Fat Guy Stuck in Internet
Genre	Live action Sitcom Sci-Fi
Directed by	Ryan McFaul
Starring	Liz Cackowski Neil Casey John Gemberling Curtis Gwinn
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Tochterman, John Gemberling, Curtis Gwinn
Producer(s)	Michael Eder
Running time	11.5 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Adult Swim
Picture format	720P (HDTV)
Original run	May 13, 2007 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Fat Guy Stuck in Internet is a short, live-action sci-fi comedy series that is part of the Adult Swim schedule on Cartoon Network. The series is directed by Ryan McFaul. The Executive Producers are David Tochterman, John Gemberling, and Curtis Gwinn, and the Producer is Michael Eder.

The show premiered Monday morning, June 16, 2008, at 12:15 A.M. The first episode to air was the pilot, and new episodes premiered weekly in the same time slot. The entirety of the first season has aired.

[edit] Production

The series was made and written by John Gemberling and Curtis Gwinn, and is based on their series of shorts entitled Gemberling that was a part of Channel 102. Of all the shows in Channel 102's original prime-time schedule, Gemberling lasted the longest -- a full eight episodes, the final one lasting over seventeen minutes as a self-canceling epilogue to the adventure series.

On May 30, 2008, Gemberling and Gwinn premiered Fat Guy Stuck in Internet before an audience of scores at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre in New York City. There, Gwinn compared the show to the likes of The Wire and the final episode of St. Elsewhere.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

• Ken Gemberling (John Gemberling) - Title character who gets sucked into the Internet, is the actual "fat guy". In Episode two it is revealed that his internet name is "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet."
• Chains (Curtis Gwinn) - Bounty hunter hired to chase Gemberling in the Internet by C.E.O.
• Byte (Liz Cackowski) - Woman who lives in the Internet and has pink hair.
• Bit (Neil Casey) - Brother of Byte who lives in the Internet.

[edit] Secondary characters

• Kazaa (Victor Varnado) - Bad guy of the Internet.
• C.E.O. (John Gemberling) - CEO of Ynapmoclive Interactive, an evil company.
• The Watcher-Teacher (Curtis Gwinn) - One of the wisest programs in the internet. He has sworn to only watch, then teach, not being able to interfere in the lives of men. The Watcher-Teacher was killed by KaZaA in the pilot.

[edit] List of episodes

[edit] Season 1: 2007-2008

[edit] Pop culture references

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (July 2008)

• The beer cans in the pilot episode are a nod to Repo Man (film) where similar generic white containers with blue-lettered labels were used.
• The second episode pays tribute to the movie "The Shining".
• The third episode pays tribute to the "Dead" movie series by George A. Romero, mostly resembling "The Night of the Living Dead."
• Scrote of Trials has many Star Wars parodies and references.
• "Eating with the Goddess" parodies both Dirty Dancing and Teen Wolf.
• Various soundbites from Blizzard games are used during the conversation in episode 8
• Boogie Baby, Boogie is based on Labyrinth.
• The suspended door in episode 7 is from The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. The field of flowers surrounding the C.E.O.'s tower could also be a reference to the field of roses that surrounds that Dark Tower, but is definitely a reference to the field of poppies in The Wizard of Oz.
• The end of the first-season finale is a reference to the cliffhanger ending of Back to the Future, also referencing the time machine used in the movies. The time machine crushing the CEO could also be a partial homage Blackadder: Back & Forth where blackadder arrives at the Battle of Waterloo atop of the Duke of Wellington.