The Veep is in the Senate, waiting to cast a tie-breaking vote. She's bored and Amy remarks that she can't fall asleep live on C-SPAN because "the irony would be too huge". When Selina gets back, she's excited about the clean jobs taskforce but annoyed that she has nothing on her calendar. She and Mike try and come up with an opening joke for her speech to a fire fighters union but his suggestions are terrible. When Dan tells her that the President is at a briefing on a fiscal responsibility bill that she wasn't invited to, she takes off her shoes and sprints down the hallways. When the meeting's over, she assembles her senior staff and decides that the President's deliberately avoiding her (more so than usual) because he's mad at her over something. Dan is dispatched to find out what's going on and Selina is about to google herself to see if her speech to the firefighters is getting any coverage when Amy, Mike and Gary all advise her against doing so. Mike tells her that they search all of her nicknames too and she asks what they are. You just know this is going to be good... "Mammary Meyer", "Grizzly Madam", "Shee-rah" "Meyer the Liar", "The Bat Cave", "Piss Face", "Wicked Witch of the West Wing", "Veep Throat", "VoldeMeyer", "Dickless Van Dyke", "Taudry Hepburn", "Blunder Woman", "Selena Meh" "VaSelina" and "Betty Poop" are the current ones. When Selina questions why she's called "Piss Face", a secret service agent snickers.
On a mission to dig up some intel, Dan has lunch with Jonah in a busy diner. He tells Dan that the President loves clean jobs and is called away by his beeper but the two agree to go to see a metal band that evening. Meanwhile, Selina and Amy are pleased with the draft for the clean jobs bill and the same secret service agent snickers at one of her lame jokes. As Jonah and Dan headbang away at a "metal" gig (where no-one in the audience is wearing black, good sign that no-one who made this show has been within a hundred yards of a metal gig), Selina asks Gary what some more of her nicknames are. "Vaguely Personable", "Viagra Prohibitor", "Visible Panties" and "VPILF" are some of the nicknames based on her title. Leaving the office, Amy and the Veep run into Sidney Purcell (Peter Grosz). When the Veep excuses herself, he tells Amy that the clean jobs bill is a disgrace and he will personally see that it dies.
The next morning, Dan and Mike prep the Veep on clean jobs, playing devil's advocate on the bill. Later, Amy brings some bad news: the President's so keen on the fiscal responsibility bill that green jobs is being put onto the back burner. They hadn't heard about it because Selina had banned them googling her nicknames. If only they'd googled "Mrs DoubtMeyer". Selina rants at her staff, asking why Dan was using Jonah to get intel because it's "like trying to use a croissant as a fucking dildo: it doesn't do the job and it makes a fucking mess". Dan suggests that they take the best parts of clean jobs and get a friendly Senator to amend them to the fical responsibility bill. It would be ballsy but the President would be enraged. "We can do anything we want if we really want to", Dan says. "What is this, "Eat Pray, fucking Love?", asks Amy.
On the way to speak to the firefighters, Selina is called back to the Senate to break another tie... on the clean jobs amendment to the fiscal responsibility bill. Selina decides to vote "the way my principles and conscience tell me to go", asking the car "which way do you think that should be?" Back at her office, Amy advises voting against the amendment and Dan advises voting for it. Selina votes no. As Selina and Amy discuss the fallout, Amy has some good news - the snickering secret service agent has been reassigned. Jonah then turns up with some "good" news - the President has given the Veep a new assignment: obesity. Selina is furious and complains that she'll have to follow fat people, saying, "I'm the Vice President of the United States, put the cupcake down!"
Easily the best episode of the series so far! It wasn't scattergun, it was well-written, there were some brilliant lines and the nicknames were fantastic. If Veep can keep this form up, I'll be leading the calls for a second series.
8 out of 10.
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