In Episode 3 Jason invites the gang to watch Purdue football. They constantly call it "sportsball" and then when Jason goes to the bathroom they turn on their favorite Twitch streamer playing Fortnite. Jason returns and is flummoxed on how anyone could enjoy watching someone play video games and is also flummoxed that he is unable to figure out how to change the channel back to football.
As showrunner, I’m going to force a few key creative changes starting with renaming Jason to Ray. That way we can title our show Gen X Ray…get it? The premise being a Gen Xer socially navigating his apartment tower full of constantly online and vaping Millennials and Zoomers.
Episode 4 - Birdwatching:
When their apartment tower’s Central AC goes down during the dog days of summer the gang ventures outside their apartments to cool off. Unshaven Ray, wearing a Grateful Dead shirt, passes the time on the roof viewing through binoculars a few sunbathers lazing in the grass of the park overlooked by their apartment tower. When purple-haired, nose-ringed Kayla runs into Ray on the roof he eases her suspicions by declaring himself a “fair-trade birdwatching hobbyist.” Kayla, impressed and motivated to “unify with nature” after recently “following” the National Audubon Society’s social media accounts, eagerly wants to learn birding from Ray once she can return with her own binoculars.
Faced with having to properly identify a few birds [insert Hooters joke here, live audience predictably laughs] so Kayla doesn’t out him as a creeper, Ray enlists the help of another millennial down the hall named Nikoliss (as alternatively spelled by his “New Age” parents). In laboring to relate to Nikoliss, an avowed e-boy, Ray must relearn with each episode sensitivity toward the latest condition ailing poor Nikoliss – peanut allergy, vaping induced popcorn lung, self-diagnosed ADHD, “gifted child” relapsed of his gifts?
Bribing Nikoliss to the roof with a case of Monster Energy drinks [shameless product placement], Ray hands Nikoliss his extra pair of binoculars and tasks him with assigning “sciency” sounding names to different birds he locates. This way Ray can relay the info when later teaching Kayla. But as Nikoliss is using Ray’s binoculars a false lens pops open and spills old liquor over his face.
“Those are what I used to smuggle Dewars into Purdue football student section!” Ray exclaims.
“O-M-G! W-T-F! F-M-L! A-S-S!” Nikoliss reacts.
Nikoliss, E-boy, Apartment #907:
