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* Dwight's "fire drill," while hilarious, is also horrifying. The panic of all the office workers goes on for a four minute long cold open, with things like Michael smashing open a window and screaming pretty un-hammily for help, Jim yelling, "I am not dying here!" Dwight's DissonantSerenity, oh, and Stanley having a heart attack. It's pretty unnerving.

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* Dwight's "fire drill," while hilarious, is also horrifying. The panic of all the office workers goes on for a four minute long cold open, with things like Michael smashing open a window and screaming pretty un-hammily for help, Jim yelling, saying, "I am not dying here!" Dwight's DissonantSerenity, oh, and Stanley having a heart attack. It's pretty unnerving.
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* 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.
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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/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?]]

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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' ''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?]]
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* The face Michael makes when Pam realises he's dating her mother. Seriously, he looks deranged.

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* The face [[NightmareFace face]] Michael makes when Pam realises he's dating her mother. Seriously, he looks deranged.
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* Dwight dangling from a tightrope after his attempt to bicycling across it failed when the printer counterbalance was too light is this. It's a miracle he was able to hold on to the handlebars long enough for the fire department to arrive. If he hadn't, he likely would have died or at the very least been seriously injured
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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/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.

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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/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?]]
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* For those who are Emetophobic, the cold open to ''Niagra: Part 1'' is this ''big time''.

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* For those who are Emetophobic, emetophobic, the cold open to ''Niagra: ''Niagara: Part 1'' is this ''big time''.
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* For those who are Emetophobic, the cold open to ''Niagra: Part 1'' is this ''big time''.
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* Dwight has wigs allowing him to impersonate many Dunder Mifflin employees. This is played for laughs at first, but as Jim actually falls for it, the viewer realizes that Dwight has a means of passing as the friend or loved one of any number of people. Not indefinitely of course, but just long enough for it to matter...
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* "Weight Loss: Parts 1 & 2" has Kelly buy a tapeworm from Creed in order to lose weight. When she plans to go buy tapeworm-medicine, Creed offhandedly tells her it's not a tapeworm.

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* "Weight Loss: Parts 1 & 2" has a talking head of Kelly buy stating she bought a tapeworm from Creed in order to lose weight. When she plans weight with the intention of using tapeworm-medicine to go buy tapeworm-medicine, remove it. It cuts to Creed offhandedly tells her it's not bluntly stating "That wasn't a tapeworm.tapeworm".
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-->'''Dwight:''' "Japanese camp guards of World War II always chose one man to kill whenever a new batch of prisoners arrived. I always wondered how they chose the man who was to die. ''({{Beat}})'' I think I would have been good at choosing the person." ''([[SlasherSmile A smile begins to creep across his face]])''

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-->'''Dwight:''' "Japanese camp guards of World War II always chose one man to kill whenever a new batch of prisoners arrived. I always wondered how they chose the man who was to die. ''({{Beat}})'' I think I would have been good at choosing the person." ''([[SlasherSmile A smile ''(A SlasherSmile begins to creep across his face]])''face)''
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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/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.

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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' Jim, Pam, Andy, Angela 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.
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* "Weight Loss: Parts 1 &2" have Kelly buy a tapeworm from Creed. When she plans to go buy tapeworm-medicine, Creed offhandedly tells her it's not a tapeworm.

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* "Weight Loss: Parts 1 &2" have & 2" has Kelly buy a tapeworm from Creed.Creed in order to lose weight. When she plans to go buy tapeworm-medicine, Creed offhandedly tells her it's not a tapeworm.
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* "Weight Loss: Parts 1 &2" have Kelly buy a tapeworm from Creed. When she plans to go buy tapeworm-medicine, Creed offhandedly tells her it's not a tapeworm.
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* From "The Merger":
-->'''Dwight:''' "Japanese camp guards of World War II always chose one man to kill whenever a new batch of prisoners arrived. I always wondered how they chose the man who was to die. ''({{Beat}})'' I think I would have been good at choosing the person." ''([[SlasherSmile A smile begins to creep across his face]])''
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* According to Dwight, the secret to making horse meat is cutting bits off the horse one at a time.

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He Can Really Act refers to the real life actor's acting ability.


* Dwight's "fire drill," while hilarious, is also horrifying. The panic of all the office workers goes on for a four minute long cold open, with things like Michael smashing open a window and screaming [[HeReallyCanAct pretty un-hammily for help]], Jim yelling, "I am not dying here!" Dwight's DissonantSerenity, oh, and Stanley having a heart attack. It's pretty unnerving.

