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{{Office episode
 
| Title = The Job
 
| Title = The Job
| Image = [[Image:TheJob.jpg|250px]]
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| Image = The_Job.png
 
| Season = [[Season 3|3]]
 
| Season = [[Season 3|3]]
 
| Episode = 23
 
| Episode = 23
| Code =
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| Code = 3023/3024
 
| Original = May 17, 2007
 
| Original = May 17, 2007
| Writer(s) = [[Paul Lieberstein]] and [[Michael Schur]]
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| Writer(s) = [[Paul Lieberstein]] & [[Michael Schur]]
 
| Director = [[Ken Kwapis]]
 
| Director = [[Ken Kwapis]]
 
| Prev = [[Beach Games]]
 
| Prev = [[Beach Games]]
 
| Next = [[Fun Run]]
 
| Next = [[Fun Run]]
 
}}'''"The Job"''' is the twenty-fourth/twenty-fifth and the final episode of the third season of ''[[The Office (US)|The Office]]'', as well as the 52nd/53rd episode overall. It was written by [[Paul Lieberstein]] and [[Michael Schur]] and directed by [[Ken Kwapis]]. It first aired on May 17, 2007, and was an hour-long episode. It was viewed by 7.9 million people.
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'''"The Job"''' is the twenty-third episode of the third season of ''[[The Office (US)|The Office]]''. It was written by [[Paul Lieberstein]] and [[Michael Schur]] and directed by [[Ken Kwapis]]. It first aired on May 17, 2007 and was an hour-long episode.
 
   
==Synopsis==
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==Plot==
[[Michael Scott|Michael]] is overconfident that he will be getting the corporate job. He has sold his condo on [[Wikipedia:eBay|eBay]] and names [[Dwight Schrute|Dwight]] as his successor as Regional Manager. Back in Scranton, [[Oscar Martinez|Oscar]], [[Kelly Kapoor|Kelly]] and [[Stanley Hudson|Stanley]] poke fun at [[Pam Beesly|Pam]]'s speech at the beach (in "[[Beach Games]]"), but Pam insists the evening was an important milestone in her life and reveals that she and Jim had privately agreed to try to mend their friendship. Pam explains to Karen that she is not sorry about what she said, but does regret putting Karen in such an awkward position. In an interview, Karen calls Pam "kind of a bitch."
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[[Michael Scott|Michael]] is overconfident that he will be getting the corporate job. He has sold his condo on [[Wikipedia:eBay|eBay]] and names [[Dwight Schrute|Dwight]] as his successor as Regional Manager. Back in Scranton, [[Oscar Martinez|Oscar]], [[Kelly Kapoor|Kelly]], and [[Stanley Hudson|Stanley]] poke fun at [[Pam Beesly|Pam]]'s speech at the beach (in "[[Beach Games]]") ([[Creed Bratton|Creed]] also claims to have documented the speech on the [[Creed Thoughts|website]] he created with [[Ryan Howard|Ryan's]] help, but in a talking head Ryan reveals that the "blog" is actually a Microsoft Word document, as he had been unwilling to expose humanity to the innermost workings of Creed's mind), but Pam insists the evening was an important milestone in her life and reveals that she and Jim had privately agreed to try to mend their friendship. Pam explains to Karen that she is not sorry about what she said, but does regret putting Karen in such an awkward position.
   
