An adult animated series

LOST
BALLS

“Holy shit. What a stupid way to die.”

— Stripe, Pro V1x, cold open

Stripe
Investor Deck · Seed Round · 2026 Confidential
02 · The Series

LOST BALLS

The Logline

At Greenview Country Club, every golf ball, tee, flagstick, and bunker rake is alive. The members are oblivious. Together, they have to stop a private-equity prick from turning the back nine into pickleball courts.

Stripe
From the Pilot

STRIPE: “Tweet! Tweet, bitch!”

CAP 18: (rolls his eyes)

The World

South Park meets Caddyshack by way of Smiling Friends.

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03 · Meet the Cast · The Objects

The hook of the show: the equipment talks.

“Eat shit, pickleball!” — Sgt. Tines, bunker rake, pilot ep.
Stripe
Pro V1x, refurbished
Main-character syndrome in a golf ball. Wants to die in a blaze of glory. Talks like a Jonah Hill-circa-Superbad. Mostly ends up in water.
Sally
Pink range ball
Soft, flirty, hopelessly in love with Stripe. “Oh Stripe, I hope you compress me first.” The conscience of the bucket.
Sgt. Tines
Bunker rake · drill instructor
Runs the sand traps like a Marine boot camp. Catapulted himself into Vance’s open mouth in the pilot. Hates pickleball with his entire metal body.
Cap 18
Flagstick · hole 18
Surveillance state of the back nine. Sees everything. Says little. Files dossiers on every member. Eye-rolls like a teenager.
Tee #3
Wooden tee · leather harness
Different fetish every hole. Begs to be slapped by silver-haired members. Standing sight gag about who actually pays for this club.
Wilson
Tennis racket · pervy
Hangs in the tennis pro shop watching every private lesson. “I wish she’d grip my handle.” A racket with a problem.
Rizzo
E-Z-GO bev cart
Standard golf cart with the soul of a Long Island uncle. Sneers at White Claw. Roots for Kayla. Keeps the Dick Joke Jar.
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04 · Meet the Cast · The Humans

The members are oblivious. That’s the joke.

“This is going to be the perfect fucking round.” — Stripe, minutes before everything goes wrong
Kayla
Cart girl · 20s
Whip-smart, underpaid, over it. Charges Barry $10 every time he gets handsy — calls it the Dick Joke Jar. Hears the objects. Wishes she didn’t.
Old Man Munro
Club legend · 70s
Last twenty club championships on the plaque, all his. Sounds like Stan from American Dad. One last round before Florida. Buys his sleeve refurbished.
Henderson
Member · 40s · Peter Millar
Has full-blown meltdowns on the first tee. “He’s breathing! I can hear him breathing!” Believes he could’ve gone pro. Has video proof to the contrary.
Paul
Golf pro · lispy · 40s
Sounds like Lindsey Graham. Genuflects to Munro, perves on Chad the cart boy, and runs the pro shop like a temple of overpriced pastel.
Abernathy
Chairman emeritus · 80s
Senile, half-dressed, beyond HR’s reach. “Excuse me, sonny. Have you seen my trousers? They’re… trouser-colored.” Every locker-room scene is a powder keg.
The GM
General manager · 50s
Sweats through every meeting with Vance Chadwick. Pretends every problem is an opportunity. Every opportunity is a slow-motion lawsuit.
Reggie
Member · 40s
The only Black member at Greenview. Dresses better than everyone. Plays his own game — on and off the course. Calm, confident, untouchable.
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05 · The Ask

$250,000.

We’re raising $250K to create and distribute an adult animated series — and to scale it into multiple monetization channels.

SAFE. Seed round. Builds the launch slate.
45%
Production
Animation, voice cast, music. ~30 shorts and 4 mid-form episodes.
25%
Creator deals
Cameo fees, parody rights, collab budgets for first 3 marquee features.
20%
Channel & growth
Editing, thumbnails, paid amplification on first 10 drops, community ops.
10%
Legal & ops
Entity, IP filings, talent contracts, accounting.
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06 · Why Now

Golf is having a moment.
It’s happening on YouTube — not TV.

Per David Hyland, The Business of Golf (Nov 2025): Good Good draws 1–2M views per video. Rick Shiels routinely outperforms PGA Tour highlights. The median Golf Channel viewer is 64.

$45M
raised by Good Good Golf — March 2025.
Series A. Led by Creator Sports Capital. Backers include Manhattan West and Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions. A YouTube golf company is now a real media company.
— Stripe
6.8M
views on the 2025 Internet Invitational.
A tournament run by creators, not the Tour. Top YouTube golf events now routinely outdraw a Sunday on the PGA Tour broadcast.
— Rizzo
12.7M
Sunday viewers for the 2025 Masters — the ceiling.
Below that, most mid-tier Tour events can’t clear 1M. The under-50 audience is gone. The median Golf Channel viewer is 64 years old.
— Slicey
And it’s compounding

April 2026: DeChambeau (2.6M), Horvat (1.6M), and the Bryan Bros (800K+) merged into Source Golf — a single ad network backed by David Blitzer’s Bolt Ventures.

