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I had this idea years ago.


After moving to Poland a few years ago I thought it would be cool to make a tv show about someone living in another country without speaking the language ad eventually learning it. It wouldn't have been a comedy though, more of a drama with light comedic elements. It's a shame I didn't have the same connections he does or it would have been on season 2 or 3 by now.

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It wouldn't have been about travelling abroad, but completely uprooting your life and moving to another country for a woman, which I did years ago and I'm still learning the language and far from fluent.

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I did exactly that in 1993. when I came to the US for the woman I loved. It was hard learning the language, the major differences in life, driving, working, losing a major part of my income to work here. And, yes, it wouldn't have been a comedy, vary much the drama, especially when 4 years later she was diagnosed with a terminal cancer and having to work with the health and social services over here.

But if you asked me to do it again, for her I would have done it, she was beautiful, intelligent, sexy and the best thing that happened to me in my life. And I miss her so much every day.

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Poland is terrible. Your sister's not famous. Dream smaller.

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When they did project greenlight for sitcoms almost all of them were fish out of water stories. Everyone has had this idea.

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Uh no, Dale McRaven did. It's called "Perfect Strangers"...the saga of Cousin Balki Bartokomous.

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Next you're donna say you thought of the Taco Truck first!

"All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes"
-Tom Waits

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You have to be completely retarded, or just American. This concept occurs to everyone who visits a foreign country.

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