The Temp Life
- 2006 –2015
- Ended
- TV-PG
★ 10.0 TMDB Rating · 1 votes
A spoiled executive climbs his way back up the corporate ladder, one humiliating temp job at a time.
- Created by
- Wilson Cleveland
- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes
- 43
- Episode length
- ~10m
- First aired
- Nov 29, 2006
- Networks
- YouTube
- Original language
- English
- Origin
- United States
Cast of The Temp Life
Seasons
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Season 1
Nov 29, 2006
5 episodes
Mark comes to interview for a temp job at Pedtastic - a social network for shoe lace makers and meets Nick Chiapetta, the company's self-professed ‘’Deputy of Trouble.’’ New temp Laura is hired to manage Pedtastic’s new office.
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Season 2
Sep 14, 2008
7 episodes
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.
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Season 3
Feb 20, 2009
5 episodes
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.
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Season 4
Nov 15, 2009
18 episodes
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.
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Season 5
Dec 6, 2010
8 episodes
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.
