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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 college-age daughter (Creator/HedyBurress).

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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 college-age teenage daughter (Creator/HedyBurress).
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* EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: Averted with Erica, who in spite of her Ivy League credentials is TheDitz much of the time.
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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/HedyBurress, Creator/EdwardAsner, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SuzyNakamura, and Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller).

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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/HedyBurress, Creator/EdwardAsner, (Creator/EdwardAsner, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SuzyNakamura, and Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller).
Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller), while coping with a recent divorce and parenting his feisty college-age daughter (Creator/HedyBurress).



* FiringDay: In the first episode, due to Jack losing the military accounts, he gets fired, along with Alex, Carl, Bruno, Beverly, and Erica, who had just started that very day.

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* FiringDay: In the first episode, due to Jack losing the military accounts, he gets fired, along with Alex, Carl, Bruno, Beverly, and Erica, who had just started that very day.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/{{John Webber|Actor}}, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons'', appears in ''My Best Friend's Funeral''.
* OneWordTitle: ''Pilot''.

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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/{{John Webber|Actor}}, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons'', appears in ''My "My Best Friend's Funeral''.
Funeral".
* OneWordTitle: ''Pilot''."Pilot".

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* CharacterTitle: ''Dobbs Takes a Holiday''.

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* CharacterTitle: ''Dobbs "Dobbs Takes a Holiday''.Holiday".



* ShoutOut: The episode ''My Best Friend's Funeral'' to ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.

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* ShoutOut: The episode ''My ShoutOut:
** "Dobbs Takes a Holiday", to ''Film/DeathTakesAHoliday''.
** "My
Best Friend's Funeral'' Funeral", to ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.

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An American [[ShortRunners Short Runner]] {{Sitcom}} that follows an ad Executive (Creator/TomSelleck) as he gets fired and starts a new ad agency with several other fired employees (Creator/HedyBurress, Creator/EdwardAsner, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SuzyNakamura, and Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller).

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An American [[ShortRunners Short Runner]] {{Sitcom}} that follows an ad Executive a Denver advertising executive (Creator/TomSelleck) as he gets fired and starts a new ad agency with several other fired employees (Creator/HedyBurress, Creator/EdwardAsner, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SuzyNakamura, and Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller).



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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JohnWebberActor, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons'', appears in ''My Best Friend's Funeral''.

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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JohnWebberActor, Creator/{{John Webber|Actor}}, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons'', appears in ''My Best Friend's Funeral''.



* ShoutOut: The episode ''My Best Friend's Funeral'' to ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.

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* ShoutOut: The episode ''My Best Friend's Funeral'' to ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.

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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JohnWebberActor, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons, appears in ''My Best Friend's Funeral''.

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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JohnWebberActor, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons, ''Series/ChicagoSons'', appears in ''My Best Friend's Funeral''.
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* OneWordTitle: ''Pilot''.

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* OneWordTitle: ''Pilot''.''Pilot''.
* ShoutOut: The episode ''My Best Friend's Funeral'' to ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JohnWebberActor, who worked with Krumholtz on ''Series/ChicagoSons, appears in ''My Best Friend's Funeral''.

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* OneWordTitle:
** ''Pilot''.

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OneWordTitle: ''Pilot''.
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An American [[ShortRunners Short Runner]] {{Sitcom}} that follows an ad Executive (Creator/TomSelleck) as he gets fired and starts a new ad agency with several other fired employees (Creator/HedyBurress, Creator/EdwardAsner, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/SuzyNakamura, and Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller).

It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from February 23 to May 4, 1998.

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* CharacterTitle: ''Dobbs Takes a Holiday''.
* 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.
* FiringDay: In the first episode, due to Jack losing the military accounts, he gets fired, along with Alex, Carl, Bruno, Beverly, and Erica, who had just started that very day.
* OneWordTitle:
** ''Pilot''.

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