Plot Bunny Shelter!

[Archonix]

We all have them, and sometimes they need to go to a good home, so if you've got any plot ideas that you are sure you aren't going to use you have the option of dropping them here. Who knows where another writer might take them?

All bunnies will be placed in good homes.

[sabrina_diamond]

I had an idea based on what would happen if the Simpsons were in an alternate universe where Homer was a vampire-hunter and Marge was a lady who was the reincarnation of Homer's long lost sister, but it never got written. So I dare some other writer to write it out.

[Dead Composer]

"The Wages of Beer"

A parody of "The Wages of Fear".  Homer, Lenny, and Carl, hoping to make some extra cash, accept a dangerous assignment from Mr. Burns.  They must drive a truck filled with unstable nuclear material to a secret facility in the mountains; the catch is, the slightest accident could release toxic radiation, killing them all.  Will they make it?

[Enhas]

Here is an idea I have, copied from one of my posts at TLZ:

BENDER'S BIG SCORE SPOILERS BELOW!


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Spoiler

I have an idea for a story called "Second Time Around".  It would be a kind of Bender's Big Score AU:

- After going back in time for warmer pizza (and talking with his copy / Lars), Fry would have used the TimeSphere code to go back further to almost the exact moment he was frozen to also get some beer (since Bender had already drank it, and it would still be cold at that time).  He wouldn't sneak into his pod and get frozen again, as he did in BBS.

- Unfortunately, the TimeSphere appeared directly in front of Fry's pod as his past self was falling in (since present / BBS Fry was standing there when he used the code).  Past Fry fell into the TimeSphere before Fry emerged, and it decided to correct the potential paradox by merging them into one person (kind of like in No Second Chances).  Fry doesn't have even a moment to react before he's frozen again.. for 1000 years.  This happened all within a split-second, so Nibbler didn't notice anything wrong.

- Fry awakens on December 31, 2999 and doesn't know what happened at first but reacts with shock once he realizes that he's back to the very beginning again, and vows to do things differently (mostly for Leela, and to make sure Lars doesn't win her over again).

- Lars and the frozen Bender-clone still exist (and are both still doomed).  Lars would still come out in 3002, but he'd notice that not everything is quite the same as it was the first time he experienced those events..

And that's about all that I have for the idea.  It's probably not something that I'd write, since it couldn't be a one-shot and it'd have to be an epic-length fic spanning years (with variations on some of the episodes, and completely new situations).  If anybody else would like to use this idea, then by all means go ahead and do so.

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I also like to see a story starring that very attractive blonde woman who Lars worked with (I can't remember her name, but it was said in BBS somewhere).  She's how I picture "Alan's wife" looking like in one of my stories, only with shorter and darker blonde hair and a bit more modestly dressed.

(Enhas wishes that he could draw.)

[Archonix]

Here's one for you all.

I was going to write this, and then didn't. Plot was simple: Leela gets kidnapped by the Amazons after some crone or other decides they need to get themselves a new queen. Once there she gets turned into an amazon herself, either through a mind-linked clone or by some other means such as a beam of some sort. I preferred the clone idea myself, for this reason: once the PE crew find and rescue "Leela", the clone starts to think independently of the mind-control doodad that was previously linking it with Leela. Once they return this presents an ethical problem, because this Leela clone has an independent life, but isn't really very smart, and the real Leela is still trapped somewhere on the Amazon planet. Probably in a tube.

Kind of a loose send-up of The Save Spock's Brain.

[c_nordlander]

I was always really keen on that idea, Graham.

Who knows, now you've disowned it, maybe *I'll* write it...

(Not a promise, but it definitely intrigues me. I just hope I'll be able to do it justice.)

[Enhas]

Speaking of clones, I have an idea for a story that goes kind of like this:

- After a time-skip not long after her divorce (in 3002, before the timeskips are stopped), Leela awakes to find herself somewhere that is definitely not New New York.

- It turns out that it's a parallel universe, and she has no way to get back.  It's also 3002 there, and the city is still called just "New York".. and the technology level is completely different (even more advanced in some cases than New New York).

- Mostly, the story would be about her adjusting to her new life and making new friends.  Her best friend would be some guy (who isn't a Gary-Stu, or an alternate Fry), who wouldn't like her more than a friend and vice-versa.  But eventually (around 3005), they would date and eventually marry.

- In late 3007, some old scientist that he knows (not the Professor) discovers an opening to her universe.  Since the two are so far away, a roughly two-week "window" only opens between them at erratic times.  The next window after that one would be 288 years away.  He also figures out (somehow) that a window opened about five years ago, which is why Leela is there.

- They leave together back into Leela's home universe, only to discover that another Leela is still at Planet Express (Bender's Big Score crossover).

