Stephen Root credited as playing...
Jimmy James
- Dave: [confronting the staff] Nobody has to tell me anything because... I was hiding under the desk the whole time!
- [the staff is upset at Dave's eavesdropping. Jimmy steps in]
- Jimmy: Now, look, people, it doesn't matter whether...
- [pause]
- Jimmy: Dave, you were under the desk the whole time? You didn't tell me that.
- Dave: Well, it was kind of unintentional, sir.
- Jimmy: Oh, I see, right. Now, look, people, it doesn't matter whether...
- [pause]
- Jimmy: Actually, y'know what, this is all pretty pathetic. I'm gonna have to distance myself from you. I'll see ya, Dave.
- Jimmy: You're the boss, you're supposed to be thick-skinned.
- Dave: I am plenty thick-skinned.
- Jimmy: Come on, I've seen thicker skin on a bowl of pudding. Here, check this out.
- [Mr. James lays his hand over a lit candle]
- Dave: Sir, you don't have to impress me.
- Jimmy: Wanna know the secret?
- Dave: Wild guess... Thick skin?
- Jimmy: Well, metaphysically, yes. Technically speaking, you do it fifteen, sixteen times, it kills all the nerve endings in your hand.