Sitcom Haiku

I'm amazed at how hard [doing situation comedy] is.
You have only 20 minutes to tell a story.
It's like a haiku." -- Joan Cusack

I.
Heres to the sitcom
real lifes never so crazy,
or resolved so fast.

II.
Lucy, Dick Van Dyke,
Archie, Sanford, Hawkeye, Cheers,
Seinfeld, Cosby, Friends.

III.
Wild situations
mistaken identity
closets used often.

IV.
Wiseass ten-year-old,
always with pithy remarks,
flustering grownups.

V.
Bumbling father
no Ward Cleaver, no sweater,
useless buffoon.

VI.
Suffering mother,
puts it all back together,
in thirty minutes.

VII.
Single? No worries!
Youll have a famous lover
by November sweeps.

10/09/2001

Posted on 10/09/2001
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