A HALF-HOUR ADULT ANIMATED WORKPLACE COMEDY
Angela Foster and Ben Rizzo lose their jobs at a comedy network and land at Freedom Stream — where survival becomes a shared art form.
THE TRAILER
31 seconds. No context. Accurate.
THE PREMISE
After losing their jobs at a comedy network, longtime creative partners Angela Foster and Ben Rizzo land at Freedom Stream, a flag-waving streaming service where they plan to collect a paycheck and keep their opinions to themselves.
That lasts about ten minutes.
Surrounded by oversized executive egos, baffling office politics, and coworkers with competing agendas, Angela and Ben turn survival into a shared art form. They make presidents sexy, write AI songs about their boss's busted shoes, and treat the arrival of free chocolate like a military operation. They're talented, they're exhausted, and they're frequently making things worse.
As their new workplace starts to feel like home, ambition, loyalty, and petty rivalries test a friendship built on making each other laugh.
Red, White & Screwed is a half-hour adult animated comedy about creative people, corporate absurdity, and the dangerous moment when a job you took for the benefits becomes a place you actually care about.
THE HEART OF THE SHOW
Two people. One career's worth of shorthand.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR — 45
Angela spent twenty years making fun of companies like this one. She's excellent at her job and honest about how she feels about it, which is a combination the company is still learning to process.
“Health insurance. Direct deposit. No opinions.”
Why she took the job — EP 101
SENIOR ART DIRECTOR — 40s
Ben spent five months being available. He would like one month of invisible. His offer says Senior Art Director; his badge says Temporary Contractor. Angela is going to fix everything, which means he'll have to help. Then somebody makes something genuinely funny, and staying invisible gets harder.
“Good. First day and I've already been attacked by America.”
EP 101
THE FLOOR
The rest of the floor. Tap anyone to open their file.
TAP A FILE TO OPEN IT — NO BADGE REQUIRED.
THE FLOOR IS FULL.
(IT ISN'T.)
THE WORLD
The signage. The software. The programming. The notes. This is the company Angela and Ben walked into.
01 — BRAND
The mandate that explains almost everything.
02 — SYSTEMS
Internal tools, audience dashboards, approvals, metrics and whatever leadership is calling “efficiency” this week.
03 — PROGRAMMING
Freedom Stream turns history into programming IP.
04 — CAMPAIGN
The campaign that pulls Angela and Ben back into caring about the work.
05 — CULTURE
Corporate authenticity, professionally scheduled.
06 — PLACE
A gold eagle. The wing occupies the walking path. Ben learns this immediately.
CAMPAIGN BOARD — ROUND 4 NOTES
CREATIVE BULLPEN · WEDNESDAY MORNING
Latest internal feedback. Nobody remembers who requested half of it.
INTERNAL FILE REF: FS-BRAND-0417 · MORE AMERICA · DISTRIBUTION: EVERYONE
THE SERIES ENGINE
01
Collect the paycheck. Keep their opinions to themselves. Go home.
02
A revised brief. A leadership exercise. A fight over free chocolate.
03
Talent, petty rivalries, and making each other laugh turn survival into belonging.
THEY TAKE THE PAYCHECK.THEY KEEP THEIR HEADS DOWN.THEY PLAN NOT TO CARE.THAT LASTS ABOUT TEN MINUTES.
A Lincoln shoot. An AI song about busted shoes. A mission for free chocolate. Their friendship—and flashes of real creative joy—turn a job they took for the benefits into a place they actually care about.
The rest is even harder to explain.
SEASON ONE
Eight half-hours of creative work, petty rivalries, and a friendship that keeps making things worse. Start with the pilot.
101 — PILOT
Angela and Ben start at Freedom Stream hoping to collect a paycheck and stay invisible. Then Dan asks them to make George Washington sexy, Parker challenges their instincts, and a documentary campaign becomes impossible not to care about.
“Sir. You struck the eagle.”
Security guard, to Ben
102
Angela and Ben wrap an approved Lincoln portrait shoot, only for Dan to reinvent it by phone from Montauk—and a private joke gives the revisions a life of their own.
103
Holes in Elliot's shoes inspire Angela and Ben to make an AI country song about their boss, and a private joke turns into a production with far too many collaborators.
104
Parker tries to modernize the office snack system, while Angela and Ben turn the hunt for free chocolate into a cross-floor operation with fake meetings and very real rivalries.
105
Family Day brings Angela's veteran father, Ben's kid, and Gary's wife into the office, where corporate hospitality and a missing AV key test everyone's professional dignity.
106
Ben gets invited to a corporate off-site without Angela, and his unexpected ease with the executives unsettles their partnership while her quiet day at the office unravels.
107
At Freedom Stream's live advertiser event, Parker juggles conflicting guest promises and Ben takes an animation segment onstage while the team tries to keep the night on its feet.
108
Angela and Ben take one day off and promise not to check in. With the rest of the floor in charge, staying out of the work becomes their hardest assignment yet.
THE CREATOR
Ken Rosenkrantz is an entertainment creative whose career has spanned Comedy Central, MTV Entertainment Group, NBCUniversal and FOX Nation — where he worked on marketing campaigns for South Park, Andy Samberg's Digman!, Crank Yankers, and Tuning Out the News. For more than two decades, he's worked inside the creative departments, campaigns, launches, rebrands, reviews and executive meetings that inspired the world of Red, White & Screwed.
This is what twenty years of notes eventually turns into.
CONTACT
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INDUSTRY REVIEW
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EVERY COMPANY SAYS THEY'RE A FAMILY.
THIS ONE MIGHT ACTUALLY KILL YOU.