Terrablebot

Little Mx.Posts-A-Lot

Hey! I'm Terrablebot! I'm a 28 y.o. NB living in Washington (no longer trapped in coshost queue >:) )! I do lots of art of my funny deer character Aura and I also take commissions! If you're interested in getting a commission message me on my furaffinity (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/terrablebot) with what you want and I can give you an estimate on pricing!


evanonline
@evanonline

a few years back my friend dee and i had this long-running joke where we would pick a random simpsons character and pitch a three-act story about how they start running the springfield power plant, with the end goal being to have an entire season's worth of episodes all about new characters becoming the boss of the power plant. principal skinner runs the power plant. comic book guy runs the power plant. comic book guy's wife runs the power plant. i think those three were honestly as far as we got.

but, eventually, saying that someone "runs the power plant" became shorthand for any time anybody unexpectedly achieves any sort of power or status in anything. we'd watch a ninja turtles thing and go "NOW SHREDDER RUNS THE POWER PLANT" when he eats the super shredder juice, that kind of thing.

this is so esoteric but im also constantly wanting to say "NOW (x) RUNS THE POWER PLANT" all the time even though no one else will ever understand what that means.


evanonline
@evanonline

so let me share what i remember of our pitches

  • because a simpsons episode always starts with an entirely unrelated act 1, the principal skinner runs the power plant episode starts with him trying to sell stuff on ebay to clean stuff out of his house, to his mother's displeasure. it's called mebay or something. eventually, he finds the deed to the land the power plant is on and technically he owns it. skinner becomes the new power plant boss and homer hates it because skinner runs the power plant like he runs the school and constantly barks over the loudspeaker, and mr. burns becomes the new principal somehow, so homer and bart team up to fix everything. i think this one was mostly my friend washy's idea.
  • comic book guy discovers he has 30 copies of a rare issue of radioactive man and he sells 29 of them to maintain his collection. he uses the money to buy the power plant from mr. burns so he can get his own radioactive superpowers. you get jokes where he releases the hounds and they're all krypto the superdog. i don't think we had an ending to this. maybe it's just time for comic book guy to run the power plant.
  • comic book guy's wife is a japanese woman who loves manga. look it up. i think it was the exact same plot as the comic book guy one except she's the one in charge and her goal is to make akira really happen and you get lisa doing the akira slide on her bicycle.

JunoVivi
@JunoVivi
This page's posts are visible only to users who are logged in.

You must log in to comment.

in reply to @evanonline's post:

in reply to @evanonline's post:

if this was real it would be an Endless Eight-tier masterpiece of subversive television. Imagine fans tuning in each week and getting invested in whatever Act 1 side plot occurs and then the crushing disappointment setting in when it turns out it's Another Running the Power Plant episode this week. 22 Power Plant episodes back to back. People would hold marathon viewings of it.

I'm thinking about this more and I think I love the idea of completely doing it like Endless Eight, they don't tell you it's going to be this at ALL and people only slowly figure out they're doing this, it'll take until episode 4 or 5 for people to start actually start taking notice.

Three consecutive "runs the Power Plant" episodes is simply a sign of how tired this show is after 35 seasons, four is when you start posting online about how the Simpsons is doing something weird. I'm also now obsessed with the idea of a Treehouse of Horror with three different "runs the Power Plant" skits like Max suggested in another comment