This page shows a list of episodes for the web television series Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager, created by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan of Blame Society Productions. The series was initially launched on Channel 101, but was cancelled after the first two episodes were released. Yonda and Sloan decided to continue the series on YouTube, as well as Blame Society Productions' independent website. It has become the signature show for Yonda and Sloan, who have since built on their success with additional shows and characters.
The show stars Chad Vader, the non-canonical brother of Star Wars villain Darth Vader; Chad is visually indistingishable from Darth, save for his selfish and petty demeanor. The show follows Chad as he interacts with the eccentric customers and co-workers at Empire Market, where he is the day shift manager. Chad has a best friend in his "apprentice", Jeremy Wickstrom, while he is often at odds with night shift manager Clint Shermer and corporate owner Margaret McCall.
Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager has been the subject of great fanfare and acclaim, winning an Official Star Wars Fan Film Award. Because of his near-perfect impression of Darth Vader when voicing Chad, Matt Sloan was tapped by LucasArts to become Vader's new voice; Sloan voices Vader in the video games Empire at War: Forces of Corruption[1][2] and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed[3]. Chad Vader has also appeared on other web series, as well as Star Wars fan conventions.
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| # | Title | Link | Length | Release date |
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| 1 | "A Galaxy Not So Far Away" | [1] | 04:46 | July 9, 2006 |
| This episode establishes the character of Chad Vader, the day shift manager at a grocery store called Empire Market, as well as his co-workers, including his boss, Randy, and night shift manager Clint Shermer, with whom Chad has an intensely adversarial relationship. Chad manages to convince attractive cashier Clarissa to have a date with him, under the guise of discussing "some plans [he] [has] for a more powerful laser checkout system". Later on, Chad gets into a fight with Clint, threatening him with his lightsaber. However, Chad trips on a banana peel Clint throws under him, and is left in pain on the floor by Clint. | ||||
| 2 | "The Date" | [2] | 05:13 | July 30, 2006 |
| Chad Vader continues his training of two Empire Market employees, Tony Edwards and Jeremy Wickstrom. Edwards, annoyed with Chad's behavior, leaves him with the more enthusiastic Jeremy, whom Chad takes under his wing as his "apprentice". During his date with Clarissa, Chad confides to her that the reason he wears his suit is for life support after he accidentally rode his bicycle into a volcano; the suit was given to him by his "famous brother". Clarissa expresses sympathy for Chad. Later at work, Chad is caught using his hologram to spy on Clint while he is complaining to Randy about Chad's behavior. Randy, furious, gives the day manager position to Clint while giving Chad the night shift. | ||||
| 3 | "The Night Shift" | [3] | 05:36 | August 31, 2006 |
| It's Chad's first shift as night manager, and he finds that Empire Market is inhabited by strange employees and customers when the sun goes down. Chad then meets Lionel, who continues to tell Chad, these people "save a lot". "Commander" Jeremy Wickstrom, Chad's new "apprentice", has transferred to the night shift to assist him. After dealing with some of the store's unusual customers, Chad calls Clarissa on the phone. It is revealed that Clarissa stood up Chad on their second date the previous night. After Clarissa abruptly ends his call, Chad gets into a physical confrontation with a gloating Clint, who, to Chad's horror, reveals that he has begun to date Clarissa. | ||||
| 4 | "A Dog in the Store" | [4] | 06:02 | October 10, 2006 |
| Chad is still on his first night shift. Jeremy urgently reports to Chad that a dog is loose in the store. After giving Jeremy the job of finding the dog, Chad spends some time to himself on the loading dock out back, using his hologram to spy on Clarissa sleeping. He is later joined by "Weird Jimmy", Empire Market's eccentric janitor. Weird Jimmy reveals to Chad that he was once a day shift manager himself, but had some "minor problems" after being given the night manager position. Chad and Jeremy later chase down the dog loose in the store, which turns out to belong to the store's slightly deranged night-time cashier, Lionel. The following morning, Chad sees Clint complaining to Randy about their fight earlier that night. When Randy confronts Chad, and refuses to give him back the day manager position, Chad quits his job. | ||||
| 5 | "Drunk" | [5] | 06:03 | December 19, 2006 |
