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BoxwineForBrunch -> RE: Play N Work (2/3/2012 1:13:16 PM)
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sorry bro, but you can't get there until at least season 3.
season one opens with you fresh out of college, packing up your mustard yellow used volvo with all your possessions and driving down winding roads while tears for fears plays on the tape deck. you move into an upstairs apartment in the City with a sassy landlady downstairs and a hooker with a heart of gold across the hall from you. next day, you strut into the building you've leased Downtown with your hair slicked back and suspenders and horn rimmed glasses and start putting together a team. you're straight laced, all american and ambitious but you quickly discover that the people you hire for your business [note: figure out what sort of business later] are a bunch of zany misfits! halfway through season one is a big reveal during a phone call back at your apartment when it becomes clear to the viewers that your dad is the ceo of a huge corporate raiding firm but you want to keep that on the down-low and make it on your own. next episode a girl shows up. she's kind of a dreamy hippy girl who just finished journalism school and doesn't know what to do with herself so she's either going to paraguay to snap candid photos of octogenarian nazi scientists at resorts or maybe stick around town and work for you. it turns out HER dad is a corporate raider too!
in season two your company is getting off the ground, and after some mishaps with licenses and permits for whatever it is you make or sell, and a hilarious misstep with the irs (which hippy girl's dad secretly intercedes in) things are on track. you buy a bmw in a mid-season two part cliffhanger, and then you and the hippy chick begin hooking up on the sly. after a few too many white russians at tgif you head back to your apartment and totally do it. the next morning the hooker with the heart of gold [who is in contract negotiations with the studio, who will not be back next season] makes fun of you and reveals she always liked you. as the season winds down, hippy girl slowly turns into dragon lady and over the course of the last few episodes she gets a short haircut, buys some power suits, and gets one of those enormous cell phones. even though she remains deferential to you at the office, it is becoming clear to the viewer through hints and snippets of conversation that something Kinky is going on. one lingering shot in her closet during the season finale, when she hangs up her coat and the camera finds its way to a pair of boots with enormous spiked heels and a huge leather bullwhip (why be subtle, baby?) erases all doubt.
so by season three you can start in with your scenario, but it's going to take probably 25-27 episodes before you've earned the audiences's trust and affection enough to introduce a plot twist like that. by that time you've got the hooker leaving to have her own show, the landlady peddling psychic hotlines on late night television, half your original staff off pursuing movie careers and the female lead threatening to walk if SOMEONE WON'T GET HER A GODDAMN PERRIER AND POINTS ON SYNDICATION RIGHT NOW. i mean i guess you've got your work cut out for you.
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