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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song composed by Jay Ferguson and performed by the Scrantones

NOTE: This series was an American adaptation of the BBC series of the same name that aired between 2001-2003.

• 001. Pilot – 3/24/2005
  • Filmed in mockumentary style, we meet the employees of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of paper manufacturer Dunder Mifflin, led by the optimistic, obnoxious, and clueless Michael Scott (Steve Carell), the regional manager. Among the employees are sales representatives Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and the uptight Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), who are constantly at odds because Dwight cannot stand Jim’s practical jokes. Jim has an obvious crush on secretary Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer), although she has a loutish fiancee named Roy Anderson (David Denman). Other employees include sales reps Stanley Hudson (Leslie David Baker) and Phyllis Lapin (Phyllis Smith), accountants Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner), Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey), and Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nuñez). Temporary worker Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) is also assigned to the branch. Vice-President Jan Levinson-Gould (Melora Hardin) visits the office to tell Michael that either his branch or the one in Stamford will absorb the other and there will be downsizing as a result. Michael assures his employees that no one in his branch will be fired, but there is much concern permeating the office. Michael plays a joke on Pam and tells her that she will be the first one fired for stealing Post-It Notes, causing her to break down and cry. Creed Bratton appears unbilled as a fictionalized version of himself. Henriette Mantel appears as an office worker. 8/15/14

• 002. Diversity Day – 3/29/2005
  • Because of Michael’s retelling of a racist Chris Rock joke, complaints to corporate prompt them to send a diversity trainer for Diversity Today named Mr. Brown (Larry Wilmore). Michael tries to assist in the training, prompting irritation from the trainer and the office. When he is told that the training was because of him, he doesn’t take it seriously and the next day has his own diversity training (calling his ‘Diversity Tomorrow’). He throws out Human Resource rep Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) for making a joke, then has each employee put an index card with a different race written on it, and asking the employees to treat each other according to their stereotypes. When Michael goes too far with customer service rep Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling), she slaps him. Meanwhile, due the constant interruptions Jim loses his biggest client to Dwight, but still considers it a great day when Pam falls asleep on his shoulder. Kate Flannery makes her first appearance as Meredith Palmer, the Supplier Relations Representative. 8/16/14
• 003. Health Care – 4/5/2005
  • Jan assigns Michael to choose a new cost-cutting health care plan for his team, which he promptly tries to re-assign to Jim, then Dwight. He allows Dwight to set up a new ‘workspace’ in the conference room, where he goes to work slashing benefits to their absolute minimum, while Michael locks himself in his office during the whole process. When the team is able to corner Michael when he emerges to use the restroom, he shifts the blame to Dwight and tells him to come up with something better, as well as promising the team a surprise at the end of the day. Dwight has the group list their known illnesses so that they will be covered and Pam and Jim promptly start making up fake ones. In the end, the group gets a crummy plan, all Micheal has for the team as a surprise are ice cream sandwiches, and the team goes home disappointed and dejected. 8/24/14
• 004. The Alliance – 4/12/2005
  • Fearing the downsizing rumors, Dwight asks his nemesis Jim to form an ‘alliance’ with him, so that they are not eliminated Jim sees this as a great opportunity to prank Dwight, and enlists the help of Pam, resulting in Dwight sealing himself in a box in the storeroom, while waiting for an imaginary meeting of other workers who Jim gets Dwight to believe are also forming an alliance. To keep spirits up, Michael arranges to throw a birthday party for the employee with the next birthday, which happens to be Meredith – whose birthday is a month away. Michael struggles with what to write on the car, and his joke ultimately falls flat. It also turns out the Ryan’s birthday is actually that very day. Michael pledges $25 to Oscar’s son’s walk-a-thon, not realizing that it is a per-mile pledge. As Jim and Pam are intimately laughing about Dwight, Roy walks in on them and accusing Jim of being forward with his fiancée. Craig Robinson makes his first appearance as Darryl Philbin, the warehouse foreman. 8/24/14
• 005. Basketball – 4/19/2005
  • Michael challenges the warehouse crew to a game of basketball, with the stakes being that the loser has to work on Saturday – to fulfill a new corporate mandated policy. Michael picks Jim, Stanley, Ryan, and reluctantly, Dwight for his team. Extra friction mounts between Jim and Roy, as Jim gets the better of him on the court. Knowing that they are winning, Michael stops the game when he gets fouled, but the warehouse crew intimidates him – so he assigns the Saturday to his sales team. In the end, he rebels against the corporate rule and says no one has to work. Jim is distraught again to see Roy leave with Pam. Patrice O’Neal is Lonny, Karly Rothenberg is Madge, both of the warehouse team. 9/8/14
• 006. Hot Girl – 4/26/2005
  • When an attractive girl named Katy (Amy Adams) comes to the office to sell purses, Michael lifts his rule about vendors and gives her the conference room for the day. He tries to woo her first with coffee, then by using the company incentive prize, a cappuccino maker, to make her a special beverage. In the meantime Dwight is also wooing her and buys a purse thanks to Jim’s suggestion, but he is shut down immediately when he asks her out. When Katy’s ride cancels, Michael offers to give her a lift home which she accepts – so he has Ryan help him clean out his car. Pam and Roy have a fight when Roy says that he’s love to ask out Katy if he wasn’t dating Pam, even though they have actually been engaged for three years. Frustrated by seeing Roy and Pam making up later in the day, Jim asks Katy out for drinks so she leaves with him, leaving behind a downtrodden Michael…and a clearly jealous Pam. 9/8/14

SEASON 2

• 007. The Dundies – 9/20/2005
  • It is time for the eighth annual “Dundie” awards where Michael will pass out statuettes at the local Chili’s restaurant to every member of the staff for some ‘achievement’. He is the only one excited about the event, which Jan refuses to fund. Jim tries to dissuade Michael from giving Pam another “World’s Longest Engagement” award. Meanwhile Dwight tries to get to the bottom of who wrote a disparaging remark on the women’s restroom wall. At the awards ceremony, Michael’s performance as MC falls flat and Darrell and Roy leave, taking Pam with them. Pam decides that she wants to stay and comes back in and gets incredibly drunk. When Michael is heckled by some frat guys, he nearly finishes the awards prematurely – but then a drunk Pam encourages him to continue. She gets award the “Whitest Sneakers” award and gives a rousing acceptance speech, kissing Jim on the way back to her seat. Pam later confesses to Jim that it was her who wrote the graffiti, and the Chili’s owner (Jon Bosshart) announces to the documentarian that Pam had been sneaking drinks all night and she was no longer welcome in the restaurant. Devon Abner portrays Devon White. Trich Gates is Kevin’s date Stacy. Joane Carlesen is Stanley’s wife Teri. 10/8/14
• 008. Sexual Harassment – 9/24/2005
  • In the midst of Michael forwarding inappropriate jokes and a visit from his ‘BFF’ Todd Packer (David Koechner), Toby announces that he will be reviewing the company’s policy on sexual harassment after the CFO was forced to resign after allegations made by his secretary. Michael is against anything that will disrupt his bawdy behavior and his endless stream of retorting “That’s what she said.” He and the warehouse staff mock the video from H.R., but when Jan visits the office with a corporate lawyer, Michael announces he can no longer be friends with the staff, nor can he ever tell a joke again. He even hires his own lawyer, but Jan explains the the corporate lawyer would represent him if the need ever arises. Michael then is more willing to try and curtail the sexual innuendo in the office – in his own way. Meanwhile Pam’s mother (Shannon Cochran) pays a visit to the office and as they head out for dinner with Roy, Jim overhears her ask Pam, “which one is Jim?” 10/8/14
• 009. Office Olympics – 10/4/2005
  • Michael takes the day to go sign the papers to finalize his condo purchase, taking Dwight with him to act as his ‘associate’. Bored by the expense reports, Jim is cheered by Pam when she shows him how she throws things into Dwight’s coffee mug. This inspires him to ask the other members of the staff about the office games they play when Michael is away. Among the games are paper football (aka “hateball”) and Dunder-ball…which inspires the Games of the 1st Dunder-Mifflin Olympiad. They make up paper-box snowshoe racing, which they name “Flonkerton.” Angela is unamused and names only one game that she plays: Pam-Pong, in which she counts how many times Jim gets up from his desk to visit Pam. Meanwhile, Michael has second thoughts about buying the condo, but buys it when he realizes he will lose his $7000 down payment if he doesn’t. He tries to rent a room to Dwight, but Dwight purposely makes himself so annoying that Micheal takes back the offer. Michael and Dwight come back early, but Jim proceeds with the Olympic awards, pretending that the ceremony is about celebrating Micheal’s new condo. Nancy Walls Carrell is real estate agent Carol Stills. John Harrington Bland is Bill, the head of the condo association. 11/8/14
• 010. The Fire – 10/11/2005
  • Michael performs his evaluation of Ryan for the temp agency, and offers to take him under his wing as his business coach. A fire alarm sends the staff into the parking lot where Jim leads them in the ‘desert island’ book and movie game. Jim and Pam scoff at Meredith’s choices, which includes Legally Blonde. Michael realizes that Ryan knows more about Business than he does, while Dwight feels like Ryan is going to usurp his power at the firm. When the theoretical “who would you do?” question comes up, most of the men mention Pam and most of the women mention Jim; Roy names Angela, and Michael names Ryan. Pam and Jim will not publicly name each other though. In order to impress Michael, Dwight goes into the building to retrieve his cell phone, which is actually in Michael’s pocket, but comes out with the cause of the fire, Ryan’s cheese pita left too long in the oven, causing Michael and Dwight to mock him. Katy picks up  Jim and offers her contributions to the desert island game, which starts with Legally Blonde. Pam kisses Roy to elicit and jealous look from Jim. 11/9/14
• 011. Halloween – 10/18/2005
  • On the day of the office Halloween party with everyone dressed in costume, Jan calls and reminds Michael that he has to fire someone by the end of the day. Michael tries to get Pam to help him decide who to let go, but she wants no part of it. Jim and Pam post Dwight’s résumé on the internet, and he soon gets a call from Cumberland Mills in Maryland…but he quickly loses his chance with them when he insists on talking about his martial arts when they call. Pam suggest that the job might be good for Jim, but he is clearly hurt by the suggestion. Michael decides to fire Creed, and asks Jim to help role-play the scenario. Creed talks Michael into firing Devon, which he does with his usual ineptness. Devon smashes a pumpkin on Michael’s car. Pam tells Jim that she’d blow her brains out if he were to really leave. Lee Eisenberg is Gino, Gene Stupnitsky is Leo. Hugh Dane is security guard Hank. 12/14/14
• 012. The Fight – 11/1/2005
  • The ‘perfect storm’ occurs when Michael has to sign time cards, purchase orders, and expense reports all on the same day, which causes him to procrastinate all day long and force several people to stay until 7pm until he is complete. Michael also assigns Ryan to update the emergency contact list, then uses Ryan’s number to continuously prank call him. Meanwhile, Dwight has been promoted to purple belt in his karate class, and claims to be the ‘sempai’ assistant Sensei of the class of mostly children. After Jim eggs on Dwight to say that he can beat him up, Michael challenges Dwight to a karate match at his dojo officiated by Sensei Ira (Lance Krall). Both fighters are terrible, but Michael ends up winning, making Dwight bitter toward him. In order to cheer Dwight up, Michael changes Dwight’s title from “Assistant to the Regional Manager” to “Assistant Regional Manager.” Jim goes overboard by picking up Pam while they are play-fighting in front of their co-workers, and Pam is visibly uncomfortable. At the end of the day, everyone has to pitch in and help forge Michael’s name to get the tasks completed. When Jim leaves Pam a bag of chips, it appears as if she forgives him. 12/14/14
• 013. The Client – 11/8/2005
