Art (poorly) imitating (an uninteresting) life

I'm uninspired today. I'm still sort of recovering from this weekend's blizzard party (Three friends and I camped out at my place for the duration of this weekend's snow storm. Somehow we managed to misplace 7/8ths of the vodka from a bottle of Grey Goose. I'm still looking for it).

As I was rewatching my tape of the last four Arrested Development episodes this morning, I noticed an ad for a new show on Fox. It's called Free Ride. Here's the synopsis from the show's website:

Free Ride is a partially improvised comedy that follows recent UC Santa Barbara graduate Nate Stahlings as he boomerangs home to move back in with his parents in his small Midwestern town, Johnson City, MO, with no life plans past doing his laundry. Upon his return he discovers his mom Margo and dad Bob are knee-deep in marriage therapy and his bedroom has been turned into a gym. The good news is that Nate reconnects with cute former-classmate-turned-bank-teller Amber Danwood; the bad news is she's newly engaged. Nate also hooks up with Mark Dove, a guy who peaked in high school and has been cruising downhill in his monster truck ever since. The assistant manager in the auto section at the local Kash Kutters, Dove takes Nate under his "wing" to show him the local party scene, which turns out to be way more mild than wild.

Unsure of where his life is headed anyway, and hopeful that Amber can overcome that nasty little "fiance" business of hers, Nate decides to stay home just a little while longer as he transitions into the next stage of development: Real Life.

Well I'm speechless. Has Fox been following me with hidden cameras? They've made a few clever adjustments--for one, they've changed my cruising-downhill-in-a-monster-truck friend Carina (the assistant front desk manager at the local haircutters) into a dude--but the resemblance is undeniable. Changing my last name to "Stahlings" is kind of a knock over the head, though.

Ultimately, the joke's on Fox. Nobody's going to want to watch the show. Trust me. I've been watching it for a while now. It sucks.