IKEA Heights

{{Short description|Comedy web series}}

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| genre = Comedy
Melodrama
Parody

| creator = Dave Seger
Paul Bartunek

| writer = Dave Seger
Spencer Strauss
Paul Bartunek
Tom Kauffman

| director = Dave Seger

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| starring = Randall Park
Whitney Avalon
Matt Braunger
Tom Kauffman
Jess Lane
Wade Randolph
Abed Gheith
Delbert Dean Shoopman
Dean Pelton
Matt Peters

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 7

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| producer = Dave Seger
Paul Bartunek

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| location = Burbank, California

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| camera = Paul Bartunek

| runtime = ~30 minutes

| company = Channel 101

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| first_aired = {{Start date|2009|5|31}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2010|1|31}}

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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.{{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}} 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."{{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}}

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."{{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}}

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