IKEA Heights

{{Short description|Comedy web series}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = | genre = Comedy Melodrama Parody | creator = Dave Seger Paul Bartunek | writer = Dave Seger Spencer Strauss Paul Bartunek Tom Kauffman | director = Dave Seger | creative_director = | developer = | presenter = | starring = Randall Park Whitney Avalon Matt Braunger Tom Kauffman Jess Lane Wade Randolph Abed Gheith Delbert Dean Shoopman Dean Pelton Matt Peters | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 7 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = Dave Seger Paul Bartunek | editor = | location = Burbank, California | cinematography = | camera = Paul Bartunek | runtime = ~30 minutes | company = Channel 101 | network = | first_aired = {{Start date|2009|5|31}} | last_aired = {{End date|2010|1|31}} | related = }}

'''''IKEA Heights''''' is a 2009 comedic melodrama web series created by Dave Seger, Paul Bartunek, Delbert Shoopman, Spencer Strauss, and Tom Kauffman for Channel 101. A spoof of soap operas, the series was filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California.<ref>{{cite web |last=Neil |first=Dan |date=2009-09-08 |title=IKEA's Burbank store and the guerrillas in housewares |url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil8-2009sep08,0,3168538.column |access-date=2023-05-31 |publisher= |via=LA Times |archive-date=September 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913092250/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil8-2009sep08,0,3168538.column |url-status=live }}</ref> ''IKEA Heights'' stars Randall Park, Whitney Avalon, and Matt Braunger.

''Entertainment Weekly''{{'}}s Whitney Pastorek wrote that the series "is so brilliant and awesome that its glories can really only be diminished by additional words."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pastorek |first=Whitney |date=2009-10-30 |title=This week in guerrilla filmmaking: 'Ikea Heights' |url=https://ew.com/article/2009/10/30/ikea-heights-is-awesome/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024035837/https://ew.com/article/2009/10/30/ikea-heights-is-awesome/ |archive-date=2022-10-24 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=EW.com |language=EN}}</ref>

Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick, a spokesperson for IKEA's Canadian branch, said of the series, "Absolutely, we think it's funny. We see the humour in it and we approach our own marketing with a similar tongue-in-cheek humour. But unauthorized filming in our stores isn't a good thing. There's proper channels that people who want to film in our stores can go through."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sorensen |first=Chris |date=2010-01-22 |title=Taking the Ikea name to new heights - Macleans.ca |url=https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/taking-the-ikea-name-to-new-heights/ |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=www.macleans.ca |archive-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219205756/https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/taking-the-ikea-name-to-new-heights/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Premise == The series is set in the sketchy town IKEA Heights, and focuses on different mysteries and crimes that impact the residents. These include murders caused by being smothered by pillows, and a zombie invasion.

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==External links== * {{YouTube|channel=UCwnHulWRWroWt1o6Jwyhffg|title=''IKEA Heights''}}

Category:2009 web series debuts Category:2010 web series endings Category:American comedy web series Category:Channel 101 Category:IKEA Category:Parodies of soap operas