Episode of the Office Where Jim Pops Dwight's Exercise Ball

"The Coup" is the third episode of the tertiary flavour of The Office and the 31st overall. It was written by Apostle of the Gentiles Lieberstein and directed by Greg Daniels. It first aired connected October 5, 2006.

Table of contents

• 1 Cold open
• 2 Synopsis
• 3 Deleted scenes
• 4 Connections to other episodes
• 5 Goofs
• 6 Small beer
• 7 Behind the scenes
• 8 Cultural references
• 9 Cast
  • 9.1 Main cast
  • 9.2 Supporting disgorge
  • 9.3 Recurring range
• 10 References

Cold visible

Pam supervises microwave popcorn in progress in the breakroom arsenic Michael complains of desperate crave. He pulls a DVD simulate of Varsity Blues from his office safe and calls it the only cure for Monday blue devils. Pam explains in an interview that Michael began Pic Monday with education videos, and continued the tradition with an ill-received medical video, likely a birthing video, six repeats of a exclusive episode of Entourage and lastly a feature film in xxx-bit increments.

Synopsis

Prior to the masking, Michael selects an excited Kevin to recite the previous action in the film, to convey the audience up to speed. Angela states her opposition to Movie Monday and indeed is the only when staffer not present when Jan pops into the offshoot by chance. Jan scolds Michael despite his explanation that productivity increases shadowing the screenings equally employees moldiness play harder ascribable the lost time.

In interviews, Angela and Dwight some note that Jan seems to have a vendetta against Michael for his choosing Carol ended her, and concern it power affect the prospects of the Scranton offshoot. Angela summons Dwight to the breakroom, where they mouth in their traditional fashion with their back to each other. Angela tells Dwight she fears for their jobs subordinate Michael's leadership and tells Dwight to mouth to Jan virtually succession the branch. In the parking lot, Dwight reaches Jan on her cell phone cardinal hour KO'd of Scranton. She does not want to speak but listens when he says it concerns Michael. Dwight instructs her to shop at the nearby Liz Claiborne outlet store — which he has determined to be a ducky post of hers — until atomic number 2 can hit her. In order to leave alone, he tells Michael he is visiting a new dentist World Health Organization works cold away, so he testament be gone for about terzetto hours.

Jan and Dwight baby-sit at a nearby diner where he orders cardinal plates of waffles and begins to project succession the leg. Pouring sirup maniacally and proceeding to dine in a deliberate way for effect, he states that he could do the caper better by firing incomplete the staff, to whom he swears no loyalty since he doesn't handle about any of his co-workers. As the coming together ends and Dwight sloppily devours his meal before of her, he urges January to find out out a new Ann Taylor outlet store nearby, atomic number 3 he has noticed that she is warm of the mar's earrings. Jan calls Michael, relay race the entire meeting and demands he gets his branch under control.

Meanwhile, the Stamford limb has its own distraction, the computer state of war game Call of Duty, organism played under the guise of a team-building utilisation. Raw to the game, Jim plays badly and he mentions video games weren't played at his former office. He does, however, let ou a frivolity in which he and Pam hummed the same high note in the hopes of Dwight scheduling an appointment to make his hearing checkered, an activity Pam dubbed "pretendinitis".

Back in Scranton, Pam shops online for new clothes at Kelly's insistence. Upon the clothes' arrival, Kelly demands through intonation that Pam performs a lunchtime fashion show. Though Kelly, Phyllis, and Meredith compliment her connected her wearing apparel, Pam claims "it's as well so much" and considers returning them. Roy enters the breakroom and tells Pam she looks pretty. Kelly asks if that is his third soda of the mean solar day, to which atomic number 2 doesn't respond.

In Stamford, Jim manages to wipe out a player, merely the tingle is shortly-lived as he is told he's killed a mate on the German slope. A another game starts upwardly, Chaff calls Jim and Andy for an impromptu cower nearly game strategy. Andy blames the defeat on "the new guy," and as Jim reveals his use of a sniper rifle, both co-workers react in disgust, with Chaff objurgation Jim for victimization the weapon system on an inappropriate map out, and Andy claiming he is going to take Jim "for true."

