Commercials of the Future

At a Globo-Chem board meeting, two advertising executives tell the conglomerate's CEO and his executives that the public sees the company as a heartless monster, and pin much of the blame on the overweight CEO, who angrily recounts the firm's origins in the slave trade. The pitchmen then introduce Pit-Pat, a plush, pansexual mascot meant to make the corporation lovable, and screen sample spots for three of its ever-multiplying product lines: a Bag Hutch storage box, Ding Dong Burgers and Tech Corp Systems. Each ad is cruder than the last, ending with a string of shouted obscenities over a shot of the Earth. When an executive objects to the swearing, the ad men argue that the world of the future will be far coarser and that insults are the only way left to grab attention, then keep heaping abuse on the CEO until he drops dead, which turns out to be exactly what his colleagues hired them to do.

This sketch introduced Globo-Chem, the all-owning conglomerate that turns up again in later Mr. Show material. Bob Odenkirk voices the mascot Pit-Pat, while his brother Bill Odenkirk wears the costume.