In the episode, Jack (Alec Baldwin) encourages defeated employee Pete (Scott Adsit) to be more ambitious in life; Tracy's restored sense of smell causes him to treat Liz (Tina Fey) as a father figure; and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) has another prank war with the writers.
Kabletown's employee self-evaluations reveal that in five years, Pete (Scott Adsit) only hopes to maintain his current position.
Tracy's new sense of smell associates the pomade of Liz (Tina Fey) with the father that abandoned him and he begins behaving like a model employee to impress her.
After the writers pull yet another prank on her, Jenna (Jane Krakowski) gets revenge by finding embarrassing details in their trash.
When Jack laments that NBC's writers are all "so white", Liz exclaims that "Popo popped Dukie down by the vacants", a reference to HBO's The Wire, which is notable among shows with predominantly African American casts for gaining significant traction among white Americans.