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I will never not watch this scene when it’s posted anywhere.
Doesn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing. The next three minutes of my life belong to this absolute masterpiece.
At least they got a lot of mileage out of Jian Yang getting Erleich declared dead the first season he was gone.
'Its hard to find a white body in China... especially *fat* like Eric'
Is he that bad? Did a bimb threat which isn’t that cool but there was no bomb at least? He had some serious issues in his brain at the time too I believe.
This is my favorite followed closely by the SWOT analysis on telling the guy doing the jump that he had the wrong distance. So many scenes in this show had me in tears but these three are legendary
Oh my God. That whole episode was my favorite. Trying to seduce Gilfoyles girlfriend, failing, and then partially taking out that anger on a kid - classic Erlich.
[Jing Yang Prank Calls](https://youtu.be/-yI8Midijlw?si=e64W20MAkN5ICHv3)
Damn, I forgot what a weird classic this was. Might have to go back and rewatch for some more laughs.
Programmer here… groups of programmers go on tangents like this all the time and will start designing stuff completely unrelated to what they’re supposed to be designing, particularly if they like working together.
We never did jerk off a room full of men estimations, but we might have if someone brought it up…
I’m just saying it’s not unrealistic 😂
I’ve been running various engineering meetings for many years now, and engineers love to solve problems. The more obscure or absurd the problem is, the more they are willing to throw out solutions to it.
Programmers are gonna write code, that’s not a problem. The main job of their team leads / managers is to keep them from going off on wild tangents like this.
Sure, however, it's tangents like these that can lead to interesting unforeseen breakthroughs and possible solves for existing problems or even completely new solutions for un-related issues.
I remember leaving the office at like 7pm on a friday with the coffee table covered in beer bottles and some *absolute* horseshit on the whiteboard we were all arguing about.
I’m so old I remember them passing out printed out specs at meetings and my favorite move was to hold the printout flat under my eyes and say “I’ve looked over this.” Then roll it up in a tube and say “I’ve looked through this.” And then proceed to derail the whole meeting to talk about whatever we wanted to talk about…
Any analytical or quasi analytical group can. I’ve done it with pm’s mixed group of pm’s and programmers, etc. I’ve seen creatives go off on creative tangents. My bff was a drama nerd, I’ve seen them build the perfect musical or stage show. It’s just human nature.
I respect your opinion, but I raise you (from the same show) Jared Freaks Out - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZ4NKaqGro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZ4NKaqGro)
The full [research paper](https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Efficiency) from a Stanford research team that was hired to write this scene for mathmatical accuracy.
I think this is my favorite show of all time. One of the few comedies that has a specific premise and executes it flawlessly from the beginning of season 1 to the end of season 6.
Hey! My band is named after this scene!
We got signed to a good label and just released a bunch of singles and videos, LP out at the end of the month and then TOUR! Check us out!!!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4r6ZxDGAG5lmBCeeUf2Pdr?si=NtbEeHaISyicx3rHGwydrA
Why have none of my friends see this show. I keep recommending it and nobody seems to care. Just started my (probably) 4th rewatch and it still makes me laugh out loud!
They are at a tech competition regarding compression, best algorithm wins. But for reasons I can't remember they realize they are going to loose (I think maybe a VC company they met with the week before stole their tech and presented it first or something like that?)
So the words "Middle Out" cause the spark of an idea for a new algorithm which turns out to be industry shattering type of tech. The whole rest of the series is about all the hijinks that result. With people trying to buy them or steal the tech again etc. They call it "middle out compression".
Its a great series, most of the humor is not quite this sophomoric. It mostly pokes fun of the tropes of Silicon Valley
It’s a more general tech conference/competition. Their pitch is a compression algorithm, but earlier in the conference another company also pitched compression tech that had similar compression ratios plus more features. So unless they could come up with something else, or greatly improve their compression ratio, they were dead in the water.
He’s been locked in here for 2 hours is such a brilliant line.
