Hardly Working: Season 12
Season 12 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hardly Working Season 11.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 12 Progress Shield
Vampire Doesn’t Feel Invited
Sep 30, 2017 · 4 min
If we didn’t want to invite you, why would we have included garlic-free tapas and a ‘blood’ option on the menu?
I Won’t Let This Bit Die
Nov 4, 2017 · 4 min
Katie’s office joke costume budget is over $530,000 a year.
Male Friendships Are Just Bullying
Nov 9, 2017 · 3 min
This colossal big time piece of crap loser is the best friend I’ve ever had.
When Someone’s Trying Too Hard to Have Fun
Nov 11, 2017 · 3 min
Sorry, Andrew W.K., but there IS such thing as partying too hard.
Stop Pitching Sketches about Other Cast Members
Nov 25, 2017 · 4 min
I’m still sour about her sketch “Whoever Writes Our YouTube Video Descriptions Smells Like Cat Dander And Fart”.
Don’t Start a Podcast
Nov 27, 2017 · 4 min
Go ahead and remove that Blue Snowball microphone from your Amazon cart. It’s not gonna work.
Let’s Not Get a Drink Sometime
Nov 30, 2017 · 3 min
It has absolutely not been too long.
I Swear I Didn’t Wreck the Bathroom
Dec 7, 2017 · 3 min
We had to demolish the whole office building. Thanks, Zac.
The Best Christmas Songs Are Sad
Dec 16, 2017 · 4 min
That festive-depressive time of year for bummer carols, morbid melodies, and mugs of milky liquor.
Obscure Christmas Songs
Dec 18, 2017 · 5 min
Coming up next, more of those Greek Cathtestants of the Latter Day Saints classics.
Gifts That Are Clearly for Yourself
Dec 21, 2017 · 5 min
I got you this tattoo of a sick-ass dragon on my back for Hanukkah. You’re welcome.
The True Meaning of Christmas
Dec 23, 2017 · 5 min
Oh, Grant, relax and shut up – it all makes sense if you don’t think about it.
Don’t Jinx Anything by Celebrating
Jan 4, 2018 · 3 min
If everything goes according to plan, we’ll have a little bash on my deathbed.
When You Get Stuck in a Conversation
Jan 6, 2018 · 4 min
Mayday, mayday – I’m trapped in a vortex, and none of my social cues are working.
You Weren’t Supposed to See That Photo
Jan 9, 2018 · 4 min
It’s actually a really normal fetish. There’s, like, a whole subreddit for it.
Remembering Someone by Their Facebook Posts
Jan 11, 2018 · 4 min
Hopefully somebody up in heaven will help Raph figure out what to have for lunch today.
Are You a Millennial?
Jan 20, 2018 · 4 min
I’m whatever generation it is when you can never die because of a sacrifice made to the olden gods.
Did You Get My Email?
Jan 23, 2018 · 4 min
I was going to respond, as soon as I finished inhaling.
The Girl Who Can’t Let Things Go
Jan 25, 2018 · 3 min
Leave the grudges to those two terrifying Asian ghost children.
This Guy Is Cooler Than You
Feb 1, 2018 · 3 min
This sketch is funnier than famous 1920s french clown, Pierre LePie!
Is Grant Keith from BuzzFeed?
Feb 10, 2018 · 3 min
We finally answer the YouTube commenters’ burning question.
You’re All a Bunch of Phone Zombies
Feb 13, 2018 · 3 min
Can’t we all put our phones away and try to be present during this emergency?
Bad Polling Is Ruining Everything
Feb 15, 2018 · 4 min
So you’re telling me that my mom’s Sweetest Boy in World poll was wrong?
Wait, Start That Story Again
Feb 22, 2018 · 3 min
I’m supposed to write a caption but honestly I wasn’t really paying attention.
Did You Know We Work with a Sex Demon?
Mar 10, 2018 · 4 min
But he seems like such a nice guy.
What One Year of Trump Feels Like
Mar 13, 2018 · 3 min
Oh, the good (sort of) old days.
Who’s Gonna Call the Lyft?
Mar 15, 2018 · 3 min
Take off your shoes in a stranger’s car just a few times, and all of a sudden you’re “disgusting”.
The Guy Who Won’t Talk about Politics
Mar 22, 2018 · 2 min
People are so stubborn about “rights”.
Making Up a Sketch on the Spot
Mar 29, 2018 · 4 min
Katie is the Rain Man of making up sketch pitches on the spot.