What's the weirdest premise of a show you've watched?

[Moderated]

I'd have to go with Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka, a story about a crossdressing zombie with a chainsaw, a necromancer, three vampire ninjas(One hates him, one wants to be his wife, the other is in love with his ass), and a magically equipped girl. It's really weird, but really good.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

If I knew what the premise of Uncle Grandpa was, I'd say that...It seems like a bunch of middle-managers got together and agreed that kids seem to enjoy and watch shows with random-ass humor so they market researched what would be the most random things of all in order to make something that every kid would want to watch. What they forgot however was how to make decent characters or, coherent plots. Adventure Time and, Regular Show aren't strictly coherent but at least those shows have some nuance of internal logic...Uncle Grandpa is just...random...

 

[BarbaricGoose]

Probably Aqua Teen Hunger Force/AUPS1/whatever it's going by now (I don't have cable anymore). Food items solving crime (read: not solving crime) in New Jersey, while meeting colorful characters like Moth Monster Man, The Wisdom Cube, The Mooninnites and Carl.

That's as weird as it gets for someone who doesn't watch anime.

Honorable mention would be Tim & Eric. I don't even know where to begin...

 

[FalloutJack]

Actually, the weirdest shows have probably the simplest premises, largely in anime. Two examples:

Yakitate Japan! - It's a show entirely revolving around the baking of BREAD. That's right, bread. It's about bread in the most ridiculous way inhumanly possible and to explain just wouldn't do it any freakin' justice.

Tengen Toppa Gurran Lagann - You all probably know this one already. It's all about the drills, baby. Drills are entirely the point of the show and all you need to know, aside from manliness...which is expressed by drills.

It is HOW the premises are used that make them the wackiest ideas out there, for I have the power to bake bread so good that your entire world becomes unstoppable drills of manliness that restart the universe...and it only costs 100 yen.

 

[Hawkeye21]

It would have to be TV series "Revolution" for me. Mysterious blackout occurs all over the world subsequently disabling all forms of electricity. WAT. As if fundamental physical laws can somehow spontaniously change... But later we found out that

Spoiler

blackout was caused by nanites, man-made virus size nanomachines that can somehow follow commands specifically (absorb electricity and replicate). How does one "absorb electricity" is left to viewer imagination, just as how does one create a machine size of 2 nanometers capable of receiving and following commands. Transistors maybe?

Also movie "2012", where neutrinos (one of the most harmless elemental particles, that can pass through 1 000 000 km thick steel plate without even noticing it) !SUDDENLY! start heating the earth, which causes all sort of shenanigans. That premise is just facepalm worthy. There wasn't even a need to invent such buggery, when simple and scientifically sound eruption of supervolcano under Yellowstone national park would be enough to cause even more devastation (probably enough to wipe out humans in western hemisphere, ashfalls alone would cover all of NA under 150 meters of ash). Such eruptions happen on average once in 600 000 years, and the last one was 630 000 years ago, just FYI.

 

[Illesdan]

I've seen some pretty strange stuff, but I think the one that comes to mind from recent memory was a very short-lived show called 'My Own Worst Enemy'. I don't know how the network thought this show was going to go anywhere; the plot pigeon-holed itself into a corner soon as the first episode was over. Funny thing, it actually was a decently written/acted show.

 

[MrMisfit]

One of the stranger shows I've seen is The War Next Door. It was basically Spy vs. Spy crossed with a sitcom.

 

[TheKwertyeweyoppe]

I could try search my memories for every show I've ever watched, but I doubt I'll find anything that beats Kill La Kill.

 

[Vausch]

I'd say it's Fighting Foodons. You cook a meal, and it somehow manifests itself into a monster and does a poke'mon battle...I dunno, I barely remember it.

Actually anime that focuses on food tends to be one of the weirder premises in my eyes. Toriko seems tame compared to Fighting Foodons but when the characters are literally cooking to save humanity and there's an impending war over a very rare ingredient. Then there's people who's hair is alive, one that can make any poison secrete from his body, one that can use his voice as a weapon, one that has batteries in his neck, and one that manifests giant chopsticks as a weapon. And that's just the good guys.

