NBC Accidentally Does Something Funny, Buys a Comedy About a Mermaid

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Anonymous

08/19/13 05:34PM

Filed to: Mermaids

NBC, titans of network comedy that they are, have just offered a pilot commitment to The Big C showrunner, Jenny Bicks for an untitled mermaid comedy. Perhaps they should just title it The Show About The Mermaid, which is what everyone will call it anyway.

Per Variety, th e single camera comedy from 20th Century Fox "centers on a beached mermaid in search of adventure who winds up working at a bar in Miami with an eclectic group of people." So, a Cheers meets Splash kind of a thing, which is undoubtedly how it was pitched.

"Okay, so vampires and werewolves with hearts of gold are done. What else we got?"

"How about centaurs in a fight club? Or an abominable snowman dating service? Or wait...I GOT IT. Mermaids in a bar."

According to Deadline, mermaids are currently all the rage.

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Shut Up! Anonymous 08/20/13 11:28PM

Unless the mermaid is a tranny or moonlights as a hooker, I'm not interested.

OMG!PONIES! Anonymous 09/08/13 10:53AM

Wow. NBC is now down to scraping the dirt underneath the barrel.

Dystopiq Anonymous 08/19/13 07:08PM

So shows like "My Own Worst Enemy" get cancelled but shit like this get pitched and greenlit.

LilyLux Dystopiq 08/20/13 10:34PM

I think I love you. I fucking loved My Own Worst Enemy, holy shit.

Dystopiq LilyLux 08/21/13 12:08AM

Me too. I was mad that they cancelled it and yet we get crappy sitcoms and other stuff.

LilyLux Dystopiq 08/21/13 12:10AM

And in the middle of the season too, right? So fucked up.

NumberTenOx Anonymous 08/20/13 02:14PM

Ugh, I knew it. I knew mermaids would be the next big pop cultural thing. Sometimes, I'm pretty sure that we not only live in a giant simulation, but it's actually made by EA and expansion packs keep being released that nobody asked for and nobody gives a fuck about.