space nazis. That would be shiny.

[@GodliaCo]

Star Wars?

[@Markblood889]

Firefly?

[@FrennisDaemon]

Lexx

[@ajeje1996]

Cowboy Bebop?

[@ViralForceMarketing]

+Nova Sky there three names here i support the return of, star wars is not one of them..but i am a fan of there anime series.

[@definitelycatherine7296]

I'm I the only one who thinks Dinosaur Detective sounds kind of awesome in a chessy kind of way?

[@lailapatterson5301]

You are not alone

[@anthonywheeler2082]

+Definitely Catherine I would watch Dinosaur Detective

[@supersizesenpai]

+Definitely Catherine they had a movie like that with whoopi and it was terrible. lol

[@zackwheelhouse3214]

+Definitely Catherine which one?

[@definitelycatherine7296]

+Zack Wheelhouse (popscotch112) the one where the human detective who goes back in time who goes back in time to solve dinosaur times solving dinosaur crimes.

[@ZombieChimpanzee]

Can a network pick up "Hippy by Day" for a pilot?

[@dekai1029]

And cast ricky martin as the main character

[@TheLowBrassDude]

ABC would pick it up, in a heartbeat. or the SyFy network.

[@Egregius]

This is the one I actually want to watch.

[@TheXenuite]

"Did we just make The Wire?" And that's when I lost it.

[@jimbo4079]

Pretty sure TheGoodPlace has all the trope breaking attributes they were listing at the end. Phenomenal show.

[@goroakechi6126]

White People

[@hannahbaldwin7248]

Oh, you're totally right though!

[@Fantomex.]

Lame

[@Noon3rs]

The Good Place and The Wire…basically the same.

[@bingtunder683]

It does have a main protagonists though

[@LighteningXT9]

I thought it was going to end with them realizing that After Hours is the prefect different show. It's not really a protagonist or villain but just friends talking about what they loved and once and a while talk about something outside a diner.

[@NoForksGiven]

wouldn't be very long though unless you want to drag on the debate for 20 minutes. to do that you'll probably have to script in some extra dialogue. which would ruin the realism of this show which is just 4 guys giving their honest opinion on a subject. not actors saying whatever directors say they should say. terrible idea

[@LighteningXT9]

NoForksGiven I didn't say I wanted this to be a 20 minute tv series I just said I thought that was how it was going to end.

[@GeneralWarburg]

thetickrules Or the majority of shows that are on G4 (or at least, used to be on G4. I'm not sure what that channel is like now, it's been a while.)

[@alfredomarquez1916]

They got to it when they chanted "White People!".

[@mugglesarecooltoo]

thetickrules I was just thinking that!!! :D

[@HassanSra]

1:53 this basically sums up two of their most popular shows in the last few years: Succession and White Lotus.

[@BeardFaceSuper]

When I saw Die Hard as a kid on tv the phrase was, "Yippie Kai yay Mr Falcon."

[@degiguess]

"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MR FALCON SNAKES ON THIS MR FALCON PLANE"

[@grimlock047]

+David Butt Surprise Mr Falcon!

[@choreomaniac]

Your Dad I believe it is “monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane”.

[@Tkieron]

For me it was "Yippie Kai yay Mother lover"

[@aussiechick00]

what about a sitcom show about a bunch of white people hanging out and getting into mischief every week? ...wait...

[@heatherdonovan8626]

Maddie Wilson With absolutely no legal or larger social repurcussions...

[@aussiechick00]

whoa, genius :O

[@Drace90]

Maddie Wilson What about a show about black people dealing with everyday problems of the middle class... No wait...

[@estebansteverincon7117]

+Drace90 That's the Cosby show.

[@Drace90]

Esteban Rincon One of those. Right guess.

[@williambrennan104]

Here's a concept that might work: the world after a Dr. Horrible type supervillain wins. It would be about his and the world's experiences as he discovers that conquering the world is the easy part. He would mostly make things better, but sometimes really screw up, and have all the usual card-carrying villain things (brutal dissent crackdowns, shark tanks, evil laughter, etc.) sometimes serious and dark and sometimes played for comedy. Throw in a romance arc (because what woman would turn down being queen of the world?) and you've got a show. (Actually, regarding the last sentence's parenthetical - why not make it a woman who does all this? She'd be motivated by the mistreatment of women the world over and stopping it.) The pilot would be the classic "villain downfall" scene, except the superhero gets killed instead of the villain and is never mentioned again, followed by "villain" and world realizing he/she has won.

