User blog comment:Anomymous Writes/Ferb's Meltdown/@comment-5004879-20121031050942/@comment-961279-20121031142247

It's a case of they cannot accept fan ideas because lawsuits and other legal problems occur about where an idea came from. "Hey, I told them that idea five months ago! I'm gonna sue." In this example, it would be dismissed pretty quick because an episode takes more than 8 months to make, so they would have had the idea before the fan did. But that's time spent fighting the lawsuit instead of working on episodes.

To give you an idea of how much problems a fan idea can cause, the episode "Passing Through Gethsemane" from Babylon 5 was delayed over a year because a fan came up with the same kind of plot and posted it on GEnie, an electronic message board. The episode was canceled and did not appear in the second season. It was restarted in season 3 because that fan found out what happened and got a document notarized saying that he released all rights to the story. He handed that document to the creator of Babylon 5 at a convention.

Not many fans would do that kind of thing, and it is standard policy that pretty much all TV shows cannot accept fan ideas. You have to go through the standard story submission process, which usually involves writing a spec script, if the TV show is even considering hiring new writers.

Head on over to. You can post your story idea there, but it will only be read by other fans, not anyone from the show.