Here's the story behind "Kiss my piss," Silicon Valley's latest addition to our lexicon
Last night’s Silicon Valley season finale gave us two of the season’s funniest bits, both courtesy of Thomas Middleditch’s Richard Hendricks. The first—Richard prancing around in a pied piper costume, flute and all—speaks for itself, while the other, which no doubt sent upstart t-shirt purveyors rushing to the printer, gave us a blessed new catchphrase in “kiss my piss.” Not only is it the kind of awkward, juvenile jab that only Richard would utter, but Middleditch’s relentless repetition of the phrase—each inflected just a little bit differently—and accompanying jig more or less burned it into our soft, hungry brains.
In its wrap-up interview with Alec Berg, the episode’s writer and director, Vulture kicked off their chat by asking about the phrase. And though it doesn’t have the epic origin story such an insult deserves, it does cause Berg to reflect on the infamous jerk-off equation of season one, as well as Middleditch’s dance, which rivals Elaine Benes’ little kicks in terms of pure cringeworthiness,
I have a very important question: Where the hell did “kiss my piss” come from?
It was just one of those things where we liked that Richard did what, for him, was a badass thing. I think it was one of those things where somebody just pitched it in the room and it’s like this is a lame thing he would say, and we all laughed and put it in.