A suburban dad runs a black-ops morning routine — balcony pipe, breath spray, asthma puffer, aftershave, ninja-jog back to bed — to keep one small secret from his very pregnant wife.
A stoner-dad comedy that treats impending fatherhood like a drug-cessation logistics problem.
The story
Adam is an average dad with an above-average concealment routine. The pilot opens on his choreographed morning: weed from a tic-tac box, a balcony pipe, then the full counter-forensics pass — peppermint spray, asthma puffer, aftershave — before a ninja-jog back under the doona to feign sleep as his heavily-pregnant wife Harmony emerges from the ensuite. She’s almost always a beat ahead of him. Average Dad is a grounded, dry, faintly dark domestic comedy about the distance between the father a man performs and the one he actually is — with a baby (and a widening web of small lies) on the way to raise the stakes.
Coverage — plot points
- Adam’s elaborate concealment ritual opens the pilot — comedy of tiny logistics.
- Harmony, heavily pregnant, is one beat ahead of him more often than he knows.
- The gap between the dad Adam performs and the one he is drives every scene.
- Impending fatherhood raises the stakes on a very small, very human deceit.
“Ever heard of smoking yourself straight?” — “That’s fucking genius. I never thought the cure for too much weed would be more weed.”
“Put everything in a lockbox on the top shelf of the wardrobe, never smoke in the house, and only do hard drugs when I leave the home. Three basic laws of good housekeeping. Boom.”
Read the sample
Below is the existing draft — a sample of the final shooting script (28pp shown). Scroll to read, or download the PDF.
Seeking representation and/or a producing partner for television. Complete script available on request.