Having the episode take place primarily at the office gave the guys a chance to utilize their full cast, which I think is when Workaholics is at its strongest. Adam, Blake, and Ders are fun to watch while getting weird at home, but it is often way better to watch the guys bounce off of other people. The three guys, while working together and living together, have created their own little world where all of their behavior, like say, stealing all the snacks at their office so they can have a party, is completely rational behavior, and usually the most comedy comes from someone else bursting their bubble. Anyway, the absence of snacks at the office causes Alice to try and decide upon a new snack manager who she will entrust her Costco card to so they can provide snacks. Knowing they wont be elected, the guys urge Gillian to run for Snack Manager. Eventually, Gillian wins the election, but of course too much power goes to her head, and she puts the snacks on some sort of elaborate cat-alarm lockdown. The guys decide to pull what they call an Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 13 style heist, that shows the guys sneaking around the office in weird assorted scenes like Adam using the bathroom and Ders pulling the fire alarm. Gillian gets her co-workers out of the office before realizing the guys aren’t present, the runs back in to find the guys trying to break the locks with chairs. They give up, Gillian says that it’s too easy, that she’s been watching all day, and she knows they’ve planned something. Then in a scene that totally channels director Steven Soderberg, Gillian walks through the guy’s supposed scheme, then she darts after Karl, whom she expects is making off with the loot. Jokes on Gillian, the guys actually just pulled the fire alarm and tried to smash the locks, they didn’t have any clue what they were doing all along. They make off with the now attended snacks, and go off to their party. It was nice to see the guys win in the end, but even better to get to see an episode of Karl on Cheaters, something his character would be totally proud about. This episode of Workaholics was about as good as it gets. Forty-three episodes in, running strong.
