List of End Tags

Starting from the second season, most episodes of The Office feature end tags. These were only occasional during the second season, then became a firmly established part of the show's format starting from the third season. During the latter half of the final season, they again became rare, as the show became more serialized.

Most of the times, end tags provide simple jokes, continuations or punchlines to jokes set up earlier (sometimes as early as the cold open), dénouements to the episode's plot, closures to minor subplots, talking heads with characters reflecting on the events of the episode, or scenes cut from earlier in the episode, in which case they don't even follow the rest of the episode chronologically. But on occasion, they become more significant, foreshadowing future events.

While end tags are easily identifiable while viewing episodes on TV (as networks often edit the episodes so that the end credits run over them), they are more difficult to discern on DVD, where end credits run separately. In order to count as an end tag, the final scene has to be separated from the previous one by an act break.

End tags in the UK version are presented as short mid-credits scenes.

Series 1

 * Joke continuation: Tim putting Gareth's stapler in jelly
 * Gareth walks into David's office with another jelly with his stapler in it. (Downsize)
 * Joke:
 * Tim sits at his desk. The text "Gareth is a Benny" scrolls on his computer screen. (Work Experience)
 * Flashback: Dawn borrowing Tim's Hat FM.
 * A shot of her wearing the Hat FM. (The Quiz)
 * Joke continuation: David taking over the training by playing his songs.
 * He announces yet another song, a "political reggae one called 'Equality Street'". (Training)
 * Joke continuation: David reading "Slough" by John Betjeman.
 * He closes the book and calls Betjeman overrated. (New Girl)
 * Dénouement: Tim giving up on his plans in favor of getting promoted.
 * A shot of Tim sitting at his desk. (Judgement)

Series 2

 * Dénouement: the welcome party for the employees from Swindon.
 * A shot of Dawn cleaning up. (Merger)
 * Joke continuation: Dawn reluctantly joining David in his office for a beer. David starts blowing into the beer bottle to make a whistling noise.
 * Dawn tries it too. (Appraisals)
 * Plot conclusion: Trudy flirting around the office.
 * A shot of Trudy and Finchy having sex outside. (Party)
 * Dénouement: Dawn assisting David with his seminar.
 * She finishes packing up his bag and leaves. (Motivation)
 * Joke:
 * Dressed up as Ali G for Red Nose Day, Keith answers a phone call with "Booyakasha". (Charity)
 * Dénouement: Dawn leaving and Tim finally confessing his love to her.
 * Visibly shaken, Dawn manages to compose herself enough to answer a phone call. (Interview)

Christmas Specials

 * Dénouement: Things go bad for David backstage after the dating show.
 * A shot of David picking up his things and sitting down on the couch. (Christmas Special, Part 1)
 * Character thoughts:
 * David asks the doc crew if they got everything they needed for their interview, then stands up and takes off his microphone. (Christmas Special, Part 2)

Season 1

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Season 2

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 * Subplot conclusion: Jim's prank when he makes Dwight believe it was Friday, when it was actually Thursday.
 * The next day, when it is actually Friday, Michael is aggravated when Dwight is absent. Dwight is then seen, rushing to work, having wised up to Jim's prank.
 * Flashback: Michael's improv class.
 * Some more of Michael's improv action is shown. He tries improvizing an story about how he stumbled upon this improv class.
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 * Flashback: Michael and Dwight messing up the warehouse.
 * Dwight makes a snow angel in a pile of styrofoam peanuts. Darryl looks at the camera, almost tearing up.
 * Flashback: Michael's walkabout in New York.
 * Michael dances in front of the Minskoff Theatre.
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 * Character thoughts
 * Dwight talks about the value his family sees in children. He then jokes that, if the need arises, his family would eat the weakest child.
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Season 3