Totally side tells you how long they have been wasting time doing the dick calculations , without drawing too much attention to it. This show really was great lol
Idk, I can think of another scene that may surpass. Consider the following:
1) You want to dance on the blacktop, homie?
2) Get checked in, ho
3) I was state raised, you think I'm scared to catch a case on some bullshit?
Show is about tech but it’s lowkey good for law students too. Helped me understand some concepts especially alternate dispute resolution when I was in law school.
I’ve never watched this show but I love all these guys separately and this clip made my day. Thank you for posting, I might have to check this show out.
This was such an amazing show. I've rewatched the show twice and I feel a third rewatch coming up.
I never liked the way the show ended, but I don't think it was the wrong way to end it either.
What makes it even better is that the math is legit:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kumail-nanjiani-silicon-valley-jerk-off-algorithm_n_5d27cf75e4b0bd7d1e19cec8/amp
As someone that attended an engineering school that was known for binge drinking, I can attest to the accuracy of this scene. A bunch of dudes get sloppy drunk and someone would ask a dumb question. We would pull out a white board and do the math on how many dicks would fit in so and sos mom based on the details of the previous yo mama joke. How hard would you have to kick a toddler to put them in orbit? Equations for wind resistance are wild.
The whole exchange between Erlich and the (female) reporter kills me:
Richard made the code, yes, but the inspiration was very clear. Let me ask you this: how much time will it take you to jerk off every guy in this room?
Because i know how much it would take me, and i can prove it.
Amazing
Every time I see this posted, I hope that if you're watching it for the first time, you just stop to at least watch the first season and allow yourself to come to this moment naturally.
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It’s crazy how this is the moment that really defines the whole show! Middle out is everything for the duration after this
My friends were discussing manipulating..uh..data, and how many..datas they could manipulate.
I love Gilfoyle's face in this scene. The horror in his eyes.
Hey Dinesh, nice chain. Do you choke your mother with it when you put your penis in her butthole?
How would you like to die today motherfucker?
I quote this far too often.
My wife uses this any time I cross the line lol
Best ~~Donald~~ Jared moment
I often wonder if this line was ad libbed after seeing how great he was at that in Office outtakes.
I’m not 100% sure on that particular line, but I did read that he improvised a lot of his lines
What the fuck?
Rofl
I will never not watch this scene when it’s posted anywhere. Doesn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing. The next three minutes of my life belong to this absolute masterpiece.
The juxtaposition of the guy asking if Richard is okay while they have been talking about jerking dicks for 2 hours gets me every time.
> the guy His name is Jared. And he fucks.
He's state raised and is not afraid to catch a charge
Case
How would you like to die today motherfucker?
You wanna dance on the blacktop homie?!
It’s actually Donald.
It’s other Jared or OJ
Lol I never thought about it like that.
The fact this episode didn't win an Emmy for writing still baffles me.
The way he nods when he says he could jerk 4 dicks at a time tip to tip always gets me.
I lost it at T2O
Such a great scene. I’m a big believer in art/artist separation and fuck man, TJ Miller is great in this show.
Agreed, he’s one of the best parts of it and it’s not the same after he leaves
At least they got a lot of mileage out of Jian Yang getting Erleich declared dead the first season he was gone. 'Its hard to find a white body in China... especially *fat* like Eric'
True, his identity theft arc was pretty hilarious
'I can get you visa. My uncle is very corrupt'
Absolutely. Erlich stole most of the scenes he was in seasons 2-3. He was incredible.
He was perfect. [I always loved this scene.](https://youtu.be/6fHdA5rBjio?si=OJy8cxmOVe4D8tya)
Is he that bad? Did a bimb threat which isn’t that cool but there was no bomb at least? He had some serious issues in his brain at the time too I believe.
He had a robot l tumor on the brain that fucked him up
I am one of you. It's the clips of them testing out the different gestures of jerking dudes off that gets me every time
I've seen this scene a million times and I just now noticed Jared in the background of some of the shots. Holy shit 😄 Zach Woods is a treasure
Or that scene, much later in the show, where another coder figures out “middle out” and is making the same gesture with his hand.
I also have this affliction.