| It's almost Christmas, and Chad Vader, now unemployed, gets drunk at a bar while spying on Clint and Clarissa nearby. Clint and Chad almost have a fistfight, but Clint relents to go to the bathroom. When Chad confronts Clarissa, she asks Chad to "do something useful with [his] life and stop being so lame". A drunk, spurned Chad leaves the bar. Later on, Chad stands on a bridge at a park, contemplating suicide. Just as he is about to jump, Chad is met by a Force ghost named Ben, the spirit of a drunk driver who died after he ran over a gas pump that exploded. Ben manages to help Chad take Clarissa's advice to do something with his life, and Chad resolves to find another job. Chad is later seen at his new job, wearing what would pass for a business suit. | ||||
| 6 | "New Job" | [6] | 05:57 | February 15, 2007 |
| Over the course of two days, Chad is hired as a telemarketer and a printer, but is quickly fired due to his erratic, aggressive behavior. Ben appears to Chad again to persuade him to return to Empire Market, but Chad balks at the idea and runs away. Meanwhile at Empire Market, Chad's old co-workers, including Jeremy and Clarissa, begin reminiscing about Chad's career there. It is revealed that Clint, as day manager, has begun to bully his subordinates, including Clarissa. Chad, meanwhile, is hired and quickly fired both as a janitor and a cleaner for the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Cieslewicz. Chad has begun working as a taxicab driver when he is again visited by Ben and is finally persuaded to go back to Empire Market to get his old job back. Chad Vader returns to the store, confronts Randy, and demands that he be re-hired. | ||||
| 7 | "Trapped in the Trash" | [7] | 06:28 | March 22, 2007 |
| Chad threatens to not leave the store until he gets his job back. He vows to buy an item once every hour to avoid a loitering charge. However, Chad admits he's got no money to Jeremy, but the latter hatches an irrational plan to shut down the store's power. After another visitation from Ben, Chad realizes he must settle his score with Clint once and for all. Dubiously assuming Clint's identity, Chad begins to sully Clint's reputation by verbally assaulting customers and behaving erratically. He is helped by Clarissa—whom he reconciles with—when she gives him Clint's name tag, which Chad prominently displays on his suit. This leads to customers unloading a ton of complaints against Clint. However, Clint deduces the ruse and angrily confronts Chad. As he does so, Jeremy, with Weird Jimmy's help, cuts off the store's power supply. In the dark, Clint and Chad begin their final battle. | ||||
| 8 | "Chad Fights Back" | [8] | 05:33 | May 10, 2007 |
| Clint manages to gain the upper hand once the store's emergency power kicks in, and knocks Chad to the floor. Chad feels like giving up, but finds upliftment when Clarissa, Weird Jimmy, Chad's co-workers, customers, former employers, and Mayor Cieslewicz profess their belief in him. Chad is further provoked when he sees Clint bullying Jeremy. Using the Force, Chad manages to attack Clint with a barrage of lemons, and pushes him into a display of lettuce. Later on, Chad tells Randy that Clint damaged the lemons and cabbage display by himself and quit, claiming his former enemy "has mental problems". Randy reluctantly gives Chad the day manager position back, on the condition that Chad change his attitude. Randy further tells Chad that Clint's father owns Empire Market, but there's talk of a conglomerate buying it out. Later on, Clarissa and Chad arrange another date, and Chad discovers that Jeremy has begun using the Force. The first season ends with Chad telling his apprentice Jeremy about his new plans for Empire Market. | ||||
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| 1 | "The Takeover" | [9] | 5:44 | January 30, 2009 |
| The day has come when the conglomerate Red Leader Foods finally takes over Empire Market. After arriving late for the occasion on his bicycle, Chad, along with his co-workers, meets the owner of Empire Market, Champion J. Pepper, as well as Red Leader liaison Margaret McCall, and her assistant, Libby. Chad and Libby seem to be instantly attracted to each other. Randy and Champion move off to discuss some business, leaving Chad with the task of giving the two visitors a tour of the market, including his project, the "more powerful laser checkout system" mentioned during the first season. They go to the deli and meet Lloyd, who Chad disciplines with the Force choke for making inappropriate comments towards the two women. Clarissa tells Jeremy to let Chad know the laser checkout system is malfunctioning. | ||||
| 2 | "Laser Trouble" | [10] | 4:58 | February 20, 2009 |
