Grass Routes · An original seriesConfidential · 2026

Grass
Routes

Two delivery drivers keep a scrappy Inland Empire weed delivery company alive, one doorstep at a time, while a corporate app moves in to take their customers, their routes and their dignity.

Comedy series · five minutes an episode
Episodes one and two · one shoot day
$10,000Episodes one and two
01 · Cold openGrass Routes

It opens on an argument
with a doorbell camera.

Ext. cul-de-sac off the 60 — 9:42 pm

MARTY holds his phone light under his own chin so the camera can see his face. He has done this four hundred times.

MARTY
I need to see the ID.

DOORBELL
It's my house.

MARTY
The house is not the ID.

The door opens four inches. A hand comes out holding a Costco card.

Behind him a fern van rolls past. Silent, spotless, one small leaf on the door. It does not stop, because fern does not serve this street yet.

No crime.
Just the job.

02 · The two of themGrass Routes

A four-year veteran. A guy
on his second week.

Marty

Treats the route as a discipline: the way of the samurai, applied to a Kia with 190,000 miles on it. He is not joking about any of it. That is what makes it funny.

Jerry

Pharmacy school dropout, two weeks in, the only person here qualified to explain what they sell. Ask him anything and he points at the label.

Between them

Marty needs the job to mean something. Jerry needs it to stay a job. Each episode puts a customer between them and makes them agree by the drive home.

Season one is the year
the route stops being theirs.

03 · The gapGrass Routes

Every weed comedy ever made
runs on illegality.

Friday. Half Baked. Pineapple Express. Harold & Kumar. Weeds. Different decades, one engine: the fear of getting caught.

That fear is gone. Weed became a job. Legal, regulated, tracked, and kind of boring. ID scans, GPS, delivery windows, customer star ratings, compliance paperwork. The culture moved and the comedy didn't.

Nobody has made the show about what actually happened next.

  • High Maintenance proved the delivery format, then stayed an anthology with nothing running underneath it.
  • Disjointed was a boardroom's idea of the culture, and it played like one.
  • Weeds was a suburban crime story. The product was contraband, not a job.

The gap is
the workplace.

04 · The showGrass Routes

Delivery drivers, with
unhinged customers.

The comedy

Not "weed, lol." It's the gig economy colliding with cannabis culture: the boss, the paperwork, the star ratings, the parking lot. The job is the joke.

The place

The Inland Empire. Strip malls, cul-de-sacs, industrial parks off the 60. Nothing is glamorous and nobody has claimed it on screen. That is our Scranton, from The Office.

The format

Not a mockumentary. Someone in the world is filming and vlogging, so the shooter is a character too. No confessionals, no talking to camera about the plot.

5 min
Per episode
2
Episodes
1
Shoot day
20–30
Social cuts
05 · The season spineGrass Routes

Every season needs a villain.
Ours is a brand.

It is called fern. It never says what it sells, it calls its drivers Guides, and it signs off with "grow gently." We spend the season taking it apart.

"Hi! I'm Brayden, I'll be your fern Guide today.

…That's so valid. I'm going to note that. Enjoy your evening, and remember — grow gently."
The rival driver. They are not called drivers.

It starts quietly

A billboard on the 60. Promo codes through the door. Nobody at Leaf It To Us takes it seriously, because nobody ever does.

Then it takes a customer

Marty pulls up to a regular's house as the mint-green car pulls away. The first loss has a face, and it is somebody he knows.

Then it moves in

Two units down in the same industrial park. Shared dumpster, better signage. The threat stops being an idea and becomes a neighbour.

And it wants the route

By the season's end it is after the whole territory, and the crew have to decide what they are actually willing to do to keep it.

06 · AttachedGrass Routes

The cast is the reason.

Marty and Jerry play under their own names, doing on camera what they already do off it. Three principals attached, roughly 1.2M combined reach.

Attached · lead

Marty Grimes

In real life: a recording artist with a catalogue and a following.
Plays Marty — veteran driver, four years on the route, dead serious about the way of the samurai.

104K Instagram
Attached · lead

Jerry Chu

In real life: cooks on camera every week as Stoner that Cooks.
Plays Jerry — new driver, pharmacy-school dropout, the only person qualified to discuss what they sell and refuses to.

788K Instagram · 241K TikTok
Attached · recurring

Terayle Hill

In real life: a working screen actor — Judas and the Black Messiah, Cobra Kai.
Plays Pockets — the ex-plug legalisation made obsolete.

