During the 2007 Writer’s Strike, many of the striking writers decided to band together and work on a project called “Strike TV”. They were going to head off on to the Interwebs sans all that big Hollywood funding, and just drop a big bowl full of awesome all over our laps.

Now the shows are finally starting to appear online at Strike.tv and its time to take a look at their handy work.

The first one I’ve watched is “House Poor with Mindy Kaling”. I love “The Office” and Mindy writes a great deal of it – so this one should be a winner right?

That was my thinking going in. After watching it, though, I don’t quite understand why this didn’t come out the week after they shot it.

It’s pretty simple story and premise. Mindy has recently purchased a house from a fellow writer, and doesn’t have the money to fill it with stuff…so she does various things to attempt to get furniture and what-not for the house.

In this episode she fakes being pregnant and registers at furniture stores, expecting her friends to buy her elaborate gifts.

It goes south pretty quickly, though, and she reveals that she isn’t actually pregnant, and they leave.

That’s the entire episode, which only runs 3 minutes and 11 seconds.

Overall there wasn’t much about this that was compelling to watch. The actions of Mindy’s character didn’t seem too far off actions her character on “The Office” might take, but the show is so compact that you don’t have any real interesting moments for a story to be put together. It’s essentially one joke “a woman fakes a pregnancy to get furniture for her new house” and that’ it.

I didn’t hate it. I find Mindy to be funny and charming (especially when she’s being heartless and self centered…as her character is in this), but I just wish there was more to it.

If you want to see it for yourself you can check it out at Strike.TV.