Woops! - Television - http://maxpages.com/tvgraveyard/woops

FOX
Sept. 27, 1992 - Dec. 6, 1992

First things first: Shouldn't the title for this show really be spelled "Whoops!"? I'm thinking they ran into legal problems with the company that puts out the plastic vomit which is called "Whoops!".

This show aired on FOX on Sunday nights 10:30-11pm. I assume it was going for the "Simpsons" and "Married with Children" audience demographics. That could have worked since the premise of "Woops!" was certainly bizarre enough for the offbeat Sunday night FOX shows.

In this postapocalyptic comedy, two kids playing with an electronic toy at a parade accidentally set off a nuclear missle, triggering a nuclear holocaust which wiped out most of the world's population in under an hour. Six people survived the blast: including Mark, the narrator, because he was in his Volvo; Alice, a feminist who was in her bookstore basement which used to be a bomb shelter in the 60s; Curtis, an arrogant yuppie who was in the bank vault of his brokerage office; Jack, a cheery homeless guy living under the interstate; Frederick, a black pathologist who was in an underground morgue; and Suzanne, a dumb sexy manicurist who just....survived! Giant mutant insects would sometimes intrude, but for the most part they just organized nutty survival schemes.

Points for originality! A kind of "Gilligan's Island" with a twist theme. If only future shows had been as creative beyond the pilot episode.

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