├── README.md ├── characters ├── Eva.md ├── ?.md ├── Carter.md ├── Mike.md ├── Tyler.md └── index.md ├── navigation.md ├── index.md ├── episodes └── episode1 │ └── summary.md └── ideas.md /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | WebShow 2 | =========== 3 | 4 | ### An open-source written show about the people you know. 5 | 6 | #### See for plot, outlines, and episode scripts. 7 | 8 | 9 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /characters/Eva.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Eva 2 | =================== 3 | 4 | *Gender*: Female 5 | *Age*: 24 6 | 7 | 8 | About 9 | ------ 10 | Always talks in abstract. Feels all of their work is better then Picasso's. 11 | *has Tourette's, randomly pointing out font names?* 12 | 13 | Viewers will not know what she looks like, always has weird avatars when talking on Skype/Hangouts. 14 | 15 | Likes 16 | ------ 17 | + SciFi 18 | 19 | DisLikes 20 | --------- 21 | + 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /navigation.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # WebShow 2 | 3 | [Synopsis](index.md) 4 | 5 | [Characters]() 6 | 7 | * Main Cast 8 | * [Carter](characters/Carter.md) 9 | * [Tyler](characters/Tyler.md) 10 | * [Mike](characters/Mike.md) 11 | * [Eva](characters/Eva.md) 12 | * Additional Cast 13 | * [Sundeep](characters/?.md) 14 | 15 | [Episodes]() 16 | 17 | * [Episode 1](episodes/episode1/summary.md) 18 | 19 | [Ideas](ideas.md) 20 | 21 | [gimmick:editMe](https://github.com/ProLoser/webshow/edit/gh-pages/) 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /index.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | The WebShow (working title) 2 | ================ 3 | 4 | Synopsis 5 | ----------------- 6 | A freelancer and a start-up engineer meet regularly to bitch about their jobs and common annoyances of the industry. Their circle of friends includes the non-tech, barely-employed part-timer friend and their vain, self-absorbed graphic-designer friend. 7 | 8 | 9 | Show Comparison 10 | ---------------- 11 | IT Crowd with a tech-industry focus 12 | 13 | 14 | Locations 15 | -------------------- 16 | + Work / Office 17 | + Coffee Shop 18 | + Bar 19 | + Apartment 20 | + Conference/Meetups 21 | 22 | Characters 23 | -------------------- 24 | [Full List](http://proloser.github.io/webshow/#!characters/index.md) 25 | 26 | ###Main Characters 27 | + Carter - Startup developer 28 | + Michael - Freelance / Consultant developer 29 | + Eva - Graphic Designer 30 | + Eric - Non-Tech Friend 31 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /characters/?.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ? 2 | =================== 3 | 4 | *Gender*: Male 5 | *Age*: 31 6 | *Relationship*: Married (2 year old boy) 7 | *Position*: Developer (Front End) at Fortune 500 Company 8 | 9 | 10 | About 11 | ------ 12 | Indian. 13 | Hello my name is Tyler, lets see... umm.. I work at a major company (you have probably heard of them) working on their website(s) as a developer. I spend most of my time outside of work with my small and growing family. We are currently working on repainting our townhouse. My wife is a massage therapist, and stays at home with our 2 year old boy. 14 | 15 | Traits 16 | ------- 17 | + Semi-OCD 18 | + Plans every detail ahead of time 19 | + Metrosexual 20 | 21 | Likes 22 | ------ 23 | + Ikea furniture hacking projects 24 | + Posting shots of Ikea projects on instagram 25 | + Beer aficionado 26 | 27 | DisLikes 28 | --------- 29 | + Fondue 30 | + His wife's Tiramisu 31 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /characters/Carter.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Carter 2 | ====== 3 | 4 | *Gender*: Male 5 | *Age*: 26 6 | *Relationship*: *Single and Desperate* 7 | *Position*: Developer at Start Up 8 | *Personality*: Deadpan 9 | *Roommate*: AirBnB 10 | 11 | About 12 | ------ 13 | Works for an awesome start. On the cutting edge of technologies. While not at work I like to hang out at home and play video games. I work from home most days and enjoy trying new restaurants and cuisines. I like to find new meetups to attend in either the tech space, or one of my other hobbies. 