Doctoral Hell

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Psychology Sitcom

I really think that the psych department could make a good sitcom. Patrick, this goes out to you, because I don't think anyone else reading my blog will know who I'm talking about. (And I immediately get all paranoid that the faculty will find this!)

But imagine...

The Cast:
-The faculty:
-The Walking Penis
-The Fraggle
-The Hot One
-The Lobster
-The Depressed Guy
-The Clinic Director
-The Clueless Psychiatrist
-The Sexual Predator
-The Quagmire Look-alike
-The Overworked Admin Assistant
-Dean Ceasar

-The grad students:
-Due to not wanting to be a bitch, specific graduate students will not be described. However, here's a plug!
-Quirky and lovable graduate students bumble through their training and try to navigate the strange faculty.

Take a look at Season One:

-The Water Cooler: Someone is sneaking in and drinking all of the water! The Clinic Director runs surveilance to discover the culprit.

-The Oedipal Underwear: The graduate students develop a catalog of therapy-themed sex toys. Get your good-breast bad-breast nipple clamps here!

-I Didn't Get The Tickets!: The Walking Penis forgot to get tickets to a concert! Watch as he flips out and starts kicking his desk as concerned graduate students run to his aid!

-The Short-shorts Reign of Terror: The Fraggle wears short shorts. Watch as graduate students fight to the death to not sit across from him.

-Assessing Lethality: The graduate students share a fantasy of sharpening the Walking Penis' head and using him to stab a droning lecturer.

-Breakdown: A graduate student decompensates as the faculty maintains an absurd level of denial.

-The Psychiatrist: Graduate students and the admin assistant fume and engage in violent fantasies as the psychiatrist runs hours late.

-The Site Visit: The accrediting body comes to check on the program. Watch faculty and students crack under pressure. Will the program survive?

-Class Time: Quagmire leads a raucous case formulation class. The funniest episode yet!

-Nipple Ball: The grad students get a toy and spend hour after hour avoiding work and playing. Watch as they try to cover up all the stuff they broke.

Okay, okay, time for me to go work on my case formulation....

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