Broken Lizard, the comedy team responsible for stoner classics like Super TroopersandBeerfest, is developing a TV project for TBS. According toVariety,Quality Timewill follow the various members of the filmmaking group (assumedly fictionalized versions), focusing ontheirstruggles with raising children and clinging to the responsibility-free lifestyle of their glory days.
The show will be written by Broken Lizards Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske; they will also produce the project, along with Contends Steven Amato. No timetable was reported for the show and no mention was made of Broken Lizard member Jay Chandrasekhar, who has previously directed all ofthe groups films.
Back in April, in honor of the films 15th anniversary (and, well, the perfect timing of stoner holiday 4/20), Rolling Stonespoke to Broken Lizard about their beloved cult classicSuper Troopers.
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Soter talked about the goofy comedic influences of his youth: the Zucker brothers and things likePolice Squad.I really liked absurd stuff, he said. I was a latchkey kid so I always watched what was on TV. My comic personality was crafted by the rerun power block ofM.A.S.H.andThe Bob Newhart Show,because it was on every single day at 3:30 when I got home from school.
Meanwhile, Stolhanske (aka Rabbit) discussed the films endlessly quotable script, which was fueled by inside jokes and old stories.We were writing something that made us laugh, he said. A lot of the stories that we wove together were funny stories that had happened to us while we were road-tripping to different places, either while performing or going to a wedding. Wed all pile into Jays car it was the only car we had because we were living in New York City and wed go on these road trips and write down funny jokes or stories that we remembered laughing about. Then we strung them together to form a storyline. So we didnt really have any expectations going into it, but they were always stories that made us laugh.