yet another episode idea. I feel all prepared to make lots of cool ideas now that I saw all the episodes, thanx to some neeto keen web sites... of course I missed last weeks episode, so when I make all these things I think are kinda funny, people are gonna be like pfftth, been done, old news. Ahhh, the pleasures of having a boring job coding that you can go home any time you want... of course thats also a curse, seeing as its boring, I kinda go home very soon and often. Hey kids, take a tip from me: If your life's dream is to code up computer games, don't go to school for it, they focus on all these unwanted technical details, and crap. Computer science is different than other technical majors. You can be a good programmer without ever going to school by just experimenting on your own. Now heart surgeons would have a tough ride doing that :P Computer game programming and design is more like art, I have found, school is pretty much BS.
Anyway the episode... They could reinstate prohibition. No wait, been done on the simpsons... Maybe they could reinstate MORE than prohibiton. Anything that lets you have fun will be illegal. By orders of Mom. Its been determined that having fun just wastes precious time people could do productive things. So the 'fun police'(can be creatively named later), goes around confiscating anything that seems fun. This could be a running gag in itself, at first they take away tv and alcohol, but later, they have trouble determining if certain things are fun. Hmmm, are swively doors more fun than normal automatic doors? Blah blah blah, a baby monkey with a mental condition has enough creativity to think up wierd things that would be hard for the police to enforce.
People could be taken to court under pretenses like, "Conspiracy to play team sports" "Possession of contraban toys" "Suspicion of entertainment"
"Failure to restrain laughter" When the judge gives the sentencing, the guy would laugh again at the incredulity of the situation, she'll bang the gavel , and give him a longer sentence, he'll laugh, longer sentence!(like back talking to parents ^^), then he'll whimper at his sentence, and the judge will say something like,"Thats the spirit, maybe you'll get parol."
Of course Fry and Bender would be against this, and the show could either take the turn where they become big time mombsters of fun, or they just conceal their fun passively. If Bender and Fry would watch cartoons and stuff they have on video tapes and stuff in private I'd think it could lead to them running out of stuff to do. They'd then have to make a supply trip to another planet that isn't under matrial law to get "fun stuff". Upon returning with all their junk, Leela has to tell them to conceal it. In fact Leela finds something interesting, I dunno, maybe some cheesy toy, or something more symbolic and classy(better). When they return, Leela is caught with the 'object', and is questioned about it. She goes the safe route, and says,"Blah blah blah, I was just about to dispose of it...."
Maybe Leela would get suckered into working for the Fun Police and have to destroy Bender's and Fry's stuff.
Either way her ideas will shift and realize how dumb it is to get rid of 'fun stuff'
Alternate ideas would be: Fun Police are allowed to have a minor degree of fun if they confiscate stuff. This way more Fun Police are enrolled. Of course Fry and Bender would join up, and it'd be like organized looting. They'd dress up in uniforms, and walk into different stores. Hmmm,"By order of Mom, we're gonna have to confiscate your alcohol." Other situations occur where they take lil kids toys and stuff. Bender and Fry are standing on the corner wearing police get up, Bender's hat is over his eyes, as he leans against a wall, one foot against it. A guy could be riding on a moped, past, Bender sticks his arm out pushing the guy off, and steals his bike. In fact if it was a transitional thing it'd be funny. They steal lil kids big wheels first upon leaving the 'fun police precinct' which could have symbolic archatecture, Different offices for different crimes,"But officer, me and my wife were just on our way to go boating.", "Yah, and thats where it all began." I should organize my thoughts but feh, thats over rated. Anyway they come out of the station, and kick lil kids off their big wheels, drive to some place, confiscate something, leave kick some kids off their bicycles, go some place else and confiscate something, walk out, take mopeds, go some place else confiscate something, then approach two big biker aliens, and the screen could cut to them walking all bruised into the delievery headquarters.
More stuff could happen, and the episode would be over. I have stuff to do before going back to work, like computer games and some sleeping.