14 | 15 | Makes a lot of money and never actually goes into the office. Will randomly take a Skype or Google Hangout video conference call. Best friend is Freelance Engineer 16 | 17 | Moves to SF, moves into a 2 bedroom apartment and AirBnB's the other room. Each week he has a different roommate with weird or creepy behaviors. 18 | 19 | 20 | Likes 21 | ------ 22 | + Food 23 | + Video Games 24 | + Hacking 25 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /characters/Mike.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Mike 2 | ====== 3 | 4 | *Gender*: Male 5 | *Age*: 24 6 | *Relationship*: Celibate 7 | *Position*: Store manager at electronics store 8 | *Roommate*: Tyler 9 | 10 | About 11 | ------ 12 | Always dating different girls. 13 | 14 | Works part-time at random odd-jobs. 15 | Always starts a story or anecdote and never reaches a punchline. 16 | 17 | Not motivated or driven to succceed financially 18 | 19 | Thinks he is a tech guy 'cause he lives with and is friends with tech guys. Convinces them to do 90% of his work when he works for tech related companies 20 | 21 | Traits 22 | ------ 23 | + Horrible, but adament storyteller 24 | + Knows a lot of random facts 25 | + Will show up to any event invited to, and find a way to not pay as much as everyone else 26 | + Despite being broke, owns ridiculously expensive mint condition fixxy bike 27 | 28 | 29 | Likes 30 | ------ 31 | + His job, even though its not really going anywhere 32 | + Computer Gamer (but his computer is too old to play the latest games) 33 | 34 | 35 | DisLikes 36 | --------- 37 | + Very little, he is easy to please and gets a long with everyone 38 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /characters/Tyler.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Tyler 2 | =================== 3 | 4 | *Gender*: Male 5 | *Age*: 27 6 | *Relationship*: Dating 7 | *Position*: Freelance Developer 8 | *Personality*: Easy Going 9 | *Roommate*: Mike 10 | 11 | About 12 | ------ 13 | Hipster 14 | Always broke, complains about not wanting to sell out to corporate America. Always getting job offers from StartUp engineer. Best friend is StartUp Engineer 15 | 16 | Freelance consultant (previously partnered with Carter) who builds websites for individuals and companies. 17 | 18 | Tyler always talks about his freelance as "The Company", and boasts about his sucesses, when it is just him. Always refers to "The Company" in third person. Tyler thinks Carter is a member of "The Company", and tries to get him back. "The Company" is his dream to never work for anyone else. 19 | 20 | 21 | Traits 22 | ------ 23 | + Easy Going & Laid Back 24 | + Hates to admit that he barely makes enough money to cover life expenses & refuses to change lifestyle to match actual income 25 | + Even though a simple consultant, talks about it as though its a large scale company (which ironically he would never work for). Uses royal 'we' and 'the company' as third-person reference to himself in professional manner. 26 | 27 | Likes 28 | ------ 29 | + Foodie 30 | + Gamer 31 | + Dating 32 | 33 | DisLikes 34 | --------- 35 | + Phony or Pretencious people 36 | + People who pretend to be web developers / designers, and are really just lame marketing people 37 | + Marketing departments 38 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /characters/index.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | MAIN CAST 2 | ========== 3 | 4 | The show will have a core ensemble for every episode, with possible reocurring guest and secondary characters. 