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 * Joke:
 * Michael and Dwight fire up a blacklight in Michael's hotel room, revealing numerous stains all over the walls and the bed.
 * Dénouement: Dwight going over Michael's head to get his job / Foreshadowing for the events of the episodes Traveling Salesmen and The Return.
 * Michael reveals that, still angry at Dwight for betraying him, he made him do his laundry for a year.
 * Dénouement: The bird funeral.
 * Dwight puts out the burning box with a fire extinguisher and orders the nearby warehouse workers to get a broom.
 * Character thoughts
 * Stanley counts the days to the next Pretzel Day.
 * Flashback: Michael at Diwali.
 * While Dwight plays guitar, Michael sings a song about Diwali in the style of Adam Sandler.
 * Character thoughts
 * Toby laments that now that the branch is not closing, he won't fulfil his dream of moving to Costa Rica.
 * Joke:
 * As they leave the office, Dwight and Andy argue about cars.
 * Punchline: Jim giving Andy terrible advice about seducing Pam.
 * Andy sings a song to Pam in falsetto while playing a banjo, which are in fact Pam's turn-offs. Pam, who is on the joke, is amused.
 * Punchline: Dwight bringing a dead goose.
 * Pam finds Dwight's goose in the fridge, labelled like any other food item. She sighs. ("A Benihana Christmas", part 1)
 * Subplot conclusion: Pam playing a prank on Dwight alone, while Jim is reluctant to join in.
 * Jim reveals to Pam that he did in fact contribute to her prank. ("A Benihana Christmas", part 2)
 * Subplot conclusion: A giant picture of Michael with a naked Jan is hung on a wall in the warehouse.
 * Kevin happily takes the picture home, with the intent of hanging it up there.
 * Character thoughts
 * Andy gleefully reflects on how he got Dwight to leave the office, unaware of a furious Angela staring at him.
 * None ("The Return", standalone version)
 * Character thoughts
 * While driving to anger management, Andy lays out the way he will approach the staff. ("The Return", when combined with the previous episode)
 * Flashback: Dwight quizzing the Ben Franklin impersonator.
 * The impersonator gets one more question right. Dwight screams.
 * Flashback: Michael being a nuisance at Phyllis' wedding.
 * When Phyllis and Bob feed each other cake, Michael rushes towards them with a napkin.
 * Dénouement: Michael, disappointed with Ryan, moves him to the annex.
 * Kelly is ecstatic at the idea of having Ryan sit right behind her, while the latter clearly doesn't return the feeling.
 * Subplot conclusion: Roy and his brother trash the bar after Pam admitted to having kissed Jim / Foreshadowing for the events of the next episode.
 * Roy's brother comes out of the bar, having paid them off to not call the cops. Roy vows to kill Jim.
 * Foreshadowing for Andy's return in the next episode / Subplot conclusion: Dwight macing Roy and having stashed weapons all around the office.
 * Andy comes back, having completed his anger management training. Seeing Andy set foot in the office, Dwight immediately maces him like he did Roy during the teaser. Toby then confiscates his weapons.
 * Punchline: Michael accidentally breaking a watermelon against Stanley's car during his trampoline tests.
 * Stanley is taken aback when he discovers the remains of the watermelon all over his car.
 * Joke continuation: Jim dressing up as Dwight during the teaser.
 * Dwight comes to the office dressed as Jim.
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight hanging flyers with the sketch of the predator who flashed Phyllis, unaware that the face on the sketch is his own, only with a mustache and no glasses, courtesy of Pam.
 * Jim tells Dwight that he received a call that the predator is in the women's bathroom. Dwight goes there, only to find no one. Thanks to a mustache drawn on the mirror, he finally realizes that the sketch is of him.
 * Flashback: Dunder Mifflin employees on their way to the beach.
 * The team sings the Flintstones theme.
 * Plot conclusion: Who of Michael, Jim, Karen or other candidates will get Jan's old job? / Foreshadowing for the next season.
 * David Wallace is seen giving the job to someone over the phone. This someone is revealed to be Ryan, who promptly dumps Kelly.

