Movie idea and SNL short skit ideas!

Wow!  Sorry for the delay in writing again!  I've been kind of recovering from graduating and such to where I've focused all my attention on thinking about jobs and not stuff to write.  Maybe writing again would change my luck.

So I've had a lot of free time on my hands and have come up with a couple ideas for movies that I would definitely watch.  Here we go.

The first idea I had came to me while watching baseball and hearing the announcer talk about the pitcher losing his confidence and getting sent down to the Minor Leagues to regain it, but instead of a player losing their confidence, it's the actual announcer that is having trouble.  A lot of announcers have pretty awesome home run calls or strike out calls.  This particular announcer is considered the best in the business.  He always gets the marquee games of the week to do for national television broadcasts.  Players love him because of how he can really put a spotlight on their performances, making their names and faces easier for the casual fan to remember.  Signature catchphrases include "That ball is crushed like ice and out of here!" "Looks like they're making a call to the bullpen.  Let's see which mad cow they're after." and finally "Strike three!  Don't call it a comeback cuz this one's over folks!"  But Mel "Bergy" Burgess (announcer's name) lets the fame go to his head.  He starts drinking and fooling around with loose women.  Initially, everyone likes some of the new catch phrases he comes up with, but his calls get explicit and he starts to mumble into the microphone, forgets about the game and starts discussing his plans for after the game.

After a few weeks of unacceptable behavior on the air, the producers decide to fire him.  His problems are put on display in the national media, making networks stay away from him.  A few that have past relationships with him call him in for an interview and they come close to giving him a chance, but he would slip up and say the wrong thing, forcing them to pass on him.  Mel's longtime analyst partner tries to straighten him up by inviting him to live with him and his wife, but that doesn't work out.  Eventually he has to move in with his parents who don't even watch sports.  They don't even have cable, forcing him to watch the Price is Right and soap operas all day.  To get away from it all, he goes to the local Little League field and listens to the All-Star games on the radio.  The radio announcer knows baseball but isn't very entertaining, so Mel asks him in between innings if he can come on the air with him.  Ratings were pretty low because the station wasn't very popular to begin with, but once word got out that Mel was announcing people listened from all over.

Mel did so well that the radio station was going to offer him the largest salary of any on air personalities in the state of Pennsylvania.  But there was tragedy at his previous tv station with Mel's analyst buddy (Ted Greenwell) and Mel's replacement being killed in a car accident.  Mel is asked to come back and do the Major League Baseball All-Star game in honor of Ted.  His performance was spectacular and the executives want him to return to the booth, but he had come to love working back in his hometown and doing all the local sports there for the station.  Of course there's a love interest too that has no idea who he is but he met at the Little-League field because she's a single mother and her son is one of the star players for the winning team.  There's a lot of anticipation on the decision, but he decides to go back to work for the national tv network (Just kidding, he picks the radio gig!  But there is an alternate decision in the movie saying he actually chose to return to tv to keep people on their toes.)  Eventually, he marries the woman from the ballpark and the son goes on to play professional baseball for the Phillies.  Mel does the radio broadcast for every game so they can watch every game he plays in.

This is definitely a comedy movie, but there are some dramatic moments!  Let me know what you think!

I also have an idea of a short skit that has a 40 year old man that was a slow, chubby little kid growing up that loved tennis but wasn't good enough to play.  Worse yet, he wasn't good enough to even be a ball boy even though his dad was a high ranking official.  He always was the first one cut during ball boy tryouts for the U.S. Open and would walk the few blocks home from the stadium.  When the company he worked for on Wall Street went under around the same time his dad was retiring from being an official, he thought he would give being a ball boy one more shot.  After training for weeks, he was ready for tryouts and was actually selected (with the help of a bribe from his dad).  Everything was going great in the first few games that he was a ball boy.  After fumbling one of the balls, he started to lose his confidence.  While there was a few seconds in between the next point, he looked down and noticed his shoe was untied, but he didn't have enough time to fix it.  The first serve was hit into the net on his side, and as he started to take off towards it, his shoelace catches underneath his foot and he goes tumbling into the net.  After a few seconds of rolling around on the ground, he sees the ball is still a few feet away and crawls towards it in pain.  With a final lunge, he grabs the ball, lifts it up to show the crowd, and raises to his feet with the ball still held high above his head.  After nobody claps, he walks off the court only to receive a standing ovation as soon as he is out of sight from the crowd.
The other idea I had was more of an SNL skit.  A man needs money and everyone says they enjoy talking to him, so he starts up a hotline to where he has conversations with lonely people to help cheer them up.  One caller doesn't want to be cheered up though, she wants to be talked dirty to.  After offering ten times more than he usually charges for the conversation, Andy (that's me!) agrees to talk dirty to her.  He's actually really good.  He still wants to offer the conversation services initially, but the money is just too hard to turn down.  In his phone introduction, the choices are "For a personal and fun conversation, press 1.  To listen to all of your wildest desires, press 2.  You have chosen an incorrect number, press 2 now damn it!"  By the end of the skit he's saying things that he has no idea what they mean and dressing like a pimp.

Let me know what you think!

Robbing A Bank

Sometimes I think that life isn't exciting enough and there needs to be something that I can do to change that.  I love movies where there are bank robberies, but I don't want to do it for the money or anything; I just want to try a few things.  It would have to be a bank where I don't know anybody though because I don't want to permanently scar any of my friends.  It also has to be some complete absurd tactic I use to get the job done, like maybe the old finger under the shirt trick to act like it's a gun.  The kicker is...I want to return the money.  Maybe circle around the building and place the money back in front of the main entrance after adding a "I'm sorry" note that I had previously written.  I would color just the end of my hair and wear a hat where just that part of the hair is showing.  Probably would wear a bandana over my face and cheap sunglasses.  Maybe throw in some fake tattoos that wash off so when they describe my appearance they'll look for clues that aren't there anymore.

I probably could tell a few employees at the bank and maybe even the branch manager to let them know I'm going to do it as a training experience of some sort.  That way, when a robbery does actually happen they'll know what to do.  Some dumbass is always going to try to rob a bank, so they should definitely be prepared for it...Wait, if I robbed the bank, then I guess I would be a dumbass.  Obviously I would never do that unless they came to me asking that I do it as a training experience.  But wouldn't a high speed chase on a closed off road be fun?  Ok, I've found my calling in life.  I'm going to Hollywood!