Episode Quotes
Michael: Um... Did you do the things I said to about the magazines?
Pam: Yeah I changed 'em to your new address.
Michael: Good... The Small Businessman? Maxim? Cracked?
Pam: Yes... I changed your Cracked magazine subscription.
Michael: How about... um uh... Fine Arts? Ephesian Auto Monthly? (Pam shakes her head) Ok, well could you get on that because I don't just read Cracked.
Oscar: Kevin and I play this game when Michael's out.
Kevin: Or when we're bored.
Jim: This goes back two years!
Kevin: We're bored a lot.
Pam: Come on Angela, don't you have a game?
Angela: I have a game. I call it 'Pampong.'
Pam: Great! How do you play?
Angela: I count how many times Jim gets up to go to reception to talk to you.
Pam: We're friends.
Angela: Apparently.
Jim: (Knocks on office door) Michael?
Michael: Hey, Jim. Slim Jim. Wha', what's up?
Jim: Nothing, I just wanted to congratulate you on your new condo.
Michael: Oh yeah, it's terrific, great. Three bedroom. Gay-friendly.
Jim: Okay, we will be competing for gold, silver and bronze yogurt lids.
Pam: Now the bronze are really blue, and they're also the back side of the gold. So no flipping, okay? Honor system.
Jim: I really like the paper-triangle-flicking-and-hitting-things game.
Kevin Malone: We call it 'Hateball.'
Jim: Why?
Kevin Malone: Because of how much Angela hates it.
Pam: You see Dwight's coffee mug?
Jim: Uh-huh.
Pam: Sometimes when he's not here, I try to throw stuff in it.
Episode Goofs
Michael tells Pam to move his subscription of Cracked to his new residence, even though that magazine has not published an issue since February of 2004.
A microphone is visible at the top of the screen during the scene where Jim and Pam are discussing Dwight's coffee mug.
Cultural References
Dwight:
(points to his sunglasses) Check it out. Terminator.
The Terminator is a film featuring
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the title character - a robot from the future who wears sunglasses.
Visual: The picture of Mose and Dwight on their beet farm
This is most likely a nod to Grant Wood's famous painting from 1930, titled
American Gothic, which shows a farmer and his daughter in front of their home.
Dwight: I have been Michael’s number two guy for about five years, and we make a great team. And we’re like one of those classic famous teams... he’s like Mozart, and I’m like… Mozart’s friend. No, I’m like Butch Cassidy, and Michael is like… Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart, you’re gonna get a bullet in your head, courtesy of Butch Cassidy.
Dwight is referring to famous Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the notorious American train robber, Butch Cassidy.