When the inspiration just isn't coming, this is what happens:

[alexmegami]

Alex: Bah. What I really want to pitch is Heroes.
Alex: Except with university students.
Alex: Because Tim Krieg?
Alex: TOTALLY STOLE MY IDEA.
Alex: Or... well... Pat's idea.
HasturHasturHastur: Heh, look for something a bit less known if you're going to rip something off.
Alex: shh.
Alex: Nothing is unknown to this class.
Alex: Trust me.
Alex: SOMEONE knows it.
HasturHasturHastur: Hmm... Gimmie a sec.
Alex: I once had an idea about the various gods as teens.
Alex: But Clone High kind of took that from me, too.
Alex: Bastards.
HasturHasturHastur: Not to mention "Class of the Titans".
Alex: I've never even heard of it.
Alex: God damnit!
HasturHasturHastur: Ran one season on Teletoon, greek gods reborn as teenagers to reclaim their lost power from a reborn Kronos.
Alex: Oh.
Alex: No, not so much like that.
Alex: That's more... young Hercules.
Alex: although apparently THAT was a series on its own.
Alex: *sigh*
Alex: I meant, like... teenage Jesus, Krishna, and Athena walk into a cafeteria...
HasturHasturHastur: Oh. Wasn't there a comic about that?
Alex: probably.
Alex: So I'm writing this show about university students... one is in a Christian death rock band, one's a strung out druggie...
Alex: they fight crime?
HasturHasturHastur: With rock?
Alex: and SCIENCE!
Alex: I call it Rock et Science
HasturHasturHastur: Sounds good, though strangely familiar...


pbradley: That's kinda brilliant.
Alex: AAAAAAAARGH.
Alex: I know I have ideas in my head, I just can't shake them out
HasturHasturHastur: What?
Alex: pinata style
HasturHasturHastur: Sticks don't help. Trust me. ....Neither do hammers.
Alex: Brushes?
HasturHasturHastur: Er... Hitting your head with brushes?
Alex: Yes. like sticks, but more... pointy.
HasturHasturHastur: Still not a good idea
pbradley: Try pitching something supermainstream with a new gimmick?
Alex: But I'd hate that.
Alex: The Kinky Bachelor.
pbradley: So think of how to make it new?
Alex: Instead of giving them a rose, he spanks them!
pbradley: Kinky CSI!
Alex: It isn't already?
pbradley: Kinky Daily Show!
Alex: Hott!
HasturHasturHastur: Lol

Alex: that's right.
Alex: All my show ideas are going to be kinky + show already on TV
Alex: Kinky Heroes!
HasturHasturHastur: Kinky House!
Alex: Fangirls all over the world are saying, "it isn't already?"