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* NeverMyFault: When Angela goes to Michael to finally confess that the reason Dwight was late was because she was covering for Angela forgetting to mail a form, she tacks on a, "but, to be fair, Kevin never reminded me".
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* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Micheal goes on a long rant about how Andy is desperate for attention, keeps telling annoying jokes and obsessed with being liked. It ends with him [[LampshadeHanging wondering how someone could be so lacking in self-awareness]].
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-->"...merciless."

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-->"...merciless.""
* VetinariJobSecurity: The rest of the office -- Michael especially -- begins to realize exactly ''how much'' work around the office Dwight does, and that no human being can replace him (especially not Andy). By the end of the episode, he is back.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Played with, when Andy takes the spot usually occupied by Dwight in Michael's "talking head" segments.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Played with, when Andy takes the spot usually occupied by Dwight in Michael's "talking head" segments.segments.
* TwoWordsICantCount: Dwight describes himself to prospective employers with three words: "Hardworking, alpha male, jackhammer".
-->"...merciless."
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Dwight takes a job at Staples. Andy tries to bond with Jim, to Jim's annoyance, which makes Jim realize he misses Dwight. Oscar returns after his [[IncrediblyLamePun "gay-cation."]] Michael, despite his FriendlessBackground, rejects Andy's attempts to bond. Angela is upset at Dwight's departure, and tries to reach out to both Oscar and Pam. Jim hides Andy's phone in the ceiling, to prank Andy.

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Dwight takes a job at Staples. Andy tries to bond with Jim, to Jim's annoyance, which makes Jim realize he misses Dwight. Oscar returns after his [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} "gay-cation."]] Michael, despite his FriendlessBackground, rejects Andy's attempts to bond. Angela is upset at Dwight's departure, departure and tries to reach out to both Oscar and Pam. Jim hides Andy's phone in the ceiling, to prank Andy.
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* OhCrap: This is Jim's reaction when his prank on Andy eventually results in the latter growing so frustrated that he punches a hole in the wall. The look on his face clearly says that he didn't think it would go that far.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Jim steals Andy's phone and hides it in the ceiling to bother him after Andy has annoyed everyone in the office; unbeknownst to everyone, except the cameraman, the audience, and Angela, Andy's also the reason why everyone is swamped doing the work Dwight left after he had to quit due to Andy's manipulations.

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* BoobBasedGag: Pam refuses to "shake her maracas" at Michael's request, but Phyllis obliges.



* GagBoobs: Pam refuses to "shake her maracas" at Michael's request, but Phyllis obliges.
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* ProfessionalButtKisser: Michael comes to the realisation that Andy annoys him because he's even more this than Dwight, whose admiration of Michael at least seems to be based in honesty.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Creed's aforementioned "You're not real, man!" kept cracking up the generally unflappable Creator/JohnKrasinski, to the extent that what made it into the final cut was the only usable take of the scene.
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* RealityEnsues:
** Michael is disturbed by Andy's sucking up to the point where he starts hiding from him and when Jim explains that Andy is doing this to get chummy with him for his own benefit, Michael is offended and tells him to stop.
** Andy punches a wall during a hissy fit, leading him to get shipped off to anger management classes for 10 weeks.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Once Angela tells him why Dwight went to corporate, Michael assumes that Dwight did it because he is simply that loyal to the company, unaware that its actually because Dwight and Angela are in a relationship. Angela 's response is to leave Michael's thoughts on that assumption.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Once Angela tells him why Dwight went to corporate, Michael assumes that Dwight did it because he is simply that loyal to the company, unaware that its actually because Dwight and Angela are in a relationship. Angela 's Angela's response is to leave Michael's thoughts on that assumption.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Andy invites Michael to watch the [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Cornell versus Hofstra football]] game with him on Saturday. In fact, Cornell and Hofstra never played each other in football (Hofstra dropped its football team after the 2009 season).

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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Andy invites Michael to watch the [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Cornell versus Hofstra football]] game with him on Saturday. In fact, Cornell and Hofstra never played each other in football (Hofstra dropped its football team after the 2009 season). Moreover, the episode takes place in January, after the college football season has already ended.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Paris at Staples reacts the way any of us would if we suddenly found ourselves working alongside Dwight.
-->'''Paris''': I don’t like him, his giant head, or his beady little eyes! That’s all I gotta say on the matter.
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* AesopAmnesia: Jim's previous attempt to prank Andy ''a la'' Dwight (the stapler in Jell-O) went badly, but Jim apparently must've forgotten about that (or else Andy had just gotten so annoying Jim was willing to risk another temper tantrum).

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* AesopAmnesia: Jim's previous attempt to prank Andy ''a la'' Dwight (the stapler calculator in Jell-O) went badly, but Jim apparently must've forgotten about that (or else Andy had just gotten so annoying Jim was willing to risk another temper tantrum).
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Once Angela tells him why Dwight went to corporate, Michael assumes that Dwight did it because he is simply that loyal to the company, unaware that its actually because Dwight and Angela are in a relationship. Angela 's response is to leave Michael's thoughts on that assumption.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Andy invites Michael to watch the [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Cornell versus Hofstra football]] game with him on Saturday. In fact, Cornell and Hofstra never played each other in football (Hofstra dropped its football team after the 2009 season).

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