Top Ten Pitches for a Reality TV Show

10. "The Not-for-Profit Wars": two esteemed charities compete in a series of events for a hefty grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

9. "Pinot grigio or bust": the life of a depressed wine maker with a penchant for the sublime.

8. "Das Wunderkind": the story of a prophetic german child who has not yet learned to speak, but can draw your future in crayons.

7. "The Enlightenment": a small town girl runs a candle shop and waxes philosophical. she gets burned one night and sues herself for a raise.

6. "Psychodelic tubes": a hippy's lone fight for tubed toothpaste packaging.

5. "You're hired, now duck!": newly hired obama girl look-alikes debate the morality of their profession.

4. "For the love of diamonds": a minor league baseball coach is fired on the grounds of his addiction to horse-betting, prostitutes, uppers, and the two-out hit and run. he is forced by the owner to accept his new role as general manager.

3. "Devastation 88.1": one band's unquenchable thirst to get signed is outmatched by the label's unflagging commitment to profit and loss.

2. "The Search for Dora": on the road with freud's great-great grandson as he searches for the great-great descendant of dora. once they find one another, they talk for a bit, then realize they have nothing in common but for a shared interest in mutual bonds.

1. "Cough it up": memoirs are read aloud by women who have been hypnotized. they are told to cough loudly when they find a passage to be overly dramatic. the data is sent to oliver sacks for analysis. the entire study becomes its own memoir.



~Jeff