Endora materialized in Larry Tate's office. She observed the old silver fox for a moment. He was speaking to Mrs. Wilson on the intercom and giving her instructions on what to do when the client arrived . She didn't usually cast spells on the Tates but today would be an exception. She first decided that the spell would be timed to activate when the words Mr. Pin were spoken. "Nooooooooow," she mused aloud to herself, "what 'kind' of spell will it be?" Mentally reviewing spells of the past and where she might have gone wrong, she decided that this spell would be put on the layouts themselves and Darrin and Larry. A spell causing Darrin and Larry to laugh at Mr. Pin, his hair, his ideas. Everything. Plus, the two ad executives would spout out terrible slogans uncontrollably until the client stormed out in a huff. The beauty of it was that neither one of them would realize that they were doing anything wrong..This way, McMann and Tate would suffer the loss and once that happened, Larry would find a way to blame Durwood, and would probably fire him! He would certainly be mad enough to give up on this mixed marriage then! "Yeeeesssssss, she hissed, this might be the straw that broke the camel's back!"
Suddenly the door burst open and Dumbo entered the office enthusiastically with his layouts. She waved her arms and the two mortals were frozen in time.. Her purple robe flowed as she waved her arms and began the incantation
"These two mortals are playing a game"
"With a client they both deem insane"
"A touch of the layouts puts the wheels in motion"
"For laughter, sarcasm, COMPLETE commotion!" "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
The intercom buzzed. Mrs. Wilson! With a wave of her arms and one more laugh for the road, she vanished, and a perplexed Larry Tate said:
"Where were we?"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm." Darrin began.
The buzzing intercom simultaneously snapped both of them back into the now. Larry spoke with Mrs. Wilson who informed him that the client was here. She had been reluctant to speak to Darrin ever since the scratch paper incident a while back. She was, after all, Larry's secretary.
Mr. Pin charged in the room like he was going to battle. A short, impatient, man with outdated clothes and the worst toupee in history, he was also known to think of his way as the only way. The ad men always found it hard to conduct business with him and his hair. But, if they could land the account, it would be worth millions because there was a possible merger with a transfer trucking business in the future.
"Good Morning Mr. Pin!" exclaimed Larry as he extended his had. In doing so, he accidentally knocked Mr. Pin's ever present hat to the floor. A hat that was never worn, but held.
" WATCH IT TATE!" screamed Safety Pin.
" How do you do, sir?" Darrin added
" Who gave you per mission to talk out of turn?"
A chastised Darrin looked startled.
Larry, remembering very quickly how touchy Mr. Pin was, hurriedly tried to smooth things over. Little did he know that he had already uttered the phrase that was going to kick start everything.
"Why don't you have a seat over here, Mr. Pin and let us present you with our layouts?" suggested Larry. Although the ideas were Darrins, they had previously agreed to present them together since Mr. Pin considered himself a man of importance and would only deal with senior partners in any business deal.
" We know," began Larry, "how attached you are to your tried and true slogan, but we feel that with today's market and with addition of adult products that maybe you should take a slightly different approach."
Mr. Pin pouted his lips, furrowed his brows and began to squirm. He came here to look at new artwork, not hear new SLOGANS!
'Yes," Darrin eased in, "today's market is a little harder to reel in than our past consumer" he continued as he opened the layouts. As soon as he pulled the first one out and handed it to Larry, both men began to snicker uncontrollably while mumbling the phrase Chinny Chin. Mr. Pin stared up at them with a look of shock and confusion.
"WHAT did you say?" He was beginning to boil.
"We said, cracked Larry, Chinny Chin! How ridiculous is that? HA HA HA HA HA! Why not, " Snug as a bug in a RUG!" With hair like that you're leaving yourself wide open!"
"Or," barked Darrin, "Get Topkins Diapers! "You'll never know what you're sitting in!" HA HA HA HA "!
"WELL!", screamed Mr. Pin, "IF THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS ARE DONE AROUND HERE, YOU CAN FORGET IT! McMANN AND TATE CAN JUMP IN THE LAKE." This induced further laughter from the peanut gallery. Not only were his slogans the pits, his sayings were too.
"OOOOOH!"
With that, he did slam his hat on, knocking his hair sideways, and stalked out in a huff. Larry and Darrin were still involved in rib splitting laughter that was getting worse by the minute and they really didn't know why. They were also unaware that Mr. Pin had left nor did they care. They were patting each other on the backs for finally putting him in his place. It was only when Mrs. Wilson crept in and explained what had happened and why, that they realized that the meeting had somehow taken a terrible turn. Somehow when they put the layouts down and looked at each other things just didn't seem funny at all. Mrs. Wilson explained that she heard the whole thing over the intercom and she was just beside herself. It was at this moment that Darrin knew that somehow witchcraft was involved.