| Randy and Champion talk at the water cooler, where Randy tries to apologize for what happened with Champion's son, Clint, in the first season. Champion pardons Clint for being "a Shermer...something about that family ain't right." Meanwhile, Chad continues his tour of Empire Market with Margaret McCall and Libby. After some rather uncomfortable encounters with one of Chad's cleaning droids and Weird Jimmy, Chad takes the pair to the cash register to demonstrate the checkout system. Jeremy desperately tries to stop them, only to be repeatedly dismissed by Chad. When McCall decides to purchase a can of beans with the checkout system and Chad swipes it, a beam of light shoots out of the machine, exploding the can and covering McCall with beans. She angrily vows to keep watch on Chad and all of the other employees, and chastises Randy for supposed incompetence. | ||||
| 3 | "Into the Basement" | [11] | 5:45 | March 16, 2009 |
| At an Empire Market staff meeting, McCall announces that she is the new general manager, while Randy has been transferred to the dreaded night shift. She rolls out a new series of strict rules and regulations, which includes the prohibition of employees to date each other. After the meeting, McCall tasks Chad with venturing into the store's mysterious basement to perform a yearly boiler recalibration. Chad does so with Jeremy, telling his apprentice that going into the basement will help Jeremy uncover his "dark soul half." However, the two are soon separated after Chad hears a woman calling his name. The voice comes from a ghostly vision of Libby, who disappears when Chad tries to embrace her, falling into a hole. Chad soon hears groaning inside the hole. Meanwhile, Jeremy encounters a droid with lightsabers for hands before being attacked by an unseen presence. | ||||
| 4 | "The Basement Strikes Back" | [12] | 5:43 | April 23, 2009 |
| Jeremy is woken up by Weird Jimmy. The two travel to the boiler room to recalibrate it. On the way, Jeremy sees strange visions of himself and McCall in a mirror. After Jeremy and Weird Jimmy recalibrate finish their task, they find Chad behind a door, apparently attached to the hole he was trapped in. As they try to make their way out of the basement, they run into three hostile droids, including the one Jeremy encountered earlier. The trio fight the droids, but Chad and Weird Jimmy knocked out. Jeremy defeats the droids with Chad's lightsaber. The trio hold an impromptu memorial service for Weird Jimmy's beloved mop -- which cut in half during the battle -- with Weird Jimmy playing a somber saxophone tune. As they leave the basement, Chad admits that the droids were failed experiments of his meant to be substitutes for absent employees. | ||||
| 5 | "The New Employee" | [13] | 5:22 | June 4, 2009 |
| Chad encounters Hal, a strange customer who is shopping for food to feed his doll, Baby Cookie. Chad is then hit with a marshmallow with the number 1 written on it. Later, he visits Randy, who has gone insane after two weeks as night shift manager. When Chad visits McCall to ask about Randy, she tells him that she is reversing many of Randy's decisions as day manager. She has started by re-hiring of Robby Johnson, who was fired for taking Chad's questionable training videos too seriously. McCall orders Chad to train Robby and stop spending time with Jeremy. After they leave, McCall tells Libby that "everything is happening exactly according to plan". While training Jeremy and Robby, Chad becomes impressed with Robby's superior knowledge of the store. Chad leaves with Robby, leaving a spurned Jeremy behind. McCall approaches Jeremy and implies that Chad hates him and doesn't recognize his "true talent". She adds and that "we will be monitoring the progress of your career very closely." | ||||
| 6 | "First Kiss" | [14] | 5:18 | July 23, 2009 |
| Randy confronts Hal and tells him he has clothes for Baby Cookie. When the doll talks to Randy, he snatches it from Hal and claims it as his own. Chad again tries to talk to McCall about Randy, but she instead reveals that she has created an "employee rewards program" to improve her image among the employees. She also reveals that Robby is the program's first winning employee, with the reward being dinner at a restaurant. McCall orders Chad and Libby to accompany Robby there. While an ecstatic Chad expresses his delight to finally go out with Libby, he is hit by second marshmallow with a number 2 written on it. At the restaurant, Chad, Libby, and Robby all get drunk. When they leave the restaurant, Robby runs off to a bar, leaving Chad and Libby alone. Chad tells Libby he wants to date her again despite the new rules. The two then embrace each other, kissing as best they can through Chad's breathing apparatus. Unbeknownst to them, Jeremy has been spying on them the entire time. He returns to Empire Market to report what he saw to McCall. | ||||
| 7 | "Goodbye, Chad" | [15] | 4:25 | September 17, 2009 |
