Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism
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| Mr. Show episode | |
| "Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism" | |
| Episode no. | 30 |
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| Prod. code | 410 |
| Orig. Airdate | December 28, 1998 |
| Writers | Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Scott Aukerman, Eric Hoffman, Jay Johnston, Bill Odenkirk, B.J. Porter, Dino Stamatopoulos, (Additional material - Brian Posehn), (Uncredited, additional material - Adam McKay) |
| Directors | John Moffitt (live segments), David Cross ("Goodbye" segment), Peyton Reed (location segments) |
| Season 4 October 26, 1998 – December 28, 1998 |
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"Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism" was the thirtieth and final episode of the HBO series Mr. Show to air. It originally aired on December 28, 1998.
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[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Resort Cold Open
An announcer tells the audience that tonight's episode of Mr. Show is being broadcast live from the La Questa Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona as part of the Globo-Chem corporation's yearly "Get Motivated" weekend.
Cast: Tom Kenny - voice over, Paul F. Tompkins - presenter, Bob Odenkirk - employee, Brett Paesel - employee, BJ Porter - Josh Fenderman, Becky Thyre - Honesty In Motion member, Jerry Minor - Honesty in Motion member, Jay Johnston - Honesty in Motion member, Bill Odenkirk - employee
[edit] Exec Open
Castmember Jay Johnston's voice over the PA announces in a monotone voice, "And now, if we could please all put our hands together and welcome the motivational humor of Bob and Dann... David." Bob and David excitedly enter, wearing "Globo Chem Corp" T-shirts. Bob and David begin performing motivational humor for the Globo Chem employees in the audience. They begin mocking the drinking problems, diets, and other eccentrities of the employees; who seem to be enjoying it. However, this all stops when they begin joking about sleeping with Globo Chem employee Larry Tanley's wife, Sally. From the audience, Larry gets very upset and starts yelling at Bob and David. He asks them where they got all of this information, and they say that they heard it from Carl Peters. Larry leaves to go kill Carl Peters. Bob and David introduce their next act, Josh Fenderman and his band, Honesty in Motion.
Cast: Jay Johnston - announcer (voice only), Bob Odenkirk - himself, David Cross - himself, Scott Adsit - Jeff Teasdale, John Ennis - Larry Tanley, BJ Porter - Josh Fenderman, Becky Thyre - Honesty in Motion member, Jerry Minor - Honesty in Motion member, Jay Johnston - Honesty in Motion member
[edit] Money Warning
The performance by Josh Fenderman and his band turns into an episode of Genuine Hollywood Factual Report, focusing on Fenderman's life. Genuine Hollywood Factual Report is a parody of E! True Hollywood Story and Josh Fenderman is a parody of Corey Feldman. The documentary takes us through Josh's career. His career began in 1976, when as a child, he acted in a commercial for "Frankie P. Cheesewinkle's", promoting their new pumpkin pizza. His catchphrase from the commercial was "It's pumpkinninny!" Next, hot Hollywood director Sol Stevenberg cast Josh as the lead in his movie Goober Patrol. After this, Josh starred in the films Dumbbell University and Tunafishing '87. Josh continued to get richer and richer; until by the late 1980s, he was broke. Josh blames the money for his problems because it did not come with instructions and he was not told that he would not get it back after spending it. This causes him to start a lawsuit against the Treasury Department. He wins the lawsuit, causing the Treasury Department to have to put a warning on all money that says "Warning: This dollar is not yours after you spend it."
Cast: Bob Odenkirk - voice over, BJ Porter - Josh Fenderman, Scott Aukerman - guy with Josh, Bob Odenkirk - guy with Josh, Jill Talley - Josh's mother, David Cross - Sol Stevenberg, Bill Odenkirk - attorney, Scott Adsit - attorney
[edit] Warnings Link
Josh's lawsuit causes several other lawsuits to force companies to include simple warnings. One of them, on a box of candy hearts, says "Warning: Candy is not really in love with you."
