Created by Shek Baker, Matt Vermeulen, Dennis Stemplinski

A man is faced with the disagreeable choice of paying 21 dollars in taxes, or making a questionable tax deduction that might lead to shenanigans!

Screened: 2009-05-06 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 58/101 - 57.43% share; placed 6th of 8

Created by Eric Acosta

The inventive premise of this show is that both sides to every story must be examined. In this episode, we see 'The Karate Kid' from Johnny Lawrence's point of view.

Screened: 2009-05-06 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 43/101 - 42.57% share; placed 8th of 8

Nate Starkey and company earned April's Top Failed Pilot with this, uh, documentary about lesser-known cities. In this episode, Jersey City, which has sculptures (as well as a very hot problem).

Screened: 2009-04-01 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 52/118 - 44.07% share; placed 6th of 10

Created by Tony Zaret

Tony Zaret made a rock opera about an evil robot who enslaves humanity and forces everyone to play a Guitar Hero-like game, which gives the robot the strength to fight the human resistance, which is made up of rockers who play real instruments and have strange powers. It garnered few votes, but spawned an instant cult following (for this month, anyway).

Screened: 2009-04-01 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 36/118 - 30.51% share; placed 9th of 10

Created by Dave Maulbeck

A mismatched pair of roommates must cope with a dinner party involving their even more incredibly mismatched, not-to-be-invited-to-the-same-dinner-party-type parents.

Screened: 2009-03-04 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 56/132 - 42.42% share; placed 6th of 9

Confronted with disturbing news about human biology, a teen girl becomes dissatisfied with life at home.

Screened: 2009-03-04 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 47/132 - 35.61% share; placed 7th of 9

All Donnie wanted was to run away with Laura and have 20 kids. But now Laura is dead and Donnie's only link to the killer is a sinister man who really, really, really likes saying Donnie's name.

Screened: 2009-03-04 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 38/132 - 28.79% share; placed 9th of 9

Created by Matt Vermeulen, Dennis Stemplinski

The makers of a down-home PBS-style show are forced to update their act, or face obliteration from the loud and abrasive competition.

Screened: 2009-02-04 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 57/116 - 49.14% share; placed 6th of 10

Brothers, believing themselves to be completely identical, switch places perhaps one time too many.

Screened: 2009-02-04 at 92YTribeca

Votes: 53/116 - 45.69% share; placed 7th of 10

Created by Billy Florio, Mike Frollo

A US vice-presidential candidate must balance his life on a college campus with his run for high office.

Screened: 2008-11-03 at Pianos

Votes: 15/85 - 17.65% share; placed 7th of 20

Created by Stephen Levinson, Joel Moss Levinson

The Levinson Brothers stick Shek Baker in a penguin costume and collect another top-failed pilot untrophy with a show about a woman who is menaced by the unrelenting spirit of a flightless bird.

Screened: 2008-09-16 at New York TV Festival

Votes: 50/154 - 32.47% share; placed 7th of 10

A pair of aspiring porno filmmakers misconstrue the "bang bus" concept, which, you know, causes some problems.

Screened: 2008-09-16 at New York TV Festival

Votes: 44/154 - 28.57% share; placed 8th of 10

Created by Brenan Campbell

The "Realmz of Combat" creators up their game and return with this pilot, a cop show where nothing is as it seems...the audience remains slow to catch on, but the screening awaits their next offering.

Screened: 2008-09-16 at New York TV Festival

Votes: 31/154 - 20.13% share; placed 10th of 10

Created by Tony Zaret

In this documentary about the presidential election, Senator Obama needs help falling in love with America again, and a freedom-loving wizard is eager to provide it. This latest from Tony Zaret fell three votes shy of prime time.

Screened: 2008-08-04 at Pianos

Votes: 45/93 - 48.39% share; placed 6th of 10

Created by Craig Hubbard, Dennis Stemplinski, Matt Koff

Hubbard/Koff/Stemplinski (or Hubofftemplinski) fall short of prime time, but provide plenty of entertainment with this show about feuding crime families.

Screened: 2008-08-04 at Pianos

Votes: 37/93 - 39.78% share; placed 7th of 10