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Posted: 2019-03-05T11:46:04Z | Updated: 2019-03-05T11:46:04Z

The MacGruber TV series that Will Forte and his co-creators are pitching to some places, as he told Jimmy Fallon last month is too filthy to be shown on network television.

MacGruber is such a filthy situation, and I dont know, theres no way that this would ever be a network TV thing, Forte said in a recent interview with IndieWire . This would be more likely someplace that would let us say the F-word, and talk about penises for 90 percent of the show. Thats likely not gonna be a network thing.

MacGruber began as a series of sketches on Saturday Night Live that parodied the MacGyver TV series that starred Richard Dean Anderson from 1985 to 1992.

Like the character Angus Mac MacGyver, who used his Swiss Army knife and other common items to get out of dangerous situations, MacGruber also used common items to try to escape peril. (In 2016, CBS rebooted MacGyver with Lucas Till in the title role.)

A MacGruber movie was released in 2010, making less than $10 million, IndieWire reported. But it attracted a cult following.

The state of MacGruber right now is, were trying to see if somebody will let us make it as a TV series, Forte told IndieWire. We have a really fun idea. We actually went out and pitched it a couple weeks ago. So, were figuring out that situation right now.

After his TV series Last Man on Earth was canceled, Forte said, he and his co-creators, Jorma Taccone and John Solomon, found time to work on MacGruber.

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Now were all in a place where we could do it, and we got together and thought out some ideas and pitched them out, Forte said. Were waiting to see if somebodys going to let us do it. Were just waiting for somebody to let us go nuts. Were ready to go.