King of Knives

Look everyone knows how important you are

to this team.

You're making this a bigger deal than it is.

I saw all of the slides.

I like Steven's idea best, period.

No way, Nils, come on.

It's fresh.

He's taking the established theme,

tipping it on its head. Brilliant!

It takes the mascot thing to a new and younger audience.

It's offensive.

You, you shouldn't even have had eyes on it.

Oh, loosen up, Frank.

Urban Sammy is hilarious.

My client's going to hate it. I'm telling you.

It's the agency's client, not yours.

That client chose this agency because of me.

They asked us to rebrand, Frank.

They want to shake things up.

I brought Steven in to do that, he's very talented.

He's got a goddamn Grand Prix.

Oh, I don't care.

A bad idea is a bad idea.

Well, I'm having him present it.

- I have to go. - No, no, wait.

Hey, I have the new rendering here

and I stuck the keynote on this drive

and all the digital stuff is hyper-linked.

There's no need.

Steven went behind my back and showed Nils Urban Sammy.

No.

No way, I thought you killed that idea.

Yeah, that little shit bag went over my head.

But the new deck is so good.

What about your work?

- Our work. - But can he do that?

I mean, the...

Man, that's the worst.

Yeah, I just got off with Nils

and it's done, Ruby.

Nils sucks.

He doesn't have a creative bone in his body.

And there's not a lot we can do about it.

When the chief creative officer makes a decision,

that's what goes.

- Just stick your stuff on my desk. - Yeah.

Hey, are you okay?

Yeah.

Next time.

We'll get them next time.

Okay.

I have got to go clear my head.

Oh, um.

- Here. - Oh.

- What's this? - It's a card I made.

Don't, like, open it in front of me.

You got it.

I leave for Nebraska on Monday.

I won't see you before the holidays,

so Merry Christmas.

And screw Nils.

And Steven.

They're both hacks, everybody here knows it.

Thanks for that.

Are you going to be okay?

Yeah.

I'll be fine.

As long as I don't run into the fucking turncoat.

Then, you, uh, you better go now.

- He's leaving the conference room, he's headed this way. - Oh, okay.

Hey, Steven, I had a question for you.

Yeah?

Hey, Frankie.

You ran off on me, my man.

You okay with those changes?

You know that I'm not.

You went behind my back.

I had to make a snap decision.

Look, I know you've been close to this account, Frankie.

Oh, yeah, the account I've been running for the last decade.

Yeah, yeah, pretty close to it.

We needed fresh eyes, something new.

We're pushing the creative forward.

"Pushing the creative."

You know how dumb that sounds, right?

Well, Nils loves my idea.

Nils isn't the client.

Yeah, but guess what, he's our boss.

Now, look, we're supposed to be partners.

You needed to trust me.

Frankie, your thinking is just so '80s, man.

Brands don't act the same way. You'll see,

the clients are going to love it.

Yeah, well, I hope for both of us they do.

Let's go a little deeper.

Deeper.

Now really stretch.

Are you hurting?

Yeah.

Okay, bud.

Let's try something different.

Twists.

- Okay. - Yeah, how's your shoulder?

Well, shitty, as usual.

Yeah?

I want you to push through, all right?

Hold on to that.

Grab that.

Okay?

Ready?

How's Kath been doing these days? I haven't seen her in a while.

She's doing fine.

Okay, granny, few more reps.

You're tougher than this.

Push through.

Kathy can pull harder than this.

Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

You know, look what you've made me do.

Mm, smells amazing, baby.

- Thanks, baby. - Aw, babies,

can refrain from using foreplay at the table?

Jealous?

God.

Why are we using Grandma's death plates?

- China. - Sorry, death China.

Why are we using Grandma's death China?

It's a special occasion.

You use China on special occasions.

What's the special occasion?

Mom and Dad's anniversary.

Jesus, Kaitlin, I texted you that last night.

Uh, I was, how do you say, un-petit fucked up last night.

I love these plates, you don't like them?

No. They're old and creepy

and I'm afraid I'm going to constantly break them.

It's our connection to your grandma.

And your grandma's grandma.

Thank you.

Through the use of their old-ass plates?

I think they're beautiful, Mom.

Agreed. So pretty.

Oh, my God.

God, the Andersons have made me hate Christmas.

- Be nice. - Oh,

Mrs. Anderson's probably beside herself

that it's 60 degrees in December.

She does love snow, that woman.

Oh.

I want to take that speaker

and shove it right up her little, tiny ass.

- Seems like a strong reaction. - Sorry.

Tell me this doesn't annoy the shit out of you.

It does. It doesn't make me

want to sodomize my neighbor.

Mom, don't say "sodomize."

Why?

Because we're about to eat.

Oh, loosen up, Sadie, for all of us.

I'm super loose.

Ha.

Where's Dad?

He had a pitch today.

New take on the squirrel.

Oh, no, they're changing Sammy?

They're trying to make him more relevant for Millennials.

Millennials don't give a shit what cartoon

character's on their toilet paper.

Mm, I disagree.

I use the one with the bear on it.

You know, it comforts me.

Help me baste, hun.

- Oh, sure. - Yeah.

Thank you.

Watch it.

That boy is more whupped than any man I know.

Like a puppy.

That's how she like them though.

Well, everybody's got something, don't they?

Oh, Mom, getting catty.

Meow.

Hey, help me set.

These are pretty.

Like the bit at the bottom.

Yeah, it's a bitch to clean but, yeah.

Your father's aunt gave these to us for our wedding.

How do you remember shit like that?

You know, that's my brain, a steel trap.

I'm glad you're here.

It means a lot to me.

Don't go all Hallmark on me.

I didn't even get you a gift.

Your presence is the only present I need.

Barf, Ma.

I know.

Deal with it.

Uh, and set a place for Danny.

Please.

Ma, that's fucking morbid.

Do it.

Fuck me.