roundisfunny
Senior Member
1. A down-and-out sports memorabilia merchant befriends a mentally unbalanced former athlete. His ulterior motive is to coerce the athlete into committing a monumentally infamous crime, so that the merchant's collection of that athlete's memorabilia will skyrocket in value.
2. A movie star, fed up with the intrusive press and the public who support it, announces that he will investigate and expose the dirty secrets of twelve random Americans. After the first three, vice and scandal become almost non-existent in some areas, while it flourishes in others.
3. A gimmick-seeking 1930's aviatrix asks to borrow a farmer's cow, so she can be the first woman to milk a cow on a plane in flight. The farmer refuses, but when his neighbor (whom he hates) agrees, and the stunt gets the neighbor a lot of fame and recognition, the farmer becomes jealous and tries to sabotage the flight.
4. A suburban neighborhood is rocked by two warring factions wanting to have multi-home yard sales on the same summer day.
5. A broke handyman, tending the lawn for a vacationing upper-class family, is approached by a "Lovely Homes" magazine scout, who wants to feature "his" house in their next issue (for a hefty sum). The handyman agrees, and wackiness ensues as he tries to maintain the facade.
6. A kid orders the well-known rip-off "Sea Monkeys" from a comic book, and they arrive while he's at camp for two weeks. His mom absent-mindedly leaves the package on top of their leaky microwave, and when the kid returns and pours the package into the fishbowl, the Sea Monkeys have mutated and can talk, fight crimes, read minds, whatever.
These ideas have been sitting in a folder in a drawer for close to a decade. If Hollywood wants to rip them off, well...I guess I can't stop them. I would only ask them to consider where to come for more ideas when they've used up these six. Except next time...it'll cost ya.