Andrew Baines Bernard (born in 1973; Walter Bernard, Jr. ) is a fictitious character from the US comedy television series The Office . Andy is described by Ed Helms. He has no counterpart in the original English version of the series. He was introduced as the Sales Director of the Regional Region in Stamford branch of the paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin in the third season premiere when Jim Halpert transfers, eventually joining Scranton's branch in the episode "The Merger" later this season. He became Regional Manager of Robert California's Scranton branch at the eighth-season premiere after the departure of Michael Scott and Deangelo Vickers, although he was temporarily fired and replaced by Nellie Bertram before his replacement by new CEO David Wallace. Although throughout the ninth season, Andy's relationship with Wallace worsened due to Andy's lack of focus and professionalism, ultimately culminating in Andy's resignation, to be rehired as a salesman to finally shoot again, after Andy begged David Wallace to fire him to pursue a singing career. This all happened for one day in "Livin 'the Dream".
His character is unsafe, apparently because of a tense parent relationship, but shows a selfish and arrogant attitude. In Season 6 Episode 17, Andy reveals that his parents originally named him Walter Jr., but after his baby sister was born when he was 6 years old, his parents felt that the brother was better representing the name of Walter Jr. Her parents then changed her name to Andrew, whom they got from baby name books. He often refers to his education at Cornell University, where he is part of the acappella group, which contributes to his love for theater singing. Andy showed a licking attitude towards his boss and a severe anger management problem. He became involved in a long-term relationship but failed with an accountant Angela Martin, but later found a deeper relationship with receptionist Erin Hannon. However, the relationship began to bleak throughout the ninth season and eventually ended with "Couples Discount" when Erin was fed up with Andy's negligence and egotism.
Characters receive mixed acceptance. Andy was named one of the most annoying TV characters of 2011 by Vulture ; Instead, Nerve gave him the second funniest character rank in the series, behind only Michael Scott.
This character is named after the American economist Andrew Bernard, professor of international economics at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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Biography
Andy claims to have been born and raised in Simsbury, Connecticut. His birth name was Walter Bernard Jr., but after his younger brother was born, his parents decided that the new baby would better embody the name and should be named after his father. Thus, the original Walter was renamed Andrew, a name taken from a baby name book. He claims to have become a fat kid, though he never talks about it. It can be assumed that Andy's family is very rich and growing up, for he admits that whenever anyone wants something they will write it down on the list that housekeepers can get.
Andy is a 1995 alumnus from Cornell University, whom he often boasted to his colleagues, and was included in History. In a head-to-head interview, he boasted that he graduated in four years, having never learned a single one, was drunk all the time, and sung in the "Here Comes Treble" acappella group, which he often called. Andy is a descendant of the WASPs line, that he claims "goes all the way back to Moses". Andy often calls himself by his nickname, "the 'Nard Dog." In "Here Comes Treble", his nickname is "Boner Champ," which he gets after engaging in a snowman's relationship to completion.He likes to sing in high falsetto , sometimes with his banjo accompaniment.He has experimented with sitar, finally learned to play "Deck the Halls." He also plays piano and guitar.
Andy has worked at Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, AIG, and Enron. It was also revealed that Andy suffered from Swollen Bowel Syndrome.
Andy is the Regional Director Responsible for Sales at Dunder Mifflin Stamford branch. Andy works with fellow salesmen Jim and Karen, under the direction of Josh Porter. After closing the branch, Andy was transferred to the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch.
Andy proved to enjoy finding a nickname for his colleagues. He is nicknamed Jim Halpert "Big Tuna", because he eats tuna sandwiches on his first day at the Stamford branch, and was once called Ryan Howard "Big Turkey," probably for the same reason.
Before his Anger Management training, Andy was experiencing severe anger problems. After finding his calculator embedded in Jell-O, Jim's trademark joke, he yells and kicks the trash can in the office. After punching a hole in the office wall, in frustration because of his hidden phone, Andy was sent to the Anger Management training, which he said was still "Management Training."
Andy regularly wears a typical and over-the-top preppy style, usually consisting of brightly colored pants (some embroidered with animals and tennis rackets), d-ring belts, tattersall shirts, sweater sweaters, striped ties, tie clips, or sometimes even bowtie. In various episodes, Andy wore a stylish outfit found in Brooks Brothers stores, Vineyard Vines, and J. Crew. In various episodes, Andy is seen wearing a thick blue woven bracelet on his right wrist, though it will, occasionally, collide with his overall appearance.
During the summer of 2011, Andy was promoted to Regional Manager of the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch. However, when he returned to Scranton after a trip to Florida and discovered that Nellie Bertram had succeeded him, he became angry. After the incident, he refused to be demoted, which ultimately led Robert California to dismiss him. However, after persuading David Wallace to buy back the company, Andy was restored as manager. Andy then tells David Wallace that he will quit his job, having only second thoughts immediately, temporarily rehired as a salesman. Then, he stopped again to pursue his dream of becoming an entertainer.
After embarrassing himself at the singing audition show, Andy got a job at the reception office at Cornell.
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Relationships
Though considered annoying by some of his colleagues, Andy has good intentions, and usually shows relationships with his peers, as well as the desire to confirm that they are enjoying themselves.
