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Originally Posted by nunnehi
From watching the behind the scenes stuff I saw, it doesn't really look like a parody, unless the makers of the behind the scenes stuff were just really bad at their job. It kind of seems like it might be a serious show with funny stuff in it.
Have you watched the trailer? Definite piss-take.
I haven't seen the making of, but maybe they were pushing the whole 'we don't even need to exaggerate the reality' angle, a la
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Rarely has a show had to do so little to find so much to mock. The series opens with a group of nerdy techies attending the massive soiree of a newly minted multimillionaire. Kid Rock performs as no one listens, and then the host climbs onstage and shrieks, “We’re making the world a better place … through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility.”* Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, agreed to appear in this scene because, he said, “I’ve been to that party.”