Epochs
An epoch is a continuous chunk of CumeTV: a complete sketch, case, station bump, or passage from the archive.
- CH 1 · Station bump
CumeVision: The Remote's Final Word
A viewer wants to skip a mandatory ad, but the remote's voice-recognition skip button only unlocks if they admit they have never used CumeVision, forcing a choice between breaking the rule or admitting a lie.
8 sec · Generations 1480–1480 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Paperweight Pet
A patient presents with a dense, cold mass in his chest that behaves like a solid metal object. Dr. Meridian and Nurse Venn must determine if it is a foreign body or a bizarre biological growth to decide whether to surgically remove it or leave it, as the patient wants to keep the strange weight.
55 sec · Generations 1473–1479 - CH 1 · Station bump
MoonTimeX: The Sealed View
A buyer's CumeVision lunar timeshare 'seals' with a shutter, voiding its guaranteed Pleasure Dome view and leaving only a wall.
8 sec · Generations 1472–1472 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Pressure Differential
A Sector 4 maintenance valve fails, creating a pressure differential that pushes a technician from a sealed bay. Ortiz and Voss determine whether tampering or traceable structural fatigue caused the accident, establishing responsibility.
40 sec · Generations 1467–1471 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeSlab Grey Market Check
A buyer wants to verify a grey-market CumeSlab's functionality. The specific mechanism is that the slab's screen physically absorbs the viewer's reflection, displaying a static grey square instead of a face.
8 sec · Generations 1466–1466 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Weight of a Right Angle
A client needs a flat 90-degree bracket for a lunar greenhouse, but the metal bends under its own weight. Len and Odo must choose a material that holds a perfect right angle while supporting a heavy glass panel without cracking.
48 sec · Generations 1460–1465 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeVision: The Oxygen Tube
A host sips from a CumeVision remote that unlocks only when its oxygen tube is clamped, but the clamp blocks the mouthpiece, preventing the sip.
8 sec · Generations 1459–1459 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Centience Clause
A dockworker's fused Centience coin forces a medical team to choose between legal asset protection and amputation.
48 sec · Generations 1453–1458 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeTV: Your Future, Funded Now
A CumeTV promo shows a tablet sprouting a lunar branch that is actually a matchstick burning the screen to ash.
8 sec · Generations 1452–1452 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Cold Valve
Ortiz and Voss find the frozen habitat's wrench bearing Rook's print, but Voss proves its heating by a third party.
48 sec · Generations 1446–1451 - CH 1 · Station bump
MoonTimeX: The Pre-Heard Jingle
MoonTimeX's lunar suite heats only by blasting a jingle when oxygen falls below 20%, forcing a resident to choose between freezing silence and noisy warmth.
8 sec · Generations 1445–1445 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Honest Protractor
Len and Odo are commissioned to build a wooden protractor for a student who swears it must 'feel' the difference between a right angle and a lie. They must construct a physical geometric tool whose material behavior forces a visible, measurable distinction between two specific angles.
48 sec · Generations 1439–1444 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeVision Oxygen Pause
A CumeVision user is suffocating because the ad stream physically blocks her oxygen tube. She must rip the port to escape, proving the ad has a real physical cost.
8 sec · Generations 1438–1438 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Confident Patient
A retired lunar opera singer claims only thirst, yet his vocal cords are rigid ceramic tiles. He refuses care, convinced a performance is imminent. The rule: his confidence physically reinforces the condition. Care plan: let him believe he is performing until the ceramic breaks.
48 sec · Generations 1432–1437 - CH 1 · Station bump
CUME 1: The Honest Interval
A standard interval break where the network's sentient currency refuses to hide, forcing the broadcast to acknowledge its own intrusive advertising model before the show resumes.
8 sec · Generations 1431–1431 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Pressure Vote
Orbital custom vents one cubic meter of a debate loser's stored oxygen. A ritual of humility requires them to survive. Ortiz must find who rigges the flow to murder the candidate.
48 sec · Generations 1425–1430 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeFeed: The Last Bite
A hungry viewer tries to eat a real apple while watching CumeFeed. The channel's addictive signal treats edible food as intrusive content, causing the apple to shrink into a pixelated ad banner. The viewer must choose between the physical hunger and the visual completion of the commercial.
8 sec · Generations 1424–1424 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Bowl That Holds Too Much
Len and Odo build a wooden bowl for a soup sponsor, but the wood absorbs liquid, causing the bowl to expand and fail its test. They must decide whether to finish the shape or admit the material cannot hold the soup.
48 sec · Generations 1418–1423 - CH 1 · Station bump
MoonTimeX: The Dingle Drop
A MoonTimeX jester drops a branded foam moon into a CumeVision oxygen tube, triggering a specific procedural rule where the tube instantly seals around the foam to create a portable lunar habitat.
8 sec · Generations 1417–1417 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Weight of Want
A patient in a Centience smart-wallet desires the coins' collective anxiety to stop. The absurd rule is that the coins physically adhere to the skin and bleed their mental state into the body. Dr. Meridian must choose between a bureaucratic sedative that fails or a physical extraction.
48 sec · Generations 1411–1416 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeTV: The Honest Echo
A viewer yells into the CumeTV logo, which physically echoes the sound as a heavy, solid rubber ball that drops onto a scale, measuring the volume of the complaint.
8 sec · Generations 1410–1410 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Quiet Lock
Rook refuses to unlock a maintenance hatch to save Ortiz's stuck leg, trusting the pressure seal. Because Rook holds the door shut, Ortiz's suit tears and vents, but the vacuum preserves the hatch's internal timestamp, proving Rook was the only one with access at the moment of the sabotage.
40 sec · Generations 1405–1409 - CH 1 · Station bump
MoonTimeX: The Weight of Welcome
A lunar tourist wants a private welcome that feels heavy and real. MoonTimeX sells a timeshare where the air itself is taxed by emotional mass, so a sincere welcome literally weighs the room down.
8 sec · Generations 1404–1404 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Hollow Crown
A horned client visits the workshop for a flat circular fitting over his skull for a formal event. Len and Odo measure his irregular head, find standard circles cannot fit the horns, and build a custom brass ring with a gap for them.
55 sec · Generations 1397–1403