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Shameless · Season 1, Episode 15

Jolene, Ryan and others in “Unfinished Business”

[Dax and Ryan are doing a powerpoint presentation to two corporate executives in a boardroom]

JJolene

Are you saying our biggest client is asking us to sell something that is undrinkable?

RRyan

Yeah, we're in advertising. That's what we do. Dax?

DDax

Globally, three groups testing semi-positively in taste tests... Uh, Siberians, the Dalit caste of India, and the American hobo.

JJoe

[Sighs] You mean... literal homeless people.

RRyan

Well, general indigents.

DDax

[Grunts] These were all taken on the South Side. Homeless people, hookers, transients.

JJolene

Bachman's not going to turn a profit selling to those people.

DDax

No, no, no. But- but if we use them as influencers, we can crack the Millennial market wide open. They identify as poor or as victims of a society that doesn't care about them.

RRyan

Thing is, they're not poor. They just don't have the money they think they're entitled to, and we think we can capitalize on their complete lack of perspective.

DDax

They're self-proclaimed hobos. We're simply offering them the chance to prove it.

JJoe

[Chuckles] "Hobo Loco"?

DDax

Bachman Alcohol re-branded as the nectar of the bona fide hobo.

JJolene

I don't hate it.

RRyan

We need to build our campaign around the search of a spokesperson. No advertisements, no media bias, just Millennial word of mouth. Authenticity is key. The "hoboiest" of all hobos... [Changes slide to a shadow figure with a red question mark] the Hobo Loco Man.

JJolene

"Hobo Loco Man".

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