Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

Re-watched the first three episodes with a friend who hadn't seen it at all yet. I miss non-completely pathetic Dinesh and non-completely oblivious/dumb Bighead. Every comedy show seems to gradually turn characters into cartoon versions of their most defining quirks (Bighead) or narrows in on an emphasized theme of the character (Dinesh, Jared) to some degree. Not as true for some other characters as much and they're not doing it to the same degree as The Office or Parks & Rec (yet) and I love the show but it the change was striking after revisiting those early episodes.

lol @ the season finale being a soft reboot of the whole series

"couldn't you just show them a.... picture of these animals?"

Saved Jian Yang's best prank call for last.

lol yessss

and him injecting that Richard can live there for free following by Erlich's DAMN IT JIAN YANG

Erlich may be my favorite character, or maybe Jared

Richard has too many moments where he's like a baby version of the Belson
Dinesh and Gilfoyle are a great duo, their best moments are up there with some of the better comic on-screen duos

Jian Yang is the ace in the hole of the series obv

erlich's description of his triumph, including jacking off in a restoration hardware, was incredible. this show does monologues incredibly well.

jian yang is amazing and I think about him every time I drive by a Taco Bell.

lol @ the season finale being a soft reboot of the whole series

^^^ this. they're basically back to the beginning of season 1

jin-yiang crank calls biggest laugh-getter of this ep for me

It takes a lot these days for me to be entertained by the sophomoric jerk-off jokes but the Erlich monologues are masterful

"It's like I was Bobby Fisher if he could really fuck"

^that line in particular really got me. superficially amusing, and then i just keep rolling it over in my mind and it becomes really ridiculous and hilarious. i was laughing at it like 15 seconds after he said it.

the extended not-quite-metaphor about jerking off at a urinal was the closest thing to poetry Erlich has spouted so far

If I had seen the scene of Jared staring out the window completely out-of-context, I would have assumed that he was the ghost of someone who had been murdered in that house long ago.

Very haunted/haunting

Jared crying 'for normal reasons'.

No! Just processed that this was the last episode of the season. Back to the beginning it is...

tt has completed her mission to show me seasons 2 and 3 of this, it's great. best moment of the finale was when they finally broke Lori

TJ Miller allegedly slapped a Uber driver.

http://laist.com/2016/12/09/tj_miller_uber_arrest.php

Well, yeah.

My highschool friend is Monica in this show - shame she's so underwritten in the series though.

what do you think the likelihood is that the driver called him a cuck

lol he is actually his character <3

actually his character would have just made a grand show of wanting to slap the driver but not actually doing so. he is beyond his character

His character hit a little kid!

learned from that NYer article that thiel was the inspiration for peter gregory !

and the other guy is Elon Musk

I thought the super douche who put the radio on the internet was supposed to be Cuban

yes

hooli's CEO is elon musk?

They kind of threw some of Musk's tech stuff in there but
- kind of atypical vocal/facial affect w/monotone
- known chiefly as an investor
- libertarian island proponent
all totally Thiel

The super douche guy was like Sean Parker with some Mark Cuban throw in

I guess Gavin Belson is supposed to be like the salesforce guy, Marc Benioff, but I'm not familiar with his style of talking

Sean Parker's real life is definitely one of those things where the show seems ridiculous but it's barely skirting the edge of what these dudes actually do

He had a hobbit themed wedding in a national forest and spent all kinds of money to do it

I work at a law firm and my big case right now involves venture capital.. its the douchiest, lamest shit. all these guys do is email each other and exchange favors introductions. get lucky, get rich. the end.

no I meant Belson = Musk. Gregory is obviously Thiel.

there's some alternate universe where I really enthusiastically talked to the x.com people (the company that had paypal as one of their products) at this career fair thing I was at circa 2001, interned there, and never found ilx

i gave a talk to some vcs earlier this year and they gave me a $400 bottle of bourbon to say thank you. it was an idiotic talk. actual gibberish in parts. they seemed thrilled.

weird talk, overenthusiastic venture capital, bourbon that costs way too much

very good combination

Xpost What bourbon did they give you? It's probably best for another thread, but bourbon prices have been going crazy the last few months.

i gave a talk to some vcs earlier this year and they gave me a $400 bottle of bourbon to say thank you. it was an idiotic talk. actual gibberish in parts. they seemed thrilled.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 15, 2016 5:03 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark

pappy van winkle?

i enjoyed the pappy van winkle joke when gilfoil quit

would have been great if it were tequila tho
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJaFyLuUwAAyYHg.jpg

angel's envy cask strength. tragically it is down to $200 since i checked.

i'm taking it to the uk at xmas to send it to https://whisky.auction/. they said i'll get more than that for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wait, are you UK? Because Angel's Envy Cask Strength should not run you $400. I would say $200 max, even in today's era of crazy bourbon prices. And given its mysterious providence and lack of an age statement, $200 is pretty sketchy to begin with. No doubt they expensed it at $400 anyway for the tax benefits, the jerks.

it's 2016 with all the paperwork. not interested in drinking it and couldn't figure out how to sell booze in the US so i'll take whatever i get when i'm home in the UK for xmas.

fuck up some commas

"this guy fucks" is a thing I constantly want to exclaim and never, ever do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8sCCf82Nf8

lmao jared

lololl

even though it's a ludicrous show it's one of my favourites ever