The Chair Company
Creators: Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin
Stars: Tim Robinson (William Ronald “Ron” Trosper), Lake Bell (Barb Trosper), Sophia Lillis (Natalie Trosper), Will Price (Seth Trosper), Joseph Tudisco (Mike Santini)
Season 1 – Episode 7
Episode title: I said to my dog, “How do you like my hippie shirt?”
Original release date: November 23, 2025 (HBO)
Plot: After receiving notice he’s been suspended from work for pushing Jeff, Ron brings home a new dog for his family. He attempts to contact the Delaware City purchasing director, who is not at work. From his exterminator’s partner, he learns all the locations in the city where the bugs similar to the ones in his house were found. Watching one of these locations, he sees workers loading up chairs into a truck, and follows the truck to the Tecca warehouse. Receiving texts from the Tamblay’s membership group, one angry customer tells the story of returning a shirt with a blemish on it, and after buying a similar shirt with adornments, discovering that he had just been sold the same shirt, with patches concealing the stain. Ron theorizes Tecca is simply taking old chairs, changing out the parts, and selling them as brand new chairs. He relays this new information to his daughter Natalie, who has gone to Delaware City and tracked down the purchasing director at home. Ron visits the director and discovers that she is sick and hasn’t gone into work for years. Later that night, the investor in Barb’s company, Alice Quintana, throws a party for Barb. In Alice’s office, Ron finds a picture of her with the city purchasing director. At that moment, he gets a phone call from Oliver Probblo who has found the name of the woman who took his photos, Alice Quintana. Ron is attacked by the man from the acting class, before Alice steps in and reveals that the man is her nephew, and that the money she embezzled with the Tecca operation is now invested in Barb’s company. Ron threatens to expose her scheme to the party attendees, but Barb’s business partner reveals to Ron that Barb learned about his investigative work from Natalie and is proud of him. Ron dances with Barb, looks at himself in a mirror and smiles, fighting back tears.
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The Chair Company – S01E07 – I said to my dog, “How do you like my hippie shirt?” | Full transcript
[crickets chirping]
♪ La, lala, la ♪
♪ La, lala, la ♪
♪ La, lala, la ♪
♪ Lala, la, lala ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
[music distorting]
[music stops abruptly]
[dog barking faintly]
[Jeff] Ron, calm down, man. Chill out.
[Ron] Get the fuck away from…
[Ron] Shit!
[door opens, closes]
[Ron] Come on! Who wants to meet Baby? Who wants to meet Baby? Baby’s home.
[Seth] Whoa, what… what the hell is this?
[Ron] Hey, Baby’s home!
[Seth] You got a dog?
[Ron] It’s a puppy. Feel how soft she is.
[Seth] Okay.
[Ron] Seth.
[Seth] Going to school, Mom.
[Ron] Seth’s going to school!
[Barb] Oh. Okay, honey.
[Ron] You gonna miss him?
[Seth] Love you.
[Barb] Bye, love you.
[Ron] You miss that? That’s your brother! Barb, I don’t think Seth liked Baby.
[Barb] Who?
[Ron] This is Baby. Uh-oh! I gotta get her outside. I gotta get her outside. Her bladder’s full.
[birdsong]
[Baby lapping]
[Ron] Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, what are you doing? What are you doing? Get out of there! Were you in the rat box?
[Barb] What?
[Ron] Oh, crap. Did you bite this?
[Barb] Ron! What happened? What is going on?
[Ron] Baby bit the rat box. I don’t know if she bit the rat or just the poison.
[Barb] Honey, why do we have a dog here? What… why…
[Ron] I got a little suspended from work.
[Barb] You what?
[Ron] Jeff and I got into a little conflict. He was working us so hard, and he… he grabbed my shoulder and my hand pushed him.
[Barb] You pushed Jeff?
[Ron] He was being mean to everyone, Barb, everybody! Especially the women, and some of the weaker men.
[Barb] Oh, my God. Fuck, Ron! You pushed Jeff?
[Ron] I talked to Jamie. They’re figuring it out.
[Barb] What do you mean, they’re figuring it out?
[Ron] Whether I’m allowed to come back.
