The Best Show: the future

[Chad from The Woodlands]

... If he owns the rights to the archives, having a pay-wall protected thing where we can download old shows and maybe some of the older WFMU premium things (I'd love to be able to see Fantasia in Best Show Minor) would be good too, but all of that would be a massive undertaking IT wise.  I'm not even sure how he'd do the call-in show without the WFMU studios - Skype?  Would it work as well?

Whatever Tom does and wants to do, I will support him in any way I can, and I don't want him to just make "a little money" as he's said recently, I want Tommy Wonderful to be rich as Reese's, and I will follow and shell out my cash for whatever he wants to do.  Really, he could do anything he wants, he need not restrict himself just to finding a new way to do the show, he could branch out easily.  There's so many options, I'm really excited for him and for the future - the possibilities are almost endless!

Same Seder's Majority Report and The Young Turks have a live component and a downloadable element, I don't know how cost restrictive it would be to carry out

[Flood]

Whatever it is, I'll buy it!

[dovate]

This is more of a personal fantasy, but I wish they'd usurp one of WHYY's (Philly NPR stations) 2 weekend broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion with a new, 2-hour, weekly radio show.  WXPN (UPenn's music based public radio affiliate) could work too. If I were a content director, I'd have spent the last 2 months begging Tom and crew to find a home in Philadelphia with a new, self-sustaining show.

Connections to Philly aside and looking purely at the business, a show would have a built in donor base and good potential for programming fees. Plus it would be in Philadelphia, where I live.

[Nicholas Tanek]

i would love to see a Newbridge animated series.

I was thinking the same thing. This way Jon Wurster can do all his characters and the animators can make them all look different.  The only thing is that him being a radio show host was such an essential element to the show. I can see Tom interacting with characters from Newbridge at the Starbucks, Radio Hut, Lady Foot Locker, etc. Although it would still work, I think it would be weird if Tom was not doing a radio show in the series.

Of course, Tom playing the straight man against all the citizens of Newbridge is also essential.

Maybe the show would be bookended by Tom in the studio taking calls, then going out into the world, bumping into different characters, and then storylines can branch out from there.  It could sort of be like the standup bits in Seinfeld, but different.


   -Zach

Good idea. Does anyone else imagine this in Dr. Katz style squiggle vision?

[Carver]

Just got an email about the MyLibsyn account I keep to listen to the WTF podcasts.  My automatic 6 month $4.99 payment just went through... would love a similar system (and would be willing to pay much more on a regular basis) for a Scharpling and Co. product!

[AllSussedOut]

This is more of a personal fontasy

Corrected.

[Cubmaster]

This is more of a personal fontasy

Corrected.

Keep the original!  It's how Gene Simmons would've pronounced "fantasy" if he called in to the show.

[buffcoat]

The first time "fontasy" is rolled out is a Top 10 Best Show moment. Tom makes JW repeat it until he's laughing too hard to say it.

[justinmh05]

The first time "fontasy" is rolled out is a Top 10 Best Show moment. Tom makes JW repeat it until he's laughing too hard to say it.

Can you recall which episode that was?

[Cubmaster]

I didn't know he'd used the word before.  All I can remember is his pronunciation of "panties" in a call from, I think, 2012.  Good stuff.

[Josh]

The first time "fontasy" is rolled out is a Top 10 Best Show moment. Tom makes JW repeat it until he's laughing too hard to say it.

Can you recall which episode that was?

Dec. 7, 2004
"It's heaven on earth for the KISS fan. It's a fontasy store."

[Kormodd]

Tom said in the chat on Christmas Eve that he'd have some news about his future endeavors this week or the next. He also said he wanted to do an Internet radio show on which he'd take calls.

[justinmh05]

The first time "fontasy" is rolled out is a Top 10 Best Show moment. Tom makes JW repeat it until he's laughing too hard to say it.

Can you recall which episode that was?

Thanks!

Dec. 7, 2004
"It's heaven on earth for the KISS fan. It's a fontasy store."

[justinmh05]

Tom said in the chat on Christmas Eve that he'd have some news about his future endeavors this week or the next. He also said he wanted to do an Internet radio show on which he'd take calls.

Great news - whatever it turns out to be, I'm there.

[Crusherkc]

Tom said in the chat on Christmas Eve that he'd have some news about his future endeavors this week or the next. He also said he wanted to do an Internet radio show on which he'd take calls.

Great news - whatever it turns out to be, I'm there.

Hope this is the case.