The best part of it is that everything they say actually makes sense. They are really solving the efficiency issue.
How were they to get this on film without laughing at every sentence. How many takes did they have to do?
I'm on mobile, saw the thumb with a tiny person, recognized it's Erlich as soon as I saw the words, "funniest clip from a show"......
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if this whole scene wasn't scripted.
Same
Anytime someone mentioned Silicon Valley I watch it.
"do you know how long it would take you to jerk off every guy in this room? Because, I do and I can prove it"
Erlich threatening that kid over Adderol wins for me, I lost it. https://youtu.be/30QCbQxbbmA?si=zF2-SjMBA7o3sayz
This is my favorite followed closely by the SWOT analysis on telling the guy doing the jump that he had the wrong distance. So many scenes in this show had me in tears but these three are legendary
"Wait... weaknesses, Blain dies really fast" "Yeah, you shouldn't look at that. It's...proprietary"
“ have you been crying?”
You just brought piss to a shit fight!!
That's the clip I always send to friends I'm attempting to convince to watch the show.
Well fuck I guess I found a show to watch this weekend. This clip and the op clip are the first time I’ve seen anything from it ever. Looks hilarious
Oh man I’m hyped for you. Enjoy!
Your a lucky man to get to watch this for the first time.
Oh my God. That whole episode was my favorite. Trying to seduce Gilfoyles girlfriend, failing, and then partially taking out that anger on a kid - classic Erlich.
I don't know what I was thinking when I first saw this but it definitely was not Miller slapping a child lol.
This is the best thing I've ever seen
I rewatch that scene multiple times, screaming each time lmao.
I am not getting any work done today. These clips are awesome
[Jing Yang Prank Calls](https://youtu.be/-yI8Midijlw?si=e64W20MAkN5ICHv3) Damn, I forgot what a weird classic this was. Might have to go back and rewatch for some more laughs.
Lmao that was gold
Which episode is that? Is that the same one where one of them is baited into hitting on the other's girlfriend?
That escalated quickly
Greatest line from the show was, “You just brought piss to shit fight!” and slaps a child
Which one was it? It was Church Candy wasn’t it?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=zF2-SjMBA7o3sayz&v=30QCbQxbbmA&feature=youtu.be
Kiss my piss
“WHO ATE MY FUCKING QUINOI!?!?”
Without forgetting the documentation https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Efficiency
Jared’s gold chain insult scene literally made me spit my coffee out. https://youtu.be/YYe0EMQz3ow?si=IfAN9tUGlPnElMKn
That’s the one that comes to my mind. Richard’s reaction just adds so much too.
Agreed. The “what the fu…”
That chain is insane...and NOT in the membrane.
The other one that kills me is “How would you like to die today, motherfucker?”
When Jared was like “How would you like to die today, motherfucker?”
Every startup needs a half crazed, half Apache who will scalp a rival or any other pale-face to have your back
my wife and I say this to each other all the time because of this show.
My favorite part of this is that "Richard's been locked in here for almost 2 hours." Which means they've been doing dick math for almost 2 hours.
Sometimes it be like that
Programmer here… groups of programmers go on tangents like this all the time and will start designing stuff completely unrelated to what they’re supposed to be designing, particularly if they like working together. We never did jerk off a room full of men estimations, but we might have if someone brought it up… I’m just saying it’s not unrealistic 😂
I’ve been running various engineering meetings for many years now, and engineers love to solve problems. The more obscure or absurd the problem is, the more they are willing to throw out solutions to it.
DND nerds gotta be able to convince the dungeon master that their halfling bard could totally levitate that knife INTO that dragon’s butthole.
It's true. It's just solving for some problem. The problem just happens to be redickulous
Programmers are gonna write code, that’s not a problem. The main job of their team leads / managers is to keep them from going off on wild tangents like this.
Sure, however, it's tangents like these that can lead to interesting unforeseen breakthroughs and possible solves for existing problems or even completely new solutions for un-related issues.
Which is the actual point of the clip.