~97K Instagram · trained actor
07 · The tapeGrass Routes

You are not casting unknowns.

Everybody on the last page already performs for a living, on camera, to an audience that turns up. Below is Marty's catalogue, which is the clearest look at the register the show is written in.

I Got What She Likewith B-Real of Cypress Hill, and Demrick
Sike!with G-Eazy and P-Lo
Bad DecisionsMarty Grimes, official video

Jerry Chu

Cooks on camera every week to 788K on Instagram and 241K on TikTok. That is the same performance the show asks for, in the same room, with the same timing. @vibewithchu

Terayle Hill

A working screen actor: George Sams in Judas and the Black Messiah, Trey across five episodes of Cobra Kai, plus All American and Step Up: High Water. Full credits

08 · Still to castGrass Routes

Reina is cast. Two roles open.

Attached · recurring

Stephanie Arakel

Plays Reina — runs dispatch, and knows more about what is coming than anyone else in the building.

@_stephaniecakes_ · 20.6K
Casting
open
To cast · the funniest person in the room

Gary Pemberton

The owner. "But everybody calls me The Plug." Nobody calls him The Plug. Forties, sold a pool business after the divorce and bought this one as a midlife rebirth.

A trained comedian. The one role that must be properly paid.
Casting
open
To cast · recurring

Lawrence

"Lawrence. Not Larry." Compliance. Weighs everything twice, quotes code sections from memory, latex gloves at lunch. His corner is the best recurring frame in the hub.

Character actor. Straight-faced, precise.
09 · The writerGrass Routes

Your sketch already
has a writer.

Nick Zier writes short-form comedy for Trevor Wallace, Friday Beers, Retirement House and Nikki Howard, and has already turned 10+ brand deals into sketch campaigns. Three of his, below, have 5.2M views between them.

POV: you drive a loud carTrevor Wallace · 3.5M views
Sparkling water at dinnerTrevor Wallace · 1.1M views
If Hooking Up Was National GeographicNikki Howard · 659K views

A proven writer, known to deliver in this space

Your sketches are written by someone who does this for a living, for brands you have heard of, at the scale above.

10 · The working pitchGrass Routes

Episode one: "The Buddy System"

Five acts. Every act stands alone as a 15–90 second clip.

Act 1

Cold open

One full delivery, start to finish. Jerry's first day. The sweetest girl on the route, who has Tourette's, opens the door and says the most unhinged sentence he has heard.

Act 2

The hub

Talking heads. Gary: "everybody calls me The Plug." Cut to dispatch: "Nobody calls him that." And in the corner, a man nobody will explain.

Act 3

The route

Marty trains Jerry house by house like it is classified intel. The duo engine, and it cuts into several clips on its own.

Act 4

The crack

Across the street: a mint-green car, a pressed polo, a doorbell. "Who's that?" "Nobody." The season spine planted in ten seconds.

Act 5

The button

Jerry's mom calls. He answers in Chinese while Marty narrates the tone like a nature documentary. "I told her I'm in logistics." "You are."

11 · The working pitchGrass Routes

Episode two: "Senior Cultural Advisor"

The guest episode. One porch, one scene, and the biggest laugh in either script is a silence.

Act 1

Who is he

The pre-shift ritual, the shared gummy. Jerry finally asks about the man in the corner. "They didn't build a customer base. They inherited mine."

Act 2

The detonation

Gary explains the Senior Cultural Advisor arrangement, then tells him: "Between the two of us? Everybody calls me The Plug." The silence should be studied.

Act 3

The guest stop

The guest plays a first-time customer whose whole thing goes off the rails. One porch, one scene. The car debrief is the second clip.

Act 4

The war lands

A corporate flyer under a regular's knocker. Two regulars have gone quiet this month. From the chair: "Second time somebody came for my people."

Act 5

The button

Jerry opens Marty's trunk and finds the gi, folded, and the practice sword. No apology, no explanation. "The blade and the route are the same discipline."

13 · The moatGrass Routes

Built to go viral,
not to get flagged.

Most cannabis content gets throttled before anyone sees it. These rules are written into the scripts, not patched on in the edit, so the clips travel.

Language

The words are never spoken. The crew runs a produce lexicon: broccoli, lettuce, groceries. Each character gets their own word, so censorship becomes characterization.

