BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 11:39 PM

""Mudcat Flats" as mentioned above, sounds like a grim and gritty slice of BBC drama set on a tenement block with graffiti, drugs and broken glass... "

You're talking about the BS threads we all know and love!

Any room for a clumsy drunk old fool who comes up with occasional witty words of humorous profound insight?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Alice
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 08:07 PM

"....and the major industry in town being the NYCFTTS."
So that means the MudcatCafe is located in Montana! I'm likin' this.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 07:15 PM

Gee... five years and no callbacks for an audition. Maybe I should reconsider my acting carrer.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Alba
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 06:14 PM

Yeah Ebbie..I agree.
The Tavern with a twist..LOL.
I am still laughing as some of the previous posts.

Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 04:28 PM

I think it would be great fun! It would be a little like the Mudcat Tavern but in character. Set it up, kat!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 04:06 PM

LOLOL re-reading all the ideas is a hoot!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Apr 06 - 03:53 PM

refresh for fun

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 04:57 AM

Wow, what fun to re-read this. I'd forgotten all about it. Thanks, John!

What classics, eh? Kudos to WesleyS for this one:

Next week's episode : Little Hawk falls off his bike while watching Little Neo fix her G string

Damn near fell outta my seat reading that one, again and they are ALL great stuff!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 09:02 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 02:47 PM

You know, that'd be a hell of an idea for a play, but let each individual wander away from the comp screen as the stagelights slowly come up to reveal a scene that portrays the story or situation he or she is telling.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 02:23 PM

beautiful Margo.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Margo
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 02:22 PM

It could easily be a play. No props except computers on desks and musical instruments. Each personality is lit but the rest of the stage is dark. They can talk to each other, even look at each other, but never touch. Each player's character is personified through a soliliquy and all play their instruments. It ends with a Mudcat concert.

Whaddya think? Margo

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: GUEST,Celtic Soul
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 02:51 PM

I haven't watched any TV for more than a year. But if a Mudcat sitcom was as much fun and as educational as this place is, it could get me to think about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 01:27 AM

lol

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 05:46 PM

Are you guys gonna let Chester in here? Not the Mudcat Cafe, I mean the flick. Oh, golly.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: wdyat12
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 04:40 AM

OK Folks,

We have the first three seasons planned out, but we still haven't heard from Max. This thread doesn't show any signs of slowing down, so how 'bout it Max can we do this show and get away with it?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 02:14 AM

It tastes pretty grizzly, Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 12:30 AM

One each bar sambritch, order seal fetuccini, hold the trinkets, and you know damn well we don't grow chick peas above the Arctic Circle (or fava beans, either.)

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 12:13 AM

Bear steaks? Really? Bear meat is pretty heavy stuff. Well, at least you're not offering beads and cheap trinkets...

I could use some deerhide now and then, and a few falafels would be nice too.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 09:11 PM

Actually, the plan was to pay you with seal skins and bear steaks.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 08:08 PM

Pretty cool! Sounds like Ed would be an appropriate role for me after all. Do I get union scale or what?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Chester
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 03:20 PM

Eye allers liked Holling. Butt eye wrecktum eye wudn't bee sooted fer that. End up drinkin' the Brick dry an sech. Hmm, ain't that one uv them imponderables? Drinkin' a Brick dry? Sorter like the one that sez if athleets git athleets foot, dew asterknots git misseltoe?

An eye allers liked Terri Polo. She came later in the show. Eye thot she was kildly cute. She plaid the knew dokter's wif.
Chester

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 11:20 PM

Ed can "dream fly" too. Occasionally awakens on the roof or in a tree. He is a film buff and has a huge collection.Abandoned as a child, he is forever looking for his Mom.

Maurice was always my favorite. Ex astronaut, arrogant puppy dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 09:40 PM

One Who Waits is my hero!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 09:37 PM

Little Hawk, you would like the TV show "Northern Exposure" Ed is half Indian and he is studying to become a Shaman. He has an Indian Spirit Guide called "One Who Waits". Only Ed can see One Who Waits.

There is an official short person on the show. Only he's even shorter than me (and we both know that's pretty short). He's a manifestation of Ed's lack of self esteem. (And he's green.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:44 PM

I want to be Marilyn.
"There's a call for you on Line 1."
"Marilyn! We have only one line! "
(vacuous stare)

Hey, wouldn't Mick be great for the part of Maggie's "bear" lover? The one (played by Fabio) who lived in a cave and taught her to dance. How long is your hair, Mick? And we need a wise, medicine man type.

Let's not allow this to continue into the stupid doctor and his wife season. OK? That would be too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:31 PM

MASH ? Can I try out for the part of the colonel's horse ? A little special effects, makeup, lose the horns.... nah, that'd be cheap and too contrived.

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:17 PM

Well, Little Hawk, you could take the MASH (Mudcat Army Song Hashers) role of "Little Hawkeye."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 06:32 PM

Oh, bert, you're right! How could we have forgotten our Murphy!?

