Channel Frederator Blog

It didn’t surprise me to hear that Kyle Mohr created “Help Wanted” while he was in college. The poor pizza guy reminds me of me in my first college job (minus the “guy” part). I also never tried to make pizza, but I served them here to help pay for the astronomical price of an education here. Those were the days! According to this review, the service there stinks.

Says Mohr, “When I was developing the story for Help Wanted at the Savannah College of Art and Design, my main goal first and foremost was to tell an entertaining story that had broad appeal. I also knew that I wanted to do that through a character that people could both laugh at, and feel sorry for at the same time. Somewhere along the line I realized that one of the things that people generally want is to be accepted and needed by others…

It was around this vague concept that I centered Help Wanted. Gabe, the main character, works at “Tom’s Pizza” (inspired by a small-town pizzeria in Iowa of a different name)–but he can’t make a pizza for the life of him. He really, really wants to get that pizza made right, but more than that he really just wants the security of being successful and needed at the pizzeria.”

Thanks for the film, Kyle!

Melissa