The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – SHOWTIME

Created by Matthew Carnahan

Music by Mark Mothersbaugh

• 001. Gods of Dangerous Financial Instruments – 1/8/2012
  • Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle) heads up a pod of the Los Angeles consulting firm Galweather Stearn, made up of Jeannie van der Hooven (Kristen Bell), Clyde Oberholdt (Ben Schwartz), and Doug Guggenheim (Josh Lawson). Marty lives in an apartment with his opinionated father Jeremiah (Glynn Turman), a retired psychiatrist, and Marty’s flamboyant 15-year old son Roscoe (Donis Leonard Jr.), who is trying out for the female lead in the school production of Grease. Marty has a sexual relationship with his ex-wife Monica Talbot (Dawn Olivieri), but they are typically at odds, especially with her working for competing firm Kinsley & Associates. Marty and the Pod travel to New York City to pitch ideas to mega-bank MetroCapital, whose CEO K. Warren McDale (John Aylward) has come under fire for issuing executive bonuses while the banks collapse around them and many people lose their homes.  Marty meets a stripper/hooker named April (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and when MetroCapital’s second-in-command Greg Norbert (Greg Germann) spots them, April claims to be Marty’s wife and accepts an invitation to have dinner with Greg and his wife Rachel (Anna Camp). Before the dinner Marty finds out that MetroCapital has also called in Kinsley & Associates. During dinner, Rachel joins Rachel in the bathroom and they have sex, which leads to a fist fight between Marty and a drunk Greg. Marty and the Pod pitch an idea for the MetroCapital to issue loan amnesty to their borrows, which at first McDale has no interest in, until he is told that ultimately it won’t cost much more than the image spots they are already doing; Galweather Stearn is awarded the account. Meanwhile Marty argues with Roscoe’s Principal Gita (Mo Gaffney) about whether Roscoe should try for the part, when a fellow classmate Brittany Kauffman (Valencia Barnes) wants the part of Sandy. However when Marty meet’s Brittany’s beautiful mother Alisette (Daphne Duplaix), he sells out Roscoe to sleep with her, and Roscoe ends up playing Rizzo. Sexual tension mounts between Marty and Jeannie. Chris McGinn is the sleeping bag woman. 3/14/17

• 002. Amsterdam – 1/15/2012
  • During a business meeting where he sells an executive named Dick (David Grant Wright) his services, Marty spots Monica and they have sex in the bathroom, using the word ‘Amsterdam’ as their safe word. Marty continues his war with Principal Gita about Roscoe’s cross-dressing. The Pod’s boss, senior partner Harrison ‘Skip’ Galweather (Richard Schiff), assigns the group to travel to Phoenix to help friends of the CEO ‘The Rainmaker’ Marco Pelios (Griffin Dunne), married co-owners of the Phoenix Huskies basketball team, Franco (Julio Oscar Mechoso) and Bridget Colmonares (Deprise Brescia), who are going through a divorce. The couple’s incendiary comments to each other threaten the sports franchise. Marty makes the recommendation that they fake a reconciliation publicly to avoid getting their assets seized. Jeannie meets up in Phoenix with an old friend named Derek Fielder (Brian Letscher) thinking it’s a date, but it turns out he’s a headhunter trying to woo her away from Galweather Stearn. She nearly takes it, but they withdraw the offer. Marty won’t admit to killing the offer, but it is apparent that he did. The Pod discovers that Doug wears chocolate chip cookie scented cologne. Doug later blows it when he meets Cat Deeley (herself) at the airport and beats himself up over the encounter. Kosha Patel is Celia.  3/15/17
• 003. Microphallus – 1/22/2012
  • On the anniversary of his mother’s suicide, Marty and the Pod head off to Indiana to work with IBC beverage company, who are getting ready for a major restructure supported by the CEO Jonathan Struass (Alan Dale), but is opposed by the CFO Spalding Winter (John Ross Bowie) and one of the middle managers (Joe Ochman), who secretly turns all of the information over to Marty. Spalding and his wife Janelle (Amy Landecker) invite Marty and Jeannie to their house for dinner, where Janelle seduces Marty in plain view of Spalding, whom she claims has a ‘microphallus’, while Spalding gives a Jeannie a foot massage – and tasting. Despite the fact that Strauss has hired the consultants, Marty does not support the restructure to the Board of Directors, knowing full well that Strauss will move forward anyway. He does however position the Pod with a rival beverage company to become their consultants when the restructure fails and they are bought out by the rival. Meanwhile Greg Norbert from MetroCapital visits Galweather to announce that they might be buying them out to use as their own internal consulting, thus ensuring that Marty will be fired. Skip tells Marty he will not cover for him since Marty has never treated him like a friend. Clyde teases Doug and gets him to admit an affair with a transsexual. Marty poses as a valet parker and steals a car with Clyde, taking him on a high-speed joyride. Roscoe confesses to liking both a girl and a boy. Sundra Oakley is Annalise. 5/9/17
• 004. Mini-Mogul – 1/29/2012
  • With Jeremiah and Monica on trysts of their own, Marty is forced to take Roscoe with him on the Pod’s next job in San Francisco to consult 20-year old Alex Katz-Nelson (Ryan Pinkston) of Ninjakatz Technologies, creator of the NKT security software, who is threatened by the Board to expand internationally without him. Marty is unable to spend the time with Roscoe that he promised, because he is occupied by the childish antics of Alex, who takes him to meet his fellow computer hackers, including D.J. (Utkarsh Ambudkar), who can’t stand Alex and exposes the fact that Alex has built a back door into the security systems. Marty exploits this information and threatens to expose Alex, forcing him not only to step down from his position, but to beg the Pod to stay on as consultants for the company to act as his ‘spies’ overseeing the board for the international expansion. Meanwhile Jeannie is keeping her recent engagement to Wes Spencer (Michael Rady) a secret from her co-workers, and has a one-night stand with coffee house singer Kurt (Nick Stahl). Clyde tries to give Doug advice on how to pick up women by acting like George Clooney, but when he tries his technique on a bartender named Lucy (Diana Gettinger), he falls flat. Marty feels so guilty about not spending time with Roscoe that he leaves Monica a series of drunken messages about how she is failing as a mother. Doug gives Roscoe advice about how to handle the bullies at school. Ayelet Ben-Shahar is Tanya. 5/9/17
• 005. Utah – 2/5/2012
  • The pod travels to Salt Lake City, Utah to advise the motel chain Stay Rite, but when it is obvious off the bat that the CEO Brant Butterfield (Peter Mackenzie), Marty lets Jeannie handle the pitch. She fails at nearly every turn, but when she advises them to re-brand, using the failed Polaroid as an example, he is finally receptive. Marty has been spending his time getting high with the CFO Paul (Michael McMillan), but Paul is all business during the pitch and calls out a discrepancy with Jeannie’s numbers. Marty cons his way into proving the numbers, but Butterfield still defers to Jeannie. On the flight home, Marty calls out Jeannie’s near-disastrous mistake, but she in turn calls out the entire reason their jobs are at stake due to his adversity with Greg Norbert. Meanwhile Clyde goes out with the company’s marketing expert Rebecca Pfrommer (Anna Rose Hopkins), but convinced that she will only have anal sex as a loophole in her religion, runs out on her when they are about to be intimate when all he can think about is the corn she ate for dinner. Back in Los Angeles, Monica is dumped by a married boyfriend and comes to spend time with Roscoe, only to take him to the ex-boyfriend’s house while he is in Fiji with his wife and steals the amount of belongings she felt she is owed. Roscoe finds her in a trance-like state staring a one of his paintings she stole and defaced, leaving Roscoe to call a cab to get himself to school. 1/2/18
• 006. Our Descent Into Los Angeles – 2/12/2012
  • After a week of traveling, the pod returns to L.A. for the Friday and weekend, and Marty is faced with two personal issues: the return of April who plans to go to school in the area, and Roscoe being suspended from school when another boy named Caleb (Kai Caster) accuses him of trying to kiss him. Marty enlists the help of the pod to come up with something to blackmail the school with, and although Doug and Clyde are able to determine that the school has been using elevated SAT scores for their promotion, Jeannie declines to assist to spend her personal weekend time with her fiancee Wes looking for cakes for their wedding. However when they encounter a perfect bride (Jennifer Birmingham Lee) and groom (Adam Grimes) while dealing with twin bakers (Matt and John Yuan), Jeannie has a panic attack and tells Wes she needs to go help Marty. Meanwhile Marty tries to keep April out of the sight of Greg since April cost him his marriage, while April asks Marty to help her because she is being charged with second degree murder after a female off-duty police officer she was having an affair drinks a water bottle filled with GHB. He comes up with the idea to call it a suicide, an idea April has confidence in. During a meeting at the school, Principal Gita, Marty’s father, and Monica turn the tables on Marty and make the meeting about him confronting his feelings about his mother who committed suicide. His blackmail techniques are all for naught as Caleb admits that it was actually he who tries to kiss Roscoe. Marty comes up with the idea to call April’s girlfriend’s deat a suicide, an idea in which April has confidence. 1/2/18
• 007. Bareback Town – 2/19/2012
  • The Pod heads off to Washington D.C. to meet with Novax Pharmaceutical to rubber stamp a marketing plan for a drug that cures acne. Before he leaves April states that she doesn’t care if Marty has affairs on the road, but he vows that he will return to her having slept with no one so that she can satisfy him without using protection. He begins to regret his words when he not only sees Monica there, who tempts him naked in the bathroom, but also Brenda (Andrea Savage), the executive who hired them and also wants to sleep with him again. Marty declines the sexual advances of Brenda, and encourages Jeannie to step into his place, since the deal is so important to preventing the merger. Jeannie slips Brenda a mickey so that she passes out before the tryst begins. Meanwhile Clyde and Doug compete over the desk clerk Britney (Peyton List), but Clyde gets discouraged when Doug scores a date with her and he can’t get a date. When Clyde hears Doug using one of his phony stories, he attacks him and pushes him into a fountain, causing a cop (Kenneth Stephens) to show up. Jeannie then has a moral crisis she she finds out that the acne medicine may cause depression and a risk of suicide. Marty makes it clear that their only job is to maximize profit. This goes sour when the CEO Matt (Tom Irwin) calls him out for being so unethical. Marty saves the situation by selling Brenda down the river and says that the side effects were not disclosed by her, and then sells them an alternate plan to go to market with a drug owned by their competition Pfizer that will cost them a lawsuit, but generate much more revenue than the lawsuit will cost. Brenda vows revenge on Marty, as she has a job offer from Pfizer and will cause Galweather to lose their account. Back home Jeremiah discloses to April that he has Parkinsons disease. Monica stops by and sees April there having a family dinner with Marty and Roscoe, and vows to take custody of Roscoe. Leonard Kelly-Young is a businessman. 9/3/18