Erin Hannon
In season 6, Andy is interested in receptionist Erin Hannon, who has a mutual affection, but because of miscommunication there is a long period in which the two wait for the other to move. However, Andy finally asks Erin on a date, and she gladly accepts. A few months later, after Erin discovers, through Michael Scott, Andy's former engagement to accountant Angela Martin, she throws a cake into Andy's face, and decides that they need to rest with each other. More than a year later, Erin, after breaking up with Gabe Lewis, asks Andy to date, but he refuses his progress, since the problem left with him leaves him for Gabe. When Andy introduces his girlfriend Jessica to the Office at the Christmas party, Erin initially looks nice to her, but she gets drunk, and confides to Andy that she hopes Jessica is dead. Very offended, Andy tells Erin that she should forget their separation, and quickly walks away. After learning that Erin wanted to live in Tallahassee, Florida, Andy drove to Tallahassee to return with Erin. At first he did not succeed, but finally got his back, and they made and kissed in the middle of the road. When Andy finds his work stolen by Nellie when he and Erin return to the office, he is relegated to the seller again and stifles his temper. Days seem to get worse as their sex life becomes the subject of staff meetings, embarrassing them. When Nellie makes another joke, Erin locks up and in turn, encourages Andy to finally let her anger loose on Nellie, who then helps Andy regain her confidence and improve their sex life. However, during season 9, their relationship began to show a rift when Andy returned from a training seminar that made him more confident, but seemed more selfish to Erin. When Andy took his parents to Bermuda for three weeks, he left Erin behind, who looked disappointed. Erin then goes out with Pete, a new coworker for a drink. Three weeks later into three months, which makes Erin even less happy after Andy ignores her by being unfriendly. Erin then tries to throw Andy in the "Couple Discounts", until she assures him that they can fake each other's love like her parents. Erin initially agrees with this until she talks to Pete, who just wants him to be happy. This prompted Erin to finally break up with Andy by quoting both her negligence for her and that she was not responsible for leaving for three months of work. During "Moving On", Andy's confused behavior affects his professional relationship with Erin and the staff, and has him tell some of his staff, including Pete, whom Erin is dating secretly from Andy. When Andy learns about their relationship, he acts irrationally to where Erin and Pete lecture him that he must move. Vengeful, Andy hires Gabe and Alice (Collette Wolfe), who is a former boyfriend of Pete and a marketing professional, with the intention of making Erin and Pete uncomfortable. This method works to the point where arguments break out between the parties in the conference room, such as Erin and Pete's problems with the surface of their past relationships. Andy proudly tells the camera that the new couple is unhappy, making him feel better. In the episode of Livin 'the Dream, Andy and Erin are seen talking kindly to each other and Erin even admits her concern for her health says she's worried she'll "become homeless or even starve." Then during Andy's farewell song, Erin can be seen watching Andy with a serious affectionate look, making it unclear whether the two still have romantic feelings for each other. In Finale Andy, Erin, and even Pete all proved to get along well and spent time together during the party after being in the warehouse, showing the tension from before been gone (though it is unclear whether Erin and Pete were still mates at the time, since the episode did not provide evidence to any direction).
Angela Martin
In the fourth season, Andy started a relationship with accountant Angela Martin, who halfheartedly began dating her, after she broke up with Dwight Schrute (whose relationship with her was not known to the majority of the staff). After dating for about seven months, Andy suggests to Angela, during Toby Flenderson's farewell party, and she actually accepts it. However, during their engagement, she continues her affair with Dwight. Andy took a tremendous effort to prepare for Angela's dream wedding. After learning about the affair, both he and Dwight broke up with him, and Andy was initially destroyed. When Andy leaves the office forever after he stops looking for fame, Angela tries to get her out of it; Andy mistakenly thinks he regrets ending their relationship, and says he thinks about it often, but Angela is able to withstand his disgust and he and Andy part with hugs.
Dwight Schrute
Since his arrival, Andy and Dwight have a competitive professional relationship; he and Dwight are arguing where the title, Assistant Regional Manager (Dwight) or Regional Sales Director (Andy), is higher in command. Finally two dueling over Angela when found she had an affair with Andy with Dwight. After the fight, the two relations ended and Angela was left heartbroken and alone. A few months later, the two immediately begin to compete for Erin's attention, but Dwight finally decides to stop chasing her to maintain a good relationship with Andy. However, after Andy was hired as Regional Manager, Andy made his Dwight "Enforcer", to keep it okay, but Dwight later stated, in a head-to-head interview, that he would only "wait for Andy's inevitable death." During the "Couple Discounts", Dwight can not get Andy's mark on the price with Dwight's overwhelming sales, though when Andy suddenly reappears, he regrets Dwight for not getting his approval over the price. When Dwight informs him that Andy is on a boat and unreachable, Andy tries again to defend his authority. But that boomerang when Andy decides to deny the price with Dwight's client, thus canceling a big sale for the company and destroying Dwight's sales record. Dwight then tells false stories to Andy when the manager is in need of getting caught in his branch, hoping to sabotage Andy. When Dwight learns he's in line to become a permanent branch manager and Andy asks if his plan to stop and look for stars is a good idea, Dwight kindly but firmly tells Andy that he will benefit greatly from Andy's departure but, after seeing Andy perform, think Andy should NOT quit his job. Andy then returns to Scranton to attend Dwight's wedding to Angela.
Jim and Pam Halpert
Andy has been the subject of many jokes by Jim and Pam, some of whom have caused his anger problems to unfold. Andy also had a romantic interest in Pam, but because the deliberately misleading suggestion given to him by Jim, it did not develop into a relationship. Although both will, at times, act so much for Andy, Jim and Pam often please him, and even give him advice when he needs it. When Andy experiences a rough farewell, he gives Jim a very bad advice when he suspects Pam controls him. But Jim uses it as an opportunity to make fun of Andy all day before he sees through trickery, encouraging Jim to cheer him about finding someone else. Jim also supports Andy and Darryl when they interview for the position of Regional Manager. After Jim was sent to Tallahassee along with Dwight, Cathy Simms, Erin, Stanley Hudson, and Ryan Howard, Pam and Andy were especially seen hanging out to each other, with him defending him from a group of young girls who took him to black eyes. and mock continuously from the entire office.
