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* NiceGuysFinishLast: The ''inhumanly nice'' Prince family get taken advantage of until their business is poached by Dunder Mifflin. A later episode will reveal they have gone completely out of business.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Michael is left feeling very guilty after he ends up going through with gathering the client information from the Prince family and then handing it off to corporate.
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Dunder Mifflin wants to acquire new clients in an area currently dominated by a small company called Prince Family Paper. They can't get a report on them as they aren't publicly traded, so David Wallace asks Michael to go out and gather information. Michael is thrilled to be entrusted with such a task but he begins to have an ethical dilemma when he sees how nice the Prince family is. Meanwhile a heated debate erupts among the staff over whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
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Dunder Mifflin wants to acquire new clients in an area currently dominated by a small company called Prince Family Paper. They can't get a report on them as they aren't publicly traded, so David Wallace asks Michael to go out and gather information. Michael is thrilled to be entrusted with such a task but he begins to have an ethical dilemma when he sees how nice the Prince family is. Meanwhile Meanwhile, a heated debate erupts among the staff over whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
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* SeriousBusiness: To most of the staff, whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
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* SeriousBusiness: To most of the staff, whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.hot.
* SocialDarwinism: A discussed trope in this episode. When Michael gets cold feet about sharing the Prince Family's client information with corporate, fearing it will render their business bankrupt or at least hurt them, Dwight compares the situation to a shark eating the little fishes, saying that its a natural process, though it ends up temporarily convincing Michael to attempt to defy the trope by disposing of the information, but reluctantly gives up the information.
** Additional scenes show Michael telling the rest of the office his dilemma. While they offer sympathies, Phyllis' viewpoint is similar to Dwight's citing that its essentially how businesses operate.
* SocialDarwinism: A discussed trope in this episode. When Michael gets cold feet about sharing the Prince Family's client information with corporate, fearing it will render their business bankrupt or at least hurt them, Dwight compares the situation to a shark eating the little fishes, saying that its a natural process, though it ends up temporarily convincing Michael to attempt to defy the trope by disposing of the information, but reluctantly gives up the information.
** Additional scenes show Michael telling the rest of the office his dilemma. While they offer sympathies, Phyllis' viewpoint is similar to Dwight's citing that its essentially how businesses operate.
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* ContinuityNod: Michael’s fake name when meeting the Prince family is "Michael Scarn," the main character in his screenplay.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Roger Prince says he started the company after returning from Vietnam, which Michael takes to mean he was there on a pleasant vacation rather than the Vietnam War.
* ContinuityNod:Michael’s Michael's fake name when meeting the Prince family is "Michael Scarn," the main character in his screenplay.
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Dunder Mifflin wants to acquire new clients in an area currently dominated by a small company called Prince Family Paper. They can’t can't get a report on them as they aren’t aren't publicly traded, so David Wallace asks Michael to go out and gather information. Michael is thrilled to be entrusted with such a task but he begins to have an ethical dilemma when he sees how nice the Prince family is. Meanwhile a heated debate erupts among the staff over whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
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* ContinuityNod: Michael’s fake name when meeting the Prince family is “Michael Scarn,” the main character in his screenplay.
* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the “hot” side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin remembers the question is if she’s hot, not whether or not he’d sleep with her.
* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the “hot” side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin remembers the question is if she’s hot, not whether or not he’d sleep with her.
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* ContinuityNod: Michael’s fake name when meeting the Prince family is “Michael Scarn,” "Michael Scarn," the main character in his screenplay.
* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the“hot” "hot" side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin remembers the question is if she’s she's hot, not whether or not he’d he'd sleep with her.
* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the
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* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the “hot” side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin rememberers the question is if she’s hot, not whether or not he’d sleep with her.
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* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the “hot” side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin rememberers remembers the question is if she’s hot, not whether or not he’d sleep with her.