  • Jan comes to Scranton to join Michael in a meeting with a potential client named Christian (Tim Meadows), whose business with the county might save Dunder Mifflin from imposing any layoffs. In order to make the meeting more casual, Michael moves it to Chili’s and then proceeds to fill the evening with snacks, alcohol, jokes, and a game of truth-or-dare, much to Jan’s chagrin. As Jan gets drunker, she warms up and even talks to Michael and Christian about her divorce. By the end of the evening, Christian is ready to give them his business much to Jan’s delight. In a moment of celebration she and Michael kiss and then spend the night together talking. Back at the office, the staff has been asked to stay until Michael returns. They spend the night reading a script that Michael has written entitled Threat Level: Midnight starring action hero “Michael Scarn.” Dwight realizes that Scarn’s bumbling sidekick was modeled after him. Jim and Pam have dinner together on the roof, but when Jim jokingly implies that it was their first date, Pam responds coldly. Likewise Jan doesn’t want to discuss her night with Michael. 1/25/15
• 014. Performance Review – 11/15/2005
  • Michael conducts performance reviews with the staff, but most of the time is spent asking them analyze a message from Jan. She arrives to sit in with them and refuses to discuss her night with Michael…although he can talk of nothing else. She also wants to discuss his ideas for improving the branch, so he quickly puts out the old suggestion box and reads them off with Jan sitting in the meeting. One of the suggestions is that Michael not sleep with his boss, humiliating Jan even more. She coldly leaves the office and tells Michael that she will not date anyone with a personality like his, but just before she leaves, she softens a bit and tells him that he was very sweet to her but she is not ready for a relationship. Meanwhile Jim finds out that Dwight thinks that it is Friday when it is really Thursday. He and Pam keep up with maintaining that it is Friday. On the real Friday, Dwight doesn’t show up to work until after noon, which doesn’t bode well for the raise for which he has been campaigning. 1/25/15
• 015. Email Surveillance – 11/22/15
  • After getting off on the wrong foot by assuming that the IT guy Sadiq (Omi Vaidya) is a terrorist, Michael has him set up an email surveillance program so that he can read the team members’ email. He immediately finds out that Jim is hosting a Barbecue party for everyone in the office besides him. Jim tells Dwight that it is a surprise party for Michael so he can’t tell him about it. After hinting around all day that he wants to attend, Michael heads off to his improvisation class, where each improv scenario ends with him becoming FBI agent Michael Starns, who shoots everyone. When Michael is not invited to go out with his improv group, he crashes Jim’s party. Pam becomes obsessed with gathering evidence that Dwight and Angela are having an affair, but stops in her tracks when Phyllis guesses that the only office romance she knows about is between Jim and Pam. As Michael stumbles through Islands in the Stream on Karaoke, Jim joins in to ease the tension, while it is revealed that Dwight and Angela are making out in the backyard. Ken Jeong is Bill, one of the improv students, and Michael Naughton is Chris the instructor. 3/13/15
• 016. Christmas Party – 12/6/2005
  • The Dunder-Mifflin associates are having a Secret Santa gift exchange at the annual Christmas party, and Jim has picked out the perfect teapot and filled it with small personal mementos for Pam. Michael having just received a $3000 bonus buys Ryan a $400 iPod even though the limit in the gift exchange is $20. Jim receives one of Creed’s used shirts, Oscar gets his second shower radio in two years from Kelly, Toby gets Angela a poster of kids playing instruments, and Kevin gets himself a foot bath. But when Michael receives a handmade oven mitt from Phyllis, he is disgusted and changes the gift exchange to be a Yankee Swap, enabling everyone to steal gifts from others. Michael ends up with paint gun lessons from Dwight. Jim is worried about who will get the teapot since Pam naturally goes for the iPod, but when she sees how disgusted Jim is that Dwight ends up with the teapot, she trades the iPod for it. Jim however takes back the card that he has written for her that goes along with it. Michael ends up buying vodka for the party which loosens everyone up. Todd Packer shows up and passes out. Phyllis brings along her date Todd Vance (Robert R. Shafer aka Bobby Ray Shafer), president of Vance Refrigeration, a neighbor of Dunder-Mifflin. Kelly tries to kiss Dwight, which causes Angela to throw a fit. Meredith ends up exposing herself to Michael, who simply snaps a photo and moves on. 3/14/15
• 017. Booze Cruise – 1/5/2006
  • Michael keeps the office’s upcoming outing a secret, finally revealing that it will be a Booze Cruise on Lake Wallenpaupack, taking along a branch associate named Brenda Matlowe (Brenda Withers) to evaluate Michael’s leadership training. Michael struggles with Captain Jack (Rob Riggle) on who is in charge of the troops. Captain Jack grows tired of Dwight and has him ‘steer’ the boat on a fake prop wheel. Ryan tries to find a place where he can study for his test the next day. Pam becomes disgusted with Roy as he gets drunk, causing her and Jim, who is there with his girlfriend Katy, to exchange some intimate looks with one another. Inspired by Captain Jack – and not Michael, who is trying to be motivational – Roy announces that he is setting a date for the wedding. Pam is ecstatic, but Jim is downtrodden and breaks it off with Katy. In his struggle for dominance, Michael performs an exercise in leadership and announces that the boat is sinking, causing one passenger to jump overboard. Captain Jack ties Michael to the railing. Jim confesses his feeling for Pam to Michael, who encourages him not to give up. 6/4/15
• 018. The Injury – 1/12/2006
  • Michael calls the office to report that he has burned his foot on his George Foreman grill needing a ride to work. Dwight jumps at the chance, but crashes into a pole outside the office, throws up on his car, and then begins to act strangely all day… even appearing more likable to his co-workers, particularly Pam. Michael doesn’t think his staff are being sensitive to his handicap, so conducts some sensitivity training by bringing in wheelchair-bound property manager Billy Merchant (Marcus A. York), who leaves due to Michael’s offensive remarks. When Dwight collapses, Jim and Michael take him to the hospital, although Michael is more concerned with his own foot. It appears that Michael is being thoughtful when accompanying Dwight into his CAT scan, although he is more interested in putting his foot into it with Dwight’s head. 6/4/15
• 019. The Secret – 1/19/2006
  • The staff works on Spring cleaning in January with Dwight in charge of the project. However when Oscar calls in sick, Michael puts him in charge of investigating him. Meanwhile Jim is concerned that Michael will blab about his confession on the Booze Cruise that he has a crush on Pam. Michael is moved that he was the only one in whom Jim confided, and takes him out for lunch to Hooters. When Toby will not let him expense the lunch, he accidentally blabs about the lunch and word spreads around the office. Jim confesses that he had a crush on Pam when she first started working there, but Michael further tips her off that his crush was as recent as the Booze Cruise. Dwight tracks down Oscar returning home from shopping with his apparent gay lover Gil (Tom Chick). Dwight says he won’t tell Michael about Oscar’s fake sick day, but that he will be owed a favor. Although Dwight sits in with Oscar and Gil and watches TV, he completely misses the fact that they are gay. Lindsey Stoddart is Dana the waitress. 7/28/15
• 020. The Carpet – 1/26/2006
  • Someone has deposited a disgusting smelly substance on the floor of Michael’s office and he orders the carpet removed which is carried out by Roy and Darryl. Michael takes over Jim’s desk, relegating him to sit in the back with Kelly. Michael annoys the staff, arranges a raid on the Accounting department, and sets up a sales contest, which he recants when it is clear that he is losing. Jim in driven crazy by Kelly’s incessant chattering, but finds out that she has a crush on Ryan, and that it is reciprocal. Michael begins to doubt the loyalty of his staff and seeks advice from his old, hard boss Ed Truck (Ken Howard). Michael eventually learns that his old friend Todd Packer had been who had left the substance as a joke, which Michael then find hilarious. Jim is cheered up when he finds out that the seven messages that had been left on his phone were all from Pam. 7/28/15
• 021. Boys and Girls – 2/2/2006
  • Jan hosts a meeting to discuss career opportunities with the women of Dunder-Mifflin. Michael is irritated that he can’t be part of it, so he brings the guys down for a field trip to the warehouse. He ends up knocking over several shelves with the forklift, and wrecking the area with Styrofoam peanuts. The warehouse workers consider unionizing, but Pam comes down to put a stop to their union talk since Michael doesn’t know how to resolve. Michael tries to equalize the situation by ordering pizza. Jan talks Pam into taking an internship for graphic design within the company, but Roy talks her out of it. Pam tries to explain to Jim and the documentarian that she is happy with her life the wa it is, but breaks down crying. 10/26/15
• 022. Valentine’s Day – 2/9/2006
  • Michael heads to New York City on Valentine’s Day to meet with Jan and the other branch managers to give a financial presentation to the new CFO David Wallace (Andy Buckley). Before the meeting Michael lets it slip to the other branch managers Craig (Craig Anton), Josh Porter (Charles Esten), and Dan Gore (Dan Cole). Michael prepares and shows a sappy video called The Faces of Scranton. Craig doesn’t bring his financial info, and then tries to shift the attention to Michael and Jan’s affair. Michael has to do damage control to save Jan’s reputation, which he does surprisingly well, earning a Valentine’s Day kiss from Jan. Back at the office, Pam gets upset when she receives nothing for the holiday, while Phyllis receives multiple deliveries from her husband. Kelly makes out with Ryan the night before, but she gets turned down for a Valentine date. Angela gives Dwight a bobble-head that looks like him, and he scrambles to come with a gift, which turns out to be the key to his apartment. Conan O’Brien appears as himself. 10/26/16
• 023. Dwight’s Speech – 3/2/2006
  • Dwight wins the top salesman of the year award and has to go to a sales convention to accept the award. Michael convinces him that he will have to make an entertaining speech. Michael tries to coach him, along with the other workers, how to make a good speech, and along the way promises everyone in the office $1000 bonuses that he later had to retract. Jim gets annoyed with Dwight and makes some suggestions based on the speeches of Benito Mussolini. When the time comes, Dwight is too nervous to go up on stage so Michael goes onstage and fails to engage the audience whatsoever. Finally Dwight makes his way to the stage and using his Mussolini advice, wins the crowd over much to Michael’s irritation. Angela sneaks away from work to record Dwight’s speech. Meanwhile Jim gets tired of hearing about Pam’s wedding so looks for a place to take a vacation. He comes up with planning a trip Australia, which will begin two days before the wedding. Oscar, Angela, Creed, and Kevin bicker over the setting on the thermostat. Ryan continues to deflect Kelly’s hints at marriage. 12/31/15
• 024. Take Your Daughter to Work Day – 3/16/2006
  • Michael dreads “Take Your Daughter to Work Day”, while Pam is looking forward to trying to connect with a child. Kevin brings his shy fiancee’s daughter Abby (Haley Daniels), who connects with Jim but snubs Pam. Stanley’s eighth grade daughter Melissa (Jazz Raycole) is rude to everyone,except for Ryan which makes Kelly jealous. Kelly tells Stanley that something is going on between them, and Stanley lays down the law with Ryan, which frightens him. Meredith gets permission to bring her son Jake (Spencer Daniels), who refers to Dwight as Mr. Poop. Michael sends Ryan to retrieve a tape of an children’s TV show called Fundle Bundle on which he appeared as a child (Jake Kalender), which reveals that he was a lonely child in need of friends. Michael surprisingly connects with Toby’s daughter Sasha (Delaney Ruth Farrell), prompting him to sign up with an online dating service. Angela is impressed when Dwight finally stands up to Jake, whom Pam finally connects with by using the paper shredder to entertain him. 12/31/15
• 025. Michael’s Birthday – 3/30/2006
  • Michael tries to spread the enthusiasm about his birthday to the office, but only Dwight seems remotely interested…especially after Kevin announces that he is waiting for the results form his skin cancer screening. Jim and Pam sneak out to get some gifts for Kevin to cheer him up, and enjoy joking around together at the store. Michael clearly feels his thunder has been stolen, but offers to take the group out to an ice skating rink to get their mind off the screening. Although the ice rink was clearly for Michael’s birthday, everyone has a good time, including Michael who runs into his real estate agent Carol, and makes her smile by entertaining her kids. Kevin finds out that the results of his test were negative, which causes Michael to break down crying – not realizing that a ‘negative’ reading is good. Meanwhile Ryan overhears Dwight and Angela discuss their relationship. Pam feels that she had a ‘good day’, obviously because of spending time with Jim. Susan Foley is the delivery woman. Sara Van Horn is the store manager. 3/6/16
• 026. Drug Testing – 4/27/2006