[@shel571]

That sounds awesome. I'd fund that if the villain was actually Dr. Horrible. NPH is the man

[@mmmghool]

Sounds like that animated movie from awhile back Megamind

[@williambrennan104]

Mmm Ghool It's a similar idea, but different, mainly in the motivations of the respective "villains".

[@Littlestraincloud]

+William Brennan Megamind. That's Megamind.

[@ThatOnePersonsName1]

+William Brennan What if Dr. Horrible was gay/lesbian as a plot twist?

[@DonSMDT]

Am I the only one that would watch "Sue me B****!"?

[@AdmanTheGreat]

I would watch a show about the four of you discussing pop culture for hours.

[@taloutezero]

I agree. I could keep watching it, even After Hours have gone by.

[@zachryder3150]

*PAIN*

[@commonbuzzcosplay1907]

These videos may have stopped years ago but I still put on a playlist of all of them, and fall asleep to them every night

[@mbanerjee5889]

i'd watch dinosaur detective

[@joserobertosolismerlin5527]

there is a series of novels about a velociraptor detective called anonymus rex

[@jrpipik]

Dr Who has the next best thing: a lizard woman from the dawn of time who solves crimes.

[@widdershins3785]

@jrpipik AND she's also the original inspiration for Sherlock Holmes! AND she's a lesbian! JEEEEZ Doctor Who is weird!

[@patrickh9268]

Mallika Banerjee I’d watch Hippy by Day.

[@mckennasager9739]

Which one?

[@MagicianVideos]

2024 here. Circling around again and refinding that a lot of my favorite online personalities were once here. I'm glad these are still around and have not been deleted. Someone should archive this before it goes the way of Machinima or 2000's programming.

[@Psychogonically]

When they described The Wire i thought they were describing LOST

[@julias7620]

I was getting Orange is the New Black, except that it's an old video so it couldn't be, but HA! They're right.

[@Psychogonically]

lol so true, especially the part where they say that they're gonna pick a cast from different races and stuff

[@MusicMonet09]

I thought they were talking about American Horror Story.

[@paulinaenck5797]

I thought it was OZ

[@Kairnestar]

Wendla Bergman is it weird that of the five shows mentioned, two are prison shows and another essentially is (the whole Lost purgatory thing)?

[@skaeity]

Hippie by day, Ricky Martin!

[@Drace90]

How about "Dinosaur Whisperer"! It's about a man who can communicate with dinosaurs to fight against evil dinosaurs and.... DAMN CHRIS PRATT!!!!!

[@aperture102]

eight years later this is still my favorite and most memorable episode of after hours

[@jor-elofkrypton7599]

1:41 This will prove his point just a little bit (and also that I waste a lot of time): Tony Soprano Jax Teller Walter White Don Draper Ray Donovan Jessica Jones Louie Lucas Hodd Matt Murdock Raylan Givens Frank Gallagher Lucas Hood Al Swearengen Oliver Queen Dexter Morgan Will McAvoy Pablo Escobar Jimmy McGuill Piper Chapman Tom Kane James McNulty Nucky Thompson Frank Underwood The detectives in True Detective Elliot Alderson Nucky Thompson Joe Teague Vic Mackey Lincoln Burrows Lester Nygaard Vic Mackey Lucius Vorenus Ragnar Lothbrok Thomas Shelby Rick Grimes John Luther Jim Gordon Alec Hardy Catherine Cawood Sarah Linden Carrie Mathison John Rayburn Raymond Reddington Jane Doe John Reese Ryan Hardy Hank Moody John Constantine Will Graham Norman Bates Frank Agnew Harry Bosch Spartacus Elliot Alderson Sarah Manning Ike Evans Ethan Chandler Dean Winchester Doug

[@josephcorridon9314]

The Doctor?

[@lilyrelleke3206]

Broadchurch, I see you.

[@brookem3889]

Jor-El of Krypton house from house md

[@127853]

The year is 2024. There is now a Korean show about a woman who can view the memories of others by touching their butt. I salute you Michael Swaim. You predicted the butt whisperer would be a show.

