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Short Synopsis
Idiot Box is a comedy web series based in Melbourne, Australia. Idiot Box is about what follows when you’ve got nothing better to do with life than vegetate in front of a flickering screen.

Starring Liam Seymour as Hugh

Chris Gibson as Gav

Dave Curtain as Dave

Synopsis
Life isn’t always easy in the suburbs. You are born. Educated. Given every single opportunity possible to succeed. Then slowly but surely, like an overwatered plant in an overcrowded pot, you begin to wither and die.

Two childhood friends Hugh & Gavin are in the autumn of their twenties when they realise they’ve spent all this time watching TV and jerking off to average pornography instead of actually living.

Rather than going quietly into their 30’s like good citizens they decide to really fuck things up properly and ‘do something’ with their lives.

Idiot Box is the story of what follows when you’ve got nothing better to do with life than vegetate in front of a flickering screen.

Hugh
Hugh was a very smart kid, now a mildly intelligent adult. He lives by himself, his mother has run off with another man and his father is in a home due to alchohol dependence. He has the beginning of what you might call a beard and the fashion sense of a middle aged father of 7 from Sunshine North. Working at the local liquor store has given Hugh some insight about life: mainly that it sucks and that you can’t trust anybody.

Gavin
Gavin went to the same primary school as Hugh. Now an adult he’s been pigeonholed by various addictions and managed to get his girlfriend Tanya pregnant. This hasn’t had any effect on his mischievous ways. He works at a local factory and always looks sleep deprived. Although years of drug abuse have left Gavin looking like an overripe cantaloupe with facial hair, he remains surprisingly athletic. Gavin loves dairy products.

Dave
Dave is Hugh’s neighbour. He’s a gentle giant but doesn’t have any social skills and finds it hard to make friends. He secretly dreams of hanging out with Hugh and Gav.

Jim
Jim is Hugh’s father; he lives in a nursing home. He isn’t really that old, just an alcoholic. He’s very fond of nautical terms and looks vaguely like a pirate of old.

Tanya
Tanya is constantly preoccupied with how she looks and loves reading books on divorce and crimes of passion. She dreams of marrying the unplanned father of her child; Gavin, even though she hates him most of the time.