ANGRY WILL IS STILL ANGRY
Howard learned that Will was steaming over the Phillies’ loss last night and had a history of violence at sporting events. Will came in to confirm: "I've been thrown out of games a bunch of times." Will said he'd even once jumped on a woman's back because she was wearing an opposing team's jersey: "I was drunk and she was wearing a Vikings jersey and it was a playoff game...at least she was a Vikings fan."
Howard wondered if Will just needed more love: "You need a hug, bro." Will confessed he was having issues lately: "We're in the middle of trying to have kids and I don't know...you know one of the side effects of chemotherapy [Will is a cancer survivor] is you can't have kids...I can shoot something it's just...there's no sperm at all." Howard offered to donate some sperm and told Will he may be impotent, but he's still the best looking staffer. Will laughed: "That's some sad shit."
ARTIE’S GOT ANGER ISSUES TOO
Artie said he was also guilty of bad bleacher behavior, once yelling at an opposing team’s third base coach named Ludoff to the tune of “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer”: "Ludoff the third base coach had a very dumpy ass."
Artie laughed that a friend got him in the worst trouble, yelling at a child fan of the opposing team: "'Hey Blue Jay kid – I f’ed your sister last night.' She was 16, I think. The father hears it. He turns around and says, 'What the f’ did you say?' And my buddy says, 'I said I f’ed your daughter last night.' So the guy swings, me and my buddy swings and we got thrown out."
WHO'S THE RAT?
Howard announced that he was going to reveal "the rat" who leaked information from the show's internal message group – but first asked everyone to guess who they thought it was. The guys in the back office collective decided it was Tim Sabean. The guys in the HowardTV voted for Jared Fox. Robin and Artie thought it was HowardTV head honcho Doug Goodstein. Gary said the guys in the office had even created a leader board with photos of the top suspects to keep track of them all.
JARED IS THE RAT...
Later, Jared came in to confess: "So first off – the thing that I object to – I wasn't being a rat. I was trying to protect Ronnie...I saw that there could be an HR issue...and wanted to make sure he didn't bring the intern out." Jared admitted that he thought the leak issue would blow over: "I thought the best was to deal with this – I was hoping it would just go away."
Howard noted that Jared had vehemently denied the accusations last week – going so far as to yell at JD for suggesting that he was the rat. Jared said he'd tried his best to make up for it: "I did apologize to him." Howard was shocked: "You are really good. You're a good liar." Robin was pissed: "I'm not gonna be able to trust another thing you say!"
...AND A CHIPPENDALE DANCER TOO!
Howard said Jared was also the center of another controversy – over photos of his “Chippendale dancer” Halloween costume. Jared explained that High Pitch Mike had taken the pictures without his consent and posted them on Facebook. Jared said he just feared for his future: "I don't want that to become a part of my corporate persona." Artie was grossed out: "What he did to those pictures? God!"