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After her drugged out dentistry work, Liz finds a strange man’s phone number in her cell phone labeled “Future Husband”. Liz asks Jack if he knows anything about this and he says no. Liz wonders who this guy is since she doesn’t remember anything about her root canal surgery.

Jack’s right wing girlfriend Avery tells him she has heard rumors NBC is going to be bought out by a cable company called Kabletown out of Philadelphia. Jack can’t believe the rumors are true. Avery is so convincing Jack begins to think there is something to this rumor. Jack has Jonathan check out the top-secret buyout, insisting he must visit his “assistant underworld” to get the truth. Jenna reads a rave review of Tracy’s one-man show and is outraged. Tracy is aiming for the Tony in his EGOT necklace (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony awards) by doing stream-of-consciousness comedy, saying random things during his show. Jenna tells Tracy in order to earn a Tony, his one-man show must be the same performance eight times in a row to be considered for a Tony. Tracy tells Jenna he can’t do the same performance every night, he can’t remember what he did in his first performance. After Kenneth intervenes, Jenna agrees to be Tracy’s acting coach.

Liz decides to visit her dentist to get the scoop on her mystery man, but her dentist won’t give her any other information other than he is English and she and the man were laughing together in the dentist’s office. Kenneth is Mr. Optimism and tells Liz she should call him. When Liz says something cynical, Kenneth throws his wallet out of the office window telling Liz good things will happen and his wallet will turn up. The next day Kenneth realizes he needs his donkey meds that were in his wallet, if he doesn’t take them he has donkey fits, braying like a donkey and falling to the ground. This just makes Liz feel even more cynical about Kenneth’s belief that good things happen and his wallet will be returned.

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Scranton considers St. Patrick’s Day a big deal and the office staff have already started to celebrate. Michael describes St. Patrick’s Day as the closest thing the Irish have to Christmas. The staff are dressed in green for the holiday and Andy is wearing a plaid kilt. Andy and Erin are looking forward to their first date that night except Erin is coming down with a cold.

Sabre CEO Jo Bennett returns to the office one last day before heading home to Florida. Jo holds an all-staff meeting before she leaves so employees have a chance to ask questions about the new company. Darryl from the warehouse comes up with a good idea for shipping that impresses Jo, who moves him up with the office staff into Jim’s old office. Michael tries to impress Jo with his questions and suggestions of him visiting her in Florida but only manages to irritate her instead.

Dwight is not pleased with Jim’s return after the baby is born. While Jim was out of the office, Dwight set up a mega-desk combining his desk and Jim’s for a desk big enough to hold multiple computers for work and his favorite video games. Dwight relinquishes Jim’s desk begrudgingly. Meanwhile, Jim can’t stop thinking about the time he is missing with Pam and the new baby.

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It is family day at Greendale Community College, when family members get to visit the students during class sessions. Jeff’s girlfriend Professor Slater dumps Jeff, who says he feels relieved he didn’t have to do the dumping. The Spanish Club gang aren’t convinced Jeff isn’t suffering from the break-up and offer support, but Jeff sluffs the incident off, saying he can hook up with anyone he wants now. Jeff starts checking out women immediately and sees a beautiful girl near the study room so he heads off to meet her. Jeff and Amber have instant attraction to each other. Amber tells Jeff she is meeting her stepfather for the family day event. Just then Pierce walks up to Amber and warns Jeff not to hit on his stepdaughter.

Shirley meets Abed’s father and introduces her two young sons. Abed introduces Shirley to his cousin Abra. Shirley doesn’t quite know what to make of Abra, who is dressed in a traditional burka covering everything but her eyes. Pierce meets up with Jeff and asks for his help bonding with his stepdaughter Amber, who rarely visits him. Pierce feels Amber is his only real family and he’ll screw things up without Jeff’s help. Jeff knows Pierce doesn’t want him to get close to Amber so he begs off but Annie changes his mind. Jeff offers to help Pierce who strikes up a good conversation with her. When Jeff decides to leave on Pierce’s urging, Amber convinces Pierce Jeff should visit with them at the picnic. Senor Chang shows up at the barbecue with his Rabbi brother. Jeff talks up Pierce, sharing funny and endearing stories about him with Amber.

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This episode focuses on Tony’s interest in chefs and bloggers food obsessions. In the opening sequence we see Tony butchering a whole pig while talking of his obsession with pork. Sequences between conversations with bloggers and chefs continue with Tony’s colorful remarks and the butchering of the whole hog.

