Phyllis' wedding day has arrived. In order to get six weeks' leave for her honeymoon, Phyllis asked Michael to be in the wedding party, which ramps his social awkwardness up to eleven. Pam notices the wedding is really familiar. Dwight, ever vigilant, guards against wedding crashers.
Air date: February 8, 2007
Tropes
- Appeal to Flattery: Phyllis gives Michael a small role in the wedding (pushing her father's wheelchair down the aisle) so that he will approve six weeks for her honeymoon.
- Behavioral Conditioning: Jim's prank of the episode is to offer Dwight a mint every time he reboots his computer, training Dwight to want a mint at the sound of the Windows startup.
- Bouquet Toss: Phyllis does it at the end of the wedding, and it gets caught by Toby's "date". Watch closely, and you can see Ryan deflecting it away from Kelly.
- Brick Joke: Stanley tries to give Phyllis and Bob the toaster he bought for Pam and Roy, and gets annoyed when Jim also gifts a toaster.
- Call-Back:
- The same child actor (Jake Kalender) who played young Michael in the Fundle Bundle clip in "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" plays him in the wedding clip here.
- Kevin's band Scrantonicity, first mentioned in "Casino Night", plays at the reception.
- Consummate Liar: Creed shows up to the wedding with just a card, which he sticks on a random gift. He throws the original card in the trash.
- Cringe Comedy: Michael's It's All About Me attitude gets genuinely loathsome after a while, particularly when he tries to stop Phyllis' dad from getting up out of his wheelchair.
- Give Away the Bride: Michael believes that, as he is pushing Phyllis' father down the aisle, he is "co-giving away the bride." He tries to hold onto her as well and gets upset when her father stands up for the rest of the walk.
- High-Class Call Girl: Kevin thinks Toby's mysterious, extremely attractive date is an escort and gets a nice dirty chuckle out of it (in a Deleted Scene, she claims to be a pediatric nurse).
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Michael to Bob, and Bob to Michael.
- It's All About Me:
- Michael tries to increasingly insert himself into the wedding party, thinking his role as "employer of the bride" actually means something.
- Ignoring the unspoken rule that only the bride is supposed to wear white, Kelly wears a conspicuous white dress with a tiara.
- Large Ham Title: "And do you, Phyllis, take Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
- Old Shame: Michael says Phyllis' high school nickname was "Easy Rider." This is what ends up getting him kicked out of the wedding.
- Potty Failure: Young Michael at his mother's wedding.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Phyllis' uncle Al, who has dementia, can't remember whose wedding this is, so Dwight suspects him of being a wedding crasher and throws him out. Later, when Kevin is asked to make an announcement about Al disappearing before Scrantonicity starts their set, Dwight has an Oh, Crap! moment.
- Shout-Out:
- Jim and Dwight talk about Wedding Crashers, which leads Dwight to appoint himself as the bouncer who'll throw out any suspected crashers.
- Angela's dress and pillbox hat are very similar to Jacqueline Kennedy's famous JFK inauguration outfit.
- Shown Their Work: Jim's prank on Dwight in the cold open is actually considered an accurate replication of Pavlov's experiment, to the extent that the clip has been used in college courses about classical conditioning.
- Sommelier Speak: Subverted. Michael tries to claim that he's an expert in fine food and drink, but all he can tell about his wine is that it's a white.
- Throwing Off the Disability: Halfway down the aisle, Phyllis' father stands up and walks the remaining distance to the altar. Everyone is amazed and touched. Except Michael.
- Wedding Episode: For Phyllis and Bob. It's actually a nice wedding, despite Michael's antics.
