Robert Altman's The Player opens with a sendup of Hollywood pitch meetings, including one where Buck Henry pitches a sequel to The Graduate, almost a quarter century later. The joke pitches are cringe-inducing in a humorous way, but you had to say to yourself, "This is probably nothing compared to how bad the real movie and TV ideas are that people are trying to sell."
Case in point: this bizarre new TV series being developed, according to the Hollywood Reporter, by who else but the Fox Network...
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