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The Office
The Chump
Original Air date: May 13, 2010
Shannon – Associate Editor
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Michael is angry about his breakup with Donna and takes it out on the radon testers Toby’s placed in his office. Then he gets the staff invested in a hypothetical case of how they would each kill Toby. Poor Toby.
Pam is running a “Keep Michael Happy” campaign. Everyone needs to be happy, laugh at Michael’s jokes, and do not, under any circumstances empathize with him. Erin brings in a bunch of pints of Eagles themed ice cream for Michael. Pam is usually the one to run the Michael-based operations, but she was up all night with Cece and isn’t at the top of her game. Erin helpfully adds that she probably shouldn’t keep a baby up that late. Thanks, Erin.
So, Michael doesn’t seem all that upset so they think that maybe Michael is still seeing Donna. Pam just outs with it and asks him. He is and Meredith says even she wouldn’t do that. Michael says there’s nothing wrong with it, unless you ask Donna’s husband. Michael is convinced he’s the good guy in the situation because obviously Donna wouldn’t be cheating unless the husband was a creep. Andy goes to reason with him and suggests they go check the husband out. Andy obviously sympathizes with the husband. Been there, done that.
The husband is a high school baseball coach so they go to the game. They watch the game and afterward Andy goes to feel the coach out and see what he’s like. Andy draws Michael over and Michael shakes the coach’s hand and says he feels like James Bond. Andy and Michael come back to the office with the baseball kids’ orange slices. Everyone tells Michael how awful he is for still seeing Donna. Michael just decides that now he’s just going to take whatever he wants when he wants it. Ryan decides that’s a genius idea and tells Erin he wants to have a threesome with her and Kelly. It doesn’t go well.
Angela and Dwight get a mediator to go settle their contract. The mediator decides that the contract is solid and Dwight has to pay Angela $30,000. Dwight won’t pay so Angela has a counter offer. Dwight has to sleep with her 5 times, he agrees, but the mediator says this isn’t legal and it’s borderline prostitution. Dwight decides not to give Angela the choice sperm so he beats himself in the crotch in various ways.
Jim and Pam are both passed out at their desks and Gabe catches them. He asks them into his office and gives them a dressing down for sleeping and then asks them about something incredibly boring that puts them both back to sleep. Jim and Pam argue in front of the snack and soda machines and basically look like they’re about to drop at any second. Darryl sees them and tells them about the secret place in the warehouse where the warehouse staff goes to sleep. They are sworn to secrecy and they agree because they just want to sleep. The bad news is that it’s right outside the place that Dwight and Angela use for their um, contract fulfillment. Jim and Pam look scared and rightfully so as they hear them “negotiating”.
Everyone is treating Michael like a pariah so Michael tells everyone he’s leaving the office to go have sex with Donna in a seedy motel. He doesn’t meet her and instead breaks up with her via text message. He decided he’d rather be able to live with himself than not. Good for you, Michael.
It was nice to see a little of the old Michael in this episode. Michael’s not really stupid, just a little misguided and sad. He’s a good person and it was good to see that bit of him again this week. I’m not sure what’s up with Ryan, though. He’s just weird lately.
Think Angela will have a little Beet Baby? If she does, I don’t know if it’ll be interesting or not. I’m not entirely sure I’d like the show to explore that avenue anyway. What do you think? Leave me a comment!
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