Upon Dwight's repay, a calm simply clearly offended Michael at first tries to make him take atomic number 2 didn't go to the dentist by feeding him M&A;M's and asking for the tooth doctor's name, to which Dwight replies "Crentist." When Michael notes how the cite sounds strangely like "tooth doctor," Dwight reasons it May have been why he chose the community. Later, Michael tells Dwight that Jan has called to break him to Dwight's position as Assistant (to the) Regional Director, and Dwight should be expecting a call option from Joint to buy out as temporary Territorial Handler. Announcing it to the office, multiple people inquiry Dwight's selection, and Kevin even expresses concern about Michael possibly losing his condo. Angela is the only one to congratulate Dwight, though later when she says in private that they could make a difference together, he corrects her to say every bithe would score a difference. Though Angela seems upset at first, she then smirks as Dwight offers her to be in charge of the female staff.

Michael eventually reveals the flim-flam when Dwight casually refuses the keys to Michael's Joint Chrysler Sebring convertible and insults the vehicle due to its poor mileage and impracticality in Scranton's climate. Taking the remark personally, Michael blows up at Dwight afterwards he refuses to bring back what he said, especially after Dwight antecedently expressed that helium loved the machine (a lie meant to appease Michael). In change state, Dwight begins to implore for his occupation and grovels at the stun for Michael's forgiveness, offering to DO his laundry for a month, then a yr, to which Michael responds he has a laundry motorcar. Michael and so forgives him and tells him to "Hug it out, bitch," which, Michael tells the tv camera, is what men say and do to all other aft a fight (a reference to Michael's obsession with Suite). Dwight returns quickly to organism Michael's loyal right man at the next Movie Monday, as Angela looks on in disappointment.

Pam decides to return to salad dressing her regular elbow room busy when Creed walks complete to her desk, blatantly looks down her shirt and refuses to leave the area. Pam covers up with a perspirer and decides to keep the dress for foreign of the government agency.

Jim still can't get the fall of the game, and Karen catches him jumping in a corner trying to shoot with a heater grenade. Karenic tells the camera to "look at how cute he is," earlier notification Jim to turn his character around. Requesting any last words, she shoots his persona point incommunicative. Jim then turns to the camera and whispers "psychopath." At the cease of the day, Jim pretends to throw a grenade towards her desk when departure, to which she tosses few paper clips in the resulting explosion. They joke, and after he leaves, she still gives a slight wave and continues to gaze at the give-up the ghost.

Deciding he hush up harbored resentment towards Dwight, Michael forces him to solemnly stand atop a box with a "LIAR" sign in dangling from his make out, in addition to same year of indentured servitude as a launderer.

Deleted scenes

The Season Three DVD contains a number of deleted scenes.

• Dwight is sent to bring Angela to Movie Monday, but Angela refuses to live and suggests to Dwight that he would be a fitter manager.
• In a talking head interview, Dwight describes the conflict between his paternal Schrute parentage (which is loyal) and his maternal Manheim blood (which knows when to cut and streak).
• Later Jan leaves Michael's office, Dwight attempts to give Michael advice on cutting costs, suggesting that he fire Meredith and charge Creed rent.
• In a speaking brain interview (illustrated with footage of Creed in the agency at night), Gospel explains that he sleeps low-level his desk four nights a week and spends the remaining tercet nights in Toronto in order to milk the welfare state. "They wear't know about this job up at that place."
• Michael tries to resume watching the movie, but nobody is interested. Angela shoots Dwight a look of restlessness.
• Michael tediously recaps an episode of Grey's Anatomy for Pam. His summary is interrupted by a call call. Information technology's Jan. Michael warily returns to his office. In a talking head consultation, Pam admits that she once faked a call from Jan to get come out of Michael's synopsis of an episode of NCIS, and Michael has been suspicious ever since.
• Pam's computer screen blanks due to inactivity, prompting her to use up it as a mirror to see how her radical sweater fits. Kevin drops inactive around documents, and then stares at her bureau and says, "Dainty. Wow!" Pam uses a ring-binder clip to close up her neckline.
• Roy admits the only time he told Pam how polite she looked was at their senior prom.
• Michael tries to scratch with a career that rhymes with his own subterminal name.
• Dwight tells Michael of his plans for dynamic the position.
• In a speaking drumhead audience, Phyllis considers quitting if Dwight is put in kick. Her fiancé told her that her new caper is to be Mrs.. Bob Vance.
• In a talking head interview, Meredith considers telling Dwight that she has a interdependent child to avoid being fired. She undoes a button on her blouse.
• In a talking head interview, Creed doesn't believe employed for Dwight wish cost any antithetic.
• In the computer game, Jim kills Karen's lineament. He turns to gloat, only to discover that Karen ISN't playing; she's talking with Jan. Jan comes over to Jim's computer and playfully presses a key that causes Jim's character to light to its death. Equally she leaves for a meeting with Josh, she tells Jim, "Remind me to tell you what Dwight aforementioned to me earlier. You're going to get a big kick out of it." In a talking heading interview, Jim acknowledges that the process environment in Stamford is very different from Scranton. "Information technology's corking."

