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jack ryder

Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.09.25 at 16:52
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Episode 412: King Ho

    Rather than a generic Odd Jobs counselor, Jack is confronted with Julius J, a recruiting pimp who makes quick work of adding Jack to his collection of hos.
    Though he initially questions the morality of turning tricks, a quick chat with Max assures Jack that the body-for-bux transaction is a Ryder tradition.

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jack ryder

Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.09.18 at 12:33
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Episode 411: You've Almost Been Served

    Jack takes on the dubious honor of serving subpoenas to minor offenders, but can't quite get the hang of the job. His targets, despite being decrepitly old or morbidly obese, manage to elude him.
    It's only when Leo is accused of being a swindler that Jack feels confident that he can catch a man that's already imprisoned in his own house.

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Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.09.11 at 12:28
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Episode 410: Revolving Jack

    In an uncharacteristic stroke of luck, Jack lands the dream job of spray-tanning super models.
    But Jack's so eager to get to work, that he manages to lodge himself in the modeling agency's turnstyle. With only the cynical feminist, Julie Atkins, stuck with him, Jack tries to recount his life in a positive light- much to Julie's skepticism.
    [Now, I know you'd rather gnaw off your own hand then tune in to a clip show, but take my word for it- it's hilarious, you'll gain super human powers from watching, and there's gratuitous nudity. Two of these things are entirely true.]


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jack ryder

Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.09.04 at 17:36
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Production is rolling on at a steady pace, so the blog will go back to being updated weekly- so check in next Tuesday!

Episode 409: Master of Temps

    Under his enigmatic boss, Steve, Jack learns the internal workings of Odd Jobs. To his surprise, not everybody is slapped with the hodge-podge of dead end jobs he's been forced into. Those are just the D List positions.
    Feeling he's finally graduated into a solid C List job, Jack manages to fritter away even more time than the average office worker.
    Strangely enough, his brilliant method of "dumping a pile of potential job folders in front of the job-hunting temps" boosts productivity so much that Jack becomes a company favorite- much to the irritation of his hard working colleagues.
    Meanwhile, Bobby finds himself on the other side of Jack's life, as he quits his job at the company store and starts the soul destroying journey of looking for work in a depressing world that doesn't want to hire anybody, no matter how bloody qualified they are.

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Odd Job Jack, On air!

Posted on 2007.07.31 at 15:44
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Before we get to yet another riveting episode summary, just a reminder to sidle on over to oddjobjack.com to register. Every time you register I get to go a day without flogging.
But seriously- Sundays at 9:30pm on the Comedy Network: watch it, love it, and dwell forever on the two episodes you've already missed if you haven't had your eyes glued to the screen this past fortnight.
Now onward!
Because who doesn't get all warm and tingly at the mention of time paradoxes?

Episode 408: Twelve Chickens

    Jack takes a job at Edna Daze's chicken farm- a task that would make PETA members swoon. But though Jack is a bit queasy at the prospect of beak-clipping, he does his job diligently- until his familiar ineptitude kicks in, and faced with the job of killing all the chickens to prevent Bird Flu, Jack manages to leave one chick alive.

    From simple job to surreal adventure, Jack is soon met with himself: from the future!

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Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.06.13 at 14:27
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Episode 407: Ryder's Ride

    When Jack is assigned the job of Limo Driver, he jumps on the opportunity to relive his teen years of partying and excess. But chauffeuring kids to and from their proms doesn't turn out to be the wild ride Jack expected; far from accepting his attempts at showing them a good time, the kids mock Jack for being way too old to be such a try-hard.
    Defeated and feeling his age, Jack turns to fellow limo driver, Devon, for advise. Devon tells Jack that the only way to lessen the beatings is to act with refinement, and hope the kids follow suit.
    Meanwhile, Bobby revisits his past as well; his high school crush, Haley, approaches him to DJ the upcoming prom.

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Voice Talent!

Posted on 2007.05.30 at 16:40
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A partial list of stars for OJJ Season4 has finally been released!

402 - Sean Cullen
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404 - Henry Rollins
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406 - Carrie Fisher
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407 - Henry Winkler
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Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.05.23 at 15:29
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Episode 406: The Beauty Beast

    Jack is picked to assist Dr. Finch, a popular plastic surgeon.
    Though he tries to argue against slicing and dicing one's features for purely cosmetic reasons, Jack is quick to change his tune when the clinic's sexy secretary, Katie, catches his eye.
    But being a shallow and fickle person herself, Katie can always find flaws in Jack, no matter how many nips and tucks he endures; ultimately, Jack sees the dark side of too much surgery- his carefully crafted new face turns to putty, and he is chased out of the glamorous cesspool of plastic people, into the literal sewer, where he learns the meaning of true beauty from the people who know it best- terrifyingly botched beauty-enthusiasts.

