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British [[Mockumentary]] [[Work Com]] (2001-3) in the style of a fly on the wall, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
The main setting is the administrative office of [[Incompetence, Inc.|paper supplies company Wernham Hogg]], presided over by [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] David Brent. His [[Number Two]], Gareth Keenan, is an unpleasant, pathetic loser with a military obsession. The most sympathetic character is Tim Canterbury, the witty clerk (see [[Tough Room]]) whose relationship with receptionist Dawn Tinsley seems to be an example of [[Star
One inspired departure from the usual [[Mockumentary]] formula: the characters are very aware of the [[In Universe Camera|cameras being on them]], all the time. Brent in particular is given to preening and showing off for the camera, and Gareth explicitly notes that he's only behaving a certain way because "they're filming".
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Also highly successful is the [[Foreign Remake|German remake]] ''[[Stromberg (TV)|Stromberg]]'', wherein the main protagonist Bernd [[Character Title|Stromberg]] (the German version of David Brent) works for an insurance company.
Came twenty-fifth in ''[[
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=== The British version provides examples of: ===
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* [[Amusing Injuries]]: David Brent headbutting his new receptionist.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Tim and David both do it constantly.
* [[Bad News, Irrelevant News]]: [[Trope Namer]]. The bad news is the Slough branch is being closed. The good news is that David's been promoted. The staff don't see it this way, describing it as "bad news and irrelevant news".
* [[Belated Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Tim and Dawn}} in the [[Christmas Special]].
* [[British Brevity]]: Fourteen episodes (two six-episode seasons and a concluding two-part Christmas Special). Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant felt that as it is supposed to be a 'fly on the wall' documentary (rather than a work-com) it would stretch belief that the crew are still there months or years later. This is the biggest difference between it and the American version.
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** David standing up for Gareth when Donna insults him in "The New Girl."
** Tim agreeing to go out for a drink with David when everyone else shuns him in the Christmas special.
* [[Pointy
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Handbags and Gladrags", in a version similar to the cover by Welsh rock band Stereophonics.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Lee, coming between Tim and Dawn.
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* [[Seven Minute Lull]]: David gets caught in the middle of a (lame) dirty joke in the [[Seven Minute Lull]] at the end of "The Party."
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Used intentionally (and hilariously).
* [[Star
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: David Brent's [[Dreadful Musician|music]], and particularly his cover of "If You Don't Know Me By Now".
* [[Ted Baxter]]: David.
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* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]: Lee's proposal to Dawn was done by way of a small piece in a newspaper.
{{quote| '''Dawn:''' I think he had to pay for it by the word because all it said was, "Lee love Dawn. Marriage?" Which...I like, because it's not every day you get something that's both romantic and thrifty.}}
* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Lee and Dawn. Although they're engaged, Lee is ''never'' shown being nice to Dawn, and is instead seen being horrible to her on several occasions. [[Word of God]] concedes this, admitting that they had originally intended to make the Tim / Dawn / Lee triangle to be more of a match of equals, but since Tim by default ended up getting more screen-time he couldn't help becoming more likeable.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Stephen Merchant appears twice, first as a corporate rep and second as "Oggy" - Gareth's friend.
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* [[Above the Influence]]: Pam would've done anything with Jim (and even kisses him before he can react) in "The Dundies," but Jim just makes sure she gets her ride home.
** Jim also displays this in "After Hours" when Kathy makes unwelcome advances towards him: Avoiding her, inviting Stanley to join them, tricking Dwight into the room, gently rebuffing her, and finally asking her to leave outright.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Jan and Michael's sexual relationship is very clearly exploitive and would easily be [[Dude, Not Funny]] if their [[Stealth Pun|positions were reversed]]. However, we really only hear his side of things, and he appears to dish out as much as he gets in "The Dinner Party." In the end, while it's played for laughs, the abuse is not portrayed as "okay". They both spar verbally, but physically Jan is shown to clearly be the aggressor, starting with "forgetting" the [[Safe Word]] and culminating with Michael declining to press charges and police advising him to leave his condo to stay with Dwight after she breaks his prized flatscreen TV with one of his Dundee in a rage.
