jPod chronicles the often shocking lives of Ethan Jarlewski and four of his co-workers at Neotronic Arts as they confront "Chinese gangs, boneheaded bosses, sexual swinging, British royalty and gore-laced video games.
"[3] The pod was created by a Y2K glitch, which caused workers with surnames beginning with the letter J to be assigned desks together in the company's basement.
Jim befriends Kam Fong, a Chinese mobster who appreciates him for his championships in ballroom dancing competitions.
Ethan quickly falls for Kaitlin, but several things come between them, including the problems and antics in the office and the Jarlewski family, as well as the imposition of their own exes.
In jPod, Steve is replaced as manager by Alistair, an insane but genius designer, who makes life miserable for the jPodders.
There he resumes his position as jPod manager after Alistair blows himself up in a failed terrorist attack on Neotronic Arts.
After discovering Jim's infidelity, Carol leaves home and moves to a lesbian commune run by John Doe's mother on the Sunshine Coast.
A freak computer glitch reorganizes the desk assignments at Neotronic Arts, and the company president tells jPod they are being disbanded.
Bree, Kaitlin, and John Doe find places in departments that they judge are more suited to their talents and personalities, but before long each one realizes they miss jPod.
Meanwhile Ethan plans to leave for the San Francisco branch, and Cowboy secretly befriends an artificial intelligence that has spontaneously assembled itself from Neotronic Arts code.
Throughout the series the team creates short gore sequences to demonstrate the video games they work on, though a finalized product is never released.
While John Doe, Cowboy, and Bree head off to play a last game of Defendoids, Ethan finally expresses his feelings for Kaitlin and they share a passionate kiss.
[4] After earning high praise from some critics but little viewership, CBC moved the program to Friday nights beginning with the fifth episode.
jPod was seen as an early step in the CBC's digital distribution plans, which included releasing programs via BitTorrent.