Did I Stutter?

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"Did I Stutter?" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of The Office. It was written by Brent Forrester and Justin Spitzer and directed by Randall Einhorn. It first aired May 1, 2008.

Synopsis

When Stanley snaps at Michael during a meeting, Michael tries to give Stanley an attitude adjustment. Dwight decides to buy Andy’s car. Meanwhile, Pam deals with an unexpected inconvenience after spending the night at Jim’s.

Dwight's organizational chart

Dwight's organizational chart is quite detailed.^[1] NBC made the chart avaiable online after the episode aired. Download the PDF here.
- Ryan's title is Vice President, North East Region and Director of New Media.
- Jim Halpert is Assistant Regional Manager.
- Dwight K. Schrute is Original Assistant Regional Manager, positioned slightly above Jim.
- Angela is Senior Accountant, and her box has a pink "female" symbol (♀).
- Accountant Tom Peels has been crossed off. (He killed himself, as noted in the episode Performance Review.)
- Accountant Kevin Malone has a four-leaf clover.
- Accountant Oscar Martinez has two "male" symbols (♂♂), alluding to his homosexuality.
- Toby Flenderson has a blue Star of David with a question mark.
- The Quality Control department consists of Quality Assurance Rep "Creed Bratton", in quotation marks.
- The Customer Service department consists of Customer Service Rep Kelly Kapoor, and her box has a pink "female" symbol.
- The Supplier Relations department consists of Supplier Relations Meredith Palmer, with a pink "female" symbol. Additionally, the symbol indicating her menstrual cycle has been crossed off, referring to her hysterectomy, first mentioned in Health Care.
- Reporting to Meredith is Devon White, whose box has been crossed off. (Devon was fired in Halloween.)
- The Reception department consists of Receptionist Pam Beesly, with a pink "female" symbol.
- The Sales department is headed by Regional Director in Charge of Sales Andy Bernard. His box contains a silhouette of a person wearing a mortarboard, referring to Andy's habit of reminding everyone that he went to Cornell.
- Reporting to Andy are Sales Rep Phyllis Lapin and Sales Rep Stanley Hudson. Phyllis's box contains a pink "female" symbol, as well as a symbol which, according to the legend, indicates that she is post-menopausal. Stanley's box contains a "Black Power" fist.
- Heading the Warehouse is Warehouse Foreman Darryl Philbin, whose box contains a "Black Power" fist.
- Reporting to Darryl are Jerry DiCanio, Madge Madsen, and Lonnie Collins. Madge's box is adorned with a pink "female" symbol, and Lonnie's contains a "Black Power" fist. There is an unexplained dotted line from Lonnie to Michael.
- The Party Planning Committee consists of Angela, Pam, Phyllis, Meredith, and Kelly, although the line to Kelly is not as strong as the other lines.
- The chart is labelled "Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch ORG. CHART By Dwight K. Schrute*" with the footnote "*Do Not Duplicate or Transmit. Intellectual Property of Dwight K. Schrute for 1,000 years."
- Karen and the other former Stamford employees do not appear on the chart. Neither does Roy.

Dwight's "Emergency Powers" chart[1] makes the following changes:
- Next to his name is the symbol for radioactive materials. It also says "warnung vor radioaktiven und ionisierenden Strahlen" ("warning prior to radioactive and ionizing radiation").
- Andy's name is crossed out.
- The Warehouse staff is under a "lockdown".
- Dwight's family members are listed as members of the hierarchy as follows:
  - Mose reports directly to Dwight.
  - Vater (German for "father") reports to Mose, and Mutter ("mother") reports to Vater.
  - Two people noted as "Shirley" and "Heindl" also report to Mose.