Season 4

 * Plot conclusion: Michael running over Meredith with his car.
 * Meredith visits Michael, who is in the same hospital, and forgives him. He shared his lollipop with her, but after she sucks on it, refuses to take it back.
 * Character thoughts
 * Ryan brags about his promotion and the cost of his haircuts.
 * Flashback: The Dunder Mifflin Infinity party in New York.
 * Ryan stands in front of the webcam, winks, and walks away.
 * Joke:
 * While waking away from the train, Michael asks Jan to not sell her breast implants. She agrees, but then complains they hurt, which Michael dismisses.
 * Subplot resolution: Andy can't remember a rhyme from a commercial.
 * He finally remembers it.
 * Subplot resolution: Jim not being allowed in the Finer Things club.
 * Jim finally gets in, only to perform rather poorly during a conversation about a book.
 * Subplot resolution: Jim replacing Michael and trying to organize a common party for several birthdays.
 * Michael gives Jim some advice, which makes him reflect on his life when he realizes they have things in common.
 * Dénouement: Jim and Darryl playing ping pong in the warehouse, and Dwight refusing to train Jim.
 * Dwight and Mose have a heated ping pong game in the warehouse.
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 * Subplot resolution: Michael learning the chair model he was enamored with died.
 * Michael starts singing a sad parody of American pie in front of the model's grave, but then starts singing a cheerier song with Dwight, meaning that wasn't love after all.
 * Dénouement: The office staff being locked inside.
 * Hank drives to the office park, only to realize than the cleaning crew have released the office workers while he was getting ready.
 * Dénouement Stanley standing up to Michael during a meeting.
 * It looks like the events of this episode are going to repeat themselves, but with Phyllis.
 * Flashback: Pam at the job fair / Foreshadowing for the next season.
 * Pam visits a booth for a graphics design firm and learns there are programs for graphic design in New York and Philadelphia..
 * Character thoughts / Foreshadowing for the next season.
 * Phyllis takes some of the party supplies upstairs, while reflecting on her stint as party organizer. She catches Angela having sex with Dwight.

Season 5

 * Foreshadowing for Toby's return.
 * Toby, in a hospital after a zip line incident, is visited in a hospital by the camera crew.
 * Dénouement: Meredith getting discounts and steaks for sex with suppliers.
 * Some of the office workers happily enjoy a meal with the ill-gotten meat.
 * Subplot resolution: Jim and Pam are out of sync.
 * Jim and Pam call each other at the same time and leave each other almost identical messages.
 * Foreshadowing for the next episode.
 * David Wallace sees Michael and Holly kiss and is none too pleased about it.
 * Dénouement: Dwight pretending to be a Cornell student, just to tease Andy.
 * Andy comes to work dressed as a beet farmer.
 * Subplot resolution: Andy looking for the perfect wedding place with Angela, while the latter edges him towards Schrute farms.
