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* LaserGuidedKarma: After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own fiance to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.
--> '''Jim:''' I'm going to need three copies of these, stapled and collated. *Pam gives him a look of panic* I'm totally kidding! *leans in and whispers* I'm going to need ''four''. [[CallBack *smooch*]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
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After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own fiance to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.
--> ---> '''Jim:''' I'm going to need three copies of these, stapled and collated. *Pam gives him a look of panic* I'm totally kidding! *leans in and whispers* I'm going to need ''four''. [[CallBack *smooch*]]*smooch*]]
** Michael tries returning the surplus bonus without telling his staff so he can keep 15% and buy a fur coat. He ends up buying the coat on credit before learning that his staff found a way to allocate the money without him. [[NoKillLikeOverkill Then animal rights advocates splash red paint on the coat.]]

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kevin tries to ask Michael another math question, after Oscar tricks him into revealing he knows the third option.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint:
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Kevin tries to ask Michael another math question, after Oscar tricks him into revealing he knows the third option. option.
** Michael's attempt to get Oscar to explain the concept of a budget surplus "like I'm five":
--->'''Oscar:''' Your mommy and daddy gave you ten dollars, to open up a lemonade stand? So you go out, and you buy cups, and you buy lemons, and you buy sugar. And ''now'' you find out that it only cost you ''nine'' dollars. So you have an extra dollar.
--->'''Michael:''' Yeah.
--->'''Oscar:''' So you can give that dollar back to mommy and daddy, but guess what? Next summer--
--->'''Michael:''' I'll be ''six''.
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** When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. [[spoiler:This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.]]

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** When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. [[spoiler:This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.]]]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: Andy suffers throughout the episode, having lost eight deposits trying to pick a wedding venue for him and Angela, trying to mediate between Dwight and Angela's firm disagreements on the arrangements for the wedding and repeatedly stepping in poop. At the end of the day however, Angela makes out with him, if only to spite Dwight. Andy takes it in stride after previously crying about how his wedding was not panning out the way he wanted it to.
-->'''Andy''': (grinning) Was that hot or what?
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kevin tried to ask Michael another math question, after Oscar tricks him into revealing he knows the third option.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kevin tried tries to ask Michael another math question, after Oscar tricks him into revealing he knows the third option.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Pam gets the new chairs she was campaigning for... but Jim, having previously done his own copying to avoid having to ask his fiance to use the terrible copier, has now decided to change that policy, meaning that Pam now has a lot more copying coming her way...

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* PyrrhicVictory: Pam gets the new chairs she was campaigning for... but Jim, having previously done his own copying to avoid having to ask his fiance to use the terrible copier, has now decided to change that policy, meaning policy. Meaning that Pam now has a lot more copying coming her way...
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* PyrrhicVictory: Pam gets the new chairs she was campaigning for... but Jim, having previously done his own copying to avoid having to ask his fiance to use the terrible copier, has now decided to change that policy, meaning that Pam now has a lot more copying coming her way...
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** After they get the new chairs, Jim now has no compunctions about asking her to use the crappy copier to make him copies since she's the reason it didn't get replaced. Previously, he had been making his own copies to spare her the trouble.

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** After they get the new chairs, Jim now has no compunctions about asking her Pam to use the crappy copier to make him copies since she's the reason it didn't get replaced. Previously, he had been making his own copies to spare her the trouble.
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* OhCrap: The look on Pam's face when Jim decides that, since she actively prevented the terrible old copier from being replaced, he's now willing to make her do all his copying for him.
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-->"So, I guess that's how they're gonna play this. It is on. [dead serious] It is so on."

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-->"So, I guess that's how they're gonna play this. It is on. [dead serious] ''[dead serious]'' It is so on."
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* CallBack: Pam reminds Michael that je never settled on a new chair like he was supposed to do in "[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS4E10ChairModel Chair Model]]".

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* CallBack: Pam reminds Michael that je he never settled on a new chair like he was supposed to do in "[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS4E10ChairModel Chair Model]]".
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Angela confesses her love to Dwight after the perfect wedding setup he arranged and tells him that ahe wants him back. Dwight then ruins the moment by revealing that the two of them had just gotten married for real without her knowledge or consent, pissing her off and making her more set on marrying Andy.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Angela confesses her love to Dwight after the perfect wedding setup he arranged and tells him that ahe she wants him back. Dwight then ruins the moment by revealing that the two of them had just gotten married for real without her knowledge or consent, pissing her off and making her more set on marrying Andy.
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** After they get the new chairs, Jim now has no compunctions about asking her to use the crappy copier to make him copies since she's the reason it didn't get replaced. Previously, he had been making his own copies to spare her the trouble.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Angela confesses her love to Dwight after the perfect wedding setup he arranged and tells him that ahe wants him back. Dwight then ruins the moment by revealing that the two of them had just gotten married for real without her knowledge or consent, pissing her off and making her more set on marrying Andy.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own wife to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own wife fiance to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.
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--> '''Jim:''' I'm going to need three copies of these, stapled and collated. *Pam gives him a look of panic* I'm totally kidding! *leans in and whispers* I'm going to need ''four''. [[CallBack *smooch*]]

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* CallBack: Pam mentions that Michael never settled on a new chair like he was supposed to do in "Chair Model".

