This show is based on an unfortunate, albeit entertaining period of the creator's lives where a succession of unbelievably poor employment decisions had them stumbling blindly down the seedy and often terrifying back alley of the workaday world. Through pyramid schemes, back-page classifieds and bosses of highly questionable morals, they trekked questing for the holy grail of fuck-off slackerdom; A Free Lunch.
Whether it's joining the cultish ranks of a sales firm peddling vacuum cleaners door-to-door in the projects, donating plasma for bus fare or painting the graphically homosexual dreams of an eccentric millionaire -- Free Lunch is for all whose directionless career paths were plagued with undesirable results from adhering to the age old, non-working class proverb: if it sounds too good to be true, you should stop everything your doing and go do that instead.
Free Lunch portrays the ignorant and bleak existence of Gabe and Pete, a pair of non-college material, high school graduates whose feeble ambitions toward success far exceed their talents, making their transition into adulthood harsh and painfully prolonged. Best friends, still living unwanted in their parents' houses, Gabe and Pete's destructive relationship of blind leader and blinder follower exposes them to constant unfavorable situations and epic failures. From overdosing rabbits with male sexual enhancement drugs to removing science department body donation tattoos with Brillo pads, running on equal parts of self-assuredness and idiocy has honed their uncanny ability to make the worst of a bad situation.
For Gabe & Pete, it's about dreaming big and dreaming stupid, learning the hard way and then forgetting it immediately. Their tales of stupidity through this modern rite of passage are truly inspiring to all whose uncertainty about what to do with their lives led them to commit heinously stupid acts in the grand search for a seat at the continental breakfast of life.




zach