[@laneminor6240]

The ketchup stays on the table when Michael keeps talking and Soren apparently keeps shaking the bottle lmao

[@kittyythecat]

"Yeah but Fox has a hard time canceling their shows too early. They either cancel good shows too early" You have no idea how much I thought of Raising Hope and the Mindy Project. I know there are other ones I could list but ah well.

[@littlefurnace]

The Bunny You win for being the first person to mention shows with female protagonists who aren't shallow, boring, brain-dead morons.

[@iwasntlooking87]

The Bunny Yeah, I liked Terra Nova. But they spent so much on the per episode budget. There was no way that show was going anywhere. Even though it had such a high budget it was incredibly cheesy. But the characters were likable imo.

[@Kwitzats]

+TONY SETTLES Terra Nova was Dinosaur Detective.

[@iwasntlooking87]

Kwitzats I thought it was Jurassic Housewives.

[@amandagoldsbury8122]

Bring back Firefly!!!!

[@Netherwolf6100]

Honestly, what would make for a good tv is honestly, *The Purge*. Instead of it bein another boring, typical slasher and shooting flick, it could have been a tv show of countless people from all different walks of life from priests, drug dealers, business mangers, politicians, doctors, racists, petty thieves, mass murders, rapists, and of course the good people who don't even want to cause crime, all dealing with and acting out their lives during that 12 hour period where nearly everything is legal. That would make for an amazing and incredibly dark tv show depending on the perspective of the people we're watching. Talk about a wasted idea.

[@Nihilore]

in 2012 this got me to watch The Wire, thank you for that Cracked

[@marinao4412]

The one thing Fox ever did right was Fringe. That was awesome.

[@VegaChastain]

Jasmine Ward YES! And picking up Sons of Anarchy.

[@bluehousevideos2438]

+Luke Marchant Fox's problem is, they don't know how to handle their shows.

[@estebansteverincon7117]

+Jasmine Ward Yeah...Married with Children never existed.

[@Amishboy2014]

+Sherlock Hooves I'll agree with that, Fringe just left me bored after awhile.

[@Amishboy2014]

same

[@bbofun]

"Different people- people on different sides of the law, people that cross the socio-economic spectrum. And they're all in the same place, stuck together, and they're learning, without even realizing it, that although they're very different, deep down inside they're just the same!" "Is it- did we just make- GILLIGAN'S ISLAND?"

[@NoirpoolSea]

Yes!!!

[@Terker2]

Can you really call Walter White an anti-hero? Be the 3rd to 4th season I'd say he is more like a villain in disguise.

[@MrJethroha]

reboot of "The Twilight Zone" in the light of modern worlds problems. good sci-fi is whats really missing on tv.

[@imastarkidgleek]

Black Mirror.

[@justinaccardi7012]

Good AMERICAN Sci-Fi.

[@justinaccardi7012]

#murica

[@thesauceisme]

***** there was a twilight zone reboot with Forest Whitaker as the host

[@TheManInTan360]

I heard Freddie Wong's next project was supposed to be a "Twilight Zone" style take on modern life.

[@BananaBLACK]

They kinda described Sense8.

[@Blessed4infinity]

Sense8 reminded me of Heroes.

[@matthewwalker3131]

and lost

[@fake-empire]

+Keith Barrett I was thinking Oz since it was really the first "ground breaking" TV show HBO did.

[@BananaBLACK]

Never watched Oz. There was a rape scene in the title credits, and I said, "no thank you".

[@Aheartism]

+Keith Barrett THANK YOU!!

[@jameseglavin4]

I’m hurt and offended that KZbin apparently peaked 10 years ago

[@ccccccccccccccccccccccccc4]

" a time period HBO hasn't used like the future or the civil war" you guys called Westworld four years before it came out

[@vertiac]

Actually both versions of the Dinosaur Detective have already been done. The short lived Fox show Terra Nova had Jason O'Mara as a detective who time travels to the Cretaceous period to solve dinosaur crimes. While the 90's movie Theodore Rex had a dinosaur detective teaming up with Whoopi Goldberg, (she tried everything to get out of making that movie,) to solve future crimes.

