While the building renovates, Dunder-Mifflin employees have to park in a satellite parking lot, and not everyone is happy about the walk. Michael is lonely after his breakup with Jan, and tasks everyone to find him a date. Pam wants Michael's chair when he buys a new one.
Air date: April 17, 2008
Tropes
- Bad Date / Blind Date: Pam sets Michael up with her landlady, and it's a disaster.
- Chain of Deals: Pam is invested in Michael getting a new chair because he agreed to give her his old one, and it's better quality than hers. Meanwhile, Creed will get Pam's old chair. His chair is fine, but he just wants more chairs for some reason.
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: With no evidence, Michael suspects the friend Phyllis wants to set him up with is too fat to fit in a rowboat. He is correct.
- Depending on the Writer: After the sympathetic Michael we saw leave an abusive relationship in "Dinner Party," this episode makes Michael much more of a Jerkass.
- Foreshadowing: Pam's mom as one of Michael's candidates. Becomes a Brick Joke in Season 6. Likewise, Pam and Jim joke about how messy they are, which we see when Jim rooms with Darryl.
- The Lost Lenore: Played with. Michael falls for the model in a chair ad, and is upset when he finds out she died in a car accident.
- The One That Got Away: Michael refers to this trope, explaining that he's a catch, and he won't be "the one that got away" for someone.
- Wham Episode: Jim reveals that he is going to propose to Pam.
