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* StunnedSilence: Ryan tries calling Scranton, gets an answering machine message that informs him that the entire branch is out doing a fun run race for the cure for rabies, and gets an opportunity to leave a message. He chooses not to.
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* UnusualEuphemism: Michael unthinkingly let Pam into his office while he was changing, and she saw his...
-->'''Jim:''' Baguette?\\
'''Pam:''' Dangling participle?
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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Michael versus Ryan.
-->'''Michael:''' So Ryan got promoted to Corporate, where he is a little fish in a big pond, whereas, back here in Scranton, I am still top dog... in a fairly... large pond... So, who is the real boss? The dog, or a fish?
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* {{Housewife}}: {{Defied}}. Michael seems to think he is living a life of "domestic bliss" because Jan moved in with him and is unemployed. He has convinced himself that Jan is now in this role, and shows the camera that Jan "made [him] breakfast" (he is eating cereal) and then clarifies that Jan just bought the milk (with Michael's money). Later, he gives the camera a glimpse of Jan still sprawled on the bed before Michael goes to work.

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* {{Housewife}}: {{Defied}}. Michael seems to think he is living a life of "domestic bliss" because Jan moved in with him and is unemployed. He has convinced himself that Jan is now in this role, and shows the camera that Jan "made [him] breakfast" (he is eating cereal) and then clarifies that Jan just bought the milk (with Michael's money).(and it's not even the kind he likes). Later, he gives the camera a glimpse of Jan still sprawled on the bed before Michael goes to work.
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* {{Housewife}}: {{Defied}}. Michael seems to think he is living a life of "domestic bliss" because Jan moved in with him and is unemployed. He has convinced himself that Jan is now in this role, and shows the camera that Jan "made [him] breakfast" (he is eating cereal) and then clarifies that Jan just bought the milk (with Michael's money). Later, he gives the camera a glimpse of Jan still sprawled on the bed before Michael goes to work.
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* BlatantLies: When the camera crew present Jim and Pam with the footage of Pam picking him up after work and them kissing in her car, Jim rambles on for some moments about how she was just giving him a lift and you can edit things to make them look like anything. Defied by Pam, who watches him patiently and then says to the camera crew "We're dating." Jim is momentarily stunned but then grins and owns up.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Post-promotion Ryan is introduced to us sitting in his large office with his feet up on his desk engaging in a paper-thin attempt at false modesty that only serves to make it incredibly clear that he's become very big-headed and DrunkWithPower very quickly:
-->'''Ryan:''' People keep calling me a 'wunderkind', I don't even know what it means... I mean, I know what it means. It means very successful for your age. So I guess it makes sense. But... it's a weird word.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Dwight euthanized a pet he had been entrusted to care for without the consent of its owner, and is undeniably callous and unempathetic to Angela's love for the cat, dismissing it as an animal with "no utility." On the other hand, Angela was clearly in ''heavy'' denial that it was Sprinkles' time to go, was forcing the poor cat to stay alive long past the point where she had any quality of life, and refused to even consider euthanasia as a humane option.

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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Dwight euthanized a pet he had been entrusted to care for without the consent of its owner, and is undeniably callous and unempathetic to Angela's love for the cat, dismissing it as an animal with "no utility." On the other hand, Angela was clearly in ''heavy'' denial that it was Sprinkles' time to go, was forcing the poor cat to stay alive long past the point where she had any quality of life, and refused to even consider euthanasia as a humane option.option due to her religious beliefs.
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** When the staff organizes the Fun Run, Kevin mentions they didn't do anything like this for his cancer scare in S2's "Michael's Birthday".

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* CaptainObvious: Michael hates hospitals because he associates them with sickness.



** The entire point of the "Fun Run" is to raise money and awareness for a disease that is very well-known and has a cure.



* NeverMyFault: Michael blames Pam for seeing him naked, even though you can clearly hear him saying "Come in."

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** Michael hits a woman with a car in the office parking lot, and concludes the office is cursed.
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Michael blames Pam for seeing him naked, even though you can clearly hear him saying "Come in."