5 | 6 | Start Up Engineer 7 | ------------------- 8 | *Name: [Carter](Carter.md)* 9 | Makes a lot of money and never actually goes into the office. Will randomly take a Skype or Google Hangout video conference call. Best friend is Freelance Engineer 10 | 11 | 12 | Freelance Engineer 13 | ------------------- 14 | *Name: [Tyler](Tyler.md)* 15 | Hipster 16 | Always broke, complains about not wanting to sell out to corporate America. Always getting job offers from StartUp engineer. Best friend is StartUp Engineer 17 | 18 | Prima Donna Designer 19 | -------------------- 20 | *Name: [Eva](Eva.md)* 21 | Always talks in abstract. Feels all of their work is better then Picasso's. 22 | *has Tourette's, randomly pointing out font names?* 23 | 24 | Non-Tech Related Friend 25 | ------------------------- 26 | *Name: [Mike](Mike.md)* 27 | Works part-time at random odd-jobs. 28 | Always starts a story or anecdote and never reaches a punchline. 29 | 30 | 31 | Other Minor Characters 32 | ======================= 33 | Minor Characters will be re-curring characters, but not necessarily in every episode. 34 | 35 | Other Friends 36 | -------------- 37 | + Deuce - a friend that is not in tech, but is the typical partyer. Semi-intelligent, usually meets up with everyone for drinks. Even though he is always looking for his next conquest, he feels hanging out with the mostly geeky friends helps them out by bringing up their social status. 38 | + Corporate Engineer - Thinks developing for windows is best, and blindly ignores any or all evidence to the latter 39 | Like the start up engineer, but has limited freedoms. Has a dress code. Makes just as much or nearly as much as the start up engineer, but has triple the amount of bosses, but more job security. 40 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /episodes/episode1/summary.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Episode 1 - I quit 2 | ========== 3 | 4 | [..] = joke idea 5 | {..} = not a joke, idea 6 | 7 | Synopsis 8 | -------- 9 | 10 | Carter quit his job at "The Company" (freelancing with Tyler) after dealing with too many stupid clients. Gets a high paying position at a start up in San Francisco (Tech-Mecca), where Tyler, Mike, and Eva live. 11 | 12 | 13 | Outline 14 | ------- 15 | 16 | ### Act 1 - Carter visits SF 17 | 18 | Scene 1.1 - Carter enters interview room to panel(?) __Intro of Carter__ 19 | 20 | * Project Manager (non-tech) - asks over technical, non-technical questions 21 | * Engineer - asks the questions most relevant 22 | * Designer - asks questions totally unrelated to job description (what is your favorite monotype font?) 23 | 24 | Scene 1.2 - Tyler & Mike at apartment __Intro of Tyler & Mike__ 25 | 26 | * Discussing Carter joining them in San Francisco while playing Xbox 27 | 28 | Scene 1.3 - Carter, Tyler,and Mike are all at the restaurant 29 | 30 | * Back story of Carter and Tyler working together 31 | * Carter's move to San Francisco (setting up Act 2) 32 | 33 | ### Act 2 - Carter moving to San Francisco 34 | 35 | Scene 2.1 - Carter driving up north with weirdo from ZimRide 36 | 37 | Scene 2.2 - Tyler and Mike helping him move into new apartment 38 | 39 | * Roommates from AirBnB till he finds one he likes 40 | 41 | ### Act 3 - Back at the restaurant 42 | 43 | Scene 3.1 - Reflection back at the restaurant 44 | 45 | * Like Kyle's end to South Park, except the point they learned is useless 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | Script 51 | ------ 52 | 53 | 54 | ### Act 1 ### 55 | 56 | INT. NONDESCRIPT TECH COMPANY CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 57 | 58 | Carter sits down at conference table and 3 employees ask him to tell them about himself 59 | 60 | BILL (interviewer): Welcome to WidgetCoBuilders.com why don't you tell us about yourself? 61 | 62 | 63 | INT. TYLER AND MIKES APARTMENT - DAY 64 | 65 | Tyler and Mike are playing Xbox on the couch. They discuss the plans for the day to meet with Carter. 66 | 67 | MIKE: So.. Carter is here in San Francisco, eh? Does that mean I have to put on pants today? 68 | TYLER: Yes he is interviewing at a few startups 69 | MIKE: Pants Optional? 