Rob has been offered the more prestigious and more lucrative head writer's job at "The Dan Howard Show", which he turns down because of Dan Howard's tyrannical nature. When Buddy is later offered the same job and accepts, Rob and Sally are concerned about Buddy's well being going into such a position. Being his friends, they, however, support him in this move. Buddy needs to get out of his contract with Mel, who, despite disliking Buddy, won't allow it since he knows Alan believes Buddy to be the most talented "one-liner" writer in the business. Rob, Sally and Mel, with Buddy's blessing, concoct a plan to get Buddy fired by Alan. After the plan works, which consists primarily of a scathing memo from Rob to Alan about Buddy's shameful on the job performance, Rob feels terrible about what he's done. He feels even worse when he hears from Buddy that he didn't get the Dan Howard job since Dan Howard heard about the memo. So Rob and Sally try to get Mel to rehire Buddy, which isn't as easy as it was to get him fired. They figure a little heckling, comedy club style, may be their answer.
—Huggo