Bored

*Bored* is a fictional series set at a real world store that Viva La Dirt League do not work for.

## Overview

The first episode of *Bored* was released on the 2nd Dec 2013.

Bored was envisioned as a series about a couple of friends working in retail who dreamed of becoming successful in e-sports. However, the series evolved into more of a satirical series about working in retail, while the e-sports idea became the Rekt series instead.

Bored is currently VLDL's longest-running series.

## Content

Set in the store Playtech in NZ, Rowan and Alan are colleagues and friends. The early episodes focus more on discussing and debating nerd culture, as well as including some product sponsorships.

As the cast expanded and the series evolved, the focus shifted over to some of the quirks and tropes of working in a retail environment.

## Cast

Initially, Bored just featured Rowan as the Manager Rowan and Alan as Bored Alan, with a few guest actors including Byron Coll (who played one-off characters at first but was later made a guest actor playing Delivery Guy Byron.)

In 2015 Zack joined the cast as a new Playtech employee, and then shortly after on the 16th Jan 2016 Adam appeared in his first episode as Bored Adam and became a permanent member of the team. Zack only appeared in a few episodes.

On the 19th August 2016 Ellie Harwood joined the cast as Bored Ellie.

On 17th February 2017 Ben Van Lier joined as a guest actor, playing a really annoying and argumentative regular customer.

There have been many cameos and appearances by numerous actors, including Britt Scott Clark, Hamish Parkinson and Robert Hartley .

## Music

* Police by Some Kinda Wonderful (Vanic remix) is used for the outro throughout the series.

## Links

Viva La Dirt League Bored Playlist

The White Shirt Saga

Team Bonding - Bored (Playstation sponsored video) featuring Gwendoline Taylor.

Bored Bloopers- Vol. 1

Bored the Movie

Bored 1-100 Supercut

Bored 101-200 Supercut

Bored 201-210 Supercut

Bored 211-220 Supercut

Bored 221-230 Supercut

Bored 231-240 Supercut

Bored 241-250 Supercut

## Trivia

* The longest-running Viva La Dirt League series by far.
* Bored was originally filmed in 2013, though the first episode on YouTube shows a 2016 release date, as it was re-released.
* Bored was almost cancelled as a series. When it was new, it started to lose the channel followers, but Alan and Rowan persevered and it went through a revival of sorts with the addition of Adam to the group in 2016.
* The series was originally Alan’s idea.
* Bored was being used to set up a basic world for Rekt which was a long time coming, but eventually became its own thing.
* Bored is often cited as the true fan favourite series.
* On 30th March 2018, Viva La Dirt League released an episode of Bored called Skycraft, which is an Epic NPC Man crossover.
* The episode of Bored Opening Hours is the first episode of any Viva La Dirt League series that Ben Van Lier appeared in.
* To celebrate the release of the 200th episode of Bored (Acronyms), VLDL released a massive supercut of episodes 1-100 which is 3 hours, 10 minutes and 40 seconds long. The 101-200 supercut followed three weeks later and lasts a whopping 4 hours, 19 minutes and 40 seconds.