Top 10 Television Spin-offs I Hope to See…

1. I’ve said this on more than one occasion, secretly hoping a Jim Hensen employee overhears me, scribbles away an amazing pilot on the plane ride home, and it becomes a huge hit. THE MUPPETS MEET THE FRAGGLES. Why on earth not? It makes more sense to me then even the doozers and gorgs who actually DID co-habitat the show. Fred Flintstone and George Jetson even crossed paths without killing any TV ratings, time gap and all. Who’s with me?
   

   fraggles, meet your new neighbors...

   Fun Fact learned from the recent exhibit at the History Center: Fraggle Rock’s underlying theme and purpose was for children to grow up learning global tolerance and communication. Makes sense—so that’s why I am so open-minded and eager to learn new cultures…I knew all that TV would pay off someday!
   
   

2. (Still) Saved by the Bell
   Come on, aren’t you just a little curious to see how Belding’s receding hair line is doing? Or if Jesse Spano comes back as the new biology teacher, flirting with Wrestling Coach A.C. Slater?
   

   go bayside!

   To this day, the words “saved by the bell” trigger visions of neon spirals and other terrifically tacky 80s symbols dancing to the old theme song. If 90210 did the big comeback, it’s only a matter of time before the old’ “B-ba-b-b-ba-ba-ba-B! B-ba-b-b-ba-ba-ba-B! GO BAYSIDE!” chant echoes down the hallways again.

   Hmm, Tiffany Amber Theissen, I mean, Kelly Kapowski could do a crazy comeback-palooza by reuniting with Kelly and Brenda at the Peach Pit and then swinging by “the Max” on her way home. All in a day’s work.
   
   

3. Friends of Friends – Many will say they quit while they were ahead, but to be honest, I can never get
   

   channdlllah! chanddlah bingg...

   enough of this sitcom. I know they did sort of do a Joey spin-off that flopped, but I think the outcome would have been different if they chose to follow single mom Rachel trying to date, or newly married couple Monica and Chandler.
   
   

4. Let’s cross our fingers that Dwight from the Office makes it to his own show. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281040,00.html I will miss seeing Jim put in faxes from the future and other office shenanigans, but it will be worth it to see a day through the eyes of Dwight Schrute.
   
   
5. East Wing. If the West Wing was having that much fun and drama, I can’t wait to see what the other side was up to.
   
   
6. Spotted: Gossip Girl – after high school. While I reluctantly admit I am hopelessly addicted to this darkly humorous, delectable drama about “upper east siders,” I wish they would be out of high school already.  I am sure guys would be feel better about drooling over the more-than-high school-mature girls, and girls wouldn’t feel so stupid caring whether or not someone skipped first period. Or their period in general, for that matter.
   

   Will S and B be grown up one day? XoXo..

   Don’t get me wrong, Gossip Girl is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. But to think they are making a prequel spin-off show about their parents in the seventies just makes me want to call the producer and say, “too high – Bob Barker rules. And you were too low before. Try something more ‘in the middle’ maybe.”
   
   

7. The Apprentice. AFTER they get hired. I would love, love, love to see one of those show winners’ first days or weeks on the job. Probably more so than seeing the contestants make the same mistakes season after season when giving very similar tasks.I can just see them now, trying to figure out how to work the phones, picking up Trumps’ new hairpiece in time for the meeting, trying not to date the boss’s daughter, etc.
   
   
8. Scrubs makes me want to work in a hospital, even though I can’t stand the sight of blood. I can’t go more than five seconds without laughing out loud at this ridiculously entertaining show. I am not sure who I’d pick to do a spin-off here, (maybe if Elliott had stuck with her other practice?), but all I know is I never, ever want the series to end. So, whether “The Todd” gets some more action [todd-esque joke here] or J.D.’s kids hit the screen running, I just hope to see more of Sacred Heart.
   
   
9. Scha-wingg! Wayne’s World was voted one of the best comedies of all time. And a commercially successful SNL movie spin-off –the first to yield such an accomplishment. We should have rewarded Wayne, Garth, the Almighty Janitor, Foxy Lady and the whole crew a weekly spot on primetime.Instead, the slot is full with awesome remakes of…Knight Rider, the remake? Seriously? I would love to be in some of these conference board rooms when people come up with these ideas.
   
   
10. And last but certainly not least, five out of five friends agree it would almost be so good it would hurt if brilliant Michael Scoffield (Prison Break) ran into brave Jack Bauer (24). The earth may collide from euphoria. Michael is always trying to bust out of a prison or house with his entourage of random criminal minds, and Jack is always trying to kick in the door of some highly secure, dangerous area so he can torture until information received. Wouldn’t it be the most natural thing in the world for them to bump into each other in the process? Like when they are crawling in or out of the air vents or something?

    

    
    What do you think about these picks for next season’s TV line-up? Would this cause another round of writer’s strike, or get people picking up the remote? What do YOU think is spin-off worthy?

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