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TAKE THIS JOB... (2003)
Episode Seven "The Big Sell"
10% of all people working in the US are in sales. From cars to cosmetics, we follow a few of them as they make their "Big Sell".

 
In this hilarious episode of TAKE THIS JOB..., we see the contrasting styles of car sales and cosmetics in Las Vegas and Dallas, Texas. "The Chopper", an aspiring rap artist, runs the largest used car dealership in Las Vegas, has his own TV show, where he promotes deals and "chops" prices. Every Saturday he makes his salesmen dress up in Speedo swimsuits and genie costumes to bring in the customers. This Saturday, we follow him, his top salesman Will, and two first time car salesman, as they try to sell 60 cars in one day while battling the customers' stereotype of traditional "greasy" car salesmen.

The day at the car lot in Vegas is interwoven with following Kimberly Walker-Roop in Dallas. She has had the most rapid ascent ever within the Mary Kay sales organization. At 26, she has a handsome husband, two children, a dream house, a pink Cadillac, and a six-figure income from Mary Kay. She works with her mother and sister, also Mary Kay sales directors, and they rush to put together their monthly "rally night" where they recruit more saleswomen and give prizes to their top producers. In the course of their day we follow Krystal, Kimberly's sister, in her attempts to scour shopping malls for new customers, and take a trip to corporate HQ where our sales ladies seek inspiration in the offices and museum of the late Mary Kay Ash.


Daniel Elias, Director
Daniel Elias and David Houts, Producers
Andrew Dunn, Director of Photography
Andrew Dunn, Jayson Haedrich, Camera
Po Kutchins, Supervising Editor
Sinead Kinnane, Editor
Keith Sicat, Assistant Editor
Shareen der Parthogh, Production Manager
Joel Goodman, Original Theme Score
Daniel Jenkins, Narrator
Leroy + Clarkson, Title Sequence and Graphics

 

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