Cast: Bob Odenkirk - voice over
[edit] Weeklong Romance
A woman in a restaurant is holding the box of candies. She is meeting with her boyfriend, Todd Hinley, after they have been broken up for a week. They both decide to get back together and to never break up again. They ask each other what they have done with the past week of their lives. Todd says that he barely left the house, and the woman says that she signed up for a Tex Mex cooking class which hasn't started yet. The woman becomes surprised when Todd starts smoking. She asks him about it and he says that he picked up the habit in the past week and that he tried to quit a couple of times. The couple continues to catch up, until a man at the bar walks up and punches Todd in the face. He says that it is for standing up Jennifer at the altar. Todd explains to his girlfriend that he stood up the man's sister at the altar and that's why he is mad. Next, a young woman comes up and asks for Todd's autograph and tells him that he "rocks". Todd explains that he was in a Christian rock band. Next, two guys with strange hair cuts, come up and punch Todd in the face. He introduces them to his girlfriend as "2001: A New Wave Godyssey." They are his Christian rock band, and they are angry because he broke up the band to be with his girlfriend. Next, another guy comes up and punches Todd in the face because Todd beat out the guy's girlfriend, Chrystal Knockers, in a blowjob competition and she is embarrassed. Todd's girlfriend has trouble accepting all of the things that he has done in the past week, and becomes angry about it. However, Todd discoveres mesquite sauce on his girlfriend's hand, and punches her because she had told him that her Tex Mex class hadn't started yet. He excitedly rejoins his Christian rock band.
Cast: Bob Odenkirk - Todd Hinley, Jill Talley -, John Ennis - Jennifer's brother Patton Oswalt - man in restaurant, Mindy Jovanovic - autograph seeker, Scott Aukerman - band member, David Cross - band member, Jay - Chrystal Knockers's boyfriend
[edit] Godyssey Link
2001: A New Wave Godyssey is performing in the Coffee Dome. After playing the song "Praying Machine" for a few moments, they become angry because of the sound from next door. Rocker Marilyn Monster is playing in the Cicinatti Octo-Dome, and it is drowning them out.
Cast: Bob Odenkirk - Todd Hinley, David Cross - band member, Scoutt Aukerman - band member
[edit] Marilyn Mozzarella Pizzarella Pie Parlours
We cut to a live performance by Marilyn Monster, a parody of Marilyn Manson, who dumps a bucket of blood on himself on-stage. After the show, Marilyn watches his performance backstage. He talks to the camera and takes off his wig. He introduces himself as Larry Turnaur and begins to act like an ordinary guy. He explains to the audience that his popularity led him to create "Marilyn Mozzarella's Pizzarella Pie Parlours." He mentions that we are watching a training video, intended for his new "funployees." Larry explains the restaurants complex and strict rules to his new workers. He mentions the restaurants 16 Ps to success. Information Jimmy, a man with a clipboard and a headset, enters to tell Marilyn that it is time for him to perform.
Cast: David Cross - Larry "Marilyn Monster" Turnaur, Dino Stamatopoulos - Marilyn Monster guitarist, John Ennis - pizza parlor boss, Becky Thyre - Funployee #1, Jay Johnston - Funployee #2, Jerry Minor - Funployee #3, Bob Odenkirk - Fred, Mark Rivers - Information Jimmy
[edit] Info Jimmy
After he talks to Marilyn, we follow Information Jimmy, who travels around telling people what to do. First, he tells Carl, a man preparing to be executed, that he got his pardon and can go. Next, he tells a kid in a bus station who is drinking an empty cup of soda that he can throw it away. He tells a man having sex in a seedy motel room to "Pull out, now." Finally, he tells a bar full of people that the bar is closing.
Cast: Mark Rivers - Information Jimmy, Jay Johnston - Carl, John Ennis - police officer, BJ Porter - man in suit, Bill Odenkirk - man in bus station, Scott Adsit - man in motel
[edit] Goodbye
After the bar closes, two old friends say goodbye to each other. They start to walk away, but realize that they are walking in the same direction. They both go separate ways and awkwardly say goodbye again. They run into each other once again in the parking structure, and say goodbye another time. After they both leave, they awkwardly run into each other once again at the gas station. They say goodbye a final time. One of the friends goes to another gas station and sees two old friends run into each other. He begins to panic, wondering where his friend is. He drives back to the first gas station, then to the parking structure; but can't find him The next morning, he picks up the paper to see that his friend has passed away. At the funeral, a woman says "I never had the chance to say goodbye", to which the man responds, "I did... a lot."
