Through clever and odd self-introduction videos we quickly meet jPod's five 'Podsters.' First, there's our lead, Ethan Jarlewski (DAVID KOPP), an easygoing everyman who's also a computer gaming "gore specialist." Ethan's got a thing for new arrival and other lead...

Kaitlin Joyce (EMILIE ULLERUP) who's a new kid in town starting with this episode. Having lost 154 pounds on the "Underground Loser Diet," Kaitlin left a good job at Apple in California to follow a love to Vancouver that quickly soured. Kaitlin's cubicle is diagonally across from that of...

John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS), Ethan's best friend, an expert on pop culture, who can find any piece of information necessary on the internet. John is the opposite of his coworker...

Cowboy (BEN AYRES), jPod's genius core level programmer who likes to smoke, write code, download porn and karaoke to Nine Inch Nails all at the same time. Cowboy's female counterpart is...

Bree (STEPH SONG), the brilliant, seductive product of a controlling Chinese family. Bree is jPod's motion capture expert who likes shopping for six-inch heels and bullwhips on eBay.

Having met the five Podsters, we watch them in turn meet their strange new boss, Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM). Steve is a weird cobbling together of unchecked ego, bizarre management theories and truly bad gaming ideas which he foists upon the Podsters, whom he renames his own personal "idea lab." Steve also falls head over heels for...

Ethan's mother, Carol Jarlewski (SHERRY MILLER), who we meet as she phone's Ethan for help because she's (semi)accidentally electrocuted a biker in the family's basement, now turned into a reasonably successful pot growing operation. Carol and Ethan spend much of the episode trying to dispose the biker's body, keeping it a secret from Ethan's father...

Jim Jarlewski (ALAN THICKE), a devoted husband but also a boozing, philandering laid-off engineer turned movie extra. Jim also needs help from Ethan to remove his current flame, Ellen (DOMINIKA WOLSKI) from Ethan's old bedroom where she's passed out from eating Carol's prized pot plant.

And thus Ethan tries to negotiate his way through the confusing new world of Vancouver in the start of the 21st century, a place riddled with amorality and inverted value systems. And on a less abstract level, Ethan also has to suck it up and work with the Podsters to add a perky and dorky turtle character into their beloved computer skateboarding game, BoardX—a decision which has enraged the podsters.

Across the pilot episode we switch between the real world and the computerized world where bodies are broken and crushed and buried, and where the line between real and artificial is blurred, much to the viewer's amusement. As Carol says to Ethan while reburying a body for the third time, "Ethan, stop being so squeamish. Hasn't the Internet toughened you up at all?"

"Mom, excuse my lack of desensitization."

"Ethan, stop the car!"

"What! What! What's wrong?"

"Over there... it's a garage sale!"

After an emotional rollercoaster ride of a day, Ethan and Kaitlin kick back and learn they share a mutual passion for the video game Defendoid, and ...maybe something else, too.