Flop Show

- Season 1

(1989)

A satirical take on chief guests arriving late at public functions and thus making audiences wait. What happens illustrates the misery of a chief guest (Jaspal Bhatti) who actually arrives at a function on time.

A satirical take on fake medical reimbursement claims of employees. It is about Jaspal Bhatti's friend, who is very ill, getting hospitalized in his name. When he passes away, people assume Jaspal Bhatti to be dead.

A satirical take on the travails of honest real estate property owners. It highlights some of the devious schemes used by tenants for usurping residential property belonging to others.

A take on the poor quality construction of Government-built apartments and the shoddy work of contractors. It showcases the troubles of residents of housing complexes.

A satirical take on the harassment that professors guiding post-graduate research students submit them to. Jaspal Bhatti plays the professor guiding a Ph.D student. He gets all his domestic chores done through his protege. Eventually, he agrees to pass his student's thesis with the intention of getting him married to his sister-in-law.

It takes on the daily routine of Government bureaucrats who spent most of their day in meaningless meetings and even appoint committees for making trivial decisions.

A satirical take on the functioning of government offices. It parodies the misuse of government machinery, portrayed through a government official (Jaspal Bhatti) deploying public officials and resources to search for his missing pet dog.

A take on the callous working habits of doctors in Government hospitals. Jaspal Bhatti plays a doctor who thinks that he lost his watch in a patient's stomach during a surgery.

A parody on the working of the Indian telephone department and its officials. It shows the delays in getting telephone connections, and the poor quality of telephone infrastructure in those days.

Based on the lack of creative content in TV productions. It parodied an attempt to produce a television program by individuals with money but no qualifications. Jaspal Bhatti plays the producer here.