Birth

**Birth** is the first episode of *Human Resources*.

## Synopsis

When Sonya gets fired, an amateur Lovebug named Emmy tries to take over her client, a stressed-out pregnant lady named Becca. It's Maury's birthday, but he does not feel like celebrating. Joe and Gil get stuck on the elevator and soon end up in a division floor full of monsters of enlightenment.

## Plot

The episode starts by introducing us immediately to this new world of monsters, creatures and all the other beings that make humans act the way they do. The show introduces us is self-described as *Big Mouth* meets *The Office*, with lots of crossover characters, meta jokes and the raunchy humor we’ve come to expect from this adult animated comedy franchise.

To ease us into the inner workings of Human Resources, the overall office space where these characters do the bulk of their work, we catch up with Maury (Nick Kroll) during an awkward elevator ride with some of his fellow Hormone Monsters. Gil and Joe are two average employees who complain about their wives and believe humans will eventually stop having sex because of the evolution of VR while Gavin (Bobby Cannavale) is a high-flying monster who gives Maury grief about his continued work with kids going through puberty.

Gavin, on the other hand, just accepted a huge gig as the head of testosterone at the NFL. For a Hormone Monster, it doesn’t get much better than that. It also happens to be Maury’s 40 millionth birthday and Gavin’s comments cause him to spin out into an existential crisis. Who is he, really? What does he have to offer after all this time existing?

Maury’s co-workers try to throw him a surprise birthday party complete with a cookie cake but it just pisses him off. Even Connie (Maya Rudolph) can’t get him out of his funk. It’s only when Maury gets home and sees his dicks (yes, Maury has a bunch of furry self-mobile penises that he treats like kids for those who haven’t seen *Big Mouth*) that he starts to feel better.

They’re sort of like having children, right? Spending time with them while reminiscing together (with several *Big Mouth* references interspersed throughout) over a slideshow and a group masturbation session is exactly what Maury needs to celebrate his birthday in style.

We catch up with the rest of the monsters while Maury is dealing with his identity crisis. *Big Mouth* focuses on middle schoolers and teens, but *Human Resources* has more adult human characters, like Becca Li (Ali Wong), a pregnant litigator on the cusp of giving birth to her first child with her husband Barry (Mike Birbiglia). Becca’s team is completely stressed out by the preparation.

Becca’s Hormone Mistress is *Big Mouth*‘s Connie, who is worried that Becca and Barry won’t have sex again after Becca gives birth, Tito the Anxiety Mosquito (Maria Bamford) worries the baby will come out wrong, Petra the Ambition Gremlin (Rosie Perez) doesn’t want Becca to risk losing a promotion at work because of maternity leave. Then there’s Pete Doheny (Randall Park), the resident Logic Rock trying to keep everyone in line.

At the head of the table is Sonya the Lovebug (Pamela Adlon) who demands everyone get their sh\*t together, more or less. After the meeting, Sonya gives her assistant Emmy (Aidy Bryant) a stern talking to because she doesn’t put any work in at her job. Her notes are terrible and she spends all her time doing imitations and making would you rather question boards. She’s also totally distracted by her fling with the sexy Addiction Angel, Dante (Hugh Jackman).

But Emmy is going to have to step up soon, because Sonya is suddenly fired and escorted out of the office by two burly security guards. Why is she fired? That’s a mystery that will be revealed later this season. With Sonya fired, Emmy is reassigned to Becca, a change that neither is happy with moving forward.

While getting drunk at The Mistake Factory bar with Dante that night, Emmy runs into Sonya who is horrified that Becca has been left in her assistant’s care. Sonya demands Emmy stop messing around and go do her job, especially since Becca is on the verge of giving birth and the doctor is concerned she will go into early labor.

Drunk as a skunk, Emmy does make it to Becca’s and she makes everything worse in combination with Becca’s pesky Anxiety Mosquitoes. It’s no surprise all the stress causes Becca’s water to break. All of her monsters have to drop what they’re doing to rush to the delivery room. Every creature is doing their job except Emmy, who would rather hide in the corner than spread the love. Pete coaxes her into giving Becca a pep talk and spreading the love like she’s supposed to.

Emmy eventually gives Becca a motivational speech that is more or less effective even if it isn’t the nicest to help her through labor and she gives birth to her healthy baby, albeit it’s ugly. In Emmy’s own words, “Call that thing cute, you’re a liar.”

## Cast

### Also Starring

* Pamela Adlon
* Maria Bamford
* Mike Birbiglia
* Bobby Cannavale
* John Gemberling
* Hugh Jackman
* Ashley London
* Gil Ozeri
* Rosie Perez
* Joe Wengert
* Ali Wong

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Emmy Fairfax
* Sonya Poinsettia
* Rochelle Hillhurst
* Walter Las Palmas
* Maury Beverly
* Connie Harland
* Pete Doheny
* Lionel St. Swithens
* Petra
* Joe
* Gil
* Becca Lee
* Barry
* Jake

### Minor Roles

* Grace
* Tito
* Eric
* Gavin
* Todd
* Tyler
* Dante
* Maury's Dicks
* Chakra
* Queen of Cups
* Lorraine (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Robby (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Joe Walsh (Pictured)
* Matthew MacDell (Pictured)
* Aiden (Pictured)
* Andrew Glouberman (Pictured)
* Lewis Glouberman (Pictured)
* Sharon (Mentioned)
* Nancy (Mentioned)

## Trivia

* Emmy is assigned to work with her first client, Becca Lee, following the termination of the latter's former lovebug, Sonya Poinsetta.
* Maury turns exactly 40,000,000 (forty million) years old in this episode.
	+ Jake is also born in the same day, giving him and Maury the same birthday.