Billable Hours

Working for the Bay Street law firm of Fagen and Harrison, Sam thinks he's the 'glue' that keeps his best friends, Clark and Robin, together but he's wrong. Clark and Robin are way too selfish to pay much attention to Sam. As a matter of fact, Clark is ravaged by too much privilege and too little affection and can't feel anything at all. And Robin spends all her energy hiding her trailer park Red Deer past by being perfect. At best, all these three friends provide each other is distraction from the endless hours of inane corporate law. Each episode sees their lives come undone as they try valiantly to keep the ideas of themselves intact. When Sam feels like his cohorts have abandoned him, he pretends to have breast cancer to garner office sympathy. His attempts to be liked get him stuck in the ventilation system, get him tasered, and cause him to get the entire corporate retreat lost in the woods. When Robin is given a less than perfect peer evaluation by Clark, she rains down a storm of office pranks on him in bitter retaliation. Her desire to be perfect makes her attend AA meetings for the networking, lie about her age and even fake a pregnancy for maternity benefits. When Clark is presented with a hamster, a gift reminding him of his pathetic childhood, it opens a torrent of emotion completely unbecoming the normally suave and sophisticated Claxtons. Clark tries to fire someone for stealing his lunch, goes on a rampage after being bitten by a wasp and is driven to despair when he finds out he's impotent and not even his father's son.