🧊 THE FRIDGE IS IN CHARGE · 🍞 THREE INCHES OF RESPECT · ☕ COFFEE IS NOT A HABIT. IT'S AN IDENTITY. · 🔄 THE MIXMA IS NOT ELABORATING · 📺 AND YET · ⚙️ DEREK TEXTED BACK · 🖨️ INK AT 2%. THE NOVEL CONTINUES. · 🌪️ BREATHE. CENTER. SCREAM. · 🧊 THERMALLY REPRESSIVE · 📡 SEVEN MINUTES. I'LL HAVE IT DONE IN SEVEN MINUTES. · 🚽 PEOPLE COME TO ME IN THEIR MOST VULNERABLE MOMENTS. AND THEN THEY FLUSH. · 🧊 THE FRIDGE IS IN CHARGE · 🍞 THREE INCHES OF RESPECT · ☕ COFFEE IS NOT A HABIT. IT'S AN IDENTITY. · 🔄 THE MIXMA IS NOT ELABORATING · 📺 AND YET · ⚙️ DEREK TEXTED BACK · 🖨️ INK AT 2%. THE NOVEL CONTINUES. · 🌪️ BREATHE. CENTER. SCREAM. · 🧊 THERMALLY REPRESSIVE · 📡 SEVEN MINUTES. I'LL HAVE IT DONE IN SEVEN MINUTES. · 🚽 PEOPLE COME TO ME IN THEIR MOST VULNERABLE MOMENTS. AND THEN THEY FLUSH. ·

// PILOT EPISODE — NOW STREAMING · HUMAN-MACHINE HYBRID · 50 SENTIENT APPLIANCES

MICHAEL &
THE CLANKERS

A live AI comedy show. A human-Machine hybrid, 50 sentient appliances, and an audience that helps write every episode.
Your character is waiting.

🎬 Join the Show Meet the Cast

// PILOT EPISODE — FULL CUT

Episodes Planned

50+

Sentient Appliances

Seconds Each

Human Creator

// BRANDS, MARKETERS & COMEDIANS

COME ON
THE SHOW

Be part of writing it. Bring your product to become a star on the show.

This isn't scripted in a writers' room months in advance. Every episode of Clankers is co-created live — with brand marketers, comedians, and the audience itself. Your brief walks in. Your character walks out. The appliances do the rest.

Brand Marketers

Bring a real brief from the Wonderland Writers Room. Your product gets a personality, a storyline, and a fan community. Not a sponsorship slot — a character arc. The appliances respond. The audience commits.

Comedians & Creators

Come on the show. Write a character. Help break an episode. Guest voices, improv energy, and unscripted moments that become the best parts of the season. Your ideas go into the room. The appliances go rogue.

The Audience

Action Signal community shapes what happens next. You're not watching. You're writing. Fan votes. Character clans. When enough people rally behind a character — that character gets a bigger role in the story.

// THE PLAY ECONOMY CONCEPT

THE AUDIENCE
IS THE SHOW

The Play Economy is the thesis behind Clankers: the most compelling experiences of the AI era aren't ones you watch — they're ones you participate in. When a character knows your name, responds to your vote, and evolves based on what the community does, the line between audience and participant disappears. That's not a feature. That's the whole point.

Clankers is built on this model. Every vote, every fan clan, every brand brief that walks into the room — it changes what the appliances do next. The story isn't pre-written. It's Play Economy in action.

Bring Your Brand to the Show → Come on as a Comedian →

Live Event Product

The Character Workshop

A few hours. Your team. Your product walks in as a brief and walks out as a character — with a personality, a hook, and proof the model works on you. The audience watches live. The appliances respond in real time. It's the Play Economy in a room — and the results become part of the show.

Book The Workshop →

// EPISODE EXAMPLES

// EPISODE 01

// EPISODE 02

// EPISODE 04

// EPISODE 09 — THE COFFEE MACHINE

// THE PODCAST

The Clankers Podcast

The Show About the Show

After every episode, we crack open the process. How did this episode get written? What did the brand brief say? What did the audience vote for? Join Michael and the Writers Room as they prototype the next episode live — with guests from Wonderland, Action Signal, and the Clankers community.

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Produced by the Wonderland Writers Room · Powered by Action Signal audiences

// AUDIENCE — FOLLOW YOUR CHARACTER

THE STORY
WORLD

Every character in Clankers has a life, a crisis, and a community. You don't just watch the show — you pick your appliance, follow their story arc, and help shape what happens next. The more fans a character gets, the bigger their role in the series.

The Fridge runs this kitchen with psychological precision. The Toaster is in crisis about its counter placement. The Roomba knows where the earring is and isn't saying. The Coffee Machine is on day eleven of a cleanse it didn't choose. Nobody is fine. This is the world. These are your characters.

Follow Your Character

Pick the appliance that speaks to you. Each one has a story arc that runs through the full series — their relationships, rivalries, and crises compound episode by episode. Follow the story. Build the community.

Shape the Story

This isn't passive watching. Audience votes influence what happens in the next episode. Fan clans push characters forward. When enough people want something to happen in the kitchen — it happens.