In an attempt to win Michael back, [[Jan Levinson|Jan]] arrives at the office telling him that she's been more confident and better than ever after taking a vacation. In a panic, Michael consults the women of the office. Pam tells him to be strong and to not get back together with her. Michael attempts to reject Jan's request, but reverses himself immediately when he sees that Jan had a [[Wikipedia:breast augmentation|breast augmentation]]. Soon after, Jim and Karen leave to spend the night in New York City before their interviews. Karen tells Jim that if either of them gets the job, both should move to New York. She promises to do so, but is met with awkward silence when she asks Jim to reciprocate. Back in Scranton, Dwight begins his new regime, assigning [[Andy Bernard|Andy]] the role of his No. 2. Not surprisingly, Dwight's new motivational style is not popular. He and Andy repaint the walls of Dwight's new office black in order to instill fear.
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In an attempt to win Michael back, [[Jan Levinson|Jan]] arrives at the office telling him that she's been more confident and better than ever after taking a vacation. In a panic, Michael consults the women of the office. Pam tells him to be strong and not get back together with her. Michael attempts to reject Jan's request but reverses himself immediately when he sees that Jan had a [[Wikipedia:breast augmentation|breast augmentation]]. Soon after, Jim and Karen leave to spend the night in New York City before their interviews. Karen tells Jim that if either of them gets the job, both should move to New York. She promises to do so but is met with awkward silence when she asks Jim to reciprocate. Back in Scranton, Dwight begins his new regime, assigning [[Andy Bernard|Andy]] the role of his No. 2. Not surprisingly. Dwight's new motivational tool "[[Schrute Buck]]s" is not popular. He and Andy repaint the walls of Dwight's new office black in order to instill fear.
   
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[[File:SchruteBuck.jpg|thumb|208px|One Schrute Buck]]
During his interview at Corporate, Michael learns from [[Wikipedia:Chief financial officer|CFO]] [[David Wallace|David Wallace]] that he is interviewing for the job currently held by Jan, who will be fired. Michael immediately tells Jan, who storms into Wallace's office while he's interviewing Karen and has an emotional breakdown. Jan refuses to leave, and must be escorted out by security. As Michael leaves, Wallace tells him that he won't be getting the position. While being driven home by Michael, Jan begins to realize that she's ruined her career and ponders making their relationship her "full-time job," much to Michael's visible discomfort.
 
   
 
During his interview at Corporate, Michael learns from [[Wikipedia:Chief financial officer|CFO]] [[David Wallace]] that he is interviewing for the job currently held by Jan, who will be fired. Michael immediately tells Jan, who storms into Wallace's office while he's interviewing Karen and has an emotional breakdown. Jan refuses to leave and must be escorted out by security. As Michael leaves, Wallace tells him that he won't be getting the position. While being driven home by Michael, Jan begins to realize that she's ruined her career and ponders making their relationship her "full-time job," much to Michael's visible discomfort.
Karen leaves to meet friends for lunch, asking Jim to call her when his interview is finished. Jim's interview with David begins very well. When asked for his sales report numbers, Jim discovers Pam had slipped in an encouraging note along with a yogurt lid medal (a reference to a scene from "[[Office Olympics]]"). Jim, visibly distracted, stumbles through the rest of the interview until Wallace asks him where Jim thinks he will be in ten years. The scene flashes back to Jim and Pam's talk after her confession on the beach. He tells her why he left and how he feels that he has never really come back. She tells him that she wishes that he would. After the interview, Jim drives back to Scranton without Karen.
 
   
 
Karen leaves to meet friends for lunch, asking Jim to call her when his interview is finished. Jim's interview with David begins very well. When asked for his sales report numbers, Jim discovers Pam had slipped in an encouraging note along with a yogurt lid medal (a reference to a scene from "[[Office Olympics]]"). Jim, visibly distracted, stumbles through the rest of the interview until Wallace asks him where Jim thinks he will be in ten years. The scene flashes back to Jim and Pam's talk after her confession on the beach. He tells her why he left and how he feels that he has never really come back. She tells him that she wishes that he would. After the interview, Jim drives back to Scranton without Karen.
In her interview, Pam says she is convinced Jim will be hired in New York. She reaffirms that she is fine with the way things worked out with her and Jim, and that they just "never got the timing right." Her interview is interrupted when Jim bursts in and asks her if she is available that evening for dinner. Pam, who is caught completely off-guard, answers, "Yes." Jim replies, "All right, then it's a date," and leaves just as quickly as he arrived. Pam smiles with tears in her eyes.
 
