The series was born out of our need to do something that 1) could be done for next to no money and 2) require as small a cast as possible. The first thing that I (a.k.a Team Billy) wrote for Team Bj was a partial script based on our awesomely un-awesome kickball team back in Victoria. We were going to shoot this with our coworkers and teammates, but my mojo fizzled out about halfway through the script (finishing it is still on my to-do list.) After that, I set out writing my first web series script, Sand in My Cubicle - something of a mashup of Lost, Lord of the Flies and The Office. I wrote 14 episodes of that, but we couldn't get production moving on it because it involved a large cast and a beach setting. Team Bj relocated to Denton (i.e. real freaking far from a beach) and SiMC was shelved.
I fled Victoria shortly after Bj, settling in College Station. Bj was getting the itch to film something, but we didn't exactly have anything filmable under current circumstances. This inspired me to come up with a workable idea. I thought about what we should be able to pull off, and all I came up with was two or three guys in a room not really doing anything. And so Insourcing was born.
Insourcing follows two customer complaint operators, Travis and James, through their days. James is a hard enough working fellow trying to do his job with as little distraction and drama as possible. Travis is not so much concerned with his job and tries to keep himself entertained by creating as much distraction and drama as possible. They are led by their stalwart manager Mr. Dicklan (pronounced D'Klan), who strives to be their lighthouse in the storm and never passes up a training opportunity.
This merry trio works at United Family Products, a company that produces many of the products seen in infomercials such as the Spin Daddy pottery wheel, Shoe-in-a-Tube, Liquid Seamstress and the Sprechen Sie Spanish foreign language system. Bobby G. is the face of the company and one of the most popular pitchmen on late night TV.
How does all of this fit together? I've written out the entire 15-episode series and I'm still not sure myself. We're shooting for a late-fall release of the first episode and we hope you'll get a chuckle or two out of it. Until then, we'll keep you posted.
--Team Billy