  • When Dwight finds half of a marijuana joint in the parking lot, he uses his supposed status of volunteer Sheriff Deputy as an excuse to perform an office investigation regarding the owner of the joint. No one takes the investigation seriously including Michael, but when Dwight announces that company policy dictates that a random drug test will be performed, Toby supports his claim. Michael then becomes nervous because he may have gotten high accidentally at an Alicia Keys concert. He attempts to avert the screening by holding a drug class at work, then resorts to asking Dwight for his urine. Dwight complies, but then resigns from the Sheriff’s department out of guilt. Michael also feels guilty and appoints Dwight to be Honorary Volunteer Corporal at the office. Meanwhile while Jim is doing impressions of his co-workers, he and Pam simultaneously quote Stanley, causing Pam to declare “Jinx, buy me a Coke.” When the vending machine is out, Jim is unable to purchase the Coke, thus invoking the no-talking rule until he does. Pam finally gets bored with teasing him and sells him a Coke so that he can comply with the rule and again talk, sharing everything he has witnessed Dwight doing all day. Ryan asks the urine tester Linda (Marilyn Brett) if the urinalysis lab is hiring. NOTE: In a deleted scene, it is revealed that the joint actually belonged to Gino and Leo with Vance Refrigeration. 3/6/16
• 027. Conflict Resolution – 5/4/2006
  • On the day that the branch has a photographer (Scott Adsit) in to take photos for new I.D. badges, Michael overhears Oscar ranting to Toby about a poster of babies playing saxophone that Angela has pinned in their work area. He becomes interested in solving this dispute, and then forces Toby to show him all of the grievances that have been presented to him so that he can intervene ‘steel cage’ style and perform some by-the-book conflict resolution. This leads to some friction between the employees. After Pam reluctantly gives Angela a save-the-date for her wedding, Pam then finds out that someone has complained about Pam wedding planning on company time, which has later been redacted, and assumes it is Angela. Jim later admits that it was him before she can confront Angela. Dwight finds out that all of the complaints that he has lodged against Jim did not go to a ‘special file’ in New York, but rather in a box under Toby’s desk. Dwight demands that Jim be transferred to the Stamford office. Michael has to bribe the photographer to take a group photo of the branch team, who are now barely speaking to one another. Jim makes an appointment to speak to Jan. Vivianne Collins is the headquarter receptionist. 6/11/16
• 028. Casino Night – 5/11/2006
  • Michael hosts a casino night in the warehouse for charity, and ends up inviting both Jan and Carol. Dwight tries to keep the women apart when they both show up, but Jan ends up meeting Carol, and although she leads Michael to believe it is okay that he date other women, she leaves in a huff having expected to spend the night with him. Jim convinces Dwight that he is great at roulette because he can move objects with his mind. Creed steals as many poker chips as he can and wins a small refrigerator donated by Vance Refrigeration. Kevin thinks he is a poker whiz, but loses badly to the novice Phyllis. Pam and Jim review video tapes of potential band for her wedding, including Scrantonicity, a Police cover band in which Kevin plays, and whom Roy ends up hiring. Jan verifies with Jim that he is interested in transferring to the Stanford office. Jim later tells Pam that he is in love with her. She tells him that she can’t pursue a relationship with him, but that she values his friendship… but later tells her mother that she thinks she may be in love with him too. Jim returns and he and Pam kiss passionately. Britain Spellings is the craps dealer. 6/11/16

SEASON 3

• 029. Gay Witch Hunt – 9/21/2006
  • After Jim and Pam’s kiss, Pam tells Jim that she is still going through with the wedding. Consequently Jim moves to the Stamford division in Connecticut where he accepts the job as Assistant Regional Manager and works under Regional Manager Josh Porter (Charles Esten) and alongside regional sales director Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), sales representative Karen Filippelli (Rashida Jones), and accountant Hannah Smotrich-Barr (Ursula Burton). Pam however ended up calling off the wedding a few days before, but Roy is determined to win her back. Toby confronts Michael about calling Oscar ‘faggy’, which when overheard by everyone in the office forces Oscar to come out of the closet about his homosexuality, which leads to ill treatment from his co-workers, especially Angela. Michael calls everyone into a meeting to try to smooth things over with Oscar, and ends up kissing him on the lips to make amends, which Dwight also attempts. Oscar decides not to quit and file a suit when Jan, who is livid with Michael, gives Oscar three months paid vacation and the company car. Mr. Brown returns to give diversity training to the Stamford branch because of Michael’s incident. Jim quickly finds that Andy is temperamental when he encases his calculator in Jell-o. Jim sends Dwight a ‘Gay-Dar’ which indicates that Dwight is actually gay. 8/31/16
• 030. The Convention – 9/28/16
  • Michael and Dwight head to the Mid-Market Office Supply Convention in Philadelphia, which Josh and Jim will also attend. Michael is jealous of Jim’s friendship with Josh, and also insists that Jan keep her distance because of his relationship with Carol. Back in Scranton Pam goes on a double date with Kelly and Ryan, seeing Kelly’s cartoonist friend Alan (Robert Bagnell), which turns out poorly. Angela sneaks off to the convention to be with Dwight, and Jim, while trying to enter Dwight’s room to play a joke on him, sees Angela laid out for him and assumes that he hired a hooker. Toby tries to muster the courage to ask Pam out but fails. Michael tries to throw a big party in his room, but the turnout is miserable. Jim and Michael reconcile when Jim tells him that it was because of Pam that he transferred to Stamford. Jan tries to hit on Josh but is rejected. The party starts to pick up a little bit when some vendors visit Michael’s room. Matt Price is Evan. Robert Bagnell is Alan. Jerome Bettis plays himself signing autographs at the convention. 9/1/16
• 031. The Coup – 10/5/2006
  • Michael hosts ‘Movie Monday’ at the office, and when Jan bursts in on them watching Varsity Blues, Angela sees this as a chance to encourage Dwight to go for Michael’s job. Meanwhile Jim is surprised by the fact that his Stamford crew spends days on end playing Call of Duty, which he is not good at, and even more surprised when Jan catches them in the act and doesn’t seem to care at all. Dwight calls for a meeting with Jan and tells Michael that he is going to the dentist. Jan has no interest in promoting Dwight and immediately tells Michael that Dwight has gone behind his back. When Dwight returns, Michael plays along with Dwight’s lie and tell him that he is now in charge of the branch. The position immediately goes to Dwight’s head and he starts making changes, but when he ridicules Michael’s company car, Michael can hold his tongue no longer and lays into him. Dwight begs for forgiveness, and Michael agrees they can hug it out and the two of them return to ‘Movie Monday.’ Karen ends up purposely killing Jim in the game, as the two of them start to become playful at work. Pam buys some new outfits and does wears her new clothes at work. She gets some attention from Roy, plus unwanted attention from the other men in the office. 11/21/16
• 032. Grief Counseling – 10/12/2006
  • Michael learns from Jan that his former boss Ed Truck was killed, and Creed informs him that he was decapitated in a car accident. Although hardly anyone in the office knew Ed, Michael thinks it is necessary to have a grief counseling session. Meanwhile Jim is asked by Josh to oversee a project given to Karen. It annoys her, so Jim spends the day with her trying to find Herr’s Salt and Vinegar potato chips that are out in the vending machine. The grief counseling degenerates into the participants making up people who died in bizarre ways until Michael recognizes that Kevin’s is from the plot of Weekend at Bernie’s. Roy gets Pam out of the counseling session for her to take a break in an obvious attempt at winning her back. When Toby tells Michael that a bird ran into the window outside, Michael re-focuses his grief and they hold a funeral for the bird with Dwight playing the recorder and Pam delivering the eulogy singing On the Wings of Love. They set the bird on fire, and then Dwight demands that someone come clean it up. Jim finds the chips for Karen at a vending machine in the next building, and it becomes obvious that a spark is developing between them. 11/22/16
• 033. Initiation – 10/19/2006
  • Ryan goes out for his first sales call with Dwight, but it turns into one of Dwight’s bizarre initiations and takes him to his family farm and leaves him stranded in the field and has his cousin Mose (Michael Schur) attack him. They end up being late and blowing the sales car prompting them to both throw eggs at the Axelrod Ltd. building and go out for drinks. Jan demands that Pam track everything that Michael does hour by hour, but since they are giving away free pretzels in the lobby – much to Stanley’s utter delight – there isn’t much for her to write. Michael ends up getting hopped up on the sugary pretzels and then crashing in his office, but still makes a huge sale at the end of the day. Over at Stamford, Jim and Karen flirtatiously argue over who gets a squeaky chair, which ultimately ends up with Andy. Jim and Pam share a quick phone call full of their usual rapport, but which ends a bit awkwardly when Jim thinks that Pam says goodbye abruptly when she was really talking to someone else. Thomas F. Evans is the pretzel vendor. 2/26/17
• 034. Diwali – 11/2/2006
  • Kelly is attending a Hindu Diwali celebration put on by her community and she invites everyone in the office to attend. This leads Michael to host a diversity session where he inappropriately covers the Kama Sutra. Kelly’s remark that Diwali is like a Halloween celebration, leads Michael and Carol to come in costume, and although he can easily remove his ‘second head,’ Carol is stuck in a cheerleader outfit. Meanwhile in Stamford, Jim bicycles to work which causes him to seat profusely. That night he, Andy, and Karen stay late to do order form consolidation, and while Andy and Jim get drunk, Karen tosses her drinks. Pam reluctantly attends the celebration and ends up having a good time dancing with a young Indian doctor named Wali (Vali Chandrasekaran), causing Roy to immediately leave when he sees them. Inspired by the longevity of Kelly’s parents’ (Avu and Swati Chokalingam), Michael publicly proposes to Carol, but she tells him she’d have to think about it and storms out. Despondent about her refusal, he makes a pass at Pam, who rejects him but gives him a ride home as long as he sits i the bakc seat. Jim likewise is too drunk to ride his bike home from the office and gets a ride with Karen. Mike Bruner is Tony Gardner. Tanveer K. Atwal, Jaysha Patel, and Ananya Kepper are Kelly’s sisters Rupa, Neepa, and Tiffay. 2/26/17
• 035. Branch Closing – 11/9/2006
  • Jan tells Michael that the Scranton branch will be closing and he and several other employees will be offered severance packages. Despondent, he spill the beans to the staff who are mostly upset by the news. Stanley however is thrilled that he can retire, Creed begins selling the office equipment, and Ryan sees it as a great chance to break it off with Kelly. Meredith searches for the unknown person with whom she made a pact to sleep with on the last day of work. When Michael finds out that the warehouse staff’s positions are safe now that the warehouse is going to be bought out by Bob Vance, Michael and Dwight head off to talk to the CFO, and ultimately stake out his house. Meanwhile in Stamford, Jim is offered the number two position reporting to Josh, but then Josh drops the bomb that he accepted an offer form Staples. Jan then has to put in a backup plan, and close the Stamford office and allows Scranton to absorb Stamford. Jim struggles with wanting to return, but when Pam finds out the news, she is clearly excited to see Jim again. By nightfall the news has made it to Michael and Dwight and they celebrate their victory, although not knowing what they did to cause it. Karen decides that she will make the move to Scranton, and admits that she is into Jim. Meredith discovers with who she made the pact: a warehouse worker named Kevin Trundle from another branch. Skyler Caleb is the CPU guy. 8/21/17
• 036. The Merger – 11/16/2006
  • As the Stamford associates pack up and get ready to leave their branch, with Andy giving Jim a stern warning to not get in his way, Michael is arranging a welcome party and seating assignments for the incoming workers. Pam is excited to be seeing Jim again, but the reunion doesn’t live up to her expectations. Dwight and Andy argue over who will report to whom, but then upon finding out that Jim is now the No. 2 man, argue over who is next in line. Dwight suggests that Michael fire one associate to send a message and randomly chooses Tony Gardner. Later when Tony gets irritated by Michael’s unprofessional behavior as he attempts to unify the team and says he quits, Michael quickly fires him… which draws fire from Jan since they now have to pay him severance. Michael’s unprofessional behavior also causes Hannah to walk out. Although Andy and Michael hit it off, most of the Scranton and Stamford teams already start to get on each other’s nerves. When Michael’s Lazy Scranton video fails to bring them together, he flattens everyone’s tires and blames Vance Refrigeration, encouraging the teams to unite for revenge. The teams end up uniting over their disdain for Michael’s behavior. Jim accepts an invitation to go out with Karen, and then admits to Pam that he is seeing someone and apologizes for the awkwardness. Pam tells him that they will always be friends. Kevin becomes obsessed with the paper shredder. Wayne Wilderson is Martin Nash. 8/21/17
• 037. The Convict – 11/30/2006