• 008. Veritas – 3/4/2012
  • Marty reluctantly attends the Galweather Stearn recruiting event, a wine-and-dine party at Marco’s home with prospective new consultants from Harvard. Marty meets a young black Harvard student named James (Leslie Odom Jr.), who it becomes clear to Marty is being groomed to take his place, especially when Marco tells him that the merger is definitely happening. Jeannie challenges a charming girl named Beth (Jenn Proske) to solve a mathematical logic problem to prove that she more than just alluring. Beth eventually manages to solve it, much to Jeannie’s bewilderment. Later Jeannie thanks Clyde for helping her with it, but is then able to blow her off when he asks for a date. When Doug says that he could get any of the recruits a job, Clyde challenges him to take the geeky Will Davis (Josh Brener), an awkward student who likes to do magic tricks, and introduce him around. Will says all of the wrong things and quickly blows it with exec Stuart Anderson (Michael Rose), but then finally is able to bond with an exec named Grand Stevens (Currie Graham) by making fun of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals… of which Doug was a member. Will is even able to have a friend pull up some photos of Doug in drag from the group, which immediately goes viral. Marty purposely tells James about the merger and advises him to talk to Skip, who explodes and throws him out. James is taken aback by being set up by Marty, and vows revenge when he goes to work for Kinsley. Marty finally confronts Skip and gets him to admit that the merger is indeed happening, and Marty’s job is not safe thanks to Pfizer. He calls Marco to come up with a plan… but Marco can’t talk as he is sleeping with Jeannie. Andy Shepherd is Andrew. Dominic Dierkes is a recruit. 9/3/18
• 009. Ouroboros – 3/11/2012
  • MetroCapital CEO K. Warren McDale announces that Kinsley-Johnson led by Monica will be the consulting firm coming in to assess Galweather Stearn. Marty goes to Marco to see if he can help push Skip out or destroy the merger, and he suggests they engage South American oil magnate Enrique Cazuelas to buy out Galweather. Greg calls for a strategy session with Marty, but he suggests that they have it out by going out and getting wasted to see if they even care about their history any longer. The pod takes Skip out and get wasted, and Marty gives Skip LSD. Jeannie is forced to introduce her fiance Wes to Marty when he shows up unexpectedly at their office. Marty finds one of his father’s Parkinsons pills and has a discussion with him. April and Roscoe get closer, and she works with him on a dance routine. James is one of the three Kinsley consultants who get bashed by Marty and pod during their interviews. Marty turns down the sexual advances of Monica again…which prompt her to serve him with custody papers. Sarah Oh is Marco’s Hawaiian masseuse. Jonathan Bray is the lead consultant. Samantha Colburn is Amanda the consultant. 5/30/19
• 010. Prologue and Aftermath – 3/18/2012
  • Clyde and Doug find out about Jeannie’s engagement and get her a stripper named Officer Dick Dangler (Tim Lacatena), and then the entire pod heads off to her hometown Spokane, Washington, to work with the Shining Light mega church to help turn their revenues around and re-brand them. Reverend Thomas Tyler (Kai Lennox), who once had a crush on Jeannie when she lived there, and his wife Suzanne (Wynn Everett) engage Galweather to convince the church board to invest in new membership. Jeannie runs into her mother Phoebe (Peggy Lipton), with whom she has a contentious relationship, and they all visit with her, keeping her engagement a secret according to Jeannie’s wishes. Jeannie catches the Reverend sleeping with his secretary Missy (Erika Rankin). Marty has to fly back to attend a meeting with a mediator (Phil Abrams), and Monica states she wants full custody whereas Marty won’t even concede to joint custody. The session ends with Monica seducing Marty and them having sex in the mediation office. She is left feeling empty again when she hears him tell April that he loves her. When Suzanne suspects Reverend Thomas of cheating, he hints that it was Jeannie he was with. She abruptly severs the relationship with Galweather, but Jeannie is able to lure them back by bringing in media giant Nick Peterman of Peterman Media, with whom she says they were planning to partner with Shining Light. Jeannie lets her mother know that she’s engaged and that she’s tired of lying to her… and for her about her father’s constant infidelity. While sleeping with Marco, Jeannie breaks down into tears. Monica goes to visit April and makes sure she knows that she and Marty slept together, causing April to leave him. Marty pleads with her, then tries to act as if he doesn’t care, then breaks down once she leaves. Cinda Adams is Cinda (named as Doula in the credits), Monica’s nursemaid. 5/31/19
• 011. Business – 3/25/2012
  • Roscoe is furious with his father for losing April and refuses to speak to Marty. This only adds to Marty’s stress at work as the vote gets closer as to whether the Galweather Senior Partners will vote to merge with MetroCapital. Marty and The Rainmaker try to determine if they’ll have ‘no’ votes that they need. In an effort to win Jeannie over, Greg gives her some information and proof that Skip has sold technology from one of his clients to another and took some massive kickbacks. Marty tries to blackmail Skip into voting not to merge, but Skip refuses to give in. Meanwhile Monica brings over her new boyfriend Aaron (David Julian Hirsh) and tries to discuss the custody battle, but Marty is too irritated by Aaron’s presence. Jeannie realizes that Marco is sleeping with another employee named Tara (Jeannine Kaspar). Doug does his best to pass out his mix CDs. Skip ends up getting canned and assuming that Marty leaked his information to the senior partners, takes revenge by defecating in Marty’s briefcase. During the board meeting, the majority – including Marco the Rainmaker – vote to merge, which gives Marco even more power. Marty takes his troubles to the bar and ends up bending the ear of a bartender and then going back to her place to sleep with her. It is then revealed that the bartender is Marco’s daughter Courtney (Anna Wood). As Marty drives home, his car breaks down, leaving him stranded. Edwin Craig is Eyebrows, Milt Kogen is Ink Stain, and the other partners are Gary Anderson and Jack Knight. 2/15/20
• 012. The Mayan Apocalypse – 4/1/2012
  • At a reception of the MetroCapital and Galweather merger, Marty illustrates how the staff will be cut by over 90% as they are cut to a consulting group rather than a world class consulting firm. Three days earlier, Clyde finds out that he is named in the “25 under 30” of management consultants. Monica approaches Marty to see if he has any leads, and in exchange she tells him that there are rumbling of sexual assault allegations within Galweather. Marty doesn’t think it is a big deal, but then discusses with the pod recruiting victims to bring a class action suite against Galweather, thus poisoning the well and making MetroCapital back out on the merger. As they search for women to blow the whistle, Jeannie does not mention her affair with the Rainmaker. Meanwhile at home, Roscoe is upset that Marty isn’t helping him with his Mayan report at school, and he ultimately fails it and blames his father. The night before the merger party, Marty laments that their plan is failing, but has to put a stop to the bickering between Doug and Clyde as the discuss their job opportunities. The night of the party, Marty tells Jeannie that he knows she has had an affair with Marco and is disappointed that she let down her team. She ends up standing at the podium and telling her story, encouraging other women to stand with her. When they finally do, Greg calls McDale and reports the situation, so McDale calls off the merger. Marty taunts Marco, and drives him to attack him when he says he slept with his daughter. When Marty arrives home, his father tells him that Roscoe has gone to live with his mother. He advises Marty to let the situation play out rather than forcing Roscoe to come back home. He tells Marty that he’s going back to his condo to give Marty his space, although Marty claims he doesn’t need it. Jeannie tells Wes that she has been lying to him and that she doesn’t want to marry or live with him, causing Wes to become furious and take back his ring. Flashing back to the night before after taking down Marco, Jeannie and Marty get drunk and stare into one another’s eyes, making it ambiguous as to whether anything else took place. Sabina Gadecki is Malina. Will Peters is the waiter. 2/17/20

SEASON 2

• 013. Stochasticity – 1/13/2013
  • Two weeks after the nixing of the merger between MetroCapital and Galweather, Jeannie returns to work after a sabbatical and tries to put the pieces together of what happened during her night with Marty. Marty admits that he can’t recall either as they both blacked out, only putting together bits and pieces of events like them doing ‘the running man’, Jeannie punching Marty in the face, and Marty doing push-ups with Jeannie on his back as she throws up and they both pass out in it. The new CEO Julianne Hotschrager (Bess Armstrong), a multi-millionaire and former Gubernatorial candidate, who immediately gives Jeannie a token promotion to try and prevent a lawsuit, and charges Marty with trying to recover any fleeing clients. Their first call is with a man named Mr. Pinkus (Kevin Dobson), whom they know nothing about. They try to ask him leading questions, but he quickly tires of their jargon and buzzwords. He eventually makes a visit to the firm at which point they have him narrowed down to five possible industries with a manager named Pinkus. It turns out that he is trying to save a failing casino, so a trip to Las Vegas is in the cards. Marty has a meeting with Roscoe at a restaurant, and although Marty can’t convince Roscoe to come back home, he arranges for the waitress Bumble Bee (Lucy Schwartz) to sing a duet of Close to You and scores points with him. When Marty takes him home to Monica, he meets the flirtatious vegan chef Tessa (Ronete Levenson). He is also so impressed with Monica’s new domestic lifestyle, that he tries to seduce her, but Monica abandons the passion before it can happen. Marty meets Clyde at a bar and is introduced to Luna (Jackie Tohn) and Jo (Melissa Stephens), both of whom Clyde in an open relationship with. Clyde offers for them to sleep with Marty, but Marty is turned off by being part of relationship with Clyde. They eventually break it off with Clyde, and express no interest in Doug. As the pod celebrates their upcoming Vegas trip, Jeannie remembers one more thing that happened between her and Marty: as Marty peed in the street that night, Jeannie told him that she loves him. Eden Malyn is Galweather secretary Zanna. Peter Harper appears as himself performing I’ve Got Time. 5/28/20
