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* DumbassHasAPoint: Michael during one conversation with Toby. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingthePoint.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Michael during one conversation with Toby. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingthePoint.ComicallyMissingThePoint.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Michael during one conversation with Toby.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Michael during one conversation with Toby. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingthePoint.



--> '''Michael:''' You don't make a mistake on purpose, Toby. Then it's no longer a mistake

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--> '''Michael:''' You don't make a mistake on purpose, Toby. Then it's no longer a mistakemistake.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Michael during one conversation with Toby.
--> '''Michael:''' You had me so worked up that I made a mistake.
--> '''Toby:''' Unless a part of you made that mistake on purpose.
--> '''Michael:''' You don't make a mistake on purpose, Toby. Then it's no longer a mistake
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** Dwight himself alongside Jim and Andy acknowledge that the mall-owner had a point with them getting scared off by Dwight's beetle-juice hands.

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** Dwight himself alongside Jim and Andy acknowledge that the mall-owner had a point with them getting scared off by Dwight's beetle-juice beet juice hands.

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* BatmanGambit: Toby distracts Michael up by entertaining him so that he opens up to him. Michael ends up figuring it out, but relents and accepts Toby's sessions after Gabe sends Michael's botched review.
** Turns out Pam read Gabe accurately when pushing for the job of "Office Administrator".



* ExtremeDoormat: Gabe just sighs and gives Pam her office post after failing to get Pam confess.



* RealityEnsues:

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** Dwight himself alongside Jim and Andy acknowledge that the mall-owner had a point with them getting scared off by Dwight's beetle-juice hands.

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* RealityEnsues: After sitting for a long time refusing to engage with Toby, Michael checks his watch and exclaims that they've burned an hour, to which Toby informs him that Michael has to be actively participating for him to ethically count it as time towards the session.

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* RealityEnsues: RealityEnsues:
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After sitting for a long time refusing to engage with Toby, Michael checks his watch and exclaims that they've burned an hour, to which Toby informs him that Michael has to be actively participating for him to ethically count it as time towards the session.session.
** Pam rationalizes this herself while talking about her poor sales commissions:
--> '''Pam:''' The unfair thing about working in sales is that your salary is almost all commission. So if you suck at sales, you make almost no money! ''[{{beat}}]'' I guess that's fair.

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* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: Jim's attempt at reassuring Pam.
--> '''Pam:''' Tell me everything's going to be okay.
--> '''Jim:''' Everything's going to be okay.
--> '''Pam:''' Tell me I'm good at sales.
--> '''Jim:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' You're good-- you're good at sales.
--> '''Pam:''' *throws her head on the desk*



* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot to “Pretty Woman.” Also Michael’s sarcastic memory of being probed by ALF.

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* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot is a big one to “Pretty Woman.” ''Film/PrettyWoman''. Also Michael’s sarcastic memory of being probed by ALF.Series/{{Alf}}.

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* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot to “Pretty Woman.” Also Michael’s sarcastic memory of being probed by ALF.

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* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot to “Pretty Woman.” Also Michael’s sarcastic memory of being probed by ALF.ALF.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Michael softens up towards Toby by the end of the episode and directs his ire for having to complete the session again towards Gabe.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Pam, deciding that she's not cut out for sales, decides to claim she's been the (previously non-existent) Office Administrator for months. Gabe tries to meekly get her to admit that she made up the promotion, but she remains assertive and orders Gabe to either call her bluff or give her the job. He gives in.

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* BavarianFireDrill: Pam, deciding realizing that she's not cut out for sales, decides to claim claims she's been the (previously non-existent) Office Administrator for months. Gabe tries to meekly get her to admit that she made up the promotion, but she remains assertive and orders Gabe to either call her bluff or give her the job. He gives in.
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* BavarianFireDrill: How Pam ends up securing the position of Office Administrator. Gabe tries to meekly get her to admit that she made up the promotion, but she remains assertive and orders Gabe to either call her bluff or give her the job.
--> '''Pam:''' The first lesson of watching World Poker Tour at 2 AM: you play the opponent, not the cards.

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* BavarianFireDrill: How Pam ends up securing Pam, deciding that she's not cut out for sales, decides to claim she's been the position of (previously non-existent) Office Administrator. Administrator for months. Gabe tries to meekly get her to admit that she made up the promotion, but she remains assertive and orders Gabe to either call her bluff or give her the job.
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job. He gives in.
-->'''Pam:'''
The first lesson of watching World Poker Tour at 2 AM: you play the opponent, not the cards.
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* BavarianFireDrill: How Pam ends up securing the position of Office Administrator. Gabe tries to meekly get her to admit that she made up the promotion, but she remains assertive and orders Gabe to either call her bluff or give her the job.
--> '''Pam:''' The first lesson of watching World Poker Tour at 2 AM: you play the opponent, not the cards.
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* RealityEnsues: After sitting for a long time refusing to engage with Toby, Michael checks his watch and exclaims that they've burned an hour, to which Toby informs him that Michael has to be actively participating for him to ethically count it as time towards the session.
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* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot to “Pretty Woman.”

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* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot to “Pretty Woman.” Also Michael’s sarcastic memory of being probed by ALF.
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* ABloodyMess: The reason Dwight was rejected by the store clerk was that his hands and clothes were covered in beet juice, making it seem like he had just committed a murder.
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After physically reprimanding his nephew Luke in the previous episode, Michael is forced to undergo six hours of counseling with Toby. Angry about the situation, he refuses to take it seriously at first. Toby eventually guides him towards opening up but Michael catches onto being tricked and lashes out.

Elsewhere, Dwight is snubbed by a fancy store manager so the rest of the staff decide to spruce him up so he can get back at them, a la Film/PrettyWoman. Pam schemes to make herself the office administrator when she realizes she’s not cut out for sales.

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* ShoutOut: Dwight’s subplot to “Pretty Woman.”

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