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In her interview, Pam says she is convinced Jim will be hired in New York. She reaffirms that she is fine with the way things worked out with her and Jim and that they just "never got the timing right." Her interview is interrupted when Jim bursts in and asks her if she is available that evening for dinner. Pam, who is caught completely off-guard, answers, "Yes." Jim replies, "All right, then it's a date," and leaves just as quickly as he arrived. Pam smiles with tears in her eyes.
   
 
The episode and season end with Wallace offering the job over the phone to [[Ryan Howard|Ryan]], despite the fact that in the previous episode "[[Business School]]" Michael said that Ryan had never made a sale. Wallace indicates that Ryan's [[Wikipedia:Master of Business Administration|MBA]] was a key factor. A gleeful Ryan accepts and says without missing a beat to a nosy [[Kelly Kapoor|Kelly]]: "You and I are done."
 
The episode and season end with Wallace offering the job over the phone to [[Ryan Howard|Ryan]], despite the fact that in the previous episode "[[Business School]]" Michael said that Ryan had never made a sale. Wallace indicates that Ryan's [[Wikipedia:Master of Business Administration|MBA]] was a key factor. A gleeful Ryan accepts and says without missing a beat to a nosy [[Kelly Kapoor|Kelly]]: "You and I are done."
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==Deleted scenes==
 
==Deleted scenes==
 
*Michael takes photographs of the office as mementos. Inspired by Pam's speech in "Beach Games", Michael tells Toby that he hates him and then exults at how good it feels to 'get that off (his) chest'. Toby barely reacts to this news. As Michael leaves for his interview, Toby wishes him good luck and Michael snarls at Toby for jinxing him, adding that everyone in the office hates Toby as much as he does, to no response from anyone else.
 
*Michael takes photographs of the office as mementos. Inspired by Pam's speech in "Beach Games", Michael tells Toby that he hates him and then exults at how good it feels to 'get that off (his) chest'. Toby barely reacts to this news. As Michael leaves for his interview, Toby wishes him good luck and Michael snarls at Toby for jinxing him, adding that everyone in the office hates Toby as much as he does, to no response from anyone else.
*Ryan chuckles at a fax he receives. When Pam asks him what the fax said, he grins and says he'll tell her if she'll promise not to make a speech about it to everyone in two years (describing Pam's speech at the end of "[[Beach Games]]") and Pam grins good-naturedly. Meanwhile, Kevin continues comparing Pam and Karen.
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*Ryan chuckles at a fax he receives. When Pam asks him what the fax said, he grins and says he'll tell her if she'll promise not to make a speech about it to everyone in two years (alluding to Pam's speech at the end of "[[Beach Games]]") and Pam grins good-naturedly. Meanwhile, Kevin continues comparing Pam and Karen.
 
*Michael bids a confused farewell to the accounting department.
 
*Michael bids a confused farewell to the accounting department.
 
*Dwight caresses his new office. Michael asks him not to change anything for one month to allow the staff to grieve.
 
*Dwight caresses his new office. Michael asks him not to change anything for one month to allow the staff to grieve.
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*Several of the office workers talk about who will get the Corporate job, and Kevin is insistent that Karen will be the winner. In a talking head interview, Kevin says that he bet a friend at the Albany branch one month's salary that Karen would get the job, and realizes that he might have a gambling addiction.
 
*Several of the office workers talk about who will get the Corporate job, and Kevin is insistent that Karen will be the winner. In a talking head interview, Kevin says that he bet a friend at the Albany branch one month's salary that Karen would get the job, and realizes that he might have a gambling addiction.
 
*Additional scenes from Dwight's conference room presentation.
 
*Additional scenes from Dwight's conference room presentation.
*Creed produces $2.1 million in counterfeit Schrute Bucks and demands that they be converted to their cash equivalent.
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*Creed produces $2.1 million in counterfeit [[Schrute Buck]]s and demands that they be converted to their cash equivalent.
 