 * While Andy discusses arranging a wedding at Schrute farms with Dwight, the latter exchanges glances with Angela.
 * Character thoughts:
 * Kelly is happy to be back together with Ryan. He clearly isn't.
 * Character thoughts:
 * Dwight describes his perfect crime.
 * Dénouement: Pam blowing hot and cold with Jim during the surplus debacle.
 * Jim returns the favor once she wins.
 * Subplot conclusion: Andy learns to play sitar, much to everyone's annoyance / Foreshadowing for the next episode.
 * Having missed Phyllis' announcement about Angela sleeping with Dwight, a completely oblivious Andy comes back to the bullpen and plays Deck the halls. Everyone is uncomfortable and silent, and Angela quietly asks Andy to get her home.
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight still having weapons around the office.
 * Dwight tries to hide his bow and arrows, but Jim catches him.
 * Subplot conclusion: Opinions are divided around the office about whether Hilary Swank is hot.
 * Michael absentmindedly comments that Hilary Swank is hot, unknowingly settling the argument.
 * Subplot conclusion: The in-universe movie about a man being in love with an old woman that Andy, Jim and Pam watch.
 * Jack Black's character goes to his lover's house to make up with her, only to find her with another young man.
 * Joke
 * When Jim asks Creed for $3 for Kelly's party, Creed gives him an obviously fake $3 bill with George W Bush's face on it.
 * Dénouement: Pam getting closure with Karen, Michael trying and failing to do the same with Holly.
 * Michael wonders whether he can make amends with someone else. When he brings up Tony Gardner, he gets obsessed with how fat Tony is and realizes he could never apologize to him.
 * Joke
 * Stanley and Phyllis try stealing cookies from the blood drive trailer. Creed quietly steals a blood pouch.
 * Joke continuation: Knock knock and ding dong jokes between Michael, Dwight and Jim from the teaser.
 * Dwight fails to tell his "it's the KGB" joke to Jim.
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 * Foreshadowing for the next episode.
 * After Michael and Pam's departures, Charles Miner reveals he is a horrible judge of character by appointing Stanley as the productivity czar and putting Kevin on reception. Neither of them are thrilled.
 * Subplot resolution: Michael and his new company ending up in the same office park and Dunder Mifflin / Foreshadowing for the three following episodes.
 * Charles runs into Michael and Pam as they add "Michael Scott Paper Company" to the directory sign in the lobby.
 * Joke
 * Dwight and Andy talk about music while walking through the kitchen, making Angela roll her eyes.
 * Joke continuation: Michael, Pam and Ryan having fun with cheese puffs.
 * All three of them have mouths filled with as many cheese puffs as they could stuff in there, as they try setting a collective record. Someone calls on the phone and Michael answers with cheese puffs still in his mouth.
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 * Joke continuation: Michael fake-firing Pam.
 * Michael fake-fires Erin.
 * Joke
 * Kelly tries piercing Andy's ear. Andy is very nervous.
 * None