  • When the office receives a check from the Federal Work Opportunity Program, Jan informs Michael that Josh must’ve hired an reformed convict. It turns out to be Martin, a black employee, causing Michael to make sure that no one treats him differently. However when Martin admits that he was arrested for insider trading and tells about the benefits of prison, it causes several folks in the office to declare that prison is better than the office. Michael then tries to convince everyone that the office is better, first by adopting the persona of “Prison Mike”, then letting the crew hang out outside in the freezing cold, and finally by locking them in the conference room. Toby forces Michael to let them out, and tells Michael that they are only teasing him. Michael sends everyone home, and Martin simply quits. Meanwhile Jim convinces Andy to ask out Pam and feeds him fake information about what she is attracted to, culminating with Andy singing The Rainbow Connection to her in falsetto with a banjo. Hannah brings her baby into the office. 2/21/18
• 038 & 039. A Benihana Christmas – 12/14/2006
  • Carol breaks it off with Michael when he sends out Christmas cards with his face superimposed over Carol’s ex-husband. Michael becomes severely depressed and tries to cancel the Christmas party, but everyone refuses to cancel. Andy takes Michael out to Benihana to cheer him up, and Michael brings along Dwight and Jim, and ends up flirting with the waitress Cindy (Brittany Ishibashi). Dwight is separated from the group at the grill, with a couple (Stephen Saux, Annie Sertich) seated between them, and is unable to hear any of their conversation. Back at the office, Angela dismisses all of Karen’s ideas for the party and kicks her off the committee. Pam decides to be nice to Karen, and the two of them plan their own margarita karaoke party, starting a rivalry with Angela who steals the karaoke chord. Michael brings a waitress named Nikki (Kulap Vilaysack) and another waitress Amy (Kathrien Ahn) back to the party and gives Amy his old bicycle that he brought in for the toy drive. As he gets drunker, he can’t tell Nikki and Amy apart, so he marks Nikki with a magic marker. Although Michael considers Nikki his new girlfriend, she gets bored and leaves, saying she has school. With Angela’s party a failure, Pam and Karen invite Angela to merge their parties, agreeing to let Angela sing karaoke Christmas songs. Pam tells Jim she’s been sending Dwight letters posing as the C.I.A. and for his Christmas gift, she lets Jim pick his next mission. Jim decides not to play these types of games any longer following his promotion. Pam is clearly hurt by seeing Jim and Karen together, and Jim seems hurt when he sees Pam and Roy getting along so well. Jim consoles Michael and tells him that Nikki was just his rebound. Jim changes his mind about Dwight and has Pam give Dwight the message to wait on the roof for his helicopter and then destroy his own phone. Oscar returns with Gil, but takes one look at Angela singing and declares that it’s too soon. Chatree “Chad” Yodvisotsak is the chef. NOTE: This was a one-hour episode that aired in two-parts in syndication. 2/21/18
• 040. Back from Vacation – 1/4/2007
  • Michael returns from vacation in Jamaica, bringing along his memories and remnants, including his hair wrap and a steel drum. Since he didn’t miss the warehouse inventory like he had hoped, he calls for it to be conducted as a luau causing Angela to scramble to put the party together. Michael then lets it slip that Jan had accompanied him on the trip, and to prove it to Todd Packer, he forwards an email of him put sunscreen on a topless Jan. Unfortunately, he sends it to ‘packaging’ rather than ‘Packer’, and the whole company is soon abuzz about it. Michael dreads the confrontation with Jan, but when she arrives to see him, she is seemingly unaware of the email, and confesses that at the suggestion of her psychiatrist, she has decided to pursue a relationship with him, knowing full well that he isn’t right for her. Meanwhile Karen is angry at Jim when he suggests it may not be a good idea for her to move into an apartment down the street from him. Jim gets advice from Pam that he should give her a break on this and let her live where she wants. Jim recants and tells Karen she should take the place, and Pam privately breaks down in tears, receiving attempts at comfort from both Dwight and Roy. 11/11/18
• 041. Traveling Salesmen – 1/11/2007
  • Kevin reminds Angela that Corporate didn’t get their tax forms. Dwight arrives late for a meeting, during which Michael announces that they will break up into groups of two to make their sales calls. Andy and Michael team up, and between bashing Dwight and trying to get him fire, Andy manages to screw up one of their sales calls when he makes a stupid comment about fishing to client Richard Corey (Warren Sweeney). Jim and Dwight actually make a good team and win over a client (Gil Glasgow) by showing them how much better their customer service is over a larger company. Phyllis takes Karen to get a gaudy makeover, which yields a big order from their client Kenny (Mark Tomasek), whose wife had the same type of style. Ryan requests that he do the pitch and let Stanley critique him, which Stanley finds extremely amusing when the clients all turn out to be black and Ryan fumbles pitching the product to their leader Julius (Leon Simmons). Meanwhile Angela is in a great mood because Dwight had covered for her and drove the tax forms to the Corporate office in New York in order to keep her out of trouble. Angela’s mood allows her to bond with Pam, but it is torn asunder when Pam refuses to accept a kitten from Angela. Pam has won an art contest but has trouble finding anyone who cares, until Jim returns and acts excited. Phyllis had tipped off Karen that Jim used to be crazy about Pam, so she questions their relationship. Jim assures her that his crush wasn’t reciprocated and that he is happy that she had moved to Scranton to be near him. Andy tips off Michael that Dwight had been late that morning because he had gone to the Corporate office, so Michael, assuming Dwight went behind his back again, demands to know why he was there. Angela doesn’t want him revealing their relationship, so Dwight simply quits. NOTE: This episode was combined with the following episode The Return and ran as a single hour-long episode during Sweeps Week. 11/11/18
• 042. The Return – 1/18/2007
  • With Dwight out of a job, he turns to Staples for work as a salesman. With Dwight gone, Oscar returns to the fold from ‘vacation’ where he is given a welcome return to a staff who now knows he’s gay. Andy begins chipping away at Michael to gain his favor, and only succeeds in getting on his and everyone else’s nerves. Jim tries to recruit Karen to help play a trick on him, but she is too busy, so he turns back to Pam to help hide his cell phone inside the ceiling. This eventually drives him crazy when he can’t find it when it’s ringing and he punches a hole in the wall, earning himself some time in anger management. Angela can’t stand the fact that Dwight lost his job because of her so tells Michael that he had been late because he was doing her a favor. Michael misses the fact that they are dating, and assume Dwight cares about his job that he would do a favor like that for any random office worker. Steve tracks Dwight down at Staples, apologizes, and invites him back. Karen confronts Jim and ask him if he still has feelings for Pam and he has to admit that he does. Dwight returns to work and believes that Oscar’s Mexican themed party is for him. 8/17/19
• 043. Ben Franklin – 2/1/2007
  • With Phyllis having her bridal shower in the office, Michael wants to hire a stripper for her husband-to-be Bob’s bachelor party being held in the warehouse. He believes that if the women have a stripper, then it will be okay for them to have one as well. Dwight hires a stripper named Elizabeth (Jackie Debatin), but no one goes for her offer to lap dance except for Michael, who feels guilty midway and call it off. He later calls Jan to apologize for his actions. She is less jealous then angry that he violated company policy. Jim hires the stripper for Phyllis’s party, who actually turns out to be an educational Ben Franklin impersonator named Gordon (Andrew Daly). He doesn’t understand the ladies’ flirty attitude but when Pam mentions his undergarments, Gordon starts to flirt back, much to her discomfort. She also find great discomfort when Karen asks if she still has feelings for Jim, which causes her to babble meaninglessly and the apologize for nothing. She later asks Ryan to set her up with one of his friends. With the lap dances off, Dwight makes sure he gets his money’s worth out of the stripper by having her answer phones. 8/17/19
• 044. Phyllis’ Wedding – 2/8/2007
  • It’s Phyllis’s wedding day with Bob Vance of Vance refrigeration, and Michael is excited to be pushing Phyllis’s father Albert (Hansford Rowe) down the aisle in his wheelchair, but when Albert gets up and walks for most of the way, Michael feels short-changed and looks for other ways to get attention including integrating himself with the groomsmen and then announcing the couple before the minister (Rick Scarry) has a chance to. Jim coaxes Dwight into believing there are wedding crashers attending the reception. He questions and ejects one suspicious man, who turns out to be Phyllis’s Uncle Al (George Ives), who has dementia. When Michael tries to interject his own toast at the wedding, Bob throws him out and Dwight is forced to keep him out. Pam is distraught to see that Phyllis stole all of her wedding ideas from the invitations to the dress to the flowers, and she discusses this with Roy at the wedding. When Pam sees Jim dancing with Karen, she agrees to dance with Roy outside – where Dwight and Angela are secretly dancing, and Michael has struck up a conversation with the now-missing Uncle Al. Jim pretends to be okay with Pam and satisfied with Karen, but cannot conceal his true feelings. Michael hopes to make it up to Phyllis, and does so when she thinks that he found the missing Uncle Al. Kevin and his band Scrantonicity play the wedding. Toby has a date at the wedding who catches the bouquet. Creed attaches his card to someone else’s gift. Brian Hatton is Randy. John F. Schaffer is the photographer. 3/15/20
• 045. Business School – 2/15/2007
  • Michael is ecstatic to be speaking to Ryan’s college Emerging Enterprise class, although his self-importance is vastly over-inflated. Ryan’s position is that Dunder-Mifflin is a dying company, but Michael doesn’t know this, and gets bombarded with a number of hostile questions after he makes his over-the-top presentation during which he tears someone’s textbook to shreds and tosses candy bars at the audience. Once he is told that Ryan has predicted the demise of the company, he storms off and tells Ryan to pack up his things at the office. He doesn’t fire him however, but merely moves him to the annex… closer to Kelly, which thrills her. Meanwhile Dwight finds a bat hibernating above the ceiling tiles and it flies out. As he attempts to get it out of the building, Jim pretends to give all of the signals that he is turning into a vampire. Dwight is prepared for this and has Creed fashion him a stake if needed. He finally captures the bat – along with Meredith’s head – in a plastic bag and sets it free. Pam has some of her artwork on display at an art show and invites everyone from the office. Roy gladly comes along and brings his brother Kenny (Michael Patrick McGill), and although he appears to be supportive, it is obvious to Pam that he is only doing it to try and get back in her good graces. Additionally she overhears Oscar and his boyfriend Gil insult her work. By the time it is over, Pam is nearly in tears, until Michael shows up and seems to be in complete awe of her work, and even buys her painting of the office building, prompting a sincere hug from her. Nathan Blank is the Frisbee student. Matthew Brent, Charlie Hirsch, Jonathan Hughes,  Elizabeth Moore, Mike Park, Jeremy Shouldis, Annie Weirich, and David Daskal are students. 3/16/20
• 046. Cocktails – 2/22/2007
  • The CFO of Dunder Mifflin David Wallace and his wife Rachel (Jean Vallepique) host a cocktail party, and Michael, Jan, Dwight, Jim, and Karen all attend. Michael and Dwight show up early while Rachel is still in her robe, and bring possibly-bad potato salad. When Jan arrives, she had Michael sign a company waiver that releases the company if things don’t work out in their relationship. Michael sees this as a statement of their love and spends the entire party trying to assert that he and Jan are lovers. She can take no more and asks to speak to him privately, but then tries to seduce him in the bathroom. When tells her that she is behaving inappropriately, she storms out. Dwight spends the entire party surveying the house to see how sound the structure is, even checking out the chimney on the roof. Karen warns Jim about numerous people at the party including David Wallace with whom she had previously had relationships. When he finally gets annoyed, she tells him that she is just kidding and that he is actually the first. Meanwhile the rest of the Dunder-Mifflin crew goes out for happy hour drinks. Roy tells Pam that he can’t go because his brother Kenny just lost a bundle in the jet ski business and that he promised to drink with him. Pam reminds him that they are in a relationship so they should all drink together. Over the course of the evening, Pam decides she wants to be serious with Roy again and build their relationship on honesty, but when she tells him that she had kissed Jim, he blows his stack and he and his brother destroy the bar. Toby spends the entire evening trying to win a stuffed animal from the claw game to give Pam, but she he finally does, she says he should give it to his kid. David gets bored with the part and asks Jim to go outside and shoot hoops. He asks Jim about Jan and Michael, but he doesn’t have much to say before they spot Dwight on the roof. On the way home, Pam hints that it might have been better not to take their relationship public, causing Michael to break down and tell her that he wants a full relationship. He tells her that he loves her, but she can’t say it yet, but does acknowledge that she’s sorry and just tired. Roy vows to get revenge on Jim. Owen Daniels is the kid sleeping in the house. Hannah Baker, Michael Kaiser, and Matt Prokop are the underage kids whom Creed supplies fake IDs for. Stephen Mitchell is the bartender. 6/28/20
