Friday, October 10, 2008

Bursting In On Your Shrink

It's kind of a television convention that when one of your main characters is in therapy, at a certain point they're going to burst into their therapist's office inappropriately while said therapist in the in the middle of an appointment. Usually this comes about because of some awful thing that has caused the protagonist's emotional dam to burst, and the therapist gets ruffled but ultimately helps out our lead character.

I think it would be humorous, if there were a show about a therapist, to have a recurring character who would frequently burst in at inappropriate times with problems that aren't really that severe. I'm seeing things like, "My shoelaces just won't stay tied, it's really irritating," or "Hey, I'm a little hungry and can't decide what to eat, what should I do?" It's probably only funny in my head, and really wouldn't work as a running gag, it just seems like this is the kind of thing that needs to be made fun of by somebody, somewhere.