Darryl Philbin
Initially, Darryl and Andy were enemies. Darryl states that Andy once used it as a scapegoat, almost making him quit his job, for mistakes Andy made. Andy also tried to order Darryl when Sabre's "Sales is King" policy greatly affected the sales staff's ego. However, over time, both developed strong friendships. When Darryl confesses at Andy that he hopes he remains a member of the warehouse staff, Andy convinces him to take advantage of his position and keep up on the company. When Darryl is pressured for not winning the lottery that the warehouse staff win and share, he asks Andy to stop him or give him a Manager position. Andy was rude, but kind, for he told Darryl the truth about his shortcomings, and Darryl then rededicated himself to his work. When he meets the Andy family, Darryl overhears Andy's father berating him about his status in life, and finally understands why Andy needs to please others, and then participates in encouraging Andy, along with other staff. Darryl was also one of the few people in the office, along with Jim, Pam and Erin, who did not accept Nellie Bertram's efforts to take over Andy's job. Darryl is not impressed by Andy's acting skills, to the point that he says that Andy must have a job that will tolerate his inevitable and chronic mistakes (Andy does not understand that Darryl expresses strong secret support for Andy's dreams) and then avoids him Finale's reunion show and other events, but he seemed impressed with Andy's speech at Cornell and gave him a hug.
Gabe Lewis
Despite initially having a neutral relationship with corporate liaison Gabe Lewis, after he started dating Erin in the summer of 2010, Andy has since developed a dislike for him. In that episode, Nepotism, Andy imagines Gabe being eaten by a whale. Gabe gets annoyed with Andy, because Andy has a covert work meeting to see if Gabe and Erin are having sex or not. He bluntly tells Andy that he's asking for his permission before chasing Erin, and says that Andy needs to accept the situation and move on. After Erin breaks up with Gabe, Gabe starts to hate Andy, and threatens him not to make any progress on Erin. During Andy's interview for the Regional Manager position, Gabe presented a biased negative opinion about him. Later, he failed to try to convince Sabre CEO, Jo Bennett, not to hire Andy as Manager. For the next year (until Gabe is written out of the series), Andy and Gabe are generally rivals, often making cynical comments to each other.
Phyllis Lapin-Vance
In the previous interaction, Andy and Phyllis Lapin-Vance proved to have an unfriendly relationship. After Jim hides Andy's cell phone from him, Andy tries to find her in the Phyllis desk drawer. He roughly closed it, and Andy loudly exclaimed, "I do not believe you, Phyllis!". When Andy finds himself interested in Julia's potential client, he questions Phyllis about who he is. Phyllis immediately replied that Julia was "Out of the league [Andy]". The aggrieved Andy tries to deny his opinion, stating that he has been with some pretty women, so Phyllis consciously asks "Sexually?", Which is suddenly terminated by Andy. When Gabe and Jo interviewed the staff to find potential leaked employees to the press that Saber's printing press was on fire, Phyllis quietly told Andy "Raise your hand, Norma Rae". Andy then tells him that if he says something incriminating about him, he will "Break the temple of his glasses [and] stick it in his eye socket". Then, when Nick, the IT guy, revealed that Andy, indeed, whistleblower, Phyllis hides Andy's tote bag on the ceiling, coldly tells him "You deserve it". Throughout the seventh season, Andy and Phyllis grow closer, and it shows that Phyllis really cares about Andy, wants the best for him. When Andy is upset about the possible sex lives of Gabe and Erin, Phyllis agrees to ask Erin to lead the question to learn the truth.
Robert California
After becoming the new CEO of Saber, Robert California appointed Andy as Scranton's Regional Manager. Since then, Andy has developed an awkward relationship with Robert, whom he wants to impress, and is deeply intimidated by. Robert states that the reason he chose Andy for the Manager's position, is because he's "All surfaces... Not complicated, what you see is what you get". Andy and Robert's relationship heated up when Robert allowed Nellie Bertram to occupy the position of Andy Regional Manager, and Andy was fired for refusing to accept Nellie as manager, only able to reclaim his managerial role by convincing David Wallace to buy Dunder Mifflin from Saber and Robert.
Character history
Season 3
Andy was introduced in the premier 3 season as a Sales Managing Regional Director at the Stamford branch, where Jim had been transferred to. The episode of the first episode reveals her anger problem, shown when she finds her calculator wrapped in Jell-O and when she performs badly because of Jim's experience at Call of Duty.
After closing Stamford and merging with Scranton, Andy tries to gain support with manager Michael Scott through his quoted tactics of "name repetition, personality reflection, and never handshake". There was competition with Dwight Schrute about whether his title was higher than Dwight's Assistant Regional Manager, which sparked an intense power struggle. However, Michael became agitated about Andy's sycophantic attitude and bad sales, just like the office in his irritating singing. Jim hides Andy's cell phone that rings with Andy's song from "Rockin 'Robin" on the ceiling, making him angry when punching a hole in the office wall. The episode's producer piece explains Andy's departure from the next episode as it was sent to anger management training.
Andy returned a few months later to get a "three-year" short courtesy from Dwight. He escorted Jim to meet clients from a local high school after an indecent watermark was damaged on Dunder Mifflin paper. This unexpected journey leads Andy to the discovery that his girlfriend is a high school student.
At the Beach Games, Andy captains the team with Jim, Dwight and Stanley Hudson in a competition for Michael's selection of the Scranton County Regional Manager next, as Michael believes he is an easy-to-take position at the company. However, he fell in love with the sabotage of Angela Martin, who preferred Dwight, and ended up in a sumo wrestler costume drifting into Scranton Lake. However, when Dwight was pre-emptively named Regional Manager by Michael (who believed he would receive promotion), Andy was named Regional Assistant Manager, though never actually became an ARM because Michael did not receive a company promotion.
Season 4
With Karen leaving after Jim threw her on screen, Andy became the only seller from Stamford besides Jim to stay at the Scranton branch. The preview clip for the fourth season shows Andy taking part in the tubing. The fourth season premiere, "Fun Run", has Andy participated competitively in running Michael's superfluously name for rabies prevention through Kevin's drafting strategy, though he became a prey "nipple chafing."
