Reverse ALF
Original Premise: When his home planet is destroyed by nuclear war, an alien crash-lands on Earth and lives with a human family while he repairs his spaceship.
New Premise: A human astronaut, seeking a new home for refugees from an irradiated Earth, crash-lands on a planet similar to his own, but with a green sky, blue grass and populated entirely by sock-puppet creatures who eat cats and have a lint-based economy. The alien family he lives with keeps him hidden from the xenophobic government while he tries to make contact with his people, but will he request a rescue or warn them away? And was he the only survivor of the crash? Sock-puppet intrigue done right.

Reverse Eight is Enough
Original Premise: A widower has to raise eight kids of varying ages on his own after his wife dies.
New Premise: A single kid is raised by eight parents! Imagine being raised by divorced parents and their new spouses for most of your life, when suddenly both sets of parents get divorced again. You'd want to continue to spend time with your step-parents, too, right? Well, what if all four of them got remarried? You're now a kid with eight parents, and you have to spend one night at each of their houses, and they all have very different ideas of how to bond with their only child. It's a traditional family comedy set during the heyday of divorce!

Reverse Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Original Premise: A street-smart teenager form West Philadelphia is sent to live with rich relatives in their Bel Air mansion.
New Premise: When a couple of rich socialites decide to leave the country to accept an ambassadorship, they leave their teenage son with poor relatives across town so he can continue to attend his prep school. But when he gets kicked out for a prank, his aunt and uncle force him to attend public school for the first time in his life, with his cousin. And as he teaches his new family how to be classy, they teach him how to be funky, and they grow to love one another. Awww.

Reverse Brady Bunch
Original Premise: Two widowed parents of three kids each get married, forming a large family unit.
New Premise: The marriage of a couple with six kids is on the rocks, so, in the dead of night, the mother leaves town with the three daughters, leaving her three sons with her husband. Not knowing where they went, the husband raises his boys on his own, until years later when he has to move for his job, and it's coincidentally to the town where his wife lives. Now all six kids are going to school together, and they don't know that they're siblings. OMG!

Reverse Small Wonder
Original Premise: A roboticist develops a robot that looks like a little girl, and secretly brings her home to integrate her into a family setting.
New Premise: In a future ruled by robots, where humans are extinct, a robot scientist successfully clones a human being, but has to keep her secret for fear of punishment. He passes her off as a robotic replica of a little girl, but he still has to keep her secret from protocol-sensitive supervisors and inquisitive neighbors, not to mention grow the food necessary for her survival, or else she will die/perish. Hilarious!

Reverse Bosom Buddies
Original Premise: When their apartment is demolished, two young men have to find a place with cheap rent, and ultimately find the Susan B. Anthony Hotel. One catch: It's for women only. Cue cross-dressing.
New Premise: Same scenario, but with two evicted women moving into the YMCA, back when it was a boarding house for dudes. Cue fake mustaches and breast-binding.

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