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07 · The Gap

Adult animation is hot.
Golf has no show.

Football has Ballers. Basketball has Winning Time. Soccer has Ted Lasso.
Golf has 90 minutes of pre-shot routines. Meanwhile, the YouTube-to-streaming pipeline for adult animation is no longer a theory — it’s a documented path.

Hollywood Reporter · Apr 2026
“A pathway for production outside the studio pipeline.”
On YouTube indie animation finding streaming deals.
Prime Video Press · Apr 2026
Hazbin Hotel renewed for a fifth and final season.
Started 2019 as a YouTube pilot. Now in 240+ countries.
Variety / Deadline · Feb 2026
Netflix added another adult animated sitcom slot.
DANG! from The Good Place’s Mike Schur, set for 2026.
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08 · Comparables

Five proofs. Same pattern.

These aren’t theories. Five real companies have already run the exact play we’re running.

HAZBIN HOTEL
YouTube IP → premium streaming
89M views on the YouTube pilot. A24 + Bento Box + Amazon picked it up — a two-season order before season 1 aired. Now in 240+ countries, five seasons total.
SMILING FRIENDS
Indie style → premium distribution
Cult Adult Swim comedy from web-origin animators. Season 1 budget under $2M. Spinoff Dad’s House now greenlit at Netflix.
HELLUVA BOSS
YouTube-only economics still work
Spindlehorse, fan-financed. Released entirely on YouTube. Season 3 in production — built on Hazbin overflow audience.
GOOD GOOD GOLF
YouTube audience → media company
1.97M subs across channels. Five active revenue lines. Raised $45M in March 2025 from Manhattan West and Peyton Manning.
BOB DOES SPORTS
Creator IP → live tentpole
Internet Invitational (Aug 2025) drew 21M+ cumulative views and a $1.7M prize pool. Now a venture-backed media business.
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“I was born to fly,
bitches.”

— Stripe, first tee, pilot episode

Source Golf just bundled DeChambeau, Horvat, and the Bryan Bros into a unified ad network. Creator Sports Capital exists. Hazbin’s path from YouTube to A24 is documented. The audience is there. The format is proven. The IP is built.

Lost Balls is the series this audience hasn’t been given yet.  Let’s give it to them.

Lost Ballslostballs.golf · @lostballs.golf
10 · The Insight
50×
the engagement of MrBeast per subscriber.
That’s what top golf creators do.

Parody is the bait.
Partnership is the hook.

Feature a real creator as a Lost Balls character. They post about it. Their fans show up. The parody travels. The partnership distributes.

01
Feature
Episode features or parodies a real golf creator as a Lost Balls character.
02
React
Creator posts a reaction, stitch, or commentary. Often pre-arranged.
03
Spillover
Their audience floods our channel. Zero customer-acquisition cost.
04
Compound
We feature the next creator. The network tightens with every drop.
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11 · Rollout

Ship shorts. Learn fast. Double down.

Start where production risk is lowest and the algorithm is most generous. Let the data tell us which format to scale.

Phase 01
Shorts
60–90 second character moments. One joke, one punchline, one creator parody per drop. Highest CPM-per-minute. Lowest cost per piece. Tests which characters break out.
Precedent

Same beat as Smiling Friends’ early Adult Swim shorts (~11 min, sub-$2M season 1).

Phase 02
Mid-form episodes
3–7 minute narrative cuts. Connect shorts into character arcs. Greenview becomes a place, not a backdrop. Brand partners woven in natively.
Precedent

Helluva Boss model: YouTube-native mid-form with a rabid fanbase before any streamer touched it.

Phase 03
Premium episodes
10–15 minute episodes built around marquee creator cameos and event tie-ins. The pickup target — streamers see proven audience, not a pitch.
Precedent

Hazbin’s exact arc: indie YouTube pilot → A24 + Amazon two-season order.

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12 · Business Model

Five revenue lines. One trajectory.

Each line has a precedent already doing it at scale. We’re not inventing the model — we’re stacking the strongest version of each.

01
YouTube AdSense
Vivziepop · 11M subs
Series-driven CPMs. Library compounds. Pays the lights.
02
Brand integrations
Good Good × Callaway
Native-to-character placement. Titleist, TaylorMade, AG1, Cobra.
03
Merch & apparel
MrBeast Feastables
Stripe plush, PickleBros tees, Greenview membership cards.
04
Licensing / streaming
Hazbin → A24 / Amazon
Two-season order before season 1 aired. 240+ countries. Five seasons total.
05
Live & experiential
Dude Perfect Tour
Lost Balls tournaments. Live event tie-ins with creator partners.
The scale path

AdSense → Brand deals → Merch flywheel → Streaming pickup → IP licensing → Exit.

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13 · Team

Who’s behind it.

Final bios to be inserted before send.

Role
Creator / Showrunner
To Be Named
Creator credit to be added before send. Resume to be inserted here.
Role
Animation Lead
To Be Named
Studio or director credit to be added before send. Animation partner being scoped for the shorts slate.
Role
Production / EP
To Be Named
Producer credit to be added. Working on attaching a producer with adult animation or YouTube-native track record.
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