Andy developed a friendship with Dwight in the second episode of "Launch Party", in which he supported Dwight in defeating online sales from the company website Dunder Mifflin Infinity using bear horns, much to the annoying office. He also developed a relationship with Angela, oblivious to Dwight and Angela's earlier romance. He stole an elaborate ice statue for Angela's launch party, and accompanied him later in the same episode by performing ABBA's song "Take a Chance on Me", received a rare smile, but was quickly suppressed in return. He did a moonwalk on "Money" on his desk to impress him, even though it took a gift from the Trash of the cat (from the previous episode) and sentimental notes to finally win it. Angela and Andy continue to date "Local Ads", where Andy consults with Dwight about how to pursue intimacy with Angela. Andy discussed the call "Oh, D!" Angela exclaimed during intimate moments, unaware that Angela might be referring to her nickname for Dwight and not him.
Andy and Kevin successfully work in season to recover lost parking spaces taken by renovation makers from other companies in the business park in a meeting of building tenants, called "The Five Families". She was rejected from clubbing in "Night Out" with Michael and Dwight in New York with Ryan being newly promoted by Dwight, who has a resentful dislike for Andy considering his relationship with Angela. This is evidenced later in "Am I Stuttering?" when Dwight used a pressing negotiating tactic to buy Nissan Xterra from Andy at a cheaper price, only to turn it over for much profit on eBay for Andy's protests.
In "Job Fair", Andy is invited to accompany Jim with a big sales call. However, in the deleted scene, Jim reveals Andy is invited to benefit Jim, as Andy's pride for Cornell will encourage Dartmouth's graduate clients toward him. The scheme is played as intended when the client invites Kevin to play golf with him again but refuses Andy's request to join them.
In "Goodbye, Toby", Andy proposes to Angela (unbeknown to him, at the same time Jim has been preparing to propose to Pam) with a ring he carried on his wallet for six years, because "you never know when you'll meet girls right ". Angela accepts her proposal somewhat "annoyed"; Shortly thereafter, he revived his intimate relationship with his former lover, Dwight, who was watched by Phyllis and the camera crew, who walked over them making love to his desk.
Season 5
Between the four and the fifth seasons, Andy planned his marriage with Angela, although his ideas were often rejected by him. Unknown he is a continuous affair between his fiancée and Dwight. It takes up to the "Customer Survey" to convince him of the concept of marriage, although Angela has manipulated Andy into the only option to fulfill his demands of being a Dwight farm. However, Andy has put a lot of non-refundable deposits on other wedding ideas and loses them because of Angela's doubts. The NBC/ Office website contains a feature where Andy reveals all the details of her marriage and Angela
In "Business Travel", Andy and Oscar conferred on Andy's failed attempt to get the Oscars up, drunk calling Angela and asking why they had not yet perfected their relationship. Andy claimed Angela made him a "better man" during his talks with Oscar, although he failed to hear Dwight in the background of the call. In the morning, Angela pushes her back to first base, though Andy feels better than the closer relationship she gets with Oscar. Angela and Andy then went on a tour of Schrute Farms in "The Surplus", unfortunately for Andy, who kept stepping on the manure on the farm. During the tour of the wedding chapel, Andy describes Angela and Dwight's father as Andy in a wedding dress rehearsal that Andy does not realize being a real wedding whose marriage license Angela is then void. This forward action by Dwight pushes Angela towards commitment to Andy in the long run.
In "Morocco's Christmas", Andy plays the sitar, and takes it to the office Christmas party. When he was in another room, Phyllis revealed that Dwight had an affair with Angela. Andy then returned, unaware of what the other staff knew and decided not to reveal, and went home with Angela.
In "The Duel", Michael tells him about Angela and Dwight's affairs, and Andy responds to this by confronting Dwight and challenging him to a duel. They meet in the parking lot, where Dwight realizes that Angela has sex with Andy, too, despite telling Dwight that she's just sleeping with him. Realizing that they both had been lied to, Andy canceled his wedding cake, and Dwight threw his bobble head into his image, implying a man's relationship with Angela is now over. Andy refers to Angela in the registry as "Helper of Dis-honor".
At the beginning of "Stress Relief", staff were trapped in the office, while under the impression that it was on fire. Everyone panics, and Andy tries to get out of one of the doors, but burns his hand, just as Dwight had previously heated it with a propane torch. When Dwight lit firecrackers, Andy was convinced that "Fire fired [them]!". He then teamed up with Jim, and they tried to use the copier as a bat, against one of the locked doors. Then, in Michael's Roast, Andy wrote a song about how Michael is not smart, rightly called "What I Hate About You".
In the deleted scene of the "Lecture Circuit", Andy is shown to have a McCain-Palin bumper sticker in his car, which he rubs because he is romantically attracted to Julia, an African-American potential client, who allegedly voted for Barack Obama (though, that it is also possible that he only has a sticker to appease Angela, who is a Conservative). He then tries to kiss Julia, and he politely, but firmly rejects it. Later, he noted that Dunder Mifflin also lost the account. In "Blood Drive", when Michael holds a meeting for the Lonely Family party, he asks about Andy's whereabouts, because he is invisible. Oscar told the other staff that Andy was attending one of his honey moon, which puzzled Michael. Oscar then explains that when Andy makes plans for the wedding, he puts a non-refundable deposit at some destination, and finally goes to all of them, to meet the deposit. Andy was later called "the new jackass" by Bob Vance, when he and Phyllis had lunch with Jim and Pam.
In the "Golden Ticket", Andy gives Kevin a romantic suggestion that seems to reflect his own experience with Angela: he tells her to never give her a compliment date, encourages physical contact, and takes a firm stance to the point of impoliteness. In the deleted scene, Andy calls Angela "Satan".
In "New Boss", he was one of the observers of Michael's immature antics when he started repeating everything new boss Charles Miner said. With the rest of the staff, Andy insists that Michael quit before he makes things worse for himself and for others.
In "Two Weeks", Andy gives Michael a bottle of wine as a farewell gift, and Michael indirectly insults him. Then, in the Rest Room, when Michael decides to start his own paper company, he offers him a job, where Andy who looks uncomfortable will reject Michael, when Dwight enters the room, and Andy refers Michael to Dwight, before leaving.