70 | TYLER: (ignoring Mike) We'll grab dinner with him. 71 | MIKE: (grumbling) Where are we going for dinner? I feel like MOOSHOO Pork 72 | 73 | 74 | INT. NONDESCRIPT TECH COMPANY CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 75 | 76 | Carter begins explaining brief backstory 77 | 78 | CARTER: I currently live in Los Angeles and work consulting full time with my friend Tyler. He feels (air quotes) "The Company" is going to take off, but it is mostly dillusional. 79 | BILL: Oh interesting, LA, know any celebrities? 80 | CARTER: (annoyingly) No, haven't had the chance to meet any, but I have been coding for over 10 years 81 | BILL: I use Dreamweaver too 82 | 83 | 84 | INT. TYLER AND MIKES APARTMENT - DAY 85 | 86 | Mike sniffs a pair of pants, shrugs, and puts them on 87 | 88 | MIKE: Where is he interviewing anyway? Google? Facebook? 89 | TYLER: Umm.. I think WidgetCo? 90 | 91 | 92 | CUT TO - INT. WIDGETCO COMPANY CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 93 | 94 | Employees poorly describe their company and benefits without explaining what company _actually_ does. Carter keeps asking but doesn't really get an answer. 95 | 96 | BILL: Let me introduce our lead designer, Angel 97 | Angel sits down, looks over Carter's resume 98 | Angel: So, what is your favorite shade of light gray? 99 | CARTER: Uhh.. 100 | Angel: Please respond in hexidecimal, RGB is also not acceptable 101 | 102 | 103 | CUT TO - INT. TYLER AND MIKES APARTMENT - DAY 104 | 105 | TYLER: Then he goes to FreeWebsites4U.com 106 | 107 | 108 | CUT TO - INT. FREEWEBSITE4U.COM'S COMPANY CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 109 | 110 | INTERVIEWER: We want to give you a little code test, code a fully functional website for Dr. Smith. You can find all the files you need on this flash drive, including images, and content 111 | CARTER: How long do I have? 112 | INTERVIEWER: 1 hour 113 | CARTER: Wait, am I just doing your work for you? 114 | INTERVIEWR: Staring now... 115 | 116 | 117 | CUT TO - INT. TYLER AND MIKES APARTMENT - DAY 118 | 119 | TYLER: I think his last interview is at Synergy HTTP Interval Technologies 120 | MIKE: SHIT? 121 | 122 | 123 | CUT TO - INT. SYNERGY HTTP INTERVAL TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 124 | 125 | CARTER: So what do you guys do? 126 | 127 | Interviewer pulls up chart on PowerPoint 128 | 129 | INTERVIEWER: As you can see from our growth chart we are experiencing tremendous growth 130 | CARTER: So what do you guys do? 131 | 132 | Slide changes to cover of Outsourced Monthly 133 | 134 | INTERVIEWER: We were voted in the top 10 companies to watch by Outsourced Monthly 135 | CARTER: So what do you guys do? 136 | 137 | Slide changes to stock photo of happy family 138 | 139 | INTERVIEWR: We make dreams come true, we help individuals succeed 140 | CARTER: So what do you guys do? 141 | 142 | Slide changes back to chart 143 | 144 | INTERVIEWER: We are backed by Steve Wozniak's cousin, we raised over 4 million dollars in our first round of funding, and are set to raise another 125 million by the end of the year. 145 | 146 | Quad Copter smacks into window 147 | Pan to employees playing with toys in background while interviewr continues 148 | 149 | INTERVIEWR: We offer great benefits, full medical, dental, vision, 401K. Each employee also receives a $500 stipened to spend at Toys R' Us. Don't worry about coming into the office, no one is ever really here 150 | 151 | Pans back to outside, everyone is gone. 152 | 153 | CARTER: Do you guys evenn know what you do? 154 | INTERVIEWER: That is the kind of critical thinking we like, you're hired! Here is a new Macbook Pro and iPad, welcome aboard! 