Visuals

Product is never visible. Sealed opaque bags, weight implied, contents never shown. The black bags end up doing real brand work on their own.

Grammar

The light and the lift are shown; the inhale is implied; on the exhale we cut. The high is performance, never the act.

The meta layer

The characters know the vlogger cannot show it. "So I sparked the, uh —" (looks at camera) "— the broccoli."

Captions, titles and bios stay clean. To the platform
this is a show about a delivery company. Which it is.

12 · The scheduleGrass Routes

One day. Two episodes.

Both episodes live in three places, and all three are small. No sets to build, no company moves, nothing that needs a permit office. That is what makes a single day realistic rather than optimistic.

The hub · dispatch, racks, packing table
The route · a doorstep, and the next one
The van · the third location, and it drives
1
Shoot day
2
Finished episodes
20–30
Social clips
2
Break-away sketches
13 · The askGrass Routes

$10,000 puts the first
two episodes on screen.

What it fundsAmount
One shoot day — crew, sound, location, wardrobe$5,000
Post: two episodes, 20–30 clips, two sketches$5,000
To make episodes one and two$10,000

One day on location. Everything else is post, and it is already scoped.

What comes back

5–10% of show revenue from the first dollar it earns. It does not stop when you are made whole. Recoupment comes first, and the position continues after your capital is back.

Wrap exclusivity across season one. Yours is the only wrap smoked on screen, for the whole season, not just the two episodes you funded.

Executive producer credit, on screen and on IMDb.

A seat in the room. When this goes out to Netflix, Hulu or Tubi, you are in those conversations, not hearing about them afterwards.

14 · The returnGrass Routes

The show sells placement.
That pays you back.

A brand slot in this show is a packaged product, not a favor we go asking for. It is priced, written and deliverable on day one.

$10,000 a slot

Organic placement across both episodes, two sketches written around the product, every in-scene clip, and category exclusivity.

It gets easier, not harder

Selling slot two is a different conversation once episodes one and two exist and the cast are visibly on a narrative show.

Recoupment

Those sales are where your capital comes back, on episodes three and four. After that your 5–10% keeps running on everything the show earns.

1.2M combined reach on the cast,
and a slot that is already written.

15 · The positionGrass Routes

Own the slot.
Don't rent it.

A sponsor pays for every block, forever, and owns nothing at the end of it. An investor pays once and owns the thing the sponsor is paying for.

You still get the placement. Wrap exclusivity runs the whole season. The difference is which side of the invoice you are on.

Sponsor

$10,000 per block. Again next block. The asset belongs to somebody else and the placement stops the day you stop paying.

Investor

Fund it once. Recoup from the slots we sell to other brands. Keep the exclusivity, and hold a position in the show itself.

Not a line on your marketing budget.
A position in something that returns.

16 · DeliverablesGrass Routes

What a $10,000 slot buys.

This is the product, in the words a brand reads. It is what your capital builds, and what we sell from episode three onwards.

Two episodes

Five minutes each, with your product living naturally in the hub, the car and the route.

Two break-away sketches

Sixty to ninety seconds each, written around your product, delivered as finished films for your own channels.

Every in-scene clip

Each cut where your product appears, sized vertical, and your brand tagged as a collaborator when it posts.

Behind the scenes

A BTS shooter is on the day, so you get set footage as well as the finished cuts.

Collaboration posts

The cast post the sketches from their own pages as collaboration posts with your brand.

Category exclusivity

Nobody in your category appears in either episode or in any cut that comes out of them.

17 · TimelineGrass Routes

Ten weeks from yes
to episode one.

WhenWhat happensWhat you see
Weeks 1–2Scripts locked, your product written into the world and into both break-awaysThe scenes your product appears in, before we shoot
Week 3Pre-production: locations, wardrobe, the van, the two open roles castSign-off on how the product is handled
Week 4The block. One shoot daySame-day stills from set
Weeks 5–7Post, titles, channel build, cutdowns and break-aways finishedYour break-aways delivered
Week 8 onwardEpisode one live, rollout begins at four posts a weekReal numbers on real clips
18 · CloseGrass Routes

The one thing this show
must never do.

Never make the weed the punchline. The joke is the job: the paperwork, the star ratings, the boss, the parking lot. The moment we laugh at the culture instead of from inside it, we become the version that was written by people who did research.

The audience we need first can smell that in a single frame, and they're the ones who repost. Everything else is negotiable. This isn't.

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