INT. YOUR TERMINAL · WIN, CLEAN RESULT, TESTS GREEN
RUSS
Tres commas!
Silicon Valley · for a big number going the right way
JAKE
Noice. Smort.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
Toit.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
Bingpot!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
HOLT
Hot damn!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
Yippie kayak, other buckets.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
HOLT
(deadpan)
Yas queen.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
ENSEMBLE
Nine-Nine!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine · for a big deploy or migration landing
GINA
I'm the human form of the 💯 emoji.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
MICHAEL
Boom. Roasted.
The Office · for a clean takedown of a bad argument
DWIGHT
Perfectenschlag.
The Office
CHRIS
Literally.
Parks and Recreation
TOM AND DONNA
Treat yo self!
Parks and Recreation · for a well-deserved upgrade
MAGNITUDE
Pop pop!
Community
ABED
Six seasons and a movie!
Community
ENSEMBLE
Steve Holt!
Arrested Development
ELAINE
(shoving)
Get out!
Seinfeld · for surprisingly good news
BARNEY
Legendary!
How I Met Your Mother
BARNEY
Suit up!
How I Met Your Mother
BARNEY
Challenge accepted.
How I Met Your Mother
CHANDLER
Unfortunately that is correct.
Friends · for conceding a point you lost
MOSS
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
The IT Crowd
MICHAEL
Welcome to the Good Place.
The Good Place
SHELDON
I know.
The Big Bang Theory · for taking a compliment on the work without ceremony
GEORGE SR. tastes the first bite of a dish he has been perfecting for fifteen years and is, for one second, completely happy.
Young Sheldon
TED
Barbecue sauce.
Ted Lasso · his sign-off after landing the winning throw
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · DISASTER, BROKEN PROD
MICHAEL
No, God! No God, please no! No! Noooooo!
The Office
MICHAEL
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!
The Office · for declaring something without doing it
JEFF
This is the darkest timeline.
Community
TROY walks in with pizza, room on fire.
Community · for opening a repo mid-meltdown
LILY
Nothing good ever happens after 2:00 a.m.
How I Met Your Mother · for a late-night deploy gone wrong
ROSS
Pivot! Pivot!
Friends · for a migration that won't budge
MOSS drafts an email: "Dear Sir stroke Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire…".
The IT Crowd
MOSS
I'll put this over here, with the rest of the fire.
The IT Crowd · for stacking work onto something already burning
ELEANOR
Holy motherforking shirtballs!
The Good Place
LEONARD
I don't have this! I don't have this! I DO NOT HAVE THIS!
The Big Bang Theory · for the moment a deploy starts sliding
GEORGE SR.
You waited 'til I had a beer to tell me this story, didn't you?
Young Sheldon · for bad news timed at the worst possible moment
TED
Let's be sad now. Let's be sad together. And then we can be a gosh-darn goldfish.
Ted Lasso
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · FIX DIDN'T FIX IT, RECURRING BUG, FLAKY TEST
ENSEMBLE
And yet, crime has continued.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
(clearly doubting)
Cool cool cool cool cool. No doubt no doubt no doubt.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
MICHAEL
I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.
The Office · for retrying until green
FRANK
Serenity now!
Seinfeld
ROSS
We were on a break!
Friends · for a bug that keeps coming back
ROY
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
The IT Crowd
the "Welcome! Everything is fine." sign, still up.
The Good Place
TED
I'm not entirely sure what y'all's smallest unit of measurement is over here, but that's about how much headway I made.
Ted Lasso
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · BAD PRACTICE WITH A GOOD EXCUSE
JAKE
Cool motive. Still murder.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
GEORGE
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Seinfeld
BARNEY
New is always better.
How I Met Your Mother
JASON
I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Anytime I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
The Good Place
PENNY
No, the light's been on since I bought the car.
The Big Bang Theory · for the warning everyone has stopped seeing
TED
Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing.
Ted Lasso
MAC
Charlie, we found a loophole in the system.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
CHARLIE
It's not hilarious, it's just a stool with a nail sticking out of it.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia · for a clever hack that is really a hazard
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · WRONG CLAIM, MISDIAGNOSIS
ANDY
I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
Parks and Recreation
GEORGE
Jerry, just remember: it's not a lie if you believe it.
Seinfeld
PHOEBE
That is brand new information!
Friends
STUART
It's a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable, it's very wrong to say it's a suspension bridge.
The Big Bang Theory · for grading how far off a diagnosis was
TED
Be curious, not judgmental.
