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[[Category:List|Key story developments]]
 
[[Category:List|Key story developments]]

Revision as of 15:45, 2 February 2009

What you need to know in 25 words or less.

Season 1

In 25 words or less: The first season lays the groundwork for future events.

Pilot

  • All the main characters are introduced.
  • Jim mentions how he would like to work somewhere else.
  • The Scranton branch may be shut down.
  • Ryan joins Dunder-Mifflin as a temporary employee.

Hot Girl

  • Jim begins dating Katy, the purse girl.

Season 2

In 25 words or less: Pam and Roy's impending wedding forces Jim's hand. Michael develops an on-again-off-again relationship with Jan.

The Fire

  • Ryan begins attending business school at night.

The Client

  • Jan is newly-divorced.
  • Michael and Jan share a celebratory kiss and spend the night together.
  • Michael considers Jan to be his girlfriend. Jan rejects the notion.
  • Jim and Pam have an informal dinner together. Jim consider it a date. Pam rejects the notion.

Performance Review

  • Michael and Jan's "relationship" (such as it is) is revealed to the office.
  • Early hints of a Dwight/Angela romance.

E-mail Surveillance

  • Pam discovers Dwight and Angela's secret romance.

Booze Cruise

  • Pam and Roy set a date for their wedding.
  • Jim breaks up with Katy.
  • Jim confesses a former crush on Pam to Michael.

The Secret

  • Michael reveals Jim's crush on Pam to the entire office.
  • Oscar is revealed to be gay.

The Carpet

  • Kelly develops a crush on Ryan. She is interested in a long-term relationship; Ryan wants something more casual.

Valentine's Day

  • Kelly and Ryan finally hook up.
  • Michael and Jan's "relationship" becomes known to Corporate.
  • After Michael defuses the situation, Jan, in a moment of weakness, kisses him.

Casino Night

  • Michael begins dating Carol Stills, his real estate agent.
  • Jim confesses his feelings to Pam.

Season 3

In 25 words or less: Pam, single again, must undertake a journey of self-discovery.

Gay Witch Hunt

Flashback:

  • After Jim kisses Pam on Casino Night, Pam admits to having feelings for him as well but will not break off the wedding.

During the summer:

  • Pam called off her wedding. She moved into her own apartment and began taking art classes.
  • Jim transferred to the Stamford branch, joining new co-workers Karen and Andy.
  • Ryan is now a full-time employee of Dunder-Mifflin.
  • Phyllis becomes engaged to Bob Vance.

In this episode:

  • Michael outs Oscar as gay.
  • Oscar receives a three-month paid vacation as compensation for Michael's behavior.

The Coup

  • Dwight unsuccessfully attempts to usurp control of the branch from Michael.
  • Karen begins developing feelings for Jim.

Initiation

  • Dwight mentions how competitors are using the Internet to make sales.

Diwali

  • Michael proposes to his girlfriend Carol Stills; she turns him down.

Branch Closing

  • The Scranton branch is saved and Stamford is closed, no thanks to Michael.
  • Jim agrees to return to Scranton, and Karen decides to follow him.

The Merger

  • Jim, Karen, Andy, and a handful of other former Stamford employees move to Scranton.
  • Pam's attempt to rekindle her relationship with Jim is thwarted when she discovers that Jim has a new girlfriend (Karen).

A Benihana Christmas

  • Carol breaks up with Michael.
  • Michael asks an unknown woman (revealed to be Jan) to accompany him on a tropical vacation.

Back from Vacation

  • Jan dives headfirst into a relationship with Michael. Jan's downward spiral begins.
  • Pam helps Jim resolve a relationship problem with Karen even though it means losing Jim's affections to Karen.

Traveling Salesmen

  • Karen learns about Jim and Pam's past.
  • Andy engineers Dwight's firing for perceived disloyalty.

The Return

  • Oscar returns to work.
  • Jim and Pam's prank on Andy causes him to lose his temper and get sent to anger management.
  • Michael realizes his mistake and re-hires Dwight.
  • Jim admits to Karen that he still has feelings for Pam.

Ben Franklin

  • Pam inadvertently reveals to Karen that she still has feelings for Jim.

Phyllis' Wedding

  • Phyllis marries Bob Vance.
  • Pam begins dating Roy again.
  • Phyllis leaves on a six-week honeymoon.

Business School

  • Only Roy, Oscar and Michael attend Pam's first art show.
  • Ryan is moved to the annex next to Kelly.

Cocktails

  • Jan and Michael make their relationship public.
  • Pam resolves to be more assertive.
  • Roy reacts violently when he learns of the Casino Night kiss. Pam breaks up with him on the spot.

The Negotiation

  • Roy attacks Jim and is fired.
  • Roy tells Pam to pursue Jim.
  • Phyllis returns from her honeymoon.

Safety Training

  • Andy returns from anger management.

Women's Appreciation

  • Jan is controlling and demeaning in her relationship with Michael.
  • Michael is unhappy with the relationship and is convinced to break up with Jan.

Beach Games

  • Michael, Jim and Karen all apply for a new opening at Corporate headquarters.
  • Pam tells Jim in front of the entire office that she misses his friendship.

The Job

  • Jan wins Michael back with the help of breast augmentation surgery but at the cost of her job.
  • Jim turns down the job, returns to Scranton, and asks Pam on a date. (She accepts.)
  • The job goes to Ryan, who breaks up with Kelly on the spot.

Season 4

In 25 words or less: Office relationships are sent on a roller coaster ride as Jim and Pam finally get together.

Fun Run

  • The documentary crew discover Pam and Jim are dating.
  • Karen has left the office.
  • Dwight kills Angela's cat, severely damaging the relationship.

Dunder Mifflin Infinity

  • Ryan announces a new website and business model for the company.
  • Jim and Pam officially reveal to the office that they are dating.
  • Angela breaks up with Dwight.

Launch Party

  • A relationship between Kelly and Darryl is hinted.
  • Andy begins to woo Angela.
  • The first time Michael asks Jim and Pam for dinner.

Money

  • Angela allows Andy to ask her out.
  • Darryl and Kelly are in a relationship.
  • Dwight gets over his break-up with Angela.

The Deposition

  • Jan sues Dunder Mifflin for wrongful termination.
  • Michael turns against Jan in the case, evidently straining the relationship.

Dinner Party

  • Jan and Michael's relationship hits a brick wall.

Chair Model

  • Michael breaks up with Jan and tries to find love again.
  • Jim reveals that he plans to propose to Pam.

Night Out

  • Ryan has a drug problem.
  • Dunder Mifflin Infinity is in trouble.
  • Toby tries to hit on Pam, then announces he's moving to Costa Rica.
  • The first instance in which Michael forgets that Jim and Pam are still dating.

Did I Stutter?

  • Ryan actively plots against Jim.

Goodbye, Toby

  • Toby leaves the office for good.
  • Andy proposes to Angela, who reluctantly accepts.
  • Phyllis discovers Dwight and Angela having sex in the office.
  • Ryan is arrest for fraud.
  • Jan is pregnant, but not with Michael's baby. He does offer to help raise it.

Season 5

Weight Loss

  • Jim finally proposes to Pam and she accepts.

Frame Toby

  • Toby returns.

Stress Relief

  • Michael learns how much his co-workers hate him.