*In a talking head interview, Dwight discusses how he can't pal around with his colleagues now that he is the boss.
 
*In a talking head interview, Dwight discusses how he can't pal around with his colleagues now that he is the boss.
 
*Dwight and Andy paint Dwight's office.
 
*Dwight and Andy paint Dwight's office.
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==Cultural References==
 
==Cultural References==
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*Michael says, ''No further questions'' to David Wallace, jokingly using a phrase conventionally used by lawyers in the United States to indicate to the judge that they are finished eliciting testimony from a witness.
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*Michael's note for Dwight calls him an ''A-wipe'', abbreviating the vulgar word ''ass''. To ''screw the pooch'' is an off-color way of saying ''to mess up something''.
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*Michael sold his condo on ''[[Wikipedia:eBay|eBay]]'', an online auction site.
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*Dwight's ideal choice for his Number Two is ''[[Wikipedia:Jack Bauer|Jack Bauer]]'', the fictional government agent in the television suspense series ''[[Wikipedia:24 (TV series)|24]]''.
 
*''[[wikipedia:DEFCON|DEFCON]]'' is a measure of the activation and readiness level of the United States Armed Forces. However, readiness increases as the scale decreases; DEFCON 1 is maximum readiness.
 
*''[[wikipedia:DEFCON|DEFCON]]'' is a measure of the activation and readiness level of the United States Armed Forces. However, readiness increases as the scale decreases; DEFCON 1 is maximum readiness.
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*Michael says ''Houston, we have a problem'', a common misquote of the message "Houston, we've had a problem" sent from [[Wikipedia:Apollo 13|Apollo 13]] after an oxygen tank ruptured.
*The cash value of a SchruteBuck is 1/100 of a cent. Some states require that coupons be assigned a cash value. Manufacturers set the value high enough to be legal but low enough that nobody will actually attempt to redeem them for cash.[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_329c.html] Creed attempts to redeem SchruteBucks for cash in a deleted scene.
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Swing Low, Sweet Chariot|"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"]] is a Negro spiritual.
*Michael says "I'm baaaack, for gooood!" and erroneously attributes it to [[Wikipedia:Kevin Nealon|Kevin Nealon]]. In the "Hans and Franz" series of skits on ''[[Wikipedia:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]]'', Nealon portrayed Hans, one of the two Austrian bodybuilders. The characters were spoofs of former bodybuilder [[Wikipedia:Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. The line "I'll be back" is properly attributed to Schwarzenegger's character in the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Terminator 2|Terminator 2]]''.
 
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*Andy brags, ''Saving the best for first,'' turning around the idiom "Saving the best for last."
 
*The cash value of a [[Schrute Buck]] is 1/100 of a cent. Some states require that coupons be assigned a cash value. Manufacturers set the value high enough to be legal but low enough that nobody will actually attempt to redeem them for cash.[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_329c.html] Creed attempts to redeem [[Schrute Buck]]s for cash in a deleted scene.
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*When Dwight and Andy are painting Michael's office, Dwight says "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." referencing Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'', specifically ''Inferno'' in which the phrase is inscripted on the gates of Hell.
 
*Michael says "I'm baaaack, for gooood!" and erroneously attributes it to [[Wikipedia:Kevin Nealon|Kevin Nealon]]. In the "Hans and Franz" series of skits on ''[[Wikipedia:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]]'', Nealon portrayed Hans, one of the two Austrian bodybuilders. The characters were spoofs of former bodybuilder [[Wikipedia:Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. The line "I'll be back" is properly attributed to Schwarzenegger's character in the movies ''The Terminator'' and ''Terminator 2''.
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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*In Creed's blog, he uses commas as apostrophes.
*Michael's potential roommate in Queens is named Vijay Chokalingam, a nod to [[Mindy Kaling]]'s older brother.
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*In a deleted scene, Michael says his potential roommate in Queens is named Vijay Chokalingam, a nod to [[Mindy Kaling]]'s older brother.
 
*Jim and Karen have dinner at [http://www.thespottedpig.com/ The Spotted Pig] in New York City.
 
*Jim and Karen have dinner at [http://www.thespottedpig.com/ The Spotted Pig] in New York City.
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*According to the DVD commentary, the episode was originally supposed to begin with the Pam/Jim beach flashback, but the scene was moved till near the end mainly because, given how happy and right for each other Jim and Karen appeared to be in the NYC sequence, it was important to show just how deep his feelings for Pam were when he realizes where he truly belongs.
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*This is the first time someone other than Michael has a word "bleeped".
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*Wallace dislikes his HR representative, paralleling Michael's hatred of Toby.
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*When Jim pulls out his quarterly numbers, he finds a note Pam left him as well as a gold yogurt lid from "[[Office Olympics]]."
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*Wallace states that Michael lost no clients after the merger but did reduce the budget. The budget reduction can be explained by the loss of three people from the Stamford branch after the merger.
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*After Dwight informs Angela about his promotion and leaves the room, Angela says to herself, "Goodbye, Kelly Kapoor." Angela's disdain for Kelly goes back to "[[Christmas Party]]" when Kelly got drunk at the Christmas Party. Another reason for Angela's dislike of Kelly could include a conversation in "[[Initiation]]" when Kelly told Angela that Dwight was a freak, and Kelly is very talkative and flashy.
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*Also, in "[[Initiation]]" Michael uses ''The Terminator'' line, 'I'll be back'.
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*At the end of the episode, Michael tells the staff that he will "never, ever" leave the office, however, he does so when he moves to Colorado with his fiancée [[Holly Flax]] in "[[Goodbye, Michael]]."
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* With the start of Pam and Jim's relationship at the end of this episode, all of Jim's relationships over the course of the show began in a Dunder Mifflin office; [[Katy]] in "[[Hot Girl]]" through "[[Booze Cruise]];" [[Karen Filippelli]] in "[[The Merger]]" through "The Job;" and [[Pam Halpert]] in "The Job" through forever.
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*"The Job" has a double meaning. One is the job that Karen, Jim, and Michael interview for at corporate, and the other is Jan's breast enhancement, often called a "boob job."
   
 
==Cast==
 
==Cast==
 
===Main Cast===
 
===Main Cast===
 
*[[Steve Carell]] as [[Michael Scott]]
 
*[[Steve Carell]] as [[Michael Scott]]
 
*[[Rainn Wilson]] as [[Dwight Schrute]]
 
*[[John Krasinski]] as [[Jim Halpert]]
 
*[[John Krasinski]] as [[Jim Halpert]]
 
*[[Jenna Fischer]] as [[Pam Beesly]]
 
*[[Jenna Fischer]] as [[Pam Beesly]]
*[[Rainn Wilson]] as [[Dwight Schrute]]
 
 
*[[B.J. Novak]] as [[Ryan Howard]]
 
*[[B.J. Novak]] as [[Ryan Howard]]
   
 
===Supporting Cast===
 
===Supporting Cast===
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*[[Melora Hardin]] as [[Jan Levenson]]
 
*[[Ed Helms]] as [[Andy Bernard]]
 
*[[Leslie David Baker]] as [[Stanley Hudson]]
 
*[[Leslie David Baker]] as [[Stanley Hudson]]
 
*[[Brian Baumgartner]] as [[Kevin Malone]]
 
*[[Brian Baumgartner]] as [[Kevin Malone]]
 
*[[Kate Flannery]] as [[Meredith Palmer]]
 
*[[Kate Flannery]] as [[Meredith Palmer]]
*[[Ed Helms]] as [[Andy Bernard]]
 
 
*[[Mindy Kaling]] as [[Kelly Kapoor]]
 
*[[Mindy Kaling]] as [[Kelly Kapoor]]
 