[Barb] Whether you’re allowed back? Oh, fuck, Ron.
[Ron] You’re supposed to have my back on this, Barb.
[Barb] I… I do have your back. I have this whole family’s back. I’ve been doing everything for Nat’s wedding. I go to all the recruiter dinners.
[Baby whining]
[Barb] You’ve not been… you’ve not been to one of those.
[Ron] Don’t yell. Could you not yell?
[Barb] And I do my work. I do my charity work.
[Ron] Charity work?
[Barb] Yes!
[Ron] Are you talking about the soup kitchen?
[Baby barking]
[Ron] Baby, stop.
[Barb] You know, now you’re being an asshole, okay? I do everything for you to make your life easier.
[Ron] Please don’t yell around Baby.
[Barb] What do you do? How do you help this family?
[Ron] I do so much charity.
[Baby barks]
[Ron] Baby, stop! I keep everything together!
[Baby growling]
[Ron] Baby. Ah! Oh, fuck! [groaning]
[Ron] Barb! Where’s the Bacitracin?
[Barb] Last I saw it, Seth had it.
[Ron] It’s not in here. Of course, it’s not. [sighs]
[Barb] Did you find it yet?
[Ron] No. No, it vanished. It vanished right when I need it the most.
[Barb] Alright, try that.
[Ron] [sighs] Ow! Oh, sh…
[Barb] It hurts that bad?
[Ron] Worse than I’m doing! I think some of the rat poison got in there from Barb’s tooth… from Baby’s tooth.
[Barb] There’s rat poison in the dog’s tooth?
[Ron] Barb, yes. She bit the rat, then she bit my bite. The rat poison could have come from the rat tooth to my bat bite, yes.
[Barb] Ron, I’m sad that you think that I’m not on your side, because I really try to make it so that you can do what you need to do. And I don’t even ever ask you questions. And then you push your boss and you lose your job.
[Ron] It’s not… that didn’t go through, that… that didn’t happen yet.
[Barb] [sighs] You know, it’s like Everpump really has an opportunity to be a success, Ron.
[Ron] It’s not gonna affect that.
[Barb] It absolutely does. Puts… puts so much pressure on me.
[Ron] I… how do I fix this? What can I do? How do I paper over this?
[Barb] I don’t know. I don’t know what even to tell you. I guess, you know, don’t mention that you pushed your boss at the party tonight. [sighs]
[Ron] What party?
[Barb] Alice’s party is tonight. I can’t even believe you sometimes.
[Ron] I can’t believe you think I would go to Alice’s party and go around and tell everybody, “Hey”, “I pushed my boss ’cause he’s…”
[Barb] I don’t know what you’re going to do. I don’t know what you want.
[Ron] [scoffs]
[♪ Tense music playing]
[phone line ringing]
[receptionist] [on phone] Purchasing director’s office.
[Ron] Hi, is Teresa Bonaventura there?
[♪ Dramatic music sting]
[receptionist] I’m sorry, the director’s not in. May I take a message?
[Ron] Uh, actually, I just… I really need to talk to her. Do you know when she’s coming in? I haven’t seen her.
[receptionist] You haven’t seen her?
[♪ Dramatic music sting]
[Ron] No. Uh, right. Uh, is she on the way to come?
[receptionist] [sighs] I don’t know that, doll. I don’t have a crystal ball.
[Ron] No, I know. I didn’t… I didn’t think… I… it’s not crazy to ask. I… I wasn’t thinking about a crystal ball. I… I don’t think those really work.
[Ron] Uh, fuck.
[phone buzzing] Oh, shit.
[Ron] Hey, Natalie.
[Natalie] Mom said you pushed your boss and now you’re suspended?
[Ron] Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m… I’m just taking a little break from work. It’s not a big deal. It’s just a small break.
[Natalie] Did you go to City Hall yesterday?
[Ron] Yes, I did. I found hundreds of Tecca chairs. Natalie, this is the mothership. These are the alien eggs. We found ’em.
[Natalie] What? Why do they have so many?
[Ron] I don’t know, I’m trying to talk to the city purchasing director. They would’ve had to approve all the purchases. I think they gotta know something. But they’re ducking my calls, and I definitely can’t go in there now.