* [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]: The documentary format can raise the question of just how long these people are going to keep filming before they have a finished product. And if it's a TV show in-universe as well, apparently none of the characters actually watch it. Fans tend to let it go for the sake of the jokes.
* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Angela and Andy arrange to host their wedding at Dwight's farm. During a walk through, Dwight has a local German-speaking Amish minister perform a "mock" ceremony with himself as the groom. Subverted in that, until Dwight pulled this stunt, Angela was carrying on an affair with him and had finally decided to leave Andy.
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** Andy's doing a Parkour high jump right on top of an ''empty'' carboard box.
** Andy's bloody nipples during the rabies fundraising race.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Oscar described Ryan's illegal maneuvering as such:
{{quote| '''Oscar:''' Ryan's big project was the website, which wasn't doing so well. So to give the ''impression'' of sales Ryan had us record sales twice; once as office sales and once as website sales. This is called ''misleading the shareholders.'' Another word for this is ''fraud.'' The ''real'' crime, I think, was the ''beard.''}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving]]: Inverted in the season 4 premiere, Michael describes his flaws as singing in the shower, spending too much time volunteering, and occasionally hitting someone with his car.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Phyllis Smith (Phyllis) was originally a casting assistant who was rewarded with a part after making a good impression at a read-through. Mindy Kaling (Kelly), a member of the show's writing staff, was pressed into service in her first appearance because the director needed an Indian actress.
* [[Ascended Meme]]:
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* [[Bacon Addiction]]: Michael.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Robert California delivers one to Andy in "Turf War":
{{quote| ''"I will not be blackmailed by some ineffectual, priviledged, effete, soft penis'd debutante. If you wanna start a street fight with me bring it on, but you're gonna be surprised by how ugly it gets. You don't even know my real name! I'm the [[Precision F
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]:
** "Threat Level Midnight".
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* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Beautiful but dumb Erin is a textbook case. Kelly has some elements but is a bit too devious to be a genuine [[Brainless Beauty]].
** Earlier episodes suggest Kelly isn't as dumb as she acts, given the winks and eyebrow-raises she makes to the camera after particularly clueless statements.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: An actual food-related example with Dwight's machine during "Secret Santa."
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Erin Hannon in "Secretary's Day." So apparently you can pretend to fire her, make fun of her behind her back, and smuggle a flock of geese into her car, but tell her that her boyfriend used to date another co-worker and you're [[Deader Than Dead|deader than dead]].
** Some of those other events did seem to upset her. But what probably [[Berserk Button|sent her over the edge]] was that it was Angela, the antithesis of Erin.
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* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: In "The Sting," Kelly comments that Timmy Olyphant's Danny Cordray looks a lot like Josh Duhmael. Also an [[Ascended Meme]] as this comparison comes up a lot in real life as well.
* [[Chain of Corrections]]
* [[
* [[Chaos Architecture]]: a minor example: right after Jim got promoted to co-regional manager, a new office appeared out of nowhere behind Creed's desk. It's Darryl's now.
* [[Character Blog]]: Though Creed's doesn't live up to Ryan's description (see [[Take Our Word for It]]).
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** There was a tendency to do this with Jim and Pam a lot around the period in which Jim was a co-manager alongside Michael.
* [[Crossover]]: The cold open of the episode "The Seminar" features [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AppVGPVYv4 the historic meeting of Michael Scott and David Brent].
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Despite being...[[Cloudcuckoolander|out there]], Michael's branch is consistently the top in sales.
* [[The Cutie]]: Kelly and Erin.
** Erin far more so. She's not just cute but also extremely naive and innocent.
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** When Michael correctly states that China has 56 cities with over a million residents as opposed to the United States with nine, the whole office goes crazy trying to find the exact figure. They are all stunned that he got both numbers right.
** "We do not know how many offices are robbed every second... because there is no [[The Other Wiki|Wikipedia entry]] for office break-ins."
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: It's unclear exactly what happened between Jan and Michael in "The Client." Michael attempts not to talk about it to the camera the next day, then claims they went to a hotel, made out, talked, and then fell asleep. Starting with the next episode, and in numerous episodes afterward, various claims are made by Michael and through co-worker gossip.
