Hilarious! It would be the story of a disaffected youth's struggle to understand people who don't have the latest trendy tattoo, much less own fixed gear bicycles or care to learn that their favorite band sucks. I want to see this.

Oh my god, scodyboy and his buddies were just meeting to think of pitches for Comedy Central. Can you take a meeting out here immediately, jon?

I've been turning over the whole Williamsburg, BK vs Williamsburg, VA thing in my head for a long time now, but you've totally nailed it. That would be a great show. If you need a script puncher-upper, hipster puncher you know were to reach me. It's a great idea actually, I mean it.

If you want to make it a series, put him in a different 'wrong place' every week...

Manhattan, Kansas
Greenwich, Brighton and Soho in England

Title it "Not New York".

If ABC will greenlight the "Cavemen" sitcom, they'll buy anything.

But....but...nobody really lives in Colonial Williamsburg. It's a pretend town.... How would you explain the total emptiness of all the houses and businesses every night when the interpreters take off their costumes and go home?

OK, I need to suspend my disbelief, because I still love it. I'd love seeing him

-date
-try to get a job (farrier? print shop apprentice?)
-find a 'loft' apartment (the hay kind)
-join a band (fife and drum)
-obsessively check the Towne Notice Boarde for his messages
-deal in illegal contraband (English imports)
-wear ironic waistcoats

There's something very Blackadderish about it. Maybe one third Blackadder, one third Young Ones, and one third hipster-mocking Spirit of '76. You can't go wrong!

... one third Blackadder, one third Young Ones, and one third hipster-mocking Spirit of '76.
No idea what Spirit of '76 is, but I would love to see this just based on the first two.

Spirit of '76. Great movie. Smoking up beforehand helps a bit.

... put him in a different 'wrong place' every week...
You could send him to Texas, Queensland.

Oh wait, it might not be all that different to the "real" Texas.

Yes, but there's always Paris, Texas. I can see the scene now: Our hapless hero is standing in an airport, looking up at the "departures" boards and sees a flight for Paris. He buys a ticket at the last minute and gets on it, only to wind up in Texas.

nobody really lives in Colonial Williamsburg. It's a pretend town

Attending William & Mary--adjacent to CW--is a damn close approximation to living in the late 18th century. Trust me. It's also nothing like Brooklyn.

That's a good idea. I'd be chary about posting your good script/treatment ideas, though, even on a friendly place like this. I would recommend against anything more than sotto voce discussions (preferably accompanied by rumbling buses or honking geese) outside the compound.

I guess I should probably keep my mouth shut about my idea for that sitcom about the sassy robot, then.

Oops.

It must run in the family if his parents are on safari in Monaco. I'd rather watch them- navigating Monaco in a Landcruiser with safari hats and rifles.

I think that he needs to get entangled with a local girl and her family. Are there any Amish in Williamsburg VA?

There could be an episode where his colonial attire somehow makes its way to Brooklyn and for a short period hipsters can be found wearing tri-corner hats, bloomers and buckle shoes. Also, flute-playing-walking becomes a thing. Six weeks later, the thrift stores are filled with colonial garb and flutes. There would be a guy who would be into it a little after the fad, but of course he'd be doing it "to ironicize the dumbass trendies from 4 weeks ago".

I'm temporarily amused by the concept but I have e feeling it would be executed something like The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, which seemed like a great concept too but had such ham-handed implementation it was doomed.