• 047. The Negotiation – 4/5/2007
  • Roy enters the office and attacks Jim, but before he can do much damage, Dwight douses him with pepper spray. Roy is arrested and fired, but Jim refuses to press charges. Angela is turned on by what Dwight did, but since she didn’t see it, she asks each person who was there to recount it. Roy later returns with security to pick up his check, apologizes to Jim, and asks to meet Pam after work. They have a nice chat, and he apologizes to her as well, asking if she plans to date Jim. She denies that she will, and they part with a hug. Meanwhile Darryl arranes to meet with Michael to ask for a raise. Michael studies various negotiations tactics but they mostly break down once Darryl realizes that Michael is wearing a women’s suit. When Darryl finally tells him that he wants a 10% raise, he says that it would mean that Darryl makes more from him. Darryl doesn’t believe it, but when he sees Michael’s pay stub, he tells him that he needs to demand a raise. Michael arranges a business meeting at the New York office with Jan, bringing along Toby to represent HR, and Darryl for moral support. When Jan declines his request, he begins threatening to withhold sex. Jan eventually tells him that she can offer 12%, as long as he demands 15% on the record. Jim wants to get Dwight something in appreciation for saving him from Roy, but Dwight thinks it is a hero’s job to do acts without reward. Karen points out that Jim may feel guilty for playing so many tricks on Dwight. Finally Jim spots Angela and Dwight passionately kissing, and decides that telling no one about it will be his repayment. Toby is annoyed continuously by the bickering between Ryan and Kelly. Nicholas D’Agosto is Jan’s young assistant Hunter. Liz Ross is the woman wearing the same suit as Michael. 6/28/20
• 048. Safety Training – 4/12/2007
  • Andy returns from anger management training, hellbent on staying calm during every situation thrown his way. He is also insistent that everyone now refer to him as ‘Drew’ as it signifies a new beginning. Dwight is still angry at him, and vows to shun him for three years, but occasionally will ‘unshun’ him when he needs to speak to him. The office conducts safety traning, starting in the warehouse, where Michael repeatedly interrupts and underminds Darryl’s presentation on using the equipment safely, especially after Michael had recently pulled a ladder out from under him and caused him to sprain his ankle. Toby hosts similar safety training for the office staff, but when Darryl and his warehouse workers hear the types of cushy safety – ie. avoiding carpal tunnel, eye strain, and sitting for too long – they scoff at the training. Michael feels defeated, and when Pam notes that the warehouse’s training utilizes visual aids, Michael decides to pull a stunt whereby he pretends to be depressed and suicidal up on the roof of the office. Initially he tries to put a trampoline in place, but when Dwight drops a watermelon from the roof, it bounces and explodes on Stanley’s car. He then rents a bounce house and gets ready to perform his show. When Pam and Jim find the bounce house, they realize what he is going to do and plead with him to come down. At that point, Michael really does become suicidal and it takes Darryl to talk him down by telling him how much courage he has to go about his life every day as Michael Scott. Meanwhile the office staff begins betting on various things from counting jelly beans to whether Creed will notice that his apple has been switched with a potato. Stanley comes out ahead, while Karen loses every bet and realizes she’s still an outsider. 10/12/20
• 049. Product Recall – 4/26/2007
  • Jim does an impression of Dwight by dressing and speaking like him, which drives Dwight crazy. Dwight attempts to reciprocate but falls flat. Meanwhile the entire office staff faces the repercussions of shipping supplies of paper that have a watermark of a duck having sex with a mouse. Michael heads up damage control, while blaming Creed for not being an effective quality assurance manager. Creed quickly looks to scapegoat a girl named Debbie Brown at the paper mill, who he finds out had called in sick one day during the week of the watermark incident. He claims that she failed to meet with him and gave him a different excuse, and this ultimately causes her to be fired. Feeling guilty, he takes up a collection for her in a card, but then pockets the money himself. Michael stages a press conference but only gets reporter Chad Lite (Anthony Russell) from the local Scranton paper. None of it goes well when an agry client named Barbara Alen (Lisa Darr) shows up and demands that Michael resign. He throws her out, and then has Pam film him for his own apology video, during which he threatens that everyone meet his demands not to be fire, or else the next batch of paper that goes out will have the ‘f’ word on them. Michael also puts Kelly in charge of traning the other on taking customer service calls to deal with the backlash. She has the hardest time getting through to Angela, who is naturally rude, but after working with her, Angela comes to respect Kelly, and Kelly claims it as a victory. Michael sends Jim and Andy to the local high school that had used the tainted paper to print prom invitations. Andy hardly takes the job seriously to start with, but he becomes despondent after discovering that his ‘girlfriend’ Jamie (Shira Scott Astrof) , for whom he bought wine coolers and then made out with, is actually a high school student and has a boyfriend. As they drive back to the office, Jim cheers him up by singing a duet with him of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Jim Jansen is the high school principal. Tom Konkle is the English teacher. 10/13/20
• 050. Women’s Appreciation – 5/3/2007
  • Phyllis is flashed by a man in the parking lot, and Michael initially laughs it off until he realizes he has gone too far. Dwight establishes an anti-flashing task force and has Pam draw up wanted posters based on Phyllis’s description, but the drawing look like Dwight with a mustache. Andy tries to get into Dwight’s good graces, but does so by hanging the flyers all over town. Michael calls a meeting in the conference room to celebrate Women’s Appreciation, but when his comments are inappropriate, he suggests a different venue and takes the women to the mall. The men hang back at the office, and thanks to Kevin’s suggestion, the check out the women’s restroom and spend the afternoon in there when they find out there is a lounge area. Michael has been becoming less interested in Jan due to her sexually deviant behavior and domination of him, making him drive up to see her regularly. This is the main topic of discussion with the ladies at the mall, and they convince him that he needs to break it off from her. He rewards them all by giving them a spree to purchase one item on him from Victoria’s Secret. Pam in uncomfortable seeing Karen pick out lingerie to wear for Jim. Meredith’s poor driving on the way back causes her to get a flat tire, which Michael has no idea how to change. Pam comes to the rescue and is proud of herself. Michael has the ladies give him courage to make the breakup call to Jan, but as he’s finishing, she walk in and apologizes for trying to make him drive up. They plan to go out for dinner, but then she hears the message from Michael and sadly leaves the office. Jim calls Dwight with the tip that he’s spotted the pervert above the sink in the women’s room, where Dwight finds the mirror with a mustache painted on it, causing him to realize what Pam did. 1/30/21
• 051. Beach Games – 5/10/2007
  • Michael gets a phone call from David Wallace, who asks him to come to New York to interview for a regional position at Dunder -Mifflin. The timing corresponds to the office’s Beach Day, where they all go to Lake Scranton for the afternoon via bus, singing The Gambler along the way. Michael decides to use this opportunity to choose his successor, and he arranges a series of Survivor-like games, tasking Pam to take notes on everyone’s every move and behavior. He chooses Dwight, Jim, Andy, and Stanley as the team captains, believing they would be the most likely for the position. They go through the game of carrying an egg on a spoon while blindfolded, a hot dog eating contest, a Sumo wrestling contest, and walking over hot coals. Stanley starts to take the contests seriously when Michael assures him that he will be making his decision on the outcomes of the contests. Andy tries to go for being humble in all ways, and winds up stumbling into the lake and floating away on his back in his sumo suit. Jim reveals that he too is going to be interviewing with David Wallace for the regional job, which Michael blows off. Pam gets tired of taking notes, and quickly walks over the coals herself. It liberates her to let out her feelings and tell everyone how disappointed she was that no one showed up at her art show, and also how much she misses her friendship with Jim… and that she cancelled her wedding for him. The gang heads home on the bus singing the theme of The Flintstones. 1/30/21
• 052 & 053. The Job – 5/17/2007
  • Michael pays a visit to David at the corporate office the day before his interview to get a feel for how good of a chance he has at getting the corporate job. Feeling confident enough to sell his condo, he passes the reigns of the regional office to Dwight, who immediately begins instituting his own programs, including Schrute Bucks rewards, conducting a seminar about paper, and painting Michael’s office black. He also sets up interviews to replace himself as Assistant to the Regional Manager. Since Andy is the only one to apply, Dwight gives him the job, but then makes Pam the secret Assistant to the Regional Manager. Jim gets a haircut for his corporate interview, and he and Karen head to New York City to interview for the same job, and spend a fun evening on the town. Jan comes to to see Michael and tell him that she’s made some changes to her life, and wants to get back together with him. Michael enlists all of the women in the office except Meredith to coach him on how to handle her. They remind him that he was miserable in his relationship with her, so he decides to turn her down… but then he sees that she’s gotten breast implants, so he quickly accepts her offer. During his interview, Michael tells David that he is dating Jan again, and David makes it clear that they are letting Jan go, and the job he is applying for is Jan’s. As Karen is telling David off the record that Michael is a disaster. Michael lets it slip to Jan that she is getting fired, so she storms into David’s office screaming at him. She is escorted out of the building, and when David makes it clear that they are not going to go with him in the position, Michael withdraws his application and drives Jan back to Scranton, while she breaks down crying. Michael returns to the office and tells everyone he is there to stay, which nixes both Dwight’s and Andy’s new positions. During Jim’s interview, David asks him about how he will like New York, which starts him thinking about Pam. He returns to the office and immediately asks Pam to go out on a dinner date with him. David makes a phone call offering someone the position of Jan’s old job… and it turns out to be Ryan, who immediately breaks it off with Kelly. NOTE: This was a one-hour episode that aired in two-parts in syndication. 5/24/21

SEASON 4

• 054 & 055. Fun Run – 9/27/2007
