Idea for a Movie...

Idea for a movie:

A  Catholic Priest and an Orthodox Rabbi notice that their parishioners are declining in this modern atheistic age.  They decide to team up and engage in increasingly hilarious stunts to win back their fallen flocks.  This fails miserably, so they decide to switch their focus and start sleuthing unsolved biblical crimes.  This fails miserably, but they are picked up for a crime show called Peyes and the Padre that airs Wednesday at eight on TNT.  The show fails miserably and the Priest and the Rabbi are out of a job and begin to question their faith in god.  It’s been a trying year.  They both renounce their faiths and decide to lead a secular life since this religious on isn’t working so well.  Fast forward, 15 years later and both men are leading rich, successful, happy lives married to each other.  They look into the camera and say, “why didn’t we do this sooner!” before laughing, finishing their margaritas, and cannon-balling into a pool situated in a beautiful resort.  Cut to black.  The end.    

Idea for a Musical:

A Priest and a Rabbi notice that their parishioners are declining in this modern atheistic age.  They try to reach out to the young by performing their sermons in the style of popular musicals.  This leads to the Priest preaching and singing in the style of “Spring Awakening”, and the Rabbi preaching and singing in the style of “the Book of Mormon”.  Parishioners come back, but after two weeks of previews and four weeks of an extended limited engagement, they have grown bored with this gimmick and demand a new musical.  The Priest and the Rabbi team up and parody various musicals, each with better production values than the last.  The sermons are now waiting room only and the Priest and the Rabbi are both awarded their SAG cards.  They are nominated for 8 Tony awards, but come away empty handed, leading to a scene where they look up and curse their god.  They contend that they don’t need this anymore and they had the most fun when they were together just hanging out.  They smile and sing a joyous song about renouncing their faith (they are joined by the ensemble) and the play ends.  The end.

Idea for a Television Show:

A Priest and a Rabbi notice that their parishioners are declining in this modern atheistic age.  They decide to quit their jobs and work in an office filled with many quirky characters.  This may include the incompetent boss, the sexpot secretary, the sarcastic, jaded generation x member and her perky millennial assistant, and a loveable dog around the office called “rags”.  More people can join the office according to test screenings and viewer complaints to the network (maybe a hip-hop aficionado).  The Priest and the Rabbi start off as the square, weird, new guys but after a while they grow to love their cast of quirky workmates.  Romances may flourish between workmates (scandalous) and everybody grows and learns or learns and then grows.  Potential for a spinoff about “rags” getting elected sheriff of a small southern border town riff with crime is very possible.  The end.