Season 6

 * Character thoughts:
 * The three interns share what they've learned during their internship, which isn't much. ("Gossip")
 * Subplot conclusion: Pam asking her coworkers for RSVPs to her wedding.
 * Pam asks Meredith for her RSVP, but she won't formally give it. ("The Meeting")
 * Subplot conclusion: Having registered for gifts, Pam is uncomfortable asking her coworkers if they could give cash instead.
 * Ryan tricks Pam into betting on basketball games by promising a sure-fire bet. ("The Promotion")
 * Character thoughts / Foreshadowing for the episode "The Lover".
 * Kevin reflects on his tissue box shoes. Michael and Pam's mom Helene get a bit too close... ("Niagara")
 * Subplot conclusion: Kevin accidentally reporting Jim's credit card as stolen.
 * Kevin tries calling Jim and Pam, only for Pam to angrily hang up on him. They don't know they're in trouble because of Kevin, and that's good enough for him. ("Mafia")
 * Dénouement: Dwight's plan to listen on Jim by giving him a bugged wooden mallard.
 * After Jim leaves, Dwight reveals that the real listening device was in the pen he put in Jim's pen holder. ("The Lover")
 * Foreshadowing for the rest of the season.
 * Pam tries selling Erin on Andy, and succeeds. ("Koi Pond")
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight trying to use favors he does for his coworkers as a means to get Jim fired.
 * Dwight tries cashing in the favor by directly requesting Michael to fire Jim, which Michael refuses. Dwight angrily leaves. ("Double Date")
 * Dénouement: After all the events of the episode, Michael had started another murder game.
 * Jim finds Michael, Andy, Dwight and, unexpectedly, Pam, in a Mexican standoff, still playing. ("Murder")
 * Flashback: Dwight standing in the line at the shareholder meeting.
 * Dwight starts giving ideas and everyone applauds. The applause dies down once everyone realizes Dwight is talking about managing lines at the meeting, and not the company.("Shareholder Meeting")
 * Dénouement: Another one of Dwight's plans to get Jim fired failed.
 * After everyone leaves, Ryan offers Dwight his help. ("Scott's Tots")
 * Subplot conclusion: Andy accidentally causing Erin grief by giving her the Twelve Days of Christmas.
 * Andy finishes with a marching band, which Erin enjoys. ("Secret Santa")
 * Flashback: To three years ago.
 * A complete version of "Lazy Scranton" from "The Merger" is shown.("The Banker")
 * Joke continuation: David Wallace, his invention and his drummer son.
 * David Wallace and his son sing a song about "Suck It". ("Sabre")
 * Dénouement: Dwight and Ryan's previously established alliance to get Jim fired turned out to be pointless.
 * Dwight and Ryan leave the office, first congratulating each other, then arguing about the drink they should get. ("Manager and Salesman")
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight awkwardly asking Angela to bear his child / Dwight rebuilding the Halperts' kitched instead of simply finding Pam's iPod.
 * Dwight and Angela sign their new childbearing contract in what remains of the Halperts' kitchen. Jim and Pam return to witness the carnage. ("The Delivery")
 * Joke continuation: Jim returning to the office from paternity leave, only to see Dwight has built a "mega desk" of his, Jim and Pam's desks, which Jim dismantles in the teaser and throughout the episode.
 * Dwight comes to the office to see Jim sitting at the "quad desk", an even more ridiculous construction. ("St. Patrick's Day")
 * Subplot conclusion: Andy and Erin's awkward flirting.
 * While looking for the leads in the dump, they finally kiss. ("New Leads")
 * Joke
 * Darryl introduces to the audience Hide, a Japanese warehouse worker with a shady past. ("Happy Hour")
 * Dénouement: A major plot of the episode revolved around Oscar having made a video of the Cookie Monster speaking with Kevin's voice, which everyone found hilarious.
 * Kevin retaliates by creating a similar video, but with the Count speaking like Oscar. Michael is the only person to find it funny. ("Secretary's Day")
 * Subplot conclusion: Was Donna flirting with Michael?
 * Michael returns to the office and announces he and Donna just kissed, but his coworkers seem doubtful.("Body Language")
 * Joke continuation: Dwight visiting a gym and getting a membership, which Michael refuses to pay for.
 * Dwight returns to the gym and annoys a trainer by taking over his session. ("The Cover-Up")
 * Foreshadowing for the next episode.
 * Michael is interviewed on the subject of Sabre printers catching fire. ("The Chump")
 * Subplot conclusion: Jo feeling that Michael is miserable / Foreshadowing for the next season.
 * Jo asks Michael if she can do something else for him. Michael asks if she can transfer Holly back. Jo doesn't say no, leaving Michael hopeful. ("Whistleblower")

