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Timmy-Fell-Down-A-Well crosses the street on a rainy day. Tilty camera shot of the elevator as Timmy gets in to a guy who looks like Garry Shandling's smarmier younger brother. Timmy-Fell-Down-A-Well notices that Shandling Jr. is carrying the same issue of Men's Health magazine and he uses that coincidence to breathily strike up a conversation. He introduces himself to the man, who turns out to be in Corporate Finance with the firm. He blabs that he's a trainee and that he majored in "Corp Fin at Wharton" and that he plans to join Shandling Jr.'s division when he's done training but in the meantime he'd be "more than eager" to pick his brain over a "beverage, a meal, or whatnot." Shandling Jr. just stares at Timmy like he's something his cat -- who is pissed off that he's been away for five fucking days even though he had a family commitment and it's not as if he left her without a cat-sitter or anything -- just threw up.

Hallway. Again with the tilty cam. Can someone in the grip department get the DP a fucking level, please? Thanks. Rickman walks down the hall with TES and Nicky NotKatt. Rickman tells them that if Eyebrows is starting today, he will, "vibe her into submission" and say, "...It's one thing to scam your way into this place, but if you think you can just survive here simply by, you know, sweet-talking management and shaking your rump until I just...[he sees her] Oh, baby." They approach her and Giancarlo makes introductions all around. Since TES can't really make complex emotions play across his face, they use a brief flashback of the make-out and the zipper-releasing from the episode. Giancarlo heads off to order an IKEA wine rack for his trailer, saying, "Make nice, boys." Rickman's bluster is all gone as he says how nice it is to be working with Eyebrows. She asks the boys if she can talk to TES alone, but he "minds" and stalks off to go watch the new DVD of Dead Man On Campus and try to figure out just what went wrong.

Conference room. Extras lean forward trying to get in the shot as Eyebrows gives her little talk about how having Private Client Services, her new division, will affect The Firm That Makes No Money. As she uses words like "disharmonious" without looking like she has a fucking clue what that "big ol' word" on the script was, Rickman whispers to TES, "Translation: she doesn't give a rat's ass about our clients." Goldberg -- and I still haven't quite discerned what he does around here except stammer -- gets up to talk about how tomorrow is "D-Day" for the new "Green Planet" IPO and hands it over to The Rocke-who. She stares hard at the cue card across the set and says that Green Planet is "an incubator for environmentally safe technologies," la la la, and something about pushing this IPO is right in line with Balmont-Stevens's mandate to help environmentally responsible companies. Rickman leans over to TES again. "Translation: never earn a dime." Since this is all dull we get a close-up of Alex fiddling with her engagement ring and TES seeing this. Outside, the Window Washer of Foreshadowing erases a smudge on the glass that reads "TES + Alex, Forever."

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http://www.mightybigtv.com:80/story.cgi?show=46&story=46&page=2&sort=&limit=
Captured
2001-09-10
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