• 014. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Planet – 1/20/2013
  • Marty, Clyde, and Doug head to the Emerald hotel and casino in Las Vegas to consult on the company’s growth. Back at Galweather, Julianne has a tense meeting with Jeannie in which Jennie tells her that she is insulted by the fake promotion to keep her from suing. Julianne in turn tells her that it would be possible to fire one whistleblower if her performance slips. When the guys go in to see Pinkus, they are surprised that Jeannie has not yet arrived, but a new Galweather associate named Tamara (Nia Long), with whom Marty attended Berkeley, is already onsite. During the meeting, they try to determine whether to go with building fresh or a remodel, and they also find out that Pinkus has a vendetta against a fellow casino owner named Michael Carlson (Mather Zickel) and his casino the Vibrato, which Carlson had bought out from under him. During a buffet lunch, Doug loads up on shrimp in order to get maximum value, but he is unable to finish it when he is kicked out of the casino by a security guard (Xango Henry) who recognizes him from a previous card counting incident. Clyde takes Marty to a nightclub and introduces him to twin brother owners Kyle (Evan Hart) and Alex Dushkin (Taylor Gerard Hart), who know Carlson. The pod meets – minus Doug who is banned from being in the casino area and calls in from the street while being bothered by an Elvis street performer (Steve Connolly). Jeannie and Tamara clash when Tamara puts forth pitching online gambling through social media as an idea to integrate with Pinkus’s casino. Since it is currently not a legal option, although Tamara is sure that it will change very soon, and knowing that Pinkus is old school, Marty opts to stick with the remodel option. They present this to Pinkus, but during the conversation, Tamara dissents. Marty takes her aside to get her on board, but sees no way to get out of the embarrassment with Pinkus other than to pitch the online gambling idea and tell him that it is something that Carlson wanted to get into. He staunchly objects to the idea and ends the meeting. At the Dushkin brothers’ nightclub, Marty then takes the idea to Carlson, who is willing to partner with the Dushkins on the idea. Jeannie begins drinking again since her night with Marty, and asks a VIP host (Nikki McKenzie) to hook her up with the DJ (Jared Palomar) at the nightclub. When Marty catches Jeannie staring at him, he remembers her telling him that she loves him… and also remembers that he said it back. Dee Cutrone is the receptionist. 5/28/20
• 015. Man-Date – 1/27/2013
  • Doug dons a disguise to walk through the casinos, but passes on going out for a ‘man-date’ with the Dushkin brothers in hopes of getting them to arrange an appointment with Carlson. Instead he goes for a massage where he receives a surprise prostate massage by the masseuse Ally (Debbie Jaffe) that moves him to tears. Jeannie goes to the spa with Tamara to the spa in hopes of making peace, and finds out that Tamara had a tiny relationship history with Marty. Tamara also promises that she will not be a threat to Jeannie. Clyde and Marty spend a wild night with the Dushkins that includes unbridled drinking and a sex party with a group of girls (Christine Nguyen, Yasmin Yeganeh, Tiffany T. Tynes, Halszka Kuza). The next morning, they sell their idea of online gaming to the Duskins twins and he arranges a meeting with Carlson, so seems largely uninterested and preoccupied during the meeting. Still he agrees to let them take on the project, but continues to express his disdain for consultants. Although Carlson’s attitude made it feel less like a victory then it should, they pod goes out to celebrate… except for Doug who returns for a message, but when he tries to get Pepper (Aliza Pearl) to re-create the last one he got, she sends for security (Chris Rogers). Meanwhile back home, Monica starts to bust heads with Jeremiah about her raising of Roscoe and the fact that she is helping with makeup for his new gender-fluid lifestyle. He tells her that he wants to live with her for at least six months to prove she is sober. She has a particularly bad date (Mercer Boffey) and then comes home and, much to her own surprise, winds up making out with Tessa. 9/10/20
• 016. Damonschildren.org – 2/10/2013
  • Actor Matt Damon (himself) engages Galweather-Stearn to assist him in branding a new philanthropic organization of undetermined nature. Doug is wildly excited and quickly puts together a presentation, but as he is delivering it, Matt engages Marty in several sidebar conversations indicating he has no real interest in helping anyone but merely wants to outdo George Clooney in hopes that it will get him an Oscar nomination. He also insists that Marty go out with him to party that night. In order to accommodate, Marty has to offer to Roscoe to get Jeannie to take him to the batting cages with his friend Dylan (Skyler Gisondo), which Marty bribes Jeannie to do for $2000. Roscoe is disappointed that Dylan spends the entire time hitting on Jeannie, and is able to express with her his feelings, which greatly impresses her. During Marty and Matt’s night on the town, Matt behaves immaturely like an entitled egomaniac, even forcing Marty to ask supermodel Noot Seear (herself) to make out with her friends (Alexandra Essoe, Casey Rugieri) and then face the wrath of their bodyguard. Marty tells off Damon by saying is the most despicable egomaniac he’s ever encountered. He’s not sure if Damon will show up at the meeting the next day, but he does… completely wasted. Everyone else thinks Damon is the greatest man in the world, so Marty clears them out of the office and tries to talk Matt down. When he tells Marty that he’ll require a blowjob from him to seal the deal, Marty throws him out. Matt stops him, and tells him that the deal can be sealed by a mere handjob. Marty winds up creating a promo advertisement as Matt portraying a commando saving children’s lives. From all indications, he did in fact follow through with the hand job. Tessa and Monica make love, and Tessa gently pushes them to define their relationship. 9/10/20
• 017. Sincerity Is an Easy Disguise in This Business – 2/17/2013
  • Marty’s social protester brother Malcolm (Larenz Tate) comes home to stay with Marty, and Marty is visibly irritated because he is a notorious freeloader. While they are at dinner, Marty notices that his father’s Parkinson’s seems to be getting worse. The pod is working for their client Cupid Chemistry online dating service out of San Diego, and everyone in the team creates a profile to see how it operates. Marty is asked by Julianne to go to Chicago to court U.S. National Bank as clients. Following his affair with Jeannie, he decides to take Clyde instead of her, and sends her with Doug to San Diego to work with Cupid Chemistry. Marty and Clyde meet the erratic bank CEO Carl Criswell (Michael McDonald), who, along with his assistant Brynn (Lisa Edelstein), ask Galweather to comb their books to perform a regression analysis to assure compliance, ultimately because Criswell plans to run for Governor. Brynn takes a disliking to Clyde, but sleeps with Marty in her office and agrees to ensure that Galweather will represent both the bank and Criswell. However he is distraught to learn from her that Julianne tried to downsell Marty and offer her another Galweather representative. Meanwhile Jeannie and Doug each have dates that were arranged on the dating site. Jeannie’s is a nice, successful guy named Cameron (Ryan Devlin), who seems to good to be true. Unfortunately Jeannie blows the date when she questions why he isn’t dating in the real world where she is quite successful. He ultimately walks out on her. She returns to the hotel and finds that Doug has found a perfectly attractive match named Sarah (Jenny Slate) with whom he is hitting it off and who is naked in his room. Marty returns home and questions why Malcolm has come, and he drops the bombshell that their father had been in a car accident and requested that Malcolm come to be with him while he gets some brain procedures done. Marty is visibly hurt that his father never told him any of this information. Drew Droege is Albert the bartender. Julian Gant is the skivvy guy in Malcolm’s protest video. 12/28/20
• 018. Family Values – 2/24/2013
  • The employees of the Apex Institute attend a mandatory seminar to push their new agenda of wholesome values, which Marty does not respect. The pod members discover that Doug has brought his new girlfriend Sarah, and rudely bang on his door while they are having sex. Sarah thinks that Jeannie is hot for Doug, and after they force Doug into a raft competition and Clyde hits on her by the pool, she also tells him they have no respect for him. Marty has no interest in being there and despite objections from Julianne, leaves to attend Roscoe’s dance recital, where he sees Tessa kiss Monica for the first time. Roscoe and the dancers (Kaela Elmido, Angela Gibbs, Jake Elliott) put on a wildly inappropriate dance that has to be stopped by Principal Gita. Marty returns in time for the party, where he finds everyone – including Tamara – drunk from shots. Doug purposely ruins it for Clyde while he is hitting on Zanna, and then confronts him about hitting on Sarah, and tells him that he feels sorry for him for being so pathetic. Sarah gives a stern warning to Jeannie not to hit on Doug, which Jeannie finds laughable. Tamara tells Marty that she is leaving her husband and propositions him to spend the night with her. After Marty continues to argue and receives a stern warning about his behavior from Julianne, he confides in Tamara that he intends to leave the company. However when Marty propositions a waitress named Amy (Annie Monroe) to come to his room for a jacuzzi threesome, Tamara storms off. Tim Rock is the opposing raft jerk. Andrew Delman is the booth guy who slips Doug the duct tape. Al Samuels is Dr. Day. 12/28/20
• 019. The Runner Stumbles – 3/3/2013