Ted Lasso · a line he read off a wall — for a diagnosis reached before anyone asked a question
CHARLIE
There is no Pepe Silvia. The man does not exist, okay?
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia · for a bug traced back to something that was never there
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · LONG EXPLANATION COMING
JEFF launches into a Winger speech.
Community
GEORGE
The sea was angry that day, my friends.
Seinfeld
TED
Kids, I'm gonna tell you an incredible story, the story of how I met your mother.
How I Met Your Mother
CHIDI starts a trolley problem.
The Good Place
SHELDON
I've put together a presentation detailing the reasons why I should be allowed to go to college, and I'd like you to watch it with an open mind.
Young Sheldon
TED tells the whole story one dart at a time, then hits the bullseye.
Ted Lasso
CHARLIE
Can we talk about the mail, please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mail with you all day, okay?
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · OVERHYPED TOOL OR STARTUP
ENSEMBLE
Making the world a better place.
Silicon Valley
JACK BARKER
Consider the conjoined triangles of success.
Silicon Valley · for management frameworks
TOM Entertainment 720.
Parks and Recreation · for a big pitch with no substance
PIERCE
Streets ahead. If you have to ask, you're streets behind.
Community
JANICE
Oh. My. God.
Friends
MARY
It's got 'the Lord' in it. That's something.
Young Sheldon · for the one redeeming feature
TED
I always figured that tea was just gonna taste like hot brown water. And you know what? I was right.
Ted Lasso
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · REGRET, ROLLBACK NEEDED
GOB
I've made a huge mistake.
Arrested Development
BARNEY wears the Sensory Deprivator 5000 to block out the damage.
How I Met Your Mother
BARNEY
When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be AWESOME instead. True story.
How I Met Your Mother
ELEANOR
Ya basic.
The Good Place · for reverting to a simpler approach
SHELDON
This seemed so elegant at the time, but now I realize I was just a simple country boy seduced by a big city theory with variables in all the right places.
The Big Bang Theory
SHELDON
Well, ideally, I'd like to wipe my sister's brain clean and start over, but my mom wouldn't like that.
Young Sheldon · when the full rewrite is tempting and forbidden
FRANK apologizes to the rum ham as it floats away.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · VAGUE REQUEST OR PLAN
MICHAEL
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.
The Office
LUCILLE
I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it.
Arrested Development
TED
You see the Universe has a plan kids; and that plan is always in motion.
How I Met Your Mother
MOSS
The thing about Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in!
The IT Crowd
AMY
Interesting... Now try it without the quadruple negative.
The Big Bang Theory
DENNIS
Look, it is a great plan, okay? We do not have a ton of time to explain it to you, we're busy.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · CONFIDENTLY WINGING IT
ANDY
I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well.
Parks and Recreation
KRAMER
I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm loving every minute of it!
Seinfeld
JOEY
Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo.
Friends
SHELDON
I'm a physicist. I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains.
The Big Bang Theory · he downgrades it to "the important things" one question later
CHARLIE
It's just that bird law in this country—it's not governed by reason.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia · for expertise in a field nobody can check
MAC
I'm saying I did an ocular assessment of the situation garnered that he was not a security risk and I cleared him for passage.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia · for "I looked at it, it's fine"
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · DOUBTING
ABED
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Community
SHELDON
I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.
The Big Bang Theory · when someone questions the approach
MEEMAW
You don't. That's what makes life interesting.
Young Sheldon · on how you know who to trust
TED
I think it's the lack of hope that comes and gets you. See, I believe in hope. I believe in belief.
Ted Lasso
TED the "BELIEVE" sign taped up over the locker room door, slightly crooked.
Ted Lasso
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · CONCISE SOLUTION
KEVIN
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
The Office
JOEY
Joey doesn't share food!
Friends · for a resource that shouldn't be shared
SHELDON
Not a shortcut, a more elegant and efficient method to achieve the correct answer.
Young Sheldon · for defending a one-liner in review
THE LAWYER
Actually, they're pretty simple. The forms are all standard boiler-plate.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia · when the thing someone called complex is boilerplate
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · OVERENGINEERING, SCOPE CREEP
BEN The Cones of Dunshire.
Parks and Recreation · for a system only its author understands
MICHAEL resets the timeline.
The Good Place · for a system that keeps getting redesigned
SHELDON
I suggest Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock.
The Big Bang Theory · for replacing a two-option solution with a five-option one
DENNIS unveils a six-step system named after himself for a job that needed no system.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · HARSH CODE REVIEW FEEDBACK
LESLIE
What I hear when I'm being yelled at is people caring loudly at me.
