- Leslie: (to Ron) Could you carry him out of here, please? And, you know, also maybe not have sex with his wife?
Ron sends Leslie to run an errand at the DMV in the fourth floor of City Hall, a dark and unsettling place that includes probation offices and divorce filings which she considers to be "the creepiest place on Earth". While there, she sees Tom and Wendy leaving divorce court. Unaware that this was a green card marriage set up to prevent Wendy from being deported back to Canada, Leslie, thinking that Tom must be suffering, later tries to comfort Tom, who insists he is fine. Nevertheless, Leslie persists in her efforts, including ordering a singing horse telegram to cheer Tom up. Tom consults Ron for advice on how to get Leslie to stop since Ron knows his marriage was a green card marriage. Ron suggests going along with it so Leslie can feel like she cheered him up. When Leslie sets up a social event and invites the Parks Department along to support Tom in his divorce, Tom suggests a strip club, but Leslie follows Jerry's suggestion they go to the dinosaur-themed restaurant, Jurassic Fork.
Andy is still trying to break up Ann and Mark's relationship. He's convinced he's subtly chipping away at their relationship, but all he's accomplishing in doing is annoying them.
The department (plus friends) meet for dinner at the Jurassic Fork restaurant. Initially, Tom seems very cheerful, causing Leslie to start to wonder if Tom is faking being sad. Ron pulls Tom aside and asks whether he could ask Wendy on a date once the divorce is finalized. Tom gives permission but starts to become genuinely sad later. Leslie sees this, so she agrees to take him to the Glitter Factory, the local strip club. Meanwhile, Andy challenges Mark to a game of pool with the hopes of hustling him, but Mark turns out to be a good player and wins multiple games.
When Leslie, Tom and Ron arrive at the club, Tom tries to dissuade Leslie from going in but she pushes him to go in. Despite her own disgust with the club's atmosphere, Leslie tries to get Tom to enjoy himself while Ron enjoys the free breakfast buffet at the strip club.
After Mark wins several games, he and Andy make one final wager: if Andy wins, he gets Ann, but if Mark wins, Andy has to leave them alone.
Tom is still miserable even after Leslie hires a lap-dancer to "grind the sorrow out of him", and while drunk, he mentions to Leslie that Ron intends to ask Wendy out, causing her to become angry.
Back at the restaurant, Mark dominates the game but loses when he scratches on the 8-ball. Initially delighted, Andy becomes confused when Ann leaves with Mark anyway.
When Tom passes out at the bar, Leslie and Ron take him to Wendy's house, and Leslie is shocked to find she has a date with another man. Leslie angrily expresses her disgust with Wendy and Ron and storms out.
The next morning, Andy approaches Ann and Mark to tell them that he won't be bothering them anymore and says a final goodbye to Ann. Tom confesses to Leslie that his marriage was a green card marriage and he only just realized his feelings for Wendy. He feels he has to deal with this on his own. Now that she knows the full story, Leslie apologizes to Ron by sending the singing horse telegram to him.
Tropes
- Affectionate Nickname: Andy had one for Ann. It's "A-Cakes".
- All Love Is Unrequited: Tom realizes that he actually does like Wendy, but she was only in this arrangement for the green card.
- Ambiguously Bi: April expresses a desire to go the strip club.
- Art Shift: The trip to the dreaded fourth floor is done with a claustrophobic shaky cam and a sickly green Color Wash.
- Cheer Up Episode: Invoked at first when Leslie tries to lift Tom's spirits up and he plays along with it, and then played straight when he actually does become sad upon realizing that he does like Wendy.
- Citizenship Marriage: Between Tom and Wendy. It ends in this episode.
- Innocently Insensitive: Ron doesn't realize that Tom has become genuinely upset that he's separating from Wendy.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Andy, finally realizing that Ann doesn't want to be with him anymore, lets go of her at the end and promises not to bother her and Mark anymore.
- Love Epiphany: Tom realizes that he actually does like Wendy... right as they're ending their Sham Marriage.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever happened between Donna and one of the strippers at the Glitter Factory that resulted in the latter taking the former's microwave.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Tom, who normally loves being a womanizer, is so miserable about his divorce that he can't get into a stripper giving him a lap dance.
- Oh, Crap!: Leslie says this when she realizes she's going to the strip club with Tom.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When he thinks Tom's sadness is just an act, Ron tells him to ease up, saying, "You've already won your Oscar, DiCaprio", with the joke being that Leonardo DiCaprio still hadn't won a Best Actor award. (This would become Hilarious in Hindsight in 2016, when DiCaprio finally won the Oscar for his role in The Revenant).
- Relationship Sabotage: Andy thinks he's doing this to Mark and Ann's relationship. If anything, he's just annoying them.Andy: Everyday, I subtly chip away at their relationship.
- Singing Telegram: The man in the silly horse costume Leslie sends to Tom to cheer him up and later to Ron to sing an apology song.
- Straw Feminist: Played for Laughs with Leslie's reaction to the strip club. Her stripper name would be "Equality".
- Teeny Weenie: One of Andy's digs at Mark is saying the latter needs extra-small weirdly shaped condoms that can only be ordered from a factory in rural Russia.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When Leslie hears how Ron plans on asking Wendy out once the divorce is finalized, Leslie angrily reprimands him for being so insensitive.
- She gives Wendy the exact same earful when she sees that she's been having affairs even before the divorce.
- Wretched Hive: The fourth floor of City Hall is a horrible and scary place, where criminals either attempt to sell you drugs or clean pee for drug tests, divorce proceedings run there, and it's home to... the DMV!