  • Michael seems to have gotten over losing the job as Regional Manager to Ryan, and is happy that the jobless Jan has moved in with him. As he goes over how great things seem to be going with the unseen interviewer, he runs over Meredith with his car. As Pam is dealing with Sadiq with tech support because she has downloaded porn and killed her computer, Michael comes in and announces that Meredith is in the hospital with a fractured pelvis. Meanwhile, Kevin, Oscar, and others speculate whether Jim and Pam are now together. Pam had talked Jim through his breakup with Karen, and although she said he couldn’t drive her away from working there, one morning they find her desk cleared out. Pam arranges for everyone to go to the hospital and visit Meredith, and tells Angela she should be there since she is supposed to organize Party Planning Committee. Angela agrees to go, but relies on Dwight to give her cat Sprinkles her medication. When Dwight returns, he has to inform Angela that the cat is dead, and he has stored her in the freezer. Angela becomes suspicious when she finds that the cat had clawed the bags of vegetables in the freezer. Ryan calls to get the details on Meredith, and Michael immediately undermines his authority. When they get to the hospital, Michael is distraught that Meredith won’t forgive him. The nurse (Silvia McClure) when Michael pulls out her IV while trying to tie balloons to it. When Michael finds out that Sprinkles died, he determines that the office must be cursed. He calls everyone to conference to talk about their religion and why the place is having so much bad luck. Dwight goes to the hospital to check on Meredith and considers pulling her plug. He also questions the doctor (Justin Spitzer) and finds out that Meredith has been bitten by a bat – which Dwight had caused earlier – and that she never got her rabies shot. Michael then announces that he saved Meredith’s life by hitting with her car, because it may have saved her with the rabies shot. The camera crew track Jim and Pam meeting up outside work, and Jim giving her a kiss, so they finally admit that they’re dating. Michael decides to organize Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Clebrity Rabies Awareness Fun Run Race for the Cure, and requires everyone at the office to participate. Andy worries about nipple chafing, and Kevin is too out of shape to run. Angela starts to suspect that Dwight purposely killed the cat, a fact he finally admits, and says he was just trying to put it out of its misery. As Michael is changing clothes, Pam walk into his office and sees him full frontal as he is changing, traumatizing her for the day. Despite the fact that he told her to come in when she knocked, Jan yells at Pam and accuses him of trying to steal her man. Pam coaxes Michael into hiring Elizabeth the stripper nurse to come accept the giant charity check for Rabies that cost an extra $200 to make up. leaving the grand total of the donation to be $240. Michael loads up on carbs for the race by scarfing down a plate of Fettucini Alfredo, but it just makes him collapse and vomit once he finishes the race. Darryl stays behind and hits on the nurse. Creed, Stanley, and Oscar jump in a taxi and go for beers, while Pam and Jim simply walk the entire time, and stop at a yard sale and buy a lamp. Toby wins the race when Dwight slips him Immodium rather Ex Lax. All the while Ryan cannot get through to anyone at the office. Andy returns with bloody nipples. Jim and Pam find Michael collapsed and walk him back in, and present him with the lamp. He wind up at the hospital, where Meredith finally forgives him. Michael offers to share his sucker with her, but once she licks it, he doesn’t want it back. Takayo Fischer is Meredith’s hospital roommate. NOTE: This episode was originally aired as a one-hour episode. 9/20/21
• 056 & 057. Dunder Mifflin Infinity – 10/4/2007
  • When Toby sees Pam kiss Jim, he puts out an HR memo saying that public display of affection won’t be tolerated. He also tells them both that they do not need to sign a statement that they are dating until it becomes ‘serious’. During the discussion, Toby reveals to the office that they are dating, which brings hearty congratulations from Michael and most of the team, although Phyllis is worried that Pam might pass on more sales opportunities to Jim when clients call in. Ryan comes to visit the office, and quickly ensures that he has the respect of all of those who knew him as an intern. He meets with the team and introduces the company’s re-brand Dunder Mifflin Infinity, which will provide a sleek new website, Blackberrys for everyone, and new ways of utilizing technology. Jan also comes to visit and mentions ageism to Michael, which sets him on a path of trying to prove that all of the new business methods may be illegal because they are ageist. To prove the point, he brings in the co-founder of the company Robert Dunder (John Ingle), but when he starts to ramble, he quickly shows him out. Creed tries to avoid being edged out by dying his hair black with computer ink. Dwight buys Angela a new cat to try to smooth things over, but after she agrees to meet him for dinner, she decides she sees Sprinkles every time she looks at him, so she breaks it off with him. Kelly tells Ryan that she’s pregnant, so he agrees to go to dinner with her. Once he realizes she is lying, he tries to completely sever ties with her and also get her replaced by an offshore team from India. Michael wants to prove that a personal touch is more effective than new technology, so he creates gift baskets to take to seven customers who recently left Dunder Mifflin. When no one else wants to go on the calls, Michael takes Dwight along. Dwight has a hard time remaining composed as he keeps thinking about Angela. They visit clients Larry Meyers (Edward James Gage) and Aaron Grandy (Kevin Dorff) to drop off baskets, but can’t commitments from either of them. With one more client to visit, they rely on the GPS to get them there, but when Michael takes it too literally, they drive into Lake Scranton. Michael blames this on technology in general, and then heads back to reclaim the gift basket from Grandy. They throw a fit when they find out that he has already eaten the Turtles. Michael and Dwight return to the office soaking wet, declaring that there will never be any Technology advancement at Dunder Mifflin, a statement Ryan strongly disagrees with. NOTE: This episode originally aired as a one hour-episode. 3/19/22
• 058 & 059. Launch Party – 10/11/2007
  • Ryan has designed a new website for Dunder-Mifflin and has asked all branches to have a launch party at their own office and then to connect remotely so that each of the branches can see the home office in New York as well as their fellow branches. Michael believes that the V.I.P.s are meeting in person in New York, and since he can’t get Jan to go, he asks either Jim or Pam to join him. Jim goes along, but on the way, he quickly realizes that the ‘party’ is supposed to take place in a chatroom. Dwight believes he can outsell the website, so he challenges himself and makes a statement that he is going to beat the computer… mostly to impress Angela, who wants nothing to do with him. Jim and Pam trick Dwight into thinking that his computer has become sentient by sending him messages supposedly from the computer. Meredith returns to work and has Jim sign her pelvic cast. Angela is put in charge of preparing the launch party, and uses Phyllis as her helper. Phyllis spells the banner as “LUNCH PARTY” which angers Angela and makes her berate Phyllis, who is trying to use a by-the-book method of dealing with a difficult associate. When Dwight berates Kelly for ordering a ream of paper from the warehouse on the computer, Darrell sticks up for and flirts with her. Dwight pulls out some of his former Staples contacts and gets ahead of the computer, eventually beating it out. Michael becomes furious about not be invited to New York, so when it comes his turn to say hello to the other branches, he berates Ryan instead and tells him that a man beat the computer in sales. Angela is unimpressed with Dwight’s feat and wants to make it clear that they are broken up, even asking Pam to set him up with a man in front of Dwight. Michael returns from the failed trip and tells everyone that their launch party is back on, and gives Angela an unreasonable list of what he wants, including a famous person, better lighting, an ice sculpture, and pizza. Michael accidentally orders the pizza from Pizza by Alfredo rather than the much superior Alfredo’s Pizza Café. When the delivery boy (Kevin McHale) arrives from Pizza by Alfredo, Michael finds out he didn’t get the full discount he expected, and will not let the boy leave until he gives him the discount, even holding him in the conference room. Not knowing that Angela had been dating Dwight, Andy decides to pursue her. Angela is too upset about trying to pull together a different party to listen to Andy, so he makes the gesture of stealing an ice sculpture for her. Many of the employees are worried about a kidnapping charge, but Jim and Pam decides to swipe a pizza and go to the roof to not be involved. The others talk Michael into getting a pizza from Alfredo’s Pizza Café until the other situation is ironed out. Michael suddenly realizes that he has kidnapped the delivery boy, so he orders Dwight to pay him, tip him, and release him. When Angela turns down Andy’s advances, he serenades her by singing Take a Chance on Me, while he simulcasts a harmony section of friends singing over the phone. Although she says she has to go clean up the party, her private smiling expression indicates she is becoming more interested. Michael concludes it was a horrible day, so he and Dwight drive to the New York location to eat some of their leftover sushi. The caterer (Scott Damian) throws them out, so they eat on the car. A young Dunder associate (Brad Graiff) tells them how much he loved Michael’s slam of Ryan in the chatroom. Nick Armstrong is the technician. NOTE: This episode originally aired as a one hour-episode. 7/23/22
• 060 & 061. Money – 10/18/2007
  • As Michael and Jan are going over items to buy for their new apartment, he starts to realize that she is over-spending, and he is going broke. Pam and Jim overhear Dwight taking reservations for Schrute Farms and realize he is running a bed & breakfast, so Pam makes a reservation for her and Jim. Ryan calls and tells Michael that he wants him to give a Powerpoint presentation to his workers. Dwight and Angela finalize their breakup when he gives her the things that she had left at his house. Kevin tries to get his co-workers to come to his Scrantonicity 2 band performance, but Michael says he can’t come because he has something to do. Pam and Jim use this opportunity to tell Michael that they are free for dinner with him and Jan, but he has to tell them that he has plans. His plans turn out to be a second job that he has taken telemarketing diet pills. Michael keeps going off-script and annoying his boss Nick Figaro (Allan Wasserman). He also yells at Michael for talking to his associates (Mary Kathleen Gordon, Nick Lashaway, Miki Ann Maddox) and distracting them from their work talking about the Die Hard movies. One of the potential customers he winds up calling is Stanley. His chief competitor is a guy named Vikram (Ranjit Chowdhry), who shares his Indian lunch with Michael. Pam and Jim have an odd time at the bed & breakfast as Dwight shows them how to make beets, build tables, and dig trenches, during which his cousin Mose starts a manure fight. After reading Jim, Pam and Mose a Harry Potter bedtime story, Dwight is heard moaning in the other room. Jan picks Michael up from his job but believes that he is doing improv. Michael comes into work the next day exhausted, as are Jim, Pam, and Dwight. Ryan shows up to watch Michael give his Powerpoint presentation, but Michael hasn’t even looked at Powerpoint yet. When Michael admits he was up late at his other job, Ryan insists that he quit the job since it is affecting his performance at Dunder-Mifflin. Michael tells Nick that he is quitting, and Nick tells him he is welcome back anytime. When Michael gets an advance on his paycheck from Oscar, he offers to help Michael get his finances under control. Part of that is getting a financial advisor to work with him and Jan, but when they call Jan to tell her about the help he needs and she starts to yell at him, Michael walks out of the office and jumps on a moving train. However, the train is coming to a stop in Scranton. When Oscar tells Jan that he has walked out, she drives to the office. Andy is still pining after Angela, he turns to Pam to help, but she refuses. He winds up getting her a new cat, so she gives him permission to ask her to dinner. Kelly starts putting pressure on Darryl when he has to skip out on having dinner with her so he can spend time with his daughter. He tells her that she needs to act less crazy if she wants to continue the relationship. When Dwight seems inconsolable after his break-up, Pam tries to cheer him up with a positive, if ridiculous, review on TripAdvisor. Jim finds him moaning in the hallway after Dwight hears Angela and Andy and tells Dwight how he was so upset when Pam and Roy were together that he left town. This re-energizes Dwight who comes back into the office and returns to aggressively selling paper. Jim gives Pam a passionate kiss after returning from his conversation with Dwight. Jan shows up and finds Michael on the stationary train. She tells him that he always stood by her when she was having issues, and that she planned to do the same with him. When they realize the engineer has left, they both depart the train and head back. NOTE: This episode originally aired as a one-hour episode. 11/15/22
• 062. Local Ad – 10/25/2007
  • Michael has been charged with getting the Dunder crew involved with helping with the product. The company sends two admen, Koh (Tim Kang) and his partner (Kyle Bornheimer) to assist with the production. Michael assigned Pam to use some of her computer animation skills with the production. Andy works on jingles, but forgets which company owns “Gimme a break, gimme a break, break me off a piece of that…”. The admen tell Michael that most of the commercial is already complete, but they need to add an end segment with the entire Scranton crew posing, waving, or doing whatever they wish in front of the camera. Michael doesn’t like this and calls Ryan to complain, ultimately telling him that he is sending the admen away and demands that they be allowed to submit their own commercial and if the team doesn’t like it, he’ll then comply with the admen. Meanwhile, Andy tries to talk to Dwight about his dates with Angela, but Dwight wants to change the names so he doesn’t have to hear about it. Michael sends Phyllis to try and recruit author Sue Grafton, who is doing a book signing in town, to be in their commercial, but she refuses and Phyillis winds up getting thrown out of the bookstore when she is too persistent… per Michael’s orders. While Dwight gets addicted to Second Life, Darryl leads the team in writing a Dunder-Mifflin jingle, but Michael rejects it when it is not rap. Jim infiltrates the Second Life game with his own character, which causes Pam to tease Jim about the amount of time he has spent on it. Pam stays late to work on the commercial animation, so Jim has to get a ride home with Meredith. Dwight is thrilled when Andy tells him that Angela referred to him as “D” when they were making out. Michael and some of the team members spend the entire night finishing the video. Ten days later, it is revealed that corporate rejected Michael’s version of the video. They all meet at Poor Richard’s Pub for the premiere. Michael then has the bartender (Drew Powell) shows Michael’s version of the commercial. It shows a corporate memo passing through everyone’s hands as the message on the memo changes from person to person. Everyone is proud of their performance with Pam’s animation standing out as a highlight. Andy still cannot think of the “Kit Kat” line of the jingle that is stuck in his head. Virginia Newcomb is Ryan’s assistant. Jeff Witzke is the commercial actor. 4/23/23
