Directed by Dennie Gordon
Written by David Walpert
Casey unwillingly goes on a date with a woman named Pixley as part of Dana's plan, while Dana and the rest of the staff gather after the show to figure out if there's any news for the next night's broadcast, and Jeremy obsesses over an award he didn't end up winning.
This episode contains examples of:
- Berserk Button: Sally still is this for Dana, which is why Natalie doesn't want to tell her Sally won the award Jeremy wanted to win.
- Bridge: At the end of the episode, Natalie offers a story about a contact bridge game as a possible story. Dana points out it isn't a sport.
- By "No", I Mean "Yes":Casey: (to Dan as he's walking to the conference room) I wasn't mean to Pixley.Dana: (in conference room) How'd it go?Casey: I was totally mean to Pixley.
- Call-Back: Dana reminds Dan horse racing is the sport of kings.
- Continuity Nod: Dana still doesn't know about, or couldn't care less about, rowing.
- Curse Cut Short:Jeremy: I was wondering, as someone who's been nominated for many of these things and lost most of the time, how you felt on the question of preparing a speech in advance?Isaac: I won the Pulitzer Prize, Jeremy.Jeremy: It's a real honor, sir.Isaac: No, I meant it's one of the many objects in the room that I could grab and shove up-Jeremy: Got it!
- Deadpan Snarker: Isaac.Jeremy: I want to win bad, Isaac...You know that feeling.Isaac: Well, I work in sports, so I'm trying to think if I've ever had contact with people like that.
- Foreshadowing: Dan tells Casey Dana's "dating plan" won't last sixth months.
- Hypocritical Humor:Dana: I think it's time for us all to take a deep breath and relax and approach this with a sense of calm professionalism. (smacks Jeremy in the back of his head) How could you lose to Sally Sasser?
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: Dana wants the dying archer to be dying of a rare disease, and the coxswain who fell out of his boat to have done so during a rescue attempt, so she can stretch out the next night's broadcast.
- Sex for Solace: Natalie tells Jeremy they should go to the awards ceremony anyway, celebrate the fact he got nominated at all, and then go back to his apartment where she'll sleep with him.Jeremy: Natalie, you can't just always make everything better by offering me sex. (Natalie just looks at him) Well, yes, I guess you can.
- Tempting Fate: Jeremy brings up the fact the Apollo 11 crew prepared a speech in case things went wrong as a reason why he shouldn't prepare an acceptance speech for his reward.
- Third-Person Person: Casey quotes 49ers running back Ricky Watters as saying, "Ricky Watters isn't lugging the rock the way Ricky Watters is capable of lugging the rock." Lampshaded by Casey when he wonders if Watters was referring to a different Ricky Watters.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jeremy does this to Natalie when he finds out not only that he didn't win, but that she knew and didn't tell him.
