Robbie is excited as it's the day he goes to see the job wizard, a dinosaur who will decide what career Robbie will have. Robbie is surprised when he goes to the office and sees that the wizard is just an average office worker (all the wizardly elements were taken away due to budget cuts). Robbie hopes and expects to get the job of "rock legend", but the job wizard, after looking at what his parents do, picks tree pusher for him (it's either that or house wife). Robbie is horrified to learn what his new job is, and the rest of the family feels the same way, except for Earl, who is happy for Robbie.
Earl takes Robbie to work, and seeing Earl knock down a tree for show, one that hadn't been approved to be knocked down, Mr. Richfield angrily tells Earl that he'll have to spend the weekend pulling its roots out as punishment (and to make things more embarrassing, he'll have to wear a woman's hat while doing it). While a depressed Earl comes home, Robbie comes up with some innovation at work. Mr. Richfield soon calls Robbie into his office. When Roy calls Earl and tells him, Earl gets out of his miserable state of mind and comes to the rescue, telling Richfield not to yell at his son, and also asking if they can find him a better job, deciding that tree pusher is a good-enough job for him, but he wants Robbie to have better. Richfield agrees (as yelling at Robbie isn't as much fun as yelling at Earl). When they go back to see the job wizard, they initially have trouble convincing the wizard to give Robbie a different job, until Earl offers a bribe, earning them a blank slip that would allow Robbie to have whatever job he wants, but by now Robbie decides that he'll wait a few years before deciding.
Includes examples of
- Big "WHAT?!": Richfield's reaction to Earl questioning the wisdom of the Job Wizard.
- Chekhov's Skill: One fantasy sequence shows Earl being a choreographer. Later, when the job wizard argues that he really wanted to be a dancer instead of a job wizard, Earl decides to give him a dancing lesson.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Robbie said that tree pushers are just bulldozers with dumb hats while Earl explains that bulldozers are dumb machines that do their jobs with different people to tell them what to do. As soon as it dawned on Earl that he’s in a dead end job, he did not take it well.
- Guest Star: Jason Alexander as the job wizard.
- Hypocritical Humor: When going back to the Job Wizard, Earl bursts in shouting that they're done being controlled by him. The guy tells Earl to take a number and wait outside. Earl immediately obliges and quietly waits his turn, only starting up again when it's time.
- New Job Episode: The Job Wizard assigns Robbie his new tree pusher job.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Richfield admits yelling at Robbie lacks the fun he has yelling at the other workers. Not that it's hard to intimidate Earl, Roy, and the rest, but they'll at least beg or react in some way. Robbie, meanwhile, was so overwhelmed to be on the receiving end of such verbal abuse that he was scared stiff, unable to even blink.
- Papa Wolf: Earl gets humiliated at work and goes home, depressed over what has happened. He doesn't get out of it until he hears that Richfield is yelling at Robbie, at which he leaves home to stand up to Richfield.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The Job Wizard won't give Robbie a different job until Earl bribes him.
- Stunned Silence: How Robbie reacts (Or, not-reacts) to being subjected to a tirade from Richfield. Richfield actually hates this, because he enjoys watching his underlings squirm.
- Take a Number: After Earl gets Robbie to resign from the WeSaySo Corporation, he confronts the Job Wizard to tell him to give Robbie a better job. The Job Wizard tells Earl to take a number, and Earl does so. Once he gets to #98, Earl comes in again.
