Sports Night
Sports Night

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Daniel: A- | 696 USERS: B-
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The Sweet Smell Of Air

Dan and Casey enter the production meeting, where Jeremy is already engaged in the "Jeremy Rattles Off Some Useless Info" portion of tonight’s episode, and he’s reading the description of Jordan’s new cologne, which I won’t bother to transcribe. "They know we’re a sports show, right?" Dana suggests preparing some questions. Dan: "When you were growing up in North Carolina, did you ever just breathe the air and think, ‘I’m going to bottle this and make 250 million dollars’?" Dana says she means basketball questions. Natalie, reading further ahead in the press kit, says that there aren’t going to be any basketball questions. Turns out the publicist accidentally faxed over a sheet of tips on how to keep the interview on the subject of cologne. Uh-oh, Spaghetti-Os! "We must be cautious or the media will spin the interview onto an entirely different topic -- sports -- and ignore our product. Let’s do our best to steer the conversation back to cologne," reads Dana. Then she asks, "We’re going to be talking about cologne for five minutes?" Casey and Dan assure her it will be fine. "We’re interviewers, Dana, we conduct the interview," says Dan. "Do you think we’re going to be outfoxed by Michael Jordan?" Dana thinks they will. Dan insists, "We have media skills we can utilize. [To Casey] Right?" "Sure," says Casey. "Really?" says Dan. Hell, you guys were outfoxed by the Cut Man, so I’m not all that confident. Sam pipes up, "Forget basketball," and says to let Jordan talk about whatever he wants since the interview is worth 2.5 share points. "Well tally-ho, Sam," says Dana. "I didn’t know you were with us." Sam says he’s there to help if they need him. Dana tells him they don’t. "Too late," says Sam, standing up and taking charge. Did I mention William H. Macy kicks ass? Because he does. Sam suggests setting up a practice interview with someone pretending to be Jordan and trying to throw off Dan and Casey. "A practice interview?" sneers Dana. "You honestly think that’s going to help?" "Yes," says Sam. "Don’t you?" Dana pauses, and admits she does as well. Silence in the room as everybody contemplates the idea of Dana agreeing with Sam. She dismisses the gang and everyone gets up to go, but Casey explains about the pree-sentation to Charlie’s class and "as it turns out, I really have no demonstrable skills." The rest of the crew struggles to remember who this Charlie person is, and I’d like to point out that earlier Casey said the pree-sentation was in a few hours, but here he’s saying it’s tomorrow, and I don’t think that’s an insignificant detail since it touched off a supposedly comic exchange between Dan and Casey about whether Casey could learn to do something in three hours. Anyway, Casey asks everyone for suggestions. Dana says, "Well, your head is a perfect rectangle, maybe that’ll impress the kids," which had me laughing well into the next scene. The best part is, it’s true! Heh. Rectangle. Everybody laughs at Casey as they leave the meeting, like thanks for all the suggestions, assholes.

Sports Night

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