Season 7

 * Subplot conclusion: Michael spanks Luke in the workplace, making him quit / Foreshadowing for the next episode.
 * As a means to avoid a lawsuit or termination, Gabe suggests Michael should follow counseling with a trained professional: none other than Toby. ("Nepotism")
 * Character thoughts
 * After a few shots of Michael and Toby, Ryan gives a few phrases critical of psychiatry, hoping the documentary crew would pick the best one. ("Counseling")
 * Flashback: The casting director mentions Michael auditioned by reenacting an episode of Law & Order.
 * Michael's audition is shown. ("Andy's Play")
 * Dénouement: After visiting or calling all of his previous girlfriends, Michael still doesn't know who gave him herpes.
 * Michael questions Oscar on his sexual past because of the one time he kissed him. ("Sex Ed")
 * Dénouement: During band practice, Andy's attitude makes Darryl and Kevin turn on him.
 * After reconciling, Andy, Darryl and Kevin perform a song about frogs, a reference to Andy's comment about what kind of song Kevin's voice would be best for. ("The Sting")
 * Subplot conclusion: the costume contest / Character thoughts
 * Oscar wins despite not even being in a costume. Some of his coworkers explain why they voted for him. ("Costume Contest")
 * Subplot conclusion: Michael and Andy leaving for Mexico.
 * Erin drives then back. ("Christening")
 * Subplot conclusion: Andy getting sick after a misguided ingestion of seahorses.
 * Gabe looks out for Andy, as he prepares to vomit. ("Viewing Party")
 * Subplot conclusion: Jim has no incentive to work and decides to prank Gabe.
 * Jim pranks Gabe by assembling a monologue from snippets of Jo's audiobook of her autobiography, followed by her voice reading it in full. While Gabe is busy on the phone, Jim leaves. ("WUPHF.com")
 * Subplot conclusion: Darryl getting annoyed by Andy texting him for no reason.
 * Andy sends Darryl a text ("Come to parking lot. Crazy pigeon action") . Darryl comes outside, sees a couple of pigeons eating an ice cream and decides it was a good text. ("China")
 * Joke continuation: Dwight pestering Jim with snowballs, even once emerging from a snowman to unexpectedly pelt him.
 * On their way out of the office, Jim and Pam find a crowd of snowmen in a parking lot, which Jim starts attacking like a mad man, while Dwight observes from the roof. ("Classy Christmas")
 * Joke continuation: Creed's New Year resolution was to make a cartwheel.
 * Michael coaches Creed, the latter does a horrible cartwheel but decides it's good enough. ("The Ultimatum")
 * Subplot conclusion: Erin and Gabe deciding what movie to watch next by playing Scrabble / Foreshadowing for the rest of the season.
 * Gabe tries suggesting Erin a movie they'd both like to see, but his choice is horrible. Andy then lends Erin his DVD of Shrek 2, which she immediately latches on, to Gabe's visible discomfort. ("The Seminar")
 * Joke continuation: The office's illicit caption contest.
 * Gabe reads out the rudest submissions, to everyone else's enjoyment.("The Search")
 * Character thoughts
 * Dwight, Ryan, Kelly and Kevin give their thoughts on Valentine's Day. Michael and Holly share their plans for the evening. ("PDA")
 * Subplot conclusion: Michael Scott's in-universe titular movie.
 * A song sung by Andy plays over a montage of stills from the movie. ("Threat Level Midnight")
 * Dénouement: Pam replacing Andy's computer with one she claims to have found in the warehouse.
 * Darryl, who overheard Pam, convinces her to give him a few sick days in exchange for his silence. ("Todd Packer")
 * Joke continuation: Jim persuading Dwight to trade his goods for magic beans.
 * Dwight plants the beans in planters and waters them. When he leaves, Jim replaces them with identical planters, but with fully-grown plants. ("Garage Sale")
 * Subplot conclusion: Jim and Pam annoying DeAngelo with their baby.
 * Jim and Pam bring Cece into the office, and show her to Deangelo. While he seemingly warms up, he then reveals to the camera that he doesn't care for the baby. ("Training Day")
 * Flashback to the Dundies ceremony / Foreshadowing for season nine
 * Toby receives an insulting award, and tries to use the plaform to talk about the Scranton Strangler trial he was a juror on : he isn't convinced the convicted man was guilty. "("Michael's Last Dundies")
 * Dénouement: Michael's departure a day earlier than announced / Joke continuation: DeAngelo's struggles with food and weight.
 * At Michael's farewell party, the guest of honor fails to appear. DeAngelo then very expressively struggles not to eat the corners of the cake, making his new employees feel ill-at-ease. ("Goodbye, Michael")
 * Foreshadowing: DeAngelo's absence in future episodes.
 * DeAngelo returns to the office wearing a hospital gown, unable to speak. ("The Inner Circle")
 * Flashback to Angela helping Kevin with his copier code.
 * Kevin slowly types in the digits one by one while an aggravated Angela reads them out loud, only to type the wrong one at the end. ("Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager")
 * Joke continuation: Pam impersonating different clients while on the phone with Creed.
 * When Creed asks Pam to connect some of the clients together, she improvises a conversation between them. ("Search Committee" - extended episode)
 * Character thoughts:
 * Different office employees share their thoughts on the candidates for their new boss. Pam just wants someone to replace Creed ASAP. ("Search Committee" - two-parter)