• 063. Branch Wars – 11/1/2007
  • Karen Filipelli is now the regional manager at the Utica branch of Dunder-Mifflin and extends an offer to Stanley to join their team. As Michael is experimenting with a dummy that will pose as a sleeping version of himself when he is playing hooky, Stanley tells Michael that his is leaving the Scranton division. Michael thinks she is getting even with them because Jim broke up with her, but he doesn’t want to give up Stanley, who won’t budge on leaving unless Michael can get him more money. Meanwhile Pam, Oscar, and Toby form a Finer Things Club where they meet in the breakroom once a month to discuss bookcs and art and celebrate culture. They won’t let anyone in, including Jim, but Andy decides that he must get into the club. Michael calls Karen to try to talk her out of taking Stanley, and when she won’t budge, Michael tries to poach Utica’s leading salesman Ben Nugent. However when Nugent brings up Michael hitting Meredith with his car, Michael threatens to fire him. Michael tells Dwight and Jim that they are going to get revenge by increasing their sales, and they head out to court Corcoran, who recently dropped Staples. However, once they get on the road, Michael admits to Jim that they’re taking him so that they can all get even with Karen. After Dwight throws Jim’s phone out the window, Jim tells them that he’s calling a cab and going home. However, when they show Jim the Silly String and gas bombs they brought, Jim decides to go along so no one gets hurt. They all don fake mustaches and fake warehouse uniforms. Upon arrival, Jim waits in the car and listens via walkie-talkie as they attempt to steal their industrial copy machine, which falls on top of them as they are taking it down the stairs. Karen spots Jim in the car and brings everyone inside. Dwight and Michael both tell Karen they will burn Utica to the ground if they harm Stanley. Jim and Karen have a conversation after the others leave, and Karen tells Jim that if he wanted to see her, he could have just called. Jim tries to assure her that he and Pam are still dating and that things are going well. This makes Karen more angry, as Jim slinks out. Andy applies to get into the Finer Things club by giving them $150. They still turn him down but tells him he will be put on the waiting list and that his donations are still welcome. Andy is thrilled to hear this. Jim is allowed into the club, but at the first meeting, it is obvious that he didn’t read Angela’s Ashes as they were supposed to do. Stanley tells Michael that he has changes his mind about leaving. He admits to the interviewer that he was only going after a raise and is amazed that Michael called his bluff. Adam Jamal Craig is Karen’s secretary Rolando. 4/23/23
• 064. Survivor Man – 11/8/2007
  • Ryan arranges a camping trip for some of the branch managers, and Toby is invited as well… but Michael is not. When Toby chats about it around the office, Michael decides to have his own camping trip based on a TV series that he watches called Survivor Man. When he is unable to convince Jim to go with him, he decides to go alone. He engaged Dwight to fulfill his knife needs and then drive him into the Pennsylvania wilderness alone. Unbeknownst to Michael, Dwight stays with the cameraman to watch over Michael. Jim is left to be in charge of the office. He decides to combine individual birthday celebrations into one party for Kelly, Creed, Oscar, and Meredith. He does not foresee the issue with everyone getting the type of cake that they want. The rumblings intensify around the office, and Jim decides to give up the notion and go back to individual parties. Michael cuts off his pant legs to make a hat, but then has to duct tape them back together when it cools off. While Dwight finds bird eggs to cook and eat, Michael makes a spear to try to hunt for his food. He winds up eating mushrooms that Dwight recognizes as poison, so he tackles Michael and scoops out of his mouth with his fingers. Dwight brings Michel back to the office in time for Creed’s solo birthday party. Michael admits that the office is superior to the great outdoors. He also tells Jim that he made a rookie mistake with trying to combine the parties. 9/6/23
• 065. The Deposition – 11/15/2007
  • Michael and Jan head to the New York office so that Michael can give his deposition in Jan’s four-million-dollar wrongful termination lawsuit, where he plans to say that the company fired her for augmenting her breasts, as well as a pattern of disrespectful and inappropriate behaviors. They arrive, and after meeting with Jan’s lawyer Lester Snyder (Patrick O’Conner), Ryan asks to speak to Michael and warns him about embarrassing the company in defense of Jan. Michael is especially annoyed when Toby shows up for the hearing. Meanwhile back at the Scranton office, the warehouse installs a ping pong table, and when Darryl consistently beats Jim, Kelly begins trash talking Pam about her boyfriend is better than Pam’s. In order to combat this, Pam sets up a makeshift ping pong table in the conference room and forces Jim to take on everyone in the office so that he can get better and beat Darryl. Jim doesn’t think he can ever beat Darryl but plays all afternoon with everyone anyway. The company lawyer Diane Kelly (Holly Maples) tries to prove that Jan began dating Michael before they disclosed it to the company. The tide starts to turn in their favor when they produce a photo of a topless Jan with Michael that was taken well before the disclosure. However, Jan has given her lawyer a copy of Michael’s diary in which he states that although he slept with Jan, she didn’t consider them to be in a relationship. Michael is furious about the diary theft, but Jan tells him that it makes them even after he sent out the picture to everyone. The company lawyer then reads some of the horrible reviews that Jan gave Michael, while Snyder reads from the deposition of David Wallace, who admits that they never considered Michael for the promotion as the regional manager. Despite this, Michael still winds up siding with the company and states that they never treated anyone disrespectfully. He later explains that you can expect your company to screw you, but not your girlfriend, and this is how he felt about Jan taking his diary. Back in Scranton, Jim and Darryl have a rematch and Darryl still clobbers him. When Kelly starts her trash talk again, Pam challenges her to a game, but they can barely volley enough to finish the ‘ping’ for the serve. Jim and Darryl go upstairs to play on the makeshift table. On the way home from New York, Michael and Jan discuss if they are going to have Chinese food for dinner, or something even cheaper. Dwight, who is a ping-pong killing machine, practices with his cousin Mose. Michael Potter is the mediator. Valeri Ross is the stenographer.  9/10/23
• 066. Dinner Party – 4/10/2008
  • When Michael has everyone working late on a Friday night on a special project and then phones the corporate office to demand that they allow his workers to go home, Jim suspects that he only went through the motions of this in order to ensure that Jim and Pam have their night freed up so that they must accept a dinner party invitation from Michael and Jan for that evening. Dwight is devastated that he isn’t invited, but Michael tells him that it is for couples only and that they only have six wine glasses… then invites Andy and Angela to come as well. Jim and Pam arrive first, so Michael and Jan take them on an uncomfortable tour of the house where they see Jan’s craft room where she makes unbearably scented candles, a tiny plasma TV, Michael’s bench bed, and the video camera in their master bedroom. Andy and Angela then arrive as well. Jan then tells everyone that the Osso Buco needs to braise for three hours before they eat. Jan puts on a CD made by her old assistant Hunter, and tries to dance with Jim. Jan gets jealous when Michael gives Pam his jacket to wear since it is freezing in the house, due to a broken sliding glass door that Michael had run through when he heard an ice cream truck. She tells Pam that she knows all about the affair that Pam had with Michael, even though she insists she has never once shown any interest in Michael. After an uncomfortable game of guessing celebrities based on clues, Jim starts to think that Michael and Jan are playing a game to see how uncomfortable they can make the guests. Jim tries to get a way by faking a phone call that his apartment is flooded, but Pam ruins it for him when he tries to leave even after Michael tells Pam that she doesn’t need to go. Michael tries to get Andy and Jim to invest $10,000 in Serenity by Jan, her candle making company. Dwight then shows up with his old babysitter (Beth Grant) with his own food and wine glasses. Jan is furious and tells Michael that he always gets what he wants, but then Michael goes on a tirade about all the vasectomies he’s had and then had reversed while Jan keeps changing her mind back and forth. Once Jan finally serves the meal, Michael mentions that he thinks Jan might be trying to poison him, leading Pam to suspect that she might be poisoning her. After Michael gets berated by Jan for dipping his steak in his wine, he goes and gets his neon beer sign and hangs it in the dining room. Jan then puts on Hunter’s CD, which leads to another shouting match. Jan throws one of his Dundie trophies through the plasma TV. Everyone then decides to leave, just as the police (Steve Seagren, Gary Weeks) show up after receiving reports about the disturbances. When Michael tells them about the TV, they want to ensure that Michael has a safe place to stay, so Dwight takes him to his house and leaves his babysitter to take the bus home. Jim and Pam go grab a burger, and Jim admits that he stole the CD by Hunter. Andy and Angela go for ice cream, but when he gets frisky and tries to take a bite of her cone, she smashes it against the outside of his car and tosses it out the window. Dwight and a sleeping Michael pass Dwight’s babysitter at the bus stop. Frederick Pohl IV is Michael’s neighbor. 12/28/23
• 067. Chair Model – 4/17/2008
  • W.B. Jones Heating & Air, a company in the Scranton Business Park complex, is renovating their offices, and the construction workers are parking in the Dunder-Miffler spots. This is causing great turmoil for some of the workers because they have to park in satellite parking and are forced to walk the extra distance to the office. Meanwhile, Michael is still reeling from his breakup with Jan following the events of their dinner party. Pam has given him a supply catalog so that he can pick out a new chair for his office. Pam and Creed are anxious for him to complete this as it will mean that Pam gets his old chair, and Creed will get Pam’s old chair as a second chair. Instead, Michael has fixated on one of the models featured in the catalog as his ideal woman. He makes everyone in the office look at it and then right down the name of an eligible woman that compares to her for him to date. He threatens that if they don’t compete this in an hour, they will be fired. Phyllis tries to recommend one of her friends, but Michael gets it out of her that she it too fat. One employee gives him the number of a hot redhead named Wendy, but it turns out to be Wendy’s restaurant. After first refusing to participate, Pam agrees to set him up with her landlady Margaret (Brooke Dillman). Michael goes to meet her for coffee but finds her to be merely average-looking. They have a mostly nice conversation, but after Michael starts showing her pictures of Jan, and he accidentally calls her, she decides to end the date. Michael tells her that it was nice chatting and compared her to a nice old lady on the bus. Jim mentions that the date might get Pam kicked out of her apartment, but he offers for her to live with him. When she tells him she won’t move in with anyone unless she is engaged, he tells her that this will be coming soon, but won’t reveal when or how, even though he has already purchased a ring shortly after they began dating. Dwight tracks down the actual chair model through the advertisement agency, only to find out she was killed in a car accident. Andy and Kevin arrange a meeting with the other four managers in the complex, even though Michael refuses to participate. They get Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration, Paul Faust (Paul Faust) of Disaster Kits Limited, W.B. Jones (Barry Sigismondi) of W.B. Jones Heating & Air, William Cress (Terrence Beasor) of Cress Tool & Dye. Jones isn’t very cooperative, but once Paul Faust asks him to ask his guys to park elsewhere, he agrees to it. Kevin, who has just broken up with his girlfriend Stacey, is pleased to finally win one. Dwight suggests to Michael that he needs some closure, after losing someone who had a big impact on his life. He was referring to the chair model Deborah Shoshlefski (April Eden), so they go and visit her grave, where Michael sings a version of American Pie to her. They wind up there after dark, still singing the song, and struggling for the words to it. As they are walking back to their car, Jim gets down on one knee by Pam, but it turns out that he is just tying his shoe. Sean Bury is the barista. 12/28/23
• 068. Night Out – 4/24/2008
