( I say again: SPOILERS FOR THE SUPERNATURAL FINALE )


I was going to talk about supernatural sitcoms here, but I think I'll leave that for the next (nonspoilery) post. *cuts*

So anyway, in non-spoilery news, missyjack and I decided last night that what we REALLY need is a spin off of SPN all about Bobby. In the same way that BtVS had the AtS spinoff which was not about whiny teenagers but rather a COOL CRIME-FIGHTING TEAM!!.

This spinoff is an ensemble sitcom about Bobby Singer, all-round long-suffering hunter dude and the various hunters who come through his house to have a beer with him. This includes Ellen, Jo, Tamara, Gordon, Kubrick, Rufus, and occasionally the Ghostfacers (and Henricksen, dammit!). Basically, all the cool badass characters who have been introduced once and then either killed off or NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN.

There's canned laughter. The audience "WHOOOOOOA!"s whenever Gordon enters stage left, and boos whenever he talks about killing stuff. There's constant, amusing sexual tension between Gordon and Kubrick. Gordon finds random excuses to take his shirt off, but is totally oblivious to everything except KILLING STUFF. So the audience always "oooOOOooo"s whenever Kubrick gets awkward when Gordon is shirtless and manages to trick Gordon into walking off-frame with him.

Jo and Bobby are the dynamic duo, the "surrounded by idiots" pair. IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY MISMATCHED CHARACTER TYPES! They frequently manage to save the day when they team up together, often exchange rolled-eyes and glances behind the backs of other characters, and the audience "awwwww"s whenever Jo cutesily wheedles something out of Bobby and Bobby crumbles and gives in to her. And when they have hugs. Because they do. Jo makes jokes about Bobby's beard and hats and Bobby gets all flustered.

Ellen and Tamara are both amusing in their butch-ish ways, but both very good in a tight spot. Henricksen swans around in his suit, being mildly distasteful at the clutter of demonology in Bobby's house, but is also very good at pulling strings and being a deus ex machina.

Rufus is freaking hilarious, and is constantly trying to convince the younger hunters to set up shop in his chapel and go under cover in high schools to fight teenage demons. The Ghostfacers totally love him and follow him around like ducklings. They randomly pop up in scenes wearing tight acid-wash jeans and bandannas. Ed totally has a kind-of pining thing for Jo (who is kind of amused by this, but completely disinterested); ghostly Corbett gets snotty about it and attempts to smack Ed about the head when he attempts "flirting" (his hand goes right through. Funny!) The canned audience thinks gay ghosts are HILARIOUS. Especially when they try and dress in 80s clothes.

And the set and lighting is totally like that episode of Scrubs where the fantasy sequence has them in a sitcom: the mess and lighting is clearly manufactured and in-a-goddamn-studio, all peachy colours and a camera that moves very, very little.

Oh, and Bobby's catch phrase, which he says at least once an episode, is "Ya idjit!" After the end of each episode, while the credits are rolling on one half of the screen, the other half is taken up with impromptu vox pops of the studio audience. Invariably they include people looking incredibly gleeful and wearing teeshirts that say "YA IDJIT" on them.

*firm nod*

Yes, I would like to see this. Gimme.