[Natalie] Why?
[Ron] Fucking pig. Worthless fucking pig. Piece of shit. I am gonna pull at every single thread I’ve ever thought about. I’m gonna look into anything and everything. I’m leaving no stone unturned.
[♪ Dramatic music sting]
[Ron] So, the exterminator said he found some of these in my house. What the hell are these?
These little bugs are attracted to extremely hot areas. You find ’em in car engines, space heaters, a phone that has too many tabs open.
[Ron] Yeah, Eric said you found some in some government buildings.
Oh, yes, uh, one sec.
[Ron] Yeah.
Okay, here we go. I first saw them in the Public Works building. Uh, this is Detention and Probation. I found three there. Uh, there were some in Public Utilities, and across the street here… that’s a sub shop. Oh, it’s so good. [chuckles] Do you like turkey? Oh, God, they stack the turkey. Oh, God, it’s so good.
[♪ Dramatic music playing]
[inaudible conversation]
[sirens wailing in distance]
[Ron] Fucking cops everywhere! Fucking piece of shit pig! Oh. Oh!
[camera clicking]
[Ron] Oh!
[Ron] Do you know if these porno pictures are connected to anything bigger than porn? Like, are they connected to, like, corporate fraud? Or, uh, maybe these porno pictures are connected to, like, embezzlement, or are a calling sign for, like, an embezzlement team.
[porn shop clerk] Wow. This is some of the newest stuff out there.
[Ron] This is? This is old.
[clerk] Right. Porn’s in a really weird place right now. When did you take these pictures?
[Ron] About a month ago.
[clerk] Oh! So, these were brand-new, then. You have great taste.
[Ron] Thank you.
[clerk] It’s nice to have someone in here who’s serious about porn and not just using it to whack off.
[shopper I do not just whack off to it. I don’t, it’s not true.
[clerk] You whack off to anything.
[shopper] No, I don’t. I am serious about this.
[Ron] Okay, alright, can you just take one last look to see if maybe there’s something bigger hidden within?
[clerk] Uh, let me see if I recognize any of these. Oh, you’re low on battery. Let me help you out.
[Ron] Oh. Oh, my God, thank you so much. Yeah, I didn’t even realize that.
[computer whirring]
[computer keys clacking]
[Ron] Hey! Hey, what the fuck are you doing? Give me my phone!
[clerk] I’m just taking your pictures.
[shopper] He does that. He does that.
[Ron] Give me the damn phone!
[splash]
[Ron] Oh! Goddamn it! What are you doing?
[clerk] I thought it would do something else.
[Ron] [softly] Oh, fuck. Why the hell is there soap in here? This is all soap.
[clerk] Makes it look like it’s waves.
[Ron] It doesn’t look like waves.
[clerk] It does.
♪
[Ron] Do you all fix, uh, phones?
[City Wireless clerk] Yeah. You can come back in an hour.
[truck horn blaring]
[♪ light, dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[person] Can I help you?
[engine revving]
[people chattering]
[♪ music playing faintly]
[cash register beeping]
[♪ Tense music playing]
[Ron] Thank you.
[♪ Tense music continues playing]
[Ron] Oh, shit! It’s Tecca!
[truck beeping]
[kids chattering]
[kids] Go! Go! Go!
[rocks thudding]
[Ron shouting]
[kids] Go! Go! Go!
[Ron] What the fuck?
[kids] Go! Go!
[Ron] Hey! Hey!
Hey, what are you doing?
[kids continue shouting]
[rock thudding]
[Ron] Oh!
[child wailing]
[officer] Hey! Get out of here!
[child continues wailing]
[car horn honking]
[City Wireless clerk] I transferred all your information into this new phone, but you might have to go in and update your setting preferences. They go back to default.
[Ron] [sighs] Okay.
[Ron] [sighs]
[phone buzzing]
[Ron] [scoffs] Oh, come on, I muted this chat. … Huh.
[customer] [echoing] I don’t know, but I certainly feel like I got ripped off. I recently returned a shirt I was not satisfied with to Tamblay. I mostly didn’t like it ’cause it had short sleeves. The design was nice, the fit was perfect. I just didn’t like it had short sleeves.
