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From a cursory glance at the TV guide the rules for creating a TV show seem fairly clear. Simply take a common phrase and make it into a pun or double-entendre which then forms the premise of your show. Soon you too can have a hit show like 'Grey's Anatomy', 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Tru Calling'.

Admittedly this reverse engineered TV theory seems a little bit simple. So to put it to the test I'm going to write a new TV show idea every day (or almost as I sometimes forget things) based on a phrase I have heard that day. In a year I should have 365 shows that prove or disprove my point.

I call these short, pun based descriptions Idiom Boxes. You can submit your own Idiom Box as well. Just try to follow the format below and be as ridiculous as possible.
Cheers. Ask me anything Submitting is Easy as Pie

August 16, 2011

Chicken Caesar

“A cowardly Italian General is forced to go to war”

Benicio Al Acarte liked the army. He understood it and he liked to think it understood him too. He knew that the Army wasn’t just a fighting force but was also a massive bureaucracy that needed to be organised and for 27years that’s exactly what he did. But now, after rising to the rank of General, a new government mandate means he has to see active duty or risk losing his commission. Will the prince of pencil pushers be able to prove himself in battle? Can he use his mastery of Army bureaucracy to prove that the pen really is mightier than the sword? Or will he be forced into a situation that puts him and his men at risk?

Suggested catchphrase: “cappuccino non tappo in culo”

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