  • Jeannie discovers that her ex-boyfriend Lonnie (Morgan Krantz) has posted a pornographic video of her on the website Slutty Ex Sex, so she shows it to the guys in the Pod before they find it on their own. Her feelings are hurt when Marty has no interest in watching, and Doug and Clyde walk out in the middle of it because they are repulsed Lonnie’s penis. Meanwhile Carl Criswell’s team allows the Pod to find evidence that his bank had been involved in issuing ‘ghetto loans’ that targets the black community and usually causes them to default on their loans because they are issued with high interest rates. Marty realizes that they allowed him to find it so he, as a black man, would be able to smooth things over and blame it on another scapegoat in the company. Marty is forming his own company Kaan & Associates, and offers to help Criswell, if he will invest in his ‘black business’ which would be a sweet deal for him, and help Criswell win points in the media that will help him win the Governor’s race. When Marty addresses the press, the disappointment he senses in Jeannie and the others is overwhelming and barely stumbles through the press conference. Marty tells Jeannie that he watched her video and that she took it to a whole new level. Lonnie eventually takes it down when he realizes she was only seventeen when they filmed it, so in essence, she told the Pod guys about it for nothing. Jeannie warns Marty that he can’t continue to do things like that and still live with himself. That night after they get home, Marty goes for an evening job while listening to his headphones. Two police officers, one white (Eric Oram) and one black (Damion Poitier), ask him to stop but he can’t hear them. Once they get his attention, they start treating him like a criminal. This irritates him and he winds up punching a cop, provoking them both to beat him senseless.4/23/21
• 020. Wonders of the World – 3/10/2013
  • With a beat-up face from the cop incident, Marty takes a few personal days off. The others in the pod take on a new client named Nate Hyatt (Adam Brody) who runs the Doc Johnson adult toy company, who wants help with competitors who are lowering their prices but offer substandard merchandise. Jeannie finds Nate’s company embarrassing, so they bicker a bit and then he sends over a box of the company’s sex toys, which she quickly tries out… and loves.  Meanwhile, Marty’s brother Malcolm wants Marty to elevate his incident to a social cause, and he brings over three of his friends Byron (Thomas Daniel Smith), Dan (Dennis Hill), and Heather (Talia Tabin), all of whom Marty promptly throw out. Their father seems to think that Malcolm is trying harder to get along with Marty, a notion that irritates Marty. Roscoe also believes that the attack was racist, and fears that the same thing could happen to him, but Marty tries to talk him down and gives him some good advice about coping. Roscoe asks Marty if he can move back with him. Jeannie has a late lunch date with Nate, and they wind up back it his house where they have sex. Galweather’s client Michael Carlson demands that Marty get out to Vegas to appease him as he tears apart their acquisition targets, so Tamara calls Marty and tells him he’d better come out, as he doesn’t want a huge deal like this to go south and hang over his head as he tries to start his own company. Once Marty and the team arrive in Vegas, Carlson claims he’s now over his tantrum about the acquisitions. Marty abandons Clyde and Doug at the craps table, and heads to a room for some action with Tamara, a possible response to the jealousy he seems to feel for Jeannie hooking up with Nate. Doug debates what to get his girlfriend for her birthday, and he is leaning toward having a mold of his penis made for her by Doc Johnson. Lennox Brown is the croupier at the craps table. 4/23/21
• 021. Liability – 3/17/2013
  • Marty wears his feelings on his sleeve with Tamara, and tells her that he wants to her to meet Roscoe, but she is unsure where she wants the relationship to go, especially with her ex-husband Kevin (Elimu Nelson) in town. In fact, when Kevin comes to visit Marty at the office, Marty cuts right to the chase and tells him that he’s sleeping with Tamara. When Marty comes to pick up Roscoe, it is clear that Monica isn’t taking it well and has started using drugs again. They get into a fight before leaving, and Monica wants no comfort from Tessa. Marty and the team meet with Michael Carlson, who is as cruel as ever, but Marty is advised by Tamara not to lose the deal because it will bode well for his new business venture. Carlson demands that Marty stay in town and work on his contracts, but Marty has been subpoenaed to Omaha along with Clyde and Doug to court, because a worker named Ray Marburger, who was working for a subcontractor of P&G was killed while working a cell tower. The plaintiff wants to prove that the contract Clyde drew up for the deal was for the express purposed of eliminating their liability. The lawyer Neil Savage (Matt Malloy) whom they meet with, assures them that the lawyer of the widow is in over his head. That night the hotel clerk (Jane Macfie) informs Marty and the guys that they only have two rooms for them instead of three. Marty makes Doug and Clyde room together, and Clyde is meaner than normal to Doug, finally admitting that he feels bad about Marburger’s widow Heidi (Katherine Kirkpatrick) and son Andy (Jake Seastrand) loss, and guilty that he built it into the contract that they can’t be held liable. Monica is so distraught about losing he son to Marty again, that she visits his place and seduces Marty’s brother Malcolm. Jeannie is having trouble making conversation with Monaca, and although for Jeannie, it is because she knows that Monica and Marty are sleeping together. But Monica thinks it is because Marty is starting his own company. Tamara admits she doesn’t think she can take the risk of going to a new firm with Marty , who confesses to her that he really wants to make things work with her. Over at Monica’s place, she is using drugs heavily, swimming naked i her pool, where she is joined by another naked couple. When Tessa confronts her about her behavior, Monica breaks up with her and fires her. Tammy Dahlstrom is Savage’s receptionist. 8/18/21
• 022. Exit Strategy – 3/24/2013
  • As the family plays poker, Malcolm works overtime to convince his family that he is passionate about affirmative action, and tries to get a donation from Marty to support an anti-public housing development that is cheating the people. When he finally gets some money out of his father, and then gets Roscoe singing the same tune, Marty gets fed up with Malcolm and offers him $10,000 to leave. He gives him the choice whether to take the check or not, and when he wakes up the next morning, Roscoe and the check are gone…but his father is irritated with Marty for being a manipulator and using him and Roscoe to be his excuse for getting him to leave. Meanwhile, Marty is ignoring multiple phone calls and messages from Doug, who has found a high-level potential client, and just wants Marty to close the deal. Doug’s girlfriend Sarah thinks Doug can reel him in on his own, and gives him a hand job and pep talk in the car to give him confidence. Marty is working on onboarding many of his clients, including Eric (Terrence Stone) who he ropes in while Eric is naked in a hot sauna. Marty then sees a realtor (Tom Choi) about leasing an office building but doesn’t make an offer when he hears there are other major players interested. Jeannie is offered the position of taking over her own pod by Julianne. Marty starts to question whether she is having second thoughts about joining him. Monica shows up at the office, and tries to assess the relationship between Tamara and Marty so they all go out for lunch, and Tamara is amused by the angry banter between the two. While trying to impress a girl named Samantha (Jennifer Sun Bell), whom he brings to see his office – actually Marty’s – Clyde finds Jeannie working and realizes she has been offered her own pod. Marty assigns Jeannie to start calling her contacts that she thinks they can poach. Marty tells off Julianne for taking Jeannie from him, but she says they can discuss it later. Marty and Jeannie commit to face the coming storm, but he looks distraught as she heads off for a dinner with Nate. 8/18/21
• 023. Hostile Takeover – 3/31/22
  • Marty is getting closer to getting enough seed money to kick off his new business, but Tamara is concerned that he will lose the Carlson deal, one that she desperately needs as a win. She promises to do the ‘unspeakable’ for him if he will ensure she gets the deal. Clyde thinks his relationship with the Dushkin brothers will propel him to success, but their next idea to produce a line of perfume called Stank which smells like vagina. Meanwhile, Doug tries to get Jeannie to befriend Sarah so she will be more likely to move from San Diego to Los Angeles. Julianne gives Jeannie a not-so-subtle warning about screwing her over by leaving the company. Marty runs into Carlson, who is annoyed with Mary for blowing him off. He offers to take him directly to Vegas to sign a deal, but instead he takes Marty into the desert and says if he can blow up a watermelon with a gun in one shot, the business deal is sealed. Marty pretends to be into the game but then steals Carlson’s hummer with his cell phone in it and leaves Carlson stranded in the desert. Jeannie and Sarah finally chat, and Sarah lets it slip that Tamara is taking another job in New York at DeMark, which Jeannie promptly reports to Marty. Knowing that their perfume venture is a clunker, Clyde tries to drive a wedge between the Dushkin brothers, by telling Alex that Kyle is dragging him down. Marty meets with Mr. Pinkus again, and tries to strike a deal to partner with him, by proving that Carlson has been planning a hostile takeover of Pinkus’s casino, the Emerald. He shows him Carson’s phone which has the numbers of two City Councilman, who may be delaying Pinkus’s zoning approvals that would allow him to upgrade the Emerald to compete. Marty returns home where Tamara is waiting for him, but Marty drops the bomb that he knew she was planning to leave L.A., and that he took the deal to Pinkus instead of Carlson. While Jeannie is making love with Nate, she tells him about Marty and Tamara, then breaks it off with him. Marty calls Jeannie and asks her to gather up the pod. They all meet at the office, and he tells them that by this time tomorrow they will no longer be working at Galweather Stearn. Julia Vera is the custodian. Nydia McFadden is the gal that Kyle tries to sell the Broscaper Jr. to. 2/17/22
• 024. Til Death Do Us Part – 4/7/2013
