Need help with ideas for pilot episode...

[HeatherRose]

Okay, New television action/drama, The name is,

"CFCMI: Special Victims Unit"

.....well that's as far as I've gotten.
Any suggestions? Any one?

Ya, I know, I need help. }:-)

[turningjapanese]

um....

How about, a bunch of ex-culties lock their former leader up in a closet, and make him a sex-slave to a skanky old man? (eye for an eye) It's purely fiction, of course, with a bit of truth.....but then, some things are true, and some are not true, and you never know what REALLY happens, so we should forget about the whole thing.....

How about THAT for a story?

Make sense? No. But neither does CFCMI.

[turningjapanese]

Or, you could have 2 cult leaders fight for control over their dwindling flock; each trying to overthrow the other using various psychological and passive-aggressive tactics....and while they are engaged in the evil power play, they don't notice the followers have whipped up their own batch of Kool-Aid, and are planning a strategy of their own.....

[bramble]

I have been pondering this all day. Maybe it would be a dark sit-com. Opening scene is LR in his prison cell eating a really greazy, dripply pizza with the works. His dessert is a jar of grape jelly--no bread, and an ice cold Dr. Pepper. In walk his two bumbling Sons-in-Law and they say, "Pastor Daddy, we are having trouble in Norfolk. The Oldheads are really fed up and the IRS is breathing down our back, no one wants to buy our soap anymore, the collection and congregation numbers are wayyy down. What should we do?"

Davis is all covered in food looks the way toddlers do after a meal, says, "Do you find me attractive? How about a kiss for your Daddy?"

Ed and Pete say, "EEEEWWWW!" then trip over each other trying to get out the door.

Meanwhile, back in Norfolk the Oldheads are skateboarding in the broken swimming pool. They even have made a modest jump in the middle of the shallow end. An conga drum or tympani even is part of the obstacle course.

Alternative scenario, the pool is stocked with fish and the Single Men are trying to catch them with their fishing rods. Potted palms and lounge chairs surround the pool and it looks rather like a trendy hotel. A boom box is playing something by Billy Ray Cyrus or Alan Jackson.

Since the Pastors are away and the narcs are also at Dixon visiting L.R. the rest of the Single Men are rocking out to heavy metal or maybe Tony Bennett. The Cure might be a bit too depressing for these already depressed souls. U2 comes to mind. Some really wild ones are now from reading the New International Bible. A few have started going to other Churches on the QT. One or two is packing for home forever.

Ed and Pete get home to find their Boys Club pool full of fish or turned into a skate park. The dining hall is devoid of food. The Church ate it all. The Sanctuary looks mostly unused. There is one soul sitting behind the reception desk reading a novel that came from a Christian book store. Ed flips out because it was not written by a member of CFCMI. For once, the receptionist doesn't crumble under this *ss chewing, but rather gives it right back to Ed and then some.

In exasperation, Ed finally quits CFCMI and decides to tour the USA on his Harley. Pete being a follower comes along as a sidekick. The ladies are at home doing their nails and hair and talking about the 'unsaved' members of their 'Church'.


Note: This is purely fictional as Davis died 10 years ago this April.

[bramble]

You may have watched The Bachelor. You may have hear of it. What about a reality show on CFCMI that is similar? Their living quarters, I have read, are bugged anyway.

Maybe a dozen Eunichs are sitting around in the same unit wondering who will get a _____ not a rose, but something. Who will the pastor ask out next? Who gets to eat at a real restaurant and not CFC Church? Who gets to be his next right hand lackey?

I imagine seeing a lot of cat fighting among they Single Men who are trying to claw their way to the top. In organizations like this, it is the shmoozers and narcs who usually get ahead. The ones who grow some onions and show integrity are usually demoted or disfellowshipped.

Or it could be like the Apprentice where Ed and Pete are fighting for control. Maybe someone would be trying to usurp them.

[bramble]

There could be a show about guys busting out of CFCMI!! How would they do it? In the dark of night? Maybe they would bike away, or walk away? Train tickets are fairly inexpensive!

They could be pretending to go to work and just not show up. The could get on interstate and just keep going.

The prison they inhabit is one of their own minds. Remember The Prisoner?--that old British TV show? The guy was his OWN prisoner we find out in the final episode.

MORAL: We all have done things we weren't proud of in our youth. We all have been victimized at one time of another. The point is to: 1) learn our lessons 2) forgive ourselves and others 3) move on. God wants us to live in the present, not to wallow in our past. He judges us based on where we are right now, not where we were 20 years ago. He also loves us and wants us to spend eternity with Him.

Ed's sermons makes God sound like He loves no one--yet another of Ed's lies.

Another thing, don't be so worried so much about the future that you don't live in the present. No one but God knows when Jesus will come again, nor when the End Times are. God is in management. We are to spread the Good News! That's our job. Let God be God. STOP WORRYING! Worrying is not of God.

LET GO! LET GOD! GET GOING BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

[bramble]

A while back Heather Rose came up with an idea for a TV series based on CFCMI. Some of Onetime's posts come across like TV show plots. Can anyone think of any more?

It could be a reality show. It could be a mystery. It could even be a sit-com.

How about: Revenge of the Eunichs Imagine a bunch of 40 somethings and even some 60 somethings who decide to band together because they realize their pastors aren't really led of God. They decide to try to get their contributions back because one of them needs an operation, but has no insurance, nor any money.

They corner the treasurer who proves that the money is all gone. The treasurer points out that Ed and Pete just bought a new airplane. The new building costs two million dollars. The collection is only 13 thousand dollars a week. Their congregation is really, really small by now. Ed and Pete are looking for an old c-store to fit their incredible shrining flock.

Soo the Eunichs decide to write home to their families---those who still have them--to try to raise money...... (finish the story)

[turningjapanese]

Ed crashes his plane into the gymnasium. The End.

How's that for your "pilot" episoede??