Every Show Should Be Like LOST

The undead John Locke is going after Jacob, spooky Island overlord, while Jack and Sayid begin plans to detonate a hydrogen bomb in 1977. Dr. Chang believes that Faraday was telling the truth about time travel and the impending doom, while Alpert hangs out with present and past versions of Locke. All this time twisting, mad science, and mysticism is what we've come to expect from LOST. But think back to the first season: it wasn't always so…weird.

In fact, the very first episodes were more Castaway than Twilight Zone. Sure, the smoke monster was pretty strange, and the polar bear was rather odd. But the show's primary focus was how to survive on a desert island. Then the castaways found the hatch, the computer, and the orientation film, and nothing has been the same since. We're not complaining; we're glad LOST changed gears. In fact, we rounded up some current TV shows that are well overdue for some LOST-esque wackiness:

Desperate Housewives
While the ladies fight over relationship issues, an anomaly opens up in the space time continuum, altering the very laws of physics. The housewives must work together to erase the anomaly before the earth spins off its axis and destroys the galaxy. To do this, they must use a combination of hard science, ancient religions, and wine.

24
This show hasn’t been worth watching since the first season. Spice things up by removing the threat of terrorism and corruption, and adding something really scary, like were-monkeys. Give Jack Bauer the ability to communicate with his future self via a magic cell phone, and you've got one heck of a good show. (Did we mention that every time Jack uses the cell phone, it takes five minutes off his life?)

Real World/Road Rules Challenge
The show is an excuse to get attractive people in bathing suits and then make them wrestle each other. There's nothing wrong with that, but the show would be better if the challenges were more exciting. For instance, instead of making them sit on blocks of ice, put the contestants in Dharma-like situations. Force them into a room where they must hit a button every 108 minutes. Instead of destroying the world, failure to press the button results in the death of their grandparents.

Grey's Anatomy
Reveal that the hospital isn't a hospital at all. This whole time, it was an insane asylum for people who think they are doctors. The asylum exists in the year 2133.

How I Met Your Mother
During the season finale, we learn that the laugh track is actually an audience of devils who are forcing the actors to perform a sitcom. And Jason Segel is a half robot, half raven who can time travel, but only to prime-numbered years.

The Office
Michael Scott and Dwight Shrute fall into a glowing cave and end up in ancient Japan, where they introduce paper to the world. Then, after eating a magic soup, they are transported back to the present, and realize that the United Sates is now ruled by were-monkeys.

The Simpsons
The show is already getting pretty weird. But not in a good way.

Entertainment Tonight
Fire the current hosts, and add two new anchors to the show. They will still report on stupid entertainment news and gossip, but after a few months, they learn on-air that they are, in fact, long lost fraternal twins who were the result of an early cloning experiment. What they don't know is that they are really part of a set of triplets, and that their third sibling is now trying to take over the world. Will the Entertainment Tonight hosts be able to tap into their hidden talents (one will be good with a bow and arrow, the other can manipulate water) to hunt down the evil triplet? We'd stay tuned to find out.