Dan Harmon, creator of Community and podcast Harmontown, was on the Nerdist podcast and talked about trying to get out of a tv contract by creating something that the network definitely wouldn’t like. The way he did that was by creating something he would want to watch instead of trying to make something commercially successful. The result was the pilot for “Heat Vision and Jack“, with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver and Christine Taylor.
You should definitely watch the entire episode on youtube, but if you don’t have time, at least watch the title sequence, which should be queued up at 2:13 in the video below: