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Original Air Date: February 27, 2008
While the Channel Nine news team is out to dinner at a nice restaurant, Channel Eight News’ charismatic new anchorman CRAIG ST. CLAIRE (Guest Star Coby Ryan McLaughlin) comes over to introduce himself and make small talk. This is a big deal because the newsman is the hottest new personality in town — everyone’s discussing how good-looking he is.
Not surprisingly, MONTANA flirts with Craig relentlessly, but he seems most interested in KELLY. She offers to give him some insider local tips because he’s not from Pittsburgh, and he agrees and asks her out for a drink later. Blushing and giggling, Kelly accepts.
Earlier, CHUCK and MARSH had complained about Craig’s audacity to not wear a tie sometimes, while RYAN just seems thoroughly infatuated with him throughout the episode. As a result, Chuck repeatedly chastises the news director later for acting gay.
Meanwhile, at the 10th anniversary event for Anthrocon, a group of people who wear huge furry animal costumes, a disinterested GARY decides to conduct his interviews by mocking the attendees, who he thinks are all middle-aged virgins dressed up like animals.
The conventioneers manage to get payback later, however, when they accost Gary in the indoor parking lot as he’s preparing to leave. When it’s finally time to do his on-air report, the visibly terrified reporter stands surrounded by the menacing, costume-clad attendees, who make sure he doesn’t say anything rude about them.
Back at the station, Chuck expresses his belief to Kelly that there’s no way Craig can be romantically interested in her. According to him, older men may date younger women for romantic reasons, but it just doesn’t work the other way around. He rationalizes that the situation is all about him — as usual — and Craig is trying to poach Kelly from WURG to stem his show’s popularity.
Chuck’s take on events is soon proven incorrect during a three-way phone call between Craig, Chuck, and Ryan. Craig reveals his co-anchor just renewed her contract, essentially removing the one available position at his station and any motivation to filch an anchor from a rival news team.
Now that Chuck knows Craig is genuinely interested in Kelly, he has to face why he’s so concerned about her love life, especially when Marsh — who suspects Chuck has feelings for Kelly — confronts him. Yet, Chuck still isn’t ready to admit the obvious.
When he returns to their shared office, Chuck finds Kelly prepared to cancel her date with Craig because she’s convinced she’s not only too old for him, but too removed from the dating game. Chuck assures her otherwise by telling her she’s beautiful and quite a catch, and she eventually goes on the date after a little nudging.
Later, Gary sits with a police officer and a sketch artist, trying to describe one of the costumed Anthrocon attendees who threatened him. Of course, since he didn’t actually sees any faces, the descriptions he gives are vague, to say the least.
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