Recording Perfectionist Mugs

"No, I'm still getting too much banjo."

"Why can't the rest of you be more like Rollins, here? He does his homework!"

Bullseye!

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

'I told you, you were missing a decimal point.'

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

Three work boxes: 'IN...LIMBO...OUT': 'I think I've found your bottleneck.'

Is it a book? A film? A TV show? How do you mime a podcast?

Perfection

"We tried six speakers, then twelve, and finally we put in the Pittsburgh Symphony, yet we still feel something is lacking."

'In an inexplicable attack of nerves, Elliot becomes the first person ever to screw up John Cage's 4'33'.

"Or should it be scrum or kanban???"

'Oh, sure, it gets the creative juices going, but is it worth the cost?'

"You're welcome."

"Being happy with one's work is the kiss of death."

'this is the only place where no one is fooling around with the genes.'

Santa's Out Tray.

Cuts, Measurements, Certain, Sloppy

'Excellent. But try it again and this time start your sway at the beginning of the fourth bar, O.K.?'

'I'm a narcissist? - Are you saying I'm not perfect?'

'I don't want to be a shepherd. I want to be the policeman who interrupts the play to tell all the mummys and daddys who have parked irresponsibly and dangerously outside to move their cars...'

Christmas Present Wrapping Service.

A tailor measuring a jacket.

"Good morning - your neighbours have asked me to come and tune your piano."

"For tonight's performance I have stripped everything, as far as possible, down to the "urtext" edition."

'How's the ringtone coming along, Ludwig?'

Desk trays - 'Do it' and 'Do it right this time'.

The battle of the pianos.

"Page 33, line 4..."

"Now you can send it."

Wanting his picnic with Gwen to be perfect, Hal made sure they would not be bothered by ants.

'This course is a great ego builder.'