[@whatisahandle221]

😆🤣 👍

[@appouhal]

At 4:36, there is an error. Heroes was a show on NBC, not FOX. But otherwise, this sketch is a very well-thought-out concept.

[@ryanswaynow]

Six years later and I still want everyone of their ideas to get made.

[@jjmah7]

Starting at 4:35 - She says Heroes was on Fox but I believe that was on NBC.

[@mikechinas7871]

This video show Randomly today, boy the good old days of early YT content. These guys were awesome.

[@momusu17]

The title cards make this definitely my favorite episode of this show, so hilarious

[@kenonerboy]

hahahaha. this almost makes me feel like I have friends

[@supersizesenpai]

Soren said "UPN" and got no response to it. Lmaoooo

[@TheRonster9319]

Their last idea for a TV show sounds like American Horror Story too and that's an awesome show

[@stevekelley17]

Im so glad I wasn't the only one!

[@smjai477]

lol I was like umm American Horror Story, but then I realized this was written around season one of AHS.

[@JediNinja]

LOL spot on!

[@smjai477]

***** Yeah and the second season probably had just either started or season ended (hence around). And it still wouldn't apply because most people didn't know AHS wasn't a continuation story during the second season.

[@nhalex]

I thought of AHS as well, but then I remembered that the Cracked writers wanted there to be few to no white people in their show. I'm having trouble recalling any non-white characters in AHS.

[@desrochessimon3044]

I have an idea for a tv show about time traveling kids. The twist is that at the end of every episode, one of the kids has to stay in the past, to watch over the timeline.

[@trendy_gwendy]

This is such a great snapshot of the golden age of tv - and then streaming came in

[@ethansloan]

"A strong, male, anti-hero's journey to redemption." That is the exact opposite of Walter White.

[@roselovescheese]

The wire sounds a lot like lost the way they described it .-.

[@tonypeppercorn3818]

Nah Jack is kind of the clear main character in that

[@avisco01]

Bruce Wayne Agreed. Though the description of what made the Wire great and why it stands apart is very similar to Lost. Then TV just started making Lost with domes, or Lost with worldwide power outages, or Lost meets Jurassic Park, or Lost but only everyone is a superhero, or "ahhhh screw it just the guy that played Locke and people will watch" WOOPS, GUESS NOT!

[@MrTm101]

it sound like they were describing heros till they said linked by a place.

[@sacrilegiousboi]

they made the dome or whatever that crappy show is

[@advocatefish3562]

Not even close.

[@johnlittleton8117]

I'm back, 12 years later, to watch this specific episode.

[@SortOfEggish]

The irony of every talk show, even youtube channels, filled with white people criticizing every other show for only having white people lol.

[@mog9520]

ha

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

+Mike Calhoun You gotta have some white people.

[@ShredPenguins]

+Ella Igwe What if I don't care but I like to pretend I do only to secretly hate every one and every thing. What if I want to pretend I care so people think decently of me, but in secret I troll the internet and commit cyber-bullying?

[@letsgoasuka]

+Ella Igwe Are you saying the hosts of the show secretly cyber bully people? Presumptuous much?

[@letsgoasuka]

Ella Igwe​ Well obviously you can't read then. Shred penguins last line: "but in secret I troll the internet and commit cyber-bullying?" Your reply: "then you'd be exactly like the hosts on this show?" So yes you did say it plain as day, quit lying it makes you look dumb.

[@wilsvgaddiction4456]

I really enjoy the After Hours bits.

[@Maniilogue]

Good boy

[@shunyaku7759]

OH MY GOD THIS WAS USED AS THE FRAMEWORK FOR MIRACLE WORKERS, SURELY

[@MrBeiragua]

Dudes, your channel is like college humor, but yours is smart, and humorous.

[@zekeoman1]

As if they went to some sort of college. For... humor.

[@masonpatton8972]

Micheal: let’s pitch HBO a show in a time period they haven’t used yet, the future, the civil war... wait did Michael write west world?

[@BrianRussTVC]

@ 1:19 there is a continuity error with the ketchup.

[@TheDodecaheathen]

Detective Dinosaur: a Kid's show about a Dinosaur who solves relatively simple mysteries. In other words, Blue's Clues with a dinosaur wearing tweed.

