…but David Cross and Bob Odenkirk aren’t around to keep the geeks from running the asylum.
And I’m not just talking your garden-variety, ordinary geeks.
No, sir, these are full-on Super Nerds.
This was a failed pilot for Comedy Central, starring Patton Oswalt…
…and Brian Posehn.
The former works at a comic book store, and the latter is his buddy who just hangs out there and reads comics. In this, the pilot, we meet the owner of the store – a Russian, played by John Ennis – and we also witness Patton’s character meet up with a girl who went to high school with him…and who has a crush on him. You’d like to think it’s an alternative universe, since the girl is played by Sarah Silverman…but if she’ll fall for Jimmy Kimmel, you can just about buy that she’d fall for Patton Oswalt.
Anyway, long story short, this is a geek’s paradise and incredibly accurate in its representation of uber-geeks (and, believe me, I know of what I speak; only now that I’m married and have a child can I comfortably admit to having attended a comic / sci-fi convention in my time)…but in no way will you be surprised that didn’t get picked up as a regular series. Not when Patton is uttering put-downs like, “You Jar-Jar loving buttnut!” (Actually, that IS kind of funny…)
Still, they could’ve put it on Friday or Saturday nights. Its target audience would invariably have been home to watch it.
