putney swope be the story of a token black man on the board of director of a large advertising firm who be accidentally voted chairman of the board when the owner of the firm keel over while try to stutter out an idea that he be apparently quite excited about . putney and of course and take his new role to heart and fire most everyone in the agency and hire a new crew ( all black except for a token white guy ) and proceeds to crank out the most offensive and non pc commercial one could ever ask for . now it a rather motley crew he have and despite that they somehow manage to be successful while rake in the cash . i rather like the scene where potential advertiser be be relieve of bag of cash and then tell to get out . and their commercial will follow later and like them or not . the story be good but of course the highlight here be the nasty commercial themselves and especially the one for face off acne cream . this be rather dated and but still a fun movie and and full of hilarious moment . robert downey sr. be work for an ad agency do experimental ad at the time and i guess this be his middle finger to madison avenue agency . very good and pretty damn funny . positive .