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jack ryder

Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.05.09 at 13:38
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Tunes: Soul Position - No Excuse for Loving
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Episode 405: Flight of the Bumbling Idiot

    Under the e-distracted instruction of his new career councilor, Jack takes a job as a flight attendant. He's tutored in the ways of air travel by his gregarious partner, Debbie. Assuming that Jack is gay (the stewardess hat is pretty convincing), she thinks nothing of making him her confident, pointing out cute guys, and even getting changed in front of him.
    Unfortunately, the partial nudity completely distracts Jack from a suspicious passenger, who's left to his own seedy devices while Jack's attention is focused on more sensuous horizons.
    Meanwhile, Max faces the sad realization that, behind the wheel of a car, she's a geriatric killing machine, and is forced to give up her license.

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jack ryder

Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.05.03 at 12:56
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Episode 404: Insecticidal Tendencies

    It's any pacifist's (including Jack's) nightmare: killing innocent creatures just because they aren't considered cute by traditional standards.
    But after a few snoot fulls of bug spray courtesy of his partner in crime, Larry, Jack jumps on the bug-fragging bandwagon and is as ready as anybody to completely decimate an entire family of earwigs.
    But once the high from the DDT wares off, will Jack's forgotten morals come back to haunt him?

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Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.04.24 at 12:07
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Episode 403: The Good Locksmith

    Jack takes on the world's most tempting job: cracking security.
    Under the tutelage of Eli Farley, a once great locksmith who had his abilities crushed by blindness and finger-mangling, Jack learns the tricks of the trade. But despite the constant temptation to bribe, steal, and coheres to get more than his fair pay, Jack remains an honest locksmith.
    Much the opposite, Bobby and Leo (along with a band of recruited ex-cons) plan to rob a bank, solely for the thrill of doing it better than every heist movie to date.

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jack ryder

Episode Summary

Posted on 2007.04.11 at 11:52
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Tunes: Sonata of Temptation-Ivy
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Episode 402: MindHumper

    Astoundo's magical repertoire of pulling rabbits out of hats and sawing ladies in half isn't grabbing the audiences it used to, so he hires Jack as his spandex-clad assistant.
    Regardless of how fabulous he looks in sequins, Jack yearns to put on his own magic show, on prime-time TV, with illusions that will Hump the Minds of Millions.
    Meanwhile, away from the world of smoke and mirrors, Leo and Bobby face their own magical misadventure, as a talisman causes them to switch bodies.

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Art Board: Leprechauns

Posted on 2007.04.05 at 13:19
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Aaaand, We're Back!

Posted on 2007.04.03 at 17:48
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After a brief sojourn, Odd Job Jack is back in full swing. I'll be summarizing and screen-capping episodes as they near completion, so without further ado...

Episode 401: No One Likes An Ape

    Under his new career councilor, a paroled convict named Sheila, Jack is assigned to the notoriously humiliating job of being a mascot (for Dario's Discount Beds, a failing mattress store).
    After becoming stuck in the confined, itchy and smelly gorilla suit, Jack's brain becomes as simian as his outer appearance. Despite administering a little tough love on Jack, even Dario can't control his newly animalistic worker, who breaks free and runs amok in downtown Canada.
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The Mid-break Update

Posted on 2006.11.04 at 12:16
Feelin': sore
News has been slow lately, mainly due to your favourite blogger being out of a job until next season ramps up; but news has been trickling down to me, and all of it’s good.
Season four of Odd Job Jack is now in design. Dave’s cranking out the new characters, and fresh scripts are rolling in.

I’ll pass on any new info as I get it (like the moment we find out Jack’s jobs!) so stay tuned.

If you want a Jack fix until then, remember FreeJack is still up and running. Since all of Season 3’s episodes have been aired, the complete set of Jack resources for animation are available for download: http://www.oddjobjack.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465
Have a go, make Jack do what you’ve always wanted to see. ;)
(Macromedia Flash needed for zany adventures.)
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Gaming!

