10 Times TV Shows Made Up Incredible Movie Ideas
These TV shows struck cinematic gold. Your move, Hollywood.
Hollywood executives, lend me your ears!
Take a break from commissioning sequel after sequel and spin-offs resulting in spin-off sequels. I mean, nine Fast and Furious movies? Enough already (although if number 10 isn't called FasTEN Your Seatbelts there'll be hell to pay)!
Take a break from remaking classic movies, trying to put a new spin on them and predictably crowbarring in a member of the original film to make a short cameo (shoehorning Leonard Nimoy into the new Star Trek was such a desperate pander to the fans... a "fander", if you will).
It's time to take a gamble, Hollywood, and this list is the perfect place to start.
Ask yourself this: do you want to see a testosterone driven, no-nonsense action film with a muscle-bound superhero who isn't afraid to go full frontal?
How about a movie where Professor X uses his mutant powers for his own personal gain instead of healing the world?
What about a story of love, betrayal, friendship, evil twin brothers and robots?
Because we, the people, most certainly do.
This list will reveal the hilarious, the shocking, the genius and the downright disastrous movie ideas that were created for the purposes of a TV show, but have been painfully overlooked to be made in the real world.
So get your popcorn ready, strap yourselves in and get ready to do The Scarn.
No hesitation. No surrender. No man left behind!
10. Ball Fondlers (Rick And Morty)
In the episode Rixty Minutes (season one episode eight), Rick introduces his family to the wonderful world of interdimensional cable.
Whilst Rick and Morty are channel hopping through the endless shows from alternative universes, they come across gems such as Alien Invasion Tomato Monster Mexican Armada Brothers Who Are Just Regular Brothers Running In A Van From An Asteroid And All Sort Of Things: The Movie, and Gazorpazorpfield (a foul-mouthed interdimensional Garfield). Both of which you can hear Justin Roiland laughing in as he is clearly improvising the shows on the spot.
Rick and Morty then stumble across Ball Fondlers, which is seemingly an interdimensional version of The A-Team. All that is shown during the brief time it is on the TV is a muscly man with an afro, a man/crocodile hybrid, a poorly drawn human as a helicopter pilot and a female version of He-Man. All of whom are blasting the living squanch out of the bad guys set to grindcore.
In The Ricks Must Be Crazy (Season 2 episode 6), Rick, Morty and Summer are seen coming out of the cinema after having watched Ball Fondlers: The Movie which surprisingly had a PG-13 rating. Fun for all the family, clearly.