Bates chases after Jack in a golf cart but ends up crashing into the pool. The Grand Wizard throws a pie at Jack, but hits a policeman instead, leading to his arrest. Jack then proceeds to embarrass the Grand Wizard by causing him to fall into a bowl of chocolate fudge. Jack informs the senator of Bates' intentions and he leaves the party in outrage. Jack and Eric team up to disrupt the party, which is witnessed from afar by Angela and her group. He learns the true reason for the party is to get the KKK Grand Wizard and the senator together in a picture, which Bates would then use to blackmail the senator. Jack's wife, Angela, tries to bring attention to this with her anti-Klan group, but Jack convinces her to leave. They are unaware that members of the KKK are also in attendance. Jack tells Eric that most men need jobs, just as his priority is to support himself and his wife.Īn outdoor party is later held at the Bates estate, attended by prominent citizens who are supporters of a senator. When he accepts, Eric is upset because he thinks Jack is selling out.
To prove to his son that money can buy loyalty, he offers Jack a reporting job with his newspaper in exchange for shutting their newspaper down, which is what Jack wanted all along. When Morehouse finds a copy and presents it to his boss, Bates is outraged, but keeps his anger in check and calls Jack and Eric for a private meeting at his office. They publish their paper and distribute it throughout the city. After witnessing multiple examples of Bates' cruelty to his employees, they dig up dirt on him, such as a story of how he won his butler, Barkley, in a game of billiards. The pair decide to start a newspaper of their own. They bond while participating in mini-cart racing, video games, and fishing. Jack returns, determined to teach Eric how a friend is supposed to be treated.
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He agrees to return only when Bates (with Morehouse as his proxy) offers Jack enough money to pay off the full mortgage. After a particularly humiliating incident in the mansion incited by Bates' ditzy trophy wife Fancy, who introduces him at a dinner party as Eric's new "toy", Jack grows tired of the situation and leaves. In exchange for a generous financial settlement to stave off repossession, Jack agrees to be Eric's live-in friend during Eric's one-week spring break from military school.Įmotionally estranged from his father, Eric takes a liking to Jack but still manages to humiliate him with numerous pranks. Morehouse fails to convince Eric that human beings cannot be owned.
Amused at seeing Jack goof around in the store's toy section, Eric informs his father's long-suffering right-hand man, Sydney Morehouse, that what he wants is Jack himself. He is fired from that gig by Bates, but "Master" Eric Bates, the spoiled son of the boss, sees Jack while looking through Bates' department store.
Brown is humiliated as he clumsily attempts to serve food at a luncheon. Bates, who owns the paper, a department store and many other businesses. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taking a job as a janitor for the wealthy and ruthless businessman U.S. Jack Brown is a married, unemployed man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in danger of having his house repossessed.
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