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The Temp Life
2006 - 2015 10.0 (1 votes) 5 Seasons
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Genres
Comedy
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Created By
Wilson Cleveland

The Temp Life

Overview

A spoiled executive climbs his way back up the corporate ladder, one humiliating temp job at a time.

Key Crew

Director: Andrew Y. Park

Top Cast

Wilson Cleveland
Wilson Cleveland

Nick Chiapetta

Mark Jude Rywelski
Mark Jude Rywelski

Mark Sebastian

Rachel Risen
Rachel Risen

Alina Deloris

Laura Kowalcyk
Laura Kowalcyk

Laura Reynolds

Thom Woodley
Thom Woodley

Stormy Simonsen

Chris Stetson
Chris Stetson

Clark

Seasons

Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2008)

Nick gets conned into selling his Pedtastic social network startup for shoe lace professionals to Commodity Staffing in a “multi-hundred dollar transaction.” Nick unwittingly makes Pedtastic’s only four employees - Mark, Laura, Paul and Caitlin part of the deal by contractually obligating them to become temps with Commodity Staffing for one year. In the season finale cliffhanger episode titled, “Where in the World?” Paul and Caitlin are accidentally outsourced to a call center in Thailand and Nick falls unconscious after drinking some bad coffee.

7 episodes

Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2009)

The third season premiered on February 19, 2009 with the episode titled, “Dream Big!” Nick’s guardian angel Tom Cruise (played by Evan Ferrante) comes to him in a dream and convinces him to to take a 33-week sabbatical and leave Mark and Laura in charge of Commodity Staffing.

5 episodes

Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2009)

Nick returns from sabbatical to find he and Commodity Staffing have been sued out of business and pushed out of his office space by Celltons, a cell phone button-maker. Having lost everything in the lawsuit, Nick takes a temp job transcribing video resume submissions for Celltons' Head of Human Acquisitions, Alina Deloris (Rachel Risen). When Celltons CEO, Eve Randall (Illeana Douglas) threatens layoffs, Nick plots to get Alina fired by recruiting only the least-qualified temps who apply to work at Celltons including Nancy Roder (Taryn Southern) and Stevie P. (Sandeep Parikh). Nick succeeds in getting Alina fired and convinces Eve to hire him as Celltons’ new head of Human Acquisitions.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Here Comes Trouble
2009-11-15

Nick Trouble Chiapetta, an incompetent temp agency CEO returns from a self-imposed 33-week Mexican vacation to learn he's broke, unemployed and has lost his swank office space to Celltons, a cell phone button making company.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 2: Human Relations
2009-11-15

Broke and in need of a paycheck, Nick meets with Celltons touchy-feely Head of Human Relations, Stormy Simonsen in search of a job.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 3: Trollish
2009-11-22

Nick meets his new boss: Alina Deloris, head of Human Acquisitions at Celltons and learns his new 'management position' consists of transcribing painfully awkward video resumes.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 4: Nancy Roder
2009-11-23

Special guest star Taryn Southernis Nancy Roder, a hamster-loving recent grad from Oklahoma who can't wait to show off her many skills and interests working as a temp at Celltons.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 5: Samir Patel
2009-11-23

Nick reviews a video resume from USC grad Samir 'Stevie P.' Patel who is all about passion, football, headbands and the Blue Man Group.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 6: Cynthia and Pilar
2009-11-24

Nick must transcribe a misfiled video resume from Cynthia and Pilar (special guest stars Angela Espinosa and Wendy Rosoff), owners of west coast market researcher Groupthink who have sent Alina a request for temps through Celltons' video resume channel by mistake.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 7: Scott Richesen
2009-12-01

Scott Richeson may have some serious problems. Being profoundly nervous and emotionally fragile is not one of them.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 8: Closet Case
2009-12-02

With Alina watching his every move, Nick vows to ditch his new broom closet office and claw his way back up the corporate ladder.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 9: Office Bromance
2010-02-01

Nick's plan to ruin Alina begins when the profoundly unqualified Stevie P. arrives for his temp job interview.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 10: The Interview
2015-02-09

Following Nick's "career advice," Stevie P. does his best to impress Alina during his temp job interview.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 11: Donald's Mission
2010-02-15

As part of his plan to discredit Alina, Nick gives Mark a Flip camera to secretly record Donald's attempt to get Larry, Cindy and Lianne to admit they hate their temp jobs.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 12: Touchdown!
2010-02-16

Laura has a crush on Pete and Mark gets an on-the-job injury courtesy of Stevie P.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 13: No Class Action
2010-02-22

Nick overhears Mark threatening Stormy and Clark with a lawsuit over the "Stevie P. incident" and gleefully drop-kicks Alina under the bus.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 14: Going Down
2010-03-01

Stormy tries to keep Nick and Alina from killing each other.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 15: The Boss
2010-04-05

Everyone scrambles to impress Celltons' steely CEO, Eve Randall (special guest star Illeana Douglas) when she comes to town bearing bad news about cost-cutting.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 16: Coming Together
2010-04-12

Nick makes a last-ditch attempt to get Mark and Laura's help in getting Alina fired.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 17: The Hopeful
2010-04-19

Nick drags Nancy Roder (Taryn Southern) into his plan to bring down Alina.

Runtime: 10 min
Episode 18: Back in Business
2010-04-26

Someone gets fired. Someone gets hired. Someone gets...sick.

Runtime: 10 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2010)

Nick (Wilson Cleveland) is living his best life. Celltons has become the number-two cell phone button company ever since Eve Randall (Illeana Douglas) fired Alina and put him back in charge of hiring temps. Little does Nick know that Eve has hired his estranged half-brother Eddie (Craig Bierko) to keep an eye on him. But Eddie has his own score to settle and secretly teams up with Alina to humiliate Nick and push him out of the company. Nick teams up with Cook (Milo Ventimiglia),the office lunch cart guy to catch a pastrami sandwich thief. Nick gets conned into hiring Thomas Clancy (Mark Gantt), the worst corporate spy in the history of corporate spies. Stevie P. (Sandeep Parikh) gets into a love triangle with Nancy Roder (Taryn Southern) and her twin sister Tammy (Jessica Lee Rose). The temps undergo corporate sensitivity training led by Counselor Rick (Tony Janning), a de-motivational speaker on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In the series finale episode titled “Return of the Eddie” which aired on January 23, 2011, Nick and Eddie reconcile and quit Celltons to open a lemonade stand in Mexico. They take all of the temps with them, leaving Alina all alone.

8 episodes

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