[door bell jingling]
[customer] I returned to Tamblay four months later because I had recently sized out of a number of my key shirts. I walk in, and what do I see? A shirt that looks the same as the one I’d returned, but it has long sleeves. Hallelujah. My prayers have been answered. It has beautiful long sleeves like I had wanted.
[clerk] First long-sleeve shirt of the season. Brand-new.
[customer] I wished that to happen. I kinda think I can wish things into the world now.
[clerk] It’s true, people can do that.
[customer] I purchased the shirt and I immediately put it on in my car. It didn’t just have long sleeves. It had three brown patches on the back, which made it my hippie shirt.
[customer, to his dog] How do you like my hippie shirt?
[customer] My dog immediately started sniffing and licking the back, right where he used to lick the old shirt, because it had a toothpaste stain from when I sat on toothpaste. Suddenly, my dog starts biting it and rips off one of the diamonds. There’s the toothpaste stain! They had put on the diamonds to hide the paste. It was the same shirt I returned, just with added sleeves and three diamonds in the back and they were charging double for it. Now, I understand that they made some improvements but double for a used shirt? That is criminal! Tamblay is repurposing their old shirts and selling them like they were not old shirts. Unethical!
[Ron] Oh, my God, they’re replacing the parts! They’re replacing the parts!
[customer] They made me think I could wish things into the world.
[Ron] Natalie, read what I sent you.
[Natalie] Dad, what the hell is this Tamblay text?
[Ron] That’s what Tecca’s doing. They’re taking back the chairs, swapping out the parts, and reselling ’em to the same companies at full price. That’s why there’s so many chairs at City Hall. Someone in the government owns Tecca or is involved with Tecca, ’cause they’re buying from themselves.
[Natalie] Oh, Dad, don’t be mad, but I found out where the purchasing director is.
[Ron] What? How?
[Natalie] I went to City Hall to see if I could talk to her, but she wasn’t there. But then, I said I’m here to deliver a ham to her, because I knew they wouldn’t want ham sitting around the office if she’s not there. ‘Cause Tara has a bunch of hams around the house ’cause she’s shooting hams, and they reek.
[Ron] Why’s she shooting hams? Is Wendy’s coming out with a ham?
[Natalie] Well, they might start selling ham at this new thing called Wendy’s Carvers.
[Ron] Oh, wow! Will that be at all Wendy’s?
[Natalie] No. It’s like a new, nicer Wendy’s called Carvers, and it has ham.
[Ron] Unbelievable. That’s awesome.
[Natalie] Like I thought, they didn’t want the ham, so they gave me her address.
[♪ Dramatic music playing]
[dog barking]
[knocking]
[TV playing faintly]
[car key clicking]
[♪ Suspenseful music playing]
[TV continues playing faintly]
[Ron] Hi.
[Teresa] Oh. [chuckles]
[Ron] Hi, I-I’m looking for a Teresa Bonaventura.
[Teresa] Oh-ho, you found her. [laughing] Oh, could you do me a favor? Could you bring that tray over here closer to my head?
[Ron] Yeah, we could get that closer to your head.
[Teresa] Oh, thank you.
[Ron] Yeah. It’s pretty close now. You just want it…
[Teresa] Oh. Bless you. Yes, please.
[Ron] Yeah. Yeah, of course.
[Teresa] Right over here.
[Ron] Oh!
[Teresa] Ah.
[Ron] There we go.
[Teresa laughing]
[Ron] Are you the purchasing director for Delaware City?
[Teresa] Mm, yes, I am. Have been since I was 34. [laughing] Do you need something?
[Ron] I was just wondering, do you approve all purchases, right?
[Teresa] Oh. I’m not sure. They told me I didn’t need to come in since I got sick. [chuckles] But I still go to the parade. And they still let me take my picture every year. Mm. And this year, I wore a blue blazer and green pants, and I did a little bang which swooped around and made a little circle around my eye, and I looked like Daisy Duck.
[both laughing]
[Ron] That’s wonderful.
[clock chiming]
[Teresa] Oh! [laughing] Oh!
