In "Job Fair", Andy is invited to accompany Jim on a major sales call. He eventually starts another relationship with receptionist Erin Hannon. When Dwight learns he's in line to become the permanent branch manager and Andy asks if his plan to quit and seek stardom is a good idea, Dwight kindly but firmly tells Andy that he would benefit greatly from Andy's departure but, having seen Andy perform, he thinks Andy should NOT quit his day job. Jim starts laughing uncontrollably at a particular scene, causing everyone else to laugh with him. Deangelo: I hear your voice, I see your lips moving. In "Training Day", new branch manager Deangelo Vickers designates Andy as the office "funny guy". When Gabe and Jo are interviewing the staff to find the potential employee that leaked to the press that Sabre's printers catch on fire, Phyllis quietly tells Andy "Put your hand up,Norma Rae". Andy returns a few months later to a short-lived "three-year" shunning courtesy of Dwight. When Darryl confides in Andy that he wished he had remained a member of the warehouse staff, Andy convinces him to make the most of his position and continue rising in the company.

When he goes to confront Jim over the matter, Jim tells Andy that he is very happy with Pam, and assures Andy that, while his breakup with Angela was "A bummer", he will find someone else. Later Gabe bluntly tells Andy to never behave like that again, especially after Andy gave Gabe permission to ask Erin out over the previous summer, but Darryl cheers him up. Fate

After a slew of misadventures with Michael Scott for five years, Jim Halpert was the first proper manager of Dunder Mifflin besides the Dundee creator. At first he is unsuccessful, but ultimately gets her back, and they make up and kiss in the middle of the street. RELATED: The Office: 10 Kevin Malone Theories That Totally Make Sense. However, when Dwight is pre-emptively named Regional Manager by Michael (who is confident that he will receive a promotion), Andy is named Assistant Regional Manager, although never actually becomes ARM as Michael does not receive the corporate promotion. Darryl is also one of the few people in the office, along with Jim, Pam and Erin, who did not accept Nellie Bertram's attempt at usurping Andy's job. Dwight later tells false stories to Andy when the manager is in need of being caught up on his branch, in hopes of sabotaging Andy. During "Couples Discount", Dwight is unable to get Andy's sign off on prices with a major sale that Dwight landed, although when Andy suddenly reappears, he chastises Dwight over not having his approval on the prices. In "Dwight Christmas", Andy sends Erin a text message (off-screen) saying he and Walter Jr. have arrived in the Bahamas. Office Olympics!

... Last week, he took Andy on a sales call that hinted at his possible derangement and positive ineptitude.

However, while he is in Florida, Nellie claims the manager position at Scranton and Andy is demoted to salesman. Andy admits this as he doesn't want to see the printer fire cause a catastrophe to a school or hospital, but finds himself harassed throughout the day by the sales staff when they all suspect he did it. In "Goodbye, Toby", Andy proposes to Angela (unbeknownst to him, at the same moment Jim had been preparing to propose to Pam) with a ring that he has carried in his wallet for six years, because "You never know when you'll meet the right girl". This conversation is heard over Jim and Pam's baby monitor, prompting Jim, Pam, Darryl, Oscar and Erin to overhear the conversation and understand why Andy feels the need to get everyone to like him. At the Beach Games, Andy captains a team alongside Jim, Dwight and Stanley Hudson in a competition for Michael's selection of the next Regional Manager of the Scranton branch, as Michael believes he is a shoo-in for a position at corporate. He then tells the office that his family did not own slaves, but they did transport them. He then proceeds to give Erin the Twelve Days of Christmas. Eventually the two duel over Angela when it is found she is cheating on Andy with Dwight. Andy was involved in a long-term relationship with accountant Angela Martin, who later starts an affair with Dwight Schrute. In "The Duel", Michael informs him of Angela and Dwight's affair, and Andy responds to this by confronting Dwight and challenging him to a duel. But they're eventually phased out when Robert's more talented bandmates step in.

Jim hides Andy's mobile phone that rings with Andy's rendition of "Rockin' Robin" in the ceiling, enraging him into punching a hole in the office wall. Angela and Andy continue to date into "Local Ad", in which Andy consults Dwight on how to pursue more intimacy with Angela.

His birth name was Walter Bernard, Jr., but after his younger brother was born, his parents decided that the new baby better embodied that name and should be named after his father, thus, the original Walter was renamed Andrew, a name that was picked from a book of baby names.

However, during their engagement, she resumes her affair with Dwight. In "Blood Drive", when Michael holds a meeting for the Lonely Hearts Club party, he inquires as to Andy's whereabouts, since he is nowhere to be seen. When she implies that she said yes as Naughty Nellie, he says that he also asked her out in character, leaving both disappointed.

He later goes with Darryl and Dwight on a trip to a bookstore, and they later have fun at a local roller skating rink. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.

In "The Incentive", Robert California urges the doubling of sales growth, which Andy attempts to fulfill with an incentive program. Andy also attempts to order Darryl around when Sabre's "Sales is King" policy greatly affects the sales staff's egos.

