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* TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: The episode's plot revolves around this trope.

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* TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: The episode's plot revolves around this trope.SameClothesDifferentYear: You can tell which of the kids on ''Fundle Bundle'' is Michael because one of them is a boy with Michael's suit and [[HairstyleInertia hair]].


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* TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: The episode's plot revolves around this trope.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally apathetic and lethargic Stanley absolutely ''explodes'' when he thinks Ryan is flirting with his underage daughter.
--> '''Ryan''':Stanley yelled at me today. That was one of the most frightening experiences of my life.

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* DamnedByAFoolsPraise: Pam is horrified with Roy winds up bonding with Jakey, a delinquent who's at the office because he was suspended from school, and tells her how great the kid is.



* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Pam is horrified with Roy winds up bonding with Jakey, a delinquent who's at the office because he was suspended from school, and tells her how great the kid is.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Pam is horrified with Roy winds up bonding with Jakey, a delinquent who's at the office because he was suspended from school, and tells her how great the kid is.
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* WhamLine: Kid!Michael's statement mentioned above goes a ''long'' way toward explaining adult Michael's dysfunctional personality. Ryan even gives an AsideGlance to the camera afterwards indicating that it answered a lot of questions for him about Michael.

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* WhamLine: Kid!Michael's statement mentioned above goes a ''long'' way toward explaining adult Michael's dysfunctional personality. Ryan even gives an a "did you hear that?" AsideGlance to the camera afterwards camera, indicating that it answered a lot big piece of questions the puzzle regarding Michael had just dropped for him about Michael.him.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Michael shows everyone an old television show of him as a kid being asked what he wants to be when he grows up. Given that Young Michael Scott appears in a very similar suit and hairstyle to what he has in the present, it's easy to assume as a kid he wanted to have the job he has now, but his real answer is much darker. Given how taken aback by this Michael is, he probably also remembered the moment differently.


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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: What did a young Michael Scott want to be when he grows up? A father, specifically because then he'd be able to make himself some friends in the form of his children.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Kelly is jealous that Melissa is talking to Ryan, so she tells Stanley.

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* ClingyJealousGirl: Kelly is jealous that Melissa is talking to Ryan, so she tells Stanley. For context on precisely how petty this is, Melissa is a fourteen year old girl.
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** Pam ''wants'' to be this, and frets a bit when she's unable to bond with any of the girls who show up over the day. She eventually ends up making a connection with Jakey, the only boy to show up.
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* PunnyName: Edward R. Meow, the reporter cat puppet on ''Fundle Bundle'', named after Edward R. Murrow.

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* PunnyName: Edward R. Meow, the reporter cat puppet on ''Fundle Bundle'', named after Edward R. Murrow.Creator/EdwardRMurrow.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: An in-universe example. When Michael shows his video of ''Fundle Bundle'' to the gang, one of the kids is a boy named Chet. He grew up to be TV weatherman Chet Montgomery.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: An in-universe example. When Michael shows his video of ''Fundle Bundle'' to the gang, one of the kids is a boy named Chet. He grew up Chet, who says he wants to be on TV weatherman when he grows up. Everyone recognizes him as a young Chet Montgomery.Montgomery, a popular local TV weatherman.
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** Stanley mistakenly thinks that Ryan is making moves on his teenage daughter and reacts accordingly.

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** Stanley mistakenly thinks rather unwisely takes DramaQueen Kelly's story that Ryan is was making moves on his teenage daughter at face value and reacts accordingly.

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* EnemyMine: Toby helps save the day for Michael by lending a sympathetic ear and assuring Michael it's not too late to become a father.


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* FriendlyEnemy: Toby helps save the day for Michael by lending a sympathetic ear and assuring Michael it's not too late to become a father.

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* FriendToAllChildren: While Michael is initially frustrated by the kids' presence (mostly because it means he can't tell adult jokes like he usually does), he eventually warms up to them and does a great job hosting the day's activities.

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While Michael is initially frustrated by the kids' presence (mostly because it means he can't tell adult jokes like he usually does), he eventually warms up to them and does a great job hosting the day's activities.activities.
** Jim demonstrates a good knack for interacting with kids, developing a bit of an IntergenerationalFriendship with Abby.

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* KidHasAPoint: When Michael explains Dunder Mifflin's work to the kids, they correctly point out the company is just the middleman to the manufacturer, who could easily just sell the paper themselves.

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When Michael explains Dunder Mifflin's work to the kids, they correctly point out the company is just the middleman to the manufacturer, who could easily just sell the paper themselves.themselves.
** Phyllis does indeed look like the stereotypical portrayal of [[NurseryRhyme Mother Goose]], as Sasha mentions.

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