If I Only Had Christmas

mm...

Good morning, bobo.

M'wah.

Best alarm clock ever.

do you know what today is?

that's right,

it's the office christmas party.

Yeah! Come on. Come on...

Hang the stocking.

Do a snow angel.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

come on.

oh, yes, you're a good girl. M'wah!

hey!

Have a santa hat.

Darcy,

this is too much...

And you baked christmas cookies?

You realize there's a buffet.

Let her have this.

Headquarters announces

creative campaign of the year today.

She is nervous.

Oh, come on, darcy, you're a shoo-in.

Of course, but she is the first kansas city publicist

to be nominated.

I'm nervous, and I'm not even the one who's nominated.

I'm not nervous,

and, gary, you can never have too much christmas.

Watch and learn.

"evergreen bean casserole"

"stocking stuffers."

"let it snowballs."

what, we were all emailed the menu.

Okay, I'm nervous.

Distract me.

-Um... -Just...

Oh, darcy,

do you have the press release for--

cingular technologies is in your inbox.

-Genesis will be there by 4:00. -Amazing.

Now, before we get this party started,

have they announced the award yet?

right on time.

darcy, I'm sorry.

That's okay.

It was a competitive year.

Yeah.

Well, you took a tiny kansas city medical start-up,

and put them in the national spotlight.

They raised millions more because of you.

You may not have won some fancy award,

but you helped save countless lives.

-Don't forget that. -Thank you.

Really, all of you.

I'll be back in a minute.

are you seeing this?

The austin inc. Piece?

What's going on? It's blowing up.

It's a wrecker of an article.

They accuse william austin

of virtually disappearing as ceo.

That there's no vision, no leadership

ever since his father george passed away.

Man, I feel bad for whoever is in charge

of their communications department.

I told you to stop reading it.

"one would think growing up the son

of one of the world's most famous tech gurus

would make him a natural industry leader,

but all he seems to have learned to do

is play with his father's toys."

it's getting out of control.

I've got calls from cnn, nbc, business insider.

Tell them we have no comment.

glen goodman's office.

We have no comment.

Thank you. Goodbye.

Also, the economist, bloomberg,

they all want to hear from the head of communications.

No comment.

It'll blow over.

And winona.

No comment?

Right. Good luck with that.

Yeah.

as cfo, I'm telling you,

it is time to hire an outside pr firm.

absolutely not.

They want a ceo

who will double as a puffed-up celebrity frontman.

That's not an option.

Well then, we tell them it's not an option,

and we see what else they come up with.

We've never needed outside pr before.

The world doesn't know what we're doing.

They can't see the vision.

Customers don't need to see the vision.

They will see the genius in the product.

Investors need to see the vision.

They were already nervous.

This article shook their confidence.

Look, I agree with you.

We don't need a flashy ceo-led strategy,

but what we do need is an outside voice

to shake things up.

Hiding isn't working anymore.

I still don't like it.

You'll retain full veto power over pitches.

Fine.

how are you doing?

Really?

I just wish I knew

what I could have done differently, you know?

Work in new york or chicago.

Have a client whose name rhymes with "carbucks".

it's late. You've had a long day.

Why don't you go home

and do something that recharges you.

I will.

What is all this?

I'm doing some research.

After that disaster of an article,

austin, inc. Put out a call for pitches.

I saw.

I wouldn't give that request too much stock.

It is still william austin's company,

and he's notoriously anti-publicity.

Get some sleep, darcy.

But...

If someone from this office

were to land ai's business,

I'm sure headquarters

would need them to move to new york

and run the account.

Do we know anyone who might be interested

in something like that?

I don't know.

Well, if you know anyone,

tell them to send me a pitch deck by Monday.

Goodnight, darcy.

Goodnight.

and five, four, three...

Two...

-Hi, darcy! -Hello!

-How are you? -Hey!

We've got salad and garlic bread.

Oh, great!

Do you mind if I just pop this in the oven?

Yeah, top rack is fine. Thanks, clara--

what's the deal with the lights outside?

You having trouble hanging them?

Oh, hi, huck. Yeah, no, it's really, it's--

don't worry about it. I got it.

Hey, sis, did you know your lights were out?

Oh, yeah, I was just telling huck

it's not a big deal--

we brought christmas cookies.

Oh, thank you.

Oh, honey, sorry we're late.

Oh, no, you're just in time for christmas cocoa.

This looks like heaven.

Yeah.

Sugar-free for you, dad.

And paradise lost.

Ah, you can get started,

I'm gonna take these to the wonder twins.

Okay.

You know, normally,

I don't allow strange men on my roof

unless they're accompanied by nine tiny reindeer.

Brothers are not strangers, darcy.

I said "strange," not "strangers."

hey, uh, emma told us about the award.

You doing okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

You know, it happens.

I'm... I'm fine.

Did she do the thing where she--

yeah, she did the eye thing.

What? No, I'm fine.

Who's the cutest dog in the world?

Bobo.

Who broke my walkman in 1993?

Huck.

How do you feel about losing this award?

I'm fine.

listen, sis,

sometimes, the first step

is admitting that you have a problem.

What--

I just feel so defeated

and small.

It was crazy to think I could compete on that level.

Maybe it's time to finally take a real vacation.

you, my dear,

have a gift.

You're stifled at work, and that's hard,

but when one corner of the world

tries to dim our light,