  • Marty calls a meeting with his pod as they prepare to leave Galweather, and tells them all that Carlson is out and Pincus is in, which Clyde doesn’t take well since he has a vested interest in the Dushkin brothers. Doug wants to be sure that they’ve performed a real deep dive to ensure that the market can bear another company. Marty takes Jeannie to show her the new office. Later in Vegas, Clyde gives a sentimental Best Man toast at the wedding dinner after Doug and Sarah’s wedding. Jeannie pulls Marty aside to talk to her, and then everyone poses for a picture, but an unseen man enters the picture, much to Doug’s surprise. Flashing back to the night before, Doug and Sarah have dinner and she finds a ring in her dessert and gleefully accepts Doug’s marriage proposal. Doug later admits to the pod that the ring wasn’t his, but he went with the moment… partially because it meant a free engagement ring. The following night in Las Vegas at the wedding, Sarah stops the officiant (April Weeden) and then admits to Doug that she actually orchestrated the ring being in her dessert. Doug agrees to move ahead with the wedding. Flashing back to Marty’s announcement about Carlson and Pincus, Clyde goes berserk about Marty costing him his future relationship with the Dushkins. Clyde then meets with Monica and plans to back stab Marty and make Monica a pile of cash but has to sidestep Monica’s advances toward him. Flashing forward to the wedding photographer (Horatio Sanz) trying to take a photo of the pod, we see that Marty gets punched in the face as they are posing. Flashing back to just before Marty’s meeting with the pod, Marty threatens Tamara to go to Vegas to help with deal, under threat of him blowing her new job at DeMark. At the wedding dinner, Sarah unveils the wedding cake which is in the shape of Harvard. Marty finds out that his phone has been wiped by Galweather, and he accuses Tamara of telling Julianne about the Pincus deal, and also finds Kevin in Tamara’s room. As Marty heads back to the wedding dinner, Jeannie pulls Marty aside and tells him that she broke up with Nate… and that she loves Marty. He is so shaken by all that is going on, he blows her off and tells her it is a bad time, referring to what she has as a ‘schoolgirl crush.’ As Jeannie storms off and Marty tries to catch up with her, Doug stops him to tell him that he plans to stay at Galweather. Marty then follows Jeannie into the restroom, where she gives him all of his files that she had backed up for him, fearing that Julianne might wipe his out. They return to the dinner to take the photo, where Marty is punched in the face by Carlson. As they are fighting, Clyde reveals that it was him who told Julianne about Marty’s plans to ditch the company. Clyde joins Carlson in beating up Marty, but Jeannie hits Carlson over the head, knocking him out and spilling the Harvard cake on Marty and Carlson. Jeannie sees a text on Marty’s phone that the Pincus deal has come through. Later, Marty shows his father and Roscoe his new office and they drink a toast. He explains to them that Clyde will be working for Roscoe’s mother, Doug will be staying at Galweather, and Jeannie will be coming to work with him. However, Jeannie actually won’t take his calls. He tries her again, but Jeannie, who is on a plane, doesn’t answer. He leaves a message that he can’t do it without her, but instead of telling her that he loves her too, he just accuses her of being a baby. 2/18/22

SEASON 3

• 025. Wreckage – 1/12/2014
  • Marty walks into the new Kaan & Associates office building and is greeted by Clyde and Doug, and then is further surprised that Jeannie is waiting for him in his office and ready for action. Just as they begin kissing, an earthquake threatens to split the building as he watches buildings outside the window crumble to pieces. This was just a dream on the plane taking him and his new pod Caitlyn Hobart (Genevieve Angelson), William (Ryan Gaul), and Jeffrey (Rob Gleeson) to China as they pursue a free range organic grocery chain exec Robert Tretorn (Daniel Stern). As they follow him through the streets looking for potential products for him to sell, Marty explains that this is their first client, a start-up company that they need to bag so that they can bank some money to pursue other clients. After the 24-hour visit, they head back home where William and Jeffrey discuss their concern that Marty may not be as legendary in any regard as they thought…in full earshot of Marty. He returns home and is pleased to find out that Roscoe is trying out for the basketball team. Over at Galweather Stearn, Jeannie and Doug are working with two new pod members, Benita Spire (Lauren Lapkus) and JC (Brad Schmidt). Doug can’t stand either of them  and longs for the old days with Clyde and Marty. Likewise Clyde cannot stand working for Monica at Kinsley, nor does he like co-workers Everett (Eugene Cordero) or Christy (Milana Vayntrub), although he has no problem hitting on Christy. Marty drags William aside and asks him about his time at Kinsley-Johnson, and specifically how Monica serviced their clients Colossal Foods. After some prodding, he admits that Monica at times recycled old power points from other companies and delivered these numbers to Colossal. He then makes sure that Colossal gets this information. Monica finds out that the info has leaked, and she lays into her workers, with Clyde taking a large brunt of it. She has also told Christy that Clyde is a rapist, so she calls H.R. to make sure that Clyde doesn’t touch her. Clyde visits Jeannie and Doug at Galweather to put some feelers out to see if they might take him back. With all of the consultants heading to a charity of event for Days of Hope, Marty picks up Jeannie in a limo and offers to hand her Colossal Foods as a client. He figures that if she has that retailer’s account and he has Free Range Foods account, they can share information and play both companies and make loads of money. She gets into the limo with him and they head off to the event together. 6/25/22
• 026. Power(less) – 1/19/2014
  • Marty goes to see a motivational speaker named Sandra Joy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) who is delivering a seminar called You Are the Power. Her rhetoric even motivates Marty, which he admits to her as they are sleeping together afterward. She, however, admits to him that it is all a complete con job that means nothing. Marty has a dream after they go to sleep that he is living in a post-apocalyptic world where Roscoe dances among a heap of cars, and then on falls on and crushes him. He then sees Jeannie pointing a gun at him, but she is in the path of an incoming wrecking ball. Later he goes home and finds out from Roscoe that he made the basketball team and is now involved with another player named Lex Galardi (Bex Taylor-Klaus). Meanwhile Jeannie is hoping to get in on the Department of Defense contract which is currently being handled by the intimidating Gil Selby (John Carroll Lynch). She tries to sway Gil to some new ideas for the account, but he blows her off. Later she alludes to Julianne that Gil can’t stand her and that he is not maximizing profit for the account. Julianne winds up firing Gil and giving the account to Jeannie. On his way out, he delivers a veiled threat to Jeannie to watch her back. Sarah reveals to Doug that she has stopped taking birth control, and he struggles with his reaction. Clyde grows to despise his new job at Kinsley-Johnson, as he continues to try and convince Christy that he’s not a rapist and is tortured by Monica’s barbaric treatment of him and his associates. He tries to meet Doug for a drink, where he takes out his anger on the bartender (Steve J. Palmer) and is then called back to work by Monica for an all-nighter. As she screams at Clyde and his pod, he stands up to her and tells her that they are not working all night. Christy becomes so distraught that she stabs Monica in the thigh. As she is wheeled out to the ambulance, Clyde tries to convince her that he had nothing to do with it and begs her to just fire him. She refuses, saying she’s rather torture him for the rest of his career. Roscoe and Lex play basketball with Marty and their friend Ethan (Emmett Carnahan). Marty is confused because he accidentally feels breasts on Lex, so he asks Roscoe what sex Lex is. He tells him that Lex identifies as a ‘boi’ or a ‘grrl’, but that Lex was born a girl. He won’t answer how he identifies. Jeannie comes over to Marty’s place so they can work on their strategy with Colossal Foods and Free Range Foods. Jeannie asks him if he is happy with his decision to start his own place, and he says it ‘would be’ worth it… but won’t complete the ‘if’ part of the sentence. Carla Delaney is the worker who offers to be Christy’s safety buddy. Marc C. Geschwind is the over-excited guy at the seminar. 6/25/22
• 027. Boom – 1/26/2014
  • Marty stops by Jeannie’s house before she boards a plane to meet with Ted Lasko at Colossal Food, and Marty heads to meet with Robert Tretorn with Free Range. Jeannie’s latest conquest Johnno (Ryan Hansen), a softball catcher who works at Applebee’s, stops by to pick up some of his uniform he left the night before, giving Marty another reason to be condescending to Jeannie. They make sure they’re on the same page, but Jeannie asks Marty if he intends to screw her over, while she jokingly tells him that maybe she will screw him over. She stops by Galweather to pick up her pod members, and Benita is melting down slightly because she thinks the work they’re doing with the Department of Defense may be crossing some legal and ethical boundaries. Jeannie finds tech guy Alan (John Pirrucello) in her office, and then notices Julianne being escorted out by security. She is called to the conference room where she finds that the ‘Rainmaker’ Marco has returned and has Gil Selby working there again. Marco holds Jeannie after the meeting and tells her that his lawyer won’t let him fire her, but he plans to screw her over badly. Claude and Everett work out of Monica’s house. When Marty stops over to pick up Roscoe, he taunts Monica about being stabbed. When she later goes berserk and accuses Claude or Everett of stealing her medication, demanding that they be searched. Claude is furious at the accusation and storms out of the house, with Monica still telling him that she will own him forever. As he drives off, he pops some of Monica’s pills. Marty convinces Tretorn to engage his services to combat Colossal Food’s foray into organic foods and he finally agrees. However, as Marty and his pod are trying to work on ideas to combat Colossal, Tretorn storms in screaming because Colossal has put them in a bear hug with a hostile takeover. As Tretorn fumes, Marty curses Jeannie for arranging this. Marty meets Jeannie at the airport and blasts Jeannie, but she tells Marty that Ted Laskey liked her idea so much that she would follow him anywhere, even to Kaan & Associates. Marty is happy to have her, but Jeannie wants the same equity as Marty. Jeannie heads back to the office at Galweather, where Marco kicks her off the Colossal account and the Department of Defense account. Jeannie apologizes to Benita for blowing off her concerns and gives her the phone number of a reporter friend with the New York Times and encourages her and to report the infractions she is witnessing with the Department of Defense account. Monica Padman is the assistant who calls Jeannie to the meeting. 10/17/22
• 028. Associates – 2/2/2014
