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[RoyaleDuke]

Incredible episode, the ending had me in stitches which honestly with the day I'd been having, was great.

I am stealing that Ehrlich insult though,

Spoiler

Trigger Warning: fuck you!

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

Trigger warning: fuck you!

His delivery of that line fucking slayed me

 

[Cornballer]

https://itunes.apple.com/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521

- Silicon Valley: Season 4 Episode 4: Bloomberg Clip

 

[blame space]

Man this was a good episode.

 

[Conor_Fool]

So what are the chances of Jared actually killing someone by the end of this season?

Starting to think we may hear about an unsolved murder or two.

The Jared knife scene and Jian Yang "Got it from your mon" were def my favorite parts of the ep.

 

[Fuzzy]

The app and that interview are both hilarious.

 

[TheAbsolution]

Jared with that butter knife though, holy shit that killed me.

 

[Slacker]

LOL loved it as always. Loved Jared worrying Richard with the knife, then finding out he wasn't even buttering the bread for himself, but for Richard.

I hope Jian-Yang didn't make enough money to leave the house. I need him torturing Erlich for as long as possible.

 

[reelbigtink]

Bighead congratulating his students who stole the See Food app idea made me laugh pretty good too

 

[Dan]

Jian-Yang stumbling into a technology to detect dick pics was amusing.

I don't really know how Shazam for food becomes a useful app, but it was amusing to have the Stanford students get at least something vaguely valuable out of that class.

I hope Jian-Yang didn't make enough money to leave the house. I need him torturing Erlich for as long as possible.

He should keep living there just because he can.

 

[Laieon]

I hope Jian-Yang didn't make enough money to leave the house. I need him torturing Erlich for as long as possible.

He buys the house.

 

[jkanownik]

Holy shit that episode was hilarious.

 

[dead souls]

His delivery of that line fucking slayed me

Yep. That was a god tier line reading.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Bighead congratulating his students who stole the See Food app idea made me laugh pretty good too

Big Head does so much with so little, when he turned to the girl in class and said it was okay she was on her phone because it has technology in it too sincerely was hilarious.

The increased screen time for Jian Yang this season has been great.

Poor Dinesh can never have nice things for too long.

 

[MGrant]

Fucking Jared stealing the show again. His elaborations on the kind of murder he'd commit for Richard, that psychotic laugh, all gold.

 

[Dereck]

"Oh, just 3 months of runway driven off by 90 pounds of asshole"

"Spoken by a 280 pound pile of shit"

 

[firehawk12]

Richard is going to get fucked so hard. It's like he learned nothing from last season. lol

 

[Arkeband]

Definitely ran around my house last night seeing if household items were secretly hotdogs.

 

[Jack Scofield]

Erlich yelling "JIAN YANG!" will never get old.

 

[Cornballer]

Special bonus from last week:

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

that last one omg. did you make that because i'm about to post that

 

[blame space]

Jared is the best.

 

[Ogodei]

Finally a return-to-form episode that brings back the laughs.

Also feels like they're accelerating the pace of the plot compared to previous seasons, or i'm just remembering them differently. Multiple twists and turns per episode now.

Dinesh getting a "good" job (looking at dicks all day, but good in terms of salary/benefits/prestige) seems like what the showrunners meant when they'd have more success this season: it's a win, but a win that still makes him eat some shit.

 

[Cornballer]

that last one omg. did you make that because i'm about to post that

It's not mine! I'm pretty sure this is the original source. He also makes gifs, so he probably posted it in a couple formats.

 

[tauroxd]

- Silicon Valley: Season 4 Episode 4: Bloomberg Clip

I'm actually laughing out loud at this!

 

[Ashhong]

- Silicon Valley: Season 4 Episode 4: Bloomberg Clip

Jesus Christ this is so funny. I love how he calls him Erik. And Emily Chang is beautiful goddamn

 

[nampad]

Man, Jian Yang is so great. Like that he finally had a great idea because his former app ideas just made him plain stupid.

The not hot dog joke at the end...

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Special bonus from last week:

Love Jared. He's the ultimate soldier.

 

[markhimself46]

"For example, last week he referred to me as 'Frankenstein's bulimic daughter.'"

Jared remains the funniest character on the show for me.

 

[Ashhong]

Man, Jian Yang is so great. Like that he finally had a great idea because his former app ideas just made him plain stupid.

The not hot dog joke at the end...

