The other night, I was watching Mad Money when I thought, hey, I know that craggy-faced ginger. He's the stapler guy from Office Space! For yes, none other than Stephen Root plays the holier-than-thou head honcho at the movie's main setting of the Federal Reserve. It was a little weird seeing him as "the man" instead of as a basement-banished cog in the wheel. Although not as weird as it could've been given that he's also Bill Hader's boss on Barry.
Still, despite making such an impression on me, Root's character in Mad Money is minor. The story is about his underlings, a trio of blue-collar female Reserve workers including ringleader Diane Keaton, single mom Queen Latifah, and free-spirited kook Katie Holmes. Sick of life screwing them over, they hatch a scheme to steal greenbacks so old they're marked for destruction. You know. Kind of like when Ron Livingston and friends use their programming prowess to try to skim some off the top in Office Space.
Almost, but not quite. The women are far craftier.
That said, please enjoy this pic of my, not red, but pink polka-dot stapler adrift in a sea of Monopoly money. I got it at Marshalls for less than ten dollars. But to me, it'll always be priceless.