Imagine a Sitcom that is an updated version of All in the Family or the Simpsons. The thesis is Yolanda, a Mexican woman, has a driving school and her students are from around the world. It laughs at all stereotypes and has lots of sight gags related to dress, stature and status. A few examples to get your juices flowing:
- Yolanda is teaching a Saudi Arabian woman in a burka to drive.
- She is trying to get an Asian man to be a decisive driver.
- An Englishman refuses to keep right and Yolanda gets out of the car.
- She has to teach a young Egyptian man to drive well enough to drive a cab for his father.
The beauty of this ideapreneur idea is that it can be tried at very low cost. Write a treatment and maybe a few pages of dialogue. Perhaps film a scene on your iPhone and then use networking to promote it. There are lots of people out there who are looking for content and would look at financing the pilot.
“I’m Mexican. I’m not Latina. Does anybody say “I’m European”? No you say I’m French. Why do you want to clump me together with all those other people?”
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There is a bushel of truth in the seed of all stereotypes that apply to all but myself.
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