* [[Dinner and A Show]]: Jan and Michael's titular gathering in "Dinner Party" descends into utter chaos, with each of them berating the other and breaking their possessions, much to the simultaneous entertainment/horror of their guests.
* [[Directed By Cast Member]]:
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* [[Fake American]]: Idris Elba (Charles) is actually British.
* [[Fat Idiot]]: Kevin.
* ''[[Ferris
** Also Michael's sleeping dummy with the string connecting the door to the arm so that someone entering the office triggers a snoring tape. It's not fooling Stanley who lampshades how pointless the whole scheme is anyway.
{{quote| '''Stanley:''' How is this better than you not being there?}}
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* [[Force Feeding]]: In "Ultimatum", Michael forces Kevin to eat a large piece of broccoli after he makes a New Year's resolution to eat more vegetables.
* [[For the Funnyz]]: No matter what the situation, Michael will always try to interject, "That's what she said!"
* [[Four
* [[Freak Out]]: Ryan.
* [[The Gambling Addict]]: Kevin.
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* [[Genki Girl]]: Erin.
* [[Girl With Psycho Weapon]]: Erin Hannon and her cake.
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: Parodied in a recent episode where Dwight attempts to look more refined in order to get back at a store that refused to serve him. When he's trying to get opinions on how to do so, a couple people mention that he should try not wearing the glasses, at which point Dwight immediately rips off his glasses, hurls them to the floor, and stomps on them. Then a couple more people pipe up that they preferred him ''with'' the glasses. [[Blind Without
** This trope was [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] by Michael in episode "Job Fair".
* [[The Glomp]]: Michael does this to Jim after he learns of Jim's engagement.
* [[Go Look At the Distraction]]: "Hey, did you get a shot of Pam's art over there?"
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Ryan [[Growing the Beard|grows]] a [[Beard of Evil]] after being promoted. Michael grows one out of adulation (as Dwight does likewise for him).
** [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame|Ryan shaves his off upon realizing this.]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Darryl's prank on Andy to convince him that Sabre printers really ''are'' catching on fire and that the company has a huge cover-up going on to prevent loss of business. When Andy's printer test ''does'' confirm that this is in fact ''exactly'' what is going on, Darryl realize [[Oh Crap|that he's in over his head.]]
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* [[Hollywood Law]] (as well as Hollywood Finance): There is almost no onscreen fallout from Ryan's fraud indictment beyond him simply being fired from Dunder-Mifflin. This should have led to serious consequences for David Wallace (as his supervisor) and virtually all of the cast (who were material witnesses). However, between seasons 4 and 5 the prosecution simply evaporates and is barely mentioned again. This is partially an aversion of [[Cerebus Syndrome]] and partially a [[Rule of Funny]], but it's jarring nonetheless.
** Michael spanking his nephew, while constituting assault in a legal sense, is brushed off in exchange of a mere 6 hours of counseling which he burns off in a single sitting with Toby (arguably ''worse'' than a real court imposed sentence, seeing how this is ''Michael'' and he despises Toby)
* [[Hope Spot]]: There are a number of scenes in which it seems like Michael is finally being mature for once, only for him to turn it completely around seconds later. For example, his improv class where it briefly looks like he finally abandon [[
** A different example is in the beginning of the "Classy Christmas" two-parter, where Michael goes around making a concerted effort to make sure that no one had any latent issues or emotional baggage to bring to the ensuing Christmas party, with even Stanley being genuinely cheerful for once. It seems like there's going to be a Christmas party without any crazy drama this time... and then Michael finds out that Holly's coming back. He promptly throws out everything for the Christmas party that was about to happen, and sets up a new one that goes to Hell in a hand basket faster than you can say "Scranton Strangler".
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Michael...
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** Don't forget Karen. Lampshaded when Michael suggests she invest in a dress or skirt for Phyllis's wedding.
** Jo Benett's suit certainly qualifies, and she terrorizes everyone into the late night overtime on St-Patrick's day.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Dwight and Angela.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Angela openly mocks the other female employees for being "too whoreish" and such, but she has affairs with Dwight and Andy (at the same time!).
