Tracie Thoms plays Alicia Bryce, someone Selina really can admire. Going door to door, tacking up posters, going the distance for Universal Child Care. An important cause. As important as care for seniors, who trump kids because seniors vote and kids don’t. Or, by definition, can’t. If only unborn children could vote … but that’s a story by Philip Roth and was better covered in last week’s “The Choice” episode. Kent Davison (Gary Cole) declares that children are of no value and ultimately that becomes the word from on high. Even if Selina does choose to stoop to conquer. Or not. Maybe the kids will be left in the lurch without free lunch. Maybe those brown bags will be empty. Matt Walsh shines this episode. Mike McLintock is actually moved. Moved to the point of making some severe career-smashing decisions and the words that go along with them. Mike doesn’t call Alicia’s assistant Dee (Edwina Findley) a cow because he’s in any way upset with her. He really wants to help her. He’s upset for her and and everything he has to do to keep his part of the Veep boat going. Even if it’s right into the shallows. The deeper the shallow the smoother the sailing in Washington. Matt Walsh put something in every note of his delivery this week that smacked of real dreams and of those dreams being dashed on the rocks. This was a moment that Mike McLintock actually was beginning to believe in and he himself had to destroy it and in destroying it Mike McLintock lost a piece of himself. Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) finds Alicia, takes Halo, her daughter, to the bathroom and is almost as passionate about universal child care as the vice president. That is until she dispassionately dumps her on Mike, who spent the whole episode building her up, to knock her down and out. Gary Walsh (Tony Hale) is left holding the cold coffee. Kevin Dunn’s Ben Cafferty was left holding a bag of pills. They help when he’s down, but he has no idea what they are, they came with his desk. Dan Egan (Reid Scott), who stole last week’s episode as far as I’m concerned, is dealing with Saturday Night Live this week. This gives Julia Louis-Dreyfus so many little fun quips about her old alma mater that they seem to be coming out of his mouth. Selina calls SNL completely childish, compares it to taking a shit through a sunroof of your own car. As Dan goes up the 30 Rock escalator all he gets are nosebleeds and one word from Selina breaks that nose along with the entire day’s work. Selina, of course, settles at last for his first suggestion and by the time it gets to that small compromise, it is a major defeat. Own it, Dan says. But no, too late. Selina decides to be owned. Fucking comedians. Think they were on Seinfeld or something. “Alicia” was written by Sean Gray & Ian Martin and directed by Christopher Morris. Den of Geek Rating: 4.5 Out of 5 Stars   Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!