Pitch

IDEA FOR A SITUATION COMEDY:

Peter Wilson is a professional roof raiser. His roof-raising boss is a high fiver. Peter does such an amazing job raising roofs that one day his boss high fives him so hard that it breaks his shoulder and he has to go on disability. Soon we learn that his career as a roof raiser is over. To make ends meet, Peter finds a job lowering floors.

Meanwhile, his boss feels so bad that he moves in with Peter to be his part-time, after-hours, unpaid house keeper. Peter continues to refer to his former boss and current housekeeper as Boss because he doesn't know his real name.  Peter claims it's out of respect, but Boss suspects there is something else behind it, a speech impediment issue with the letters R, W, and J.

In episode three, Peter's mom comes to visit--played by an actress that the audience is vaguely familiar with (because she played the mom/grandma in several other sitcoms)--and she decides to move in with Peter. She says it's because she wants to help Peter through his injury, but really she is romantically interested in Boss (a courtship arc begins that is later abandoned when Mom gets a better job as a mom on a one-hour drama).

Meanwhile, the floor-lowering business really takes off and Peter becomes a sought after floor lowerer. In the final episode of the first season, Peter receives a check for $114 Million for a floor lowering project he completed in Mumbai. Peter is surprised because he thought the job was for $114.00. At the same time the roof raising industry collapses, literally (i.e., all of the raised roofs since Peter's departure from the company fall down), and Boss is fired.

In the final scene of the season, Peter hires Boss to be his permanent, paid butler. They make plans to move to India where floor lowering is very lucrative. A second season set in India is promised.

The show is cancelled while on hiatus. No India-set episodes are taped.