Joy Page #6

There's no shame in hard work.

And second of all, you know, I'm...

I'm tryin' to sell a new mop,

not used mops.

And third of all...

don't...

don't take any guff from anybody.

Ya know, don't... don't let it in.

I know it's hard,

and I'm sorry that happened.

Now, get in the bath.

Aw, c'mon,

go to sleep, Honey.

Joy.

- Not now, Mimi.

- Joy, wait, wait..

Just tell me what happened today, I want

know how it went, please, I want to know.

It was a disaster.

But you must never give up, ever since

you were little you were born to bear...

Bear what, Mimi?

Failure?

Disgrace?

Humiliation in front

of my daughter?

You were born to be the...

presence in the world.

And I know that I'm gonna

live to see you grow to be

the successful matriarch

that you were born to be.

Matriarch...

- To be a mother with courage.

- Who can't even support her children.

Sweetheart...

What are you doin' here?

I have this idea... a guy I know.

- What guy?

- He used to work with me.

And now he works at this... big retailer.

A new way of doing business.

I mean, it's worth a try.

- You would do that for me?

- Of course.

They were the best

divorced couple in America.

Much better friends than

they were husband and wife.

I can get you a

meeting with him.

Where is it?

I don't understand what we're

doing in Amish country, they don't

even have electricity out here,

how can they sell anything on TV?

It has nothing to do with it

with the Amish people.

It just happens to be located here,

I looked it up... in Amish country.

- AH-misch.

- What?

- AH-misch.

- AH-misch.

Sign in, please.

We're here to see Marv Brickman.

Okay, Marv Brickman, does he know

who you are if I call his office?

Of course he know, we're friends,

we used to work together.

Tom was wrong about that...

- Tony.

- Marv, how are you?

- I can't see you today.

- Why?

- Maybe tomorrow, if you can stay in town.

- No, we have the kids at home.

- We can stay.

- See you tomorrow.

Listen, you can't just expect

to come in here and see someone.

Did you take care of

that advertising thing?

- Yes, I did.

- Good.

- What's going on here?

- This is my good friend, Tony.

- Tony Miranda.

- We work together at Campbell's.

- Leo Walker.

- And this is... she's his ex-wife.

- Joy.

- Hi, Leo.

She's an inventor, she wanted

two minutes of your time today, but...

Leo, don't worry about this.

- Ya know, maybe tomorrow.

- You know what...

Ya know, why don't ya for five minutes

while the sales group's still here?

- Are you sure?

- Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you.

- Ya got everything?

- Yeah.

- Great.

- Thank you, Man.

Thank you.

So, tell us your name, please.

I'm Joy.

- And what would you like to show us today?

- I have a self-wring mop.

So...

- Do you need some help?

- No, got it.

Oh! Sorry.

That's my shoe...

Oh my goodness,

I'm so sorry, Sir.

Do you mind...

I'm sorry.

Is that plastic?

- Yes..

- Arnold, why don't you give it a try?

- Is that okay?

- Yes, of course.

- Just dunk it.

- I dip it?

- Yes.

- And then I...

- push?

- You pull, you have to pull it.

- Pull it, pull it first.

- Push it in there.

Pull and twist,

just like when you're on the road.

We don't mean to be disrespectful,

Joy, it's been a long day for us.

I feel like I wanna tell you

a little bit about who I am.

'Cause I have a feeling you don't know exactly

where you are right now, am I right?

10 months ago...

a man named Barry Dillard

called me from Los Angeles,

He started a television network,

Fox Television Channel.

And prior to that, he ran 20th Century Fox,

among other studios.

And he acquired a little cable channel,

right here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

And he hired me to run it...

as a bigger idea.

I'm from Detroit, Michigan.

I ran America's largest,

most affordable,

successful, value driven retailer,

a chain called Kmart.

Prior to that,

I was buyer for K-Mart.

And prior to that,

I managed seven separate Kmart stores.

I decide what products we

let into our stores here...

into people's homes,

24 hours a day,

for our valued customers.

I choose very carefully

and very conservatively.

I spend most of my day deflecting

incoming shots from people like yourself.

You see that chart?

This green line here rises

or stays the same each month.

There is no problem with

my product choice.

Do you know what Q-V-C stands for,

Joy?

No, I don't.

Quality, Value, Convenience.

I sell products affordably,

but I don't sell cheap products,

and your mop is plastic

and it looks strange.

I don't know anything about charts, or...

business, frankly,

but I do clean my own home,

and I made this mop,

because it is better

than anything else out there.

Please give me a chance.

I like that it's plastic, because it's

so light, in my hands it's like nothing.

It's also 10 times more absorbent

than any other mop on the market, why?

Because it's 300 feet of continuous

cotton loop, that I looped myself.

That is an enormous amount of absorbent

cotton on a very small mop head.

Now, I'm done with the bathroom,

and I haven't wrung the mop once.

Let me ask you a question.

Would you take this mop,

when you were just cleaning the

bathroom and around the toilet

and all of those germs...

and take it into the kitchen where

your family eats,

where you feed your children?

I take this mop head,

I put it in the washing machine,

it comes out clean like new.

You can't do that

with any other mop.

- So...

- So...

Can you make 50 thousand

of these mops by next week?

Yeah, I think so.

David Selznick he was

the son of an immigrant,

married Jennifer Jones from Oklahoma,

America's sweetheart.

That just goes to show

you that in America

the ordinary makes

extraordinary every single day.

Thomas, where you going with that?

- The skinny pants you wanted.

- Yeah.

No, I never said skinny pants, no,

I said stove pipe, classic look.

I heard skinny pants.

No, I always... I...

you know how much I love the stove pipe.

- Stove pipe, classic, got it.

- Got it. Got it. Got it. got it.

- From now on we go with stove pipe.

- Thank you.

You see those guys, I told them so many

times, they still don't understand.

A very smart guy once said:

Ya tell somebody something once,

they don't listen,

ya tell somebody 4 times,

they don't listen,

by the ninth time you say it,

they begin to hear you.

That's why we're

on 24 hours a day.

That why those people I have

to tell about the stove pipe.

Music in the makeup rooms?

Yeah, I thought I'd give

a sense of place, Todd.

But if you don't want it,

you can always turn it down.

You're our biggest seller,

Todd, whatever you need to do

to make you comfortable why are we care

about, you're our number one seller.

- What!?

- Oh, no.

He's your number one seller?

No, no, no, no... Cindy, Cindy,

please, you know that we love you.

Oh, for Heaven's sake.

She's never had a professional attitude,

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