The P-Boink profile of the precocious Partridge brat brings to mind the old 70s Saturday Morning cartoon formula of rehashing prime-time sitcoms in space or in another preposterous setting that could only be animated.
There was a Gilligan’s Island cartoon show where they were marooned on an uncharted planet. There was a Happy Days cartoon where Richie, Potsie, and Ralph wound up stuck in some teenage alien girl’s time machine. I think Fonzie was in there with them, while simultanously running the motor pool at the Army base where Laverne and Shirley were stationed on their own cartoon show. Yeah, Laverne and Shirley’s cartoon show was about them being in the Army. Click the link, I swear I’m not making this up.
The P’Boink writer suggests “Yes, Dear” would best be served as a cartoon series about fighting robots. Which makes me wonder…
If “Friends” had spun off a cartoon series: the gang would all be living on a space station with talking alien pets. Perhaps they would someday travel to the WNYX space station from that one season finale of NewsRadio.
If “Everybody Loves Raymond” were a cartoon series: Ray would be a decorated race driver/crime fighter with a mad tricked-out car. The Barone brats would be replaced by a hapless toddler and a precocious monkey — I mean, the other way around — no, I don’t. Ray would occasionally be defeated at the checkered flag by his sad-sack archrival, an off-duty New York cop known only as “Robert X,” but who, the announcer reminds us, is SECRETLY…
I will endeavor to update this as other ideas come to me.
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