Martin (voiced by Samm Hodges) is visiting the office of Clark + Bow Outfitters in Season 1, episode 3 of “Downward Dog.”

According to the synopsis for the episode, Nan (Allison Tolman) is frustrated by Kevin’s (Barry Rothbart) interference in her ad campaign development, so she brings Martin to work with her in an attempt to keep her dog-phobic boss at bay. Nan, however, never anticipated that Martin would fall in love with Kevin.

At the end of Season 1, episode 1, Nan presented an ad campaign that aims to make their customers see the innate beauty they all have. “Every day it doesn’t matter [to my dog] if I gained weight or if my skin is all broken out or if I can’t stop crying for a week. Every day, he still looks at me exactly the same way, like I am the most beautiful thing he has ever seen,” Nan said during her presentation. “I just thought what if I could see myself the way my dog sees me. What if I could love myself like that? What if we as a brand (Clark + Bow Outfitters), we could do that for our customers? What if instead of showing them this endless parade of perfectly cast and lit and retouched models, what if we just showed people themselves? What if we literally turn all of our storefronts into giant mirrors with big font that just reads: ‘Look at how beautiful you are.’ I think this would be good for our brand. Maybe it would make the world a little bit better place, too.”

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Tristen (DaJuan Johnson), Clark + Bow Outfitters Head of Design, likes Nan’s idea and wants to expand on it. But Kevin isn’t a fan of it from the very beginning.

Kevin continued to express his disapproval of Nan’s idea in Season 1, episode 2, in which his dislike of the ad campaign seemed to grow even stronger when he found out from Nan and Jenn (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) that the campaign won’t use any models.

“Hey ladies, I took a look at the production schedule, and I didn’t see models casting,” Kevin told Nan and Jenn. “I can’t emphasize enough how much I prioritize models casting. It’s like 70 percent of what I like about this job.”

“Well, we’re using real people. It’s the whole point of the campaign,” Jenn replied.

“There are no models,” Nan confirmed.

But will Martin’s fondness of Kevin change his tune about Nan’s campaign? Find out in Season 1, episode 3, which airs on Tuesday, May 30 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.

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