"The premise sounds logical there's something missing here."

In bare synopsis the premise might sound overly broad and perhaps even unsustainable.

The premise sounded like a bad joke: a serial killer who kills other serial killers.

Other proponents of the show have said "if the premise sounds cheesy or busy, the execution is crisp and efficient" and "someone in network land has learned a lesson from Heroes."

Executive producer and current showrunner Al Jean thought that the premise sounded "very funny" and assigned Vitti to write the episode's first draft.

The premise sounded great: Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), a gritty supercop from the mean streets of London, is reassigned to a quaint countryside village.

This week, for once, that premise does not sound so silly.

If the premise sounds a little ridiculous, that's probably because of its origin.

Thomas Meaney panned Cosmos and Psyche in The Wall Street Journal, writing that the premise may sound "like an elaborate joke".

The premise for "Newsies," an elaborate Disney live-action musical about the New York newsboys' strike of 1899, never sounded all that promising in the first place.