Every day people get into cars they haven’t finished paying for, drive to jobs they don’t like to earn money to pay for things they don’t necessarily want but that will distract them from the soul-crushing tedium of life.
You know what these people need? They need a TV show to remind them of the joy of life, a sort-of Sesame Street for adults that says that, yes, you may not like your work, you may have a mortgage to pay, you may not be as young as you once were, but you can still chase your dreams. You can still achieve your dreams. There is nothing, literally nothing stopping you from being the person you want to be, from living your life how you want it to. Those dreams are still attainable.
Far too many people have let themselves be pulled down by a cynical world. Far too many people I know have given up on their dreams and desires because the world tells them to get a job, get a car, get married, get a mortgage, have some kids, as though this is the only adventure one could possibly hope to experience in one’s brief flicker of a life.
When we were children, the world seemed impossible and vast, like a place where anything could happen. And we dream that we might grow up to be astronauts, or race car drivers, or Elvis. As we enter our teens our dreams get a little more sophisticated, and we decide we want to be writers, inventors, physicists, actors, musicians.
Then after school, possibly after college, we get ourselves a 9-to-5 job, and this cynical world begins to have its way with us. We end up working in a Purchasing department, or as Head of Marketing for a company that makes toilet seats, or maybe we get stuck doing data entry for the next ten years. It wears it out of you. It strips you of your energy, drive, ambition, and you begin to believe that maybe this is about a far as you can possibly go. And though you may rise up the corporate ladder and one day become VP of the Sanderson Bobble-Head Company, is it really what you wanted? What dream did you sacrifice for this illusion of stability?
So that’s what we need. A half-hour show every day that reminds adults that they don’t necessarily have to be so adult about everything. That it’s okay to be a little childish once in a while, to hold on to childish things, and to dream.