Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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AB Chao: B+ | 1208 USERS: C+
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The West Coast Delay

Upstairs, Matt sends the new material to the printer downstairs. He tells Maisy that they're going to have to use hard copies at the desk, since there isn't time for cue cards. In addition to taking care of all this, Maisy has also found current scores for a cricket match in Bangalore. Matt just shrugs his shoulders, all, "Why not?"

Downstairs, a PA grabs the new material off the printer and hauls ass to slap it into the hands of Harriet, Simon, and a bonus one for Danny. He takes it, dons his headset, and gets ready: "Okay, everybody, just like we did it three hours ago! Only, you know. Legal." Cal counts it down, and they go live. Simon explains to the nation that they're live right now, and have cut into the tape-delayed feed: "At this moment in Bangalore, the Royal Institute of Technology is playing the Bangalore Union Cricket Club in the LGICC test match. Bangalore is up 240 runs." Go Bangalore! They always were my favorite South Asian cricket team. Simon goes on to say that he performed jokes during the East Coast broadcast that had, as it turns out, been plagiarized. He apologizes to both Lenny Gold and to the viewers of the show, and then they move on to the news. Bravo, Simon! Bravo, BUCC in the LGICC TM! Woo!

Matt's smoking a cigarette in his office when Ricky knocks. He and Ron walk in all downtrodden and sad. Ricky says that the guy hadn't gotten anything on the air in a long time and was scared for his job, but that they talked to him and he knows he screwed up huge. Well, then. All better! Ricky won't end the guy's career over this, though, because he knows how the guy feels: "People aren't even going for funny anymore, Matt. They're just trying for your respect. We told Danny we'd step down if you want, but we're not giving him up." Matt gives the two poor things a long look before saying, "Well. Now you've got my respect." Oh. So really...all better. Huh.

Maisy bursts in and announces, "It's not Lenny Gold." They contacted him and he confessed that he stole the material, too, from a guy named Benjamin Barkley who wrote it nine years ago. Matt picks up the magic phone as Ricky asks Ron if that name sounds familiar to him. Downstairs, Danny picks up the phone just as Harriet and Simon are wrapping up the news. Danny listens, and then shouts at them to hang on. "We're gonna bust in again right after this C-break!" Everyone is confused. Elsewhere, Jordan tells Cal that was great, smooth sailing, very nice. Cal nods at her, and then yells, "We're going again!" Jordan sits down heavily and says that, when the phone rings next, it'll be for her.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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