jandjsalmon:

alextimeexpress:

So… on Jan. 16, 2018 me and a bunch of my friends stumbled upon this post for the 17th time:

at which point, we decided we should cast the entire pantheon and come up with a working concept… 

Here’s the synopsis we came up with:

“Oh, Lympus! is a sitcom set in the Olympus Estates apartment complex (stylized as ΩLYMPUS ESTATES), a regular apartment complex except most of the tenants and staff are characters from Greek mythology. Apart from this, the first floor of the complex has been retrofitted into a strip mall where all the stores are run by deities of other religions/mythologies. The show is centered around the (mis)adventures in modern times of the main pantheon of gods.”

Keeping the angle that this is meant to be in modern day, we decided to give everybody actual jobs as part of their characters

Our main cast is as follows:

Since we were inspired by the original post, we cast Michael Cera as Zeus, who’s the manager at the local Arby’s.

Tommy Wiseau as Hades, the building super who lives in the basement

Elijah Wood as Poseidon, who’s stuck working the night shift at an aquarium.

Sandra Oh as Hera, Zeus’ wife and interior designer

Whoopi Goldberg as Aphrodite, a fashion journalist at whatever ripoff name for Vogue we come up with.

Steve Carell as Ares, a short tempered personal trainer.

Snooki as Athena, who’s trying to make ends meet by tutoring.

Dylan Sprouse as Apollo, a struggling songwriter who frequently volunteers at the local hospital.

And it would be a sin if we didn’t cast twins as the twin deities, so we cast Cole Sprouse as Artemis, an archery instructor dudebro who has to crash with his twin brother.

Ina Garten as Demeter, who works a small botany shop in the middle of town.

John Mulaney as Hephaestus, an all-around handyman.

Brian Baumgartner as Hermes, the glorified mailman.

Jennette McCurdy as Hestia, the resident trust fund child/cool aunt.

Alfonso Ribeiro as Dionysus, a highly sought-after party planner.

And since we really had an insane amount of time on our hands we worked out the supporting cast too

Post Malone as Hercules, Zeus and Hera’s deadbeat kid.

Miranda Cosgrove as Herc’s girlfriend Meg.

Bo Burnham as Orpheus, a struggling musician who jams with Apollo from time to time.

Drake Bell as Prometheus, some guy who mooches of Hephaestus and bums on his couch.

Oprah Winfrey as Persephone, a housewife who’s not so thrilled that she’s stuck in the basement with Hades.

Nicolas Cage as Medusa, an artist who abducts people and turns them into statues for financial gain.

Adam Sandler as Perseus, a detective on the various missing persons cases that Medusa is responsible for.

Jon Heder as Odysseus, a flight attendant who never stays at home for very long.

Paul McCartney as Atlas, a first time offender forced to serve community service as the janitor to the complex.

Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Donald Glover as Cerberus, Hades’ dog.

Danny DeVito as Cronos, the complex’s owner/everyone’s landlord.

Shia LaBeouf as Homer, owner of The Epic! Books bookstore and close friend of Odysseus.

Hayden Christensen as Jesus, owner of Nazareth & Co. Artesanal Wines, a wine bar in the first floor strip mall.

Zooey Deschanel as Satan, owner of Hell-za Hut, a pizza place in the first floor strip mall where the only toppings you can get are pineapple and anchovies (no matter what you order).

Josh Peck as Muhammad, owner of Allah’ve Some Shwarma, a shwarma joint in the first floor strip mall. (the idea is to have his hands as the only visible part of him, since depicting Muhammad is a no-no).

Dwayne Johnson as Buddha, owner and head yogi of Path to Nirvana, a yoga studio in the first floor strip mall. 

Jim Parsons as Moses, owner of Blazing Bush, a marijuana dispensary in the first floor strip mall.

Ron Perlman as Anubis, owner of Aaruuu!!!, a pet store in the first floor strip mall.

Mark Ruffalo as Thor, half-owner of Odinson’s, a half electronics repair store/half magic shop, he focuses on the electronics repair portion of the store.

Jerry Trainor as Loki, half-owner of Odinson’s with his brother Thor, he focuses on the magic shop aspect of the store. 

And there you have it… the concept and ideal casting (according to us) for Oh, Lympus! This took us way longer than we’d care to admit, and somehow just as much time composing this entire post. SO. MANY. PICTURES.

Credit to: Alejandro Vazquez, Angelic Arzola, Hector Perez, Sara Irizarry, Jose Juan Otero, Alejandro Rodriguez, Mitchell Perez & Joey (sorry bud just know that bit) 

I would watch the hell out of this show. Someone get on it, would you?