| Chad, enthused from his kiss with Libby the previous night, arrives at work and happily (and annoyingly) greets customers and co-workers. Chad also encounters a bitter Jeremy, who tells him that McCall wants to see him in her office. When he arrives, McCall tells Chad that she is aware of his relationship with Libby, in violation of Empire Market's new rule against dating. Chad eventually admits his relationship with Libby and offers to let McCall punish as she pleases. McCall, however, says that Chad will not be punished, as Libby has been deported back to New Zealand for "having her papers out of order". McCall gives Chad a letter left for him by Libby, in which she apologizes for being deported and professes her love for him. She also claims that her work visa was revoked even though her papers were indeed in order, implying that McCall is responsible. Chad is depressed at his loss. He then discovers the person who has been throwing marshmallows at him: the Marshmallow Bandito, a strange man in a chef costume who claims to be Chad's archnemesis. | ||||
| 8 | "Bandito Beatdown" | [16] | 3:50 | September 24, 2009 |
| The Marshmallow Bandito reveals his origins, showing a flashback of him as a customer complaining to Chad about marshmallows that were still supposed to be on sale. Chad denied it and claimed that he ended the sale, unwittingly causing the Bandito to plot his revenge against him. In the present, Chad and the Bandito start a fight. The Bandito attempts to hit Chad with more marshmallows, but Chad easily repels them with his lightsaber. He manages to overwhelm the Bandito with the Force and forces him to eat the marshmallows the Bandito threw at Chad. However, Chad continues to show grief over Libby. Jeremy sees this and feels terrible about betraying him, admitting his deed to Weird Jimmy. Meanwhile, Randy and Baby Cookie, have a conversation in which the doll makes Randy dance for him to prove his loyalty. To Randy's shock, Baby Cookie asks if he would also kill for him. | ||||
| 9 | "Showdown" | [17] | 6:49 | October 21, 2009 |
| Jeremy has a private meeting with McCall, expressing his guilt over Libby's deportation and doubt over whether he should continue working at Empire Market. McCall offers a potential promotion to general manager, and sends him to a two-week management training camp. Meanwhile, Sean Banditson, a.k.a. "Marshmallow Bandito" -- sans costume -- has been hired as a new employee, purely to make Chad's career miserable. Jeremy later returns from the training camp dressed in a business suit, in the same manner in which he saw himself in the mirror in the basement. McCall joins him and announces he is Empire Market's new general manager, giving him the first task of firing Randy. Chad, seeing that things "have taken a turn for the even worse", decides to intervene. That night, when Jeremy arrives at the market to fire Randy, Chad confronts him. When he learns from Weird Jimmy that it was Jeremy caused Libby's deportation, an angered Chad and a resentful Jeremy begin a lightsaber duel. | ||||
| 10 | "Somebody Dies" | [18] | 6:46 | November 25, 2009 |
| Chad and Jeremy continue their duel in the back room. Randy and Baby Cookie come out of a cabinet and follow them. When Chad forces Jeremy onto his back on a cart, he fails to notice Randy is sneaking up behind him with a sword. As Randy is about to stab Chad, Weird Jimmy shoves Randy to save him. However, Jeremy accidentally wounds Weird Jimmy. Weird Jimmy limps away and sees a Force ghost of his beloved mop. He then disappears, leaving his clothes behind. Later, at a staff meeting, McCall announces that Randy will become the new janitor in Weird Jimmy's absence. She then announces that the general manager position is open, since Jeremy failed to keep it. She allows every employee to be general manager for one day to see who is best, despite Chad being next in line. Afterwards, Chad and Jeremy reconcile. Jeremy puts his helmet back on, with Chad calling him his "apprentice". He becomes happy that things have managed to work out...until he sees Weird Jimmy and his mop appear as Force ghosts, tormenting him. Meanwhile, Chad becomes so angry at McCall that lightning erupts from his fingertips. | ||||
| # | Title | Link | Length | Release date |
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| 1 | "Surveillance Assailant" | [19] | 5:17 | February 12, 2010 |
| In the back room, Chad trains Jeremy with his lightsaber skills. Chad also slaps Jeremy twice to teach him to "expect the unexpected", causing the latter to defensively travel through Empire Market fearing "the unexpected". We learn that Weird Jimmy continues to haunt Jeremy. Meanwhile, Chad runs into McCall, who instructs him to appoint a "manager-for-a-day" by that afternoon "or else". She also tells Chad that despite her dislike for him, she wants the two of them to be "friends". Chad tries to imagine being friends with McCall, but then settles for fantasizing about beating her with a shovel. Chad comes across Randy, who is now the market's janitor and still shows hints of his purportedly cured insanity. Afterwards, Chad uses his "Surveillance Assailant"—a security camera made to resemble the Death Star—to spy on three dubious candidates to be "manager-for-a-day": the cynical Tony, the dumb Lloyd, and the would-be "enemy" Sean. With the deadline approaching, Chad hurriedly makes his decision. | ||||
