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#5007 - "Customer Survey" - Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 9/8c on NBC
Dwight and Jim are shocked when they get the results of the annual customer survey report. (TV-PG L)

Thursday, May 17, 2007

"The Job" - Season 3

After Pam's outburst at Beach Day, she and Jim had a talk and realized how much they both missed their friendship. Pam never regretted her speech she gave to Jim in front of the rest of the staff; in fact, she was happy that it only took her three years to summon the courage to say what was on her mind.

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It was time for the big interview at Corporate. Karen encouraged Jim to cut his hair so he didn't look so "homeless." Karen was leery of Pam ever since Beach Day and suggested she and Jim travel to New York a day before the interview for some romance. Jim was game.

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The staff was having fun giving Pam a hard time for Beach Day. Creed took note that he blogged all about it on his website, Creed Thoughts. Turned out that Ryan, in order to protect the web from Creed's brain, opened up a Word document and just told Creed it was a spot to blog.

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Dwight was feeling the power after Michael named him the new Regional Manager. Angela became hot with the thought of Dwight in charge of the Scranton branch. But, she cooled down fast in order to protect the secrecy of their relationship. Meanwhile, Michael thought he already got the corporate job and sold his condo on eBay and was ready to move to New York.

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After the awkward break-up with Jan, Michael was shocked to see her stop by the branch. For back-up, Michael asked the ladies to gather in the conference room. Before the gathering, Karen asked Pam to run some sales report copies for her and Jim's respective interviews and Pam told Karen she secretly hoped she got the job at Corporate. Karen replied with a glare.

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Jan asked Michael for a second chance. When Michael didn't know what to say, she brought out the big guns. Michael became a bumbling idiot after staring at Jan's huge new breasts. In fact, everybody in the office noticed her huge assets. In the end, Michael took Jan back.

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Michael left the Scranton branch to head to New York for his interview at Corporate. He said good-bye to the Scranton branch one last time and played Natalie Merchant's "Thank You" as he left the building. Immediately after, Dwight took over as Regional Manager and put his name on Michael's office door.

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Jim and Karen had some serious talks during their night out in New York. The next morning, they met with Michael at Corporate headquarters for their interviews. Michael appeared over-confident, but was shocked to learn the job he was interviewing for was to replace Jan at Corporate.

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Dwight was making some pretty big changes as new Regional Manager of the Scranton branch, starting with making Andy his number two. Dwight introduced the staff to the "Schrutebuck," a reward each person will get when they do a good job.

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Michael immediately told Jan about her imminent firing. She became furious and demanded that David tell her why. When he gave her reasons for her dismissal, she refused to leave the building. Michael was forced to stay neutral during the blow-out. But it was too late - it was decided Michael didn't get the job.

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After finding out Michael didn't get the job, he offered to drive an erratic Jan home. Michael offered to take his condo back off eBay and have Jan move in with him. She loved the idea. She called their relationship her new full-time job. Michael all of a sudden became very, very worried. But first he had to tell everyone at Scranton that he was back!

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Jim's interview with Corporate was going very well and he was getting happier with the thought of getting the job. He glanced down to his folder and saw a sweet note from Pam that threw him off guard a bit. When asked about what he liked most about Scranton, Jim smiled and replied, "the friendships".

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Pam was pretty sure Jim got the job at Corporate. Meanwhile, Jim was thinking back to conversations with Pam at Beach Day as he was driving back to Scranton. As Pam was talking about their missed timings, Jim walked in and asked Pam out on a date. Overjoyed, she agreed. Meanwhile, it was Ryan who really got the job at Corporate.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

"Beach Games" - Season 3

Michael was shocked when he received a call from Corporate wanting him to interview for a position. Michael was happy, but he also had other things on his mind. Beach Day was coming up and he was taking the crew out for some fun in the sun. Not before reminding Toby he couldn't go because somebody had to stay in the office.

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Michael put Pam in charge of keeping notes on who expressed great managerial skills, in case Michael was to leave the Scranton Branch and needed to choose a successor. When the staff arrived to the beach, Michael surprised them all with the news that they would be broken down into four tribes and be competing in battles.

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Michael assigned Dwight, Stanley, Jim, and Andy as tribal leaders. He sidelined Pam from participating because she had to concentrate on taking notes. In reality, Michael was using this competition as a way to decide who his replacement would be if he moved to Corporate.

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Pam sadly watched as her co-workers were playing the beach games. Michael later put her in charge of grilling hundreds of hotdogs for another battle, a hot dog eating competition! When people complained, Michael shouted that the winner would win his job and his salary and his Chrysler Sebring!