[Teresa singing chime melody]
[booping]
[both laughing]
[Teresa] Yes, yes, yes! [laughing]
[clock continues chiming]
[chiming stops]
[♪ Dramatic music playing]
[doorbell buzzing]
[dog barking]
[Wazey Waynes] What the hell happened to my picture of the hairy pussy? There’s shit all over it!
[Ron] Come on, Mike, open up. I know that’s Wazey Waynes.
[Wazey Waynes] Ow! My cock’s ripping off!
[Ron] Mike, I’m sorry I was a jerk. I should have let you come to Seth’s party. That’s not the right thing to do to a friend.
[♪ Music playing faintly]
[door buzzing]
[Ron] They’re using the old, sick purchasing director as a puppet so they can rubberstamp whatever they’re doing with Tecca. They pretend there’s oversight, meanwhile, they can buy as many chairs from themselves as they want.
Fucking freezing in here.
[Mike] Who can? And who’s using her?
[Ron] Look, that’s Greg Braccon. He’s been the mayor there for ten years. Look at all these scandals. Nothing’s ever stuck. No one’s ever brought him down.
[Mike] So, Braccon’s doing it.
[Ron] And tonight, he’s doing a little pub crawl to promote downtown businesses. There’s gonna be press there. We can go. We can ask him about Tecca, ambush him.
[Mike] What do you want from me, Ron?
[chicken bawking]
[Mike] You figured it all out.
[Ron] I have to go to this party tonight with Barb. Can you please just go there and get eyes on him until I can break free and go there?
[muffled shouting]
[Mike] Okay.
[Ron] Yeah?
[Mike] You know, I really wanted to go to Seth’s party.
[Ron] I know, I’m sorry.
[Mike] You could’ve told him I was the mailman.
Ron. I need help. I need a job. Think you can get me a job where you work at Professor Roblay’s?
[Ron] Professor Roblay’s?
I could clean around the lab or something.
[Ron] Yeah, yeah, I’ll… I’ll ask the professor.
Thanks, Ron.
[Ron] Yeah, no problem.
[♪ Rhythmic dramatic music playing]
[Barb] Alice. Evan, hi.
[Alice] The woman of the hour.
[Barb] Aw, it’s so good to see you.
[kiss smacking]
[Barb] Aw. And you remember my husband, Ron.
[Ron] Yeah, hi.
[Alice] No, I have to apologize about Evan. They asked him if they could dye his hair at the stylist today, and he was too polite to say no.
[Evan] No.
[Barb] You know my husband, he… he does embarrassing stuff all the time.
[Ron scoffs]
[Barb] Like today, he… he brought home a new dog, and then he left for the whole day. [chuckles] And so, I was alone with the dog all day.
[Alice] Barb, I am going to steal you away.
[Barb] Oh.
[Alice] ‘Cause I wanna show you off.
[Barb] Aw.
[Alice] And after dinner, we’re gonna have a little kickoff toast.
[Barb] Oh!
[Alice] And I was wondering if you’d be comfortable saying a few words.
[Barb] I hadn’t prepared anything, but I… I’ve…
[Alice] Dinner isn’t for a while. You’ll have plenty of time.
[Barb] Okay, well, alright.
[both laughing]
[Ron] Excuse me.
[guest] Yeah.
[Ron] There’s gonna be a dinner here? Like a… a sit-down dinner?
[guest] Yeah, but I’m not worried. Even if it’s something I don’t like… I got this.
[Ron] What are those?
[guest] Pepper patty balls.
[♪ light jazz music playing]
[people chattering]
[Evelyn] Alice says she thinks we can take it to market by October, but I’m not so sure.
[Dunbar] You can, honey. You can do anything.
[Evelyn] Oh.
[all chuckle]
[Ron] Evelyn, Dunbar, can you excuse me for one second?
[Evelyn] Yeah, sure, yeah.
[Ron] Thank you.
[Barb] …was so dialed in.
Yeah.
[Barb] And… and then, he started to collect addresses.
[Alice indistinct]
[Barb] Collect some of those names.
[Ron] Barb. Barb.
[Barb] And that is what I was… Honey.
