TV Mash-Ups: "The Walking Hung!" "Good Christian Belle's Happy Endings!" "The Big Bang Desperate Housewives!"

We get pitched a lot of TV shows to cover here at the AfterElton.com offices. In fact, we're usually awash in an endless flood of press releases.

It only stands to reason that from time to time we'd get some of them mixed up.

True story: I thought I was reading the press release for the latest episode of Dexter when, in fact, it was the press release for the latest episodes of Awkward.

But what do you know? The result wasn't half bad!

Filling in some of the blanks, it went something like this:

Awkward Dexter: Frustrated in the aftermath of her disastrous 16th birthday party, Jenna finally has it out with her sometime-boyfriend Matty … by tying him up, taking him down into the basement, and sawing off his arms and legs. Teen angst has never been so adorable. Or bloody.

The more that I thought about this, the more I think our ideas could be better than a lot of what's already on TV.

For example:

Breaking The Bad Secret Circle: After the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Casey goes to live with her grandmother in the small town of New Salem – only to discover that she comes from a long line of meth dealers with advanced, incurable lung cancer who are morally bankrupt.

The Walking Hung: The world is overrun by a horde of crazed zombies with huge penises.

Terra NOVA: Fleeing from the dying future world, the Shannon family takes a time machine back into a PBS documentary about the great cathedrals of Europe. The family is bored by all the relics until they're attacked and killed by a roving band of velociraptors at France's Cathedral of Chartres.

A Gifted Pan Am: A brilliant, but arrogant surgeon is haunted by the ghost of a 1960s airliner that is really optimistic about America’s future.

The New Girl's Bones: Emily Deschanel simply can't take her sister Zooey's so-called "adorkable" mugging any longer, so she jams Zooey's head into the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry machine. Upon Zooey's painful, gruesome death, people everywhere rejoice.

Good Christian Belles' Happy Endings: Gee, some of these jokes write themselves, don't they?

I Hate My Supernatural Teenager Daughter: Two women who were "mean girls" in high school realize that their teenage daughters are gifted telepaths, so they arrange for them to be crowned prom queens, then pour buckets of pig's blood over their heads.

The O'Reilly Fringe Factor: Bill O'Reilly crosses over into a distant, alternate dimension and is never seen or heard from again. Maybe this is more of a fairy tale.

Once Upon a Spartacus: Blood and Sand: The incredibly hot and frequently naked gladiators at an ancient Roman ludus realize they're actually characters trapped inside a soft-core cable show. They realize that if you can't beat ‘em, join ‘em, so they all retreat to the bathhouse to oil each other up and … release some tension.

Drop Dead Hawaii Five-O: With McGarrett in prison awaiting trial for the murder of the governor, Danny hires him a plucky, big-boned lawyer with plenty of moxie and a band of adorable co-workers. Alas, she lied about being able to practice law in Hawaii, so Danny tosses her to the sharks.

Charlie's Playboy Club: A trio of stunningly beauty women in skimpy clothes sacrifice all dignity to serve the whims of a powerful man. Wait. That doesn't change anything about either show, does it?

How I Met Your Unforgettable Mother: A man with Superior Autobiographical Memory recounts every last, pointless detail of his meandering, endlessly boring slog to find his wife. Wait, that doesn't change anything either, does it?

American Glee Story: McKinley High is haunted by crude caricatures and horrible, groan-inducing visions, and the characters react to the horrors with uncontrolled hysterics. Yup, once again, doesn't change a thing!

Ringer Happy Endings: Mmmm, twins. (You didn't really think there was only going to be one Happy Endings joke, did you?!)

Prime Suspect: Whitney: In an attempt to spice up her relationship, the tough talking, fedora-wearing Whitney buys a sexy policewoman outfit … and is promptly arrested for both lewd conduct and impersonating an officer.

The Big Bang Desperate Housewives: The housewives of Wisteria Lane all become physicists at the California Institute of Technology. Except for Susan – the producers all agree that Teri Hatcher could never pull that off. Oh, and the women all have lots and lots of sex, so the title's "bang" pun makes more sense.

What about you? What would your favorite TV mash-up be?