In "Heavy Competition", Andy offers cheap deals on wedding plans for Pam and Jim. However, he blamed Pam's rejection of Jim's ideas when Pam controlled him. Andy assumes the role as Jim's emotional stone, which Jim joins as a joke. When Andy makes an announcement to the office in honor of Jim's emotional needs, Phyllis informs him that Jim is just playing with him. When he goes to face Jim on this issue, Jim tells Andy that he is very happy with Pam, and convinces Andy that, while his breakup with Angela is "A bummer", he will find someone else.
In the episode "Cafe Disco", Andy and Kelly compete in dance, and he proves himself as enthusiastic about dancing, as he is about music. In the final scene of the episode, Kelly and Andy are seen in the men's bathroom, where she will give her ear piercing, something she fears the pain, and worries that she will be impaled on "Gay ears".
Season 6
Andy continues to develop friendship and appeal for Erin, who begins at the end of the fifth season. However, both are too shy to express their feelings for each other. In "Murder", Andy asks Erin to date while playing a game called Belles, Bourbon, and Bullets, but is confused as to whether she only plays along with her game. When she implies that she said yes as Naughty Nellie, she says that she also asked her out, leaving both disappointed. It is also revealed in "Koi Pool", that Andy is currently the second worst branch Salesman, along with Pam, and they are forced to make a fruitless venture on the sale of "cold call".
In "Gossip", Michael spread the rumor that Andy was actually a homosexual, which caused Andy to question his own sexuality throughout the episode.
In "Secret Santa", Andy asks to be Santa Erin's secret. She then began giving Erin the Twelve Christmas Days. Subsequently, Erin becomes wounded by geese, terrorized by other bird gifts, and angry at anyone is Santa's secret. Michael, dissatisfied with the fact that Phyllis was made into Santa's office that year, instead of him, revealed to the entire office that Andy was Erin's secret secret. Undeterred, Andy hired 12 professional drummers to perform for Erin and other staff at the end of the episode, which Erin enjoyed.
At "Niagara", the night before Jim and Pam's marriage, Andy tore his scrotum in his car keys while in dance competition with his coworkers. Andy confesses that he has never done a split before, but he is motivated to perform this dance move to impress Erin. Pam took Andy to the hospital the night before her wedding because everyone else was too drunk to drive.
In "Saber," she believes that after hiring a professional drummer for Erin, she should ask her out on a date. However, he believes that he will ask her out on a date and he can not wait to see how he "peaked [drummer]."
In "The Delivery," after Michael arranges a date between Erin and Kevin, this triggers Andy to finally and manages to ask Erin out, though at first her way to ask her out backfires.
In the "New Prospect," after Michael distributes the sales leads to the rest of the staff, Erin hides Andy's instructions. The Hot & amp; The cool game he played in the reception area turned into an uncomfortable situation where Andy almost touched Erin's chest. At the end of the episode, a "hot-blooded" Erin offers Andy's cool jacket in a garbage dump where they share their first kiss. Earlier in the episode, Andy lets new sales lead to his head and deeply offends Darryl. He, along with other sales staff, was convinced by Jim that their bad attitude had alienated others, and agreed with Jim's proposal to smooth things out with staff.
During "Happy Hour," Andy and Erin's efforts to keep their relationship hidden, backfire constantly when they are too eager to hide it. Finally ill hiding the truth, Andy expressed their relationship during the company's happy hour meeting.
In "Secretary's Day," Andy pulls out all the stops to make sure that Erin has an impressive Secretary's day, even asks Michael to treat Erin to lunch, which he is forced to approve by the boss. However, when Michael revealed that Andy was engaged to Angela, Erin reacted badly. He even throws a cake into Andy's face as he tries to seduce her with one of his songs, and wants to take a break from their relationship. Michael does some subtle things with Erin, but Erin does not change her mind about breaking up with her, and Andy remains confused.
During "The Cover-Up", one of her clients told her that their Saber printer was on fire, which worried Andy. When he decides to investigate the matter, he asks Darryl to help him. However, Darryl wants to take revenge on Andy for nearly making him fired some time ago due to mis-delivery, and goes along with his tactics by playing his fears. But when Andy's video records a burning printer, it confirms his suspicions. This prompted Darryl to cancel his joke, when he realized it could put him in trouble.
When Michael was revealed to date a married woman in "The Chump," Andy was furious with his own cuckolding in Angela's hand, and was encouraged to make Michael realize his mistakes. Andy moves Michael to a high school baseball game that the woman's husband is coaching and getting the two together, makes him uncomfortable for Michael and eventually leads him to end the affair.
In "Whistleblower", the press got word about the burning Saber printer, company CEO Jo Bennett (Kathy Bates) went out of his way to find the culprit. Initially Andy denied it, even though he was accused of doing this. But he finally came clean with the truth by claiming to send a letter to the news and video editor he recorded from a burning printer. Andy acknowledges this because he does not want to see a printer fire cause disaster to a school or hospital, but finds himself harassed all day by the sales staff when they all suspect he's doing it. However, when he leaves at the end of the day, Andy is praised by Erin for his courage, and he goes to smile.
Season 7
In "Play Andy", he plays part of Anthony in Scranton's production of Sweeney Todd . She invites the whole office to come and very much hopes to impress Erin with her appearance - but when Erin agrees to take care of Pam's daughter and Jim Cece so they can attend, Andy almost blows the show checking her phone for a word from her in stage. Erin is finally revealed to have been watching from behind, Cece behind him, to Andy's excitement and to Jim and Pam disappointed. Andy is sad once again when Erin goes quickly to attend to Gabe who suffers from a cold, but she then sings for a happy office crew and ends her night with a joyful note.
In the "Costume Contest", he mentions in a conversation with Darryl that he wrote daily op-ed columns for his college newspaper, "The Cornell Daily Sun." After realizing that he did not want to be a newspaper editor, he walked out of Walter Bernard Hall, which was his father's name.
