When Oscar shows Michael that there's an extra $4,300 in the budget that must be spent before the end of the day, a feud breaks out in the office over whether Michael should use it to buy a new copier or new chairs. Meanwhile, Andy and Angela do a practice run of their wedding at Schrute Farms, but Dwight has something different planned...
Tropes
- Butt-Monkey: In addition to Andy's poop mishaps, Mose also hits him in the head with a ball.
- Call-Back: Pam reminds Michael that he never settled on a new chair like he was supposed to do in "Chair Model".
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Kevin tries to ask Michael another math question, after Oscar tricks him into revealing he knows the third option.
- Michael's attempt to get Oscar to explain the concept of a budget surplus "like I'm five":Oscar: Your mommy and daddy gave you ten dollars, to open up a lemonade stand? So you go out, and you buy cups, and you buy lemons, and you buy sugar. And now you find out that it only cost you nine dollars. So you have an extra dollar.Michael: Yeah.Oscar: So you can give that dollar back to mommy and daddy, but guess what? Next summer—Michael: I'll be six.
- Curse Cut Short: When Michael's plan to walk away with the bonus completely backfires.Michael: Mother—! *camera cuts away*
- Didn't See That Coming:
- Pam expects Jim to take her side in supporting new chairs, but he actually sides with Oscar because he does his own copies now that they've been together and agrees that the copier is horrible.
- After they get the new chairs, Jim now has no compunctions about asking Pam to use the crappy copier to make him copies since she's the reason it didn't get replaced. Previously, he had been making his own copies to spare her the trouble.
- Michael leaves the office to decide what to do with the surplus themselves, believing they'll never be able to concede and he gets to walk away with the bonus. Instead, Oscar immediately concedes to Pam, deciding he'd rather have new chairs than nothing at all, leaving Michael (who had already made purchases from Burlington Coat Factory in anticipation) flabbergasted.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Oscar quickly realizes that Michael knows of the third option. He asks what 15% of 4300 is, to which Michael replies "645 dollars." Oscar didn't specify dollars.
- Just One Extra Ticket: True to the trope, everyone in the office starts sucking up to Michael. Yes, even Stanley.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own fiance to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.Jim: I'm going to need three copies of these, stapled and collated. *Pam gives him a look of panic* I'm totally kidding! *leans in and whispers* I'm going to need four. *smooch*
- Michael tries returning the surplus bonus without telling his staff so he can keep 15% and buy a fur coat. He ends up buying the coat on credit before learning that his staff found a way to allocate the money without him. Then animal rights advocates splash red paint on the coat.
- After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own fiance to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Pam becomes even more determined to convince Michael when Oscar and Jim offer to take him to lunch."So, I guess that's how they're gonna play this. It is on. [dead serious] It is so on."
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Angela confesses her love to Dwight after the perfect wedding setup he arranged and tells him that she wants him back. Dwight then ruins the moment by revealing that the two of them had just gotten married for real without her knowledge or consent, pissing her off and making her more set on marrying Andy.
- Oh, Crap!: The look on Pam's face when Jim decides that, since she actively prevented the terrible old copier from being replaced, he's now willing to make her do all his copying for him.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Pam gets the new chairs she was campaigning for... but Jim, having previously done his own copying to avoid having to ask his fiance to use the terrible copier, has now decided to change that policy. Meaning that Pam now has a lot more copying coming her way...
- Real Fake Wedding: Dwight attempts this with a minister who only speaks German so Andy and Angela don't catch on. Angela immediately has it annulled.
- Running Gag: Andy accidentally stepping in poop. Some of it even manages to show up in the kitchen.
- Shout-Out: Michael tries to claim that the chairs are "Urkel-nomically correct."
- Take a Third Option:
- Toby is the only one who doesn't take a side in new chairs or a new copier, instead suggesting that they test the office for asbestos and radon. Michael, naturally, ignores him.
- When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Andy suffers throughout the episode, having lost eight deposits trying to pick a wedding venue for him and Angela, trying to mediate between Dwight and Angela's firm disagreements on the arrangements for the wedding and repeatedly stepping in poop. At the end of the day however, Angela makes out with him, if only to spite Dwight. Andy takes it in stride after previously crying about how his wedding was not panning out the way he wanted it to.Andy: (grinning) Was that hot or what?
