History Recap / TheOfficeUSS9E21LivinTheDream

** When asked by Clark about the Regional Manager position, Dwight humbly and rationally laments that his prior antics had certainly removed him from consideration rather than arrogantly boasting about how he was the only valid choice.

!Trope

* HumiliationConga: For Angela. After being personally humiliated, publicly humiliated, she is now divorced, leaving in a crappy apartment trying to balance out her too many cats and child. By the end of the episode, she is evicted by her mean landlady and her cats had all been seized (her apartment didn't allow pets). On top of all that, she loses her deposit because of having the cats in the apartment.

** Turns into a WhamShot when after the two leave, Pam is revealed to have been listening from the bathroom with a guilty look on her face.

* RealityEnsues: Andy's decision to pursue his dream of acting/singing in his late thirties and with no connection or promises is treated as insane by the crew when he decides to quit his job.

-->'''Jim:''' "I can't do it."

* HumiliationConga: For Angela. After being personally humiliated, publicly humiliated, she is now divorced, leaving in a crappy apartment trying to balance out her too many cats and child. By the end of the episode, she is evicted by her mean landlady and her cats had all been seized (her apartment didn't allow pets).

* [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Aw! Look! they Really Do Respect Each Other!]]: When asked, Jim and Dwight each say that the other would be perfect for the Regional Manager position. Once Dwight is promoted, his first two official actions are to 1): Give Jim his desk back so he can sit with Pam and 2): promote Jim to Assistant (to the) Regional Manager.

* DodntThinkThisThrough: Andy reveals that he has no savings to fall back on when he quits, instead applying for more overdraft protection to cover his expenses.

* ExactEavesdropping: Pam was in the bathroom at the same time that Jim refuses a big opportunity for Athlead

* WhamEpisode: Dwight finally becomes regional manager. Andy decides to leave Dunder Mifflin forever to pursue acting.

* WhamEpisode: Dwight finally becomes regional manager. Andy decides to leave Dunder Mifflin forever to pursue acting.

** When asked by Andy about the Regional Manager position, Dwight humbly and rationally laments that his prior antics had certainly removed him from consideration rather than arrogantly boasting about how he was the only valid choice.

* HumiliationConga: For Angela. After being personally humiliated, publicly humiliated, she is now divorced, leaving in a crappy apartment trying to balance out her too many cats and child. By the end of the episode, she is evicted by her mean landlady

--> '''Andy''': ''Huge'' dick move. But very effective. I need to be that same kind of dick to myself.

--> Andy: ''Huge'' dick move. But very effective. I need to be that same kind of dick to myself.

* BurningTheShips: Andy brings up the example of UsefulNotes/HernanCortez burning his crew's ships upon landing in Mexico so that they couldn't return home and instead needed to conquer the land, and decides to do this to himself by getting himself irrecoverably fired from Dunder Mifflin so that he can't fall back on his old position, forcing himself to move forward with his dreams.

** Andy tells David about how he [[TheOfficeUSS9E15CouplesDiscount lost the Scranton White Pages account]] and only did it to spite Dwight.

* ShoutOut: Andy mentions ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' as a play that Kevin is referring, but he says that it was one that has ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' in it.

* ShoutOut: Andy mentions ''Theater/DeathOfASalesman'' as a play that Kevin is referring, but he says that it was one that has ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' in it.