In "Sex Ed", he held a sex education seminar for the office because people insult Meredith, but really only do it to see if Erin and Gabe are sleeping together (the answer is "Yes"). When the employee mocks her, she gets angry and throws a pizza box on the wall. Then Gabe bluntly tells Andy to never behave like that again, especially after Andy gives Gabe permission to ask Erin out during the previous summer, but Darryl comforts her.
In "The Sting", Andy is jealous of hearing about the musical success here at Come Treble, and forming a fun but fun office band with Darryl and Kevin.
In "Baptism", Andy joins the plans of Michael Scott to travel with church groups to Mexico, as both are very dissatisfied with their personal lives in Scranton, but they soon realize their mistakes and return to their ordinary lives.
In the "Viewing Party", Andy does not like attending the "Glee" party at Gabe's apartment, and picks up so much unclear Asian potential that Gabe collects so he looks sick.
In "Ultimatum", Andy reveals that his New Year's resolution is "learning to cook for one person", because his usual cooking leaves him with twice as much food as he needs. He flatly informs Pam that he will not meet anyone, and that "some people are destined to be alone". He then goes with Darryl and Dwight on the way to the bookstore, and they then revel in the local roller skating arena.
In "The Seminar", Andy held a small business seminar in the office with some special guests because he needed to overcome his miserable sales figures. At the end of the seminar, Andy can sell three packages, thanks for Michael's advice.
In "PDA", Erin asks Andy to take part in the romantic treasure hunt that Gabe has made for her, despite the fact that Andy is now dating Darryl's friend Rachel. Andy was initially reluctant but succumbed to Erin's friendly urge. The hunt begins with a picture of the puzzle, leading to Gabe's stereo in Darryl's office, which leads to the light of the dark stars in Ryan's closet, which leads to a sparkling cider with Hank the security guard, and finally to the Valentine's cake in the dugout. When the cookie tells him to enjoy his Valentine's kiss, Erin thinks he should kiss Andy. Andy shows Gabe blowing a kiss through the window and leaving awkwardly.
When staff gathered in the Conference Room to see Michael's "Threat Level Midnight" episode in the episode of the same name, Andy is shown playing a character with a New Jersey accent named Billy the Bartender. Jim starts laughing uncontrollably at certain scenes, causing others to laugh with him. Michael angrily stops the movie and takes it away, where everyone protests, including Andy, who says that some people do fabulous work in movies.
In "Todd Packer", when Pam's office administrator gets a new computer for the reception desk to replace the present, the old one, Andy wants a new computer as well. Pam states that if she gets a new computer for one sales representative (Andy), she'll have to get one for each sales agent, which makes the entire office believe that a new computer is being released for free. Because Pam refused to give him a new computer, Andy replaced his computer with Erin, a trade Erin thinks is fine. Pam was furious with him, saying that the computer was not meant for Erin personally but for the reception desk in general, and therefore not her to switch. Pam tells Andy that the only way she can get a new computer is if her break, which causes her to accept all cookies, intentionally opens pop-up ads, and places food on the disk drive. Pam then bought Andy a new computer, which they scratched into the false cover story of Pam (found the backup model in the warehouse), and Pam then handed out a few days of vacation to Darryl to keep all the lies well.
In "Garage Sale", Andy, Darryl, and Kevin play and bet on Dallas boardboard. As the instruction book does with the game, Andy and Darryl make rules as they go, much to Kevin's objections. Finally, Kevin saw the money they were betting on the game with a loss, and the storm came out. When Darryl and Andy looked at each other in puzzlement, Kevin revealed to the camera that he had the money, stating, "And that... is Dallas ", mocking both Andy and Darryl's earlier statements.
In "Training Day", new branch manager Deangelo Vickers appointed Andy as the "funny guy" office. Deangelo liked Andy's antics, who had used physical comedy when his jokes failed, to the point where he poured hot coffee into his trousers, and, at Deangelo's insistence, ate soap; Andy told the camera with a dazed sadness that "this is my life now".
In "Michael's Last Dundies", after winning the Dundie Award's "Doobie Doobie Pothead Stoner of the Year", Andy leads employees in a Michael serenading who will soon leave with an enduring version of "Seasons of Love" with lyrics changed.
In "Goodbye, Michael", Andy is given a list of Michael's clients as a reward goes, and after losing one, asks Deangelo for help defending them. Deangelo almost messes up his relationship with the client, but Andy gets enough confidence to save sales. Meanwhile, Erin confesses to Michael about dealing with breaking up with Gabe, that she may fall in love with Andy again, while Gabe becomes very angry with Andy because he (mistakenly) believes Andy triggers Erin brutal breakup with him.
In the "Inner Circle", Andy proved to want to get into the "inner circle" of the Deangelo office workers, but changed his mind about Deangelo when the women said he was sexist. However, when Jim brings Deangelo's rumor into a sexist for the attention of his superiors, he replaces Jim with Andy, who eagerly accepts. While Andy says he will infiltrate and change from within the circle, once he steps into Deangelo's office, he calls the meeting place "cave guy" and barks like a dog before closing the door.
In "Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager" Gabe makes Andy promise not to date Erin (while crying) where Andy agrees to get Gabe out of the room. When Dwight became a temporary manager, Andy suffered temporary hearing loss when Dwight accidentally fired a gun near him. Erin ran to her side in alarm. Later, when Andy and Erin are talking, Gabe tells Erin what Andy says about them not dating, but Andy closes Gabe by showing Gabe sad sorrow, and tells both that he's keeping his last view of whether he wants to date Erin or not "between me and my diary ".
In the "Search Committee", Andy's interview to replace Michael/Deangelo as regional manager, which Gabe tries to sabotage. Also, Erin asks Andy to date and she finally refuses, claiming that she has forgotten him. However, Andy then tells the camera that he thinks that Erin is great. Andy also remains a managerial candidate after Gabe's behavior keeps him transferred from Scranton, and tells his office that he will not make any changes at all, but his status like the rest of the others is unclear when the episode ends.
