Copy & Pastry
Copy & Pastry is an original comedic 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.
Background
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. 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.
Reception
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] It was reviewed positively by Ned Hepburn's web series column Pass the Mustard.[4]
"[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.[5]
Cast
| ACTOR | ROLE |
|---|---|
| Tory Stanton | Tory |
| Scott McCabe | Scott |
| Casi Maggio | Penelope Nicholls |
| David Weise | Lesley Lindsay |
| Rana Weber | Patty Plumbopple |
| Matt Gunnison | Health Inspector Vick |
| Dick Kellogg | Businessman Rodney |
| Nathaniel G. Fuller | Peter Plumbopple |
| Lee Stoneman | Terry |
| Melanie Case | Clarice |
| Jai Sahai | Ryan |
References
- 1 2 Rachel Swan, "Big Fat Pastry Venture", Eastbay Express, 1/06/2010, "Source 1"
- ↑ http://www.alterna-tv.com/webseries/pastry.htm
- ↑ http://popculturemonster.com/index.php/2010/tv-2-0-1/
- ↑ Hepburn, Ned (March 10, 2010). "‘Annoying Orange’, ‘Wiener’, ‘The Basement’, ‘Copy & Pastry’ Try to Pass The Mustard". Tubefilter News. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
- ↑ http://cinesourcemagazine.com/index.php?/site/comments/cheap_accessible_and_out_of_control_web_series/