Guys and gals, I need some help. I'm pitching a new idea for (another) cop series. It will be based in NYC with plenty of action, shooting, bootlegging, black market type stuff , focusing on the brave police and fire who must deal with the consequences of a city ( both its administration and populas) gone mad because its all hyped up on too much Mountain Dew. The star of the series will be a grisled cop, torn between enforcing the new 16oz drink law and his own issues with addiction to Slurpees.
I'm looking for a series name and hey, if you want to assist with a few writing tips, go ahead.
Here are a few ideas:
1) Brown Sugar(less) ( too 70's?)
2) The last straw
3) 16 oz of rain
4) Dentists gone wild
Let me set up the premise for the show so you get the idea of what I want to create.
NYC. Summer....Its hot, you're sweaty and harder and harder to stay out of trouble. Just when you think gov't regulations can't get any more intrusive, Bloomie one ups himself. You're angry, thirsty and that 16 oz drink won't cut it. You walk into the 7 11, jezus christ, only 16 oz drinks...and whats worse, they only carry...diet. But...wait...you've heard of a place where the Coke flows, lines and lines of it. Its bantered about on the street...so you go in search of it...and you find mr bloomies worst nitemare, 32 AND 64 oz cups.
So you grab a cup and you pour the sweet, delicious, syrupy drink, 32 oz...no, 64, hell, why not, this is a safehouse, free from the tyranny of a bloomie gone mad. Who will know?
Little does this lawbreaker understand, but our star ( who needs to play this character?) has a plant in place. A snitch. And this is where the conflict occurs. His "plant" is also our stars source of illegal slurpees, turning on others for arrest while feeding the sugary needs of the very person in charge of wiping this health hazard out of NYC. The snitch has blackmailed the star. It gets dicey. What makes it so intriging is our star, so hyped up on illegal sugar, forgets to read his perps their rights while also so confused, he arrests illegals, which is illegal, who are immediately released.
The force has its concerns as the star shows up at the precinct smelling of Grape ( purple to you blacks) slurpee and his car littlered with illegal cups. While our star is busting sugar abusers, his captain has a Secret Slurpee Squad (SSS, for short), conducting a super secret mission to expose our star.......But the twist in the plot is this: Our "star" is also an illegal, using a fake drivers liscense.
So, does our star have immunity?
Could the captain be arrested for arresting an illegal, posing as a legal??
Could Bloomie give the sugar medal of honor? While arresting our star? Who could then arrest Bloomie for arresting an illegal?
Seriously folks, I hope you can recognize the potential of this thrilling show...This is not just another cop show. I will deal with the cutting edge crime that is turning NYC into a cesspool..... Well, not a cesspool, but whatever a huge vat of sugarry drinks would create.
I need ideas....and a little seed money.