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Productive Panic

Productive Panic
Francine becomes an overnight sensation when a famous art dealer discovers her homemade pottery.

Season: 18 Episode: 13
Total Episode Count: 357
Prod. no.: HAJN15
First Aired: September 25, 2023

Featuring: Francine, Klaus
Also Appearing: Stan, Steve, Roger, Hayley, Jeff, Toshi, Snot, Barry, Hideki Yoshida, Hiko Yoshida, Katie, Greg, Buckle, Sharri Rothberg, Earl, Raymond, Tuttle, Connie & Ted Robinson, Del Monaco, Trish and Suze, Gary Gogo, Mark Gilbert, Greta Bubblewater, The Schnoozles, Pippa 4, Jared Leto
Director: Shawn Murray

Assistant Director: Jee Hyun Yoo
Writers: Nicole Shabtai
Storyboarders: Ian Dibble, Anthony Jensen, Eliana Sellitto

Roger's Disguise: Shebecca Escrow from "Langley Dollar Listings"

Plot:
Productive Panic

At a party thrown by Hideki Yoshida where everyone tries to impress with their latest happenings, Francine is forced to flee as she has nothing to talk about. Talking with Klaus about her failings the following day, she shows off some pottery she made, but destroys as they never turn out to her satisfaction. Klaus talks her into showing off a piece at a local coffee show where artists display their work. She soon finds her artwork is a hit and is invited to an exclusive party by an art dealer. Klaus makes himself her manager and things go very well until she is asked what her next project will be and her usual panic sets in.

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Enjoying his new lifestyle as well, Klaus talks her into embracing her art celebrity status, which she does by going over the top, but later confesses to Del Monaco that she has no idea what to do as a follow-up. Following his advice to get a good night's sleep, she completes two more bowls that are stuck together, and promptly goes back to sleep for 36 more hours, leaving Klaus to call her producer. When she wakes up, she discovers that Klaus was using her bowls for his chips and dip and had given her producer a simple lump of clay. At first, she thinks she's ruined and blames Klaus, but finds out that she's still a success in the art world and is booked on Morning Mimosa. When she tries to confess and show off her real project, she ends up dropping it on the floor and it too is celebrated as artwork. Trying to find comfort from the crazy world around her in her family, she finds out they also have her artwork fever.

Checking herself into a mental hospital, to await a meeting with the director. She finds a message in her room warning her to get out, which is also followed by a voice with the same message. The hospital seems odd, with a wall she can cut through and the nurse has no face as she is told the director will see her now. Falling though the floor, she finds herself in cave-like room where the director is a child in a cow costume who tells her she's not worthy and directs her to get into the garbage can where she belongs. She suddenly realizes that the child is a younger version of herself and finds out that her fear of public humiliation started when everyone laughed at a mug that she made. Despite everyone laughing, she remembers it also being a fun project and convinces her younger self to come with her. As they leave the cave, she finds herself hiding in Hideki's bathroom at the original party. When she returns to the group and is forced to tell about her project, she brags about just having the world's most productive panic attack. She also confronts the art producer who was at the party and brags that he can't have her bowl, even when he offers a $1,000,000 although Stan is quite eager to take him up on the offer.

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