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It was the yogurt scene that did it for me. When one of the main characters yells at the other about how all the small spoons are missing, and he can't get the
by komali2 8y ago
It was the yogurt scene that did it for me. When one of the main characters yells at the other about how all the small spoons are missing, and he can't get the big spoons into the greek yogurt jam section.
Not only did I have that exact same conversation with my coworker the day previously about the exact brand of yogurt, on post-analysis we're pretty sure our company has stocked the exact same spoons they used in the show.
- revscat 8y agoFor me, it was the episode where they were doing agile development complete with story cards. I had been in so many of those exact same meetings. It was hysterical but also... refreshing? Someone got it, the ridiculousness of it all wrapped up in earnest desire to implement A Better Process.
- 11thEarlOfMar 8y agoYup. After we had broken out the first Scrum project, my HR Manager came by specifically to tell me he had learned all about Scrum watching Silicon Valley.
- lupire 8y agoBut the joke on the show is that Jared is the only person who actually level-headed enough to succeed at a business goal, but the developers just made everything into a joke and a pissing contest, and still let themselves be manipulated by the system they thought was too dumb for them. When the company literally falls off the back of a truck in a later season, another character says "This wouldn't have happened if Jared were still here."
- hindsightbias 8y agoIn Austin, my coworkers would always stop at lunch and look if Mike Judge was nearby. We were convinced he just followed us around for Office Space and King of the Hill material.
- tootie 8y agoMike Judge is just an absolute artistic genius. Even though it's all light-hearted pop culture, the breadth of his work is just so amazing.
- Fricken 8y agoAll of his work is about middle class suburban white people, and their lives. There's nothing wrong with that, 'write what you know', but 'breadth' isn't really the term to describe it.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoBeavis and Butthead?
- jacobush 8y agoHehe
- pimeys 8y agoHis new series Tales From The Tour Bus, telling stories about musicians doing drugs and/or being kind of assholes is absolutely hilarious too. I love all of his stuff, King of the Hill especially.
- freehunter 8y agoRace and class demographics are not the only dimensions to a show. A working class conservative family in the suburbs of Dallas is pretty different from the high tech and high paid world of Silicon Valley is different from uneducated teenage slackers giggling at poop jokes. What Bevis does/thinks/likes versus what Hank does/thinks/likes versus what Richard does/thinks/likes could not be farther from each other. Just because they're all white doesn't mean they're all interchangeable.
- Fricken 8y ago