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* Dwight's "fire drill," while hilarious, is also horrifying. The panic of all the office workers goes on for a four minute long cold open, with things like Michael smashing open a window and screaming [[HeReallyCanAct pretty un-hammily for help]], help, Jim yelling, "I am not dying here!" Dwight's DissonantSerenity, oh, and Stanley having a heart attack. It's pretty unnerving.



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

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* Really more Squick, but Dwight saying Schrute Farms' biggest attraction is their 200 year old mattresses.mattresses.
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* Sprinkles' fate in "Fun Run." It's bad enough that Dwight force-fed her pills and put her in the freezer, then she barfed them up and tried to claw her way out, according to Angela. Poor Sprinkles.
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* Really more Squick, but Dwight saying Schrute Farms' biggest attraction is their 200 year old mattresses. A mattress doubles in weight every 8 years due to the accumulation of dead skin cells. Really think about that.

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* Really more Squick, but Dwight saying Schrute Farms' biggest attraction is their 200 year old mattresses. A mattress doubles in weight every 8 years due to the accumulation of dead skin cells. Really think about that.
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* 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.

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* 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.releases.
* Really more Squick, but Dwight saying Schrute Farms' biggest attraction is their 200 year old mattresses. A mattress doubles in weight every 8 years due to the accumulation of dead skin cells. Really think about that.
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** Also in the same episode, when Dwight cuts the face off the dummy and ''wears it as a mask''.
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* Michael pretending to hang himself in the haunted house in "Koi Pond".

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* 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.
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* The face Michael makes when Pam realises he's dating her mother. Seriously, he looks deranged.

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* The face Michael makes when Pam realises he's dating her mother. Seriously, he looks deranged.deranged.
* Michael pretending to hang himself in the haunted house in "Koi Pond".
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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/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.

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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/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.ones.
* The face Michael makes when Pam realises he's dating her mother. Seriously, he looks deranged.
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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' Jim, Pam, Andy, Angela [[spoiler: Dwight and Dwight's Schoolteacher]] 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.

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* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' Jim, Pam, Andy, Angela [[spoiler: Dwight and Dwight's Schoolteacher]] 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.
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* "You don't even know my real name. I'm the [[PrecisionFStrike ''(bleep)''ing]] Lizard King!" If you didn't think Robert California was sinister before, this line would definitely do the trick.

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* "You don't even know my real name. I'm the [[PrecisionFStrike ''(bleep)''ing]] Lizard King!" If you didn't think Robert California was sinister before, this line would definitely do the trick.trick.
* "Dinner Party" counts as this. In what could be best described as the show's answer to ''Theater/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' Jim, Pam, Andy, Angela [[spoiler: Dwight and Dwight's Schoolteacher]] 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.
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* Pam almost getting beaten up by a surly warehouse worker. Luckily, it was prevented, but he got ''really'' close...

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* Pam almost getting beaten up by a surly warehouse worker. Luckily, it was prevented, but he got ''really'' close...close...
* "You don't even know my real name. I'm the [[PrecisionFStrike ''(bleep)''ing]] Lizard King!" If you didn't think Robert California was sinister before, this line would definitely do the trick.
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* Pam almost getting beaten up by a surly warehouse worker.

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* Pam almost getting beaten up by a surly warehouse worker. Luckily, it was prevented, but he got ''really'' close...
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--> "Yeah, it seems like there isn't a narrative. Maybe the filmmaker realized that even narrative is comforting.

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--> "Yeah, it seems like there isn't a narrative. Maybe the filmmaker realized that even narrative is comforting.comforting.
* Pam almost getting beaten up by a surly warehouse worker.
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* 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.]]
* Dwight's "fire drill," while hilarious, is also horrifying. The panic of all the office workers goes on for a four minute long cold open, with things like Michael smashing open a window and screaming [[HeReallyCanAct pretty un-hammily for help]], Jim yelling, "I am not dying here!" Dwight's DissonantSerenity, oh, and Stanley having a heart attack. It's pretty unnerving.
* Roy going berserk (in a not even remotely comedic way) in "Cocktails" and "The Negotiation".
--> "I'm going to ''kill'' Jim Halpert."
* The "[[SurrealHorror film]]" Gabe shows everyone in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2ttjSvtyc Spooked]]"
--> "Yeah, it seems like there isn't a narrative. Maybe the filmmaker realized that even narrative is comforting.

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