It's funny you guys should be talking about a TV show. When we were on the loop for a couple of weeks with our friends I found myself thinking that a good reality show could be made about a houseboat trip. Ted's excellent adventure on the Mississippi convinced me that a good story always has an audience.

As to the damaged houseboat in Pensacola, someone could make good money just parting that thing out.

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The Judge Rules

If Zone man goes, we will need a psychiatrist.

That could be deranged, too. Got a lovely sailor-neighbor-shrink who likes a challenge.

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Amelia
Edenton, NC

I've just about got the adventure/reality show worked out in my head. You know we'll have to get a few goofy 20 to 30 year olds in on this to make it successful.  We need some whining and crying along with coniving and backstabbing going on. Then they can form an alliance to mutiny the boat from all us old farts, but just in time, ZONE MAN will save us all in a weird twist of fate, just before we all go over a DAM!!!!!  He'll be the heo of the show!!  It'll be the best DAM show of the season as we travel along the river byways, stopping at  big city marinas being ripped off by the locals, then finding love and helpful river folk along the more uninhabited coast lines of open country rural marinas during our river travels.

 We'll have to have some breakdowns with communication to Old Houseboater for emergency repair directions, a sanitary systems breakdown for Peg to make a sattelite phone call to us and tell us how to fix the problem.  we'll catch Tom slipping off the boat at night in a quest to start banana groves all along the coast line.  The judge needs to show up threatening to keel haul Zone man for causing barge traffic to go bonkers and getting us shot at by barge captains.

I'm just getting started here. I see at least 8 episodes easy.   My buddy that's in the film business is also a diver and underwater film maker. We can work that into the show as well, if you catch my drift.

Ok, gotta go work now. Catch ya later.

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Riverliver

There's always the running gag possibility- with the cook who insists on putting curry powder in everything, or has an unfortunate tendency to lecture the poor guys who only want hotdogs right out of the package and stale potato chips, with cheap beer chaser, about eating all of their heart-healthy Broccoli Florentine atop organic brown rice with tofu topping.

Oops, about to talk myself out of a job. And about that 20-30-something qualification... some of us old ladies can be just as immature and shallow.... I mean, some of we Mature Women can provide hours of fascinating dialog... er...I mean, don't y'all need an experienced mom along? Oh, fergit it. In a hole. Quit digging.

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Amelia
Edenton, NC

Keep on creating the show, this is fun reading.

However, maybe a fictional story with a script, then actually staged and filmed. A great comedy about a houseboat trip, bouncing and spinning, we would need the likes of Robin Williams on board. Like in RV, except it would be floating RV.

Wow, think about it. We all could then earn enough to quite working and motor all the time. AWESOME!!

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Banana Tom

Just popped in to throw out another idea, and I see our cast is growing. I like it..................
I think we need Ted to kinda be the director, because he has the actual experience with Zone Man, and his wonderful colorful way of telling the original version is just to invaluable to overlook.  I like the cook angle Amelia, I think it will be fun. Besides, a good meal is always welcomed. Ted's wife will have to be there to keep Ted from going to far to the left,er,port,I mean.  

This could be big.  "We don't need no stinking big name actors", I can sense the weirdness right through the key board.....LOL

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Riverliver

What about the Broker that finds himself at the bottom of the lake with cement shoes for selling the vessel that caused it all.

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Boatless at the moment
www.spboatsales.com

That could be worked in Dave.......just kidding, we can't  lose anybody, maybe vote them off,LOL, but no losses.

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Riverliver

NOPE! It won't work guys.
If you've ever watched "Cops", perfectly competent & probably nice policemen turn into mini J. Edgar Hoovers and start hamming it up for the cameras.
Zone man would not want to be portrayed by anyone less than Brad Pitt or Tom Cruz. Just the re-writes of his part alone would bust the budget. The civil suite from Paduka would take years.
Sadly, it was a point in time.

You are probably right Ted.

  Ok, let's just start a string about an imaginary trip where you and zone man go to pick up a boat for Tom. You start the episode, then kinda fade out so someone else can pick up and start their spin on that part of the adventure. But, put a disclaimer on it to protect us all........

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Riverliver