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Half-Hour TV Comedy / Sitcom

Optimized for multi-cam and single-cam half-hour comedies. Balanced for rapid joke density, A/B storyline weaving, and warm character resolution.

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COLD OPEN
INT. APARTMENT KITCHEN - MORNING
LEO (20s) carefully measures coffee grounds like a surgeon performing heart surgery. SAM (20s) enters wearing one slipper.
SAM
Did you touch my vintage breakfast toaster?
LEO
(without looking up)
It made a weird buzzing noise, Sam. I released it back into the wild.
SAM
You threw my $200 appliance out the third-floor window?!
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Structural Beats Included in this Template

  • Cold Open: Standalone comedic sequence (pp. 1-3)
  • Act I: A-Story setup & B-Story trigger (pp. 4-12)
  • Act II: Misunderstandings snowball (pp. 13-24)
  • Tag: Button joke & status quo reset (pp. 25-28)