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When Amy announces that Zephra has installed a new cereal bar for the employees, Jonah has suspicions about what the new Cloud 9 owner’s real intentions are. Meanwhile, Dina enlists help from Cheyenne to take down a man suspected of return scams, but it becomes difficult after the guy begins flirting with Dina. Also, Garrett tries to trick Glenn into giving him paid time off due to mental distress.


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  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Dina is unable to resist her attraction to Benny, the scammer who keeps returning supposedly unused items (he brings in a "Z-System" console which is actually a carefully-weighted bag of rocks inside the console box, rewrapped in plastic). Although it doesn't stop her turning him in to the police in the end.
    Dina: Look, I'm sorry, Benny, but I had no choice. This doesn't mean anything has to change between us.
    Benny: Yeah, it kind of does.
    Dina: I'll wait for you! Not sexually, or if I've met someone else.
    Benny: Up yours!
    Dina: I wish.
  • Buses Are for Freaks: Apparently, the strangers on Sandra's bus make her hold their babies while they change their diapers.
  • Comically Missing the Point: While Jonah wants to demand more reasonable benefits for employees like a living wage, Sandra only pays attention to the point about the Zephra employees having self-driving cars and keeps demanding the Cloud 9 employees get those. Justified, as her main concern is having to take the bus to work, so a car would be quite useful for her, even if she misunderstands what Jonah's actually demanding for the employees.
  • Open-Fly Gag: After the video call with Kira Moon, Marcus notices his fly was down and hopes she wasn't able to notice it.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Glenn fearfully abandons the employee meeting the second he hears that he doesn't have to join the call with the CEO.
  • Shout-Out: Amy believes that asking the CEO for more benefits would be "barking out orders like Veruca Salt."
  • Unusual Euphemism: Dina refers to her genitals as her "Hot Pocket."

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