[@WillPennerson]

How's about a show where the main protagonist isn't the central character? The main protagonist is just a member of the leader's entourage, like the jack-of-all trades, the secondary chick, or the strong/supposedly dumb guy. They have some things happen to them, of course; their parents or partner die, they get kidnapped, and so on. However, the show proceeds like it would if it was focused on the central character; all the stuff that usually happens to protagonists happen to the central character, not the protagonist.

[@WillPennerson]

***** Thanks; I read it in a book once.

[@WillPennerson]

***** That's what happens. There's nothing new under the sun, only various iterations of things.

[@tonypeppercorn3818]

You do understand that part of the definition of the word 'protagonist' is that there the lead character?

[@WillPennerson]

Bruce Wayne I mean that the 'hero' of the show isn't the 'hero' in-universe. For example, in a fantasy universe, we would be following the archer, say, rather than the hero or chosen one who initiated the quest.

[@tonypeppercorn3818]

***** That I understand, but then that guy would still be the protagonist

[@alexanderfloyd5099]

I can’t believe it’s been 11 years. I remember when this was the cool kids show. Time flies. We’re all gonna be taking that final nap soon. 🎉

[@kilianrayleigh7524]

Sounds like American Horror Story...

[@user-yv8tt9jv4g]

well they said no teenagers so that eliminates the first season

[@fancyf33t295]

Piss...... First time seeing this, and I LITERALLY thought the exact same thing

[@WobblyBits_X]

+The ComparisonChannel Lost is complete nonsense, it's mind boggling that it became so popular. Decent character development, but the plot makes no sense, obviously a seat-of-their-pants production.

[@pineappleagent1]

White ppl and angsty teenagers and severe lack of common sense

[@DanParmesan]

+KTMWTF I'd argue that Black Mirror might be more of a fit.

[@shelbeanie143]

I love the little pop ups on the bottom. Those are pretty amazing.

[@lopenope]

Hey it's the middle of 2021... make more of these now!!! Please and thank you

[@turdferguson2]

this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps

[@mindstormmaster]

HIPPIE BY DAY RICKY MARTIN!

[@averagewonder]

11 years later and just realized Katie said Heroes was on Fox

[@NewFrambian]

Homeless people traveling the nations highways looking for the best hand-outs; ensemble cast that is disposable, scenes change as needed(where ever filming is cheap or the producers what to hang for a while) and people singing are outcast along with teen-ages. You could call it "The Gutter-Snipes" or the "Lost Ones" or "Between the Cracks", which is a nice double entendre(sp) to bring up drugs and off-camera weirdness.

[@Azivegu]

isnt that just storage wars???

[@NewFrambian]

Hmm? kinda maybe.

[@Treblaine]

It's weird, the term "Guttersnipe" actually pre-dates the use of the term "Sniper" but today people would think Guttersnipe was about some really gritty snipers.

[@cebbec1314]

I'd like to see how they'd describe Hannibal. He's not the anti-hero looking for redemption because he's PURE FUCKING EVIL and NOT looking for redemption at all. It's partially a procedural like some of the CBS shows but instead of drug dealers and pedo's, it's different serial killers, but there's also a main overall story, this cat and mouse thing (and also kind of a weird bromance thing) between Will and Hannibal. And Will does actually care for Hannibal and in many ways doesn't want to really catch him.. so he's far from your usual protagonist too.

[@moitbeans]

Quirky, charming guy with a twist [eats human livers]

[@AlejandroFlores-vi8tl]

4:30 Dan nearly cracked at that Gordon Ramsey joke

[@yunikage]

Their description of the Wire could also have been Orange is the New Black.

[@markwahlbird8849]

The first time I watched this, with the part at the end, I was almost positive it was going to be Sesame Street, which (mostly) fits

[@OwlKeeper14]

I was thinking lost

[@xBINARYGODx]

+Gordon McNulty I thought it was going to MTV's Real World. lulz

[@4amlibra]

A moment of silence for all the people who only listened to this episode and missed all the show cards.

[@BukovTervicz]

That rap moment was an isolated incident. The insane asylum House arc was a masterpiece. Breaking up with Cuddy song episode was a crime against god and a cowardly backpeddle, but the show was still fantastic to the end. Before that stumble, EVERY episode was a masterpiece. Last season was the worst but the bar was so high that it was still really good

[@augustrempelewert4377]

I don't know enough about House to have an opinion one way or the other, but I appreciate your impassioned defense of it.

