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Office Apology
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Highly quotable.
Yep, and like I kept telling you, Boston, you racist.
Glenn, you can't fire Charlie. It's almost Christmas.
HR says that your urine sample came back as Lipton iced tea.
The premise
Here’s the bit.
The morning after the office holiday party, Glenn gathers the staff to announce zero tolerance for workplace harassment and the firing of vice president of sales Linda Pollard and front desk guy Charlie. Linda delivers stiff apologies that the coworkers receive with open hostility, while Charlie turns each of his into a leering, wink-and-dance routine that everyone somehow finds charming. When the staff protest that Charlie can't be fired so close to Christmas, Linda bristles that he is being treated far more gently than she is, even as he sips a drink in the middle of the meeting and keeps hitting on her. Charlie finally wonders aloud whether he goes too far, and Glenn gives him the real list: a urine sample that came back as iced tea, pornographic printouts left on the copier and a wife who vandalized the company van, each of which Charlie shrugs off with pride.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Aired in the December 14, 2019 episode hosted by Scarlett Johansson with musical guest Niall Horan.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Glenn
Okay, hey, if I can get everybody's attention. Look, I know things got a little wild at last night's holiday party, but I just want to be clear, this is still an office, and we have zero tolerance for any workplace harassment.
- 00:14
Glenn
That being said, unfortunately, we have to fire our vice president of sales, Linda Pollard.
- 00:21
Speaker 2
Thank God.
- 00:22
Glenn
And also our front desk guy, Charlie.
- 00:25
Speaker 2
Aw. Not Charlie.
- 00:28
Glenn
And if it's okay, they'd both like to come out here and formally apologize. Come on out here, guys.
- 00:37
Speaker 2
Oh.
- 00:39
Linda Pollard
Hey, guys, I guess I had a little too much to drink last night at the party and acted like an idiot.
- 00:44
Janet
Oh, you think?
- 00:45
Linda Pollard
Well, to Janet especially. I think I made mention of some of your past inter-office relationships in front of everybody, and that wasn't cool. I'm sorry.
- 00:54
Janet
It was more than uncool. It was humiliating, Linda.
- 00:57
Charlie
And just to piggyback on that there, Janet, last night after a little wine, I think I said something to you like, mm, mm, mm, mm, girl, when you gonna break old Charlie off a piece of that, too? And then I shook my head, did a little dance, told you don't you hurt nobody with that thing.
- 01:13
Speaker 2
Oh, Charlie, you're so silly. Charlie, you crack me up.
- 01:18
Linda Pollard
Right. Um, and, Amanda, I guess I upset you when I made a comment about your dress being a little short for a work event, and I'm sorry.
- 01:26
Amanda
Oh, you guess? Well, I guess you're still a rude-ass bitch, and that's why you're getting fired.
- 01:31
Speaker 2
Yeah.
- 01:33
Glenn
Hey, hey, all right. Let's keep it clean.
- 01:36
Amanda
Man, duh.
- 01:37
Charlie
I saw that dress, too. And after a few of them vodkas, I think I might have said something to you like, mm, mm-mm-mm. Girl, that dress is so short, all I see is donkey and monkey. And then I did a little dance. Told you not to hurt nobody with that thang. Out of line. I stand accused.
- 01:53
Linda Pollard
Oh, okay, Charlie, don't start now. You can't finish.
- 01:56
David
Come on, Glenn. You can't fire Charlie. He's Charlie.
- 02:00
Glenn
Hey, I'm not happy about this either, David, but this is above my pay grade.
- 02:04
David
Whatever.
- 02:05
Linda Pollard
David, I vaguely remember this, but apparently I was being really obnoxious when I kept asking where you were really from.
- 02:12
David
Yep, and like I kept telling you, Boston, you racist.
- 02:16
Charlie
My To man Kung Fu. Hey, Charlie.
- 02:22
Charlie
Look at here, man. You know I had a couple of them bourbons last night, and I may be saying something to you like, eh, eh, eh, eh. If I was a gay man, your booty would be in trouble.
- 02:32
Charlie
I'm not, so your booty all right. And then I did a little dance. I took a bow, and I said, don't you hurt nobody with that thing.
- 02:40
David
Charlie, I really needed that today. Thank you.
- 02:43
Charlie
Nothing but love, Kung Fu.
- 02:45
Linda Pollard
But wait a minute. How is that not awful?
- 02:47
Jenny
Glenn, you can't fire Charlie. It's almost Christmas.
- 02:51
Glenn
Trust me, I did everything in my power to just fire Linda today.
- 02:55
Linda Pollard
What?
- 02:56
Charlie
Oh, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, don't you worry. Maybe I can become the Grinch and bring it to your house. But instead of stealing all your presents, I'm gonna be stealing that ass, and it won't just be my heart growing three sizes. Mm! Mm!
- 03:11
Jenny
I -"Don't let me hit nobody with that thing!" really appreciate that, Charlie.
- 03:18
Linda Pollard
What the hell? I mean, it just feels like you guys are going way easier on him than on me.
- 03:23
Amanda
Oh, my God. Get over yourself. It's Charlie.
- 03:26
Janet
Yeah, he's just a sweet old man that had a little too much to drink. We all did. It was a party.
- 03:31
Linda Pollard
But he's still drinking right now.
- 03:34
Charlie
What, this? Oh, no. This is just a little swallow to get me straight. Bloop.
- 03:38
Linda Pollard
This is completely unfair.
- 03:40
Charlie
Girl, you are too fine to be so stank. Won't you slip on old Charlie like a pair of jeans?
- 03:45
Linda Pollard
What? What? You're disgusting.
- 03:47
Amanda
Oh, just take the compliment. Yeah, he's just being sweet.
- 03:51
Charlie
You know what? Maybe she's right. Maybe I do go too far. Is that why I'm getting fired?
- 03:57
Glenn
Actually, that's got nothing to do with why you're getting fired. HR says that your urine sample came back as Lipton iced tea.
- 04:04
Charlie
-"Oh, you noticed that?"
- 04:06
Glenn
Yeah, and you printed out pornographic pictures on the office copier and left them there.
- 04:12
Charlie
-"All right, so it did work."
- 04:14
Glenn
Yeah, also, a woman who identified herself as your wife spray-painted cheater on the company van, thinking it was yours.
- 04:21
Charlie
-"Well, I guess what happens in Decatur comes back nine months later."
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