Mr. Passive Aggressive Man
From Davis Freeberg:
I want to see a web series or SNL skit that features a character who is super passive aggressive. He’d never actually come out and ask for anything, but everyone would complain about his ability to weasel anything out of someone. I’m thinking that potential scenarios could have him on a date squirming out of the bill, or at an office sticking a colleague with extra work. Or you could even have him lose his home in the mortgage crisis, and become the ultimate passive aggressive panhandler. You could also have a normal alpha male as his nemesis, and have face offs between the two to see who gets their way. Given that we all know someone who tends to use the passive aggressive technique in life, I think someone could take the series a long way before the joke would get too old. Anyway, I’ve been kicking this idea around for a month or two, and since I enjoy your site so much I wanted to share it. I hope you enjoy.
Besides being a good idea, Mr. Passive Aggressive Man is also an incredibly bizarre coincidence, because just a few hours before Davis sent it, I had decided to face the fact that I have passive aggressive tendencies sometimes. I even did a couple hours worth of research about the symptoms and how to be more assertive (tip: if you don’t want to do something, just say you don’t want to do it. Don’t agree to it, and then do it grudgingly, resenting the person who made you do it the whole time.)
I mean, just look at this site. It’s basically a museum to passiveness. But now that I’m finally on the road to being the Typical Alpha Male, Mr. Passive Aggressive Man seems hilarious to me. I especially like the idea of a passive aggressive panhandler. Davis is right that it wouldn’t get old for a long time; the passive aggressive is a vexing, fascinating creature. It would be funny to follow this miserable stooge through all his various self-imposed travails.
I hope someone makes this so that I can sit around and watch it. Of course, it wouldn’t be as good as it would be if I made it, but I don’t have the time to spare, and who is going to give me the money to film a skit anyway?
Wait, screw that. I hope that *I* make this. I have a few other skit ideas on here, and some of them are even my own. I could go through this blog, cull ideas that would make for good skits, come up with a few new skit ideas, put together a pilot, and then sell it to HBO or Showtime. That would be a cool way to end to this blog, wouldn’t it?
3 years ago