Directed by Pamela Dresser
Written by Matt Tarses & Aaron Sorkin
Casey runs into Pixley again, apologizes, and they go out again. Dan finds out Isaac was at the game when Bobby Thomson hit the historic "shot heard round the world", but Isaac doesn't want to be interviewed about it.
This episode contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: Dan, and to a lesser extent Jeremy, think Isaac doesn't want to appear on camera and talk about the "shot heard round the world" because he's nervous about appearing on camera since his stroke, but it's actually because Isaac was in the bathroom when Thomson hit the home run.
- Brick Joke: Dana harps on the fact people think "momentarily" means "in a moment". Later, Natalie looks it up in the dictionary and discovers "momentarily" does, in fact, mean "in a moment".
- Gilligan Cut: Once again, within the same scene:Pixley: There are few guarantees in this life, but here's one: I will never see Casey McCall again.Casey: (taps her on the shoulder) How you doing?
- Hypocritical Humor:Dana: Natalie, please don't try and talk me out of the dating plan. I really put a lot of thought into it. I know what's best, and I also know what-Natalie: Casey wrote his number down on her (Pixley's) hand.Dana: ...He wrote his number down on her hand?Natalie: Yes.Dana: The dating plan sucks.
- Literary Allusion Title: The title refers to announcer Russ Hodges' famous pronouncement after Thomson hit his home run and the Giants beat the Dodgers.
- Missing the Good Stuff: Isaac was in the bathroom washing his hands when "the shot heard round the world" happened.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Dan finally tells Dana off in regards to her dating plan:Dan: It was an idiotic dating plan, Dana. What did you think was gonna happen?Dana: Hey, Dan-Dan: Forget that he's meeting all kinds of women, that was gonna happen. But the one he wanted was you anyway.Dana: Wanted?Dan: All this is doing is making him feel a lot less like the man he is, which is why he left Lisa in the first place. I know what he wants and I gotta say he's done a pretty good job of going after it, which isn't, like, the most natural thing in the world for Casey to do. And I know what you want, and all I've seen you do is hide behind this psychotic behavior all dressed up as cute. He wanted you and he told you every possible way he could. You've just been hanging out in the men's room.
