"Office Space" creator Mike Judge shooting new HBO parody of Silicon Valley

&#62; "<i>Silicon Valley</i> is set in the high tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success."<p>This could work.

Mike Judge and the other writers stopped by our offices at Tout.com (startup in SF) and were asking us about startups and being a developer. We told them about meetups and open source stuff. Probably won't affect the show, but it was fun talking to them and seeing they were really into it.<p>Here's him asking about ruby: <a href="http://www.tout.com/m/t0x6dh" rel="nofollow">http://www.tout.com/m/t0x6dh</a><p>judge drawing on one of our desks: <a href="http://www.tout.com/m/q8ppc1" rel="nofollow">http://www.tout.com/m/q8ppc1</a><p>here's the full stream: <a href="http://www.tout.com/hashtags/MikeJudgeToutHQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.tout.com/hashtags/MikeJudgeToutHQ</a>

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend Judge's 2009 movie 'Extract' with Jason Bateman of Arrested Development.<p>It sort of inverts the Office Space formula and shows the sometimes taxing, even soul-crushing nature of entrepreneurship.<p>It seems to follow the pattern of Office Space and Idiocracy in being panned by critics and ignored by audiences at first, and then quickly developing a cult following and being recognized as pretty brilliant.

Athough Mike Judge's projects haven't always been a commercial success, everything he's been involved in has been damn entertaining. I'm really excited to see how this turns out.

He has to track down the person who originally came up with the status code "PC LOAD LETTER" and give them a cameo.<p>He <i>has</i> to.

This sounds amazing and 80% of the comments in this thread just sound bitter.

This reminded me of the Vooza webseries [1]. Some of their skits are corny, but I think they show that there is potential for a good startup oriented series.<p>[1] <a href="http://vooza.com/" rel="nofollow">http://vooza.com/</a>

I expect it would be more realistic than Randy Zuckerberg's show.

I hope this gets past a pilot episode.

This reminds me of the "Office" episode where "Wuphf" is a Silicon Valley startup spoof. In Ryan's "profit" projections[1] he's asked about his plan for revenue, and he replies:<p><i>"First rule of Silicon Valley, you think about the user, the experience. You don't think about the money, ever."</i><p>[1] <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wmzwXd31Rw8/UI6hLHjRvnI/AAAAAAAACKY/ko9368dGnx0/s1600/wuphf-profit-projections-edit.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wmzwXd31Rw8/UI6hLHjRvnI/AAAAAAAACK...</a>

I would be beyond content if this was nothing more than 30 minutes of the Start-up Guys [1] with Mike Judge creating buzzword fusion words for company names. [1] <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-start-up-guys" rel="nofollow">http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta...</a>

He made the Goode Family, which was short-lived but from most accounts, terrible. Hopefully he'd be able to grasp SV culture as much as he did in Office Space, and not miss it by going after typical caricatures of San Francisco.

Wow. That's great. There is a Santa. :) Can't wait.

It's all over now. SV can only become a parody of itself.

I'm confused, isn't Bravo already airing a parody of Silicon Valley?

Any idea when this might air?

oh my. this has the potential to be soo great.

"fuckin' a"

He also made Beavis and Butt-head, which is just as classic compared to Office Space IMO.

They should get Ashton Kutcher involved in this, he's one of the few actors who has actual real-life involvement in Silicon Valley (he's already doing the SJ biopic).