This forward act by Dwight pushes Angela toward committing toward Andy in the long run. Darryl blames himself for the failure and asks Andy to fire him, but Andy refuses, thinking/hoping Darryl is speaking in code. Oh, man! To Oscar and his trivia team's chagrin, the staff splits off into teams and to Oscar and Andy's surprise, the underdog team of Kevin (whom Andy passive-aggressively rejected for his team), Erin, Kelly and Meredith win the cash prize for the office to meet their quota. In "PDA", Erin asks Andy to tag along on a romantic treasure hunt Gabe has made for her, despite the fact that Andy is now dating a friend of Darryl's named Rachel. David WallaceGabe Lewis

When Nellie makes another quip, Erin snaps and in turn, encourages Andy to finally let his anger loose on Nellie, which later helps Andy get his confidence back and improves their sex life. [holds out hand] Michael Scott. Since his arrival, Andy and Dwight had a competitive professional relationship; he and Dwight argued over which title, Assistant Regional Manager (Dwight) or Regional Director in Charge of Sales (Andy), was higher in command. In "Golden Ticket", Andy gives Kevin romantic advice that appears to reflect his own experiences with Angela: he tells him to never give his date compliments, push for physical contact, and be assertive to the point of rudeness. Darryl is not impressed with Andy's acting ability, to the point of bluntly saying Andy needs to have a job that will tolerate his inevitable and chronic mistakes (Andy cluelessly thinks Darryl is expressing strong covert support for Andy's dreams) and later avoiding him during the Finale's reunion and other events, but he is visibly impressed with Andy's speech at Cornell and gives him a hug. Although he was initially going to be fired by David Wallace as Andy's pursuit of his career came at the expense of his job such as auditioning during the work day for student films, buying an expensive photo printer with company money for his head shots and asking David to pay for facial cheek implants during a teleconference. The ploy works to the point where arguments break out between the parties in the conference room, as Erin and Pete's issues with their past relationships surface. Andy asks Angela and Phyllis to help take over and re-tailor the party and asks to speak with Erin at the end of the day. Andy is at first reluctant but relents at Erin's friendly urging. Though there are reasons to believe he is the Scranton Strangler, ... and when he was in the manager’s chair he did everything he could to increase morale and sales. In the episode Livin' the Dream, Andy and Erin are seen speaking pleasantly to each other and Erin even admits her concern for his well being saying she's worried he'll "be homeless or even starve." However, Andy later tells the camera that he does think Erin is great. When Andy introduces his girlfriend Jessica to the Office at a Christmas party, Erin initially appears friendly to her, but she becomes drunk, and confesses to Andy that she wishes Jessica was deceased.

In "Secret Santa", Andy requests to be Erin's secret Santa. However, she believes that he will ask her out and she can't wait to see how he "tops [the drummers].". Andy points out Gabe blowing a kiss through the window and leaves awkwardly.

Later, in the Break Room, when Michael decides to start his own paper company, he offers him a job, to which a visibly uncomfortable Andy is about to reject Michael, when Dwight enters the room, and Andy refers Michael to Dwight, before leaving. Meanwhile, Erin confides to Michael over dealing with breaking up with Gabe, that she might be in love with Andy again, while Gabe becomes venomously angry towards Andy because he (wrongly) believes Andy triggered Erin's brutal public breakup with him. In the episode, Nepotism, Andy imagines Gabe being eaten by a whale. When he meets Andy's family, Darryl overhears Andy's father berate him over his status in life, and finally understands why Andy needs to please others, and later participates in cheering Andy up, along with the rest of the staff.

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When the employees make fun of him, he gets angry and throws a pizza box at the wall.

Michael: I see your voice in the phone. Andy grew up with privilege and fails to comprehend how less wealthy people live. In '"Stairmageddon", as promos circulate for the documentary series about the branch, Andy comes to realize that he's disillusioned about his job. Andy initially denies it, even though he is accused of this. He and Michael may have gotten along swimmingly but he didn't know what he was doing once Michael finally left for Colorado. 8 Deangelo Vickers. Andy Bernard. He also calls Robert and threatens to get him fired if David buys the company.

Andy then has a full-on crying breakdown that becomes fully evident in the series finale, where he glumly notes that the viral video of him losing it became a heavily viewed YouTube clip (with Andy as "Baby Wawa") that inspired successful parodies and even mocking on "Saturday Night Live". Vampire Diaries: 5 Ways Klaus Mikaelson Was the Best Antihero (& 5 Ways Damon Salvatore Was), Family Guy: All Season 1 Episodes, Ranked According To IMDb, 10 Of The Longest Running Talk Shows Of All Time, This Is Us: 5 Predictions About What Happened To Laurel (& 5 What Happens To Rebecca), Family Guy: 10 Best Season 5 Episodes, According To IMDb, Family Guy: 10 Best Season 2 Episodes, According To IMDb, Grey's Anatomy: Miranda Bailey's Slow Transformation Over The Years (In Pictures), How I Met Your Mother: Each Main Character’s Last Line In The Series, The Simpsons Characters & Their Disney Counterparts, Game Of Thrones: The 5 Biggest Losers In The War Of The 5 Kings (& 5 Big Winners). In comedic fashion, the office pools their points and succeeds in winning this prize, to which Andy bravely owns up to, only for the office to change the originally more-raunchy tattoo design to one that honors Andy's nickname of "The Nard Dog." It is also revealed in "Koi Pond", that Andy is currently the second-worst Salesman of the branch, along with Pam, and they are forced to make fruitless efforts at "cold call" selling. He was one hell of a juggler though. Some Dunder Mifflin branch managers are more likable than others! However, in a deleted scene, Jim reveals Andy was invited in order to benefit Jim, as Andy's pride for Cornell would push the client- a graduate of Dartmouth- toward him.