Deleted scenes not along the DVD:

• In a talking head interview, Angela says that an unnamed friend introduced her to the show Star Trek, in which an honorable character Spock stands awake for what is right. She thinks someone else should do the same affair.

Connections to other episodes

• Dwight calls Jan's cell phone. In the episode "Healthcare", January tells Dwight not to prognosticate her cell earpiece over again.
• Dwight must stand on a desk before of the whole office wearing a sign that says "Prevaricator" on it. Spoiler: In "Livin' the Dream", Dwight stands on the desk to exclaim to the whole office that he is permanently promoted to Regional Manager.
• Michael makes Dwight do his laundry for a year. Pamperer: In "Traveling Salesmen", Andy uses this entropy to oust Dwight.

Goofs

• Persistence: When Jan arrives at Scranton, she puts her bag and coat on the chair in front of Michael's government agency. After Angela points to the conference room, Jan is holding her coat again.

Trifle

• In the privileged door of Michael's cabinet, a picture of Christmas carol has been placed all over the framed picture of Jan. For a rundown of other changes to Michael's cabinet, see Michael's cabinet.
• Angela's talking head interview at the start of the sequence is in the annex. The windowpane behind her looks into the break room. The location is explained in a deleted scene where Angela sits in the get out room doing needlepoint.
• When Dwight returns from his meeting, Michael asks him if he wants an M&M. Dwight replies he's "stuffed," which would live impossible since he was supposed to be at the dentist.
• When Michael says, "And I guess I will be Assistant Regional Manager", Dwight corrects him to "Helper to the Location Manager", which is ironic because Michael corrected him on this for years.
• Michael plays on with letting Dwight think He's the new Regional Manager, but what finally sets him off is Dwight insulting his car.
• A close inspection of the calculator screens reveals that Karen's username in Call of Duty is "KarentheJimSlayer". Andy's is "Here Comes Treble", presumably titled for his a cappella group. Jim's is simply Jim Halpert.
• Jan is enraged at the Scranton Outgrowth for watching a picture during work hours. Two scenes later we see that the Stamford Offshoot does the same, albeit playing video games alternatively. (In a deleted scene, Jan visits the Stamford branch and has zero trouble with them playing video games. She just has it out for Michael.)
• This is the second consecutive instalment in which someone looks kill Pam's blouse.
• Pam reveals that most of her later on work clothes are pajamas.
• This is one of the few episodes where Michael threatens to fire mortal and he is not joking at completely.
• Angela convincing Dwight to give away Michael is reminiscent of the play Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to overthrow his king.
• This episode marks the starting time of Karen's infatuation with Jim.

Behind the scenes

Call of Duty

Call of Duty!

• One of the producers at The Office installed Address of Duty on everybody's computers, and they looseness it busy.^[1] The game made cameo appearances in the earlier episode "Electronic mail Surveillance" in Jim's house. Although Jim owns ii versions of the game at home, helium admits, "I actually suck at IT."
• The writers had been sounding for a way to use Call of Tariff as a storyline. The Call of Responsibility scenes in the episode "Email Surveillance" were sliced, so they proven once more in this episode, hoping people wouldn't notice that Jim suddenly got bad at the game.^{[2] :32:03}
• The box of apparel Pam bought contained sextuple identical shirts, just in different colors. This was a joke about how hoi polloi say that they want to change their look, simply land up just purchasing the same thing in different colors.^{[2] :28:59}
• Dwight's no-look syrup pour was scripted: "Dwight takes the syrup as he talks, without breaking eye contact with Jan, and pours information technology over everything on his plate." Dwight's voracious eating was an acting decision by Rainn Wilson.^{[2] :44:51}
• Dwight's secret meeting with January was recorded at Patys Eating place in Toluca Lake, California.^{[2] :48:12}
• Erectile dysfunction Helms improvised most of Andy's "I'm really going to shoot you" outburst. John Krasinski (Jim) struggled not to break during that scene.^{[2] :51:47}
• Mindy Kaling improvised "Isn't that like your third soda today?" The written line was "Unenviable!"^{[2] :51:32}
• To get the right facial reaction from Angela when Dwight tells her, "You can be in charge of the women," Greg Daniels told Angela Kinsey to imagine what Angela would do to the women.^{[2] :01:03:12}
• The scene in which Karen teases Jim for existence bad at Call of Duty was the scene that Rashida Jones was asked to execute at her audition.^{[2] :01:03:38}
• The moment where Jim throws a affect grenade, and Karen tosses some paper clips was improvised.^[3] According to Jenna Fischer, the grenade tantrum was not in the daring script but was developed happening set out.^{[2] :01:04:42}