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After sumo wrestling in inflated costumes, Andy went to the lake and accidentally fell in. He was floating away and Angela ignored his cries for help. She was sabotaging his efforts while falling in love with the idea of Dwight taking over the Scranton Branch.

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Michael's next challenge involved the teams walking on burning coals. Pam stepped up to the plate to take the challenge. Michael stopped her and told she couldn't because she had to continue to take notes. Meanwhile, Andy was still unaccounted for, but managed to wash up into some brush along the lake's far shore.

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Michael chickened out before walking on hot coals. Dwight completed the challenge, only to be turned down for Regional Manager. Jim was chosen. Jim alerted Michael that he also applied for the job at Corporate, as did Karen.

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As Michael and others were busy arguing, Pam walked across the hot coals. She felt a rush of bravery after she was done and begin telling the staff what was really on her mind. She turned to Michael and told him she did accomplishe the coal walk and he didn't, therefore maybe she should be Regional Manager, then she asked the staff where they were during her art show months earlier.

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Pam suddenly turned to Jim and said he was the reason she called off her wedding and he should stop acting so weird around her. She missed their friendship and missed having fun with him. She then left to relieve her feet in the lake. Michael thought her speech was amazing, but was still looking for someone with a sales background.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

"Women's Appreciation" - Season 3

Phyllis walked into the office looking pale and shocked. A concerned staff surrounded her for comfort. She told them she had been flashed in the parking lot. Jim alerted the police and they already had three other incidents of flashing in the area. Michael didn't think much of it, because it was Phyllis.

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Michael was beginning to feel used by Jan. She called and offered to pay him $300 in gas money if he drove up to satisfy her. Michael was feeling squeamish about the whole relationship.

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After the incident with Phyllis, Michael thought it would be a good idea to hold a Women's Appreciation conference involving the entire staff. The meeting turned on Michael when he continued to make sexist comments and Karen accused him of being a misogynist, which Michael, of course, took as a compliment.

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Dwight and Andy took it upon themselves to find the flasher. Pam drew sketches that resembled Dwight, a joke he did not get. Meanwhile, Michael took the ladies of Dunder-Mifflin on a field trip to the mall.

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The women were enjoying lunch on Michael at the food court. The topic turned to sex, when Michael divulged details about his relationship with Jan. He talked about Jan's need to videotape sex for critique and her need to role-play in the bedroom. Pam told him to get out of the relationship and Michael began to cry.

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Michael was so grateful for the ladies giving him advice about Jan that he decided to buy them all one piece of lingerie at Victoria's Secret. Meanwhile, back at work, the guys were having a field day lounging in the very cushy women's bathroom.

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Michael had the ladies support him as he made the call to end things with Jan. While leaving her a message, Jan walked into his office! She apologized for her behavior, earlier, but before they went out to dinner, she checked her messages.

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After Jan left Michael, he took some time to think about women. He couldn't understand them and didn't know if he ever would. Meanwhile, Jim was having fun calling Dwight and telling him about his own sightings of the flasher. The joke was on Dwight when he was sent to the ladies bathroom and looked in the mirror!

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If you have any information regarding the Dunder-Mifflin parking lot flasher, you are encouraged to call the Lackawanna County Anti-Flashing Task Force immediately at 1-800-984-3672.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

"Product Recall" - Season 3

Michael was in crisis mode at Dunder-Mifflin when a disgruntled employee at the paper mill put an obscene watermark on one of their most popular orders of paper. Michael called the staff into a meeting and pointed the blame on Creed, who was responsible for quality assurance at the paper mill and blew it off.

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Creed was hoping to do his own kind of damage control on the crisis by calling the paper mill and hoping to pin the blame of his mistake on to somebody else. Meanwhile, Kelly was in charge of getting the accountants up to speed on customer service for damage control. She thought the whole idea was B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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Michael sent Andy and Jim to the local high school to do damage control after the school used the recalled paper for their prom invitations. Things got more awkward when Andy discovered his new girlfriend was also a student at the school!

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Dwight was put in charge of the press conference that Michael was going to hold because of the product recall. A reporter from the Scranton Times came to cover the historical conference.

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Kelly was assisting Angela on how to be friendly on the phone. Angela was having a hard time apologizing to angry customers. Later, Oscar and Kevin trapped Angela into an apology, even when she followed her apology with an insult.

