But the film turns out to be a surprisingly sophisticated comedy about sex and success in the United States, with moments that suggest Paul Brickman's brilliantly subversive "Risky Business" of 1983.
But you can be only so esoteric and subversive in the fashion business.
In 1968, he started writing a pilot script for a comedic series he called "The Imposters" or "There's No Business," about subversives who infiltrate a television network and undermine it from within.
The movie interestingly challenges accepted narratives about emigration from Ireland to the United States: America is not just a place for business opportunities but subversive political ideas which can be reimported into the old country.
Those realities include his father's subversive political meetings, clumsily disguised as business trips, and his mother's bitterness about being forced into marriage and childbirth at the age of 15.
It may come as a surprise, given China's tight regulations on businesses and Bitcoin's subversive potential, that the Chinese government has not stepped in to regulate it.
It's where, by osmosis, I learned the business of revolutionary, hilarious, mischievous, subversive, anarchical comedy.
Usually, the writer includes articles and statistics and implores us to create a subversive documentary in the spirit of The Business of Being Born that reveals a conspiracy around breastfeeding with formula companies preying on unsuspecting new mothers.
During a rough time for the music business, "It feels a little bit subversive to put together a package like that in 2013," said Detweiler, often the Straight Man to Bergquist's Funny Woman.
There can be a negative aspect to this movement when applied to subversive marketing strategies designed to increase profits for businesses, however where this movement can take us in terms of positive social consequences is something worth considering.
With – presumably a straight face – he added: "I had a friend that once said to me: 'The most subversive thing you can do is a start a business.'" Which one imagines will be news for quite a few anarchists.
