Conversations with David: Absent minded professor
David: Dude. I will be the *perfect* absent-minded professor.

Rob: All you need is some kooky invention, a dead wife and a rival professor and you're set.

David: Well, if Adam Leventhal ever becomes a professor, he will be my rival (he was my arch-nemesis while an undergrad).

Rob: Rock and roll, man. Your wife needs todie in some sort of accident that causes you to become more withdrawn from the world.Then, one day, a young student will meet you, in your lab believing in some of your strange ideas. And you two will go on adventures.

David: I actually think getting the rival will be the hardest part. Kooky inventions and dead wives are a dime a dozen.

Rob: Sometimes the two go hand in hand.

David: Indeed. UPN could make a tv show about it!

Rob: Or not.

David: You're right. It's early UPN, but not modern UPN now that they've decided to be the African American network. It couldn't be WB unless my student is a sullen teen and has a hot girlfriend. Ooh! It would be good for Fox's Friday night! It would be the perfect complement to John Doe.

Rob: In my version, the sullen teen *would* be the hot girl.

David: Yeah, but I want *some* realism in the series. I *am* a computer scientist, you know!

Rob: What if she was a man stuck in a woman's body?
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David: Now there's a twist. But you're probably right. To appeal to the viewers, the student *would* need to be a hot girl.
Last night, as I was falling to bed, I had the urge to write Pirates of Dark Water fan fiction.

Rob: That is the reason why I hate you,