*[[Angela Kinsey]] as [[Angela Martin]]
 
*[[Angela Kinsey]] as [[Angela Martin]]
 
*[[Paul Lieberstein]] as [[Toby Flenderson]]
 
*[[Paul Lieberstein]] as [[Toby Flenderson]]
 
*[[Oscar Nunez]] as [[Oscar Martinez]]
 
*[[Oscar Nunez]] as [[Oscar Martinez]]
*[[Phyllis Smith]] as [[Phyllis Lapin]]
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*[[Phyllis Smith]] as [[Phyllis Vance]]
   
 
===Recurring Cast===
 
===Recurring Cast===
 
*[[Rashida Jones]] as [[Karen Filippelli]]
 
*[[Creed Bratton (actor)]] as [[Creed Bratton]]
 
*[[Creed Bratton (actor)]] as [[Creed Bratton]]
 
*[[Andy Buckley]] as [[David Wallace]]
 
*[[Andy Buckley]] as [[David Wallace]]
 
*[[Nicholas D'Agosto]] as [[Hunter]]
 
*[[Nicholas D'Agosto]] as [[Hunter]]
*[[Rashida Jones]] as [[Karen Filippelli]]
 
   
 
===Guest Cast===
 
===Guest Cast===
*[[Vivianne Collins]] as [[Grace]]
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*Vivianne Collins as [[Grace]]
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Revision as of 10:05, 26 May 2020

"The Job" is the twenty-fourth/twenty-fifth and the final episode of the third season of The Office, as well as the 52nd/53rd episode overall. It was written by Paul Lieberstein and Michael Schur and directed by Ken Kwapis. It first aired on May 17, 2007, and was an hour-long episode. It was viewed by 7.9 million people.

Plot

Michael is overconfident that he will be getting the corporate job. He has sold his condo on eBay and names Dwight as his successor as Regional Manager. Back in Scranton, Oscar, Kelly, and Stanley poke fun at Pam's speech at the beach (in "Beach Games") (Creed also claims to have documented the speech on the website he created with Ryan's help, but in a talking head Ryan reveals that the "blog" is actually a Microsoft Word document, as he had been unwilling to expose humanity to the innermost workings of Creed's mind), but Pam insists the evening was an important milestone in her life and reveals that she and Jim had privately agreed to try to mend their friendship. Pam explains to Karen that she is not sorry about what she said, but does regret putting Karen in such an awkward position.

In an attempt to win Michael back, Jan arrives at the office telling him that she's been more confident and better than ever after taking a vacation. In a panic, Michael consults the women of the office. Pam tells him to be strong and not get back together with her. Michael attempts to reject Jan's request but reverses himself immediately when he sees that Jan had a breast augmentation. Soon after, Jim and Karen leave to spend the night in New York City before their interviews. Karen tells Jim that if either of them gets the job, both should move to New York. She promises to do so but is met with awkward silence when she asks Jim to reciprocate. Back in Scranton, Dwight begins his new regime, assigning Andy the role of his No. 2. Not surprisingly. Dwight's new motivational tool "Schrute Bucks" is not popular. He and Andy repaint the walls of Dwight's new office black in order to instill fear.

SchruteBuck

One Schrute Buck

During his interview at Corporate, Michael learns from CFO David Wallace that he is interviewing for the job currently held by Jan, who will be fired. Michael immediately tells Jan, who storms into Wallace's office while he's interviewing Karen and has an emotional breakdown. Jan refuses to leave and must be escorted out by security. As Michael leaves, Wallace tells him that he won't be getting the position. While being driven home by Michael, Jan begins to realize that she's ruined her career and ponders making their relationship her "full-time job," much to Michael's visible discomfort.

