6 Things We Learnt At The Silicon Valley SDCC Panel

5) The Pied Piper Jacket Was Inspired By Real “Jackets” Made By The Cast

Writer/Producer Alec Berg emerged wearing THAT jacket from season three, and I’m so happy he did because we learned a lot about the backstory of how it came to be a thing.

First, co-creator Mike Judge and Berg revealed that the jacket was so, ridiculously, incredibly hard for the wardrobe department to make because they kept making it “too nice.” They went through countless iterations of the dress and they kept having to say “no, no uglier, please” until it was the garment that fans saw on the show.

After learning this tidbit, Middleditch decided to offer up one of the most amazing stories about the cast’s on-set antics. He faux-smugly stated that they, the cast, “like to think we inspired the jacket” because they ordered jackets (“they were sweatshirt material,” quipped Amanda Crew) for their “fake gang, The Rude Boys.”

The jackets (sweatshirts) were bright purple, with the words “The Rude Boys” embroidered on the back, above a pair of dice, and the guys would wear them while “riding around the Sony lot on electric scooters.”