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Jack Donaldson, host of the low-rated cable |
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Jack's first customer, Gabrielle Gershwin, falls madly in love with him. Jack discovers that Gabrielle is a producer on real network TV! They dance the tango to celebrate their love. |
| Jack invites Gabrielle
to his apartment with hopes of asking her to manage his game show on network TV, but he keeps getting interrupted by door-to-door salesman, Sam Sloan. |
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To make matters
worse, Jack's ex-wife Olga drops in to take Jack back just as he is about to ask Gabrielle an important question. Gabrielle, thinking that Jack wants to marry her, fights with Olga for Jack. |
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fighting women to get some air. While expressing his frustration about not knowing what to do next, Jack says that he thinks he's going mad. Unfortunately, the local Nut Police observe him and arrest him in order to preserve the sanity of the streets. |
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Taken to Northridge Asylum,
Jack is locked up and given the institution's uniform. |
| Jack then meets Lisa Lambert, one of the inmates at Northridge. Lisa takes Jack around to meet the other inmates: Jo, who can multiply huge numbers in her head; Alan, who thinks aliens are trying to turn him into a dog; and ... |
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...Phoebe, who can ony speak gibberish. |