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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Chris Zito’s first scene has him walking into the office kitchen with blood pouring out of a bullet wound on his arm, followed by him pouring a bottle of alcoholic on it and stapling some paper towels over it, all while he swears that what he does on his off hours is his own motherf*cking business. Lani and Kaiser’s reactions indicate that this is not an uncommon occurrence.

** When Lani flashes back to why he’s afraid of cops in episode 2, there are additional newspaper articles besides the one about him as a child being so loud that a cop tackled him. One of them is a piece reporting on the death of Princess Diana written by someone clearly upset with the editor. The details of Lani’s own article show that the cop who tackled him in his childhood happens to have the same name as the one they call for the hostage situation, likely being the same person.

* RedOniBlueOni: Kaiser (rational, collected and serious) is the blue, next to Lani's (narcissistic, impulsive and loud) red.

Production of a first season of seven 15-minute episodes has begun. The pilot episode premiered exclusively to TFS's patrons on July 22, 2019, and will go public on Website/YouTube on March 21, 2020.

-->'''Kaiser''': Wait, hold on. You were at the Monday huddle this morning. How do you know about this?\\
'''Zito''': Scott. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to.\\

* IdiosyncraticThemeNaming: Episode titles have the prefix “Un-“ in them.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In episode 2, Stephan leaves the office (and the whole episode) the moment it’s confirmed that Lani’s “son” is kidnapped and not legally adopted.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Kaiser. Happens in the second episode when Lani’s antics cause him to just pull out a flask and just drain it.

* GuestStarring:
** Creator/ChrisRager in episode 2 as Officer Lionel Garfield, seen in the picture on the newspaper article in Lani’s flashback and heard on the phone during hostage negotiations.

** When Lani flashes back to why he’s afraid of cops in episode 2, there are additional newspaper articles besides the one about him as a child being so loud that a cop tackled him. One of them is a piece reporting on the death of Princess Diana written by someone clearly upset with the editor. The details of Lani’s own article show that the cop who tackled him in his childhood happens to have the same name as the one they call for the hostage situation, possibly being the same person.

** When Lani flashes back to why he’s afraid of cops in episode 2, there are additional newspaper articles besides the one about him as a child being so loud that a cop tackled him. One of them is a piece reporting on the death of Princess Diana written by someone clearly upset with the editor.

* AloneWithThePsycho: DoubleSubverted in Episode 1. Kaiser throws Stephan into an office room with Zito and is worried for the former when he leaves the room 22 minutes later, though Stephan insists he's fine and him and Zito just talked for a bit. The moment Kaiser leaves, Stephan breaks down and reveals that the experience was just as traumatic as Kaiser expected.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: The entire plot of the second episode. First, Lani unintentionally kidnaps a lost kid on the street and "adopts" him. Then, when Scott finally persuades him to call his mom and return him, Lani says that she needs to bring a hundred thousand dollars [[SkewedPriorities because most people don't even have a thousand squared away for emergencies]], then hangs up on her. Unsurprisingly this gets the police involved, but during the call with them he ends up hanging up on them.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Kaiser. Happens in the second episode when Lani's antics cause him to just pull out a flask and just drain it.

* {{Mockumentary}}: The series is styled as if it's a documentary.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: The entire plot of the second episode. First, Lani unintentionally kidnaps a lost kid on the street and "adopts" him. Then, when Scott finally persuades him to call his mom and return him, Lani says that she needs to bring a hundred thousand dollars [[SkewedPriorities because most people don't even have a thousand squared away for emergencies]], then hangs up on her. Unsurprisingly this gets the police involved.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Lani in episode 2 unintentionally kidnaps a kid he found on the street to "adopt" him, then when they try to call the kid's mom demands a hundred thousand dollars for his return because [[SkewedPriorities most people don't even have a thousand on hand for emergencies.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Stephan, and to a lesser extent, Scott.

* {{Flanderization}}: All the members of TFS play exaggerated versions of themselves, not unlike the versions of themselves seen in the April Fool's DBZ Kai II.9 episode.

* AloneWithThePsycho: DoubleSubverted in Episode 1. Kaiser throws Stephan into an office room with Zito and is worried for the former when he leaves the room 22 minutes later, though Stephan insists he’s fine. The moment Kaiser leaves, Stephan breaks down and reveals that the experience was just as traumatic as Kaiser expected.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The vehicle for the narrative is new employee Stephan.

* AloneWithThePsycho: DoubleSubverted. Kaiser throws Stephan into an office room with Zito and is worried for the former when he leaves the room 22 minutes later, though Stephan insists he’s fine. The moment Kaiser leaves, Stephan breaks down and reveals that the experience was just as traumatic as Kaiser expected.

* NoodleIncident: Zito walks into the kitchen with a blood pouring out of a bullet wound on his arm. Little explanation is given for this other than an implication that his life is generally this wild.

Production of a first season of seven 15-minute episodes has begun. The pilot episode premiered exclusively to TFS's patrons on July 22, 2019, and will go public on Website/YouTube in 2020.

'''''Unabridged''''' is a live-action series produced by Creator/TeamFourStar. It is a faux-behind-the-scenes look at the production cycle in TFS Studios through the eyes of new employee Stephan Krosecz.