155 | 156 | 157 | CUT TO INT. TYLER AND MIKES APARTMENT - DAY 158 | 159 | {video game joke.. Mike Dies.. he is a sore loser} 160 | [fucked up BF - convoluted death with unrealstic game physics] 161 | [Mike teabags Tyler's FACE] 162 | [Cut to 2 13 year olds talking shit as they kick Mike & Tylers ass] 163 | [Takes trash talking literally, and responds seriously] 164 | 165 | 166 | CUT TO INT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT 167 | 168 | Carter, Tyler, and Mike discuss Carter using Zimride to move to SF 169 | [talking about the potential for hot awesome chick being Zimrider... it isn't] 170 | 171 | CARTER: So looks like I'll be moving up this weekend, don't quite know how I will tell my mom. 172 | TYLER: Don't worry Carter, I'll take care of her 173 | MIKE: [joke] 174 | CARTER: I really don't want to do the drive by myself, one of you want to come with? 175 | MIKE: I can't, I am super busy 176 | TYLER: Doing what? You barely put on pants today 177 | CARTER: How about you Tyler? 178 | TYLER: I would, __THE COMPANY__ is having a retreat 179 | CARTER: With all the employees you don't have? 180 | MIKE: Chairman of Awesome, M.D. 181 | CARTER: Have you two ever heard of Zimride? 182 | TYLER: Yes, that is that the hitchiker rapists app directory? where you can get a hot girl in your car 183 | MIKE: How much does she charge? 184 | TYLER: And give them a ride along wherever you are going 185 | CARTER: Yes, but I'm not sure its exclusive to hot girls 186 | MIKE: Count me out 187 | TYLER: But what if it was? You could join the not a mile high, club 188 | CARTER: Would be nice to have some actual scenery 189 | TYLER: Yea, check this out, blonde girl aged 25 going from LA to SF this weekend! 190 | MIKE: How much does she charge? 191 | TYLER: aaaaaand message sent 192 | CARTER: WHAT? I didn't even get a chance to 193 | 194 | CUT SCENE 195 | 196 | 197 | ### ACT 2 ### 198 | 199 | INT. CARTERS CAR DRIVING ON HIGHWAY - DAY 200 | 201 | [background footage B&W @ 1.5x and out of sync with Carter steering - if possible mayhem in background] 202 | 203 | 204 | EXT. GG BRIDGE AS CARTER DRIVES OVER IT - DAY 205 | 206 | milked useless long scenic shot of bridge with no dialogue 207 | 208 | PASSENGER: _looking around confused_ I didn't know the Golden Gate Bridge was on the way from LA? 209 | [CARTER: What are you talking about?] 210 | [How else would they know we are in San Francisco?] 211 | 212 | 213 | 214 | INT. CARTERS APARTMENT - DAY 215 | 216 | Tyler, Mike, and Carter are moving boxes 217 | [Mike is "managing"] 218 | 219 | Sitting around boxes eating pizza and drinking beer 220 | {talking about potential roommates} 221 | [Mike posting ad for roommate on craigslist - its horrible] 222 | CARTER: Dude, seriously? No one will want to move in 223 | [Mike shushes Carter with finger on lips] 224 | MIKE: Trust me. 225 | 226 | Seconds after ad is posted 227 | 228 | [Lots of weird people waiting outside - EXT SHOT] 229 | [SMS counts sky rockets seconds after ad posted] 230 | 231 | ### ACT 3 ### 232 | 233 | 234 | INT - RESTAURANT - NIGHT 235 | 236 | 237 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /ideas.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Random joke ideas 2 | ================================= 3 | 4 | __Managers giving code advice__ 5 | *Premise: I always get non-coders giving me "tips" for my code.. that make no sense, 'cause they don't know code* 6 | 7 | * Developer: I can implement your request ticket, but maybe difficult because of the time constraints 8 | * Project Manager: Nonesense, can't you just use javascript? 9 | * Dev: I can, but.. 10 | * PM [_Interrupting_]: How about CSS jQuery? 11 | * Dev [_Looking confused_]: That doesn't even make sense? 12 | 13 | 14 | *Part II* 15 | * I want to see a HR video (like a safety video) about bad practices in code, however they have no idea what they are doing, so its basically a bunch of sinppets from movies including Office Space, Matrix, and others. As well as random screenshots and people in the office using Microsoft Word (to "code"). 