First Day/Last Day
- Episode aired Feb 7, 1989
- TV-14
- 48m
Michael and Elliot relive their past while they look for work and close down their company.Michael and Elliot relive their past while they look for work and close down their company.Michael and Elliot relive their past while they look for work and close down their company.
Amos Borden: It's simple enough.
Michael Steadman: Well, Mr. Borden, it's not the work. It's... I mean, if I do this, then it changes everything. It throws everything off. It ruins the speech. You see, it...
Amos Borden: Michael, it's a commercial, not a soliloquy. Make the changes.
Michael Steadman: You're knuckling under the client.
Amos Borden: That's correct.
Michael Steadman: You know, Mr. Borden, I don't know if I can do this. This is...
Amos Borden: You can.
Michael Steadman: Well, I'm not gonna do it.
Amos Borden: Do what?
Michael Steadman: The changes are stupid, okay? They make the agency look bad. They make me look bad, and I refuse to do it.
Amos Borden: You know, taking an artistic stand on a quarter-page newspaper ad and jeopardizing your job to do it doesn't seem like a terribly smart move, does it? Now, save your quixotic impulses for your fiction. Do the job you're paid to do.