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What would Kurt say? "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to become sitcom

BY Josh Kerns  on October 23, 2012 @ 12:33 pm (Updated: 2:47 pm - 10/23/12 )

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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the inspiration for a planned new CBS sitcom. (AP image)
It's probably not something Kurt Cobain would have ever approved, but the writer/producer behind CBS' hit TV show "The Big Bang Theory" is launching a new sitcom called "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the comedy is about an 18-year-old budding entrepreneur who skips Harvard to launch an Internet company in his garage with the help of his sister, best friend, and his 1990s indie-rock parents.

"It's unclear why this thing has to be called 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' other than to piss people off," writes Buzz Feed's Matthew Perpetua. "Doesn't it sometimes seem as though pop culture is just looking for new ways to make you go "Oh, Kurt Cobain would've haaaated that?" Kurt Cobain would've haaaaaated this!"

The Big Bang Theory's Dave Goetsch will also write and co-produce the new show in the deal with CBS.

It's doubtful the cast will include a mulatto, an albino and a mosquito or be set in Seattle. I don't hate the idea, but the whole indie-rocker parent thing certainly makes me feel old.

Josh Kerns, MyNorthwest.com Reporter
Josh Kerns is co-host of KIRO Radio's Seattle Sounds (Saturday nights 7-8) and a digital content producer for MyNorthwest.com.
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  • awbitf wrote...
    Who cares what Kurt Cobain would have done?
    October 23, 2012 6:50 pm
    He chose to end his life and abandon his family. But yeah, let's focus on the trivial things about his quirky-aggressive-smug personality.

    Leave the Seattle bubble, and there's a reason you don't hear Nirvana played on the radio anymore, because the rest of the country/world has realized that Nirvana really wasn't as legendary as the Evergreen state wants to believe.

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  • sometimesrock wrote...
    What?!
    October 24, 2012 9:27 am
    Nirvana is STILL played on the radio constantly, across the nation. Excellent way to post about something you have zero knowledge about.
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  • Oly80 wrote...
    "He chose to end his life and abandon his family."
    October 24, 2012 9:32 am
    ...yeah, lots of people don't buy that story.

    and you can tell yourself whatever you want, that band made a huge impact on the world.

    ...and continues to.

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  • Ye Olde Hagge wrote...
    It's doubtful the cast will include a mulatto, an albino and a mosquito...
    October 23, 2012 7:07 pm
    Bwahahahahahaha. That cracked me up. :)
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  • C"mon Man wrote...
    R.I.P.
    October 23, 2012 8:57 pm
    He had a gift, but it was not how to deal with the secularism that went with it. pray for his Daughter.
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  • Oly80 wrote...
    don't worry too much about Francis...
    October 24, 2012 9:35 am
    she did the right thing and cut ties with her drug addicted, sleazy, criminal mother as soon as she turned 18.
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  • Oly80 wrote...
    the title is a desperate grab for attention...
    October 24, 2012 9:40 am
    showing little imagination, and the premise of the story is lame and won't make it past the first year, i'm betting.

    that being said: i'd love a GOOD sitcom about people in the 90's set in Seattle! maybe even filmed here! that'd be great!

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