16 | 17 | ------ 18 | 19 | __Project Manager talking to developer, and giving useless statistics, when developer knows better__ 20 | *Premise: pretty self explanatory.. it happens all too often* 21 | 22 | * Project Manager: 'I think that all the buttons need to flash colors and maybe move around the screen' 23 | * Developer: 'No, that is a horrible idea, why would you want to do that?' 24 | * PM: 'Well of all the 3 people we tested with, 27.5% said that they had a hard time finding the next button, so I want to make sure ALL buttons are more visible' 25 | * Dev: 'I can't tell if you are joking or not...' 26 | * PM: 'The data does not lie friend' 27 | 28 | 29 | ------ 30 | 31 | __People referring to things in the most vague way possible, or incorrect terminology__ 32 | *Premise: People are irritating when they don't specify things they are talking about* 33 | 34 | *Preosn pointing at monitor and moving arm in a circular motion* 35 | Person: "Please make that one title on the page with that one picture, larger" 36 | 37 | ------ 38 | 39 | __1-man Scrums__ 40 | *Premise: Non-Tech managers love to find trending ideas/keywords and implement them blindly* 41 | 42 | * CEO: Why is the project taking so long? 43 | * Dev: We are week 3 into our 6 month development timeline, what do you expect? 44 | * Dev: If you hired more developers, it would get done faster. 45 | * CEO: Why don't you try using SCRUM? 46 | * Dev: What? Why? That's not going to help, I am the only person in the web department. 47 | * CEO: Lots of big successful companies use SCRUM, you should use that! 48 | * Dev[_Looks around completely empty office_]: Look, I can have a 15 minute meeting by myself every morning if that's what you want, but it really isn't going to make me code any faster. 49 | 50 | ------ 51 | 52 | __Not asking before hiring__ 53 | *Premise: Non-Tech managers really don't know how to hire* 54 | 55 | * CEO: I hired you someone to help you work faster, although I don't see why you needed him 56 | * Dev: I am not going into this again... but thank you, what is his background? 57 | * CEO: Yea, he has a lot of experience! 58 | * Dev: Great, is he a front end developer or backend developer? 59 | * CEO[_pausing to think_]: He uses frontpage to code, you should see his work! It is amazing 60 | * Dev{_pauses_]: Wait, you are serious? Please tell me you are joking with me right now 61 | * CEO: No pull up his website: http://mixMasterFlex2001.aol.geocities.com 62 | 63 | ------ 64 | 65 | __Recruiters__ 66 | *Premise: Recruiters* 67 | 68 | * No real script here yet.. but thinking while everyone is together one by one they all get a phone call from the same recruiter offering the same exact job. 69 | 70 | 71 | __Interview Questions__ 72 | *Premise: Stupid "meta" interview questions* 73 | 74 | * Google has interview questions like "If you were shrunk to 1/100th of your normal size and mass and placed into a blender, how would you get out? 75 | * We could come up with assinine abstract questions and then have the interviewers scribble down completely unrelated conclusions 76 | * Interviewer: What does the color blue smell like? 77 | * Candidate: What? Umm.... probably like grapes? Sweet and tangy. 78 | * [Interviewer gives questionable glares] 79 | * [Interviewer scribbles on notepad: "Doesn't work well with teams of 2 or more"] 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | *Unbelievably vague question* 85 | * Interviewer: You have a black box that doesn't work, how do you test it? 86 | * Interviewer: How do you fix the world? 87 | * Interviewer: What are alternate uses of a traffic cone 88 | 89 | ----- 90 | 91 | 92 | __How We Started__ 93 | *Premise: Most developers started fascinated by the same things* 94 | 95 | * Dev1: Flash, I hate it.. but got to admit, it got me into developing 96 | * Dev2: What a los...wait, no you are right, I wanted to create the coolest website with flash. 97 | * Dev1: Remember ActionScript 1? 98 | * Dev2: Yes, I tried to get into it more, but ended up picking up HTML and not wanting to mess too much with heavy flash development 99 | * Dev1: I made a ball bounce once. Love me some motion tweeeeen. 100 | 101 | ------ 102 | 103 | __Changing Tasks without consulting / Scope Creep?