I'm thinking this would be a charming game--either a complex board game (one with characters and a rule book that intimidates 15-year-olds) or maybe a silly beer-and-pretzels RPG.
The plot: This is Happytown. It's a cheerful place, where Bob the Ice Cream Man sells Jumbo Strawberry-Fudgaroos to the kids at Happytown Elementary, the benevolent CEO of Chipper Industries gives everyone two-week vacations in the summer, and every corner has a malt shop.
You play a villian. Obviously, you HATE Happytown (because you're mean). Your goal is to steal all the color from Happytown. You'll have to build a machine to do this, get an army of henchmen to do this, and avoid being thwarted by your villianous colleagues, Those Rotten Kids, and the Rainbow Rescue Force (a team of monomanaiacally color-focused, cheerful heroes).
The plot: This is Happytown. It's a cheerful place, where Bob the Ice Cream Man sells Jumbo Strawberry-Fudgaroos to the kids at Happytown Elementary, the benevolent CEO of Chipper Industries gives everyone two-week vacations in the summer, and every corner has a malt shop.
You play a villian. Obviously, you HATE Happytown (because you're mean). Your goal is to steal all the color from Happytown. You'll have to build a machine to do this, get an army of henchmen to do this, and avoid being thwarted by your villianous colleagues, Those Rotten Kids, and the Rainbow Rescue Force (a team of monomanaiacally color-focused, cheerful heroes).
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http://www.dicentertainment.com/shows/index.php?show=50&category=Pre-School
Actually... how about as a card game? Either two player (one player gets to be the Meanies, the other player gets to draw cards to protect Happytown), or with everyone as the villains, but each round you have to draw cards for what sort of obscenely happy, caring ragtag band of heros shows up to mess with your plans?
Whines and I have been intermittantly reading a book that's the story of Yellow Submarine--why the Beatles didn't want to have anything to do with it, the strange background characters in the "Eleanor Rigby," and the art director having one eye, which may have affected the film's weird two-dimensionality...
So why didn't the Beatles like it? It sounds like the sort of thing Ringo would have loved.
Eventually, they saw that they were missing out on a really amazing, avante-garde film that was going to possibly outlast the stuff they actually performed in, but then it was too late to involve themselves without seeming like darn hypocrites, so they just sat back and gave it their blessing and didn't meddle too much.
You've got to make this game so I can play it!
There will be cackling! And eeevil! And more cackling!
Just be sure to make the rules simple enough to play when A) drunk, or B) laughing your head off and snorting your Dr. Pepper out of your nose.