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Genre | Comedy |
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Directed by | Sam Kass |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
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Running time | 8 to 10 minutes |
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Network | Crackle |
Release | January 16 March 13, 2009 | –
Star-ving is a comedy web series of episodes running eight to ten minutes, based very loosely on the life of David Faustino from Married... with Children. His co-star is Corin Nemec, who played the title character in Parker Lewis Can't Lose. The start date for the episodes was January 16, 2009. The series is a production of FNB Entertainment LLC in association with Sony Pictures Television, webcast on Crackle.
In 2006, Faustino and his writing partners, Corin Nemec and Todd Bringewatt, started a production company called F.N.B. Entertainment. In 2007, they wrote a two-page treatment for Star-ving, which they took to director Sam Kass, a former writer and producer on Seinfeld. After shooting the pilot, they took it to Crackle, where twelve webisodes were ordered. In the series, "Faustino plays an exaggerated version of himself — he's broke, can't find a job and his wife has left him for Coolio." [1] Faustino has said of the show, "We don't push the envelope, we're shredding it." [2]
Faustino's Married... with Children co-stars, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate and Ed O'Neill, make cameo appearances in the series as themselves.
No. | Title | Release date | |
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1 | "Begging Ed [3]" | January 16, 2009 | |
David Faustino tries to solicit money from former co-star Ed O'Neill ( Al Bundy), with no help from Corin. | |||
2 | "Gilbert's Kid [4]" | January 16, 2009 | |
David babysits Sparky, Gilbert Gottfried's 34-year-old mentally challenged adopted son. | |||
3 | "Straight Outta Compton [5]" | January 16, 2009 | |
Coolio saves Dave from an angry black mob that Corin knows well. | |||
4 | ""Married with Children"..The Movie [6]" | January 23, 2009 | |
Dave's big chance to play his old role is usurped by Seth Green. The rest of the 'family' likes the idea. | |||
5 | "The Scheize Flick [7]" | January 23, 2009 | |
Dave gets an offer to make a film in Germany. After celebrating with Ron Jeremy, he arrives to find he'll be doing more than 'brown-nosing' on the set. | |||
6 | "Just One Drink [8]" | January 30, 2009 | |
Executives from 'The Network' including Ahmed Best ( Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars) offer Dave a show. But then Dave downs a beer to commemorate the occasion, and things go south. | |||
7 | "Starving…Literally [9]" | February 6, 2009 | |
Dave and Corin run into all kinds of trouble trying to find something to eat, some involving Kato Kaelin. | |||
8 | "Going O.J. [10]" | February 13, 2009 | |
When the porn shop needs cash to survive, Dave, his mom, and Corin travel to Las Vegas to steal back some unusual memorabilia. | |||
9 | "Stealing Alan Thicke [11]" | February 20, 2009 | |
Kidnapping Alan Thicke to extort money from his pop star son does not turn out like Dave and Corin thought it would. | |||
10 | "El Al-Qaeda [12]" | February 27, 2009 | |
Ed Asner plays twins in the episode, one a therapist, the other the head of a major foreign studio. Things are looking up for Dave and Corin until a misunderstanding takes place. | |||
11 | "Getting Huge [13]" | March 6, 2009 | |
After an ill-fated trip to the gym, during which Dave happens upon his ex-wife and Coolio doing some inappropriate stretching, a locker room encounter turns ugly. | |||
12 | "Deliverance [14]" | March 13, 2009 | |
Corin decides that he and Dave need a vacation, so they visit Corin's cousins in Kentucky and somehow wind up working in a meth lab. |