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-->'''Dwight:''' "In the end, the greatest snowball isn't a snowball at all. It's fear. [[MoodWhiplash (smiles) Merry Christmas.]]

* Season 3: The Coup. Michael tricks Dwight into believing his attempt at usurping his position worked. We see Michael suddenly become cold, calculating and decidedly not his usual self. The jarring effect can make it quite scary that even though the humorous way he ends up telling Dwight he knows what he did (Dwight insults his car), is lessened by Michael reducing the man to a quivering wreck on his office floor. Michael does not like being betrayed.

* For all his hilarity, Dwight may be able one prank away from going postal and showing up to work with an AR-15. He's typically portrayed as an ill adjusted loner with violent power fantasies who is regularly bullied by certain coworkers, ignored and belittled by his superiors, seems to enjoying killing peoples pets and generally regarded as 'crazy'. He already brings weapons to work and is shown to be more than willing to use them on his colleagues such as pepper spraying Roy and Andy and tranquilising Stanley.

* For all his hilarity, Dwight may be able one prank away from going postal and showing up to work with an AR-15. He's typically a loner with violent power fantasies who is regularly bullied by certain coworkers, ignored and belittled by his superiors, seems to enjoying killing peoples pets and generally regarded as 'crazy'. He already brings weapons to work and is shown to be more than willing to use them on his colleagues such as pepper spraying Roy and Andy and tranquilising Stanley.

* Nellie adopting a child. It's easy to forget during Season 9 how incredibly naive, unstable and manipulative she is, but looking back at Season 7 or 8, one cannot but cringe at the idea that a child would be left in her care. Lest be forgotten that her previous attempt to legally adopt a baby was rejected for unknown reasons.

* Really more Squick, but Dwight saying Schrute Farms' biggest attraction is their 200 year old mattresses.

* Deangelo [[spoiler: wandering back in to the office after having been hospitalized with a head injury, attempting to give out orders despite aphasia making him into a disturbing version of TheUnintelligible.]]

* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' Jim, Pam, Andy, Angela, [[spoiler: Dwight and Dwight's Babysitter-turned-lover]] are essentially ForcedToWatch Michael and Jan's relationship fall apart at the seams. Doubly effective if you've ever had to witness a similar situation among friends or loved ones. Triply when you consider what must be happening when they're not on camera or around people. We see Jan smash Michael's TV, and they both talk about Michael running through the patio door [[BlatantLies while chasing the ice cream man]].

** The next episode opens with him pacing outside the office in a distubring fashion, before finally deciding to enter the building, shout "HALPERT!" in a vengeful tone, and make at go to '''assault''' Jim right there in the office, before Dwight subdues him.

* The [[NightmareFace face]] Michael makes when Pam realises he's dating her mother. Seriously, he looks deranged.
* Michael pretending to hang himself in the haunted house in "Koi Pond". There's a reason the scene was pulled from future airings and dvd releases.

* Nellie adopting a child. It's easy to forget during Season 9 how incredibly dumb, unstable and manipulative she is, but looking back at Season 7 or 8, one cannot but cringe at the idea that a child would be left in her care.

* For those who are emetophobic, the cold open to ''Niagara: Part 1'' is this ''big time''.

* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' Jim, Pam, Andy, Angela, [[spoiler: Dwight and Dwight's Babysitter-turned-lover]] are essentially ForcedToWatch Michael and Jan's relationship fall apart at the seams. Doubly effective if you've ever had to witness a similar situation among friends or loved ones. Triply when you consider what must be happening when they're not on camera or around people. We see Jan smash Michael's TV, and they both talk about Michael running through the patio door [[BlatantLies while chasing the ice cream man]]. [[FridgeHorror Did she push him through it?]]

-->'''Dwight:''' "In the end, the greatest snowball isn't a snowball at all. It's fear. (smiles)[[MoodWhiplash Merry Christmas.]]

** Also in the same episode, when Dwight cuts the face off the dummy and ''wears it as a mask''.