- The Professor uses a device to determine which one is the real Leela.  The one who lived in the parallel universe turns out to only be five years old chronologically, making her a clone.  How it ever happened, nobody knows.

- Her husband doesn't care who she is, but loves her.  They spend the two weeks going around New New York, meeting Leela's parents (remember, clone-Leela never met them), and talking with the "real" Leela and others.  There'd be a dinner-date with both Leelas, her husband, and Lars.  Fry would be jealous that he doesn't have either Leela.

- A few other Bender's Big Score events and crap mixed in.  At the end, clone-Leela wants to go back to the parallel universe because her life is there and because the other Leela is living her own life.  Her husband tries to give advice to Fry.

- On second thought, I think this idea sucks and FutureMoon sounds better.

[Archonix]

I don't know, it has potential. I like the idea of Fry having to deal with two Leela's who aren't (apparently) interested in him.

[Enhas]

Well, in my head it would probably only be the last quarter of the story that would crossover with BBS.  Most of it would be focused on Leela adjusting to her new life, kind of like how Fry did when he first came into the future.  Parallel New York would be a much different place than New New York.

Clone-Leela isn't a paradox clone either, just a normal one but we'd never find out how she was created.

I'd imagine that there'd be a very awkward conversation between her and Fry, since the last memories she would have of him would be of the rushed wedding / divorce (plus the fact that she is married).  I don't know how most of her conversations with her old friends would go, since she would have lived a very different life for the past five years than the Leela they know.

Oh, and there'd have to be a line about a Leela sandwich somewhere in there, probably from Fry.

[Stretch_Dude]

Here's one for you all.

I was going to write this, and then didn't. Plot was simple: Leela gets kidnapped by the Amazons after some crone or other decides they need to get themselves a new queen. Once there she gets turned into an amazon herself, either through a mind-linked clone or by some other means such as a beam of some sort. I preferred the clone idea myself, for this reason: once the PE crew find and rescue "Leela", the clone starts to think independently of the mind-control doodad that was previously linking it with Leela. Once they return this presents an ethical problem, because this Leela clone has an independent life, but isn't really very smart, and the real Leela is still trapped somewhere on the Amazon planet. Probably in a tube.

Kind of a loose send-up of The Save Spock's Brain.

I am in total support of this idea for reasons I do not feel are necessary to delve into. But also because it's a really neat idea.

[sabrina_diamond]

There was one fanfic I always wanted to write but never started:
Lisa goes to the new Springfield College talked about in "Bart to the Future" but this time around she has trouble adjusting to the general chaos of college and she meets a new friend who introduces her to a teenager by the name of Chrisroff.

[Stretch_Dude]

There's a concept that's been kicking around my head for a few years now: Taking a THOH short that didn't end with things going back to normal (or close to it) and visiting its future. For example:

How do the Simpsons survive in a post-"Homega Man" world?
What are the girls' lives like on Mars after the Y2K Disaster?
How does Homer get along in the real world after "Homer³"?

I'm not talking stuff like "Life With Donut-Head Homer" or "Homer's Adventures in Crazy Forked-Tongue-People Land." I mean endings that could produce interesting stories.

[Enhas]

Here is an alternate ending to Bender's Big Score that I may or may not use:

Spoiler

- Everything in BBS would be the same up to the point where Lars opens Bender's pod.. except that Nudar could still control that Bender since he was still infected.  Instead of Lars dying, it would end up being Fry who would live long enough to tell Leela that he loves her and only wants to see her happy.  Lars would be really confused (since, in his mind he should have died first) and wouldn't know what to do, but he'd tell Leela and the others who he really is.

- In what would be sure to make me a pariah forever.. I'd have Leela and Lars get married and be together for what little time they have instead of spending it apart.  Three years later he would be killed in an accident at the Head Museum, but Leela would be left with a two-year old son to remember Fry by.

- Though, it could end with Fry looking into the What-If Machine after having asked "What if Lars lived and I died?".. but if it was me writing, probably not.  I really don't like writing stories with a reset or undo button at the end, because to me it would make reading the whole thing pretty pointless in the long run.  Plus, I like unexpected endings better in most cases because they can really make you think (which is another reason why I like a story like A Different View).

[Meteorite]

I'm not talking stuff like "Life With Donut-Head Homer" or "Homer's Adventures in Crazy Forked-Tongue-People Land." I mean endings that could produce interesting stories.

Well now, that sounds like a challenge. 

[missy_misery]

Taking a THOH short that didn't end with things going back to normal (or close to it) and visiting its future. For example:

How do the Simpsons survive in a post-"Homega Man" world?
What are the girls' lives like on Mars after the Y2K Disaster?
How does Homer get along in the real world after "Homer³"?

Argh, tempted!  Especially with #2...