Karen leaves to meet friends for lunch, asking Jim to call her when his interview is finished. Jim's interview with David begins very well. When asked for his sales report numbers, Jim discovers Pam had slipped in an encouraging note along with a yogurt lid medal (a reference to a scene from "Office Olympics"). Jim, visibly distracted, stumbles through the rest of the interview until Wallace asks him where Jim thinks he will be in ten years. The scene flashes back to Jim and Pam's talk after her confession on the beach. He tells her why he left and how he feels that he has never really come back. She tells him that she wishes that he would. After the interview, Jim drives back to Scranton without Karen.

In her interview, Pam says she is convinced Jim will be hired in New York. She reaffirms that she is fine with the way things worked out with her and Jim and that they just "never got the timing right." Her interview is interrupted when Jim bursts in and asks her if she is available that evening for dinner. Pam, who is caught completely off-guard, answers, "Yes." Jim replies, "All right, then it's a date," and leaves just as quickly as he arrived. Pam smiles with tears in her eyes.

The episode and season end with Wallace offering the job over the phone to Ryan, despite the fact that in the previous episode "Business School" Michael said that Ryan had never made a sale. Wallace indicates that Ryan's MBA was a key factor. A gleeful Ryan accepts and says without missing a beat to a nosy Kelly: "You and I are done."

Deleted scenes

  • Michael takes photographs of the office as mementos. Inspired by Pam's speech in "Beach Games", Michael tells Toby that he hates him and then exults at how good it feels to 'get that off (his) chest'. Toby barely reacts to this news. As Michael leaves for his interview, Toby wishes him good luck and Michael snarls at Toby for jinxing him, adding that everyone in the office hates Toby as much as he does, to no response from anyone else.
  • Ryan chuckles at a fax he receives. When Pam asks him what the fax said, he grins and says he'll tell her if she'll promise not to make a speech about it to everyone in two years (alluding to Pam's speech at the end of "Beach Games") and Pam grins good-naturedly. Meanwhile, Kevin continues comparing Pam and Karen.
  • Michael bids a confused farewell to the accounting department.
  • Dwight caresses his new office. Michael asks him not to change anything for one month to allow the staff to grieve.
  • Michael finds an apartment in Jamaica, Queens, on his transit line's very last stop, where he will room with Vijay Chokalingham and live directly over an Indian restaurant.
  • Additional scenes from Andy's interview with Dwight. Andy says, among other things, that "Eli Edison" invented the cotton mill and goes through a several step description of how to do an emergency appendectomy.
  • Extension of Andy's "my brain" talking head interview.
  • In a talking head interview in his new office, Dwight describes his management style.
  • Extension of Pam's "Absolutely I do."
  • Kelly gives Pam erroneous advice about Jim's feelings for her, telling Pam that "he's just not that into you." In a talking head interview, Pam realizes that she and Kelly have nothing in common.
  • Michael answers the interview question, "Where do you see yourself in ten years?"
  • Dwight sits behind his new desk, and Angela tells him he looks "like Sean Hannity."
  • Several of the office workers talk about who will get the Corporate job, and Kevin is insistent that Karen will be the winner. In a talking head interview, Kevin says that he bet a friend at the Albany branch one month's salary that Karen would get the job, and realizes that he might have a gambling addiction.
  • Additional scenes from Dwight's conference room presentation.
  • Creed produces $2.1 million in counterfeit Schrute Bucks and demands that they be converted to their cash equivalent.
  • In a talking head interview, Dwight discusses how he can't pal around with his colleagues now that he is the boss.
  • Dwight and Andy paint Dwight's office.
  • Additional footage of Michael's face-saving speech when he returns to Scranton.
  • In a talking head interview, Dwight reflects on his one-day reign as regional manager.
  • Stanley tells Michael he never thought he'd say this, but he's glad Michael is back. Michael opens his arms to offer Stanley a hug, but Stanley just looks at him and then walks back to his desk.
  • As Michael settles back into his office, he talks about how he loves Scranton, then mentions Jan is moving in with him the next day. Jan gives specific orders to the movers while Michael watches her with abject horror.

