Silicon Valley
2014 - 2019
A shy software developer, who invented a music app, struggles to navigate the tech industry and build his business with the help of a ragtag group of computer geeks.
- Stars: Todd Middleditch, TJ Miller, Josh Brener, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Crew, Zach Woods, Matt Ross, Jimmy O. Yang, Suzanne Cryer, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ping Wu
- Created by: John Altschuler, Mike Judge, Dave Krinsky
- Tags: workplace
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Season 2
- Focus Group: Episode 6, "Homicide" (2015). Gavin Belson holds a focus group to test the new Nucleus-powered phone, and they all tell him that it's "stupid" and "pisses" them "off."
Season 3
- Focus Group: Episode 9, "Daily Active Users" (2016). Monica organizes a focus group to figure why Pied Piper doesn't have very many active users, and they all hate it because the UI is too difficult to figure out.
Season 4
- Focus Group: Episode 2, "Terms of Service" (2017). Gavin Belson executes a hostile takeover of "Piper Chat" only to find that most of its users are minors who never agreed to any terms of service, and he could be liable for hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. Meanwhile, he's organized a focus group with some of the users about switching to a Hooli login, and they all end being minors who hate the idea.
- Common Enemy: Episode 3, "Intellectual Property" (2017). Dinesh has a date with a woman named Mia, who knows Gilfoyle from a hacker forum. They go out to dinner, and the conversation is lacking, until Dinesh gets a text from Gilfoyle and calls him a "prick." That sparks a lively conversation about how much Gilfoyle sucks and ends with them spending the night together.
Season 5
- See You in Court: Episode 2, "Reorientation" (2018). Jian Yang goes to court to try to have Erlich declared dead so he can take over the house, and he brings a bucket of cremated pig as evidence, but the judge tells him he'll have to pay Erlich's past due bills, he's not so sure he wants to go through with it.
- Ashes to Ashes: Episode 3, "Chief Operating Office" (2018). Jian Yang cremates a giant pig and puts the ashes in a bucket so he can pretend they're Erlich's remains and steal his house, and afterwards, he uses it as an ashtray.