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1	Traveling salesman Todd Packer arrives and makes the whole office uncomfortable. Jan forces Michael to take sexual harassment training. Pam's mom visits Dunder Mifflin.
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3	Air date: September 27, 2005
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5	!!Tropes
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7	* BadBadActing: ''Crossing the Line'', especially the expression of the "natural redhead" in her reaction shot.
8	* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Subverted. Michael makes a joke about the picture above Stanley's desk. It's Stanley's middle-school aged daughter.
9	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Dwight's questions to Toby about female anatomy heavily imply that he's a virgin, in contrast to his KavorkaMan portrayal in later seasons.
10	* ContentWarnings: The original Creator/{{NBC}} airing was preceded by a warning about sexual content. Specifically, they objected to the word "boner", though they ultimately allowed it (though EditedForSyndication versions either replace it with "[[Film/WaynesWorld schwing]]" or just bleep it out). One affiliate even refused to air the episode.
11	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Dwight asking Toby about "the female vagina".
12	* {{Expy}}: Michael actually cites this trope InUniverse:
13	-->'''Michael''': We’re like ''Series/{{Friends}}''. I am Chandler, and Joey and, uh, Pam is Rachel. And Dwight is [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]].
14	* GilliganCut: Played with. During sexual harassment training, Michael's comments get more and more inappropriate. Cut to an InstructionalFilm called ''Crossing the Line''.
15	* HasTwoThumbsAnd: Todd Packer makes this joke frequently, and mixed with YourMom in his first appearance. An IronicEcho of this comes up during Jim's talking head.
16	--> '''Jim:''' Who has two thumbs and hates Todd Packer? This guy!
17	* InstructionalFilm: The office is supposed to watch a video about sexual harassment, but only Michael, Kevin and the warehouse workers bother with it. In RealLife, clips from this episode were later used by Creator/{{NBC}} in its own corporate videos about harassment.
18	* TheInternetIsForPorn: Subtly averted in Dwight's conversation with Toby. Dwight mentions looking up information about anatomy on websites, making you wonder why, if he's unaware of what female genitalia looks like, he didn't just look up some porn to get a better idea.
19	* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Ryan sees Todd's "WLHUNG" license plate and asks if he's a big [[Series/AmericanIdol William Hung]] fan. Todd blows up on him saying everyone keeps asking him that, but he doesn't know who that is.
20	* {{Retraux}}: The ''Crossing the Line'' training video convincingly looks like a real cheesy production from TheNineties, but it was a ShowWithinAShow created for the episode (and it was shot in the show's writers' offices).
21	* TeenyWeenie: The warehouse crew teases Michael about his package (so, they're sexually harassing ''him'').
22	* ThatsWhatSheSaid: This was the episode in which Michael first spoke this phrase. It gets taken up to eleven during the sexual harassment training.

Context Recap / TheOfficeUSS2E2SexualHarassment