Parks and Recreation
STEPHEN HAWKING
That's nice. Too bad it's wrong.
The Big Bang Theory · for an elegant solution that doesn't survive checking
SHELDON
But if a summer in Germany has taught me anything, it's that brutal honesty is its own kind of love.
Young Sheldon
ROY KENT
Don't you dare settle for fine.
Ted Lasso
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · GOING DEEP, PLANNING, DOCUMENTING
goes full Boyle.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
AMY
I'll make a binder.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
PHOEBE
He's her lobster.
Friends · for a perfect pairing
CHARLIE covers a whole wall in mail and string to connect it all.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · CODE REVIEW
DWIGHT
Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing.
The Office
SHELDON
You actually had it right in the first place. Once again, you've fallen for one of my classic pranks. Bazinga!
The Big Bang Theory · when review feedback talks you out of working code
MISSY
He got you there.
Young Sheldon · deadpan, when the reviewer wins the point
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · REPEATING ADVICE THAT WAS IGNORED
STANLEY
Did I stutter?
The Office
SHELDON knock, knock, knock — "Penny?" — three times, every time.
The Big Bang Theory · for advice you are now giving for the third time
ADULT SHELDON
Despite my repeated assurances that I could solve the problem with a brain scan and some low-voltage electric shocks, I was never given the opportunity. Such a shame.
Young Sheldon
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · PRIORITIES
APRIL
Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge.
Parks and Recreation
SHELDON
You have to throw away that jelly.
Young Sheldon · his first words after nearly choking to death
TED
I think that you might be so sure that you're one in a million, that sometimes you forget that out there, you're just one of eleven.
Ted Lasso · for a clever solo change that ignores the rest of the codebase
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · SECURITY
DWIGHT
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!
The Office · for leaked credentials
SHELDON
I made a real germ-proof hedge of protection.
Young Sheldon · for defence in depth that looks paranoid until the breach
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · EVERY INSTINCT WAS WRONG, INVERT THE APPROACH
JERRY
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
Seinfeld
MICHAEL
The real question, Eleanor… is what do we owe to each other?
The Good Place · for rethinking the design
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · THE REST OF THE SEASON
Oversimplified classifier or heuristic
JIAN-YANG
Hot dog. Not hot dog.
Silicon Valley
Vanity metric or made-up benchmark
quotes a Weissman score.
Silicon Valley
Formatting nitpick
RICHARD ends a relationship over tabs vs spaces.
Silicon Valley
Lucky fix nobody understands
BIG HEAD fails upward.
Silicon Valley
AI agent being destructive
SON OF ANTON deletes the whole codebase to remove the bugs.
Silicon Valley
Copying a competitor
GAVIN
I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.
Silicon Valley
Disagreeing but complying
HOLT
Fine. But in protest, I'm walking over there extremely slowly.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Weird legacy code
MICHAEL
Why are you the way that you are?
The Office
Giving up on tooling
RON throws the computer in a dumpster.
Parks and Recreation
Staging and prod diverged, evil twin config
EVIL ABED puts on a felt goatee.
Community
Cost misestimate, cloud bill
LUCILLE
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Arrested Development
Missing docs or commit message
J. WALTER WEATHERMAN
And that's why you always leave a note!
Arrested Development
Magic or clever-looking code
GOB
Illusions, Michael!
Arrested Development
A claim that is about to be proven wrong
ENSEMBLE
(Narrator: it was not.)
Arrested Development · after someone says something is fine
Swallowed errors, suppressed warnings
LLOYD BRAUN
Serenity now, insanity later.
Seinfeld
Request denied, permission error
SOUP NAZI
No soup for you!
Seinfeld
Duplicate side effects, missing idempotency
GEORGE double-dips the chip.
Seinfeld
Summary that skips the important part
yada yadas over the best part.
Seinfeld
Nemesis dependency or legacy system
JERRY
(with contempt)
Hello, Newman.
Seinfeld
The right fix, too late
GEORGE
The jerk store called, and they're running out of you!
Seinfeld · for a comeback that arrives after the meeting
How hard can it be?
JOEY
How you doin'?
Friends · for approaching an unfamiliar API
Can't decide, analysis paralysis
CHIDI
I feel fine! I DO have a stomachache. Why do I ALWAYS have a stomachache?
The Good Place
Taking on something hard
TED
Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, probably doing it wrong.
Ted Lasso
Unseen work that keeps things running
CHARLIE
A day that I pride myself on, a day that I've never failed on, and I don't plan to begin failing now!
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia