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TV ANNOUNCER: In merger news, an alliance has been announced

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between the world's worst oil exploration company

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and the world's largest funeral company.

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We spoke to the CEO of Dryhole Industries

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about the synergy.

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Well, as you know,

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the biggest expenses in the funeral business

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involve buying the land and digging the holes.

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Well, it occurred to me

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that our company owns land that already has holes in it.

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That's how I plan to bury you,

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unless you have an objection.

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As a matter of fact, I do have an objection.

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Not now.

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You have to object after you're dead.

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How can I object to anything after I'm dead?

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I recommend that you come back as a ghost

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and haunt the house for eternity.

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That'll be your signal

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that you're unhappy about the situation.

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If I haunted this house,

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you'd turn it into a tourist attraction

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and sell tickets.

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I'd be doing all the haunting and you'd be making money.

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Oh, like it's so hard to haunt.

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The investment banking firm

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who arranged the merger

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received a fee of one billion dollars

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for making a few phone calls and attending some meetings.

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Did you say the investment banking firm

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that arranged the merger

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received a fee of one billion dollars?

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She can't hear you.

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Yes, that's exactly what I said.

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Wait a minute.

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Are you saying you can hear

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what I say through the TV?

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In other news, Tom Kenny,

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leader of the '60s psychedelic band,

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"Ubiquitous Banana,"

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was found today exactly where he said he would be.

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I think I just found my new career.

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[EXPLOSION]

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[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

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BOSS: For reasons that I no longer try to fathom,

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customers keep buying our products.

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Thank goodness for the inefficient distribution

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of consumer information.

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Now we're stuck with $20 billion in cash

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and no strategy for using it.

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Does anyone have any ideas?

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How about giving raises to the people

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who worked so hard to create all that cash?

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That would unfairly discriminate against those of us

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who didn't work hard.

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If we start rewarding lazy people like you,

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the whole system will break down.

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Oh, that same argument was used years ago

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to deny women the right to vote.

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Are you comparing your laziness

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to the woman's suffrage movement?

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There are many similarities.

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Name one.

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Women weren't allowed to vote and I'm too lazy to vote.

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In both cases, there's taxation without representation.

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That is the dumbest argument I have ever heard in my life.

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Bigot.

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People, does anyone have any idea

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how to invest the $20 billion?

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I do!

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How about a product that keeps your fillings

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from vibrating out when you talk?!

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Maybe I should hire a consultant to come up with an idea.

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Consultants don't come up with ideas.

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They take the ideas you already have

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and make them more confusing.

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Then they give you a huge bill.

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A huge bill would solve our excess money problem.

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Excess money isn't a problem.

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That money is causing us to be in this meeting.

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What do you call that?

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Uh-oh.

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Wally's starting to make sense.

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We need to get rid of that money fast.

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Why don't we merge with a company

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that is less dysfunctional than we are?

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They could spend our money for us.

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A merger.

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Hmm, that might get us some synergy.

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[SCREAMING]

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I didn't realize that Alice suffers from cobiotaphobia.

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I know what that is!

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No, I don't!

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It is the fear of synergy.

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Well, she'd better get over it.

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We ran it up the flagpole and the ship sailed.

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That's a mixed metaphor.

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Yeah, so, what's so bad about that?

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Actually, I don't know.

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Ah, he who laughs last, makes waste.

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Well, I'm not afraid of synergy.

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I just think a merger's a bad idea.

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Do you have a better idea?

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Of course.

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Plow the surplus funds into R&D.

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All right, then.

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The merger it is.

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My company needs help finding a merger partner.

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I hope that's the sort of thing investment bankers do,

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because I asked at the Mailboxes-R-Us place,

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and they just stared at me

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like I was some kind of an idiot.

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You came to the right place.

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My fee is 10% of the value of the acquired company.

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What's your company worth?

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Well, we've got $20 billion in cash, and no liabilities,

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unless you count the employees,

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who we call our most valuable assets.

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$20 billion in cash plus the employees.

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That comes out to about $15 billion net.

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So your fee would be 10% of $15 billion,

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which is-- one second--

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carry the three, square root of pi--

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$14 billion.

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Exactly.

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Can we start right away?

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I'm anxious to get some synergy.

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I'm bailing out of this dump at the first sign of a merger.

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I won't go through synergy again.

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As usual, Alice, you are missing out

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on the opportunity of a lifetime.

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I plan to implement "Project Mosquito" immediately.

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What is "Project Mosquito"?

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That is where Wally takes advantage

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of the management chaos

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and sucks the stockholders dry,

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much like a giant mosquito.

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That's sounds exactly like "Project Leech",

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the one you've been doing for the past five years.

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I can see how that would be confusing.

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The key to a successful merger is synergy.

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[SCREAMS]

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Let's first discuss what makes this company special,

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then I'll help you find the perfect merger partner.

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We're poorly managed.

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Our boss ignores everything we say.

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Management is completely deaf to the needs of the employees.

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I've got a parking space right next to the door.

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It looks like a sidewalk, but it's not.

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Now, let's think what kind of companies

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would make the best merger partner

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with a company full of losers.

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Perhaps a drug company

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who needs to test new products on human subjects.

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We would be ideal,

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because the scientists

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would not become emotionally attached to us.

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Good. Anything else?

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We could merge with a company that runs women's prisons.

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I'm willing to keep a few inmates in my cubicle

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if they'll do my laundry.

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Prison bimbos.

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We could merge with a company that makes chickens.

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We sit around all day anyway.

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Might as well be sitting on eggs.

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How about an alternative fuel company?

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People produce a certain amount of methane gas every day,

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just like every other mammal.

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We could be fueling cars with that resource.

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How exactly would we be collecting

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this methane gas all day long?

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I grant you the hose would be uncomfortable at first,

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but we'd get used to it.

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This might be harder than I thought.

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Well, if it isn't Mordac,

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the preventer of information services

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and his little buddy, Walter the budget man.

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Wally.

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You seem unusually upbeat.

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Maybe you haven't heard of the upcoming merger.

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Merger?

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But that would mean...

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Yes, it's gloating time for engineers.

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And when the synergy gets you,

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I will laugh the laugh of the, uh, the, uh...

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well, whatever it is

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that laughs a lot at other's misery

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without a tinge of guilt.

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Maybe your hard drive needs a little cheese pizza upgrade.

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I don't need my computer anymore.

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I'm goofing off until the merger,

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then after the "synergy" gets you,

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I'll take both of your computers for my own.

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I will cut your budget so fast your head will spin.

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You're powerless.

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No one will listen to your budget recommendations now.

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Managers are all paralyzed by the merger rumors.

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Synergy!

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[SCREAMS]

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This might be the best year of my life.

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It's time to take a page from female dating techniques,

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also known as "the old bait and switch".

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Where are we going?

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There's a little bar I know where CEOs hang out.

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It's a real meet market for mergers.

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I like meat.

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Did you know that cows are made almost entirely of meat?

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Oh, yeah.

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And YOU CAN MAKE PUDDING FROM THE HOOVES.

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Tonight, it's best if you don't do much talking.

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CEOs like to do business

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with people who aren't quite so...

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Strong-willed?

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Yeah, that's it.

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Tell me again what I'm supposed to do?

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You're supposed to act

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like you work for a competent company

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long enough to get a CEO excited about merging with you.

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What's Dilbert going to do?

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I'm wondering that myself.

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Dilbert will appear to be interested in merging with you.

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You'll seem more attractive to the other CEOs

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if they think someone else wants you.

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I suddenly feel mildly nauseated.

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Is it my cologne?

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[music]

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I haven't seen you here before.

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Take me, dear God, merge with me now!

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Uh, I just remembered

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I have to merge with someone else tonight.

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I have to go now.

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Nice going.

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Thanks.

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Was I charming enough?

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You sounded needy.

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Try revealing a little less.

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Remember, bait, then switch.

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I panicked.

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I felt my financial clock ticking.

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Hey there.

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What's your ticker symbol?

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It's...

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Ow!

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Bait, then switch.

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Right.

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I'd rather not say what my ticker symbol is.

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Can't we just be strategic partners?

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Well, aren't you the mysterious one?

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I'll bet you're an Internet company, aren't you?

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Maybe, maybe not.

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You little corporate tease.

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[GROWLS]

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I want to merge with you.

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Right here, right now.

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I never swap stock on the first meeting.

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How about your friend?

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Huh?!

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He looks like he might be into a little M&A.

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I don't know what that means,

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but I wouldn't merge with you

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if I'd never merged before,

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and you were the last company on earth.

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Who needs to merge with you?

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I can crank up my own stock price by repurchasing shares.

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I've done it before and I can do it again.

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What did I do wrong that time?

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Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs

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before you find your prince.

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Oh, yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

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Have you ever noticed that when you kiss the frogs,

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their tongues taste like flies?

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BARTENDER: Last call.

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Is this when I get desperate?

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You've got two more chances.

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Nah, don't bother.

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He merges with everyone.

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His price is cheap.

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[music]

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Haven't we merged before?

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BOSS: I'd like you to meet our merger partner,

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the CEO of Brainsuck Industries.

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His name is Mway-un-layla'aah.

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Did I get that right?

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Perfect.

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You might have heard of Brainsuck Industries

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in the trade press.

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They're a company

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that "mysteriously"

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only came into existence yesterday,

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but they're taking the industry by storm.

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Aren't they the ones who merge with companies

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and then ingest the brains of the acquired company

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via their long snouts?

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I.e. synergy.

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Where is everyone today?

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What have you done with everyone?

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Dilbert, my man, chill.

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Alice is in a company stress reduction program.

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Wally has been beckoned to human resources.

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Oh, yeah. what about Loud Howard?

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He's being stored in a soundproof container

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in the closet until after the merger.

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We don't want to spook anyone.

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I hope he has airholes.

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Well, now that wouldn't be very soundproof, would it?

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[SHATTERING]

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He needs mouth-to-mouth!

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[MUFFLED CRIES]

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Well, then, where is everyone else?

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Calm down.

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They were given the day off.

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You'll be given the day off.

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But the day will never end.

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It will go on forever.

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[BEEPING]

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Hmm?

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Sorry, I missed that.

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I find myself in need

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of a new troll to guard my door.

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Why don't you hire another one?

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Well, I would, but they all know

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about our pending merger.

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No one wants to work in an administrative job.

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Those are the first ones cut during the, uh, synergy phase.

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That's why I'm glad I'm an engineer.

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Yes, yes, you were AN ENGINEER.

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What?

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I'm changing your job title

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to "door-watching troll," effective immediately.

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But... then the synergy will get me.

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Well, not just you.

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I'll offer to fire all of my staff

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so I can keep my own job.

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That sort of loyalty is always rewarded.

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Who wishes to see Mr. Catbert,

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the evil director of human resources?

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Well, well, well. the stories are true.

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I might be wrong, but I think the job

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of door troll

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is administrative.

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This is a highly skilled position.

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CATBERT: Troll, get the rake.

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I just have to imagine I'm looking for gold

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with a metal detector.

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The funny thing is,

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I don't even like my co-workers that much.

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So why do I miss them when they're gone?

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I miss you when you're gone.

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But you like me.

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I don't know where you got that idea.

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You don't like me?

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I have very high standards.

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That's why I LIKE YOU.

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I like you too, Dogbert.

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You have to like me. You're my mother.

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I don't believe I signed any contract to that effect,

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unless they slipped me something

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when I was giving birth,

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but that'll never stand up in court.

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We tolerate you

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largely for the entertainment value.

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Do you remember the time I ironed poison ivy

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into his underpants before his high school graduation?

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[BOTH LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY]

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Oh. Ah.

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Okay, so you don't like me.

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But you do love me, right?

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Yes, I do love you, because you're family.

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That's the same reason you miss your co-workers.

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My co-workers are not family.

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Oh, really? Think about it.

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Your boss is like the father who left when you were little.

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Alice and Wally are like

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the brother and sister you never had.

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Loud Howard is like the annoying uncle

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who always embarrasses you.

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And Asok the intern is like your own son.

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That is the most appalling theory

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I have ever heard.

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I'm going home.

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Uh, hello?

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You could say that.

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Since when do garbage men make house calls?

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Since always. You just have to ask.

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I'd be afraid to leave my door unlocked all day.

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I have a master key.

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To every house?

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I use my house key.

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All the locks in this town are the same.

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But don't spread it around.

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I won't.

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Can I ask you a question?

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You mean, can I ask you two QUESTIONS.

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Fine.

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Is it possible that my co-workers

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are like some sort of bizarre, dysfunctional family to me?

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It's not just possible.

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It's mandatory.

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Mandatory?

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The brain is wired that way.

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Your mind organizes the people around you

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into family roles.

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Like it or not, they are your family.

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This merger is breaking up my family.

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Unless you stop it.

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You replace the plastic bags?

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Not usually.

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Today is bag day.

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Who wishes to see Mr. Catbert,

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the evil director of human resources?

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Wally, it's me, Dilbert, your brother.

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I mean, your co-worker.

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I have no coworkers.

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I'm just a door-guarding troll.

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After the merger, I'll be an unemployed guy

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whose last job was a door-guarding troll.

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Hang in there, Wally. I'm going to stop this merger.

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How?

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The truth will set us free.

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These cubicles are our marketing department.

421
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If these people don't scare you

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into canceling the merger,

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nothing will.

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Hey there, Dilman.

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00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:15,661
Who's your friend?

426
00:18:19,665 --> 00:18:23,168
That is quite a handshake you got there, big guy.

427
00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:25,170
Well, I'll see you back at the ranch.

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00:18:27,172 --> 00:18:29,174
What the hell did you do to him?

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00:18:29,174 --> 00:18:32,678
We'll NEVER COMPLETE THIS MERGER

430
00:18:32,678 --> 00:18:33,679
if you kill the CEO.

431
00:18:33,679 --> 00:18:37,182
This is what wrecked the Roswell merger.

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00:18:37,182 --> 00:18:38,684
All I did was take him to marketing.

433
00:18:38,684 --> 00:18:40,686
He stuck his snout in some people's ears,

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00:18:40,686 --> 00:18:42,187
and now he's acting like this.

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Take him back to his office, quick.

436
00:18:44,189 --> 00:18:46,191
We don't want him dying over here

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and ruining our safety record.

438
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[DOORBELL RINGS]

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[SPEAKING ALIEN LANGUAGE]

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Let's get the staff meeting going.

441
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First, an update:

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00:19:30,736 --> 00:19:32,237
Dilbert killed the CEO

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of the only company willing to acquire us,

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00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:36,241
so the merger is off.

445
00:19:36,241 --> 00:19:37,743
I'm the one who told you THAT.

446
00:19:37,743 --> 00:19:40,746
Settle down. We're trying to have a meeting here.

447
00:19:40,746 --> 00:19:42,247
I'm the only person here

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who isn't engulfed in someone else's mouth

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or unconscious,

450
00:19:45,250 --> 00:19:46,752
and you're giving me UPDATES

451
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that I gave you 10 minutes ago?

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No side conversations during the meeting, please!

453
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Item two: Wally is being transferred back to engineering.

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Wally!

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00:19:58,764 --> 00:20:00,265
You're back! Give me five.

456
00:20:00,265 --> 00:20:01,767
[BOTH GRUNT]

457
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Sorry.

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00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:06,271
Item three: Alice has decided to stay in her job.

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Look what happens when I don't show up for one day.

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[COUGHING]

461
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I feel like we're one big dysfunctional family again.

462
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Would anyone like to hug?

463
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[MOANING]

464
00:20:26,291 --> 00:20:28,794
Oh, you mean each other.

465
00:20:28,794 --> 00:20:30,295
No, thank you.

466
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Does anyone have any new business to discuss?

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I do.

468
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You know, I was thinking about it,

469
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and although the merger idea didn't work out,

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it's not a bad idea in concept.

471
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Maybe we should give it one more try, and...

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[SCREAMING]

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DILBERT: I'm sorry the merger got called off.

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I guess you lost your $14 billion

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investment banking fee.

476
00:20:53,318 --> 00:20:54,820
You guessed wrong.

477
00:20:54,820 --> 00:20:56,822
I rushed the paperwork through as soon as I heard

478
00:20:56,822 --> 00:20:58,824
you were with their CEO on tour.

479
00:20:58,824 --> 00:21:01,326
What are you going to do with $14 billion?

480
00:21:01,326 --> 00:21:04,329
I'm investing it in a foreign concern.

481
00:21:19,344 --> 00:21:22,848
Greetings, citizens of Orgaplon Six.

482
00:21:22,848 --> 00:21:24,349
We bring you...

483
00:21:24,349 --> 00:21:25,851
synergy.

484
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[SCREAMING]