2004-09-15 - 3:52 p.m.

Chalk it up to too much television as a child, but libbyfish has always fancied her life as a sitcom. Certain situations may have been manipulated for maximum comedic or dramatic effect and certain characters were cast because they added drama… like the high school boyfriend my parents forbid me to see. I may have even plagiarized lines I thought would make an impact just like they did on whatever show I stole it from. I remember telling my mom that I didn’t have to listen to “the establishment” because I wasn’t going to let the man keep me down. She should have just laughed in my face at the ridiculousness of that statement but she said she understood and didn’t want me to feel oppressed but to clean my room anyway. I think I was about 6 when I said that I had no idea what the hell it meant… but it sounded good. Libbyfish was a very silly little girl.

Anyway, back to my life as a sitcom. Next week I am moving into an apartment with P. For the past two years I have been living on my own in Queens at the place I called the Maxi Pad. Every week I was guaranteed to get up in some mischief like getting on the subway drunk, falling asleep and waking up in Brooklyn two hours later. There were the wacky side characters like the old German guy across the hall that used to work at the Rubik’s Cube factory, the overly friendly super that hates P and who could forget the mad towel bitch that was ALWAYS doing laundry when I wanted to.

As I am packing up my stuff I am looking to what the series finale will be like. Will it be the wistful look at an empty apartment then shutting the door and fading to black? Perhaps it will be me getting off the subway at my new stop, suitcase in hand walking off toward the new apartment. In any event, the spinoff is now in the works. Writers busily working on scripts, stylists deciding our new looks, and a new hang out must be found. The old Broadway bar and its collection of weirdos won’t be relevant now.

In the spin-off I imagine P and I being much more grown up and responsible. Perhaps in the pilot we will attend a gallery opening and I will accidentally ruin some priceless work of art. P and I will have hilarious conversations about what to have for dinner and I will take cabs home when drunk now. We will be the “Mad About You” to my former “Rhoda”. But of course every new spin off has to hit its stride; I want to be “Frasier” not “Joanie loves Chachi”.

Tune into libbyfish and friends on NBC this fall at eightsevencentral.

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