| 2 | "Rockets and Chaos" | [20] | 5:51 | March 16, 2010 |
| Chad ultimately chooses Sean to be the first "manager-for-a-day". An enthused Sean promises to do a good job and use his new position as "a force for good rather than evil". After Sean leaves, Chad reveals that he anticipates the failure of his would-be nemesis and the rest of the manager-for-a-day candidates, and plans to make McCall promote him to general manager afterwards. Sean, however, comes to find managing "boring" and hangs out with Chad in the storage room, where he discovers Chad's "rocket-powered shopping cart". McCall later tells Chad that she is considering making Sean the new manager permanently, calling him a "born leader" despite his eccentricities. However, Sean regresses to his "Marshmallow Bandito" alter ego when a customer asks for marshmallows and mocks them. The Bandito mounts Chad's unsafe shopping cart and wreaks havoc throughout the store, chasing Chad and shooting lasers. He is only stopped when Chad uses the laser on the Surveillance Assailant to destroy the cart. Chad then attacks the Bandito with Sith lightning, causing his pants to fall down. | ||||
| 3 | "Lloyd Town" | [21] | 6:02 | April 15, 2010 |
| Lloyd is chosen by Chad as the next manager-for-a-day, even though both Chad and McCall openly loathe Lloyd as an imbecile. They make fun of Lloyd for his staggering stupidity—even when he is in the room. Meanwhile, Randy finds Baby Cookie in the cabbage stand, but resists the doll's urging to be friends with him again. Jeremy also continues to have trouble with Weird Jimmy's Force ghost, but Chad tries to solve the problem by urging Jeremy to listen to the spirit. Jeremy does so, only to wind up knocking a cucumber over his head at Weird Jimmy's request, as a way of avenging the dead janitor "against himself". Lloyd's tenure as manager-for-a-day does not last long; when Clarissa tries to clock out early, Lloyd makes outrageously suggestive remarks towards her. Clarissa threatens to turn Lloyd in for sexual harassment, causing him to panic and set off the fire alarm. When he admits what he has done to Chad, the latter covers Lloyd head-to-toe with duct tape, causing him to slowly leave the store in shame. | ||||
| 4 | "Nothing Happens" | [22] | 4:59 | May 6, 2010 |
| Chad picks his last choice, the sullen Tony, to be the manager-for-a-day. As the episode's title suggests, Tony's tenure is marked by nothing happening in the store. The characters are uninterested when interacting with each other: Chad and McCall are too bored to fight each other; Chad does nothing when Lloyd tries to steal coffee beans (sort of); and Jeremy and Weird Jimmy's Force ghost find no excitement in the latter's frightening appearances. The only time this tone changes is when Tony clocks out from work, belatedly leaving the store. Chad remarks that Tony is "the greatest manager ever". The opening shot of this episode mirrors the first shot of the first episode, although this time Chad approaches Tony for a different reason. | ||||
| 5 | "Return of Clint" | [23] | 6:09 | June 9, 2010 |
| Because of the failure of all of Chad's manager-for-a-day employees, McCall calls in some "outside talent": Chad's old nemesis, Clint Shermer. McCall announces that Clint will have his employment restored with Empire Market if his stint as manager-for-a-day is successful, and that he will become Chad's boss if this is so. Clint had also pulled out a three-foot restraining order against Chad, and wears a device that sounds an alarm if Chad or any Force-thrown object comes too close to him. Clint uses the device to harass Chad, by jumping within three feet of him. However, Chad briefly remedies the situation by using a mind trick on Lloyd, forcing him to shock Clint with a taser. When left in pain on the floor, Clint vows that this is "beginning of the end...for you". Chad orders Lloyd to clean the toilets Meanwhile, a newly insane Randy reluctantly returns to Baby Cookie on Clint's order. Randy appears to have a beard again and is more disheveled. When Clint made him answer:"In or Out?", Randy chose in. Later, Lloyd enters the toilet where there's the Customer of Season 3, he hits him with a taser, torturing the Customer. | ||||
| 6 | "Vampire Market" | [24] | 6:05 | July 1, 2010 |