Season 8

 * Subplot conclusion: Pam's bad mood.
 * Jim "accidentally" drops his version of Robert California's list next to Pam's desk. Picking it up, the sees her name, Cece's name and "New baby" on the "winners" side, and "Everything else" on the "losers" side. ("The List")
 * Subplot conclusion: Pam and Angela agreeing on supporting each other during their pregnancies.
 * Pam stops everything during their first walk together after Angela tells her she reported her to the Social Services for drinking from mugs which had had coffee in them. ("The Incentive")
 * Character thoughts:
 * Several office employees share what they would do if they won the lottery. ("Lotto")
 * Flashback: to the start of the party.
 * Jim messes with Dwight by walking in and out of Schrute farms, causing him to announce Jim's name every time he comes back. ("Garden Party")
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight being upset at Toby for censoring his costume.
 * Robert California's son Burt fake-fires Toby on Dwight's behalf. ("Spooked")
 * Dénouement: Jim coming to the club where Robert California plays squash to steal his phone.
 * After the crisis ends, Jim ends up playing squash some more, lightly hurting himself in the process. ("Doomsday")
 * Dénouement: Robert California inviting more friends to jam with Andy, Darryl and Kevin, eventually edging them out.
 * Kevin attempts a drum-off against Robert's drummer friend, but gives up almost immediately. ("Pam's Replacement")
 * Flashback: to Gabe entertaining children as a Lincoln impersonator.
 * Gabe improvises a one-man show which the children enjoy, then runs off to join his coworkers. ("Gettysburg")
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight motivating Darryl with his work-out / Foreshadowing for the rest of the season
 * Dwight finally forces Darryl to admit he is working out for Val, but doesn't understand who that is. ("Mrs. California")
 * Joke continuation: Dwight still thinking he can get Jim's Christmas bonus by making it look like he got pranked, despite Andy finally deciding against it.
 * Dwight "wakes up" at his office with "Idiot" written on his forehead. Jim won't tell him Andy retracted his warning. ("Christmas Wishes")
 * Dénouement: The trivia contest is unexpectedly won by Kelly, Kevin, Erin and Meredith. Kevin wonders if it was a fluke.
 * They participate in a different contest. Suffice to say, Kevin was right. ("Trivia")
 * Joke continuation: Ryan and Gabe doing their best to suck up to Robert California.
 * After everyone has left, and RC himself has fallen asleep, they start dancing in front of him, each one refusing to leave before the other. ("Pool Party")
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight trying to report Jim to Gabe for missing work.
 * Dwight comes back to the office happy after finding out Angela's child might be his. Despite finally meeting Gabe, he doesn't denounce Jim because he doesn't care anymore. ("Jury Duty")
 * Foreshadowing: To the Tallahassee arc.
 * As Dwight's new team leaves, Ryan is dismissive towards Kelly, as per usual, Jim and Pam say goodbye normally, Erin strongly hugs Andy, not wanting to tell him she is not coming back, and Cathy speaks on the phone with someone, and expresses an intent to seduce Jim. ("Special Project")
 * Joke:
 * Nellie bring Wally Amos on stage, but when everyone realizes he brought a big tray of cookies with him, they no longer care about his speech. ("Tallahassee")
 * Subplot conclusion: Dwight trying seduce Nellie... or rather keeping her from getting seduced by Packer.
 * Jim and Dwight eat in Dwight's hotel room and watch TV. Nellie tries to come in, but the key card Dwight gave her doesn't work. ("After Hours")
 * Flashback: To Jim holding the sign in front of the Sabre Store.
 * Jim sees a sign spinner, and tries spinning his sign, but fails and gives up. ("Test the Store")
 * Subplot conclusion: the Tallahassee trip / Foreshadowing: to the season's final arc.
 * When Dwight and his team come back from Florida without Erin, Andy can't keep calm any longer and leaves for Florida on the spot. ("Last Day in Florida")
 * Character thoughts:
 * Nellie reflects on her usurping Andy's position as Regional Manager. ("Get the Girl")
 * Dénouement: Jim and Pam have hired a magician for Nellie's party, but then decided against having one; he showed up anyway.
 * On their way out, Jim and Pam blame Hank for having let the magician in despite their instructions. ("Get the Girl")
 * Dénouement: Pam has been trying to separate Ryan and Kelly for the entire episode.
 * Jim and Pam find some of Ryan's poetry in the trash can. They read it and tear up. ("Get the Girl")
 * Dénouement: Everyone in the office adopting dogs from the fundraiser.
 * Kevin makes everyone worry when he talks about his dog, that it might be dead. It is shown immediately afterwards, that his dog isn't dead, but extremely lazy. ("Get the Girl")
 * Dénouement: Jim, Dwight and Harry Jannerone have lost a huge client / Foreshadowing: for the next episode.
 * They have a casual conversation about career plans. Harry then leaves, with his parting words being that Robert California is running the company into the ground. ("Turf War")
 * Foreshadowing: for the next season.
 * Robert Lipton confirms Oscar's doubts when he openly hits on him and asks him to call him. ("Free Family Portrait Studio")