Trivia

After the episode aired, Andy's Nissan Xterra was placed for sale on eBay.^[2] According to the auction listing, the car actually belongs to Kim M. Ferry, the key hair stylist for the show. Included with the car are autographed memorabilia donated by the actors. The car went to a couple in Oklahoma.^[3]

Amusing details

During the game of Mad Libs, Angela first suggests "tall" then changes it to "nice". When Andy reads the completed Mad Lib, we learn that Angela had chosen "tall", "nice", and "nice" again. Not only does she choose bland words, she can't even choose unique bland words!
Andy's flyer reads: "For Sale / 2001 Nissan Xterra / (photo) / Air Bags, Anti-Lock Brakes, Air Conditioning, AM/FM Radio / Mirrors, Windows, Character / $8,700 / Contact / Andy Bernard / @ Ext 1022". Wow, the car comes with windows.
Dwight's flyer reads almost the same: "For Sale / 2001 Nissan Xterra / (photo) / Low Mileage - Pristine Transmission / Air Bags, Anti-Lock Brakes, Air Conditioning, AM/FM Radio / Mirrors, Windows, Character / $9,995.00 / Contact / Dwight Schrute / @ Ext 1015".

When Pam stands up during the conference room scene in a deleted scene, Toby is also wearing glasses.

Connections to previous episodes

Michael fake-fired Pam in the Pilot. It didn't go well then either.

Goofs

Kevin says that all his ex-girlfriends wore glasses. However, his former fiancée Stacy did not wear glasses, at least not in public.

Cultural references

Kelly talks about watching actor Will Smith on E!, an American cable television channel focusing on popular entertainment. Pam explains that Kelly is talking about Grauman's Chinese Theatre, a Hollywood landmark known for signatures and handprints of notable entertainment figures in the cement sidewalk outside.
Andy and Angela play Mad Libs, a children's game consisting of an incomplete story. Players fill in the words without knowing the story; the result is intended to be humorous. Dwight mocks the game in a talking head interview later in the episode.
Jim goads Michael by saying an urban thing. The word urban is a euphemism for "black".
Andy talks about the blue book value of his car. The Kelley Blue Book is a guide to used car values.
Michael asks Darryl about the Crips and the Bloods, two well-known Los Angeles rival street gangs. Darryl adds the Latin Kings from Chicago, the fictitious Warriors from the 1979 movie The Warriors, and invents a gang called the Newsies, presumably named after the 1992 Disney movie.
Ryan asks Jim how he can support the Eagles, a local professional American football team. The 2007 season was particularly disappointing. Jim's response "on a wing and a prayer" is an idiom meaning that you're in a desperate situation and hoping that everything turns out all right.
Dwight's nonsense-syllable singing when he washes the Xterra is an example of scat singing.
Andy accuses Dwight of flipping his car, an informal term meaning to purchase something and immediately resell it at a profit.
Kevin describes the confrontation between Michael and Stanley as a Clash of the Titans, a 1981 stop-motion animated film depicting the myth of Perseus. The term has since been used to describe any conflict between formidable opponents.
Kevin describes Michael as in one corner and Stanley as in the other corner, terms used to describe the opponents in a boxing match.
In Michael's final talking head, he mimics the styles of a series of stand-up comedians, usually taking a well-known joke and messing it up.
- Rodney Dangerfield: "I don't get no respect" coupled with collar tug.
- Jerry Seinfeld: "If the black box is the only thing that survives the crash, why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box?"
- Henny Youngman: "Take my wife, please" (itself another pun)
- Jeff Foxworthy: "You might be a redneck if..."
- Borat
- Jerry Seinfeld again: "What's the deal with Grape Nuts? No grapes, no nuts!"
Michael initially proposes a summer sale-a-bration, a commonly-used pun on "celebration". He changes this to sales-a-lot, which is not a pun on anything. He may have confused it with Camelot or Sir Mix-a-Lot.
The adage Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses was coined by Dorothy Parker.
Lisa Loeb is a popular singer; Tina Fey is a writer and comic actor. Both are noted for wearing bold glasses.
Ryan brags about the bagels in New York City. New York City is indeed known for its bagels.
Ryan's remark "Fewer carbs" refers to to the low-carbohydrate diet which was popular at the time the episode aired.

Cast

Main Cast

Supporting Cast

References

↑ Publicity still for episode Did I Stutter?
↑ Buy Andy's car!, Office Tally
↑ Buy Andy's Xterra: Epilogue, Office Tally

[OrgChart-1] Publicity still for episode Did I Stutter?

[2] Buy Andy's car!, Office Tally

[3] Buy Andy's Xterra: Epilogue, Office Tally

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