| Lloyd and Randy are up to no good. While Lloyd posts outrageously high prices for a can of beans and pretends they are radioactive, Randy puts up signs that say "sale over - forever." Chad finds out Clint is trying to turn Empire Market into a "crazy store", believing it will bring more customers. Also, Clint hires new stock boy Damien Nightshayde, who may or may not be a vampire. He attracts all women in the store. Later, Damien saves Chad's life from a runaway cart, and claims to be Chad's new bodyguard. Chad concludes that with Jeremy and Damien as allies, Clint will be stopped. Chad then looks for Jeremy, who has been stuck in a freezer for three hours. Weird Jimmy appears claiming that the dying Jeremy is the "key" to stopping "his plan". He refuses to elaborate, intending to be more dramatic. Weird Jimmy prepares to leave to go back mopping in the afterlife, but is forced to sing Ben's Song before disappearing, helping Chad find Jeremy. However, Jeremy falls unconscious when Chad finally enters the freezer. | ||||
| 7 | "Sick Day" | [25] | 8:42 | August 5, 2010 |
| Chad calls in sick with a cold. Jeremy -- still yet to have recovered from being locked in the freezer -- is forced to manage the store alone with Damien. After an employee quits, Hal mistakes his apron for a "wizard's cape" and puts it on. He is mistaken for an employee by McCall, who makes him manager-for-a-day. While having a phone call with the market's distributor -- during which he makes weird orders for, among other things, live chickens -- Hal remembers that Baby Cookie was kidnapped by Randy, and sets off to "rescue" her. Meanwhile, Michelle stops by Chad's place to give him some soup; he seems to be attracted to her, though initially puts her off by graphically deatiling how he makes himself sterile by bathing in boiling water. At the store, Randy and Hal face off over Baby Cookie; Hal easily defeats Randy with kung fu skills. After Hal takes Baby Cookie home and disappears, Randy claims that "the plan is already in motion", revealing several Baby Cookie duplicates in the employee locker room. Randy puts on a Baby Cookie-like mask. | ||||
| 8 | "The Improvised" | [26] | 6:58 | September 16, 2010 |
| In this episode (where all the actors improvise their lines), Clint's father comes to manage for a day at Empire Market, however, Maggie despises him and forces him to leave after a day. Meanwhile, Chad is falling in love with Michelle. Clint doesn't appear in this episode. Randy begins to put his plan into motion. No one knows what it is, but at the end, a baby doll appears to be a timebomb in one of the aisles of empire market. | ||||
| 9 | "Duel to the Death" | [27] | 4:25 | October 7, 2010 |
| It is finally Chad's turn to be manager-for-a-day although Maggie has decided that the best manager is Clint. To compensate, Chad goes to challenge Clint for a duel to death and they duel from the back room to the front one. Soon, Chad surrenders and Jeremy and Damien throw a small net at Clint. Clint is irritated. However, a more worse thing is that Jeremy found a Baby Cookie Bomb behind the shelf...and the count is 6 minutes. | ||||
| 10 | "Six Ways To Die" | [28] | 10:43 | November 6, 2010 |
| A crazed Randy reveals that he has placed five other Baby Cookie bombs inside the store. Jeremy and Damien pursue Randy while Chad uses the Surveillance Assailant to find the bombs. He has Clint defuse them. Chad manages to find most of the bombs -- and manages to schedule a date with Michelle in the process -- and has Clint deactivate them. However, Chad is unable to find the last remaining bomb. Meanwhile, Jeremy encounters Weird Jimmy's ghost, who mysteriously tells him that he is "the one". He also reveals that the last bomb is inside the Surveillance Assailant itself. Jeremy intially decides to take the Assailant out of the store to sacrifice himself, but Damien does so in his place. He dies off-screen as he runs into the parking lot and lets the bomb explode. When Champion and McCall arrive, he relieves her of her managing duties over the incident; he also promptly buys Empire Market back from Red Leader Foods. Champion holds an award ceremony where the employees are given promotions, Jeremy is given a commodation, and Chad is promoted to general manager; a mentally unbalanced McCall is demoted to night shift manager, but vows to return. Chad tries to promote Jeremy to day shift manager, but Jeremy -- feeling guilty over the deaths of Weird Jimmy and Damien -- says he is leaving to go on a journey of self discovery. Michelle assures Chad that Jeremy will return. They set out on their date. | ||||
In the Fall of 2011, Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda announced in a YouTube video that in previous seasons, actors weren't paid and funding was privately done. However, they had discovered that this was not technically legal, and they needed fans to pledge $1,000 to fund Season 4. The pledge fund is still going on.