Season 9

 * Joke continuation: Andy's efforts to make Nellie's life miserable.
 * Andy intentionally places recycling bins around Nellie's desk, and everyone insists on throwing their trash instead of walking to the bins.
 * Subplot conclusion: Nellie tricking Dwight into cutting off her hand.
 * Nellie and Dwight finish watching "127 Hours" and start arguing about movies, seemingly no longer caring about the promised dismemberment.
 * Foreshadowing to Erin's new love story.
 * As Andy and Erin leave the office, Pete says goodbye to Erin in Dothraki, which she has been learning. ("Andy's Ancestry").
 * Dénouement: The staff have been singing "Shabooya Roll Call" on the work bus.
 * Back in the office, Andy annoys everyone with "Shabooya" as they try to work.
 * Foreshadowing: for the following episode
 * Andy calls his parents only to learn they are broke. Oscar and Robert Lipton kiss, and Oscar realizes that the documentary crew got it on tape. ("Here Comes Treble")
 * Dénouement: Andy leaves on a sailing trip, leaving a hurt Erin behind.
 * Pete asks Erin out for a drink and she accepts. ("The Boat")
 * Dénouement: Dwight and Pam's sales call.
 * Dwight and Pam meet Jan's assistant and advise her to quit. ("The Whale")
 * Joke:
 * Dwight and Angela ask Toby absurd questions about gays. ("The Target")
 * Subplot conclusion: Toby has been annoying Nellie by talking non-stop about the Scranton Strangler.
 * Nellie shuts Toby up by kissing him. ("Dwight Christmas").
 * Dénouement: Meredith forgives Pam for bringing lice and letting her take the blame during their impromptu night out.
 * Pam and Meredith sing Girls Just Wanna have Fun at a karaoke.("Lice").
 * Dénouement: The staff have been drinking way too much coffee...
 * Darryl and Pam come back to the office only to find it in a mess, with a torn-up carpet.("Suit Warehouse").
 * Dénouement: Dwight's fast-food shenanigans.
 * Darryl watches a video of Dwight getting pranked and laughs.("Customer Loyalty").
 * None("Junior Salesman").
 * None("Vandalism").
 * None ("Couples Discount").
 * Foreshadowing: for the end of the series
 * While Oscar does gravity boot sit-ups, he gets stuck and no one wants to help him down. Meanwhile, an ad for the documentary "The Office: an American Workplace" pops up on his computer.("Moving On")
 * None ("The Farm")
 * None ("Promos")
 * None ("Stairmageddon")
 * None ("Paper Airplane").
 * None ("Livin' the Dream").
 * None ("A.A.R.M.").
 * None ("Finale").