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** Also, Michael in the main plot: he is so charmed by the Prince family that he decides he can't go through with ruining them, but Dwight doesn't have to do very much to get him to hand the Princes' client list over to David Wallace.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least "hot" person in the office in an objective sense -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!"), the one who polices the parameters of the debate the most, and the one who delivers the most superficial appearances-based argument over why she isn't hot.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the closest to being the objectively least "hot" attractive person in the office in an objective sense -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!"), hot, the most vocally disgusted with her looks (many of the others on his team are at least willing to concede that she is physically attractive, though not actually "hot"), the one who polices the parameters of the debate the most, and the one who delivers the most superficial appearances-based argument over why she isn't hot.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!"), the one who polices the parameters of the debate the most, and the one who delivers the most superficial appearances-based argument over why she isn't hot.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office in an objective sense -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!"), the one who polices the parameters of the debate the most, and the one who delivers the most superficial appearances-based argument over why she isn't hot.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!") and the one who polices the parameters of the debate the most.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!") and ''monster''!"), the one who polices the parameters of the debate the most.most, and the one who delivers the most superficial appearances-based argument over why she isn't hot.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Lampshaded; although Angela initially tries to rise above the Hillary Swank debate and get on with her work, she's so outraged by Kevin's offensive argument for Swank's lack of "hotness" that she joins the "hot" side of the debate purely because she believes that Kevin doesn't deserve to win.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Lampshaded; although Angela initially tries to rise above the Hillary Swank debate and get on with her work, she's so outraged by Kevin's offensive argument for Swank's lack of "hotness" that she joins the "hot" side of the debate purely because she believes that Kevin doesn't deserve to win.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!") and the one who polices the parametres of the debate the most.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!") and the one who polices the parametres parameters of the debate the most.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Unstated, but Kevin -- probably the least objectively "hot" person in the office -- is also both the most insistent that Hillary Swank is not hot ("She's a ''monster''!") and the one who polices the parametres of the debate the most.
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* ContinuityNod: Michael’s fake name when meeting the Prince family is “Michael Scarn,” the main character in his screenplay.
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* BittersweetEnding: Michael goes through with his task and is happy that David Wallace is proud of him but he fears that he may have ruined the kind Prince family.
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* BittersweetEnding: Michael goes through with his task and is happy that David Wallace is proud of him but he fears that he may have ruined the kind Prince family.family.
* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the “hot” side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin rememberers the question is if she’s hot, not whether or not he’d sleep with her.
* SeriousBusiness: To most of the staff, whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
* ExactWords: Jim almost convinces Kevin to join the “hot” side by having him imagine himself with Hillary Swank. It almost works until Kevin rememberers the question is if she’s hot, not whether or not he’d sleep with her.
* SeriousBusiness: To most of the staff, whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
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Dunder Mifflin wants to acquire new clients in an area currently dominated by a small company called Prince Family Paper. They can’t get a report on them as they aren’t publicly traded, so David Wallace asks Michael to go out and gather information. Michael is thrilled to be entrusted with such a task but he begins to have an ethical dilemma when he sees how nice the Prince family is. Meanwhile a heated debate erupts among the staff over whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
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Dunder Mifflin wants to acquire new clients in an area currently dominated by a small company called Prince Family Paper. They can’t get a report on them as they aren’t publicly traded, so David Wallace asks Michael to go out and gather information. Michael is thrilled to be entrusted with such a task but he begins to have an ethical dilemma when he sees how nice the Prince family is. Meanwhile a heated debate erupts among the staff over whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.hot.
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* BittersweetEnding: Michael goes through with his task and is happy that David Wallace is proud of him but he fears that he may have ruined the kind Prince family.
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* BittersweetEnding: Michael goes through with his task and is happy that David Wallace is proud of him but he fears that he may have ruined the kind Prince family.
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Dunder Mifflin wants to acquire new clients in an area currently dominated by a small company called Prince Family Paper. They can’t get a report on them as they aren’t publicly traded, so David Wallace asks Michael to go out and gather information. Michael is thrilled to be entrusted with such a task but he begins to have an ethical dilemma when he sees how nice the Prince family is. Meanwhile a heated debate erupts among the staff over whether or not Hillary Swank is hot.