Tony visits author Josh Ozersky (aka Mr. Cutlets) whose food obsession is meat. Josh has been recently diagnosed with gout resulting from his meat-laden diet. Josh meets Tony at Minetta Tavern in New York where Josh says the best burger in the country is made. Josh insists that the flat top grill is the secret to keeping the fatty juices in the hamburger (sorry grill champs) and states you cannot desecrate the $26 burger with ketchup as Tony reaches for the ketchup. Tony and Josh bite into the juicy burger and Josh is mesmerized.

Tony visits with Dave Blackhorn, another meat obsessed guy who takes Tony on a tour of his cattle farm in the Yarra Valley outside of Melbourne. Wagyu beef, also known as Kobe beef, is the most expensive cut of beef in the world. His chef cooks up the tender, melt in your mouth Kobe beef for their meal. The camera shifts back to Tony in the studio where he is butchering the pig. As Tony strokes the beheaded pig’s face, he proclaims as good as Kobe beef is, he still loves pork more than beef.

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This two-part episode begins with Pam experiencing contractions throughout the day at the office as she nears her due date. Pam and Jim are hoping the baby waits until after midnight so their insurance can cover an extra day for Pam to rest in the hospital. Pam is determined to hold off until after midnight to go to the hospital.

Everyone starts having baby fever in the office. Dwight decides he and Angela should have a baby together, drawing up a contract agreement about their potential parenthood, making Angela smile at the thought of them together again. Andy and Erin keep trying to connect as Andy waits for the perfect moment to ask her out. Pam’s contractions start hitting the seven minute mark but she insists on waiting to go to the hospital. Michael decides to distract Pam by having the employees perform a talent show for Pam. Andy does an expressive dance for his talent portion of the show.

Michael decides to match make in the office, setting up Kevin and Erin, to Erin’s surprise. Erin only has eyes for Andy, but goes along with Michael’s suggestion so she doesn’t hurt Kevin’s feelings. Andy spies on Kevin and Erin having lunch together and is jealous. Erin tries to let Kevin down easy only to have Michael interrupt and tell Kevin Erin’s too hot for him to date, upsetting Erin. Andy gets the courage to ask Erin out by fax. Andy asks Erin to fax his date invitation knowing she will see the invitation when it is faxed to the office. When the fax machine has problems Andy jokes that Erin will be fired if the fax doesn’t go through, sending Erin into hysterics after a bad day. Andy comforts Erin and reveals his fax is meant to ask her out on a date. Erin says yes and is thrilled she finally gets to go out with Andy.

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Jeff struts into the Spanish Club meeting wearing black leather and black jeans. He’s dressed cool for his new billiards class at college. Britta knocks over a bag of bagels Shirley brought. Britta can’t pronounce bagels (she calls them bag-uls) and everyone laughs at her.

Troy finds a heart filled picture drawn of Abed in his Spanish text book. The gang asks Senor Chang whose book it is. Senor Chang tells them they are dummies, the name Jenny Adams is in the front of the book. Everyone wants to introduce Abed to Jenny and help Abed act cooler instead of his geeky self, but Jeff tells them to mind their own business.

Jeff is a shark when it comes to playing pool and is looking cool in his class. Billiards Coach Bogner hands out Greendale PE outfits consisting of very short, unflattering shorts for everyone in the class. Jeff keeps his cool leather jacket on and wears the short shorts to play pool, almost exposing himself as he leans in for a shot. Jeff hates the idea of wearing the shorts and changes back into his regular clothes. When Coach tells Jeff everyone must wear the regulation shorts when participating in billiards class, Jeff tells Coach Bogner he could beat him at pool and that the shorts are too uncool to wear. Coach Bogner says he’ll challenge Jeff to a game of pool, but only if he wears regulation shorts, causing Jeff to leave class in a huff.

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Tony Bourdain lands in Ecuador and the first thing he’s interested in is eating, of course. His local guide Santiago takes him to La Esquina for a breakfast of calf fetus soup and bull penis stew. Ecuador has lots of stew type meals and Tony is a big fan of stews. Tony tries a local tripe soup and swears he is in heaven, he says it looks ugly but tastes great.

Tony watches as guinea pig is roasted over a grill in an outdoor market. Tony eats a roasted guinea pig and really enjoys it. Tony quips of the guinea pig meat “if everybody knew how good they were, classrooms around the country would be in danger”.

The next meal Tony tries are local favorites la calderada and colonche. La calderada is a seafood chowder with crayfish, prawns, crabs, and mussels. Colonche is a seafood dish filled with crayfish and plantain and covered in peanut curry sauce.

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