Copy & Pastry
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Copy & Pastry is an original comic web series
produced by Two Trick Pony Productions. Copy & Pastry follows two roommates who decide to start an online pastry delivery service out of their home kitchen in Berkeley, CA. The first season, consisting of 7 episodes, debuted in November 2009.
web series
follows fictional roommates Tory and Scott whose 'ambitions outpace their resources' in their quixotic attempt to build an online pastry delivery service out of their home apartment. In order to succeed the pair must negotiate the bureaucracy
of municipal government
; limited funding; nosebleeds
; fickle customers; a brush with the biggest star on public-access television
cable TV; broken hearts; and a proposed corporate takeover.
According to the Eastbay Express, which reviewed the series in its January 6 edition, 'The whole thing would make for a perfect TV show.' The website alterna-tv.com, which reviews television and new media, said of the show: "Despite a proliferation of original webseries sprouting up on the Internet, it is still somewhat of a rarity to find one produced by truly independent industry outsides that is also well-written, well-acted, polished and entertaining... The writing, for instance, is as tight and funny as anything on television—let alone the Internet..." PopCultureMonster.com said the show was "fresh (pun intended)... and [...] filled with both jokes and a lovely bit of slap-stick." and that the actors were "very funny, awkward and awfully adorkable"
"[McCabe & Stanton] have cobbled together an impressive series out of a few thousand, good writing and a few twenty-something comedians..." writes Doniphan Blair in Cinesource Magazine.
The self-financed series was directed JK Pincosy and shot by Justin Potter. Luca Young composed the original score and Alex Bello mixed the episodes.
Copy & Pastry was also picked up by the web television network [Koldcast.tv] with the first episode premiering on the network March 3.
Web series
A web series is a series of episodes released on the Internet or also by mobile or cellular phone, and part of the newly emerging medium called web television. A single instance of a web series program is called an episode .While the popularity of web series is continuing to rise, the concept...
produced by Two Trick Pony Productions. Copy & Pastry follows two roommates who decide to start an online pastry delivery service out of their home kitchen in Berkeley, CA. The first season, consisting of 7 episodes, debuted in November 2009.
About
Copy & Pastry was created by Tory Stanton and Scott McCabe, who also wrote and produced each of the 7 episodes. The comedyComedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
web series
Web series
A web series is a series of episodes released on the Internet or also by mobile or cellular phone, and part of the newly emerging medium called web television. A single instance of a web series program is called an episode .While the popularity of web series is continuing to rise, the concept...
follows fictional roommates Tory and Scott whose 'ambitions outpace their resources' in their quixotic attempt to build an online pastry delivery service out of their home apartment. In order to succeed the pair must negotiate the bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
A bureaucracy is an organization of non-elected officials of a governmental or organization who implement the rules, laws, and functions of their institution, and are occasionally characterized by officialism and red tape.-Weberian bureaucracy:...
of municipal government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
; limited funding; nosebleeds
Nosebleeds
Nosebleeds may refer to:* Multiple occurrences of Epistaxis * Nosebleed section, the highest seats of a public arena* Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds aka The Nosebleeds, a British punk rock band of the 1970s...
; fickle customers; a brush with the biggest star on public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
cable TV; broken hearts; and a proposed corporate takeover.
According to the Eastbay Express, which reviewed the series in its January 6 edition, 'The whole thing would make for a perfect TV show.' The website alterna-tv.com, which reviews television and new media, said of the show: "Despite a proliferation of original webseries sprouting up on the Internet, it is still somewhat of a rarity to find one produced by truly independent industry outsides that is also well-written, well-acted, polished and entertaining... The writing, for instance, is as tight and funny as anything on television—let alone the Internet..." PopCultureMonster.com said the show was "fresh (pun intended)... and [...] filled with both jokes and a lovely bit of slap-stick." and that the actors were "very funny, awkward and awfully adorkable"
"[McCabe & Stanton] have cobbled together an impressive series out of a few thousand, good writing and a few twenty-something comedians..." writes Doniphan Blair in Cinesource Magazine.
The self-financed series was directed JK Pincosy and shot by Justin Potter. Luca Young composed the original score and Alex Bello mixed the episodes.
Copy & Pastry was also picked up by the web television network [Koldcast.tv] with the first episode premiering on the network March 3.
Episodes
- the one where a business gets started
- the one where the recently started business tries to attract customers
- the one where the business started not so long ago, now having a customer, discovers the benefits of having an employee
- the one where the still relatively young business, now having customers and an employee, gets sidetracked
- the one where the business that has been open for a while now, having skirted homicide charges, with a handful of customers and en employee, makes a special delivery
- the one where the slowly maturing business started five episodes ago, having built a perfectly solid foundation and harboring a deep reservoir of untapped potential, and with, let's be clear, no formal denominational affiliation, receives a thorough probing
- the one where
Cast
| ACTOR | ROLE |
|---|---|
| Tory Stanton | Tory |
| Scott McCabe | Scott |
| Casi Maggio | Penelope Nicholls |
| David Weise | Lesley Lindsay |
| Rana Weber | Patty Plumbopple |
| Matt Gunnison | Health Inspector Vick |
| Dick Kellogg | Businessman Rodney |
| Nathaniel G. Fuller | Peter Plumbopple |
| Lee Stoneman | Terry |
| Melanie Case | Clarice |
| Jai Sahai | Ryan |