Even if he stumbled onto the idea, still hilarious lol. Love how Erlich consistently is his own worst enemy, but in a funny way, not in an annoying way like Richard

 

[Wingfan19]

Totally tried out the app at lunch today while heading to the food trucks by our office

 

[TTOOLL]

I laughed the most when they said "4 million dollars". I thought about Erlich right away and pictured him getting the news hahahahah

 

[aku:jiki]

- Silicon Valley: Season 4 Episode 4: Bloomberg Clip

"It's very important. It's hot dog, not hot dog. It's technology."

That's the best line of the season right there and it wasn't even in an episode!

 

[kris.]

- Silicon Valley: Season 4 Episode 4: Bloomberg Clip

oh my god

i love jian-yang so much

 

[reKon]

Let's all take a moment to remember one of the funniest scenes in this show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpG4bNCc7Pk

Nah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UNHn2lHXE

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I thought we'd moved on from using words like that in the 90s, never mind 2017.

Are you really that surprised? A lot of the humor in this show is lazy and regressive.

 

[Slacker]

Are you really that surprised? A lot of the humor in this show is lazy and regressive.

Maybe I'm lazy and regressive too, but can you share some examples? Got me curious.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Maybe I'm lazy and regressive too, but can you share some examples? Got me curious.

Jian Yang is a 1980s level racist caricature and the dick pic joke that concluded the episode was at the very least mildly homophobic.

 

[Slacker]

Jian Yang is a 1980s level racist caricature and the dick pic joke that concluded the episode was at the very least mildly homophobic.

I'll maybe give you Jian-Yang, but I think taking the series as a whole weakens the argument somewhat as he's becoming more fleshed-out as the story progresses.

And I don't consider myself homophobic but I wouldn't be excited to organize dick pics all day every day for a year for my job. I'm pretty sure Monica's reaction would have been similar.

 

[DongBeetle]

So is a season 5 unlikely at this point? A little late for a renewal...

 

[Shaneus]

So is a season 5 unlikely at this point? A little late for a renewal...

I'm sure that sometime during S3 it was renewed for two seasons. I could be wrong, though.

 

[Slacker]

I don't see any news out there either way. From everything I've read HBO loves the show and it's gotta be relatively cheap to produce so I wouldn't assume it's in jeopardy. The danger I guess is that costs do drift up after 4 or 5 seasons if everyone is getting raises every year so who knows.

 

[DongBeetle]

Read somewhere that Judge and Berg are dipping after this season

 

[Ashhong]

Read somewhere that Judge and Berg are dipping after this season

What?! Fuck no!!!

 

[sinkfla87]

Read somewhere that Judge and Berg are dipping after this season

That... Would kill the show for me.

 

[Dan]

Read somewhere that Judge and Berg are dipping after this season

I don't think that's accurate. Clay Tarver would be promoted to help run S5 but Judge and Berg would stay. They just also have other projects (on Cinemax and HBO, respectively) happening so Tarver would lighten their load a bit.

http://deadline.com/2017/04/silicon...o-showrunner-on-hbo-comedy-series-1202062556/

 

[Alpende]

Read somewhere that Judge and Berg are dipping after this season

Pls no.

 

[Cornballer]

I don't think that's accurate. Clay Tarver would be promoted to help run S5 but Judge and Berg would stay. They just also have other projects (on Cinemax and HBO, respectively) happening so Tarver would lighten their load a bit.

http://deadline.com/2017/04/silicon...o-showrunner-on-hbo-comedy-series-1202062556/

Yup, it makes sense that they'd transition to someone else eventually, but it would only be starting with S5. Speaking of which, they'll presumably have an announcement about Silicon Valley and Veep being renewed sometime soon. Now is a reasonable time to do it, but they'll probably wait until upfronts are done.

 

[iMax]

Yup, it makes sense that they'd transition to someone else eventually, but it would only be starting with S5. Speaking of which, they'll presumably have an announcement about Silicon Valley and Veep being renewed sometime soon. Now is a reasonable time to do it, but they'll probably wait until upfronts are done.

I'm not hugely worried. The show runner transition on Veep from Armando to David went very smoothly and a lot of the original writers have left now too, yet the show is still not missing a beat.

 

[jstevenson]

I'm not hugely worried. The show runner transition on Veep from Armando to David went very smoothly and a lot of the original writers have left now too, yet the show is still not missing a beat.

mmmm I don't know, I think this season of Veep hasn't been nearly as good as past stuff, but that's not for this thread