  • It is Jeannie’s fist day at Kaan an Associates, and Marty’s father pontificates on how all of Marty’s dreams have come true. Both he and Roscoe also tease Marty about his fondness for Jeannie. She shows up for work that morning and is clearly unimpressed by the giant KAAN sign by the receptionist area, as well as the trouble that Marty went through to get her state-of-the-art equipment and furniture in her office. He is taken aback by her attitude by her attitude as she reads up on the client they plan to visit DollaHyde. Doug has followed Jeannie out of Galweather since they are now federally investigated after the story that Benita leaked to the New York Times. Marty sees Doug at the office and tells him there is no room for him there, causing Doug to storm into Jeannie’s office and cuss her out for not standing by him… only to find out that Marty is messing with him. The pod goes to the offices of DollaHyde, a black fashion designer company, ran by Dre Collins (Mekhi Phifer) and Lukas Frye (Tip “T.I.” Harris). Although the owners came from the street and started up the company on drug money, they have begun to drift apart, as Dre wants to take the company in a responsible and upscale direction, while Lukas still has a gangster mentality and both he and his cohorts carry guns with them. Marty, Jeannie, and the rest of the pod meet with them to discuss their image and how to become richer individual businessmen. When Lukas start being disrespectful to Caitlin, Jeannie intervenes and cusses him out. Later Caitlin thanks Jeannie for sticking up for her, but Jeannie admits it was also to swat down the weaker partner in order to gain the trust of Dre. Meanwhile, Doug tries to tell Clyde what happened, but no one has seen Clyde in several days. Turns out he is out of work now and has had his Porsche repossessed by a tow truck driver (Bruce Beatty). After the DollaHyde meeting, Jeannie tells Marty she is going to head out at 2pm in the afternoon and won’t tell him why or where she is going. Marty tries to explain that although she is very talented and he gave her what he wanted, he is still the boss. Jeannie makes it clear that he gave her nothing, that she took it from him. A car dealer (Matt Shea) and his customer (Lizze Gordon) find Clyde sleeping naked in one of the cars on the lot. Marty heads home and finds that Roscoe his new friend Lex over at the house, but gets annoyed that they are cussing up a storm by playing video games. Marty tells Lex that she needs to go home, and Roscoe makes his father and grandfather leave the room so they can kiss goodbye. Dre Collins shows up at Marty’s house right afterward and tells Marty that he wants to split with his partner Lukas. Marty then gets a phone call from Clyde to pick him up from jail. Marty goes and gets him, and Clyde hints around about giving him a job, but Marty doesn’t want to talk about it. Andrew Bachelor is Chris, Antonio D. Charity is Foxx, and Aflamu Johnson is Vernon, members of Lukas’s posse at DollaHyde. 10/17/22
• 029. Soldiers – 2/9/2014
  • Marty is surprised when a girl named Chantelle (Alice Hunter) shows up in his living room half naked, but it turns out that she is a guest of his father. Marty is aghast at how young she is, even though she is a therapist. Meanwhile, Clyde is forced to speak to a therapist (Romy Rosemont) and tells him about how much he wants to get back in Marty’s good graces. He begins courting a rich drug addict in recovery named Marissa McClintock (Eliza Coupe), whom he used to date, to try to get her to bring her rich family into the Kaan & Associates fold. Doug starts withholding orgasms because he can’t stomach the idea yet of having a baby. Marty starts getting to be closer friends with Dre, and presents Dre and Lukas with many marketing ideas for DollaHyde. The one commodity he leaves out is sneakers, but Lukas thinks that this is the real moneymaker, and decides he wants to put his money in that direction, leaving the other DollaHyde lines to Dre. It turns out this was the plan all along as a way to get Lukas to step back from most of the DollaHyde operations. Clyde comes to Kaan to see Marty and ask him to consider taking him back, offering up the McClintock account he is working on. Marty is very reluctant, but Jeannie puts in a word for Clyde and convince him to bring him back in. When Clyde tells Doug how great his life is now that he is married and has a great job, Doug reconsiders his position on having a baby, and shows it the next time he’s in bed with Sarah. Monica gets fired from her job after Christy blows the whistle on the hostile work environment she created. Marty tells her that he will have her back. Dre invites Marty and Roscoe to his house, but Roscoe doesn’t want to go if he can’t bring Lex. Marty lays down the law and tells him that while he lives in his house, he will do as Marty says. The have a cookout at his house and meet Dre’s wife (Bridgid Coulter), and kids Justin (Myles Lamonte Smith) and Rosie (Brooklyn-Bella). When Justin refers to Lukas as ‘Uncle Lukas’, Marty warns Dre that he had better consider how close Lukas is to him and the family before they screw him over. Dre tells Marty that he is only interested in protecting his family. Efe is Cindy, who works at the recovery house. 2/16/23
• 030. Middlegame – 2/16/2014
  • Dre and Lukas host an ultra-fancy launch party for his new Soldiers brand of sneakers, which Marty knows is doomed to fail, but is part of the plan to get rid of Lukas. Meanwhile, Doug brings a box of chocolates as a gift for Lukas, but Jeannie, showing off for Caitlin, tells him that it is a party foul to bring chocolates to a black man. He hides the chocolates under a curtain at the party, and Lukas’s tiny dog Manny winds up eating them and dying. Doug panics and hides the chocolate evidence. One of Lukas’s workers, Slim Walters (Omar Miller), gives Marty a pair of Soldiers and then follows Marty into the bathroom. He then tells Marty that Lukas is onto him and the fact that he and Dre plan to push him out of DollaHyde. He then reveals that Lukas is interested in hiring him and will pay a lot more than Dre is paying for him. Marty recognizes it for what it is: a test of loyalty from Dre. He confronts Dre about it, and he acts as if it is no big deal. Caitlin laments that she keeps blowing it with Jeannie, while Clyde becomes jealous of Will as he seems to score with more women than Clyde can ever hope to. He also decides not to drink in order to keep a clear head around Marty, who still doesn’t trust him. Marty privately tells Jeannie that he is thinking about switching sides and exposing the double-cross to Lukas. He sends Jeannie to feel out Lukas and see how he would react. Catilin impresses Lukas with her sneaker knowledge and he offers her the job of being the consultant on the Soldier line but is rather surprised when she doesn’t seem too excited about it. Doug confesses to Caitlin that Lukas’s dog’s death was his fault, and she convinces him that he has to tell Lukas. Dre presents Lukas with a motorcycle at the party, which Lukas interprets as being a party gift. Jeannie tries to feel out Lukas, and they wind up sitting on top of the motorcycle and making out. She reports back to Marty that Lukas knows he’s being pushed out of the company and thinks that they are involved. Jeannie asks all of her associates if any of them might have tipped off Lukas. Caitilin doesn’t say anything but confides to Clyde that it might have been her. Clyde is thrilled when Will throws up on Jeannie’s feet. Doug gets drunk and confesses to Lukas that he killed the dog. While he is trying to apologize and explain, Lukas sees Drew talking to Marty, loses his cool, and sucker punches Drew, leading to a huge party brawl. 2/16/23
• 031. Pushback – 2/23/2014
  • Marty is getting more and more disgusted by the relationship between Roscoe and Lex and thinks that Lex is imposing all of his choices on Roscoe. Meanwhile, Lukas is causing commotion at DollaHyde by firing the employees and telling them to take whatever they want from the office. He refuses to meet with Dre and the pod to make a final settlement on the buyout. Der is freaking out, but Marty assures him that Lukas will ultimately settle for the money. Jeannie thinks that the company is the client, and not specifically Dre. Jeannie has Doug run models on the five-year projections with each man at the helm of DollaHyde. Marty sticks to his gun and wants to get Lukas out. Everyone from the pod heads over to Lukas’s mansion, where he summarily toys with them, but ultimately declines the $50 million offer. Marty even threatens to turn over the real DollaHyde financials, thinking it might scare him to go to jail. Lukas doesn’t bite and threatens Marty before throwing him out. After the guys all leave, Jeannie stays behind and swims with Lukas and gives him some advice on what conditions to impose before having sex with him. Marty and his father discuss Roscoe, and Jeremiah tells Marty that he has gone too far with Roscoe and might push him away. Marty gets the phone call from Lukas that he is willing to sell. Everyone in the pod celebrates, but then Marty privately tells Jeannie that Lukas wants $150 million plus royalties. Jeannie admits that she only told him to ask $125 million. Marty tells Jeannie that she set him up, since Dre doesn’t have that much money to pay him. When Marty comes home, he finds the house torn apart as a drunken Roscoe and Lex play basketball in the house. Marty reaches his limit and kicks them both out. He drives Lex home but is surprised when Lex has to change into a dress before his father (Jonathan Goldstein), who calls Lex “Michelle,” lets him into the house. Marty takes Roscoe home and puts him to bed, before Roscoe throws up on his purse while in bed. 7/23/23
• 032. Brinkmanship – 3/9/2014
  • The pod heads out on the beach to meet up with a guy named Julian Zaninno (Balthazar Getty), who has been the hedge-fund manager for the McClintock empire, and an old friend/lover of Marissa’s. While Marissa had been in recovery, her siblings Suzanne (Melinda Wade) and Joel (Patrick Carlyle) have put her put under a conservatorship. Marissa wants to take over the McClintock Media empire and wants Zaninno to be in the room to scare them of a potential hostile takeover, so they will want to make sure that the empire doesn’t slip out of family control. Jeremiah and his girlfriend Chantelle take Roscoe on a camping trip. Chantelle uses some of her child psychology training to confront Marty about making him break up with Lex. Doug continues to flirt with Caitlin, and with their upcoming trip to Chicago, he invites her to go to an art gallery on the trip, telling her that several of the pod members are going. Marty starts looking at other ways to possibly get in with McClintock, telling Clyde that Zaninno is a wild card, which is making Clyde nervous that something could go wrong and that he could disappoint Marty. Jeannie rushes to Clyde’s defense and tells Marty that he won’t let Clyde’s betrayal go. Doug has lunch with Sarah, who tells him she is at peak fertility, so they need to try to conceive over the next couple of days. Doug is taken aback and nervous when she tells him that she wants to come to Chicago on their trip. With Marty having the house to himself, he calls over Monica and they have sex. She tells Marty that he made the right call with Lex. In Chicago, Caitlin tells Sarah about the art gallery, so Doug is forced to invite Sarah to come along. The pod meets with the McClintock family and Zaninno, and Marty believes they have sufficiently scared them into giving control to Marissa. Marty privately talks to Julian to suggest that if Zaninno actually tried to buy the company, he would be there to work with him. Zaninno berates Marty for being so willing to screw over a friend for an few extra bucks. Doug goes to the art gallery with Caitlin and Sarah, and Doug almost completely ignores Sarah. On the flight back home, Sarah is furious with Doug for ignoring her and the weird way that he’s been acting. Caitlin offers Sarah her seat next to Doug, but she declines and moves to coach. Clyde gloats about how much money he has made for Marty, but Marty merely tells him to wait for the check to clear. Doug goes to talk to Sarah, and she tells him that he doesn’t seem committed to their relationship and that they might want to consider ending things. Doug admits that the speedy marriage and having a baby is confusing him. She tells Doug that until he can make a decision about what he wants, they are done. After Marty arrives home, Clyde comes to see him and tells Marty that they were both wrong and that he takes ownership for screwing over Marty. He says that the McClintock deal was a peace offering for them to start over but wants to know if it is possible. Marty tells him that he did a good job, and Clyde tells him that’s all he wanted to hear. 7/26/23
