A producer's cut of the episode explains Andy's departure from subsequent episodes as due to being sent to anger management training.Īndy returns a few months later to a short-lived 'three-year' shunning courtesy of Dwight. He accompanies Jim to meet with clients from a local high school following an obscene watermark being vandalized onto Dunder Mifflin paper. 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. However, Michael becomes agitated at Andy's sycophantic attitude and poor salesmanship, as does the office at his obnoxious singing. There is rivalry with Dwight Schrute over whether his title is higher than that of Dwight's Assistant Regional Manager, fueling an intense power struggle.

Andy minored in History, and in talking head interview, and brags that he graduated in four years and never studies once, claiming he spent his entire day drinking and sang in an a cappella group called 'Here Comes the Treble.'Īndy is introduced in the season 3 premiere as the Regional Director in Charge of Sales at the Stamford branch, where Jim has transferred to. Early season episodes reveal his anger issues, displayed when he finds his calculator encased in Jell-O and when he performs poorly due to Jim's inexperience at Call of Duty.Īfter the closure of Stamford and merger with Scranton, Andy attempts to gain favor with manager Michael Scott through his quoted tactics of 'name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake'. 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.Īndy graduated from Cornell University in 1995, a fact he often brags about to his peers. Their relationship ends in season nine when Erin dumps Andy for his neglect and selfishness.Īndy claims to have been born in Simsbury, Connecticut. He eventually starts another relationship with receptionist Erin Hannon. He frequently boasts about his education at Cornell University and claims that 'like everybody', he hated golf lessons and instead went sailing.Īndy was involved in a long-term relationship with accountant Angela Martin, who later starts an affair with Dwight Schrute. Andy grew up with privilege and fails to comprehend how less wealthy people live. When Andy is first introduced, it is shown he has anger management issues, as seen when he shouts and angrily kicks over a wastepaper basket when he discovers someone has placed his calculator in Jell-O. He eventually becomes Officer of Admissions at Cornell University, the place where he studied. All this happens over the course of one day. When David Wallace becomes CEO of Dunder Mifflin, Andy is given back his position of Regional Manager, although his relationship with David starts to deteriorate due to Andy's lack of focus and professionalism, resulting in his voluntary resignation, his reinstatement to a salesman, and getting fired again, after Andy begs David to fire him in order to pursue a singing career. In season eight, Robert California makes him Regional Manager of the Scranton Branch following the departures of Michael Scott and Deangelo Vickers, although he is temporarily fired and replaced by Nellie Betram.

He later becomes an employee of the Scranton branch when the Stamford branch is merged with it. He is introduced in season three as the Regional Director in Charge of Sales and the Stamford, Connecticut branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company when Jim Halpert transfers there. in 1973) is a character in the NBC sitcom The Office.

Andy, shortly before leaving Dunder Mifflin Andrew Baines 'Andy' Bernard (born Walter Bernard, Jr.

Gets fired from Dunder Mifflin and becomes Admissions Officer at Cornell University 'I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them'

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