  • Michael tries to rectify getting gum in his hair after trying to pick up some change under Stanley’s car, so Dwight covers Michael’s hair in peanut butter. Ryan comes to visit the office to push the new Dunder-Mifflin Infinity website, and when Jim brings up the fact that Dunder’s main selling point is their customer service, Ryan tells him that he knows that Jim has already gone over his head and tries to tell this to David Wallace at the Christmas party. He also insists that the group come in on Saturday to enter orders they’ve take into the Dunder-Mifflin Infinity website, which everyone balks at. Meanwhile, Michael is still looking for dates that he actually finds attractive, and although Ryan doesn’t know anyone to set him up with, he tells Michael that there are lots of beautiful women at the clubs in New York City. Michael decides to take Dwight to the city to meet women. Jim had the idea for everyone to stay late on Friday evening to do the website work rather than coming in on Saturday. Everyone was on board, but when they go to leave, the realize that security has locked the gate and none of them can get out. Michael and Dwight look for Ryan at the club Prerogative, where he is hanging out with his friend Troy Undercook (Noel Petok), a short man who Dwight believes is a Hobbit. Ryan is uncharacteristically excited to see them and begins talking extremely fast while his hands won’t stop shaking. Since Pam has locked the office from the inside when they left, and Dwight has the only key, Jim has to call the head of security Hank to come let them out. Since it will take nearly an hour for him to get there, everyone is annoyed with Jim and Pam for the situation they are in. Michael tries to order food from a cocktail waitress (Jennifer Peo) and then hits on a girl (Kelsea Button) who isn’t old enough to know the film Back to the Future, so they decide to go to a club with an older crowd. While waiting in line for another bar, they run into the Jersey State Varsity Women’s Basketball team and use them to help them get into the bar. While the Dunder team is waiting to be let out of the parking lot, Toby finds a football, but when Pam tries to throw it, she hits Meredith in the place. Dwight makes out with one of the tall girls (Cassie Fliegel), and Michael takes a picture of it and sends it to everyone at the office. Michael meets an attractive dog washer (Ashley Walsh) who he thinks he’s hit it off with, but he soon sees her with another guy. Ryan gets into an altercation with some women on the dancefloor who try to beat him up, so Michael and Dwight escort him out of the building. Toby cracks a joke back at the office and when Pam responds to it, he starts rubbing her leg. Embarrassed, he then announces that he is moving to Costa Rica and is leaving the company. He then decides to climb the fence and job home. The cleaning crew shows up at the office and lets everyone out. Ryan takes Michael and Dwight back to his apartment where he tells them that he thinks his friend Troy has a drug problem. Hank shows up to let everyone out, only to find that they’ve already gone. Taji Coleman is the tall girl in line who won’t go in unless they all go in. Kim Stodel is the bartender. 5/4/24
• 069. Did I Stutter? – 5/1/2008
  • After Michael looks for ideas for what to write in the wet cement outside, he ultimately settles on putting his face in it and leaving an impression. Pam forgets her contact solution when she spends the night with a friend and is forced to wear her glasses the next day, and consequently hears insults from Michael and backhanded compliments from many of her co-workers. Dwight gets tired of seeing Andy and Angela together, so he vows revenge on Andy. Michael solicits ideas for how to make the office feel more energized over the summer, but when he tries to get feedback from Stanley, he tells Michael to leave him alone, and then when Michael presses him, he rudely says “Did I stutter?” to Michael. Toby thinks that Michael should give him some disciplinary action, but Michael tries to play it off as if they always tease each other like this. However, the more he thinks it about, the more he realizes that it has undercut his authority. Andy is selling his Nissan Xterra for $8700, so Dwight strongarms him into selling it to him for $7200 by telling him that it is basically worthless. Michael tries to get Stanley to apologize for his outburst, but Stanley refuses. Michael and Dwight look at the org chart to see if there is anyone else who can discipline Stanley, with Dwight then offering to be in full charge so that he can do it, but Michael declines. Michael goes to Darryl for advice on how to deal with someone in a gang disrespecting you, so Darryl advises him to start a tickle fight with Stanley. Ryan shows up to give Jim a formal warning about his job performance, telling him that he spends too much time picking on Dwight and flirting with Pam at the reception desk. After Dwight takes possession of Andy’s car, he washes it and puts it back on sale for $9995. Michael tells everyone in the office that he is going to do a fake-firing of Stanley to get his attention, but it backfires on him when Stanley lays into him in front of everyone for being such a horrible boss with horrible ideas. Michael tells everyone but Stanley to leave the office, and when they do, Michael whimpers to Stanley about always picking on him. Stanley admits he has no respect for Michael or any of his ideas, but Michael tells him that he cannot speak to him that way in front of everyone. Stanley agrees to the arrangement between them, so the next time Michael asks for feedback for his ideas, Stanley tells him it is one of his best ones yet. However, Phyllis tells Michael that his idea is stupid, so Michael clears the room again for everyone but Phyllis. 5/5/24
• 070. Job Fair – 5/8/2008
  • Michael, Pam, Darryl, and Oscar head to Valley View High School, which happens to be Pam’s high school alma mater, for a job fair to try and find an intern to employ at Dunder-Mifflin. Michael insists that Pam only bring one piece of paper for their presentation. Jim has been put on probation by Ryan, so he plans to take a potential client named Phil Maguire (Phil Reeves) to the golf course to try and convince him to throw his business to Dunder-Mifflin. Andy and Kevin go along to play as well, but Andy has spent the past day hitting 1200 golf balls and now has two hands full of horrible blisters. Kevin is more interested in gambling and winning money using petty cash. Back at the office, most of the employees want to leave early since Michael and Jim are out of the office, but Dwight insists that he is in charge, and they have to stay. Stanley completely ignores him and leaves anyway. The others sneak out when Dwight is out of the room, but Angela chooses to remain with Dwight for the entire day. They exchange a few pleasantries throughout the day. Pam tries to recruit a boy named Justin Polznik (Trevor Einhorn), but Michael thinks he looks too much like a funny-looking loser and takes the Dunder-Mifflin brochure back from him. However, Justin has signed his name on the lone piece of paper, so Michael sends Pam to get another one. She brings one from her old art classroom, but Michael wants one of the heavier pieces so insists that she go back to the office. Jim has no luck with Phil, as he doesn’t want to discuss business at all. Michael starts to get frustrated when his team visits other booths to shoot basketball, so he takes the ball and kicks it across the gym. He finds Justin again and attempts to recruit him, but Justin is too offended by Michael’s initial reaction and tells him that he’s not interested. After the guys finish their golf gang, Jim takes a third and final shot at asking Phil about becoming a client, and Phil tells him to contact him again in two months when his fiscal year ends. Jim then follows him into the parking lot and tells him that he’s not going to quit, and after blocking his car for fifteen minutes, he wins the account. With the job fair ending, Michael commandeers the microphone in the gym and tells everyone that none of the other companies are good enough for them, including the United States Air Force. He makes a final plea to come work in the fun environment of Dunder-Mifflin but has no takers. After Dwight and Angela have left, everyone returns to the office, where Jim and Pam celebrate Jim’s victory with a big kiss in front of everyone. Michael regains his self-confidence when he realizes that Jim could accomplish anything anywhere but chooses to work at Dunder-Mifflin selling paper. In flashback to the job fair, Pam checks in with a guy (Nelson Franklin) at Impulse Design about graphic designing jobs, but soon realizes that she doesn’t know any of the basic programs needed for being an intern. He recommends that she take some classes in New York or Philadelphia. Emerson Brooks in the Air Force recruiter. Charlie McDermott is the uninterested student. Lori Murphy Saux is the job fair announcer. 9/21/24
• 071 & 072. Goodbye, Toby – 5/15/2008
  • It is Toby’s last day with Dunder-Mifflin before he leaves for Costa Rica. Michael is beside himself with excitement and wants the party to be huge, so when Angela refuses to do any more than a cake and slideshow, he puts Phyllis in charge of the party and requests and anti-gravity machine. Toby’s H.R. replacement Holly Flax (Amy Ryan) comes in to start off her new job at the Scranton office, and Toby takes her around to meet everyone. Michael hates her before he even meets her, simply because she is with H.R., and when Toby introduces her to him, he is immediately rude to her. However, when she makes a crack about how boring Toby is, he starts to like her, and with lightning speed, he starts to fall in love with her, even offering to make her a mix CD for her commute. Pam gets accepted to the Pratt School of Design in New York, and Jim is happy for her, even though it means she will be in New York for three months. Dwight decides to haze Holly and tells her that Kevin is mentally challenged and is there on a special work program. She then pays special attention to him as he maneuvers through his day. When she assists him at the vending machines, he starts to think that he is going to score with her. Pam gives Toby a picture of everyone in the office, but since she’s not in it because she took it, Toby starts frantically looking for a camera so that he can get a picture with her. When Jim calls Ryan to tell him that he got the new client’s big sale, Ryan blows him off and tells him that he did his job and now needs to make sure he inputs the sale on the website. Michael asks for Jim’s help with the mix tape and gets some advice from him on taking office relationships slow so that they can build romance if there is any. Jim plans on proposing to Pam at the party, so he gives Phyllis a great deal of money to get fireworks for the evening. He then leaves a message with Ryan, telling him that he knows that he’s trying to force him out of the company, but Jim is going to fight it tooth and nail. Michael seems to have good luck with making small talk and jokes with Holly, and she truly seems to take a liking to him. Michael looks forward to having an exit interview with Toby so that he can blast him and give him his gift: a rock with a paper rubber banded to it that says “suck it”. However, when Holly insists on sitting in the meeting, Michael has to temper his interview and actually ask Toby for his opinions on how the company can be improved. He threatens to kill Toby if he says anything in front of Holly that would make him look bad, so Toby keeps his mouth shut. The team finds a YouTube video of Ryan getting escorted out of his office by the police after being arrested for fraud, specifically reporting each sale as both an office sale and a website sale to defraud the stockholders. Jim leaves a follow-up voicemail telling him not to bother calling back because he sees that Ryan is tied up. Michael is devastated by this news and Holly comforts him. The group goes outside for the party and sees a bounce house, a Ferris Wheel, and Darryl’s band playing music. When Pam notices the fireworks for later, Pam thinks this indicates that Jim is going to propose. When Michael and Holly catch Dwight and Meredith putting a live raccoon in Holly’s car as part of his hazing, Michael comes to her defense and tells everyone that they are lucky to have Holly there and that she is the best thing that ever happened to the company since World War II. Phyllis sends Kevin to the grocery to get more barbecue sauce, and Holly is very proud of him for driving his own car. Michael then sings his rendition of Goodbye Toby as a parody of Goodbye Stranger. Kevin calls Michael and tells him that he needs to get down to the store to see something. It turns out to be a very pregnant Jan, who tells Michael that he is not the father of the baby. When Michael accuses of her cheating on him, she admits that she actually went to a sperm bank. He is shocked that she’d rather do that than have his own sperm. She asks him if he would like to be part of her Lamaze class, and he says he’ll think about it. During the fireworks show that night, Jim gets ready to propose to Pam but is interrupted by Andy taking over the microphone and proposing to Angela. She gives him a reluctant ‘ok’ and accepts the proposal, causing Jim to put his ring back in his pocket. Pam is disappointed because she thought Jim was going to propose. Toby finally gets his picture with Pam. Holly says she’d like to go out for dessert after her first day at the office, but Michael only recommends the Glider Diner, and Kevin jumps in and says he’s like to go with her. Michael calls Jan and accepts her invitation to Lamaze class. As Toby is looking through his pictures with Pam, Michael says goodbye and has security guard Hank walk Toby out. While Phyllis is cleaning up and bringing things into the office, she catches Dwight and Angela having sex. NOTE: This originally aired as a one-hour episode. 9/22/24

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