** And in one episode, she implies that this wasn't even the first time she's pulled this.
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{{quote| '''Michael:''' (in talking heads, still in straightjacket and hair is a mess) On a related topic, if anyone has found a small brass key...}}
* [[Idiot Savant]]: Michael is shown to be an extremely talented salesman, which is odd given his utter lack of social skills in all other situations. His existence as an office manager is a critique of how offices will always promote someone one level ''above'' their best level of competency.
* [[If
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her]]: Michael loves this trope, especially when it's inappropriate.
** Phyllis' wedding to Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration-
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{{quote| Michael: "If you so much as harm a hair on Stanley's head, [[Disproportionate Retribution|we'll burn Utica to the ground.]]"}}
** Micheal to Gabe about Erin after the ''[[Glee]]'' party.
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: Jan played this quite obviously with Michael. Michael was equally obvious about the effect it had on him.
* [[The Informant]]: Andy is this is when it is revealed in "Whistleblower" that he is the one who leaked to the press that the Sabre printers Dunder-Mifflin are selling are prone to catching on fire. He becomes the office pariah afterwards. Which kind of sucks, considering that there were ''three other'' whistleblowers in the office as well.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Despite Michael being a very poor manager, and the office staff slacking off constantly the Scranton Branch is the most successful branch. Even David Wallace and other leadership is baffled by this.
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{{quote| {{spoiler|Stanley}}: It's called [[Hentai]]... and it's art.}}
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Averted with Ryan: "Maybe we weren't right together, but...it's weird. I'd rather she(Kelly) be alone than with somebody. Is that love?"
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: Averted. Andy went to Cornell, but [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|it was because his dad is filthy rich]] and made a donation to the university. Ryan appears to have gone to Dartmouth, but the rest of the cast doesn't really seem the Ivy League type; Michael is specifically mentioned as not having gone to college at all.
** The ironic praise of Cornell within the show is probably born of the Ivy league grads working on the show; developer of the American version of the show, Greg Daniels, is a Harvard grad, as is B.J. Novak (writer and actor). Actor John Krasinski (Brown alum), writer/actress Mindy Kaling (Dartmouth), and actress Ellie Kemper (Princeton) also play less elite characters.
** I don't know about his undergrad, but at least for his MNB, [[Word of God]] has [http://www.dundermifflin.com/media/052107.shtml Ryan graduating from] the Kania School of Management at the U of Scranton.
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** Michael himself may suffer from this a bit, making him even more desperate to be friends with his employees.
** Ed Truck tells Michael that this is to be expected, because he will always be seen as a manager first by his employees. Michael could have prevented a lot of suffering to himself and the Office if he'd listened.
* [[Lord Error
* [[Loud of War]]: Jim steals Karen's desk chair because his squeaks. So Karen (not realizing who she's dealing with) tries to get back at him by squeaking the chair. He sings the chorus for "Lovefool" by The Cardigans repeatedly to [[Ear Worm|get it stuck in her head]]. She's begging him to stop in seconds.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Oh boy...Andy/Erin/Gabe, Jim/Pam/Roy, Pam/Jim/Karen, Dwight/Angela/Andy, Jan/Michael/Carol, Jan/Michael/Holly, Michael/Holly/AJ, Ryan/Kelly/Darryl, Toby/Pam/Jim, Dwight/Erin/Andy (for one episode), Angela/Dwight/Isabel.
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{{quote| '''Pam:''' What have you done?!}}
** During one of Pam's interviews when she realizes a concussion has made Dwight her friend.
* [[One
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted and then exploited by Kelly the CSR. She has a crush on Charles, so she hangs out near his office in the hopes that he will call for Kelly the receptionist. She then runs in and says "Charles, you wanted me?" in the hopes that it will subliminally make it so.
** Then played [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] by Charles when he decides to avert Kelly's aversion by calling the other Kelly by her middle name, Erin, which sticks well enough that it's hard to remember it's not actually her real first name.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Michael and Dwight get these moments every now and then, in order to balance out their [[Jerkass]] personalities. And everyone in the office has had at least one, except for Creed.
* [[Pixellation]]: Used to hilarious effect in ''Benjamin Franklin'', when Michael visits a sex shop and ''everything'' in the background is pixellated.
* [[Pointy
* [[Poirot Speak]]: Michael adopts the ridiculous "How you say?" mannerisms when speaking English to an English-speaking Canadian.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Erin, the new receptionist. She actually seems to like working for Michael!
