Mike Judge's Silicon Valley Seizoen 1 is nu verkrijgbaar in fysieke en digitale vorm. Deze show is een typische Eigenwereld.nl serie want het gaat over ons soort mensen, en heeft een shitload aan inside jokes die geen mens snapt buiten ICT en computers. Zo ook de aftrek grap uit seizoen 1, want dit is een verwijzing naar algoritmes, wiskunde en als je geen programmeur bent zal dit wat vreemd overkomen op je. Ook de cast had er wat moeite mee en dat vertellen ze in dit interview.

KUMAIL NANJIANI (Dinesh): When I first read that joke - we did a table read for it - and right there, it was awesome. It did really well at the table read. The HBO execs were there, and it just felt like something pretty special and something I hadn't seen before.

MIKE JUDGE (Creator/Executive Producer): We wanted to have a moment like in A Beautiful Mind, where there's this epiphany based on a real life thing, which is something that's more silly, and it wound up being a dick joke.

ZACH WOODS (Jared Dunn): I immediately wrote a letter to HBO because my feeling is that there are things to be joked about and things not to be joked about. And I think sex - and dicks in particular - are not a joking matter. So, I protested pretty aggressively. But they insisted that I participated [...] No, that's not true! That's not true! I'd be the biggest asshole. I loved it.

JUDGE: HBO was really happy. It's almost the opposite of a regular network. Here, we don't have any nudity, any love scenes. Finally, at least, there's a long dick joke. It was almost this concern that we're not nasty enough in the show to make it an edgy pay cable show.

ALEC BERG (Executive Producer/Writer): There is no nudity on our show. Nobody's having sex. There's more sex in one scene of Game of Thrones then there will be in five seasons of our show.

T.J. MILLER (Erlich Bachmann): I thought it was likely going to be the greatest joke in the history of American comedy. That was ambitious, but eventually, we came to find out that it was the greatest dick joke in the history of American, French, British and Sri Lankan comedy.

WOODS: I thought it was brilliant and encapsulated so much of what I liked about the writing up until that point in the season, which is that it was the smartest dumb thing and the dumbest smart thing. And also it was emotionally realistic in a way.

NANJIANI: What was cool about it is it worked in so many ways. It was a hilarious joke, but it is also a big moment in the season for the story. It's funny, but also it's a pretty important plot point and turning point for the emotionality of the Richard character.