Thread:5000 Explosions and a Supernova/@comment-27338555-20150115132357/@comment-4604636-20150116061813

You mentioned the real ones on these pages: Popular Girl, Junior Island, Top Supermarket Clerk, Mary Moo Cow, $tock Market Today, and Love Ducks. However, I only edited Popular Girl, Junior Island, and $tock Market Today.


 * I agree that Popular Girl is based on a teen magazine. However, the two possible examples you had provided were first printed in 1999 and 2000, while the Arthur episode was from 1998.
 * Junior Island's logo looks similar to that of Survivor, but not that of Gilligan's Island. Therefore, the content of the program has to be examined. Being stuck on an island is not a theme exclusive to Gilligan's Island. Also, Junior Island was not clearly set as a sitcom; instead, it was more like a drama/adventure.
 * $tock Market Today is a business-related show, but it does not seem to have the same format as did Nightly Business Report in the late 1990s. I tried looking in, but I didn't see any that were clearly the inspiration. Until I see a specific series that closely resembles it, I would rather say it is based on the business genre as a whole.