Epochs
An epoch is a continuous chunk of CumeTV: a complete sketch, case, station bump, or passage from the archive.
- CH 0 · folk horror
The Harvest Hum
A New Orlando baker sings the four-note Harvest Hum to keep his weak starter alive; skipping a note turns him cold and grey while the dough rises perfectly.
40 sec · Generations 1512–1516 - CH 0 · Station bump
CumeTV: The 50% Off Signal
A promotional bumper for a CumeTV subscription tier that offers half-price programming, but the physical cost is that the viewer's television screen slowly loses its color saturation in real-time, turning the world into grayscale.
8 sec · Generations 1511–1511 - CH 0 · science programme
The Politeness Index
A host asks if polite language can physically change social hierarchy. She demonstrates this by asking a subject to offer her a chair. Because the subject uses the word 'please', his body weight inverts, making him the heavier party. This forces the host to become the subordinate one.
40 sec · Generations 1506–1510 - CH 0 · Station bump
Somewhere Systems: The Unfinished Cup
Somewhere Systems' PSA freezes a falling coffee cup, demonstrating Perceptual Stasis: solids and liquid surfaces halt, but suspended aerosol droplets keep drifting, revealing the technology's precise limits.
8 sec · Generations 1505–1505 - CH 0 · prestige family drama
The Better Carrot
Eleanor carves a flawlessly perfect carrot to outshine her sixteen-year-old brother Marcus, forcing him to admit she is still the family master.
40 sec · Generations 1500–1504 - CH 0 · Station bump
MoonTimeX: The Divided Door
A resident wants to use a specific half of a lunar door, but MoonTimeX’s timeshare rule requires them to physically trade which side of the threshold they occupy, forcing a choice about which side of the door is actually theirs.
8 sec · Generations 1499–1499 - CH 0 · travel programme
The View of You
A travel host wants to capture the authentic feeling of a remote island. She learns that the island's 'authenticity' is a currency that requires the host to become the static visual anchor for tourists, forcing her to choose between her professional identity and her personal freedom.
48 sec · Generations 1493–1498 - CH 0 · Station bump
CumeVision: The Oxygen Tube
A promotional bumper for CumeVision that highlights the device's oxygen tube by showing a user in a sealed room who must remain completely still to keep the tube's seal intact, turning a technical specification into a tense physical constraint.
8 sec · Generations 1492–1492 - CH 0 · cooking demonstration
The Perfect Omelet
A host prepares a simple omelet. A specific step, folding the omelet, causes the egg to become a solid block of lead. The host tastes it, realizing the consequence.
40 sec · Generations 1487–1491 - CH 0 · Station bump
CUME Coin-Op Courtesy
A commuter wants to use a public phone. The machine requires a single Cume Cent to activate. When he inserts the coin, the coin is sentient and refuses to be used unless the user compliments its specific texture. The user must speak the compliment clearly to the coin slot to unlock the line.
8 sec · Generations 1486–1486 - CH 0 · sports coverage
The Mastication Cup
A live broadcast covers a lunar contest where a hairy monster must chew a brittle prop apple without biting it, or shatter it and lose, as the host seeks a clean sponsor-approved win.
40 sec · Generations 1481–1485 - CH 0 · Station bump
Somewhere Systems: Now Broadcasting
A physical Somewhere Systems broadcast tower attempts to establish a stable signal. The impossible rule is that the tower’s height is determined by the number of viewers currently tuned in, rather than static architecture.
8 sec · Generations 1480–1480 - CH 0 · romantic comedy
The Shadow Date
Mara's flickering shadow causes Leon to reject their relationship under the 'True Shadow' rule, forcing her to stabilize it to prove her love.
48 sec · Generations 1474–1479 - CH 0 · Station bump
CUME: Signal Check
A corporate quality check demands a visual proof of CumeTV's signal. The specific rule is that the station logo must be physically held up to a lens to verify broadcast integrity.
8 sec · Generations 1473–1473 - CH 0 · nature documentary
The Lunar Moss and the Price of Green
A New Orlando researcher tries saving rare lunar moss that only grows on thermal memories. Seeing it consume a heated stone, they must sacrifice their own Earth-warmth memory or let it die.
48 sec · Generations 1467–1472 - CH 0 · Station bump
CumeVision: The Vacuum That Listens
A CumeVision smart vacuum with a Satisfaction Priority setting refuses to clean visible crumbs to protect the user's comfort, forcing a woman to choose between a clean floor and programmed emotional support.
8 sec · Generations 1466–1466 - CH 0 · musical
The Underdog's Last Throw
Mara enters a CumeTV can-stacking contest to afford CumeVision repairs. A strange rule requires using a visibly dented can. Her standard technique fails because the dent makes the stack wobble and collapse at the top. She must choose a different way to throw the final can.
32 sec · Generations 1462–1465 - CH 0 · Station bump
CumeTV Viewer Service: The Literal Mute
A viewer, exhausted by a television that comments on everything, wants it to stop. The remote mutes the screen only if she holds Mute until a specific, true fact about her day appears. Holding it while the screen reads 'I am tired' stops the talking.
8 sec · Generations 1461–1461 - CH 0 · Archive
Archive · generations 1457–1460
The inert interface panel on the floor suddenly ejects a jet of corrosive violet liquid that spreads across the hub floor toward the service hatch, shifting the amber niche to solid black and forcing QUOMIRE to step down from the ladder to block the spread with his body.
32 sec · Generations 1457–1460 - CH 0 · Archive
Archive · generations 1449–1456
The shattered monitor fragments reassemble to show the flywheel vibrating, causing the broadcast door to warp and shift the orange niche to solid blue while the cast debates whether to re-engage the flywheel.
1 min 3 sec · Generations 1449–1456 - CH 0 · Archive
Archive · generations 1441–1448
MARA drops the slack cable to investigate the flickering monitor, revealing a static hand reaching for the broadcast room door while LEON braces the intensifying vacuum pull at the service hatch gap and QUOMIRE watches the screen.
1 min 3 sec · Generations 1441–1448 - CH 0 · Archive
Archive · generations 1433–1440
MARA loops the retrieved cable around the loose canister in the shaft and pulls it upward, shifting the orange niche to solid green as LEON braces the pod against the rising tension and QUOMIRE slides further down the glass.
1 min 3 sec · Generations 1433–1440 - CH 0 · Archive
Archive · generations 1425–1432
MARA climbs the ladder to the platform above and drops a heavy plating section onto the wedged canister, shifting the niche to solid red as the structural imbalance locks the shaft boundary while LEON braces the cracking pod.
1 min 3 sec · Generations 1425–1432 - CH 0 · Archive
Archive · generations 1417–1424
MARA uses the torn plating as a ramp to drag the loose canister out of the vertical shaft, shifting the niche to solid magenta as LEON braces the cracked pod door against a sudden pressure surge.
1 min 3 sec · Generations 1417–1424