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How close is too close?

A half-hour comedy · Created by Skip Skip

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Four codependent friends share one bed, one salary, and one life. When their boss threatens to split them up, they kidnap him and take over his temp agency, and discover that the hardest part of staying together is learning to let each other go.

Search Party meets Broad City, with the absurdity of What We Do in the Shadows and the emotional heart of Pen15.
Background

We wrote it the way we live it.

We are Skip Skip: four writers and performers who have been each other's roommates at nearly every point along the way. We made this the way we make everything, in one room, all four of us, unable to leave a decision to any one person.

So we wrote the show about that. All Four One asks the question we are actually living: how close is too close? Is a group this tight helping each of us grow, or holding us in place? It is a show about a generation that cannot afford to move out, move on, or be alone, and is only now learning how.

The Skip Skip group in matching SKIP tees, chins on fists
The show

A workplace comedy that becomes a friendship drama.

All Four One is an absurdist workplace comedy that turns into a serialized story about friendship and growing up. It is played dead straight: the jokes are big, the feelings are real, and nobody winks at the camera.

It centers on four people who have never had to function apart, now forced to run a failing temp agency in a nowhere strip of the city, cover for a kidnapping, and pretend to be adults. The desks are ugly, the fluorescent lights hum, and the real story is what happens when four inseparable people start getting pulled in four different directions.

The four tangled together, a picture of codependency
The set-up

A new gig every week. One story all season.

Every episode drops the four into a self-contained temp gig, an estate sale, a library, a call center, that goes sideways in its own contained way. Underneath the weekly chaos, one continuous story builds: the codependent dynamic slowly fraying as each of them starts to want something different.

40% Episodic (the week)

A fresh workplace disaster each episode, a renewable engine for new clients, new chaos, and new tests of the group.

The weekly-engine energy of What We Do in the Shadows.
60% Serialized (the season)

Every episode moves the friendship forward: an external stake (the agency failing) and an internal one (the group coming apart).

The season-long spine of Search Party.
Tone & comps

Warm, feral, and a little surreal.

Search Party meets Broad City, with the absurdity of What We Do in the Shadows and the emotional heart of Pen15.

Search Party poster

Search Party

A friend group in over their heads, funny and a little unhinged.

Broad City poster

Broad City

Codependent best friends, the real relationship at the center.

What We Do in the Shadows poster

What We Do in the Shadows

Absurd characters played dead straight in a normal world.

Pen15 poster

Pen15

Adults playing themselves, painfully honest.

The pilot

One bed. One paycheck. One shared morning routine.

We meet the four at their most codependent. Their boss Craig announces they have one last chance to save their collective job. Cornered, they do the only reasonable thing: they kidnap him and start running the agency themselves.

The goal from here: keep the lie alive, keep the gigs coming, and stick together at all costs. Meet the four running the con.

Craig standing over the four at the office table, delivering the news
Meet the four

Four friends. One bed.
Played by the four writers who lived it.

The four side by side against the motivational-poster wall
Sasha
Sasha
The mystic

Soft, dreamy, and definitely a little magic.

Kaela
Kaela
The deviant

Runs on pure desire and full confidence.

Willa
Willa
The fixer

Gruff and handy. Will weld this group together if need be.

Justin
Justin
The romantic

Ruled by anxiety and unfortunately in love with the group’s nemesis.

The Supporting Cast
Craig
Craig
The kidnapped boss

Kaela's dad, whose captivity turns into the best year of his life.

Trudy
Trudy
The extremely competent coworker

So capable it’s scary. Can scale a mountain and write an opera in an afternoon. Eternally hated by the four leads.

Season one

A limited series, 8 episodes. It opens on four people in one bed who share everything and ends on four people in one bed who know how to exist apart. The arc is not breaking up. It is finding some independence within a tightly knit group.

The four in an emotional group hug amid moving boxes
The shape of the season
Four lines that start as one, indistinguishable. They split apart, then come back together, but this time with room to breathe.
Ep 2
The Feral Free-For-All
With Craig locked in his office, the four go nuts with their newfound freedom, and almost ruin the agency on their first day.
Ep 3
The Library
In debt from their escapades, the group must work extra hard to keep things afloat. A temp gig at a library reveals Sasha’s magical side, while Willa begins to act more and more like the boss.
Ep 4
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Ep 5
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Ep 6
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Ep 7
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Finale
Insurance
The five of them burn the agency down for the payout, everyone takes the separate job that actually fits, and they still end the night in one bed.
The arcs underneath
WillaThe fixer
Quietly becomes the one keeping the whole thing alive, and it starts to change her. She involuntarily morphs into Craig: staying late, getting snippier, more alone. She realizes she is genuinely good at running the business and resents carrying everyone.
KaelaThe deviant
Runs on pure desire and slowly confronts the bigger question of what she actually wants from her life. It pays off in a confession to her dad Craig: she admits the only thing she truly loves is sex, and he is the one who has to help her see it might be her calling.
SashaThe mystic
Meets Ruby, a witch who looks exactly like her, and learns her magic is not as special as she thought. She resists being pulled into the coven because of her friends, and leaves the door open to fully embrace it once the group splits.
JustinThe romantic
Spirals over Trudy, the coworker the group can't stand, drawing her in secret and unable to admit it. His pull toward someone outside the four is the first real crack in the codependency.
CraigThe boss
The stressed boss who finds peace in captivity: learns Mandarin, befriends a mouse, makes peace with his own father. He sees himself in Willa and Kaela, and quietly becomes the heart of the show.
Future seasons

The agency is a renewable engine.

Season one loosely ties the bow: everyone lands the job that fits and still ends the night in one bed. That ending is built to keep going. A new season is a new configuration of the same four people, still figuring out how close is too close.

Craig, unleashed

The captive boss who learned to relax relapses hard into the work, now genuinely addicted to the agency he once resented. Captivity taught him to live; freedom teaches him he misses it.

Sasha walks through the door

With the group no longer holding her back, Sasha fully embraces the coven. Ruby returns as the once-a-season antagonist and the kingdom of Nefaria pulls her deeper into a world that is finally, fully magic.

Bottle episodes, built in

Standalone swings the format already supports: "Around the World in Trudy Days" (a full Jason Bourne goose-chase), or a Craig-and-the-mouse captivity bottle episode.

Separate lives, same bed

Each of them now has a job that fits, so the tension flips: not can they survive apart, but can they choose each other on purpose, now that they finally could leave.

Why this show

Everyone is terrified of being alone and terrified of being trapped. All Four One is about the people who are both at once, and learning that choosing each other only counts once you could actually leave.

The four asleep side by side in one bed

We can write this show because we are living it. Skip Skip is four writers and performers who made this the way the characters do everything, together, in one room, and the codependency on screen is an extreme version of our real lives. That is why we care about this world. We are still in it.

Length
Half-hour single-camera
Run
Limited series, 8 episodes
Genre
Absurdist comedy, serialized spine
All for one.
Obviously.

Skip Skip · skipskipcomedy@gmail.com