Trust MeAu Courant
Original Air Date: Feb 16, 2009
Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week, Mason and Conner are told that Rothman, Teens and More, a subdivision of the agency, will be helping out on their account with Mark Shale because their campaign that was geared toward 35 to 50 year olds just isn’t selling to teens. Conner refers to Rothman, Teens and More as a virus, saying they help on one project and then try to take over other accounts. Mason seeks advice on reaching the teen market from his daughter, Haley, played by Vanessa Marano (Luke’s daughter on Gilmore Girls). From their conversation, Mason ends up pitching ads in the middle of downloadable books, which the client laughs at. Uh, oh.
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This week, Mason and Conner are told that Rothman, Teens and More, a subdivision of the agency, will be helping out on their account with Mark Shale because their campaign that was geared toward 35 to 50 year olds just isn’t selling to teens. Conner refers to Rothman, Teens and More as a virus, saying they help on one project and then try to take over other accounts. Mason seeks advice on reaching the teen market from his daughter, Haley, played by Vanessa Marano (Luke’s daughter on Gilmore Girls). From their conversation, Mason ends up pitching ads in the middle of downloadable books, which the client laughs at. Uh, oh.
ReplyDeleteConner saves the meeting by proposing a series of webisodes where teens work at Mark Shale and advertise the products by wear the clothes in the episodes. The head honcho at Mark Shale loves the idea. At the second meeting, Mason and his datedness start losing the client to Rothman, Teens and More and out of nowhere, Mason throws out the idea of Spike Jonze directing the webisodes. After the meeting, Conner freaks out at Mason and Mason realizes that not only does he not know Spike Jonze like he said but he has no idea how to get him.
Haley asks Mason how his meeting went and it snowballs into Mason worrying Haley doesn’t have enough friends on Facebook, which upsets her. She comes down for dinner the next night dressed up and says she has to look this way to be an average teen so her parents will be proud of her. Mason’s screwed up but he doesn’t know how to fix it. I wonder if there will ever be an episode where no one screws up at all.
Meanwhile, Tom and Hector find a posting on an advertising insider website that backhandedly claims Sarah is a lesbian. They confront her on it and she tells them she isn’t. The website upsets her and she goes to Conner for help. He offers to take her out but nothing comes of it. Beverly, who works at the agency, hits on Sarah and Tom points this out to her. Sarah asks how he knows and Tom says, “She brought you tea. Plus, I’ve seen her kissing girls.” That’d do it.
Mason asks Conner to call one of his many exes, Amanda, who has connections to Spike Jonze. Conner can’t remember if he was a jerk in the relationship but the phone call to Amanda goes well. Their date, however, does not. Conner awkwardly tells Amanda he missed her clavicle and that he was going to be a doctor. “The world dodged a bullet there,” he says. Indeed. The idea of Conner as a doctor is one of the scariest things ever. Conner brings up Spike and Amanda puts it all together. She’s offended, calls him a user and he accidentally insults her again. She does give him the name of Spike’s agent at CAA, so at least the date was sort of productive on that point.
Sarah asks Tom and Hector to be her date to a big ad function and says she doesn’t care which one goes with her. She ends up picking Hector, the one with the curly hair that sort of looks like that guy from Revenge of the Nerds. They go to the ad function but don’t end up inside. Sarah breaks down about being alone and Hector tells her she’s not alone, that she’s on a bench with Christopher Walken. He then breaks out the best Christopher Walken impression I’ve ever heard and I’ve heard some good ones. They kiss and when they pull away, Sarah says, “Maybe I am gay.” Aw. Well, it was sweet for a moment. Poor Hector.
Back in Spike Jonze hell, Conner lies to Mason and tells him they have a meeting with Spike’s agent, Richard. They fly to L.A. and Mason quickly realizes they don’t have an appointment. Conner tells the receptionist he’s Spike Jonze, which gets Richard down to the lobby and they scramble to keep him there. Mason tells Richard they want Spike to direct the next big thing on the internet and he’s got complete freedom over the project. Mason’s brilliant and Richard tells him he’ll speak to Spike and maybe set up a meeting in the next few days. The boys are coasting, drinking from the mini bar in their hotel until Richard calls them back and rips them apart. The Chicago Sun Times has already printed that Rothman, Greene and Mohr are working on a webisode project with Spike Jonze thanks to rumors and their nemesis, Simon.
Through a bunch of connections, Mason gets the address to a party in the Hills where Spike is supposed to be and they go to crash. One problem – the claiming Conner is Spike Jonze plan doesn’t work a second time and the bouncer denies them. Mason and Conner set about scaling a huge cliff to get to the party and Mason doesn’t get more than four feet up the hill, despite his best efforts. He wonders what he’s doing and Conner tells him it’s okay to let him take over sometimes. Conner, being Conner, comes up with a brilliant plan to tell Mark Shale that they met with Spike and he loved the idea but he’s tied up with other projects at the moment.
The episode ends on a nice note between Mason and Haley. Haley’s reading a book on her Kindle and Mason asks her about it. All seems to be forgiven. Haley tells her dad she’s worried about him because he has no friends on Facebook. It’s sweet and they have a good dynamic.
So, what did you think? Are you digging this show as much as I am? Hopefully, Mason and Conner are headed towards better days. But hey, there wouldn’t be much of a show if they did. As always, let me know your TwoCents on the episode in the comments!