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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
He was scared of it getting bogged down "in committee," for lack of a better phrase. He saw the terribad commercial they produced previously after spending hours in meetings to get the swirl just right and didn't want them to destroy the commercial.
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Kind of. But the above explanation makes it sound like Jimmy was intentionally doing things slippery. After Kim rejects footsie, Jimmy makes a genuine attempt to go clean. Was glowing with pride for producing an ad that followed all the rules.
Seemed to me like Jimmy followed all the rules, but rushed into making a bad decision due to pressure to prove his brother wrong that he could do things legit. Gilligan sets up the ultimate irony... Jimmy gets praised by his boss when he does things slippery, but gets his ass chewed out when he tries to go legit. Sets up a pretty compelling character arc.