"Lipshitz Saves the World" is one of the stranger AND more interesting television pilots I've seen. It's so good that I wonder how it never made it to be a series. The networks really made a mistake of not approving additional episodes beyond this pilot.
The story is about a gawky teenager, Adam Lipshitz (Jack Carpenter). While he thinks that he's a nothing, he actually is something amazing....and it all begins when out of the blue, Leslie Nielsen (playing himself) arrives at Lipshitz's house. He announces that Adam is 'He'...a chosen one who has an amazing destiny. But what it is and what Lipshitz will do, he never explains to the teen. However, he tells him he has his first assignment...to get one of the hottest girls in school to give him her bra, as there is a key within it! And, oddly, he also must feel her right breast! Why?! None of this makes sense. But when a red-clad villain (Ty Burrell) arrives, things get CRAZY....so much so that you just have to see it for yourself.
The story has a strangeness that I loved as I watched it. It also had originality in spades! But apparently it was too weird for the network execs and they passed on making this series....our loss. I think it would have been terrific.