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** And, of course, season 7 sees Michael and Holly moving to Boulder, Colorado to get married and care for her aging parents.
** Robert California finds a new job at the end of Season 8, so we won't be seeing him next season. It also looks like Kelly won't be coming back since her actress, Mindy Kaling, has had Fox pick up a new series for her this fall, which is going to become her primary focus, not leaving her enough time for ''The Office''. Plus, producer Paul Lieberstein is going to be leaving to start producing the planned Dwight spin-off ''The Farm'', so this could potentially be Toby's fate as well.
* [[
* [[Ready for Lovemaking]]: {{spoiler|Kathy}} pulls this on Jim at the end of After Hours. Jim tells her to get out.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Jenna Fischer's real life pregnancy was written in during season eight. She was noticeably more pregnant than she was during Pam's first pregnancy.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: After his brief stay as office IT, Nick delievers one to the ''entire office'' before leaving while [[Flipping the Bird]] to everyone.
** Also Michael with his quickfire "Boom, roasted!"
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: David Wallace.
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** In "Christmas Wishes", Andy threatens to cancel Jim or Dwight's Christmas's bonus and give it to the other if one pranks the other. What follows is Jim and Dwight deliberately leaving themselves completely open to pranking to egg the other on (Dwight by leaving things like his wallet and keys at his desk and leaving his computer and e-mail accessible, Jim by openly advertising his credit card information with Dwight obviously in earshot).
* [[Screaming Birth]]: Pam, when she's delivering her and Jim's baby.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Stanley tends not to put up with the office's more ridiculous goings-on, and on a couple of occasions, just walks out when things start getting weird.
** Done spectacularly by Jim in "Pool Party":
{{quote| '''Jim''': And there's my talking point. (proceeds to plow through the driveway)}}
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** Michael showing off his wooden train whistle to one of the young visitors [[The Jack Benny Show|"Train leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cuc...camunda!"]]
** Dwight's attempt to start a [[Chain of Deals]] with one red thumbtack in the "Garage Sale" episode is a play on the [[Real Life]] project [http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ one red paperclip].
** After the final credits of ''Threat Level Midnight'' Michael looks to the camera and says, [[Ferris
** Michael's (inaudible-to-the-audience) farewell exchange with Pam in "Goodbye, Michael" is reminiscent of the end of ''[[Lost in Translation]]''.
*** That particular moment also reflects the moment when Jim and Pam find out she's pregnant, and a scene from the UK series in which Tim admits his feelings to Dawn.
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** The episodes following Michael's departure in season 7 each feature the various replacement managers doing a variation of his "placing a figurine on the desk" at the end of the credits.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Angela "It's not my taste" Martin, Charles Miner.
* [[Spin
** Several years earlier, the show that eventually became ''[[Parks and Recreation (TV)|Parks and Recreation]]'' was initially conceived as an ''Office'' spinoff.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: One of Jim's pranks involves sending Dwight faxes .... from "Future Dwight".
* [[Star
* [[The Starscream]]: After Michael quits and is rehired, Dwight stops hero-worshipping him and begins viewing him as weak.
** His admiration of Michael more-or-less seems to be on-and-off throughout the series. However he is a very straight Starscream towards Jim in Season 6.
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** Michael's movie, ''Threat Level: Midnight''.
** Any video produced by Michael qualifies as this. His office training and/or sensitivity videos especially.
* [[Suck E.
* [[Sure Let's Go With That]]: When Dwight returns to working at the office and sees a party already in progress, he joyfully asks, "You did this for me?" Michael just decides to say yes, as the camera pans to the "Welcome Back Oscar" sign.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]
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'''Michael:''' A lot of places are like that. }}
** It's spread to other members of the office now, too. For example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFwsjhr8cb8 Pam excitedly contributes this] over the phone -- using a super small headset that her coworkers don't know about so she and Jim can be in touch all day.
* [[Theme Music Power
** He also does it during his interview montage after being forced to quit from Andy's frame-up and in the staircase before his performance review with Michael and Jan.
