"I actually wrote a screen play for the pilot episode of a Doakes spin-off sitcom called, "Doakes with Batista" where Doakes, after narrowly escaping the explosion at the cabin with his life, decides to change his life and move back to his home town of Atlanta to start a family and pursue his dream of being a stand-up comedian. In the pilot episode, Doakes would just be settling into his new life, when Batista moves in next door and wants to be his best friend. This would set up Batista as the wacky neighbor/ side-kick.

I wasn't serious writing it. It's not really suppose to be funny, but more of a parody of other sitcoms. It's got the cliches: really attractive wife, stubborn and dumb husband, young son whose a total brainiac, teenage daughter going through the difficulties of high school, wacky annoying neighbor who always just walks into the house at anytime, their house has a staircase leading upstairs in every room, there is a door to the outside in every room so no matter where the actors are talking, somebody can walk in or out to help move the plot along, etc. There are a bunch of other sitcom conventions I tried to make fun of in the thing (unnecessary laugh track), but this list was getting long. Anyway, maybe I'll post it here later."