[Ron] Do you… do you know when we’re gonna eat?
[Barb] What? Are you serious? Ron, we’re gonna eat when the fucking food comes out. I mean, do you have somewhere that you need to go or something?
[Ron] No, I don’t, I just wanted to…
[Barb] Okay.
[Ron] …make sure if you needed help with your remarks, or if it’s close.
[Barb] With what?
[Ron] Your remarks.
[Barb] Oh. I’m okay, thank you. I… I don’t need help. Thank you.
[Ron] Jeez.
[Barb] What? I just…
[Ron] This is fun.
[Barb] It is fun. Okay.
[phone buzzing]
[people chattering, laughing]
[Ron] Sh…
[Ron] Hey, Mike. How’s it going?
[Mike] Yeah, he’s here. I got eyes on him. But he’s with this fucking guy that wants him to leave.
[Ron] What do you mean?
[Mike] This guy, he keeps saying, “Let’s get outta here, this place sucks. I want to go to your hot tub in your house.”
[Ron] Mike, what are you talking about?
[Mike] This guy, he wants to go to the fucking hot tub in his house.
…in your house, in the hot tub.
[Mike] He’s an old friend, or maybe he grew up with him or something. It’s like he’s never been in a hot tub before. Fuckin’ pouting.
[Ron] What?
[Mike] Ron, when can you get here? The news media is setting up now.
[Ron] It’s taking longer than I thought. I’ll get there as quick as I can, but I might be stuck here for a little bit.
[people chattering]
[Evan] It’s not a bad place to work. We do a lot of great work in the Columbus area.
[Ron] Oh, good.
[Evan] And we get away, we go to our lake house, it’s…
[people continue chattering]
[Alice] Everyone, please join us in the living room for music and digestifs before dessert.
[people chattering]
[Alice] I hope you like chocolate.
[indistinct chatter continues]
[Barb] Right?
[Mike] Ron, where are you?
[door closes]
[Ron] I think we’re about to do the toast. I might be getting ready to get out of here.
[Mike] Yeah, well, I’m worried he’s gonna leave soon. I think that this guy’s, uh, starting to wear him down.
They’ve already seen you. You’re done here. You did everything you had to do. Let’s go to your house.
[Ron] Mike, just keep him there. Figure out a way.
[inaudible conversation]
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
[Ron] Whoa. Niagara Falls? That’s… That’s cool. Teresa Bonaventura. What…
[whispering]
[Ron] What the fuck?
[phone buzzing]
[Ron] Mike.
[Oliver Probblo] Ah, been a while since I’ve been called that. It’s Oliver Probblo. I found her email. Fuckers at the store were useless. But they did get my stuff off that smashed iPad.
[Ron] They found the email. Okay, what was the “S” for?
[Oliver] It wasn’t Maggie S at all. That was a different person I got in a fight with about some sunglasses I stole, and I was willing to go to the grave saying I didn’t.
[Ron] Okay.
[Oliver] The woman who took those pictures was Alice Quintana.
[♪ Dramatic music sting]
[Ron] Fuck. It doesn’t go up, it goes down. [choking and gagging] Piece of shit. Is that a fucking pill? You were putting a goddamn pill in my mouth!
[muffled screaming]
[Ron] Yeah, eat this. It’s got rat poison in it. That’s rat poison from a tooth!
[muffled screaming continues]
[Alice] Get off him!
[Ron] What the fuck?! The fuck is happening? I know it’s you. I know it’s you now. How do you know this little prick?
[Alice] He’s my sister’s son. When you attacked him, he told me you were getting close.
[Ron] [scoffs] I was getting kinda close. A lot of shit I didn’t have a clue about. Why would you invite me to your house? Now, I know for sure it’s you. You run Tecca. You’re stealing money from the taxpayers. You poisoned Teresa Bonaventura.
[Alice] What?
[Ron] I think you poisoned Teresa Bonaventura to keep her home. To keep her mind sick, to kill her brain, so you could just buy as many chairs as you wanted from the budget office.
[Alice] I didn’t do anything to her. She’s been out of it for many years.
[Ron] She’s not out of it. She’s perfectly fine.
