Covert intelligence sitcom
…brought about by sedvictacatoni and me talking about how we’re Imperial Security and Obsidian Order agents living together.
Our two main characters are operatives of formerly-rival (countries just got out of a cold war situation) agencies living undercover in enemy territory as roommates. Run-of-the-mill living-together and maintaining-cover-identities comedy is mixed with conflict whereby Agent A (our main character) is horrified by the fact that Agent B actually enjoys the skulduggerous activities they have to undertake as spies, while Agent B has some kind of hardcore grudge against Agent A’s country over something like the fact that they ruled some important person Agent B assassinated as death by natural causes, therefore never giving Agent B proper credit. Oh, and they also have to work together on their mission, because whoever they’re spying on are Really Bad Guys.
Supporting cast include their downstairs neighbor - a chirpy bike messenger who’s actually a counterintelligence operative, co-workers at their fake jobs, the local librarian who keeps hitting on one of the agents, various intelligence community types, and Agent A’s pet iguana, Cicero.
It should, IMO, be called Trouble Waiting to Happen, because I found the perfect opening song:
I woke up this morning and fell out of bed
Trouble waiting to happen
Should’ve quit while I was ahead
Trouble waiting to happen
I turned on the news to the Third World War
Opened up the paper to World War IV
Just when I thought it was safe to be bored
Trouble waiting to happen
Our two main characters are operatives of formerly-rival (countries just got out of a cold war situation) agencies living undercover in enemy territory as roommates. Run-of-the-mill living-together and maintaining-cover-identities comedy is mixed with conflict whereby Agent A (our main character) is horrified by the fact that Agent B actually enjoys the skulduggerous activities they have to undertake as spies, while Agent B has some kind of hardcore grudge against Agent A’s country over something like the fact that they ruled some important person Agent B assassinated as death by natural causes, therefore never giving Agent B proper credit. Oh, and they also have to work together on their mission, because whoever they’re spying on are Really Bad Guys.
Supporting cast include their downstairs neighbor - a chirpy bike messenger who’s actually a counterintelligence operative, co-workers at their fake jobs, the local librarian who keeps hitting on one of the agents, various intelligence community types, and Agent A’s pet iguana, Cicero.
It should, IMO, be called Trouble Waiting to Happen, because I found the perfect opening song:
I woke up this morning and fell out of bed
Trouble waiting to happen
Should’ve quit while I was ahead
Trouble waiting to happen
I turned on the news to the Third World War
Opened up the paper to World War IV
Just when I thought it was safe to be bored
Trouble waiting to happen