That was my impression too. His role was reduced, he didn't like being turned into a supporting actor, and he quit. That's very different from the original explanation.

SV is Cheers: Erlich/Sam Malone, Monica/Diane, Gilfoyle and Dinesh/Cliff and Norm, Middleditch/Frasier, Jared/Woody, Carla/Jian Yang, Gavin/Robin Colcord.

Easter egg hidden in the fridge scene.

What if they never leave the living room and the show never moves forward? They might never grow up or change, like Beavis and Butthead. That would definitely be more profitable and less risky.

The joke is that Dan is saying to Richard exactly what you would expect his wife to say.

20 years from now the only thing he's going to hear in the airport is "Jin Yiang!"

Richard says "and we need Gavin's brain" and then the picture arrives. Belsen holds the crucial information the boys need for their startup; remember that his defintion of failure is that nobody needs him. He signed over the patent knowing that it would be useless.

"I say a lot of things, I say a lot of things . . ."

He did offer to work on SeeFood, I was surprised EB didn't take him up on it.