__ 104 | *Premise: By the time you start/complete a task, the task basis may have changed at least 3 times* 105 | 106 | * Dev [talking to himself]: Finally can get to this task.. hmm.. style the table [starts coding task] 107 | * PM [in meeting]: I don't like the table either! I was thinking for better UXI we need to offer a more robust color palette 108 | * Dev [still coding] 109 | * [2 hours pass] 110 | * Dev: Okay, finally finished 111 | * PM: Finished what? 112 | * Dev: The task to style the table. 113 | * PM: Really? That was fast, we just finished designing it. 114 | * Dev: Uh, What? 115 | * PM: Yea the design team and I sat down with photoshop and made it better U.X.I.P Synergy 116 | * Dev Shoots himself in the FACE! 117 | 118 | ------ 119 | 120 | Series of closeup shots similar to the opening of Batman and Robin except for hipsters 121 | 122 | * rolls up button-down-front t-shirt sleeves 123 | * rolls up pants cuffs 124 | * ties bow tie and scarf 125 | * waxes mustache 126 | 127 | Neck-beard (Steve Wozniak) walks past with pocket protecter and belt clip phone holster 128 | 129 | * Hipster: What a wanabe hipster. Does he even apple? I bet he's an Android fanboy. 130 | 131 | ------- 132 | 133 | Tyler is dillusional that "The Company" exists and that Carter and Eva are part of it. 134 | 135 | Talks like he has "an office" when its really just him at a cafe. 136 | 137 | --------- 138 | 139 | Commercial breaks are all commercials from jokes in the show: 140 | * "The Company" owned by Tyler 141 | * Company that Carter interviews at 142 | * Any of Mike's jobs 143 | * Mongolian Restaurant 144 | 145 | ---------- 146 | 147 | Mike hates customers - use stupid customer references 148 | 149 | 150 | ----------- 151 | 152 | Company interview shows that company employees have no idea what company actually does 153 | 154 | * Employees show charts and list acheivements 155 | * Look at these awesome perks 156 | * Look at these millions of dollars in funding raised 157 | * CEO is super ellusive and never around 158 | * Charts of hockey-stick growth with no labels 159 | 160 | ----------- 161 | 162 | Carter is on Google campus, looking for the correct office. He observes the assorted bycicles and "conference" bycicle available for free use on the campus (5 seats facing into the center). He stops and asks someone for directions, who points him across to the other side of the campus, and recommends he takes a bike. Carter looks around and notices all the normal bikes are taken and the only one still available is the 'conference' bycicle. 163 | 164 | _cut to:_ 165 | 166 | Carter peddling the 5-seater bycicle by himself arriving at the office with a hobo asleep on one of the seats. 167 | 168 | 169 | ----------- 170 | 171 | "Drop the 'The'" 172 | 173 | Halfway through the season, tyler comes rushing up or really excited to carter 174 | 175 | * Tyler: Dude, I was talking with this genius angel investor, and he gave me the best suggestion for The Company's future ever! 176 | * Carter: You're still meeting with that guy? what's the genius idea now? 177 | * Tyler: "The Company" decided to drop the "The". Now we're just... "Company". 178 | 179 | Ongoing Jokes 180 | ================================= 181 | * All Carter's AirBnB roommates are weird, show up in random episodes/scenes 182 | * Mike always has a new random odd-job (stock boy, waiter/host, test subject, valet, fast-food, tech jobs (tricks Tyler & Carter into helping him do most of the work)) 183 | * All shit / rage talk on Video Games taken seriously / sarcastically 184 | 185 | 186 | Every time the guys are at mongolian, they always make a point to order all-you-can-eat. Any time they are having a conversation that involves a cut-away gag or a cut-to whatever they are talking about, every time the cut returns to them talking, they're in line for another refill of food. 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | ----- 191 | 192 | Matt's random things 193 | https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6347429/Ideas-2014-01-11.zip 194 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------