Just Shoot Me! - Episode Guide

A writer in need of a job reluctantly agrees to work for her father's women's magazine.

A nervous Maya arrives at the offices of Blush for her first day, her new position at the magazine comes as a surprise to the staff.

Despite the staff's efforts to celebrate, Finch has no intention of being recognized on Secretary's Day.

After defending some of her new ideas from the staff's withering critique, Maya is asked to arrange a birthday party for Nina.

The new photo Elliott takes for Maya's ID card makes her look so attractive that it results in a saucy dream.

Maya is miffed at her father, but the candy he brings back from China is a big hit at the office.

A bet leads Maya to try to prove that beautiful people get ahead in the job market.

Maya's bungling new assistant causes chaos in the office.

Although he's married to a younger woman, Jack flips when Maya is pursued by a 60-plus playboy.

Despite Elliott's warning, Finch dates a nutty model who becomes his nightmare.

Tickets for a free trip to London for a play causes co-workers to scramble.

After writing a fictional article about a dinner with Woody Allen, Maya endures criticism until a man claiming to be Allen calls.

Maya's past behaviour makes it hard for Jack to get Hannah enrolled in Maya's old school.

Maya's long-running efforts for literacy are upstaged when her father makes a big donation and gets credit.

With greed running rampant, Maya suggests that everyone pool their present money and give it to someone in need, their janitor.

Elliott is made to realize that he was a nerd in high-school,and now he feels even more unsure about himself 20 years later.

Maya tries proving herself to a successful college roommate, while Jack's birthday gets Finch and Nina fighting to find him the best present.

Maya finds herself attracted to one of the magazine's new researchers, but following Nina's advice ends with him filing a complaint.

Finch gets help to prove he's straight when he finds out that his father thinks he's gay.

Jack loses his temper for no apparent reason at a staff meeting and refuses to talk about it.

Maya's interview with a British rock star triggers a flood of memories for Nina of the affair she had with him 25 years ago.

Maya and Nina compete to influence a college intern with interests in both modeling and journalism.

Nina is humiliated by the display of her bikini at a celebrity cafe, so Maya and Finch plot to get it back.

A fake kiss at a tenant meeting may hold greater significance for Elliott and Maya.

Finch faces off against Jack's new personal assistant.

Jack feels guilty for firing his old partner and decides to rehire him, but then he remembers why he fired him in the first place.

Jack sends Maya to an N.Y.U. seminar as a guest speaker for the magazine, but she gets ambushed, instead.

Maya knocks designer Oskar Milos' clothes and has to eat her words when Milos pulls his advertising.

An office blood drive turns into a storytelling session as Finch, Nina and Elliott recall for Maya their first encounter with Jack.

Bringing her father and mother together for the first time in 25 years creates complications for Maya.

Jack is hit by friendly fire when Finch accidentally shoots his company teammate in a paintball game.

Finch tries to hijack a surveillance videotape of him and Jack's nanny in a compromising position.

Jack tricks Maya into getting a neighbor to move so he can build a steam room at work.

Finch is convinced that Nina has an imaginary alter ego while Maya discovers how Jack deceived her on Halloween many years ago.

Maya gets caught up in a tangle of practical jokes when she sets out to prove Finch wrong and demonstrate that women can be pranksters too.

Finch conspires to set Maya up on a date with another woman.

Elliott plans to teach Courtney a lesson for dumping Finch, but events take a different turn.

Maya's romance with a puppeteer takes an uncertain turn when she suspects she has inspired a rude new puppet.

Jack is unhappy he's far down on a prestigious listing about to be published, while Finch makes a fan pest of himself meeting Mark Hamill.

Nina sets her sights on fashion rival Margo Langhorne but feels no victory when the battle ends.

Finch sets out to ruin everyone's Christmas when he thinks the other members of the Blush team have gotten him a lousy gift.

Maya tries to convince Elliott that his slow-witted brother is a fake.

Jack tries to put out the flames rekindled by Maya's first love.

Smitten Maya interviews a senator who only has eyes for Nina, and Finch learns about Elliott's valuable collector's item.

Following his divorce, Finch's dad starts dating Nina.

Finch tries coming to grips with his dad's engagement to Nina.

Maya hosts an elaborate murder-mystery party where everyone dresses in costume and pandemonium reigns.

As a practical joke, Finch switches Elliott's birthday presents from Maya and a co-worker.

Finch tries to keep from being identified as the magazine's new advice columnist.

Maya's taking a photography class and her teacher instructs her to take a nude self portrait.

Maya, Nina and Elliott are all nominated for a prestigious fashion magazine award.

Maya is persuaded to pitch in the office's annual softball game.

Jack has second thoughts about hiring a rigorous personal trainer.

Maya reminds Nina of her history of bad choices in men when Nina's former lover, now a fugitive, returns.