[Alice] Teresa? She’s not well at all.
[Ron] She’s got the purest heart I’ve ever seen in this whole world. And you used her signature, stealing money from the hard-paying people of these cities and counties. It’s a crime! Why the hell would you invite me to this house? That’s crazy.
[Alice] I invited you because I invested in your wife’s business. And the money which you said I embezzled is invested with your wife. You’re part of the family now. That’s why you’re invited.
[Ron] So?
[Alice] You really wanna do that to your wife? After she stood by you with your Jeep tours? You really wanna ruin her chance of raising enough money for her Series A?
[Ron] Yeah, because you did all that stuff, and I’ve been trying to figure it out!
[Alice] Go out and tell. Actually, the DA is right out there. She’s a close friend.
[Ron] Oh, cool, you’re friends with the DA. I’ll… I’ll tell your friend. I don’t see why you don’t care.
[Alice] Because I don’t think you’re gonna do it, Ron.
[Ron] [laughing] Alice, I am gonna do it. Your plan didn’t work. Barb can find that money somewhere else, I’m sure. W-We don’t even know if Everpump’s gonna work even with the money. A lot of these things don’t work out. I’m definitely doing it.
[Alice] It sounds like you’ve got a little to think about, Ron. I’m gonna go out there and be a good host. I’ll see you out there.
[Ron] Yeah, I’ll see you out there.
[Ron] You’re fucking stupid as shit, you know that? Why would you put the same design in every website?
Do you wanna know what it is?
[Ron] It’s lines.
It’s the color code to my life.
[Ron] What?
Every color is a different woman that I slept with. Well, first, I slept with pink. Then, I slept with green. Then I slept with pink again, and I married pink. And that’s why this one’s black.
[Ron] I’m telling.
[♪ Heavy dramatic music playing]
[Ron] Double whiskey, neat.
[♪ Music continues]
[George] [faintly] Ron. Ron. How’s the mystery going?
[music stops abruptly]
[Ron] What?
[George] Oh, sorry. I wasn’t supposed to say anything, but I think it’s really cool.
[Ron] What?
[George] Barb said that you’re looking into a bad company.
[Ron] Barb knows about the mystery?
[George] Yeah, sorry, I… I’m not supposed to say anything, but Natalie told her about it. I said, “What? Ron’s not a detective. He loves malls.” But she said it’s really cool. She said you’re really smart and you’re running around. You can do anything. She said a lot of nice things about you, like… like you were a superhero or something. It was really sweet.
[Ron] Barb said that?
[George] Yeah. [chuckles] I’m trying to remember the… the exact words right now but, uh, yeah, it was… it was sweet.
[people chattering]
[muffled laughter]
[♪ Gentle music playing]
[crowd laughing]
[Barb] And lastly, I… I just really want to take an opportunity to thank you, Alice. It’s really special what you’re doing for me, but also this beautiful, beautiful night. So, cheers. To Alice.
[overlapping chatter and applause]
[Barb] How ’bout this band?
[guest] Yeah!
[♪ Band playing soft jazz music]
[people chattering]
[Barb] [sighs] I’m just so relieved that that is over. Sorry I was so stressed out, Ron. You know, when I was leaving the house, I saw Baby all curled up… [chuckles] …on the couch, and it was really cute. I know you miss Larby. And with Seth, you know, he’s going off to college soon. I know your heart’s in the right place, Ron. Thank you so much for supporting me tonight. I love you so much.
[Ron] Of course. Without a question. I’m so proud of you. I’m so, so proud of you.
[♪ “Heart of the Night” by Poco playing]
♪ In the heart of the night ♪
♪ In the cool southern rain ♪
♪ There’s a full moon in sight ♪
♪ Shining down on the Pontchartrain ♪
♪ In the heart of the night ♪
♪ In the heart of the night ♪
♪ In the heart of the night ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, down in New Orleans ♪
♪ I’m so glad to be back in New Orleans ♪
♪ Please don’t wake me, don’t shake me ♪
♪ If it’s only, if it’s only just a dream ♪
♪ Below that Dixie moon and loving you ♪
♪ In the heart of the night ♪
♪