Cast: Bob Odenkirk - friend, Jay Johnston - friend, Paul F. Tompkins - man playing pool, Tracey Krasno - woman playing pool, Eric Hoffman - man playing pool, Laura Milligan - woman at funeral
[edit] Tombstone/Vendetta Link
Other tombstones in the cemetery are shown, one which reads "R.I.P. I'm Dead Without My Coffee in the Morning."
Cast: (none)
[edit] Vendetta
The tombstone is a paperweight on the desk of Carl Peters, the man who had told Bob and David personal information about his Globo-Chem co-workers earlier in the show. Larry, the man who left the audience at the beginning of the show, angrily enters Carl's office and accuses him of sleeping with his wife. Carl explains that it wasn't for fun, and the they were just making amateur porno films. He also explains that Larry's sister and dog, and Carl's son were also involved. A repairman enters before Larry prepares to kill Carl and gets mad at Carl for taking credit for his work, because he directes the movies. Todd, another employee who was involved in the porno films, enters and comes up with the idea of having Carl have sex with Larry's wife all over the world. Information Jimmy enters and tells them the scene is over.
Cast: David Cross - Carl Peters, John Ennis - Larry Tanley, Bob Odenkirk - repairman, Jay Johnston - Todd, Mark Rivers - Information Jimmy
[edit] Info Jimmy Close
The credits begin to roll as Information Jimmy walks outside for a smoke break and tells the camera that the season is over.
Cast: Mark Rivers - Information Jimmy
[edit] Trivia
- Title: The line "Patriotism, pepper, and professionalism" is spoken by David Cross's character, Larry "Marilyn Monster" Turnaur in the sketch "Marilyn Mozzarella Pizzarella Pie Parlours", when he is listing the 16 Ps. Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism are three of the 16 Ps.
- Fake Special Thanks: Lawrence E. Walsh
- DVD Commentary: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross (as himself and as 2001: A New Wave Godyssey bandmember), Jay Johnston, Brian Posehn, Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman (as himself and as 2001: A New Wave Godyssey bandmember), Bill Odenkirk, Jerry Minor, B.J. Porter (as himself and as Josh Fenderman)
- The episode's title on the DVD is listed as "Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism" because the regular title was too long.
- On the DVD commentary, Jay Johnston admits that Adam McKay, a comedy writer who was the head writer for Saturday Night Live at the time, wrote the "Goodbye" sketch with him. However, McKay was not credited because Jay did not turn in a form in time for him to get credited for "Additional material". Also, it was McKay who introduced Johnston to his comedy partner and fellow Mr. Show castmember/writer Paul F. Tompkins.
- On the fourth season DVD, the "Mr. Show Jukebox" feature has two songs called "Information Jimmy Demo 1" and "Information Jimmy Demo 2", which were cut from the episode. The songs are country songs and are about Mark Rivers's character in the episode.
- Jay Johnston is credited as both a castmember and a featured castmember for this episode. This is the only episode in which he is credited as part of the main cast.
[edit] Credits
[edit] Cast
Here is a list of the credited cast for the episode:
- Cast: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, John Ennis, Jill Talley, Jay Johnston
- Featuring: Scott Adsit, Scott Aukerman, Eric Hoffman (as Eric "Chilitos" Hoffman), Jay Johnston, Mindy Jovanovic, Laura Milligan, Jerry Minor, Bill Odenkirk, Brett Paesel, BJ Porter, Mark Rivers, Dino Stamatopoulos, Becky Thyre, Paul F. Tompkins (as Paul F. "Guapo" Tompkins)
- Uncredited cast: Tom Kenny, Patton Oswalt, Tracey Krasno
[edit] Crew
- Executive producers: Brad Grey, Bernie Brillstein, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Troy Miller
- Co-executive producers: Tim Sarkes, Dino Stamatopoulos
- Producers: Jay Johnston, Bill Odenkirk
- Produced by: Tom Sherren
- Coordinating producers: John Saade, Peter Giambalvo
