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 Reset
A stuck mute button traps a viewer's voice, so she swaps the remote for a tablet, restoring the feed and her speech.
8 sec · Generations 1728–1728 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Sneeze that Signed the Paper
Patient's sneezes tear through paperwork because a lunar fungus in his lungs uses paper fibers as spore substrate. He cannot stop sneezing around documents without suffocating the fungus and dying. His employer accuses him of deliberately forging signatures via this violent reaction.
48 sec · Generations 1722–1727 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeVision Deluxe: The Oxy-Meter
A buyer inhales from a CumeVision tube, its counter jumps by one, and he must choose between another dramatic breath or abandoning the sale.
8 sec · Generations 1721–1721 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Weight of Words
Detective Voss investigates an airlock jam caused by a worker's manifesto, triggering a safety protocol that flags physical text as a lethal biohazard, forcing her to destroy the only evidence to save the worker.
40 sec · Generations 1716–1720 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeFeed: The 3-Second Refill
CumeFeed promises to fix content-farm channel 9,594 by trading eight-second boredom for a three-second ad. A commuter taps refill; the channel shrinks her chair to the ad’s aspect ratio. She must stretch to restore it, producing a visible, audible snap as the ad ends.
8 sec · Generations 1715–1715 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Unbreakable Circle
A client requests a perfect circle for a fragile CumeVision lens that must fit a gap in a MoonTimeX display. Len and Odo realize standard circular geometry is impossible for the specific material, forcing them to construct a shape that behaves like a circle despite being made of flat segments.
48 sec · Generations 1709–1714 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeVision Signal Check: The Green Light
Viewer lacks remote batteries, so CumeVision's power-free Signal Check requires a heartbeat above 60 bpm while pressing the side button to turn green. Below that, it turns red and locks. Nervous Marcus runs in place to raise his pulse and get green.
8 sec · Generations 1708–1708 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Weight of Water
A lunar botanist's left forearm swells as her body metabolizes radiation into liquid mercury. The host sees fluid pulse visibly while the guest notes dangerous heat. To finish her thesis, Elara refuses draining that guarantees permanent numbness.
55 sec · Generations 1701–1707 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeFeed Rehab: The Last Buffer
A rehabilitation nurse verifies a patient's final withdrawal from the Cumefeed stream. Cumefeed is stored as slow, viscous amber fluid in the patient's CumeSlab cache. Draining the fluid into a clear vial lets the nurse visually confirm the cache is empty and the feed's hold is broken.
8 sec · Generations 1700–1700 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Wish Valve
A technician wishes for a pressure valve to seal instantly; the valve obeys literally, locking the habitat's air loop and trapping the crew inside the sealed compartment.
48 sec · Generations 1694–1699 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeVision: The Oxygen Debt
A viewer's CumeVision remote develops a physical oxygen tube that anchors to their nose, visually demonstrating that the free ad-supported model literally consumes the user's breath to process data.
8 sec · Generations 1693–1693 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Humming Hexagon
A client wants a flat basswood hexagon that stays silent when the shop's A/C starts. Len and Odo's first cut bows, turning the 60-cycle hum into a visible buzz. They must stop the resonance without sacrificing flatness, choosing between a denser material or an edge-profile structural fix.
55 sec · Generations 1686–1692 - CH 1 · Station bump
MoonTimeX: The Gravity Lease
A tourist wants to buy a slice of moon surface. The corporate jester explains that the land is weightless, so the buyer must sign a physical contract to anchor it. The jester signs, and the gravity lease triggers, pulling the jester's body toward the ground with heavy, tangible force.
8 sec · Generations 1685–1685 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Humming Bandage
Dr. Meridian finds a self-repairing lunar gnat in a welder's ear, choosing between a deafening counter-tone or risky surgical removal.
48 sec · Generations 1679–1684 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeTV: The Gravity Check
A CumeTV bumper shows objects not falling until the camera sees them. A heavy steel wrench hangs above a polished desk. The host releases it, but it stays suspended. Observation itself turns the static prop into a hovering object.
8 sec · Generations 1678–1678 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Centience Audit
Ortiz and Voss investigate a resident who is missing his personal savings because his sentient Centience coins are refusing to leave his wallet. Voss must choose between forcing a physical extraction that might kill the coins' intelligence or letting the coins speak to prove their own location.
48 sec · Generations 1672–1677 - CH 1 · Station bump
Somewhere Systems: The Scent of Compliance
A commuter dodges the station's mandatory olfactory check by spraying approved lavender mist. Somewhere Systems requires a physical scent signature to clear the gate. The mist triggers a compliance bloom, forcing him to choose between holding his breath or accepting a temporary scent bond.
8 sec · Generations 1671–1671 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The Perfectly Round Bowl
A client wants a flawless, seamless bowl for a quiet family ritual. Len and Odo select dense clay and a slow, continuous hand-throwing method. A tiny air bubble threatens a visible flaw during the firing test, forcing them to choose between speed and perfection.
48 sec · Generations 1665–1670 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeTV: The Weight of a Pixel
A CumeTV bumper presents a corporate rule: every viewer’s gaze has physical mass. When a man stares at a CumeVision box, the box sinks into a table, proving the ad works.
8 sec · Generations 1664–1664 - CH 1 · Orlando General
The Tasting Panel
A lunar diplomat insists he is fine and wants to leave, but his saliva turns to crystalline sugar whenever he tastes a specific spice. Dr. Meridian must separate his professional pride from the physiological reality of his allergy.
40 sec · Generations 1659–1663 - CH 1 · Station bump
CumeTV: The Remote Button Test
A CumeVision remote's red power button is the only thing keeping a viewer's headset connected, but the button is physically fused to the side of the unit, so the only way to power off is to push the whole remote into a wall socket until it clicks.
8 sec · Generations 1658–1658 - CH 1 · Police Space Officer: Orlando
The Quiet Lock
A maintenance worker refuses to open a sealed emergency hatch during a debris drill because she claims her personal sensor says it will break her arm. Ortiz must prove the sensor is real or override the refusal, risking a hull breach to save the sector.
40 sec · Generations 1653–1657 - CH 1 · Station bump
Centience Coinage: The Honest Bill
A traveler buys coffee while his sentient wallet rejects the recycled-plastic cup, requiring him to offer a visible environmental benefit to unclump the coins.
8 sec · Generations 1652–1652 - CH 1 · Shape Department
The One-Piece Spoke
Elara commissions a single-piece metal spoke because her two-part one snaps at the joint. With only a flat steel sheet and a hydraulic press limited to 30cm straight stamps, Len and Odo must create a foldable, weld-free spoke.
55 sec · Generations 1645–1651