Season 8
Robert California, chosen by the search committee, refused to become a Branch Manager and convinced Jo Bennett to give him a position as CEO, thus giving Robert the authority to appoint Andy as the new manager between the Search Committee and The List events. After finding the list dividing the office into winners and losers and transferred to the loser's division after questioning Robert about it, he retaliated by hosting a pizza party for the losers and openly challenging Robert with the positive attributes of the losers. This action earned the respect of Robert and the office, in addition to Columbus Day's extended weekend.
In "The Incentive", Robert California urges doubling sales growth, which Andy tries to fill with incentive programs. The program spins out of control when Andy has one of the prizes of the program to be a tattoo on his poster, worth 5,000 points. In comedy mode, the office collected their points and managed to win this prize, which Andy had bravely, just for the office to change the tattoo design that was initially more vulgar to the one that honored Andy's nickname of "The Nard Dog." Robert, in addition to the episode, reveals that Andy's selection as a Regional Manager is done because he is a simple underdog that people will rally behind.
In the "Lotto", after six warehouse workers won $ 950,000 in the lottery pool, and stopped by way of celebrations through the office, Andy had trouble finding office workers going in for the day and ensured that the day was an important order sent out. Darryl, depressed by the fact that he did not win the lottery because he works in the office now, assembles conference room meetings with some potential new employees, but speaks some worrisome comments about work and exits, leaving Andy himself to take over from the process. Andy does not know what he's doing and all the workers just walk away. Darryl blames himself for failure and asks Andy to fire him, but Andy refuses, thinking/wishing Darryl to speak in code. Then, Andy finally managed to hire three warehouse workers. Andy steps in when Darryl tells him to give him the manager's job, says he deserves it and wants that or the pink slip, and frankly tells Darryl he not only will not do that, but Darryl is not the runner-up for Andy in the selection process; when he lifted Darryl's short temper, employed an unqualified Glen, and lost interest in taking business education courses, Darryl finally closed his mind and listened. Andy tells Darryl that Jo Bennett loves him and sees something inside him, and he stops fighting afterwards. He convinces Darryl to stay on board.
During "Garden Party", Andy hosts a garden party to impress Robert with his parents Walter (Stephen Collins), Ellen (Dee Wallace) and younger brother Walter, Jr. (Josh Groban) is present. However, it proved that Andy also tried to prove himself to his parents, who got the impression that he was the CEO of the company until later. He tries hard to try and impress them, even with a toast that gets worse when Andy hates his father and brother doing a duet that Andy tries to do with his dad. This shows that Walter, Jr., who was given his father's name when Bernards decided that it was more suited to him than soon became Andy, remained a cherished little son. When Walter, Sr. then goes to talk to Andy, he insults his work and says Andy should stop looking for his approval like a child. This conversation was heard through baby monitors Jim and Pam, pushing Jim, Pam, Darryl, Oscar and Erin to hear the conversation and understand why Andy felt the need to make everyone love it. After his family leaves, Andy is sad and plans to go home, but Darryl and Oscar cheer him up with food from their impromptu barbecue, and Andy finishes the day with a smile while enjoying good food and company.
In "Spooked", Andy dressed up as a construction worker. She commissioned Erin to organize the Halloween party, as she wanted to meet the expectations set by Robert. When Robert arrives, he notices that the party is more tailored for children than adults. Andy asks Angela and Phyllis to help take over and rearrange the party and ask to talk to Erin at the end of the day. Andy and Robert then talk to Erin in her office about Erin who accidentally ruined the Halloween party by putting up an annoying movie of Gabe's annoying creation. Erin says she's nervous when Andy asks to talk to her and that she thinks she'll fire him at the party. However, Andy tells him that he's dating someone, and he's surprised to hear they've been out on the 31st so far. Erin does not speak and goes sadly, however, at the end of the episode, Erin talks to Andy about her feelings.
In the cold opening of "Doomsday", Andy, to commemorate and "end" at the end of each working day, plays "Closing Time", much to his anxious coworkers. Andy, frustrated that no one except him and Erin enjoy the tradition, started scolding the workers until Stanley came happily singing the song beside him. Once found that accounting errors caused the client to get a free order, Robert told Andy to suppress the error. In turn, Andy enlists Dwight to implement the system, dubbed "The Doomsday Device", which can record five mistakes and generate automated email reports to Robert, putting fear into the office. Realizing this could endanger his staff, Andy along with Erin, Pam and Kevin try to talk to Dwight from sending an email to Robert.
In "Substitute Pam", Andy, Darryl and Kevin held a jam session again in the shed where Robert joined them. But they were finally removed when more talented Robert bandmates stepped inside. The three end up having their own jam session outside.
Andy took a lot of staff to "Gettysburg" as part of his motivational speech, but his attempt to galvanize his staff in relation to the historic war, was not much. Sick, Andy storms and then argues with Jim, who tells Andy that the staff just likes him as the manager, and that he does not have to prove himself to them, puts Andy at ease.
Andy met "Mrs. California" and on Robert's hasty instruction, should not have hired his wife Susan, for work in the office. Though in front of his partner, Robert contradicts his instructions pretty well, leaving Andy and then Jim in a difficult spot when Andy tries not to hire him. When Susan was hired and then quit her job, Andy went to talk to her and he asked her out on a date, startled her.
In "Christmas Wishes", Andy dressed up as Santa for his annual office Christmas party in an effort to make everyone's vacation wish come true. She also introduced Jessica, her new boyfriend to the office, many of which confuse and then get drunk from Erin, who hates her. Erin is drunk telling Andy that her Christmas wish is for Jessica to die, offend and infuriates Andy. She tells Erin to forget the fact that she refused him for a date and storm. Though when he suspects Erin is getting closer to Robert when he drives home, he follows them into his apartment as Meredith's driver. But to his relief, he sees Robert hug Erin goodbye with entertaining words and orders him to take care of his drunkenness.