• 033. Zhang – 3/16/2014
  • Marty is having a hard time securing a lone for Dre to buy out DollaHyde from Lukas. Dre says he can go to a contact from China named Zhang, who he thinks is willing to become a silent partner in DollaHyde. Dre tells Marty he is going to jump on a plane to China to make the deal. Meanwhile, a friend named Coltrane (Cody Sullivan) invites Roscoe to go to a krumping dance 818 Session, much to the titillation of Roscoe and the annoyance of Lex. Jeannie shows up Kaan & Associates and pitches a new product call WON, Wholesome Organic Nutrition, a meal replacement that could solve world hunger, which is being gobbled up by the millennials to the tune of a 42% market share. She needs Kaan to get her the initial public offering of stock. Clyde is offended that Marty is even considering working with Jeannie after how she treated him. Doug immediately starts taking the supplement. Lukas shows up at the office as well, bringing along an entourage of friends including the cameraman named Shane Boorstein (Rob Kerkovich) who is filming a documentary on Lukas. He wants to take the camera crew and the pod to Compton to see the location of roots. Lukas put them in his Mercedes limo van and shows him around the city. He shows them their original manufacturing plant, where Lukas still keeps a staff so that he can keep the employed, and he says that Dre hasn’t been back there since they moved the major production elsewhere. Lukas then takes them to RonJohn’s Lounger, the former DollaHyde office, which is still a seedy bar in a warehouse. Lukas takes them to the backroom office, where they find Dre and a man named Lovey (Antonio Fargas) negotiating their deal. There actually was no Zhang, and Lovey is the man in the hood who you go to when you need money. Marty is shocked and tells Dre that he just made the money even dirtier, so there is no chance of an IPO with either Dre or Lukas as the face of the company. Lukas also tells them that he will never sell at any price, and so even with them no longer being friends or brothers, they can keep up the facade and continue to run the company. Marty and the pod try to get the camera shut down, but Lukas takes delight in filming them getting punked. Even though Lex doesn’t want to go, Roscoe has his grandfather take them to the 818 event. Lex mocks Roscoe as being a ‘biter’, just a rich boy who has nothing to krump about. Roscoe decides to go home and leaves on his own. When Marty gets home that night, Changelle tells him that Roscoe is out with Lex. When Roscoe comes home, Marty is about to yell at him, but Roscoe then embraces his father and softly weeps. Michael Liu and Connor Kelly-Eiding are members of the documentary crew. Marquisa ‘Miss Prissy’ Gardner, Nicholas Stewart, Aaron Cooke, and Brian Smith are krump dancers. 11/23/23
• 034. Comeuppance – 3/23/2014
  • Jeannie reaches out to an old lesbian friend named Samantha (Rhea Seehorn), who has just been appointed to be the Special Assistant Attorney General, to see if she might be able to help secure Kaan & Associates to be awarded the contract to the Depart of Justice’s consulting firm. Samantha says she could probably help, but not as long as Kaan & Associates are involved with DollaHyde since Lukas is a current known drug dealer. Jeannie goes to Marty to try and talk him into dropping DollaHyde, but Marty thinks they are about to be a big payday, especially since they are getting ready to meet with Bloomingdale’s. When Doug finds out that Caitlyn and her boyfriend just broke up, he sees this opportunity to swoop in since he and Sarah has separated. Doug delicately asks Caitlyn to go out so they can wallow in their breakups together, and she agrees to the date. Clyde is distressed when Marissa starts snorting Coke, and even more so when she implies that if he doesn’t join her, she will drop the contract with Kaan & Associates. Marty, Dre, and Lukas meet with the Bloomingdale’s representative Mr. Benson (Richard Shelton), which goes well and allows DollaHyde to have the right of approval on their displays. Jeannie goes head-to-head with Vincent (Fred Armisen), the owner of the WON product because he sees it as a product that could end world hunger, while she wants to market as a diet supplement to college students. When Clyde sees this friction, he capitalizes on it in order to get his revenge on Jeannie, so he lets Vincent know that Jeannie is holding focus groups with college students. They get into a huge fight when Vincent puts a stop to the focus groups, and she winds up slapping him in the face. As Clyde revels in his victory, Jeannie makes amends with Vincent and helps him see the light about the money they can make off the millennials in order to further the cause of saving the world. Clyde is furious that Jeannie received no karma for her treatment of him. He heads back to see Marissa and do more Coke with her. Jeannie meets with Samantha again and tells her that they are keeping DollaHyde as clients but offers to deliver some incriminating financial records to her in exchange for the D.O.J. contracts, and Samantha accepts. As Doug and Caitlyn are getting ready to go out for the night, Caityln asks Doug his opinion of Will. She then mentions that he is the reason of her breakup, since she slept with him in Chicago. Doug gets angry when he realizes that she slept with Will just as he was trying to woo her. She realizes that he is trying to manipulate their break-up in order to seduce her, and she suddenly finds him reprehensible. Marty and Jeannie meet up with Dre and Lukas for dinner, and Marty suddenly sees the chemistry between Jeannie and Lukas. As they are walking back to their car, Jeannie admits that she slept with him just once, but claims she never let it affect her decision-making. Dre and Lukas get into their car, and as they are pulling out, a car cuts them off, and someone gets out and fires an automatic weapon and kills Lukas, while Dre escapes the car with a shoulder wound. Kasey Campbell is the guy on the focus group. 11/24/23
• 035. Together – 3/30/2014
  • In the aftermath of Lukas’s murder, Jeannie suffers from a broken tooth that makes her look silly. After everyone has answered the questions from the police, they head home. The next morning, everyone is surprised that Dre shows up to continue with a meet with executives from Barney’s. Marty and Jeannie speculate as to whether Dre could have been responsible for the killing. Marty gets upset that Dre seems unphased by the killing and walks out of the meeting. Dre follow him, and Marty all but accuses him of hiring the killers. He also tells Dre that if he wants to have him killed too, he knows where he lives, as it would put him out of his misery. Meanwhile, after continuous drinking of the WON supplement, Doug now notices he is getting breasts. Clyde continues to see Melissa, who causally tells Clyde that she has sold off McClintock Media $4.2 billion. Clyde is furious that she did this behind his back and calls her selfish and breaks it off with her. Doug decides to reevaluate his life, supposedly after Lukas’s death, and try to reconcile with Sarah. Jeannie checks out the independent clinical study on WON, and because of the findings, they confront Monica about how she was greedy in pushing the supplement, planning to abandon it after making a ton of money. Marty and Jeannie then tell her that they want to 75 percent of the shares to continue. Marty privately expresses his disappointment to her that he had thought they had a more trusting relationship. Monica then confronts Jeannie and belittles her, telling her that Marty only plucked her out obscurity because he wanted to sleep with her. Doug goes to see Sarah and with some effort, is able to reconcile with her. As they are kissing, Sarah tells Doug that she had an abortion, which disturbs him that she never consulted him. She also tells him that she was not completely sure if the baby was his. Jeannie has her tooth fixed, and as she comes out of anesthesia, she sobs to the dentist (Bill Dwyer) and the hygienist (Adalgiza Chermont aka Adargiza De Los Santos) but has no idea why. Marty pays a visit to Dre’s wife and tells her that he is certain that Dre had Lukas killed. She tells him that it is obvious that Marty never had a relationship in which he shared everything. She cautions him to worry about his own life rather than interfering in theirs. When Marty gets home, Jeannie is there waiting for him with a bottle of vodka. The two drink and talks and laugh until they finally sleep together. Afterward, Marty tells Jeannie that he loves her. She jokes that he’s supposed to say that to get her into bed, rather than afterward. Nicole Stuart is the panicked woman after the shooting. Kristen O’Meara is the Barney’s executive. 3/29/24
• 036. Joshua – 4/6/2014