Posted on 2006.10.13 at 18:53
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The season has come to an end, and OJJ saw another amazing run.
In addition to the show itself gaining popularity, we’ve also had about 400,000 game plays in the 2 weeks since we released our games to the web.

If you’re interested, you can download 18 of our 24 games and host them on their own sites. All the download links are available here.

(Our games are already on: addictinggames.com, twbbs.net.tw, leenks.com, minijuegos.com, spele.nl, newgrounds.com, freeworldgroup.com, madville.com, hallpass.com, funny-games.biz , thatvideogamesite.com)
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Odd Job Jack on DVD!

Posted on 2006.09.29 at 13:49
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Just in time for Season 3's wrap-up, Season 2 has been released on DVD.

It's been featured on the Odd Job Jack site, here.

Retail released happens October 3rd at:
Wal Mart
Future Shop
Best Buy
HMV
Music World

But you can buy Odd Job Jack Season 2 right now through amazon.ca, here.

More DVD information is available on Odd Job Jack.com!
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jack ryder

Episode 313

Posted on 2006.09.29 at 13:01
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Episode 312: Social Worker, Part 2

    Rescued from the brink of suicidal calamity by Vanessa's astounding counseling skills, the wedding party continues uninterrupted, and Jack enters into the wonderful and terrifying world of matrimony before being whisked away to the “romantic”, war torn wastes of Africa.
    Neglected and sexually frustrated by his wife's constant need to give aid to refugees and wounded animals, Jack's honeymoon takes a turn for the even worse when he's kidnapped by revolutionaries. When his ransom video is broadcast across the globe Babs, Bobby and Leo (who, now cured of his fear of the outside world has become a rippling mass of muscle and aggression) rush to his rescue.
    As Vanessa volunteers to be kidnapped herself, sympathizing with the proletariat struggle of the poor indigenous people of the area, Jack and her barely get a moment of reconciliation before Betty arrives with the Odd Job Jet to free them! Witnessing Betty's new compassion Jack is confronted with his feelings for her, and decides his marriage was a mistake.
    Understanding to a fault, his now estranged wife bids them good luck, steals the jet, and takes off to rescue the world from it's troubles.
    But love doesn't fly people back to Canada, leaving Jack and his family to trek across the Sahara desert.
    Back in Canada, Jack cheerfully goes to Odd Jobs to see Betty and start temp work again. But he finds her office completely bare. A janitor explains that she was fired for stealing the company plane, and fled the country.
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Episode 312

Posted on 2006.09.22 at 15:25
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Episode 312: Social Worker, Part 1

    Jack, overcome with unrequited love for the uninterested Betty, tearfully accepts his latest assignment: Social Worker.
    Overwhelmed by the barrage of phone calls while working a Crisis Help-Line, Jack finds comfort in the advice and empathy of Vanessa, a beautiful and kind coworker.
    Meanwhile, Bobby is horribly electrocuted, and the surge of power through his brain alters his sexual orientation - turning him gayer than Christmas.
    As Jack finally finds acceptance in a woman who seems to celebrate his traits instead of lamenting over his incompetence, it seems wedding bells are ringing.
    As the day of joyful union approaches, Bobby must come to terms with his newfound preference, Babs must live with crippling bankruptcy, Spoons must find her own identity, Leo must conquer his agoraphobia, Betty must discover if she truly cares for Jack, and Max must break on through to the other side!
    On the wedding day, just as Jack is about to tie the knot, Vanessa has to make the ultimate altruistic move: working on her wedding day, to save Jack's family.
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Episode 311

Posted on 2006.09.15 at 15:29
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Episode 311: Crabs

    Lured to the frigid waters of the sea by the promise of wealth and dignity, and despite the overwhelming odds of his certain death deep beneath the crushing weight of the ocean, Jack signs on for adventure as an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
    He is crewed under the eccentric Captain Wilde, who captures the imagination of his men with terrible tales of the Giant Crab, a ferocious sea beast that snatches the very lives of men as well as their portable data organizers; and how he swears to seek vengeance against the creature that took his Blackberry from him so long ago.
    Jack survives this arctic peril only because of QuibQuib, the Maori sailor who also seeks the Giant Crab, as it's his quest to find and kill it as his ancestors did, thus attaining holy ascension (and perhaps, with some butter, the most sanctified of delicious entrees as well).
    When the Giant Crab turns from myth to reality and attacks, Jack has to find his inner courage to face it, or die!
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