Knights of Prosperity, The (ABC 2007, Donal Logue, Lenny Venito)

For almost 20 years, Eugene Gurkin (Donal Logue) has dreamt of opening a bar, but his dead end job on the late, late janitorial shift won’t even fund a bottle of premium booze.

In the wake of a co-worker’s death, he catches an episode of television. Call it divine intervention, call it a dumb idea, but whatever it is takes hold of Eugene and soon he recruits a group of misfits into his gang for a heist to finance their dreams.

The target: Mick Jagger’s super-luxe Central Park West apartment. Working together, this band of adorable, new-age Robin Hoods, who have never even shoplifted a candy bar, are soon casing the joint and prepping for their crime. What they don’t know is that there’s a much richer target for them the chance to find hope, self-esteem and confidence within themselves.

production details
USA | ABC | | 30 minutes | 2007
Script: Rob Burnett, Jon Beckerman,

cast
Donal Logue as Eugene Gurkin
Sofía Vergara as Esperanza Villalobos
Lenny Venito as Francis ‘Squatch’ Squacieri
Maziyar Jobrani as Gourishankar ‘Gary’ Subramaniam
Kevin Michael Richardson as Rockefeller Butts
Josh Grisetti as Louis Plunk