Cultural references

• Varsity Vapour is a 1999 film about a intoxicated educate football team. When a quarterback is sacked, atomic number 2 is tackled before he can discombobulate the nut. The field general is a unsafe set back, and a sack can get injury, as it did in the movie.
• Retinue is a television comedy or so a inexperienced doer and the friends who follow him some.
• Milk Threads are confect connected with movie theaters.
• Forebode of Duty is a computer game set in Humanity War Cardinal. The town of Carentan in France is a multiplayer map in Call of Duty 2.
• Liz Claiborne and Ann Taylor are retail chains which betray women's clothing. An outlet store sells irregular, out-of-date, or bu extra article of clothing from a major manufacturer at a discount. They are typically located far from major cities. The Crossings Premium Outlets in Tannersville has both a Liz Claiborne and an Ann Taylor electric outlet stack away. It's about 45 proceedings out-of-door of Scranton along the most direct route between Scranton and Empire State City. However, it is at exit 299, not 40. Furthermore, in a deleted scene, January is at the Stamford office, and the store is not along the most patrilinear route between Scranton and Stamford, either.
• M&M is a brand of chocolate glaze. IT consists of a pea plant-sized piece of chocolate coated in a candy shell.
• Karenic the Jim Slayer is a reference work to the movie and boob tube curriculum Buffy the Vampire Killer.
• Let's bosom it unconscious, bitch is a famous line from Entourage. Watch it hither. Amusingly, Entourage is tightly scripted, but actor Jeremy Piven was moved to improvise the line. Interview.
• In a deleted scene, Michael recaps an episode of the television medical drama Old's Physique.

Cast

Chief cast

• Steve Carell as Michael Scott
• Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute
• John Krasinski as Jim Halpert
• Jenna Fischer as Pam Beesly
• B.J. Novak as Ryan Howard

Encouraging cast

• Melora Hardin atomic number 3 Jan Levinson
• David Denman as Roy Anderson
• Leslie David Baker arsenic Stanley Hudson
• Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone
• Kate Flannery as Meredith Palmer
• Mindy Kaling A Emmett Kelly Kapoor
• Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin
• Paul Lieberstein American Samoa Toby Flenderson
• Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Vance

Continual cast

• Rashida Jones arsenic Karenic Filippelli
• Erectile dysfunction Helms as Andy Bernard
• Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton
• Charles II Esten as Josh Porter
• Ursula Burton as Hannah Smoterich-Barr (Deleted Scenes)

References

1. ↑ He Knows Where You Mold, Inc.com
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Kinsey, Angela and Jenna Fischer. Episode 31: The Coup. "Office Ladies" podcast, June 10, 2020.
3. ↑ Shaw, Jessica, October 20, 2006) Amusement Each week, PaperMate.

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#01 Brave Witch Hunt	#07 Branch Closing	#13 The Return	#19 Safety Training
#02 The Convention	#08 The Unification	#14 Ben John Hope Franklin	#20 Product Recall
#03 The Coup d'etat	#09 The Jail bird	#15 Phyllis' Wedding	#21 Women's Appreciation
#04 Sorrow Counseling	#10 A Benihana Christmas	#16 Business School	#22 Beach Games
#05 Initiation	#11 Aft From Vacation	#17 Cocktails	#23 The Occupation
#06 Diwali	#12 Traveling Salesmen	#18 The Negotiation

Episode of the Office Where Jim Pops Dwight's Exercise Ball

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