Reputation Pillows

I was going to make you a rich woman, but you're done. Fine with me. I don't care what percentage I'll get. I won't let you play with my reputation. I won't let you trade in fake scandal. Perfect. What? We got your anger on videotape. Your redemption is complete. You're back on the air. Even my head is spinning.

'This is really going to tarnish his legacy, Al.'

'A role model? Yes, I suppose he was. Everywhere he went, people would say 'That's Bill Fenton... You don't want to be that guy!''

Apart from your mother, who else thinks you're doing a good job as Chairman of the company?

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

"She's all over YouTube."

"Sinclair's not all he's cracked up to be. His reputation exceeds him."

"I've spent all night diluting our negative reviews on Yelp." "Really?" "Yeah. You know how you can usually tell when a business owner does that?" "They post 'reviews' that don't have even a hint of negativity." "Amateurs. Check out the negatives I include: 'House of Java Cafe. I hate it because it's so perfect, it makes the rest of my day feel inadequate.'"

"All rise."

Others' perceptions (which aren't always true)

Sportswasher's

"I mind my mother, eat my broccoli and do my homework, but you won't tell the guys, will you?"

"Everything I know about being human I learned from animals."

"After all the trouble I've been in lately, I decided to hire a PR firm to repair my image."

Proof you've made it Loud Annoying The voices raised against you

"Don't mess with that guy. He's a real hardwood."

You can have your privacy back, as soon as I've finished showing it to everyone

"Unfortunately your Twitter has been hacked. Fortunately it has been hacked by someone much cooler and funnier than you."

"I used to be known as Mr. Nice Guy, but I bought my way out."

"In my family we're forbidden from mentioning my uncle...he made his money with cat food stocks!"

'...I'm the only one here who's outrageously high opinion of themselves is actually justified.'

'Promise me one thing, Lorraine... you won't tell my friends we met at a church picnic?'

"If you're planning to run for public office, 'a man of conviction' sounds better than 'prison parolee'."

"I wish he could have been here to hear all those wonderful lies they told about him."

"This isn't going to look good on my website."

"I spend January through November every year rebuilding my reputation after the annual holiday party."

"You know, it's guys like you that give guys like me a bad name!"

Ernie McKelvey, moments before his life is touched by scandal.

The Nobel Prize for Human Rights? We only wanted one in Science!

"Before I came I googled your name....did you hold up a convenience store in 2003?"

Huckster, manipulator,philanderer,hero nevertheless

From the Particular to the General.

Miss Wimbush, get me my PR man!

Scandal. An illicit videotape has surfaced showing Sadie Cohen being nice to Rudy Park!!! I deny it, of course. It's a frame job. Actual footage. Fancy computer. Be a sweetie and shoe me how to use it some time? Sure! Haven't you people ever heard of sarcasm?!?! You're ruined.

'You may not share my beliefs, but you should respect them!' 'What shall I do? He believes he's God's gift to women.'