And continue to do. If you were working at the time with somebody who didn't think it was very funny, it must have looked as if it was going nowhere. Start with the idea. I write these things like mini- feature films. And so I'm always looking for the theme of the show.
Every show has a moral.
Every show has act one, two, and three. It has various plot points and resolutions and climaxes and cliff hangers at the end of acts and it has a teaser at the beginning. That's how it has to start, because you can come up with interesting predicaments, but you can't make them play for a half-hour unless they are of a universal nature. We do what is called a springboard. You do anywhere from a third of a page to a page and that will get submitted to the broadcasters, and they will either like it or not.