FAQ & Show Trivia

A Pixar-style 3D animated comedy series about Sam Marvin, a brilliant but broke inventor who dreamed the blueprints for a machine in his garage that opens portals to realities nothing like our own. He does not know where the dream came from. He built it anyway. Set in Plainview, population 420, where the town motto is Nothing to see here and nobody has checked the garage.

Yes. Full 22-minute episodes, 51 characters, a fish tank with 20 performers, original voice acting, continuous storyline. AI is our rendering engine the way Pixar uses RenderMan. The creative decisions are all human. The humans are questionable. The show is not a tech demo.

As many as Sam can survive. The show is built for ongoing seasons, similar to The Simpsons model. Season 1 is in production. Each 22-minute episode generates 25-34 extractable short-form clips, which works out to a lot of moments of things going catastrophically wrong in high definition.

Full 22-minute episodes on YouTube. Extracted clips and moments across twenty other platforms — TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, X/Twitter, Snapchat, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitch, Vimeo, and every other feed you open by accident at 11pm. Full list on the Press page. Gerald has already followed all of them. He says it is for research.

One person, one GPU, and an unreasonable amount of determination. Christian Marvin writes, designs, voices, directs, animates, and occasionally regrets the entire enterprise. AI is the rendering engine — the way Pixar uses RenderMan. Every creative decision is human. Every joke was laughed at by at least one person. Usually the creator. Alone. At 2 AM.

The machine opens portals to realities that are fundamentally alien - impossible landscapes, different physics, surreal beauty or horror. These are NOT alternate versions of Earth or what-if scenarios. Think a jungle made of glass, a city where gravity pulls sideways, an ocean that exists above the sky. Sam goes to these places voluntarily. This tells you everything you need to know about Sam.

The name is the joke. A plain view. Nothing to see here. Except for the guy in his garage who keeps ripping holes in the fabric of reality. The population is 420. The motto is Nothing to see here. Both of these facts are accurate and neither of them is the whole story.

Sam's living room has a fish tank with 20 species who perform famous scenes from classic plays, movies, and musicals when nobody in the family is watching. Full costumes. Tiny props. Complete dramatic commitment. During every living room scene, a hidden 5-6 second cutaway shows the fish mid-performance. The audience can't predict when it happens. The fish do not break character.

Jenny thinks the garage noises are extreme woodworking. She has not discovered the truth yet. Her oversized glasses come off when she's angry, and when the glasses come off, someone is in trouble. Gerald, the neighbor, is suspicious of the garage glow but too committed to suburban politeness to confront it directly. He has fourteen garden gnomes. Several face the garage.

Justin the terrier mix came through the machine from another reality and gained the ability to speak. The family keeps this secret. Important note: Justin is NOT smart. His opinions are consistently, hilariously wrong. He serves as the show's unreliable narrator. Do not trust anything he says. He will say it with complete confidence.

51 non-fish characters in Plainview — the Marvin family, the townspeople, the kids, and the pets (Justin the talking dog, Einstein the genius macaw, Hamdini the escape-artist hamster, and Shadow the cat who teleports between rooms without walking). Plus Barkley, the neighbor's Pomeranian who thinks he's a Rottweiler. And 20 tropical fish who perform famous scenes from classic plays, movies, and musicals when nobody is looking. That is a lot of characters for a town of 420. Everyone has a job and a secret. Some have both.

A faded forest-green station wagon with quirky antennas nobody has asked about, and a bumper sticker that reads We Travel Far And Wide. On a show about interdimensional travel. Hidden in plain sight, just like everything else in Plainview. The bumper sticker was on the car before he built the machine. Nobody has noticed. Nobody will.

A pure white fluffy hamster with the soul of Zorro. Suave theatrical personality. Tiny cape. No cage can hold him. He has escaped from the microwave, the toolbox, the glove compartment, and at least one dimension. He considers every enclosure a personal challenge.

Vinny Bianchi runs a traditional Neapolitan pizza place. Chef Laurent runs a French restaurant across the street. Their rivalry is Plainview's favorite spectator sport. Vinny speaks at full volume with full hand gestures. Laurent is perpetually, magnificently frustrated in three languages. Menu changes are clearly about the other person. The town picks sides. The sides change weekly. There is a spreadsheet.

Shadow is a sleek black cat who teleports. Not across rooms in a dramatic flash — just normal cat movement, except she skips the part in the middle. You see her on the couch. You blink. She is on top of the fridge. The window was closed. She came from a reality rendered in gothic stop-motion, which may or may not explain the fact that she often appears in two security camera frames at once. Watch for impossible position changes between cuts. She does not care that you noticed.

Distinctive steampunk: brass gears, copper pipes, mechanical dials, analog gauges, exposed clockwork. A massive floor-to-ceiling device with a portal archway large enough to walk through. Victorian-industrial. Handmade. Held together by engineering talent, duct tape, and the kind of optimism that gets you into trouble. Not sleek. Not sci-fi polished. More like if someone tried to build a dimensional gateway using exclusively Earl's Hardware and misplaced confidence. Which, yes, is what happened.

Visit the Community page and use the Destination Suggestion Box. Describe the reality you want Sam to visit. Be specific. Be weird. Be deeply inconvenient. The best ideas get produced, and your name goes on the Fan Credit Wall forever. Several of our current top suggestions involve gravity not working correctly. Please do not make Sam go to any of them. He is begging you.

Discord for real-time chaos. Reddit for episode discussions and unhinged theories. @mywrongtimeline on every platform you already open. The creator reads everything. The creator has opinions. Sometimes the creator replies. Usually in the middle of the night. This is not a cry for help. Probably.

Yes. If your destination suggestion becomes an episode, you get a permanent entry on the Fan Credit Wall. Your name. Your suggestion. Which episode Sam barely survived because of you. He will not hold it against you. Probably. He has not actually been asked.

Coming soon. Machine blueprint posters, fish tank play prints, character art, and the legendary We Travel Far And Wide bumper sticker. A tiny Hamdini cape is under consideration, but he keeps escaping the prototype, the design mockups, and a sealed envelope. We respect the process.