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Silicon Valley
S1.E8
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  • Episode aired Jun 1, 2014
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  • 29m
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Pied Piper makes it to the next stage of Disrupt but runs into trouble with Hooli's presentation. The guys break out into a ridiculous argument and Richard tries to pull Pied Piper together ... Read allPied Piper makes it to the next stage of Disrupt but runs into trouble with Hooli's presentation. The guys break out into a ridiculous argument and Richard tries to pull Pied Piper together before the big presentation.Pied Piper makes it to the next stage of Disrupt but runs into trouble with Hooli's presentation. The guys break out into a ridiculous argument and Richard tries to pull Pied Piper together before the big presentation.

  • Director
    • Mike Judge
  • Writers
    • Alec Berg
    • Mike Judge
    • John Altschuler
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    • Thomas Middleditch
    • T.J. Miller
    • Josh Brener
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  • IMDb RATING
    9.3/10
    4.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mike Judge
    • Writers
      • Alec Berg
      • Mike Judge
      • John Altschuler
    • Stars
      • Thomas Middleditch
      • T.J. Miller
      • Josh Brener
    • 4User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Thomas Middleditch
    Thomas Middleditch
    • Richard Hendricks
    T.J. Miller
    T.J. Miller
    • Erlich Bachman
    Josh Brener
    Josh Brener
    • Nelson 'Big Head' Bighetti
    Martin Starr
    Martin Starr
    • Bertram Gilfoyle
    Kumail Nanjiani
    Kumail Nanjiani
    • Dinesh Chugtai
    Christopher Evan Welch
    Christopher Evan Welch
    • Peter Gregory
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    Amanda Crew
    Amanda Crew
    • Monica Hall
    Zach Woods
    Zach Woods
    • Donald 'Jared' Dunn
    Asif Ali
    Asif Ali
    Jessica Chaffin
    Jessica Chaffin
    David Fabrizio
    David Fabrizio
    David Goldman
    David Goldman
    • Andy Stafford
    Chase Kim
    Chase Kim
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    Ben Zelevansky
    Ben Zelevansky
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    Michael Arrington
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    Andy Buckley
    Andy Buckley
    • Carl Fleming
    Andrew Burlinson
    Andrew Burlinson
    • Nathan Gallagher
    • Director
      • Mike Judge
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    10GarethPeterW

    Outstandingly Hilarious

    Some have hypothesised that the entire first season of this show exists as build up for this episode's famous scene and there is a good chance that they're right. There isn't a single piece of constructive criticism I could offer to improve this episode; it's just that good. This deserves every star I've given it.

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      Both Zach Woods and Andy Buckley were on The Office.
    • Quotes

      Erlich: Yeah, we're gonna win even if I have to go into the auditorium and personally jerk off every guy in the audience.

      Jared: That's a lot of jerking.

      Gilfoyle: And we only have ten minutes to present. So...

      Richard: So, we're fucked, aren't we?

      Dinesh: Yeah, even if he's jerking two at a time, there are, what, 800 guys in that room? So that's 400 times whatever the mean jerk-time is.

      Jared: The what?

      Dinesh: Mean jerk-time. I mean, it doesn't matter, but, hypothetically, time is equal to 400 total jerks at a two-dick rate.

      Gilfoyle: Unless Erlich jerks off four guys at a time, and then we can cut that in half.

      Dinesh: How would he do four guys...? He's got two hands, so that's two dicks at a time, right?

      Gilfoyle: Look, you have two guys on either side with their dicks, tip to tip, so you're going full-length. Four, see?

      Jared: Oh... From the middle out. That does make sense.

      Gilfoyle: Like two Shake Weights.

      Dinesh: Yeah, so what we're trying to do, hypothetically, is minimize which is 800 dudes, multiplied by mean-jerk time, divided by four dicks at a time. Of course, Erlich would have to pre-sort guys by height, so that their dicks lined up.

      Gilfoyle: Not by height, technically. The measurement that we're looking for, really, is dick to floor. Call that D2F.

      Erlich: You know, if a guy's dick was long enough, it would be able to reach up or down to another guy with a different D2F. The longer the dick, the greater the D2F bridge, but I would still be able to jerk it off in one smooth motion... I'd just have to jerk it on an angle.

      Gilfoyle: So D2F sub-1 needs to equal D2F sub-2, and D2F sub-3 needs to equal D2F sub-4, where length L creates a complimentary shaft angle. Call that theta D. Now, the orgasm threshold... as a function of Lamda sub...

      Jared: Guys, does girth-similarity affect Erlich's ability to jerk different dicks simultaneously?

      Erlich: Shit. Yeah, I think it would.

      Erlich: Of course, it does. Time to orgasm, or T2O, has to be the same for each matching pair of dicks otherwise I'm wasting a lot of great strokes on a guy that's already busted.

      Gilfoyle: Unless you can hotswap dicks in and out. So on a downstroke, you get a new one in. So when you stroke up you're not wasting any energy.

      Dinesh: Even so. I think this is the most reliable metric for stamina.

      [after the TechCrunch Disrupt]

      Erlich: Let me ask you something. How fast do you think you could jack off every guy in this room? 'Cause I know how long it would take me. And I can prove it.

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      • June 1, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Production companies
      • 3 Arts Entertainment
      • Altschuler Krinsky Works
      • Judgemental Films Inc.
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