Steamy Potential
Award-winning Australian comedians Nic Conway and Dan Murnane are wholly unqualified to write TV series pilots. Yet here we are, week after week, pitching show after show of completely unmakeable television in our search for the fabled pearl of Hollywood. Even if it means shucking thousands of food-poisoning oysters along the way.
Episodes
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
24: Seth MacFarlane: Eat Your Medicine & 30 Christian Rock
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
We start this episode discussing the terrible sinful crimes of Hugh Jackman, and end it discussing the holiness of a character to be played by Hugh Jackman. I'm starting to think we need an embargo on discussing HJ, but maybe we should just stop talking about German brother-to-brother incest, and then he'll just naturally stop coming up.
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
23: Prolapse Partners & A Mid-Season Shuffle
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Sometimes you just get two ideas that feel like part of a spiralling-downwards pattern. And that's what we have here: A body-inversion reality show, and a genre-inversion documentary series. But it might help to think of them as a spiralling-upwards kind of a trend. Because if you're flipped upside-down, that's what our podcast would look like. Spiralling upwards towards freedom.
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
22: Groundhog Yesterday & A Winged Tooth-Beast
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Imagine if Christopher Nolan kind of winged the plot of Tenet on-the-fly during filming, and you'll get the half-baked concoction of our first time-travel nugget. Turns out time inversion is really hard to think about while you're also trying to be Professional Friends. We return to our core competency for the second pitch: the rules of the Santa Clause universe.
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
21: Big Hamm Energy
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
This one's hitting the waves a little late, since we did some due diligence on a pitch and decided that it had a little too much Fritzl Flavour - even for us. So we went back to the cutting room floor, scooped up some nail trimmings and old condoms and produced a replacement pitch. Together, these two pitches represent Jon Hamm's biggest legacies: The marketing wizard Don Draper, and a swingin' dong. We gently salute him for that inspiration.
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
20: Chum Dumpster & The Matrix Pre-Loaded
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Come with us on a journey to the bottom of the barrel. Let's hang out amongst the sludge and algae that congeals at the bottom of every website: The Chum Box. We spend the better part of this episode re-discovering our love of this beautiful piece of internet paraphenalia, then string it into a loose premise for a TV show.
We also chisel what is essentially a hallucination into a statue that resembles the Matrix 4, but as a TV show, but then as a documentary.
Monday Jan 17, 2022
19: The 80s Tropeosphere Machine & A Hole in Kwang
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Today we travel back - back in time. But not too far. Just to a simpler time, when every boy was a nerd-hero, every girl was the girl-next-door, and every night was Prom Night. Then we travel to another place where everyone is awkwardly trying to get laid: North Korea. Which, now that I think about it, is like one huge never-ending prom, everyone slow-dancing to 50s music, putting on a show for each other, and nervously wondering how it's all going to end: with a bang or with a whimper.
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
18: Call Me McCulkin, 2% Neanderthal & No-Fault Divorce
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Okay, since we went pretty hard on Schitt's Creek in this one, I want to walk it back a little. I'll offer a complement schitt sandwich. Complement: Stevie is a revelation. Criticism: Now, listen to this episode of Steamy Potential. Complement: At a 22-minute runtime and 13 episodes a season, you could add a silence-trimmer to this bad boy and breeze through all 6 seasons in about 4 hours.
We also talk about regional tennis round robins, and the birth of modern humankind. But mostly we tied a bow on Schitt's Creek. We won't talk about it again. Or if we do, we'll use code.
Monday Dec 20, 2021
17: The 2021 Christmas Special, and Two Other Unrelated Pitches
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
This week, our first guest appearance comes in the form of one Aradie Walters, who helps tear our pitches a new one. And she's just in time: We have to celebrate Christmas as a family! Santa features in our first pitch, and is quickly killed off. Indeed, the spirit of Christmas is quickly killed off in this episode as the subsequent pitches diverge from any seasonal relevance.
To those who celebrate it: Merry Christmas one and all! To all others: Enjoy just another day in Paradise.
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
16: Broadway Blitz & The Antichristitubbies
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Today we ride a very high horse (thanks), and take the theatre world down a notch. You can do that when you've perfected the art yourself, hence our comfort in criticising all these well-meaning idiots.
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
15: Rock Hard Math, Slightly-tweaked UFC & Adele‘s Blue Period
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
There were a bunch of times where we said "Space Mutt" in this episode, when of course we meant "Ghost Mutt". The latter is a Simpsons reference. The former is nothing. We apologise for the interruption. Have a nice day. We also talk about some TV shows that would never get made or find an audience. But all of that is par for the course at this point. Again, have a lovely day.
Best regards,
S. Potential (esq.)
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