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Michael couldn't believe his major client had turned away his free voucher of paper as an apology for the obscene watermark. Michael kicked her out of the press conference and told her she should call the "Ungrateful Beeyotch Hotline." The reporter wrote the entire exchange down.

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Michael was afraid he had just created worst press for himself so he called Pam into his office to film his apology for the watermark. He told his "audience" that it would take a S.W.A.T. team to remove him from Dunder-Mifflin. Pam called it his best apology video ever.

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Andy was still depressed over his discovery that his girlfriend was in high school and appeared to have had another boyfriend. Jim did his best to cheer him up while they rode back to work by singing a duet of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

Thursday, April 12, 2007

"Safety Training" - Season 3

Andy was back to work, fresh from anger management training. He insisted on being called Drew, even though Jim continued to call him Andy just to toy with him. Meanwhile, Dwight had decided to shun Andy for the next three years.

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Darryl was hosting the safety-training program for the staff of the warehouse, but Michael thought it would be fun to include his office staff in the presentation. Darryl became angry when Michael was second-guessing everything that was being said and basically would not shut up.

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Michael took control of Toby's office safety-training class. He got furious when Darryl ordered the rest of the warehouse crew to walk out on it. Darryl accused Michael of living a "nerfy" life and always sitting on his "biscuit," instead of doing actual work.

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After Michael's safety-training session was mocked, he vowed to have another session but with props. Dwight wanted to create a "depression quilt." Instead, they decided to have Michael pretend to kill himself by jumping off the roof, but in reality, he was going to be jumping onto a giant trampoline in the parking lot.

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Michael decided against the trampoline and instead opted for a giant inflatable castle. Dwight called the office staff out to the parking lot to try and talk Michael out of his "suicide." Then he went so far as to call out the warehouse staff to watch Michael's meltdown.

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Jim and Pam pointed out that if Michael jumped onto the inflatable castle, he still would really injure himself. Darryl took charge and tried to talk Michael down from the roof. Darryl called Michael, "Braveheart" to make him feel good. Michael felt like a hero when he stepped down from the roof, much to the relief of his staff.

Thursday, April 5, 2007

"The Negotiation" - Season 3

Roy paced in the parking lot outside Dunder-Mifflin and then charged the building looking for Jim. When he spots Jim, he rushed him only to get pepper-sprayed in the eyes by Dwight, who managed to spray everybody around him as well.

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Roy was terminated following the incident and Dwight was looked upon as a hero. Angela enjoyed listening to Oscar describe the story of Jim being attacked and Dwight's valiant move with pepper spray.

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Michael was using different negotiation tactics on Darryl, who was asking for a raise. Michael went down a list of tactics he learned from the internet. Darryl stopped the negotiation to point out that Michael was wearing a lady's suit. Everybody in the office took notice to Michael's feminine suit.

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Pam was in the break room and Jim walked in. She apologized for him almost getting killed by Roy. Pam declared that it was completely over between her and Roy, but Jim wasn't convinced at all. She wanted to reiterate that she was very sorry for how things turned out.

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Darryl was asking for a ten percent raise and Michael kept denying him saying he couldn't have Darryl making more money than him. Darryl couldn't believe how little Michael made for how long he had been with the company. Darryl wanted to convince Michael to get his own raise.

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Michael finally got the nerve to call Jan up and ask for a raise. She wanted to speak with him in person and wanted him to bring Toby along for the ride. He thought it was a terrible idea and wanted to bring Darryl so he brought both men.

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Michael was waiting for his meeting with Jan and noticed the woman sitting next to him had a familiar looking suit on. Michael and Toby got called into Jan's office for a meeting by her young assistant.

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Roy stopped by to pick up his last paycheck. He spotted Jim and wanted to issue and apology for his behavior. After, he asked Pam out for coffee to try to explain his actions. At coffee, she told him that they should both be sorry for a lot of things and denied she was going to date Jim, because he had a girlfriend.

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Jim was dumbfounded as to how he could repay Dwight back for his bravery in saving him from Roy. He made a certificate of bravery and left it on Dwight's desk. Dwight was convinced that the Scranton Police Department really gave it to him. Then Dwight realized it was same certificate given to little kids and threw it away.

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Michael got Jan alone and divulged all of his insecurities about how much money he made. She felt sorry for him and offered him up a 12 percent raise, just as long as it was recorded he had asked for 15 percent. Michael felt like he was the master of negotiation.

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Jim caught Angela and Dwight making out in the office and was shocked with what he saw. He decided to keep it a secret and made a pact with himself that this would be Dwight's reward for saving Jim's life.