No Dad Ideas

"**No Dad Ideas**" is the second segment of the eighteenth episode of the first season of *Kiff*. It is the thirty-sixth episode overall.

## Synopsis

When he realizes Kiff doesn't know what his job is, Martin is determined to prove his inventing prowess.

## Plot

For a school project, Kiff has to draw a parent at work, so she has drawn a picture of Beryl teaching a class. Martin asks where his picture is, so Kiff draws a picture of him holding a bucket of popcorn. Seeing this, Martin decides to bring Kiff along to his next pitch meeting at a technology company called WeNuts, but he ends up delivering a nervous pitch which ends in failure. Seeing Martin dejectedly feeding some birds outside the WeNuts building, Kiff decides that Martin needs a confidence boost. She tells him that she can set up a meeting with a major investor.

The meeting is held at the Buns residence, where the "investor" turns out to be Terri, whom Kiff has asked to pose as a CEO. Martin is overcome with nerves as he begins his pitch for a birdcage with a guest room, but Terri tells him that she loves the idea. Encouraged, Martin proceeds to confidently pitch a whole range of product ideas in the form of a song. He asks Terri which idea she liked best, and she randomly picks the "double trucker" (a trucker cap with a front brim and a back brim), saying she would invest in it if her funds were not currently tied up.

Taking Terri's advice, Martin has one million double truckers produced and reserves the Table Town Arena for a product launch event. Fearing that his confidence will be destroyed if the product fails, Kiff advertises Martin's event all over Table Town, which succeeds in attracting a full audience on the night of the event. However, as Martin gets ready to take the stage, Terri arrives to deliver some pizzas he had ordered, causing Kiff to admit that Terri is not actually a CEO and that their meeting was orchestrated to boost his confidence. Stunned by this revelation, Martin freezes up onstage. As he is about to walk away, Kiff stops him and says that while the meeting was staged, his confidence was real, and she really believes in his ideas. Martin is motivated to carry on, delivering a confident demonstration of the double trucker. By the end of the event, however, the arena is almost completely empty. Martin accepts that the world does not like his ideas, but is then approached by Greg and Linda, the two birds he had earlier been feeding, who turn out to be quite wealthy and want to buy the double trucker idea for one million nuts.

Some time later, Greg and Linda have reimagined the double trucker as the "Double Dipper", a bowl that allows two people seated at opposite ends of a table to conveniently eat chips and dip. Kiff and Martin watch a commercial for the Double Dipper and react approvingly.

## Cast and characters

* Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
* H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
* Nichole Sakura as Terri Buns
* James Monroe Iglehart as Martin Chatterley
* Lauren Ash as Beryl Chatterley and Bird Linda
* Kent Osborne as Bird Greg

## Locations

* Table Town
	+ Chatterley residence
	+ WeNuts
	+ Buns residence
	+ Table Town Arena

## Songs

* "Opportunity's Here" – written by Nic Smal and Lucy Heavens
* "Pack the House" – written by Brad Breeck

## Trivia

* **Opening sponsor**: Rentley's Turtlenecks.
* At the product launch event, Martin is seen wearing a black turtleneck sweater, a nod to Steve Jobs. The picture of Martin used in the advertising for the event is based on a 2006 photograph of Steve Jobs by Albert Watson.

### Continuity

* This episode reveals Martin and Beryl's jobs; Martin is an inventor often out of work, while Beryl works as a university professor.