* [[They Do]]: Jim and Pam
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* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]: Michael's speculative methods for proposing to Holly in the "Garage Sale" episode fit this category: pouring gasoline on the office parking lot in the shape of a heart and setting it afire, tossing "a corpse dressed like me" from the office roof and decapitating it so he can tell her, "I lost my head when I fell for you", etc.
** His actual proposal to her kind of straddles the line between this and [[Grand Romantic Gesture]].
* [[Wax On Wax Off]]: ''Threat Level Midnight'': [[What Do You Mean
* [[Wedding Day]]: Phyllis's, in Season 3; Jim and Pam's, in Season 6.
* [[We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPcuwZlJShE Ryan Started the Fire]".
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* [[Faux Symbolism|What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic?]]: In a Halloween episode, Dwight mentions that [[Hypocritical Humor|he is perfectly willing to leave Scranton to go wherever 'they value loyalty the most']]. His costume? [[Star Wars|Sith Lord.]]
** In a later Halloween episode, Ryan is dressed as [[Wall Street|Gordon Gekko]], referencing his rise and fall in the corporate world.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What Does She See in Him?|What Does He See In Her?]]:
** Erin's reaction to Michael and Holly.
** Asked of Andy by Oscar, regarding his courting of Angela.
* [[What Exactly Is His Job]]: Creed works in Quality Assurance. Everyone knows this except Creed.
** Ryan's job is extremely unclear once the Michael Scott Paper Company is absorbed by Dunder Mifflin. He is hired as a salesman but is demoted in favor of Pam. So...WhatExactlyIsHisJob
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: In one season 6 episode, Erin accidentally destroyed Pam's watercolor painting of the building when she was trying to be helpful and clean it. This subplot was written out of the episode (though left in the description thereof) and the painting was back by the end of the season, despite having been replaced with a poster for some time.
* [[What Have I Done]]: Dwight's reaction when he realizes that his machinations to take the Sabre affirmative action management program away from Daryl and claim it for himself actually placed it squarely in Kelly's hands instead... and she makes a veiled threat that ''she'll remember what he's done.''
* [[When You Snatch the Pebble]]: Amusing in that Dwight would apply such a teaching to sales in the first place, but also subverted - Ryan is easily able to take the seed from Dwight's hand.
* [[Why Didn't You Just Say So?]]: "Meredith was hit by a car this morning, I took her to the hospital. The Doctors did everything they could do....and she's now recovering comfortably."
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Some fans have put a lot of effort into explaining exactly why a documentary crew has been filming the Scranton office for the past five years and counting, with no indication that the documentary ever airs (unlike the UK version). Theories include the documentary airing only in a far-away foreign country, or that it's an ongoing project assigned to filmmaking students at the local community college and never meant to be aired. (Which would explain why they never film during the summer.) Either way, the question is [[Serious Business]] to some.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Jim and Pam. They did, sometime between seasons 3 and 4).
** Andy and Erin.
** Michael and Holly also seemed poised to become this until they began going out a few episodes in (which Michael hilariously lampshades):
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** {{spoiler|Andy and Erin have finally gotten together too}}.
* [[Work Com]]
* [[Wondrous Ladies' Room]]: It has a couch! And magazines!
* [[Worthless Foreign Degree]]: Vikram, an admittedly good telemarketer, was a surgeon back in India.
** There's also a Japanese heart surgeon working in the warehouse. However, this one is justified, as he is in hiding from the [[Yakuza]] after (apparently intentionally) botching a heart transplant operation for their boss.
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{{quote| '''Kevin:''' ''C'' is for ''suspension.''}}
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: The stripper at Bob Vance's warehouse bachelor party gets two of these when she tells Pam she's hot enough to strip and Angela that she loves her baby posters.
** Michael does this to Ryan as a guest speaker to his business class when he claims that Ryan is better than all the other students despite having never made a sale, started a fire with his pita bread and [[Ho Yay|"everybody thinking he's a tease".]] Also doubles as an unintentional [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]].
** When Andy forms a band with Darryl and Kevin, he asks several people their opinion on the first song they create. Everybody hates it, but Andy perseveres in claiming it has potential for success. Then [[Cloudcuckoolander|Creed]] says he loves it, which totally bums him out.
* [[You Must Be Cold]]: Inverted. Erin puts her coat on Andy in "New Leads." He kisses her right then and there.
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