Finch is frustrated when a n old nemesis (Barry) shows up to gloat over his success. Not only does he own a successful business, he is also engaged to their high school homecoming queen.

Finch announces that he and Adrienne are going to get married. Maya is unconvinced of their love and thinks he is manipulating her somehow. Complications arise when Adrienne's ex, the hockey player, shows up looking for blood...Dennis'. If he is to remain out of harm's way wedding plans will have to be accelerated.

As Dennis tries to hide his true passions from his new supermodel wife, Maya and Elliott seek to have their accidental marriage annulled.

Nina discovers her role in a fifteen-year-old accident that changed Elliott's life forever.

A sleazy photographer with incriminating photos blackmails Elliott into giving him a job.

Finch is forced to protect Adrienne from a suitor who is a lot like him.

Nina manipulates Jack after she overhears his therapy session.

Finch's honesty magnifies his differences with Adrienne.

Elliott's plan to stir up trouble between his friend and Maya backfires when the two decide to set up a date.

Maya's former assistant Cindy returns as a media buyer, and Jack makes Maya take her out for the evening.

Jack tries to convince his ex-wife to marry her new boyfriend, who is putting the moves on Maya.

After his memoirs come out stating he once beat up Robert Conrad, Jack fears the worst when the actor stops by the office.

Maya is stunned to learn that Elliott's latest girlfriend is a model and a premed student at Yale.

Nina inspires Elliott's mom to start her life over again, and Maya and Jack accidentally kill Finch's prized cat.

Nina's former agent whom she cast aside when she made it big calls her and she makes an unusual request.

As Jack and Nina look for a date for Maya, Elliott balks at a girlfriend's interest.

After her sexual relationship with Elliott is revealed, Maya worries when Jack doesn't get upset.

Finch is shocked to see his ex-wife at one of Nina's meetings, though he soon tries to use it to his advantage.

Maya and Elliott invite another couple to go swing dancing, but their offer is misunderstood.

Jack learns that a young African-American man is posing as his son.

When a right-wing organization threatens Blush magazine, Jack asks Nina to charm the group's leader.

In need of an apartment, Finch convinces Maya and Elliott to move in together, with disastrous results.

Nina discovers that a wealthy couple may be her biological parents.

Finch's former figure skating partner visits and asks him for help coaching her new partner. 

A&E Biography looks at the troubled history behind the career of Nina Van Horn.

While Finch is undercover as a student to research an article, a precocious cheerleader asks him to the prom.

After their moment of passion, Finch decides it's a bad idea to take things further with Nina. NIna becomes determined to find out why. Meanwhile, Elliot overhears, and then accidentally erases a message from Ally telling Jack she is leaving him.

Tired of everyone's pity after the news of his impending divorce, Jack heads off to the Plaza Hotel. When Finch turns up with his new band, Jack loses his cool.

When Nina begins dating an actor she has to compete with his mother for his attention. 

Elliot's brother Donnie (who once feigned being mentally challenged so that he could be waited on by his mother) returns. He claims to have found a job, but Maya is skeptical. When he is supposedly beaten up and winds up in a hospital, she thinks it's a con and attacks Donnie.

Maya's best friend from high school, now a successful motivational speaker, is hired to speak at Blush. As part of his recovery from alcoholism, he confesses he started a rumour about Maya back in high school.

When Finch reunites with his childhood friend, he is shocked to learn that he had a sex change and is now a woman named Brandi. Finch finds himself attracted to her.

Maya attempts to hold a Thanksgiving feast for the gang but Jack sleeps with Elliot's mother. 

Finch gets tired of Jack's constant demands and loses his cool. He apologises later but Jack asks him to help in the data entry department. Upon arrival, Finch finds Jack's former assistant.

Jack's numbers come up in the lottery, but Finch spent the money on coffee instead of the lottery ticket. Meanwhile Maya and Elliot get a dog, but Finch and Nina convince Elliot that Maya is using the dog as a substitute for a baby.

Finch dates a female boxer with a jealous ex-girlfriend. Elliott, Jack and Nina fool Maya into believing that they're smarter than she is.

When the new girl in marketing asks Nina and Maya to her bridal shower, they are convinced the only reason is so that she gets more gifts. Nina confronts Robin, and Nina and Maya end up arguing. Meanwhile Elliot has to go to traffic school and Finch is the teacher.

When Jack's ex wife returns her engagement ring (a Gallo family heirloom), Elliot is inspired to propose to Maya.Finch goes to great lengths to assist Elliot in making everything perfect but the cancellation of Nina Van Horn day throws a spanner in the works.

Elliot's commitment phobia causes him to have a massive panic attack when Maya accepts his marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Nina helps Finch sell his adult movie script.