Desperate to fulfill the company's share of sales to impress Robert, Andy tried various methods to achieve such amounts as buying his own paper stock and asking Oscar to "fix" the sales quota number. However, Oscar told him about the night "Trivia" he attended in Philadelphia with a $ 2,000 cash prize. Andy gets the idea to bring the staff with him in an effort to win the prize, only to be surprised that they end up in a gay bar. To Oscar and his cruel team, his staff split into teams and shocked Oscar and Andy, unseeded teams Kevin (who was passively rejected by Andy as his team), Erin, Kelly, and Meredith won cash prizes for the office. to meet their quota.
Apparently desperate for his upcoming divorce, Robert hosted an impromptu "Swimming Party" at his soon to be sold home. The staff attended with Andy and his girlfriend, much to Erin's worries. Andy carries an engagement ring owned by his parents, which he claims that his parents fall in love with Jessica. Desperate for Andy's attention, Erin enlists Dwight and they engage in a series of competitive swimming games with Andy and Jessica. Later, Dwight asks Andy about his love life as he tries to find out how Andy feels about Erin, whom Andy obliterates with a weak answer, prompting Dwight to tell Andy "you idiot" before leaving in disgust. At one point that night, Andy accidentally lost the ring and went frantically looking but to no avail. However, Erin finds a ring in the pond and gives it to Andy, knowing the history behind the ring. Andy confesses to Erin that she is confused about her relationship with Jessica, who gives Erin hope.
In "The Last Day in Florida", Andy finds out that Erin is not going back to Scranton, and she realizes that she still loves him. She decided to go to Florida to win her back and do it during "Get the Girl". However, when he was in Florida, Nellie claimed a manager position in Scranton and Andy was relegated to the seller. After one of his angry outbursts ("Angry Andy") he was fired from Dunder Mifllin.
In "Fundraiser", Andy saw David Wallace at a fundraiser and learned that the US military purchased a patent for his Suck It's $ 20 million toys.
In "Turf War", Andy managed to win the main client and use it as a lever to make David Wallace buy Dunder Mifflin. He also mentions Robert and threatens to fire him if David buys the company.
In the "Free Family Portrait Studio", Andy returns to the office and pretends to be desperate and unemployed and begs Nellie for a job. Andy revealed he forged this to the documentary crew and David Wallace would buy back Dunder Mifflin, fire Nellie and Robert, and return Andy as manager. While Andy was restored, Robert cheated the way he got a million dollars from David and Andy hired Nellie because he felt guilty and sad.
Season 9
In the "New Guys", he reveals that Andy is sent to Outward Bound's training manager by David Wallace, which causes him to return to the cockier and evil persona of season 3. He wants to get revenge on Nellie for what happened during the second half of season 8. In The episode, Andy aggressively pushed Nellie out of the slash he arranged in the parking lot.
In "Andest Ancestry", Nellie makes fun of Andy to believe that he is related to Michelle Obama, which concerns the office and makes them wonder if his family has slaves. Andy then calls his mother to ask if this is true. He then informs the office that his family does not have slaves, but they carry it.
In the "Work Bus", Andy continues to torture Nellie, especially when he needs an employer's signature to verify his work to the adoption agency. He refuses in front of the entire office, which upsets him and Erin. Andy then finds Erin crying after this, which prompts her to sign the papers and adds some good words in the newspaper that tell how good a Nellie mom could potentially be.
In "Here Comes Treble" and "The Boat", Andy finds his father has left their family, leaving them almost without a dime. He consults with Oscar and Darryl to sell enough family assets for his mother to live. He rejected their insistence that he sold their family boat, which Andy always wanted to drive, but eventually gave up selling it to a dealer in the Bahamas. During this time, Erin tries to cheer her up, though Andy does not appear to accept until she suggests they drive to Connecticut to see from the boat itself. Once there, Andy finds his brother Walter Jr., disheveled and hangs in one of the cabins. Andy decides to sail the boat to the Bahamas himself, along with Walter Jr., leaving Erin behind. Though thanking Erin for encouraging her, she did not realize how sick she was because she was abandoned.
In "The Whale", Andy, still sailing to the Bahamas, communicates with Erin and some of his co-workers. After three days, it looks sunburned, dehydrated, and somewhat affected by the isolation. Their conversation broke off when Andy's computer crashed from boat to ocean.
Andy was not seen for the next eight episodes, when Ed Helms was busy filming The Hangover Part III .
In "Dwight Christmas", Andy sends Erin's text message (off the screen) saying she and Walter Jr. has arrived in the Bahamas. Andy decides to stay there for a few more weeks to find him, something that is very disturbing to Erin, and causes him to become closer to his friend and co-worker Pete Miller.
Andy is back in "Couples Discount" in a very different appearance as a result of being away from three months in the Bahamas. He surprised the staff by returning a day early and immediately alienating everyone with his stupid behavior, his behavior: indifferently expecting the staff to take him seriously as if he never left, canceling the big sale Dwight had done with Jan Levinson, embarrassed to collect his salary plus the "reward bonus" he earned for staff who excel from their sales quotas. He meets with staff to pursue what he's missing, so to meet with David Wallace, who has been under the impression that Andy has been in the office all the time through phone calls and e-mails. The staff in turn, telling him the false stories that he turned around when meeting with David and he made it through the meeting without reaction. However Erin, after feeling 3 months of neglect from Andy, plans to break up with her until he assures her that they can fake each other's love like her parents. Although Erin then decided against this, and upset Andy for persecuting him and for being irresponsible by jumping over the job, a conversation that David Wallace heard on the speakerphone, who asked Andy "What is it about three months?"
Bewildered by their breakup with "Moving On", Andy's professional relationship with Erin and the other staff is bad. David Wallace punished Andy in a closed meeting but allowed him to defend his job, thanking Andy for getting him company, but warned him that he was very thin for his antics. When he tried to impose his authority over Pam, Dwight and Angela when they left noon, he found himself a target of three-month-long insults. Throughout the day, Andy avoids work-related matters such as client messages if they are from Erin. She confesses at Clark and Pete, the latter who secretly dated Erin and Erin confess that keeping their secret relationship from Andy, has made a "hot" relationship. Andy suspects that Erin is dating someone else, as she goes through her cell phone, and then can meng
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