INITIAL IDEAS

We still wanted to incorporate slight themes of perfectionism and existentialism but mix it with a bit of comedy ​ to keep it engaging 

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MAIN INSPIRATIONS

• SNL

• Asteroid city

• 1950s

• Shutter island (ending)

• Chicago (they both reached for the gun scene): This scene won an oscar (We Both Reached for the Gun) | Chicago | CLIP

• The guy who didn’t like musicals: The show follows Paul, an average guy who “doesn’t like musicals,” as the citizens of his town are gradually overcome by an alien hive mind that makes them sing and dance as if they are in a musical.

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IDEA 1:

Ideas 1 and 2 came straight out of my head. MC gets invited home by the weird friend. They enter to find themselves suddenly in a sitcom with a cliche family dynamic. MC gets thrown off by the constant laughing tracks and lingo while the friend and his family look at him like there is nothing wrong.

IDEA 2:

Mix of comedy and mystery. Based on a very cliche wife and husband 1950s comedy dynamic. Husband gets home basic comedy comedy with wife put some things are off putting, some things the wife says, music stops you get the idea. The wife acts very stiff like a doll. In the end its revealed that the whole scenario is the husband's imagination and he is currently being held in a phyc ward. Husband had killed his wife and went crazy. Doctors check off on his lobotomy

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IDEA 3:

After consulting with Gibbs AGAIN (there is no hope for you Saman), Saman pulled through with an idea bout a therapist comedy. I suggested to make the therapist unconventionally weird for the comedy aspect and that's how idea 3 was born. A goofy therapist with a very serious patient who is thoroughly confused with the therapists strange methods and questions (the contrast would create comedy)

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IDEA 4:
I went to chat GPT for a vague idea and this is what it gave me: An insecure college student, overwhelmed by existential dread, spirals into a crisis when she’s forced to declare a major. With the clock ticking, a series of absurd encounters push her to question whether life has any meaning—or if she should just major in business like her mom keeps suggesting.
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We decided to go for idea 3 and refine it for our main plot. The synopsis is as follows:

Sam suffers an existential crisis about the unpredictability of life. In an effort to cope, she finds an ad for a therapist. He looks quirky an odd vibe about him, but she decides to go for it anyway. Cut to her entering the therapist’s office. He’s there as weird as expected. Dressed and speaking eccentrically. Sam hesitantly still gives it a try. As the session goes on, the therapist’s remarks and exercises keep getting sillier - frustrating Sam who was looking for a serious session to find answers. The exercises grow to a height of absurdity, making Sam snap before the therapist blurts out an epiphany and everything locks into place for Sam. She’s overcome with shock about the newfound realisation and the surprise of the weird therapist actually being helpful. The therapist breaks the fourth wall to tell the audience of a job well done and the film ends there with a looney toons circle out transition.