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* BorrowedCatchphrase: During a ConfessionCam when Jan talks about whether to maintain her relationship with Michael Scott.
-->'''Jan:''' "Why is this so hard"? ThatsWhatSheSaid. Oh, God, what am I saying?
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* DramaticIrony: Roy tells Pam, "You can't hide anything from me". The audience is well aware that she can and has been.
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Scotch whisky has no "e".


* KnowNothingKnowItAll: David Wallace shares a 20-year-old single malt scotch that was a gift from Lee Iacocca.[[note]]One of the first "celebrity [=CEOs=]", who ran Ford and then famously left it for Chrysler back in TheEighties.[[/note]] Michael gives a toast "to Mr. Iacocca and his failed experiment, the [=DeLorean=]." Michael also asks for Splenda, while drinking a priceless whiskey.

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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: David Wallace shares a 20-year-old single malt scotch that was a gift from Lee Iacocca.[[note]]One of the first "celebrity [=CEOs=]", who ran Ford and then famously left it for Chrysler back in TheEighties.[[/note]] Michael gives a toast "to Mr. Iacocca and his failed experiment, the [=DeLorean=]." Michael also asks for Splenda, while drinking a priceless whiskey.whisky.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: David Wallace shares a 20-year-old single malt scotch that was a gift from Lee Iacocca. Michael gives a toast "to Mr. Iacocca and his failed experiment, the [=DeLorean=]." Michael also asks for Splenda, while drinking a priceless whiskey.

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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: David Wallace shares a 20-year-old single malt scotch that was a gift from Lee Iacocca. [[note]]One of the first "celebrity [=CEOs=]", who ran Ford and then famously left it for Chrysler back in TheEighties.[[/note]] Michael gives a toast "to Mr. Iacocca and his failed experiment, the [=DeLorean=]." Michael also asks for Splenda, while drinking a priceless whiskey.
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* GrewASpine: Pam decides to become more open, honest, and assertive in her relationship with Roy. When the bartender gives her the wrong beer, she asserts herself to get the right one. Unfortunately, it backfires when she tells him that Jim kissed her.

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* GrewASpine: Pam decides to become more open, honest, and assertive in her relationship with Roy.Roy and with people in general. When the bartender gives her the wrong beer, she asserts herself to get the right one. Unfortunately, it backfires when she tells him that Jim kissed her.
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* GrewASpine: Pam decides to become more open, honest, and assertive in her relationship with Roy. Unfortunately, it backfires when she tells him that Jim kissed her.

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* GrewASpine: Pam decides to become more open, honest, and assertive in her relationship with Roy. When the bartender gives her the wrong beer, she asserts herself to get the right one. Unfortunately, it backfires when she tells him that Jim kissed her.
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** While he blames Jim for disrupting their relationship, the truth is he had not been treating Pan very well prior to their first break up, which was almost certainly a factor in her reciprocating Jim's feelings.

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** While he blames Jim for disrupting their relationship, the truth is he had not been treating Pan Pam very well prior to their first break up, which was almost certainly a factor in her reciprocating Jim's feelings.
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** While he blames Jim for disrupting their relationship, the truth is he had not been treating Pan very well prior to their first break up, which was almost certainly a factor in her reciprocating Jim's feelings.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Toby spends the whole evening trying to win a duck for Pam, missing out an opportunity to hang out with her. Then she hands the duck back to him.

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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Toby spends the whole evening trying to win a duck for Pam, missing out an opportunity to hang out with her. Then she hands the duck back to him.him to give to his daughter, preventing him from insisting she keep it.
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* NeverMyFault: Roy decides he will kill Jim after he and his brother lose their money for jet skis bribing a bar to not tell the cops about them trashing it. While it's true Jim and Pam kissed, Roy's destructive outburst was entirely his own doing.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jan lists the only downside of dating Michael as "collapsing in on herself like a dying star."
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--> I am gonna kill Halpert.

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--> I am I'm gonna kill Jim Halpert.
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* GrewASpine: Pam decides to become more open, honest, and assertive in her relationship with Roy. Unfortunately, it backfires when she tells him that Jim kissed her.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: David Wallace shares a 20-year-old single malt scotch that was a gift from Lee Iacocca. Michael gives a toast "to Mr. Iacocca and his failed experiment, the [=DeLorean=]." Michael also asks for Splenda, while drinking a priceless whiskey.
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* CallBack : Pam confesses to Roy that she and Jim kissed during "Casino Night."
* DrinkingGame : The gang plays a drinking game in the pub.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption : Toby spends the whole evening trying to win a duck for Pam, missing out an opportunity to hang out with her. Then she hands the duck back to him.
* IdiotHoudini : A literal example, when Michael loses his key and can't get himself out of his straitjacket.
* Metaphorgotten : Michael says "early worm gets the...worm."
* NoodleIncident : Kevin refuses to talk about Stacy leaving him.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid : A rare example of Jan making the joke.
* WhamLine : Roy at the end after he finds out Jim kissed Pam.

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* CallBack : CallBack: Pam confesses to Roy that she and Jim kissed during "Casino Night."
* DrinkingGame : DrinkingGame: The gang plays a drinking game in the pub.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption : FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Toby spends the whole evening trying to win a duck for Pam, missing out an opportunity to hang out with her. Then she hands the duck back to him.
* IdiotHoudini : IdiotHoudini: A literal example, when Michael loses his key and can't get himself out of his straitjacket.
* Metaphorgotten : {{Metaphorgotten}}: Michael says "early worm gets the...worm."
* NoodleIncident : NoodleIncident: Kevin refuses to talk about Stacy leaving him.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid : ThatsWhatSheSaid: A rare example of Jan making the joke.
* WhamLine : WhamLine: Roy at the end after he finds out Jim kissed Pam.
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Michael, Jan, Dwight, Karen and Jim attend a cocktail party at David Wallace's home. As part of her resolve to be more assertive, Pam makes Roy go to the bar with the group from the Office.

Air date: February 22, 2007

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* CallBack : Pam confesses to Roy that she and Jim kissed during "Casino Night."
* DrinkingGame : The gang plays a drinking game in the pub.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption : Toby spends the whole evening trying to win a duck for Pam, missing out an opportunity to hang out with her. Then she hands the duck back to him.
* IdiotHoudini : A literal example, when Michael loses his key and can't get himself out of his straitjacket.
* Metaphorgotten : Michael says "early worm gets the...worm."
* NoodleIncident : Kevin refuses to talk about Stacy leaving him.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid : A rare example of Jan making the joke.
* WhamLine : Roy at the end after he finds out Jim kissed Pam.
--> I am gonna kill Halpert.

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