30 Good Sitcom Ideas

December 3, 2012 - 12:42 am

Based on an idea from Fist of Fun, here are 30 good sitcom ideas.

  1. Some bowlers run an ironing company. They score a strike while the iron is hot and some clothes get burned, with hilarious consequences.
  2. Alan Leopard suffers from terrible acne. The series follows his futile and hilarious attempts to cure his affliction.
  3. A doctor with poor bedside manner is injured and is treated badly as he treated his patients.
  4. A sitcom about a mute man with big hands. His actions speak louder than words.
  5. A gardener who grows beets around a bush beats around the bush in explaining to people they have a life-threatening illness.
  6. An evil villain called Curiosity kills some cats.
  7. The newspaper Desperate Times is not content with metres or miles so the editor tries to petition everyone use the newspaper’s own system of measures.
  8. The rich and mad owner of the Every Cloud pub decides to line his establishment with silver.
  9. A sitcom where the sea levels rise by several miles. Most things are left underwater, but some aren’t. Everything but the kitchen sink.
  10. Flash Gordon manages the Pan pub. Each week he tries to attract customers with an idea that initially sounds good but ultimately fails.
  11. Fool’s Gold: like the Beverly Hillbillies but set in a pub.
  12. A man who’s bed is on the edge of a cliff. Each week he gets up on the wrong side of the bed and falls to his death.
  13. Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein each have the same idea and the series follows their contrived attempts at sabotage. They each can also read the other’s mind.
  14. Ian “The Heat” is temporarily famous each week for a short amount of time for doing jobs that involve heat e.g. fireman, coal walker, fire stuntman.
  15. A man falls in love with his best friend. His best friend is a dog.
  16. A man’s dead body is buried under a house. In the house, people do things of which he would disapprove.
  17. Each week, the owner of the as-of-yet unbuilt Rome pub intends to hold the opening the next day, but it is not finished in time. Some bricks fall on someone’s head in a comical way.
  18. Morvayn meets the I: Varel Morvayn from Anvil meet his inner-self.
  19. Cows have enslaved a farm of humans. The cows go out and the humans do things until the cows come home.
  20. Jack Straw the politician hates camels. He breaks their backs.
  21. Jack Straw is the last of his race.
  22. A troll called Walter lives under a bridge.
  23. Footballman Emile Heskey does things that the novelist Martin Amis does equally well.
  24. Jack is a lad and gets up to all sorts of lad activities because he is a lad.
  25. Johnny suffers from delayed ejaculation. Each week he has sex but cannot cum. The man or woman he was having sex leaves and then he ejaculates lately.
  26. Liken A Moth To A Flame: Each week, a butterfly-like insect is compared to some fire.
  27. Two gay mad scientists each have the aim of stealing the other’s heart in order to create a Frankenstein’s monster-style monster fashioned on the other so they can win the affection of the other.
  28. The owner of a very popular pea shop has only two people serving and, as such, has two long queues. He also has many peas on display. Each week, he needs to leave the shop and come back in a lot, being careful not to upset the displays of peas or bump into his customers in the queues.
  29. Heinz Worst and Hans Worst are brothers. They hate each other but Hans has become homeless and so must live with his brother who has a terminal illness. All sorts of mishaps happen.
  30. Heinz and Hans get up to all their usual malarkey on a ship voyage, but the things that happen on the ship are much worse than the things that happen on land.