Ally McBeal - Happy Little Bluebird (TV Dramedy)
Logline:
Ally wakes to a black-and-white world inspired by The Wizard of Oz. Can she melt the evil witch who made Ally’s overactive imagination her coping mechanism?
Ally wakes to a black-and-white world inspired by The Wizard of Oz. Can she melt the evil witch who made Ally’s overactive imagination her coping mechanism?
Synopsis:
Ally wakes to a black-and-white world after having a Wizard of Oz inspired nightmare. She quickly realizes it is due to Cage’s latest client, a teacher that was fired for beating one of her students…and who also happens to be her and Billy’s third grade teacher. She’s a woman so horrible that Ally blames her for making her what she is today—a bluebird who flies over imaginary rainbows to escape her worldly problems. When Cage calls Ally to testify as a hostile character witness, he does so as a way to help Ally get her revenge. He can almost smell the witch melting when Ally tosses an imaginary bucket of water at his client.
Ally wakes to a black-and-white world after having a Wizard of Oz inspired nightmare. She quickly realizes it is due to Cage’s latest client, a teacher that was fired for beating one of her students…and who also happens to be her and Billy’s third grade teacher. She’s a woman so horrible that Ally blames her for making her what she is today—a bluebird who flies over imaginary rainbows to escape her worldly problems. When Cage calls Ally to testify as a hostile character witness, he does so as a way to help Ally get her revenge. He can almost smell the witch melting when Ally tosses an imaginary bucket of water at his client.
Miscellaneous:
I wrote this script just before the show switched from being quirky to just plain weird. My goal was to see if I could write a story for characters in a world that wasn’t “mine”—and I’m pretty proud of this one. I couldn’t get David Kelly to look at it because I didn’t have an agent, and I didn’t feel there was point to getting an agent as the show changed so quickly to said weirdness. Lessons learned? I shouldn’t have let that stop me from seeking an agent…for this show paved the way for other quirky shows that I would have been excited to write for. The advice I received was that if you like a show, write a spec script for a similar show. Makes sense.
I wrote this script just before the show switched from being quirky to just plain weird. My goal was to see if I could write a story for characters in a world that wasn’t “mine”—and I’m pretty proud of this one. I couldn’t get David Kelly to look at it because I didn’t have an agent, and I didn’t feel there was point to getting an agent as the show changed so quickly to said weirdness. Lessons learned? I shouldn’t have let that stop me from seeking an agent…for this show paved the way for other quirky shows that I would have been excited to write for. The advice I received was that if you like a show, write a spec script for a similar show. Makes sense.
One of the things I had picked up on was the influence of Wizard of Oz on Ally’s world—Cage as the Scarecrow, Fish as the Tin Man, Billy as the Cowardly Lion, and Ally as Dorothy. This script goes deep in investigating the why of that influence.