SQUAT! for producers, studios and networks
A workplace sitcom with a complete animated first season, available for live-action development.
A workplace sitcom with a complete animated first season, available for live-action development.
SQUAT! began life as a sitcom screenplay. The animated first season shows the characters, the tone and the comedic engine at full length, and the show is available for live-action development.
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All ten episodes are on YouTube: watch Season 1, or read the episode guide.
SQUAT! takes place in a mid-sized fitness centre in the Boston suburbs. It follows Scott Carter, a former big-shot marketing executive who has been “sans job” for over a year and takes a job at Squat Spot Fitness out of desperation.
Scott quickly discovers that the place is run by Jack Pemberton, an ethically questionable lottery winner who bought the gym and doesn’t care about running it, and by an endearing but largely incompetent general manager who doesn’t know squat about running a fitness centre. With the help of a freakishly wise janitor and a bright fitness director, Scott manages to keep the gym open for at least a bit longer.
The cast embodies many of the social and political issues of the day. Rather than tackle them head-on, each episode hides its issue inside a seemingly petty argument among the staff, and part of the fun is working out what the episode is really about. A running thread sees Jack hand Scott a dubious task, and Scott try to get it done his own way without compromising his ethics.
The gym setting makes room for a big cast of recurring members and guests, from the 1980s guy in the overly revealing shorts to the mom always seen in the background doing some very strange exercise.