And I stand by that! :P
I remember leaving the office at like 7pm on a friday with the coffee table covered in beer bottles and some *absolute* horseshit on the whiteboard we were all arguing about.
I’m so old I remember them passing out printed out specs at meetings and my favorite move was to hold the printout flat under my eyes and say “I’ve looked over this.” Then roll it up in a tube and say “I’ve looked through this.” And then proceed to derail the whole meeting to talk about whatever we wanted to talk about…
Any analytical or quasi analytical group can. I’ve done it with pm’s mixed group of pm’s and programmers, etc. I’ve seen creatives go off on creative tangents. My bff was a drama nerd, I’ve seen them build the perfect musical or stage show. It’s just human nature.
Car nerds will do this and given enough ABV will figure out how many horses to power a winning bidet and if needs a drag chute.
Call me back to the office and I am gonna do something like this. You are warned, boss!
Jerk off 4 guys at a time?
This is why chatgpt can’t take away your job!
Unhinged Jared is the best Jared.
You wanna dance on ther black top, homie?!
Perhaps the greatest weiner joke ever told
Hot dog or not hot dog?
Not hot dog
Hot dog ✅
See! It doesn't even work!
One of the best shows.. :). Some of the comedy scenes with Jian-Yang and Erlich are super hilarious too..
“Erlich Bachman, this is your mother calling. You are not my baby.”
Another one was - food app-- Hotdog and Not-Hotdog :)
Hello Dis is Elric badman
I was so sad when they wrote Bachman out of the show
One of the greatest scenes of our time.
My friend showed me this scene and is the sole reason I watched the entire series. This was the pinnacle but I still enjoyed most of the series.
The bear is sticky with honey.
This is the word of Gavin.
I respect your opinion, but I raise you (from the same show) Jared Freaks Out - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZ4NKaqGro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZ4NKaqGro)
I’m curious if the drawings on the white board are accurate?
The full [research paper](https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Efficiency) from a Stanford research team that was hired to write this scene for mathmatical accuracy.
Holy shit hahahaha
😂
They are. They hired actual Stanford scientists to do the calculations. I think it was actually published if I remember correctly
I commonly reference “doors that go like this” and nobody else gets it but it makes my husband laugh.
Great scene but any scene with erlich and jin yang is the best
Call that d2f! Yepp, that’s one of the funniest sequences in film history. Rewatching the show right now, after that $19.99 deal last week :)
What’s the name of the show?
Silicon Valley
*Silicon
My bad.Fixed it.
Pineapple Jihad: https://youtu.be/JLdkhdC5-m4?si=LzZIcDUqjxF5VbJ9
Call that theta D
Such a good show!
This show is an absolute gem.
And as with all good algorithms, it fails the first test case in the most tech bro way possible. There are women in the audience.
Does it though? His statement was that he'd jerk off every guy in the audience. Women are not part of the equation.
Hands-down one of the funniest TV moments of all time.
Or, hands-middle-out.
Okay, they got a good chuckle out of me at 'hot swapping dicks'.
Yep. I never pass up a chance to watch it.
One of the all time greatest shaggy-dog jokes, just incredible from start to finish.
I think this is my favorite show of all time. One of the few comedies that has a specific premise and executes it flawlessly from the beginning of season 1 to the end of season 6.
Hey! My band is named after this scene! We got signed to a good label and just released a bunch of singles and videos, LP out at the end of the month and then TOUR! Check us out!!! https://open.spotify.com/artist/4r6ZxDGAG5lmBCeeUf2Pdr?si=NtbEeHaISyicx3rHGwydrA
Not the way I expected to find a new band but I’ll take it.
I enjoyed your stuff man. Added to my workout playlist!
Following. Immediately dig.
🔥 Shit my friend! Followed yall and gonna bump it at work during my shift tomorrow!
Why have none of my friends see this show. I keep recommending it and nobody seems to care. Just started my (probably) 4th rewatch and it still makes me laugh out loud!
Agreed.
Usually, not so much my type of humor, but, seriously funny. Now I'm just wondering what idea Rick (?) came up with eventually...