When Elliot discovers that Maya has a date for the Blush Charity Auction, he asks Nina to set him up with someone to help make her jealous. So Nina sets him up with a doctor but when she can't make it, she hires an escort instead. 

Finch and Maya project their insecurities on the new intern, Dean. Nina is dating the famous magician, Zigmund, who everyone is convinced is gay and Elliot believes is flirting with him.

Finch DJs a bar mitzvah for a kid who has a crush on Nina. Jack and Elliot like the same woman.

After his close friend dies, Jack worries that an old secret might impact him and Maya.

Nina's younger sister come to visit, bringing up feelings of jealousy in Nina when the staff falls in love with her.

Finch's mom comes to visit and finds romance. Elliot meets a famous photographer who is down on his luck.

Finch becomes the boy toy of a popular romance novelist. Nina says the wrong thing on the red carpet of an award show.

Maya picks up a guy in a bar and finds he's not quite who he claims to be. After being the recipient of an act of kindness, Elliot tries to convince Finch to pay it forward to Nina.

Allie returns and asks Jack for a job at Blush, but she has ulterior motives. Nina meets with Elliot's new girlfriend, who is a psychiatrist, but their session means trouble for Elliot.

Finch lands a new job as an assistant to rap star Snoop Dogg after Jack fires him.

Finch reveals his personality is not his own but one he ripped off a girl he knew earlier in life.

Finch dates the woman who shares his personality.

The staff worries about Nina's behavior after one of her friends dies.

Maya's new assistant stirs feelings of jealousy in the office with her credentials and her good looks.

Finch and Elliot compete over Amy, each trying to outdo or embarrass the other.

Jack and Nina entice Kevin with the finer things after he turns down a promotion because he doesn't care about money.

Jack must tolerate his snobbish business partner's attempts to degrade those less fortunate, namely Elliot.

Maya meets a handsome celebrity who loves Christmas even more than her, to the point of obsession.

The long-lost daughter Nina had given up for adoption tracks her down at Blush.

Nina's newly discovered granddaughter shares much in common with her, in fact, too much.

Ray Liotta is back and he's obsessed with Maya.

Trying to get a girl, Finch hires an au pair for his imaginary son.

Finch and a roommate move into the apartment across the hall from Maya and turn out to be the neighbours from hell.

Maya dates an obnoxious blind man who thinks his disability makes it okay to be rude.

Maya dates an exterminator whose lack of education impedes their romance.

Finch asks Jack for money to hire a tutor, but he ends up paying for massages instead.

Jack wants to write a novel but ends up using a ghostwriter.

The Blush staff agrees to corporate therapy after their bickering drives off a client.

Finch persuades David Hasselhoff to play his father in a semi-autobiographical movie for his film class.

Elliot's grandmother offends him when she lavishes attention on Finch but ignores Elliot.

Finch's fellow band member asks Nina out.

Jack hires a woman off the street to run the desk, but the staff thinks it's just because Jack wants to seduce her.

Vicky and Finch fight for Jacks approval, while Nina loses a crazy woman in the office.

Nina dates a rock star and tries not to sleep with him on the first date.

Nina throws an A-list Halloween party and reluctantly invites the Blush team.

Eliot tries to date Vicki but ends up with her sister, Jack monitors the office remotely with a 2-way A/V system.

Vicky's husband returns to beg for her forgiveness and Maya finds herself very attracted to him.

Maya ghostwrites a poem for Finch, and Jack shows it to the editor of a literary magazine.

Finch arranged a confrontation between Vicki and Nina, which leaves both women seeking revenge.

Vicki reconciles with her former husband Pete, but he seems confused because he also has the hots for Maya.

Finch lives out a dream when he meets the centerfold model he fantasized about as a teenager.

Elliott wants revenge after a stand-up comic targets him at a club.

Finch pretends to be Jack at an important business meeting.

Finch attends his reunion with his pal Bert, now a transsexual named Brandy.

Finch and a rival publisher's assistant have a romance, but she has a motive for accepting his advances.

When Simon prepares to propose, Nina tells him she is still married to another man.

Good-hearted Elliott discusses business strategies with his con artist brother Donnie. Nina enters a fierce game of chance with Jack.

Maya tells Finch's girlfriend, Rhonda, to form an emotional bond with him.

Simon's parents arrive to meet with Nina, who pretends to be prim and proper.

Elliot joins a Bible reading group and fantasizes about the women there.

Nina feels threatened by her future husband's friendship with the ceremony minister, prompting Jack and Finch to step in.

Jack suddenly announces his retirement and puts Maya in charge, he tries to escape an office farewell party in his honor.

Jack asks the staff to evaluate his work anonymously.

Nina takes under her wing the female impersonator who's portraying her in a cabaret show.

Finch and Elliot become rivals over a mutual male friend whom they both have an emotional connection with.