Copy & Pastry

Copy & Pastry is an original comic web series produced by Two Trick Pony Productions. Copy & Pastry follows two roommates who decide to start an online pastry delivery service out of their home kitchen in Berkeley, CA. The first season, consisting of 7 episodes, debuted in November 2009.

About

Copy & Pastry was created by Tory Stanton and Scott McCabe, who also wrote and produced each of the 7 episodes. The comedy web series follows fictional roommates Tory and Scott whose 'ambitions outpace their resources' ^[1] in their quixotic attempt to build an online pastry delivery service out of their home apartment. In order to succeed the pair must negotiate the bureaucracy of municipal government; limited funding; nosebleeds; fickle customers; a brush with the biggest star on public-access television cable TV; broken hearts; and a proposed corporate takeover.

According to the Eastbay Express, which reviewed the series in its January 6 edition, 'The whole thing would make for a perfect TV show.'^[1] The website alterna-tv.com, which reviews television and new media, said of the show: "Despite a proliferation of original webseries sprouting up on the Internet, it is still somewhat of a rarity to find one produced by truly independent industry outsides that is also well-written, well-acted, polished and entertaining... The writing, for instance, is as tight and funny as anything on television—let alone the Internet..."^[2] PopCultureMonster.com said the show was "fresh (pun intended)... and [...] filled with both jokes and a lovely bit of slap-stick." and that the actors were "very funny, awkward and awfully adorkable" ^[3]

"[McCabe & Stanton] have cobbled together an impressive series out of a few thousand, good writing and a few twenty-something comedians..." writes Doniphan Blair in Cinesource Magazine.^[4]

The self-financed series was directed JK Pincosy and shot by Justin Potter. Luca Young composed the original score and Alex Bello mixed the episodes.

Copy & Pastry was also picked up by the web television network [Koldcast.tv] with the first episode premiering on the network March 3.

Episodes

• the one where a business gets started
• the one where the recently started business tries to attract customers
• the one where the business started not so long ago, now having a customer, discovers the benefits of having an employee
• the one where the still relatively young business, now having customers and an employee, gets sidetracked
• the one where the business that has been open for a while now, having skirted homicide charges, with a handful of customers and en employee, makes a special delivery
• the one where the slowly maturing business started five episodes ago, having built a perfectly solid foundation and harboring a deep reservoir of untapped potential, and with, let's be clear, no formal denominational affiliation, receives a thorough probing
• the one where

Cast

References

External links

• Copy & Pastry
• Two Trick Pony Productions
• Two Trick Pony on Funny or Die
• Eastbay Express Review
• All News... No Blues article
• Cheap, Accessible and Out of Control: Web Series