ordinary world: Ron Burgundy is the lead anchorman in an all mens world of news reporters, and is loved by all the people of San Diego. Well, except for the other news stations anchomen, because Ron Burgundy's station has the most ratings.
call to adventure: A woman he's falling in love with starts working at his news station. They start dating. His dog gets dropkicked into the river by an angry biker, and he is late for broadcasting the news.
refusal of the call: He falls in love with Veronica, but he can't see her as an equal at work because he feels that reporting the news is a mans job.
meeting with the mentor: His boss, Ed Harkman, is kind of his mentor because he advises him sometimes.
crossing the threshold: Veronica starts working with him at channel four news, and they're dating, but his friends start getting upset with him when he starts to ditch them for her. He starts doing things with her that she likes, such as jogging.
tests, allies, and enemies: He gets the girl, his dog gets kicked into the river, Veronica broadcasts for him when he is late, he gets mad that she filled in for him and breaks up with her, she is made his co-anchorman, they fight all the time at work, she ends up changing his script, and as a result he gets fired, and everyone hates him.
ordeal: He has to live with losing everyone and everything he loved, and everyone in San Diego who used to love him, now hates him.
reward: When Veronica goes missing during the biggest story of the summer because another news reporter pushed her into the kodiak bear pit, Ed Harkman, his boss, calls him and offers him his job back.
the road back: He rallies his friends, gets cleaned up, and prepares to go report the biggest story of the summer.
resurrection: They realize that there are talent recruiters watching, but he sees that Veronica has fallen into the kodiak bear pit, and the huge hibernating bears are waking up. He has to choose between saving her, or going and reporting the big story in front of the talent recruiters.
return with elixir: He gets the girl back, as well as the people of San Diego's love, and finally learns to accept a woman into the news reporting world, and invites her to be his co-anchorman. They later go on to report the world news.
archetype:
hero: Ron Burgundy
mentor: Ed Harkman
threshold guardian: Veronica Corningway, people in San Diego
herald: Veronica
shapeshifter: Veronica
shadow: Veronica, people in San Diego, Biker guy that dropkicks dog
trickster: Veronica, other news stations anchormen