Andy comes back from a camping trip as a much more assertive man and invites everyone to try the slackline he tried while there.
The office has two new guys. Dwight grows disillusioned with one of them after mistakenly trying to act as a father for him.
Jim, now in a moment of his life that he believes will never change, starts to fear his life has gone stale.
Angela tries to find someone who may adopt her cat Comstock.
Trope
- Butt-Monkey: Andy makes it clear to Nellie that she is going to become this to him as revenge for taking his job. He also extends some of that hostility onto Toby for refusing to let him fire her.
- In the last scene, all of the recycling bins have been deliberately placed near Nellie's desk, which causes everyone to throw their recyclables in her direction (and accidentally keep hitting her with them).
- Blatant Lies: After Kelly travels to Miami, Ohio with her boyfriend Ravi, Ryan inexplicably packs up and leaves for Ohio too, for "unrelated reasons". In a talking-head segment filmed as he's eagerly awaiting his bus, Ryan states that he's leaving because Southern Ohio is projected to become the new Silicon Valley.
- Call-Back: Michael's hatred for Toby is mentioned by Andy again.
- Continuity Nod: Andy's distaste for Nellie comes back, this time, he is much more willing to be openly aggressive against her.
- Foil: Pete to Jim, he's even called "The New Jim". Pete is young, attractive, cool and genuinely ambitious, though doing little to back his ambitions, exactly how Jim was like in the beginning of the series. Jim looks at him and realizes that, noticing his professional life has stilled.
- Foreshadowing: Despite his claims that the bike contraption is affixed and cannot fall off the high wire, when Dwight leaves to find a counterweight for himself after Pam refused to fulfil it, the bike is shown to still be prone to tipping over. Indeed, despite using a paper copier as a substitute counterweight, Dwight still tips over the high wire and hangs onto the bike for dear life.
- Humiliation Conga: Dwight goes through a big one in his attempt to one-up Clark. When Clark proves to be amazing at Andy's slack-lining challenge, Dwight tries it but his balance is much more horrible than Clark's, so a montage ensues of him constantly getting on and failing dramatically. He then stages an elaborate bicycle atop a tightrope over the top of the building, but tips over halfway through and pleads for help, eventually needing the fire department to rescue him.
- Lampshade Hanging: Pam responds to the camera crew saying that they're sticking around to see how Jim and Pam turn out by saying "Yeah, because we were kind of dramatic in the beginning."
- Person as Verb: "If you make it all the way across, your confidence will soar. But, if you Toby out, then you’ll feel like a real Nellie."
- Put on a Bus: Kelly and Ryan. Kelly, now in a committed relationship, travels to Miami, in Ohio, with her boyfriend who becomes a teacher in a college. Ryan, still not over her, or rather the fact that she chose someone else over him, travels there to with the flimsy excuse that it will become the new Silicon Valley.
- Tempting Fate: When told that the camera crew is still around because they want to see how Jim and Pam turn out, Pam laughs them off and states that nothing interesting is probably going to happen to them for a long time. By the end of the episode, Jim has already done something drastic to change that.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Andy is much more mean when he comes back and thrives in torturing Nellie for no good reason other than he dislikes her. He also starts mistreating Toby out of the fact he stood in his way, saying he understands why Michael hated him.
