Think Breaking Bad meets Broad City.

Imagine if Abbi Jacobson and Walter White got together and created a love child. Okay, don’t imagine the act itself. That’s disgusting. But the offspring. The offspring would be this show. In short, imagine a very funny, drug-dealing baby. (Disclaimer: There are no babies in this show.)

What happens in the pilot...
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Sam and Marty don’t plan on becoming drug lords in Bolivia. It’s one of those things that just happens, kind of like stepping in dog crap or contracting gonorrhea.

In fact, their original idea is to do good in the world as Peace Corps volunteers. Or at least that’s Marty’s plan. Sam winds up in Bolivia for an entirely different reason: “Me dig toilet holes?” she initially protests to her grad school advisor at New Orleans University. But she’s studying global health and development and it turns out she won’t have to write her thesis if she joins the Peace Corps.

By the time Sam arrives in Bolivia, Marty is pretty fed up. She’s tired of being poor, tired of making everything from scratch, and tired of trying in vain to teach English to a group of badly behaved orphans. So when Sam suggests they go in search of drugs, just for recreational purposes, it comes at exactly the right moment.
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What follows is a journey of mind-altering proportions, a trip on a multi-colored bus with 15 orphans to find drugs in a town where the only dealer has already been arrested and a French international aid worker with plans to save the world is on an obsessive crusade to keep the place drug-free.
The final version of the script included 42 children and a Bolivian bus. Oh yeah, there was also a cop, a nun, and a couple of llamas. ​
In real life, the 16 kids who play Marty's orphans live in a children's home for victims of physical and sexual abuse. They were very sweet and very troubled and I wanted to adopt all of them. Oh, and they couldn't grasp the concept of a "pilot" and kept calling it "the movie." Eventually we all started calling it "the movie."
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