[@amandaa5844]

How about a show that follows someone with depression. It goes through the number of stages, struggling with identifying the problem along with other people saying to simply be more happier, to suicidal thoughts, and struggles the protagonist will have with their family and friends, dating and the trying the number of therapies the protagonist will go through. It'll be more ironic to make it into s sitcom, like pushing daisies

[@rakkatytam]

Amanda A Reminds me of the Anime "Welcome to the NHK" about a guy suffering from heavy social anxiety; trapping himself in his apartment for months on end being too afraid to go out. Not the same as depression although he does suffer from it because of his condition.

[@skatinwhenican]

One day, we’ll get a show just like this. But this group is forever.

[@7mgtesup1]

Watching these After hours always makes me hungry.

[@atmaillumina]

Ahaha! I was thinking The Wire even before it was shown at the end. Best tv show I've ever seen!

[@TheJNastayy]

No one will see this, but the whole series is great. God I wish there were more. Old enough that I watched when the new ones came out.

[@seacrest73]

I personally subscribe to the theory that there is no such thing as an original idea. Everything was based on or inspired by other things and taken one step further. TV has been recycling plots since the beginning. Each new generation grows up without knowledge of the past so the recycled things appear to be new, but really it's only new to that generation. It's just been given a face lift or reupholstered. And before that, TV took from books which took from real life, and now every medium steals from others. I love poking fun at American television, but it's not as white washed- actually no it is. Even if the main cast is intentionally diverse, background characters are all white. It could just be that the pool of actors available to pick from are mostly white rather than institutional discrimination. Something that a lot of people forget is that 3.5 of the seven continents consists of white people. Did you know that a lot of American TV actors are actually Australian or British in origin? I watch Paley fest interviews and there they are talking in all their accented glory. There are also a lot of ethnic people on America's A-list of movie stars. In any case, I don't fault the US for having mostly white actors. It is a white people country (or was originally anyway). Do we accuse Koreans for not having more Japanese in their dramas or vice versa? No. Should we bash Bollywood for not incorporating more Pakistanis? Absurd. The race of the protagonist for most visual media will always be the dominant race of the country. In addition, if you really want to experience diversity, watch foreign films. That's a real breath of fresh air. I warn you though, Korean dramas don't just tug at your heartstrings, they break them.

[@charlielittle9265]

haha you had me until Korean dramas. every protagonist whether male or female has lost their memory from a car accident lol

[@ferchsakura]

Hahaha so true!!!

[@bethanchalmers912]

Again I'm going to refer you to Black mirror which I can tell you was an original plot(s). It's British but you might be able to get it repeating on a American channel

[@ThatOneAccount931]

I actually was given a chart like that in college where we were given the six or seven basic story lines and were challenged to find a story that didn't, at it's core, fit one and match tv shows, book, and movies that we liked that did. Needless to say, no one could find one that differed because there really are so many ways a story can be told. The characters may differ along with the events, but strip it all away to the basics and they will all fall into a few different categories.

[@TheEvolNemesis]

No matter what idea you come up with... the Simpsons already did it...

[@therambler3713]

"vagina whisperer" had me rolling on the floor

[@livetwig]

At 2:30: Did you guys seriously end up creating a show simultaneously set in the future and civil-war era and pitch it to HBO?

[@mattjuve5720]

So, the hero is either a quirky, or not quirky hero, or an antihero who either does or doesn't find redemption. They face problems that are either too problematic or not problematic enough, surrounded by characters that are similar to them or not similar to them. Or it's a comedy and they all end either before they should, at the right time, or they go on too long. Man, all shows are totally the same.

[@jaydot6785]

Anyone missing this series, watch Michael's reboot called off hours

[@JamieDole]

The Good Place. You just described The Good Place. I know it hadn't come out yet for years, but, FYI, we have The Good Place.

[@evelynlewis3836]

You haven't lived until you've seen Die Hard uncensored. Honestly.

[@saschaisking666]

Late but I think they actually made Atlanta. True story.

[@ardri8680]

after all these years...this warms my dead heart

[@cheatingthesystem21]

Master of None ;)

[@samwiseshanti]

+cheatingthesystem21 Good call. Empire?