You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

And so you buried the thing

That's not the end of the thing

Don't you like eyes yet there's a spooky surprise

And though you cannot revise

And nothing ever really dies.

Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have.

I am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. And it is Max Fun Drive. It is the time of year where we celebrate Max Fund members and remind you that this show exists because listeners like you support it.

And this is our first Max Fun Drive table read episode of 2025.

We actually have two table read episodes for you, this Fun Drive.

They are two episodes of the same show.

That show is Buffalo Tens,

written by and starring the incredible Ricky Lindholm and Natasha Legerro. Ricky and Natasha co-created and starred in the Comedy Central show Another Period, but you know them from so many

other things as well. Ricky is one half of Garfunkel and Oates. You've seen

her and everything from Big Bang Theory to Knives Out to Wednesday. Natasha, you know from her

comedy and from Chelsea lately and as a voice actor and about one million things. They wrote this

wild pilot about two dating consultants in Buffalo, New York for Fox.

Fox liked it enough to commission them to write a second episode, and then they passed.

So here it is on Dead Pilot Society.

We recorded this live at the Elysian Theater with a cast that included Ricky as Sherry,

Natasha as Cammy, India to Beaufort from Nightcourt and

one day to time as Melanie, Joshua Molina from the West Wing as Phil, Luke Tenney from

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