HBO's 'Silicon Valley' is lampooning Digg founder Kevin Rose's infamous raccoon toss

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May 01, 2017 at 07:58PM

In the preview for next week's episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley," the hapless Jared notes that series arch villain Gavin Belson, the CEO of Google stand-in Hooli, is so mean, he once "tossed a sloth down a flight of stairs."

"He said it was an accident, but he had this look in his eyes," says Jared. 

This is a deep cut, even for Silicon Valley: Way back in 2013, Digg cofounder and True Ventures investor Kevin Rose rescued his dog from a raccoon by chucking the attacker down some stairs. The video went viral on Twitter and Reddit, and eventually spawned this epic GIF of Rose throwing the raccoon down a stairwell in an infinite loop.

Here's the animation:

I tried to make the Kevin Rose raccoon gif loop smoothly.

And the full video: 

 And the full teaser for next week's "Silicon Valley," for context:

Ep. 31: Preview

 

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