Cal.E.'s Korner

While Cal.E. is hosting her podcast, d.c. is lamenting his near misses with ideas for television shows…

d.: I had some good ideas for t.v. shows, but they all got shot down before they could be made into pilots and put on the air. At my age, I’ve produced a lot of ideas. I produced the idea for “The Big Blame Theory” where everyone on the show blames someone else for their problems. It was too cliché, the producers said.

I also produced an idea for a similar sounding show, but I forgot the name of it or where I put the script! Then, I cam up with SHAM. It was about these guys who travel from town to town ripping people off. Again, the networks all said that it was an all-too-familiar plot, so I turned my attention to writing show about what I know best, agriculture and nursing.

Man, combining those two things was difficult, but I finally produced the ultimate show that combines these two things. It’s a show about an Amish RN

who, of course, grew up on a farm, like most Amish men and women do. He left the farm during his Rumspringa and never returned. That’s because when he was exploring the world, he found a woman of a different faith who was a nurse.

She encouraged him to go to nursing school so they could become missionaries to third-world countries. She said that, with his knowledge of agriculture and their knowledge of nursing, they could help a lot of people.

The protagonist then took the entrance exam after studying hard with his new friend and passed  the test. He then went to nursing school and worked hard, getting the best grades in all the classes he attended.

‘After the protagonist graduated, he and his love interest got married and went on the mission field, but he is disowned by the Amish because he married someone of a different faith. This doesn't bother him, because his wife gets commisioned by her church to be a missionary, and the church ordains him as a missionary as well.

The couple goes on the mission field together, where they help a lot of people in third-world countries. However, tragedy struck when the protagonist’s wife contracts Scarlet Fever, and he discovers that his wife has given the last round of antibiotics in their nursing kit to a child in the village.

The protagonist’s wife dies, but he has no time to be bitter. That’s because he has seven children to look after as well as helping villagers learn how to grow crops successfully by planting during a new moon and harvesting under a full moon. He also needs to help heal the sick in the community but is out of medications. That’s when he becomes a marauder of medical men and women to gather medical supplies and medications. He teaches his seven children to help him, and they successfully cure the village to which he is assigned of the outbreak of Scarlett Fever.

However, when the mission board hears how our hero is gathering medicine and. Medical supplies, they pull their support and he must return home. When he gets to the United States, Child Protective Services takes his children away from him because they think he is a bad influence. This makes the protagonist so mad that he goes on a crime spree but is caught by the authorities.

The protagonist serves a fifteen-year prison sentence for armed robbery,

which makes him bitter. He decides to go on a killing spree and kill everyone involved with putting him in prison.

Well, that’s the idea for the pilot e[ospde. Now, I just need an idea for episode two, but we're out of time for today., so that's the end of this cat ta(i)le.

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