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

most exciting file download ever

first legit funny ep i thought

hopeful for next season now that this one is out of the way.

I thought the hand job efficiency calculating was very funny!

yeah that was a really funny ep top to bottom

the calculation stuff was cracking me up

also Jared crowdsourcing his "pivot" ideas was hilarious

yeah that was definitely the best episode yet, though it made the tacked-on romance thing seem even more superfluous than before somehow

I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.

Woah

yeah he'll be missed

idg what made this episode different from those that preceded it for you guys. seemed like more of the same to me (which is fine). Erlich consistently the funniest imo

I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.

It is another case of a relatively young 9/11 first responder succumbing to the asbestos exposure of that day, it seems like they are dropping like flies. I have had plenty of that shit myself but nothing compared to that day in one dose.

idk anything else that that eldrich guy is in but I recently saw a pretty great thing on youtube where he does a moth-like standup thing and tells a story about getting part of his brain removed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduZLSyCU6s

tj miller is a weird funny motherfucker

his podcast is bizarre & funny if you're in the right mood for stonertalk

I enjoyed the Kara Swisher cameo in the finale. Homegirl is pretty short!

Will Sam Biddle be in season tiddle

So good.

hotswap dicks in and out

the absolute commitment to the question on its own terms (populated by dick diagrams) and the lengths to which they took it really made the bit incredibly funny

when they got to "hot swapping dicks" i was in love, i lold so hard

Watched the first half of the season (eps 1-5) last night. So good.

it gets better as it goes along imo

Prob better here than the LOLZ thread: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/silicon-valley-dick-joke-oral-history/

4 more days!

gonna miss my favorite character :(

It's funny that consultant is anonymous despite his name being all over the internet associated with this joke.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/kumailsiliconvalleydickjoke22-thumb-550x309-113200.gif?w=650&h=365

lol

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586678680576925696

loooool wtf

lol, kumail should be fucking with them hard about this

Patton Oswalt has the biggest grin right about now.

ah well he took the high ground
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/silicon-valley-star-calls-salon-787889

ugh a lot of people I normally like are being stupid on twitter about this

worst part of the original flub was def the use of "in fact." ouuuch

could not stop loling at the name "Stern Taylor"

http://i.imgur.com/FUhsvbS.png
http://i.imgur.com/74b1qQA.png

so this dealt with the peter gregory/christopher evan welch-sized elephant in the room really well - the bizarro monologue explaining his death was utterly hilarious

yeah i loved that

I wonder how much of the season they'd shot and how much of it they had to overhaul and rewrite/reshoot

I think he'd already died while they were shooting the end of last season.

I read somewhere that he'd filmed 5 episodes of the new season though

Pretty sure it was that he'd filmed the 5 episodes of the first season. That's why you never saw him later in S1.

yeah, that's right.

i believe he was dead before they started airing the show.

"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do" was perfect

this episode was written by clay tarver, the guitarist from Chavez(!) he also co-wrote 'joy ride' with jj abrams, what a world, what a country

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-worth-2-8-billion-a-conversation-with-stewart-butterfield

Erlich Bachman really is one of the best comedy character creations in TV in a long, long time.

I can't get enough depictions of horrificly awkward tech parties. Kid Rock last series and the SF Giants ballpark this time - so cringey

Do any of you guys ~do~ tech? Is it really this embarrassing? Bcz Gawker says yes.

I'm only peripherally aware of it (living where I do) but afaict, yes

I have witnessed some pretty ridiculous parties and listened to some insanely ridiculous rhetoric/speechifying

Having been through a few hardware startups, I think my experience hasn't been as nuts as these pure software companies, but it's still pretty ridiculous.

a+ cliffhanger