 

[Abomination]

Momma had a Chicken.

Momma had a Cow.

Dad was proud.

He didn't care how!​

 

[FPLOON]

A little girl is now the new teacher at a high school, where the students make fun of her the same way she insults them... and that's only the first episode and not even close to how the rest of the series plays out using said "premise"...

The title may or may not have anything to do with the show at all...

Spoiler: What show I'm talking about...

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Pani Poni Dash!

Also, there's a bunny that gets abused to no ends, a cat god, some aliens spying on said little girl, a "festival", and other random things and references I cannot say without fully spoiling a giant robot sequence the series...

Other than that... Anything straight out of Gainax themselves... Enough said on that one...

 

[Kged]

"The West Wing". A brilliant intellectual with a passionate commitment to social justice gets elected President of the USA. Come on...

 

[Cowabungaa]

First there's the anime film Denshinbashira Elemi no Koi:

The silent scandal of a utility pole, secretly lighting the outskirts of the city. The story is set during the nostalgic time before cellular phones in Japan, and tells the love story of a human and a utility pole.

Elemi the power pole becomes infatuated with electrician Mr.Takahashi. Pretending she is human, she decides to ring him. But this contact is forbidden in the law of power poles. Eventually, rumors spread all over town and Elemi is summoned to court.

Then there's the graphic novel Punk Rock Jesus:

The year is 2019 and the world is ready for the debut of the most important reality show of all time: J2, the resurrection of Jesus Christ through cloning with DNA found on the Shroud of Turin. The world is going crazy over this. A lot of people want this blasphemous abomination to be stopped while others eagerly await the rebirth of their redeemer. And that?s exactly what Ophis, the company heading this venture, wants to happen. Everyone?s going to be watching as Gwen Fairling, the company?s handpicked Virgin Mary, gives birth to and raises the cloned Messiah. This kid is going to be the most famous person on the planet whether he wants to or not.

Shame I didn't have the money to buy Punk Rock Jesus, but I will as soon as I can.

 

[Ranorak]

It's a show about a 900 year old alien that pick up young girls and takes them to far away places to show them a good time.
Usually this end up with them getting in trouble with other aliens, like squids in garbage cans and a clone army of mr potato heads.

 

[Foolery]

Girls Bravo. It's an anime about a teenage boy who is allergic to girls because of being bullied by them for years and travels through his bathtub to a planet that has a extremely high percentage of women. Honestly, most of it is blatant fanservice. Anyway, I was bored, and it was on Netflix.

 

[octafish]

"The West Wing". A brilliant intellectual with a passionate commitment to social justice gets elected President of the USA. Come on...

More fantasy than Game of Thrones for sure...

I am older than a lot of posters on here so I remember in 1990 when the creator of seminal police drama Hill Street Blues, Stephen Boncho brought a new concept for a police show to our screens...Cop Rock, an episodic police procedural musical...it won an Emmy.

This shit will blow your mind if you were brought up like me on HSB.

 

[MetalDooley]

Big Brother - A bunch of arseholes,fame whores and other general wastes of oxygen are locked in a house together for several weeks where they do absolutely nothing but ***** and moan at each other.How this shit ever got popular is beyond me.Hell it's still being made 14 years later

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Big Brother - A bunch of arseholes,fame whores and other general wastes of oxygen are locked in a house together for several weeks where they do absolutely nothing but ***** and moan at each other.How this shit ever got popular is beyond me.Hell it's still being made 14 years later

This and Survivor. A group of "castaways" are dumped in some remote location somewhere and have to compete in various challenges in order to stay in the remote location or "stay on the island" as it were. ...what?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Catdog. A cartoon about an animal that is the front end of a cat stuck to the front end of a dog.

 

[Groxnax]

Level E

An alien prince decides to have fun with the people of Earth. He does a really crazy ripoff crossover between Power Rangers and an RPG with five poor kids.

Panty and Stocking... need I say more?