It's six days before Phyllis' wedding. Michael plans a bachelor party for Bob Vance, and Todd Packer convinces them to hire a stripper. To even things out, they decide to hire a male stripper for the bridal shower and task Jim for the job. As a joke, Jim books a Benjamin Franklin impersonator instead. Jim and Karen try to work through their relationship problems.
Air date: February 1, 2007
Tropes
- Actor Allusion: It's very subtle. The actress who plays Elizabeth The Stripper, Jackie Debatin, is also an accountant
. When he wants to get three hours' work out of her and Michael cancels the party, where does Dwight sit her? In accounting. - Artistic License – History: Both Dwight and Michael.
- When Dwight grills Franklin on his knowledge, he says the King of Prussia is Friedrich Wilhelm III. However, he became king in 1797, seven years after Ben Franklin died. Dwight also asks Franklin who was the King of Austria, and while he correctly says Joseph II, the ruler of Austria at the time was known as the Archduke of Austria rather than as the King of Austria.
- Even after multiple corrections, Michael still thinks Ben Franklin was a president.
- Call-Back: Ryan is grossed out that Michael is cooking dinner on the Foreman grill he stepped on in Season 2.
- Hollywood History: Franklin's lesson.
- Insistent Terminology: Elizabeth is a dancer, not a stripper.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Michael tries to demonstrate how to jump-start a car. By attaching plugs to random parts of the engine. Dwight looks at the camera and shakes his head.
- Pixellation: Everything in the sex shop.
- Straw Misogynist: Ben Franklin believes Michael should try not to upset women, because they are "the weaker sex". It's uncertain whether these are Gordon the Impersonator's views or just what he thinks Franklin's views would have been, but either way even Michael views him as "kind of a sleazebag".
- Super Gullible: Dwight is surprisingly easy to convince that Benjamin Franklin is still alive and in the office complex.
- Terrible Pick-Up Lines: When the Ben Franklin impersonator hits on Pam.Ben Franklin: You know, I invented electricity.Pam: I know.Ben Franklin Well, I’m sensing a little electricity right here.Pam: Didn’t Ben Franklin have syphilis?Ben Franklin: Yes, but I don’t. My name is Gordon.
- Too Dumb to Live: Michael cleans the crud off his power outlets with a metal fork.
- Touché: A deleted scene extends Dwight's grilling of the Ben Franklin actor. After saying he invented electricity, Franklin replies "I merely discovered electricity. The Almighty invented it." Dwight replies "Touché."
- Verbal Backspace: Jim tells Dwight that the Ben Franklin impersonator is the real Ben Franklin, to which Dwight says he is 99% certain that he is not. In a deleted line, he then says he's only 98% certain.
- Video Will: The cold open shows Michael making a video for his future son.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: When the stripper compliments both Angela and Pam.