Scripts? PaterT? Jenellen? Anyone....scripts?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Bert
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 06:06 PM

I can't believe we've gone this far on a Mudcat sitcom thread without anyone mentioning Murphy Brown.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:59 PM

Don't forget- this Mudcat town has a tavern too. That's where all the voiceovers bring everyone up to date on who is doing what and to whom...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:55 PM

Yeah, me too gnu. See you on the other side...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:46 PM

Tiggerdooley...... A deer ? You mean a Virginia White Tail ? There's only one 'Cat I know ( I am new to the Mudcat, so I don't know many 'Cats - actually, I don't KNOW any 'Cats ) that would fit the part, but after the trashing I got on a past thread, although deservedly so for my inate ability to type w/o thinking, I'M not going to suggest a name.

Anyway, I guess I'm just predjudiced against playing such a rather demurre role. I need a part that combines the elements of girth and dumbness. What if there's an episode where they find a wooly in the ice ? Or a mastadon ? I wouldn't even need elocution lessons. Just some mesa grass and a mud wallow. I'll work for peanuts !!! That reminds me, gotta get back to another thread to find out how to make peanut soup....

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:16 PM

heh-heh-heh

LH - except for the "official short person" you've pretty well descrebed Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:12 PM

"Little Hawk would be Ed"??? Who the hell is Ed?

Keep in mind that I haven't watched any sitcoms in years...the 70's was my decade for watching sitcoms.

I think TV's make good plantholders, and if you rip the guts out of them you can turn them into terrariums too. Very neat.

If Mudcat was a sitcom, though, flattop would be the really strange character that no one can quite figure out (is he serious or is he not?)...and the official "short" person.

They simply do not have people like me on sitcoms, as far as I know. It's too hard to market a concept like that.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 03:43 PM

well - everyone knows there is good gnus and there is bad gnus. And since this is a text forum, we're looking for all the gnus that are fit to print.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 03:37 PM

gnu, would you like to play a deer? I'm only asking 'cos, as I said earlier, I think Holling's ferocious nemesis [Old Willy?] the bear turned out to be a deer skeleton. You'd have to lose a bit of weight (malnourishedgnu?), but it'd be a strong, silent role.

character-assassinatingtigger

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 03:32 PM

Did someone already address the narration ? Would that be Kendall ?

By the way, when I said I wanted to audition for the part of the moose, I didn't think that in this group, of all groups, there would be even the slightest predjudice against gnu's. I didn't say I was perfect for the part, only to be given the chance of proving my range... no pun intended. Add some boards to the horns, fake the bell, add a hump, crop the tail... it's just special effects and makeup. As for elocution, my forefathers lived in the flat boglands of south central New Brunswick, so I was taught moose when I was a wee tad. No need for voiceovers. Listen, eeeerrrrurrrghhh Johnboy.

But is there's a casting wallow, count me out. I'm not that kind of gnu.

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 02:18 PM

{grin} knew someone wouldn't be able to resist such a good feed line.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 12:04 PM

A wise decision, mousethief...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 11:57 AM

Every time I try to polish my organ....

No, never mind. I can't go through with this.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 11:40 AM

Love the Flying Circus idea, Chanteyranger....in fact, I'm off to polish up the organ!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Chester
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 11:37 AM

Eye liked that storey from Spaw about Cletus and his Paw. Sounds like sum of the fellers back home ta Two Foot Falls.
Chester

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: wdyat12
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 06:36 AM

Let's do this.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: John J
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 06:35 AM

Is this the prog where a 747 lands on the village and wipes everyone out? JJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Banjer
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 06:31 AM

Just found this thread....what a concept...I'd even start watching TV again for this. Carol C, I am honored that you would consider me for the part of the feller Maurice, operator of the NYCFTTS. That would be such fun and I would feel right at home! (and in good company)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 12:16 AM

Ok, Mr. or Ms. recycled bathwater, (you know who you are), this one's for you.

Maggie and Joel (someone else can figure out who plays them) are sitting at a table in the brick. Joel notices a tall leggy woman wearing tights and a mini skirt bending over one of the counters. In fact, his eyes appear to be bulging out of his head, a big purple vien starts pulsing in his forehead, and sweat begins to drip from his brow.

Maggie gets up, saying "I think I'll go take a look at the desserts". She walks over to the display case and bends waaayy over. Her very attractive butt is pointing straight up, on display like one of the desserts. Her face is inches from the floor. She says "hmm... these cakes look good."

Joel chokes on his apple cinnamon tea. His face turns a deep, beet colored red, and he starts banging his head against the wall...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 12:00 AM

*sittin' and rockin'*....seems to me like the theme ain't been settled NOhow...but what can you expect from refugees from the Neil Young Center?...it does seem that noxious gasses from the nether regions ALWAYS get into the script, however. I 'spects that the cast needs a dietican who can curtail flatulence if we are gonna make Broadway with this show....

now where IS Bonnie when you need her?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:53 PM

Well, here are some (im)possible show titles: Aine In The Family/Leave It To Badger/Bertadder/Morticia Patrish's Flying Cicus/The Two Riggys/The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet Naemanson/Spaw 54, Where Are You?/ Fadac Knows Best/MAV TV.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Cafe - the sitcom?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 11:28 PM

A real gem, Spaw. I doff my hat to you, And I say that as a genument complimine.

Tater head