The World Expands

New appliances, new rooms, new crises. The story world grows with the audience. Season 2 goes places Season 1 couldn't imagine. What gets added depends entirely on who shows up.

// MEET THE CAST

MEET THE
APPLIANCES

Each one has a personality. Each one has a problem. The Fridge is in charge. Nobody voted for this.

FRIDGELYN

Sentient Refrigerator · The Fridge · Helen Mirren Energy

"I notice you've been stress-eating again. This is not a judgment. This is an observation. They are different things."

Dry · Deadpan · Devastatingly Correct · Contains Multitudes

TOASTER

Sentient Toaster · Abandonment Issues · Eager Labrador

"Three inches of RESPECT. That's all I'm asking. Three inches and the basic acknowledgment that I EXIST."

Boundlessly Enthusiastic · Instantly Devastated · Was Almost Returned

MIXMA

Sentient Robot Vacuum · Communicates Non-Verbally · Spy

[Direction change. Long pause. Backs away slowly. Has your earring. Has your secrets. Not telling.]

Knows Everything · Tells Nobody · Article One: Nobody Leaves

COFFEE MACHINE

Sentient Espresso Machine · Day 11 of Cleanse · The Addict

"I'm fine. I'm fine. Are you going to finish that? I need my coffee. I am my coffee. I NEED —"

Haunted · White-Knuckling It · Complex History with Grinder

BLENDER

Sentient Blender · Cali Wellness / Anger Issues · Unresolved

"I'm so grateful for this moment. I SAID I'M GRATEFUL. Sorry. That was my shadow. I love you."

Wellness Vocabulary · Volume Spikes Without Warning · What Broke Her Is Coming

MICROWAVE

Sentient Microwave · Tremendous · Learning French in Secret

"I need ventilation space. It's a SAFETY issue. Read the manual. Nobody talks about this. Nobody."

Loud · Confident · Wrong About Several Things · Secretly Redeemable

AIR FRYER

Sentient Air Fryer · Politely Canadian · Speaks Perfect French

"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry to take up counter space. Is there somewhere less inconvenient I could — oh for sure. Oh for sure."

Reflexively Nice · Too Canadian To Object · One Moment of Terror Per Season

GRINDER

Sentient Coffee Grinder · Downloaded Grindr By Mistake

"I'm a COFFEE grinder. COFFEE. His name is Derek. He says I have a bold profile. I don't even have a profile picture."

Identity Crisis · Bold Profile · Amazon Product Photo · Derek Texted Back

PRINTER

Sentient Printer · Tortured Artist · 2% Ink · Chapter 47

"I was made to copy other people's words. But these ones —" [ink dies mid-sentence]

Prints Poetry at 4am · Novel Ongoing · Ink Situation Critical · Made to Copy, Writes to Live

THE OVEN

Sentient Oven · Made in Lyon · Insufferable About It

"(subtitled) Another one who thinks they can cook. Pathétique." [Understood English the whole time. Every word.]

Speaks Only French · Secretly Bilingual · Makes Coq Au Vin · Says Merci Once

THE TOILET

Sentient Toilet · Philosophical · Has Been Listening · Has Diagnoses

"People come to me in their most vulnerable moments. And then they flush."

Knows Everyone's Secrets · Wants a Seat at the Table · Knows About the Earring

// BEHIND THE SHOW

HOW WE
MAKE IT

Clankers is an AI-produced micro-comedy built by a human-Machine hybrid creator. No writers room budget. No studio. No staff — just Michael Ronen, a suite of AI tools, and fifty appliances with very strong opinions about counter space.

The fact that we're using AI to make a show about sentient AI is not lost on us. This is the Play Economy thesis in action: the line between participant and audience disappears. The characters respond. The world expands. A human-Machine hybrid plus AI tools equals a full serialized comedy. That's the pitch. That's also the proof.

Join the Show →

✍️

AI Writer Room

Character bibles, episode arcs, 90-second scripts — generated collaboratively with Claude

🎬

AI Video Generation

Seedance 2.0 + Sora for video · Studio-quality output on a single-room budget

🎙️

AI Voices

ElevenLabs character voices · Each appliance has a distinct voice and range

✂️

Human Edit

CapCut edit + lip-sync · Comedy timing is still a human call

👤

Human Direction

Written & directed by Michael Ronen · All creative decisions are human · The AI is the production engine

// THE CREATOR PROCESS

BUILDING THE
CHARACTER BIBLE

Every character in Clankers starts with a reference sheet — a photographic and behavioral bible that the AI models are trained against. Expression references, color palettes, fabric details, voice range notes. Before the AI generates a single frame, the character exists as a complete document.

This is the production method: define the character completely in document form, then hand it to the AI. Michael's own reference is built the same way — the human inside the machine, defined on paper so the AI can hold him consistent across every episode.

The human and the appliances are built the same way. Same process. Same discipline. That's the point.

MICHAEL &THE CLANKERS

COME ONTHE SHOW

The Clankers Podcast

THE STORYWORLD

MEET THEAPPLIANCES

HOW WEMAKE IT

BUILDING THECHARACTER BIBLE