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* SuperstitionEpisode: Downplayed. Michael calls a meeting about the possibility of there being a curse, then he asks some [[InnocentlyInsensitive extremely workplace-inappropriate]] questions about religion, and then he gets some good news and concludes there is no curse after all.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Dwight claims cats have no utility, comparing them to the animals he keeps on his farm. However, cats have long been used as a form of pest control against a wide variety of small animals that would otherwise eat crops, wound/kill livestock, and spread disease.
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** Michael says that because he hit Meredith on company property (the parking lot) ''with'' company property (his car), that counts as double jeopardy and the company is fine. Ryan points out that that's not how double jeopardy works.[[note]]If you don't know, double jeopardy means you can't be prosecuted again for the same crime following a valid acquittal.[[/note]]

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** Michael says that because he hit Meredith on company property (the parking lot) ''with'' company property (his car), that counts as double jeopardy and the company is fine. Ryan points out that that's not how double jeopardy works.[[note]]If you don't know, double [[note]]Double jeopardy means you can't be prosecuted again for the same crime following a valid acquittal.[[/note]]
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* ChronicPetKiller: Dwight euthanizes Sprinkles. He also claims that it's unethical to keep Meredith alive.

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* ChronicPetKiller: Dwight euthanizes Sprinkles. He also claims that it's unethical to keep Meredith alive.alive, acting like she's a vegetable even though she's fully conscious.
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** The office is cursed because Phyllis and Bob are (slightly) different religions.

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** The office is cursed because Phyllis and Bob are (slightly) different religions. [[note]]She is Lutheran, he is Unitarian. That means both would be considered Protestants.[[/note]]
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** At one point, he boasts about euthanizing over 150 animals in a pet hospital in a single day.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Dwight euthanized a pet he had been entrusted to care for without the consent of its owner, and is undeniably callous and unempathetic to Angela's love for the cat, dismissing it as an animal with "no utility." On the other hand, Angela was clearly in ''heavy'' denial that it was Sprinkles' time to go, was forcing the poor cat to stay alive long past the point where she had any quality of life, and refused to even consider euthanasia as a humane option.
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* NeverMyFault: Michael blames Pam for seeing him naked, even though you can clearly hear him saying "Come in."
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Pam insisting that Angela visits Meredith at the hospital triggers a chain of events that leads to Angela breaking up with Dwight, setting up the show's longest RelationshipRevolvingDoor.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Pam insisting that Angela visits Meredith at the hospital triggers a chain of events that leads to Angela breaking up with Dwight, setting up a RelationshipRevolvingDoor that will last all the show's longest RelationshipRevolvingDoor.way into Season 9.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Pam insisting that Angela visits Meredith at the hospital triggers a chain of events that leads to Angela breaking up with Dwight, setting up the show's longest RelationshipRevolvingDoor.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While he went around it in the complete wrong way, Dwight does raise valid points about Sprinkles's quality of life (Angela says that the cat has had 'countless ailments' in her life) and he at least attempted to euthanize her humanely.
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** Dwight speaks to an intern regarding Meredith's hysterectomy, referencing "recap/HealthCare"

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** Dwight speaks to an intern regarding Meredith's hysterectomy, referencing "recap/HealthCare""Health Care"

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* ContinuityNod: Elizabeth, the dancer from S3's "Ben Franklin" reappears as a sexy nurse.

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Elizabeth, the dancer from S3's "Ben Franklin" reappears as a sexy nurse.


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** Dwight speaks to an intern regarding Meredith's hysterectomy, referencing "recap/HealthCare"
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* GagCensor: Michael's penis is digitally scrambled when Pam walks in on him accidentally.

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* GagCensor: Michael's penis is digitally scrambled when Pam accidentally walks in on him accidentally.him.



* RunningOverThePlot: Michael ends up accidentally running over Meredith when he pulls in to the parking lot in "Fun Run." While she's in the hospital, the doctor discovers a previous case of rabies, so Michael being Michael decides to host an office fun run for rabies treatment.

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* RunningOverThePlot: Michael ends up accidentally running over Meredith when he pulls in to the parking lot in "Fun Run." lot. While she's in the hospital, the doctor discovers a previous case of rabies, so Michael being Michael decides to host an office fun run for rabies treatment.
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* ChronicPetKiller: Dwight euthanizes Sprinkles. He also points out that it's unethical to keep Meredith alive.

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* ChronicPetKiller: Dwight euthanizes Sprinkles. He also points out claims that it's unethical to keep Meredith alive.

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