The Chair Company
Happy Birthday, a friend.
TV Flash files “Happy Birthday, a friend.” as hour 6 of 8 in the TV Flash guide — The Chair Company (2025) on HBO, season 1, episode 6, aired 2025-11-16, 35 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E06: listed hour 6 of 8 in the The Chair Company guide, hour 6 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2025-11-16 (35 min). The listed hour before it is “I won. Zoom in.” (S01E05). Next is “I said to my dog, "How do you like my hippie shirt?"” (S01E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A shake-up at work leads to unforeseen consequences.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Happy Birthday, a friend. sit in the The Chair Company guide?
S01E06 is listed hour 6 of 8 — hour 6 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 6.
When did The Chair Company S01E06 air?
Happy Birthday, a friend. aired 2025-11-16 and is listed at 35 minutes.
Do I need I Think You Should Leave first?
Helpful for Robinson's scream-and-humiliation language, not a serialized prerequisite. This is long-form chaos: a chair, an investigation, reality filing a complaint.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Tim Robinson's office-chair humiliation spiral stretched into absurdist noir. After I Think You Should Leave, long-form chaos: a man investigates a collapsing chair until reality files a complaint. Watch for 2025's most original comedy voice — paranoia as punchline engine — and for cringe that somehow grew a conspiracy plot and kept the scream in.
The first cut is a chair collapsing, which is already a thesis. Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin's The Chair Company, 2025 on HBO, stars Robinson as Ron Trosper with Joseph Tudisco in the spiral: after a chair collapses under him onstage, a man investigates until reality warps. Office-chair humiliation stretched into absurdist noir. After I Think You Should Leave, long-form chaos — a collapsing chair until reality files a complaint. Paranoia as punchline engine. Cringe that grew a conspiracy plot and kept the scream…
Filed against
- Tim Robinson as Ron Trosper
Tim Robinson spiraled The Chair Company as Ron Trosper — office-chair humiliation stretched into absurdist noir, a man investigating a collapsing chair until reality files a complaint. Paranoia as punchline engine. TV Flash files him as…
- Joseph Tudisco as Mike Santini
Joseph Tudisco’s Mike Santini sat inside The Chair Company’s office-chair humiliation spiral — Tim Robinson stretching absurdist noir after I Think You Should Leave, a man investigating a collapsing chair until reality files a complaint.…