Polk Parable: Marketing Department, The Movie

Micah Cohen
Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
in The Clubhouse
We were going to make a marketing department movie.

Polk Audio Marketing Department: The Movie.

[sonorous movie-trailer voice-over voice:]
A stirring and inspiring dramedy about the trials and tribulations of a not-so-typical marketing department. It's the kind of place you'd love to work, but are glad nonetheless that you don't work there! Directed by Michael Bay, today's biggest action director, and staring some of today's biggest movie names!

Including

Nick Nolte as Al Ballard
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& Omar Shariff as Paul "Polk Paul" DiComo
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With

Marisa Tomei as Jenny Romanelli
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Gary Shandling as Greg ORourke
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Robert Downey Jr as Micah Cohen
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And

Janet Jackon as Shelia Edwards
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Jennifer Tilly as Wendy Iforgotherlastname
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Plus, as Customer Service:

Gerard Depardeu as Ken Swauger
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Ricky Schroder as Chet Pelkowski
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And Special Appearance by

William Shatner as Kim Jasper
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...This is the original napkin sketch we drew up while wasting time in some meeting or other back in the day:

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." - Lon Chaney
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    ...And don't forget, in a special one-show-only appearance, the beloved matriarch of our Polk Audio family, Debbie Reynolds as feisty Helen Yarbor!

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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    So, now you know that I just figured out how to clip something in a circle in photoshop, ok?

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,746
    Will Marisa be showing off her perky points?
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,977
    edited February 2016
    ... and points all her own, sitting way up high
    way up firm and high...

    sorry, my mind wandered a bit.
    This is fascinating stuff.
    In all seriousness.

    Micah, youse guyses are all rich now, right?
    i.e., richer than the "talent" (as they say) you were considering to play you all in the big-screen epic, right?


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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    I use GIMP!

    And I never ever understood those lyrics. What the heck are points sitting way up firm and high? A hair-do? A scoreboard? What?

    Right, when Polk Audio was bought out by the Gordon Gecko VCers we all got brass rings. I mean, seriously: BRASS. It's worth pennies. Turns your finger green.

    Our film went into development and it's been there ever since. But I found the napkin sketch and figured it'd be funny to post it for you.

    Micah



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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,977
    edited February 2016
    you figured wisely; thanks for sharing. Srsly. :- )

    Re: the "points" thing -- see "Dagmar(s)":

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_bumpers


    My parents' 1955 Buick Special had Dagmars...
    Right, when Polk Audio was bought out by the Gordon Gecko VCers we all got brass rings. I mean, seriously: BRASS. It's worth pennies. Turns your finger green.
    That's signature line material, that is! :- )
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,005
    Good choices on characters too. Though I could plug a few fresher faces in there. When does production start ? lol I have someone in mind for the water boy on set.
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,430
    Just want to post in this thread now that it has input from the two Polkies that can turn a phrase better than any others, Micah and Mark.

    You've got a picture of the napkin, Micah--Do you have one of the brass ring?
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