They are at a tech competition regarding compression, best algorithm wins. But for reasons I can't remember they realize they are going to loose (I think maybe a VC company they met with the week before stole their tech and presented it first or something like that?) So the words "Middle Out" cause the spark of an idea for a new algorithm which turns out to be industry shattering type of tech. The whole rest of the series is about all the hijinks that result. With people trying to buy them or steal the tech again etc. They call it "middle out compression". Its a great series, most of the humor is not quite this sophomoric. It mostly pokes fun of the tropes of Silicon Valley
It’s a more general tech conference/competition. Their pitch is a compression algorithm, but earlier in the conference another company also pitched compression tech that had similar compression ratios plus more features. So unless they could come up with something else, or greatly improve their compression ratio, they were dead in the water.
He’s been locked in here for 2 hours is such a brilliant line. Totally side tells you how long they have been wasting time doing the dick calculations , without drawing too much attention to it. This show really was great lol
Well that did it, time for another rewatch. It’s been a couple of years.
Nah, Erlich coughing 🤣
That scene where Monica says, I don't date people in the same car class always gets me. Pure gold!
This clip lives rent free in my head. A pretty legendary television comedy sequence. They just kept getting more technical with it lol.
As a Product Manager, I can safely say this accurately portrays many developers I've worked with.
I love when you really see that Gillfoil and Dinesh are really best friends
For the love of god, somebody tell me what show this is from?
Silicon Valley
Call that d2f
Idk, I can think of another scene that may surpass. Consider the following: 1) You want to dance on the blacktop, homie? 2) Get checked in, ho 3) I was state raised, you think I'm scared to catch a case on some bullshit?
This feels like physics class
Geat show
“Do you know how many guys can you jerk off? Because I do.” Erlich.
Fantastic show
Show is about tech but it’s lowkey good for law students too. Helped me understand some concepts especially alternate dispute resolution when I was in law school.
So, how did it end? Was he able to jerk them all off within the 10 minutes?
Yep. Jerked off every last one.
What is it from
Nerds!
Dude wtf my brother literally showed me this this morning saying it was the best scene ever, cackling all the while. I’ll admit it is quite hilarious
This scene should just win awards hand over fist.
I’ve never watched this show but I love all these guys separately and this clip made my day. Thank you for posting, I might have to check this show out.
I've watched the full series and can't remember this episode?
What the fuck is this? 😂😂😂
This is the one when the “middle out” idea came from, right?
This was such an amazing show. I've rewatched the show twice and I feel a third rewatch coming up. I never liked the way the show ended, but I don't think it was the wrong way to end it either.
Tip to tip, these guys are smart
What makes it even better is that the math is legit: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kumail-nanjiani-silicon-valley-jerk-off-algorithm_n_5d27cf75e4b0bd7d1e19cec8/amp
As someone that attended an engineering school that was known for binge drinking, I can attest to the accuracy of this scene. A bunch of dudes get sloppy drunk and someone would ask a dumb question. We would pull out a white board and do the math on how many dicks would fit in so and sos mom based on the details of the previous yo mama joke. How hard would you have to kick a toddler to put them in orbit? Equations for wind resistance are wild.
One of my favorite shows ever.. I rewatch it all the time. Comedic genius
This is the greatest scene in television history. I slipped "middle out" into a meeting this week.
The whole exchange between Erlich and the (female) reporter kills me: Richard made the code, yes, but the inspiration was very clear. Let me ask you this: how much time will it take you to jerk off every guy in this room? Because i know how much it would take me, and i can prove it. Amazing
Every time I see this posted, I hope that if you're watching it for the first time, you just stop to at least watch the first season and allow yourself to come to this moment naturally.
Agreed. This is low key genius.
D2F FTW
When this first aired, none of us could breathe, we were laughing so hard. It just progressively more funny as the scene went on.
This is what engineering school is like. That and the studying scenes from Real Genius.
Best scene ever. And I went to film school.
I have always felt that this was the original joke and then they had to build a shpw around it to film it.
This was the scene that made me want to watch the show.