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A self-made success, Barney is the billionaire founder and CEO of Pillsbury Pharmaceuticals. He thinks he has it all: Wealth, power, prestige, a palatial home, a statuesque trophy wife.
Then, one day he encounters a man with the freedom that Barney’s own life lacks... |
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| A self-made failure, Clyde is a man of no fixed address but a fixed and centered outlook on life. Perpetually unshaven and unkempt, Clyde carries himself with defiant dignity. He will happily panhandle but is neither a crook nor a lush -- drinking deeply only of the ironies that make life a feast for the enterprising philosopher. |
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Barney’s better half, Lucretia knows she’s a trophy wife and isn’t at all happy about it. She is plenty smart, but has a hard time being taken seriously, least of all by… |
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| Barney’s daughter from a previous marriage, Cynthia is a born subversive: an art prodigy, a cheerful iconoclast, a devout cynic and, despite her best efforts to conceal it, a daddy’s girl. |
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| Clyde’s sidekick Dabney lives on the streets. He lacks Clyde’s wisdom, intellectual curiosity and moral compass. A charitable assessment is that he is an enthusiastic conniver; less charitably, a con man. |
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Ms. Foxx is Barney’s super-competent administrative assistant at Pillsbury Pharmaceuticals. She has the boss’s trust and respect, and his number.
Duane Butkus is Barney’s young, ambitious chief assistant. He is a scheming, wisecracking, sexist corporate lickspittle. And those are his good points.
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Consuela is the Pillsburys’ live-in cook and resident realist. She adroitly navigates the chilly waters between Cynthia and Lucretia.
Charles, Barney’s valet and chauffeur, is discreet and inscrutable. He is rumored to have eyes.
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| Grumpy, grouchy, obstinate, obstreperous, cantankerous, truculent and crochety, Ebenezer is Cynthia's loving grandpa and role model. |
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| Clyde’s adorable companion is an effective fundraising assistant, but Adolf exists mostly for the strip's plush-toy licensing potential. |
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