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* CallBack: Pam mentions that reminds Michael that je never settled on a new chair like he was supposed to do in "Chair Model"."[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS4E10ChairModel Chair Model]]".


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* LaserGuidedKarma: After Pam successfully gets Michael to buy new chairs for the office, Jim starts asking her to make copies for him again, no longer feeling bad about asking his own wife to use the terrible copier since she's the one who prevented it from being replaced.

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* DidntSeeThatComing: Pam expects Jim to take her side in supporting new chairs, but he actually sides with Oscar because he does his own copies now that they've been together and agrees that the copier is horrible.

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* DidntSeeThatComing: CurseCutShort: When Michael's plan to walk away with the bonus completely backfires.
--> '''Michael:''' Mother--! *camera cuts away*
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Pam expects Jim to take her side in supporting new chairs, but he actually sides with Oscar because he does his own copies now that they've been together and agrees that the copier is horrible.horrible.
** Michael leaves the office to decide what to do with the surplus themselves, believing they'll never be able to concede and he gets to walk away with the bonus. Instead, Oscar immediately concedes to Pam, deciding he'd rather have new chairs than nothing at all, leaving Michael (who had already made purchases from Burlington Coat Factory in anticipation) flabbergasted.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Pam expects Jim to take her side in supporting new chairs, but he actually sided with Oscar because he does his own copies now that they've been together and agrees that the copier is horrible.

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* DidntSeeThatComing: Pam expects Jim to take her side in supporting new chairs, but he actually sided sides with Oscar because he does his own copies now that they've been together and agrees that the copier is horrible.



* ShoutOut: Michael tried to claim that the chairs are "[[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]]-nomically correct."

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* ShoutOut: Michael tried tries to claim that the chairs are "[[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]]-nomically correct."
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* ShoutOut: Michael tried to claim that the chairs are "[[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]]-nomically correct."
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kevin tried to ask Michael another math question, after Oscar tricks him into revealing he knows the third option.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Pam expects Jim to take her side in supporting new chairs, but he actually sided with Oscar because he does his own copies now that they've been together and agrees that the copier is horrible.
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* LetsGetDangerous: Pam becomes even more determined to convince Michael when Oscar and Jim offer to take him to lunch.
-->"So, I guess that's how they're gonna play this. It is on. [dead serious] It is so on."

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* TakeAThirdOption: When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. [[spoiler:This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.]]

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* TakeAThirdOption: TakeAThirdOption:
** Toby is the only one who doesn't take a side in new chairs or a new copier, instead suggesting that they test the office for asbestos and radon. Michael, naturally, ignores him.
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When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. [[spoiler:This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.]]
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Oscar quickly realizes that Michael knows of the third option. He asks what 15% of 4300 is, to which Michael replies "645 ''dollars''." Oscar didn't specify dollars.
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* TakeAThirdOption: When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.

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* TakeAThirdOption: When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. This [[spoiler:This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.]]
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* JustOneExtraTicket: True to the trope, everyone in the office starts sucking up to Michael. Yes, even Stanley.
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* TakeAThirdOption: When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. Oscar immediately calls him out on it.

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* TakeAThirdOption: When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. Oscar immediately calls him out on it.This inadvertently ends up solving the problem, since everyone would rather have chairs than nothing.

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* ButtMonkey: In addition to Andy's poop mishaps, Mose also hits him in the head with a ball.



* RealFakeWedding: Dwight attempts this with a minister who only speaks German so Andy and Angela don't catch on. Angela refuses to accept it.

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* RealFakeWedding: Dwight attempts this with a minister who only speaks German so Andy and Angela don't catch on. Angela refuses to accept it.immediately has it annulled.
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When Oscar shows Michael that there's an extra $4,300 in the budget that must be spent before the end of the day, a feud breaks out in the office over whether Michael should use it to buy a new copier or new chairs. Meanwhile, Andy and Angela do a practice run of their wedding at Schrute Farms, but Dwight has something different planned...

* CallBack: Pam mentions that Michael never settled on a new chair like he was supposed to do in "Chair Model".
* RealFakeWedding: Dwight attempts this with a minister who only speaks German so Andy and Angela don't catch on. Angela refuses to accept it.
* RunningGag: Andy accidentally stepping in poop. Some of it even manages to show up in the ''kitchen''.
* TakeAThirdOption: When Michael asks David Wallace to help him make the decision, he learns that he can just return the surplus and get a huge bonus for being under budget. Oscar immediately calls him out on it.

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