Cultural References

  • Michael says, No further questions to David Wallace, jokingly using a phrase conventionally used by lawyers in the United States to indicate to the judge that they are finished eliciting testimony from a witness.
  • Michael's note for Dwight calls him an A-wipe, abbreviating the vulgar word ass. To screw the pooch is an off-color way of saying to mess up something.
  • Michael sold his condo on eBay, an online auction site.
  • Dwight's ideal choice for his Number Two is Jack Bauer, the fictional government agent in the television suspense series 24.
  • DEFCON is a measure of the activation and readiness level of the United States Armed Forces. However, readiness increases as the scale decreases; DEFCON 1 is maximum readiness.
  • Michael says Houston, we have a problem, a common misquote of the message "Houston, we've had a problem" sent from Apollo 13 after an oxygen tank ruptured.
  • "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a Negro spiritual.
  • Andy brags, Saving the best for first, turning around the idiom "Saving the best for last."
  • The cash value of a Schrute Buck is 1/100 of a cent. Some states require that coupons be assigned a cash value. Manufacturers set the value high enough to be legal but low enough that nobody will actually attempt to redeem them for cash.[1] Creed attempts to redeem Schrute Bucks for cash in a deleted scene.
  • When Dwight and Andy are painting Michael's office, Dwight says "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." referencing Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, specifically Inferno in which the phrase is inscripted on the gates of Hell.
  • Michael says "I'm baaaack, for gooood!" and erroneously attributes it to Kevin Nealon. In the "Hans and Franz" series of skits on Saturday Night Live, Nealon portrayed Hans, one of the two Austrian bodybuilders. The characters were spoofs of former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. The line "I'll be back" is properly attributed to Schwarzenegger's character in the movies The Terminator and Terminator 2.

Trivia

  • In Creed's blog, he uses commas as apostrophes.
  • In a deleted scene, Michael says his potential roommate in Queens is named Vijay Chokalingam, a nod to Mindy Kaling's older brother.
  • Jim and Karen have dinner at The Spotted Pig in New York City.
  • According to the DVD commentary, the episode was originally supposed to begin with the Pam/Jim beach flashback, but the scene was moved till near the end mainly because, given how happy and right for each other Jim and Karen appeared to be in the NYC sequence, it was important to show just how deep his feelings for Pam were when he realizes where he truly belongs.
  • This is the first time someone other than Michael has a word "bleeped".
  • Wallace dislikes his HR representative, paralleling Michael's hatred of Toby.
  • When Jim pulls out his quarterly numbers, he finds a note Pam left him as well as a gold yogurt lid from "Office Olympics."
  • Wallace states that Michael lost no clients after the merger but did reduce the budget. The budget reduction can be explained by the loss of three people from the Stamford branch after the merger.
  • After Dwight informs Angela about his promotion and leaves the room, Angela says to herself, "Goodbye, Kelly Kapoor." Angela's disdain for Kelly goes back to "Christmas Party" when Kelly got drunk at the Christmas Party. Another reason for Angela's dislike of Kelly could include a conversation in "Initiation" when Kelly told Angela that Dwight was a freak, and Kelly is very talkative and flashy.
  • Also, in "Initiation" Michael uses The Terminator line, 'I'll be back'.
  • At the end of the episode, Michael tells the staff that he will "never, ever" leave the office, however, he does so when he moves to Colorado with his fiancée Holly Flax in "Goodbye, Michael."
  • With the start of Pam and Jim's relationship at the end of this episode, all of Jim's relationships over the course of the show began in a Dunder Mifflin office; Katy in "Hot Girl" through "Booze Cruise;" Karen Filippelli in "The Merger" through "The Job;" and Pam Halpert in "The Job" through forever.
  • "The Job" has a double meaning. One is the job that Karen, Jim, and Michael interview for at corporate, and the other is Jan's breast enhancement, often called a "boob job."

Cast

Main Cast

Supporting Cast

Recurring Cast

Guest Cast

  • Vivianne Collins as Grace