That speech combined with the reveal that they hired all the same people back was comedy gold. This show is the best thing on TV right now.
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Silicon Valley - Season 3 of the hilarious Mike Judge comedy series - HBO Sundays
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That speech combined with the reveal that they hired all the same people back was comedy gold. This show is the best thing on TV right now.
Later Alligator
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this guy fucks
SouSouRocket
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Omg, you're so right! Hahahaha.
God I am so much happier with this turn of events right now though I'm sure in true Silicon Valley fashion everything will be fucked all over again next week lol.
Fenderputty
Banned
"does he really not recognize us?"
"How long did you work here?"
"Seven Years, I invited him to my wedding"
This last episode was amazing. Erlich coughing was amazing too.
DorkLord54
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Dang's bio in the site is a thing of beauty
Is it sad that I get the "first name" joke?
He's a completely amazing character. I still can't get over how his name is not even Jared lol
And that "I pretend I'm my skeleton and my body is my home, so I'm always home!" sums him up so well.
I always thought hooli was Microsoft
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Considering the amount of defunct programs and R&D, I'd agree. Maybe a fusion of Microsoft and Google.
It's also find it endearing how Big Head keeps failing up.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'd say it's Google, or a more disfunctional version of it for the purposes of comedy. All the jokes are aimed squarely at it. Their search results. Their voice search. Their plucking from new age concepts (like how Google employees go to burning man). And it's in the Bay Area (Microsoft is Redmond)
Google has its own "messes" too. Buying companies then shutting them down 2 years later. Google Plus, etc.
^ and yeah, could be a fusion. It's just a stand in for "big tech company" anyway. There are even hints of Apple.
Especially with the statement Belson made when he said Hooli was too focused on the inward. Its such a Microsoft thing to do
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
It's scary how accurate this show is lol
Has Mike judge quietly built up an all time great comedy resume? I mean how many bad movies/tv shows has he made? Seems like everything he's done has been funny.
Has Mike judge quietly built up an all time great comedy resume? I mean how many bad movies/tv shows has he made? Seems like everything he's done has been funny.
Same, I always picture Microsoft as the real world analogy
Baldwin_the_First
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" I'm Dang. "
" Hmdang? "
So stupid but I laughed so hard. Middleditch as Richard killed it this episode.
" Hmdang? "
So stupid but I laughed so hard. Middleditch as Richard killed it this episode.
jellies_two
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or Yahoo, before they stopped trying and failing. (now they don't try at all).
What I most love is those moments that stick it up the current tech shitscape we all live in. Like in this episode the full screen advert obscuring the page. "Gavin: you'll be able to skip it in 5 seconds" .. "Richard: uh, no this is one of those unskippable ones". and earlier the hologram chat with bighead that was buggy.
Rentahamster
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Is there an obscure reference buried in there?
Name, location, search engine, advertising... yea. It is definitely a Google parody, of course with some other things mixed in
Also, Google has actually done that "unassigned" thing that happened to Bighead lol.
Robot Pants
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Ok I'm back on board now. Not sure why I felt the way I did about the last episode, I even went back and watched it and was totally fine with it. Must have been my mood or something. Anyway, this episode was awesome especially erlich coughing
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Would be hilarious if Endframe gets corrupted by Hooli's business culture. They have the framework but Hooli just cant get out of its own way.
DorkLord54
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Read the part as to why he uses his first name only, and read the names.
And yeah, when I think of Hooli, I think of Google. While it has had plenty of plunders, past and present, Microsoft doesn't really fit the image since it's definitely the most conventionally and openly corporate of the big tech companies, from how it presents itself to its internal culture, and, as said before, it's based out of the Seattle area.
Explain
Haha that's awesome... yea, it's google
uncelestial
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They're a fictional/more evil Google. There's no one else they could be. (Saying that as a Google employee working in Silicon Valley.)
They are a search engine company located in Silicon Valley.
Microsoft is up in Washington State. Yahoo is not nearly as dominant. It's Google. Name makes it pretty clear.
There was that series he did a while back skewering hippies that was pretty underwhelming but other than that I think his batting average is amazing.
Oh god yes, this has to happen. Jared taking back his apartment and Jack getting hired by and inadvertently destroying Hooli from the inside would be two great things to see in this show.
the show makes it clear that the search engine and Hooli itself is a big deal in tech.
DorkLord54
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Seeing your avatar, I don't think I have to talk about Ernesto, Moby's full name is Richard Melville Hall (hence his stage name), and Cher is a shortening of her first name, Cherilyn, not her actual first name.
Rentahamster
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I sure hope so. He still has to shove Richard up the asses of all those other VCs who didn't fund him in the beginning.
Spiral Insanity
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RatskyWatsky
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Best episode of the season.
Same. That was great.
I thought his constant coughing was really annoying too.
Same. That was great.
I thought his constant coughing was really annoying too.
Big Head's story seems made to give TJ Miller stuff to do, so I don't expect to see him involved with Pied Piper anytime soon, as at that point they'd need to invent another B plot for Erlich to go mess around in all episode because they clearly aren't going to fold him into the main plot very much.
exmachina64
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With Bighead's track record, he'd make it the most successful tech company.
I can see it going to Monica, but that would be a bit boring.
I don't always enjoy asians names being butt of jokes, feels a bit lazy but Dang isn't quite as bad as Dong in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
lucebuce12
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Even when they started calling Dong, Richard.
And the short form/nickname for Richard is Dick.
and Dick means Penis.
and Dong means Penis.
I'm so ready for Jared as CEO and smashing it correctly.
bodyboarder
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That's what I hope.
Yeah, Hooli takes elements from most other companies. The Search from Google and the shitty phone likely from Blackberry/Microsoft.
I can't believe I forgot that "Jared" is not even his real first name... it's
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