Before we get to that, let's just address the litle gem that the show opened with: some employees are goofing off in the kitchen and attaching a chocolate syrup-covered piece of toilet paper to the back of a waiter's pants. Cute or whatever, but it stops being cute when he walks out into the dining room of the restaurant with the faux poo-TP. Imagine being a guest! We braced ourselves for another comedy-of-errors episode.

We then meet Retta, a loveable overweight comedian struggling with her eating habits, and Ashley, her nutritionist. We followed the two of them through the whole show and could totally relate when she orders the giant dessert and uses the whole "I'm on vacation" rationale to justify it.

However, we had to rewind our TiVo because we couldn't believe what we heard right afterward: the waiter enters the back of the house, turns to the camera and says, "no wonder she needs a nutritionist." Excuse you, sir. We do not come to the Parker and spend inordinate amounts of money on insanely expensive food so you can JUDGE US. Come on, now. If anything, you should be upselling! Suggest an extra scoop of ice cream, dude; you'd probably charge her an extra $10 anyway.

Anyway, we did see the Parker do something pretty impressive on last night's episode. Michael, the catering manager struggling to do his job well because of a simple lack of training and experience, was in charge of an event for the Desert Cancer Society.

It had been stressing him out and he was under a lot of pressure from management (remember, he's on "probation"). We'd be stressing out too if our boss told us we'd be fired if we didn't suddenly learn how to flawlessly do a job we had no experience with, without any training or help with anything.

On the morning of the event, he doesn't show up to work at all. That's a bigtime party foul no matter what, but when he's 10 minutes late for his 9:00 meeting with the head of the Cancer Society, she flips out entirely and acts unnecessarily nasty.

Andrea comes to the rescue and deals fairly well with her, although she seems like she almost loses her cool a couple of times there when her tone of voice becomes as nasty as the mean client lady's.

With no sign of Michael and a dirty ballroom, Andrea takes over and gets help from everyone at the Parker to pull her event together. The head of banquets even gets called in to help out and the managers all apologize profusely for Michael's absence, acknowledging and owning the Parker's huge mistake both in their interviews and to the guests. It was nice to see everyone pulling together and being held accountable for the rest of the team.

Michael saunters in at noonish and says he'd passed out on his couch because he'd been so exhausted. Eh, we've done that. We hope you don't get fired now, Michael, because we're starting to like you!

Also, that makeover segment where those totally down-to-earth and not at all shallow girlies give a makeover the cute spa employee: hilarious.

Yes, yes. We were nice this time. Feel free to slam it in the comments if you're in the mood.