| 1 | An American [[ShortRunners Short Runner]] {{Sitcom}} that follows a Denver advertising executive (Creator/TomSelleck) as he gets fired and starts a new ad agency with several other fired employees (Creator/EdwardAsner, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SuzyNakamura, and Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller), while coping with a recent divorce and parenting his feisty teenage daughter (Creator/HedyBurress). |
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| 3 | It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from February 23 to May 4, 1998. |
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| 6 | !!Tropes for this series: |
| 7 | * CharacterTitle: "Dobbs Takes a Holiday". |
| 8 | * EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Averted with Erica, who in spite of her Ivy League credentials is TheDitz much of the time. |
| 9 | * FatalFlaw: One of Jack's problems is his competitiveness, as he refused to lose to the President of the United States and it results him and several others getting fired. |
| 10 | * FiringDay: In the first episode, due to Jack losing the military accounts, he gets fired, along with Carl, Bruno, Beverly, and Erica, who had just started that very day. |
| 11 | * IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/{{John Webber|Actor}}, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons'', appears in "My Best Friend's Funeral". |
| 12 | * OneWordTitle: "Pilot". |
| 13 | * ShoutOut: |
| 14 | ** "Dobbs Takes a Holiday", to ''Film/DeathTakesAHoliday''. |
| 15 | ** "My Best Friend's Funeral", to ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''. |
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