  • The morning after their night together, neither Marty nor Jeannie have any regrets and they agree that they want to continue with their relationship. They both try to ignore calls from Doug and Clyde but are forced to pay attention when they become aware that the FBI is raiding Kaan and Associates. When they arrive on the scene, the FBI agent (Tom Gallop) won’t give them any information, but forces Marty and Jeannie to wait in a conference room with Doug and Clyde. While Doug starts to tell everyone about the sci-fi novel he is writing, Jeannie gets a message from Samantha and realizes that the raid is about the deal they had discussed to turn over DollaHyde’s dirty laundry. Marty starts doing damage control with his clients to make sure that they stay loyal to Kaan and Associates. His client Blaine (Paul Eiding) not only leaves Marty behind but flips him off as he’s talking to him. The Dushkin twins take delight in firing him as well. Meanwhile, Roscoe plays basketball with Lex, Ethan, and Coltrane, and they all wind up in an intense exchange when Lex becomes jealous of Roscoe and Coltrane. Marty and Jeannie have dinner, and Marty admits that seeing Jeannie is what has gotten him through the day. Jeannie agrees she is glad to be with him, but her stomach is in knots as she worries that the company will be destroyed. The next day at work, Jeannie is about to tell Marty the truth about her involvement with the Attorney General, but Clyde and Doug interrupt to tell them that they are in the clear on DollaHyde since they didn’t have the two books they were looking for. However, the FBI did find incriminating papers relating to the Colossal Foods and Free Range deals involving collusion and conspiracy. When Marty questions why the Feds got involved in the first place, Jeannie admits that she offered the DollaHyde books in order to get the DOJ account. She tells Marty that she’s never been an honest person, and he agrees that he hasn’t either. Marty is put in handcuffs and arrested in front of everyone. Samantha is onsite and tells Jeannie that she is in the clear and they are letting her skate. Marty’s father and Chantelle pick him up from jail and they head to a parking lot krump dance in the Valley, where Roscoe dances in the circle. Marty is impressed and gives him a hug. The next day, Marty meets with Jeannie, Doug, and Clyde at the office and tells them that he met with his lawyer and that things aren’t looking good for him, with an aggressive prosecution and likely bankruptcy unless he is removed from the company. He signs the company over to Jeannie, as she insists that all she ever wanted was him. Marty droves to the Joshua Tree National Park and hikes out into the desert. Dancers include Nicholas Stewart, Habby Jacques, Eric McCoy, Derrick Caldwell, Brian Smith, Aaron Cooke, Marquisa ‘Miss Prissy’ Gardner, Christopher Lewis, and Ukemoshay Sanders. 3/29/24

SEASON 4

• 037. At the End of the Day, Reality Wins – 1/11/2015
  • At some point after Marty’s sabbatical in the Joshua Tree National Park, Marty has reunited with Doug, Clyde, and a very pregnant Jeannie and is ready to return Kaan & Associates to its former glory as he is ready to take no prisoners. They play to attend a funeral so that they can keep the vultures away from a guy named Ellis Hightower (Demetri Martin), whom they hope to have as a client. It is revealed that they now share their space with a young group of web designers who have a business called Yo Where’s the Party App?! Clyde has an obvious combative crush on one of the web developers named Kelsey (Valorie Curry), and Marty is annoyed by another one named Tyler (Adam J. Kang). At the funeral, it is revealed that Hightower is a prisoner and only attends with the accompaniment of a police officer. Hightower spits on the corpse, but Marty says it doesn’t matter who is in the coffin, as long as it isn’t Hightower, the CEO of Gage Motors and godhead of electric cars. Marty and the pod meet Hightower’s number two-man Bruce Carp (Rod McLachlan), with whom Hightower has an adversarial relationship. Marty sees it as an opportunity for them to swoop in and fix the problems in the organization. Meanwhile, another client named Rob “Ratman” Rathman (David Lengel), who runs an exterminator company, demands a meeting with the pod and tells them that he is going to slash their fee in half since he doesn’t like their work. Marty can’t hold his tongue and insults him. Jeannie tries to get Marty to calm down, then thinks back to when she had tries to come over to Marty’s house while drunk to seduce him. He had tried to stave off her advances, the momentarily succumbs, then winds up throwing her at. Jeannie then joins Marty in insulting Rathman as well, although Doug and Clyde worry that they shouldn’t be chasing off clients. Later, when Marty and Jeannie have a moment alone, Jeannie starts talking about how they are getting along better than expected, but Marty disagrees and tells her that she should look for another job after they get the company transition settled. Jeannie worries about trying to find another job while pregnant, and Marty suggests that the father, Edwin, should take care of her. Marty’s problems continue when he goes home and finds out that Roscoe bought an X-Box game that he was going to get him. He is also annoyed that Roscoe never returns his calls and never asks permission before making plans. Their argument reaches a boiling point before they are able to give each other mild apologies. Roscoe goes to see a Korean guy (Gerald Chung) and buys some stolen contraband and then resells it to friends, while smoking crack with his friends. Marty thinks back to getting processed in prison and then getting a visit from Jeannie to go over the company’s quarterlies. She apologizes for everything and then tells him that she is pregnant. The father is an old college boyfriend named Edwin, and she plans to keep the baby and make the relationship work even though he resides in New York. She also notices Ellis Hightower in the visiting area and wishes she could get into the prison to land him as a client. Lee Doud is the “cute gay guy” with the gold broach hanging out with Roscoe. Cameron Revier is Benji, the skateboarder. 8/26/24
• 038. I’m a Motherf**king Scorpion That’s Why – 1/18/2015
  • With Sarah unable to conceive, she and Doug ask Jeannie if they can have her baby, telling her that she will be a terrible mother. Jeannie responds that she thinks Sarah is crazy, while Marty and Clyde gleefully film the encounter. As the pod heads out on a plane, Jeannie tries to make small talk with Marty, who tells her the story of the scorpion and the frog. Marty remembers back to his time in prison when his annoying roommate Gabe (Jon Bass) tries to establish a friendship with Marty and tells him how he’s tries to become friends with Ellis Hightower. Marty acts completely unimpressed with Hightower and tells Gabe that Hightower will soon lose his company when the CEO Dante Valerio tries to oust him. This ultimately leads Gabe to mention this to Hightower, who then confronts Marty and assures him that they would never oust him as he is the famous face and name of the company. Back in the present day, Jeannie tries to convince a CFO named Andrew (Travis Wester) to hire Kaan & Associates, but he thinks they are circling the drain as it is. She, Doug, and Clyde, who is furious at Jeannie for their current state, stake out Andrew while he is exiting their building with the CEO of Celetech, but he says that they have used the consultants DeMark for many years. Jeannie gives him a speech about how dumb he is for refusing to cut ties, including the CFO Andrew, whom she claims cheated his way through business school. She also mentions that he must like being Ellis Hightower’s lapdog. When he pulls out of his space, it is revealed that he is Dante Valerio (Brian Howe). In prison, Ellis finds out that there is truth in what Marty said tries to convince him to work for him and get him out of the situation. Marty acts aloof and says that he might be willing to work with him in a couple of years. On the airplane, Doug laments that things would be easier if Sarah were dead. As he heads to the restroom, he notices that Will is on the airplane with Monica, now working at DeMark. Monica seems to know Kaan’s plan for Hightower and Valerio, and also prods Jeannie about Edwin, the father of her baby. Marty is curious by this, so Jeannie finally admits to Marty that it his actually him who is the father of her baby. 8/26/24
• 039. Entropy Is Contagious – 1/25/2015
  • It’s morning, and Marty wakes up with a woman named Denna Altshuler (Mary McCormack). Doug is awakened by Sarah, who tells him that she is ovulating and expects him to perform. She obnoxiously is dangling his action figures, still in boxes, over his head. Marty has breakfast with Denna and questions why her company, Global, would not be interest in buying out Kaan & Associates. At the office that morning, Clyde attempts to flirt with Kelsey, but she quickly blows him off and acts much nicer to Doug. The pod then flies to Seattle for a consulting job with Krolls, a skin care product company. They meet with the founding couple, William (Don Moss) and Carolyn Kroll (Deborah Strang), but they deliver mixed messages as Marty thinks they can shift their image into an Entertainment brand, while Jeannie thinks they could sell off to a multi-national organization. Marty is clearly perturbed at being undermined, but he tells the Krolls that they will regroup the next day and discuss the ideas further. That night, Jeannie skips going out to a bar with them, while Doug starts drinking absinthe and ignores the bartender’s (Shayne Anderson) warning about how it will affect him. Sure enough, Doug starts complaining about Sarah’s craziness, and how she had been arrested twice for nude-stalking two of her ex-boyfriends. Doug then decides to rage text her, and even though Clyde tries to talk him out of it, he hits send and immediately regrets it. While at the bar, Marty sees his brother Malcolm on TV being interviewed by Meghan McCain (herself) and talking about the black experience in white America and about the high number of black incarcerations, invoking Marty’s name as an example. The next morning, Mr. and Mrs. Kroll tell the pod that they thought they had fresh ideas but that since Marty and Jeannie disagreed fundamentally on the direction to take, they don’t want to do business with them. Sarah receives Doug’s texts and begins opening up all of his action figures that are still stored in their boxes. Back at the office, Kelsey asks Clyde if he ever does tech consulting and proposes developing an app called House Calls, which is basically an Uber format for doctor visits. Doug bursts into the room and says that his ATM is not working, and Clyde has to remind him about his text that he sent when he was drunk, which Doug had completely forgotten about. Jeannie waits to be scolded by Marty, but he says that since she is transitioning out of there anyway, he doesn’t see much point in it. She is devastated that he hasn’t had more of a reaction to her pregnancy. Back at home, Marty berates Malcolm for mentioning his prison term on national TV and accuses him of exploiting his own family for his personal gain. Malcolm responds that he might not have been in that position if he didn’t take the fall for his baby mama Jeannie. Marty becomes angry at his father for telling Malcolm, while Roscoe is furious that no one told him about the baby. He calls them all cowards, and insults everyone at the table, including his grandfather, who tells him to sit down and listen to him. He tells Roscoe that he can’t sit there and take his entire family down, as they have all faced hurdles and created disasters. However, he says that they all go through those disasters together and that Roscoe is never to speak to him that way again. After giving him a simple “yes sir,” Roscoe storms out of the room. Doug goes home and finds an empty house with all of his action figures unboxed and in various sexual positions. Sarah is naked outside the house. 12/18/24

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