Dunder Mifflin Infinity
Season 4 Episode 3-4 (hour long)
Airdate: October 4, 2007
Writer: Michael Schur
Synopsis: New boss Ryan returns to try to bring the Scranton branch into the digital age with a fancy new website, but Michael resists and tries to win back customers with some old tactics. Dwight tries to console Angela over her dead cat.
1. Supplemental Materials
Pam Pong Scorecard, Read the transcript at OfficeQuotes.net
2. Quick Recap
Cold Opener: Toby accidently “outs” Jim and Pam as a couple. “Guess who just became the best looking single guy in the office?” Andy says, with a smirk.
The Topic: New boss Ryan wants to streamline Dunder Mifflin, starting with a new website. Michael goes on a rather futile quest to win back customers with gift baskets. To make a point about technology, he takes his GPS directions literally and drives his car into an effin’ lake.
Meanwhile: Angela is beyond upset over Sprinkles, and Dwight does everything he can think of to make it up to Angela . . . other than actually apologizing. But it’s too little too late for Angela as she breaks up with Dwight.
Fancy New Howard: Ryan’s got a new haircut, new Blackberry, and a new New York businessman attitude. But that doesn’t stop him from flipping out when Kelly tells him she’s pregnant (don’t worry, she’s not).
Splashframes: Ryan asks Pam to brainstorm some logos for the website. Impressed with her work (or maybe just trying to rebound after Kelly’s pregnancy scare) Ryan asks Pam out, and is beyond embarrassed when Pam tells him she’s with Jim. Sorry, Ryan, you’ll always be just “The Temp” in Scranton.
Michael Scott Words of Wisdom: “People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections.”
3. Flonkerton’s Favorite Quotes
Pam: Phone’s ringing. [goes back toward desk]
Michael: No, no, no Pam let ‘em ring. Let the bells of Dunder Mifflin chime out your love. Because this is really good, this is really good. My heart soars with the eagles nest.
Dwight TH: I don’t see it. I think they both could do better.
Angela TH: It’s not a surprise to me. Pam is the office mattress.
Andy TH: Jim Halpert’s off the market. Guess who just became the best looking single guy in the office?
Michael: Hey. Can you make that straighter? That’s what she said.
Phyllis: Did you plan that?
Michael: No. [Pam paper from Michael]
Pam: [reading] “Can you make that straighter? That job looks hard. You should put your mouth on that.” How can you even use that one naturally?
Michael: Pam and Jim are together. Ryan is visiting. Only thing that could make this day better is ice cream.
Angela: I don’t want Garbage! I want Sprinkles!
Jim: Swore I wouldn’t tell anyone this, but in the interest of revealing secrets. Oh my God, this will make your brain explode. Umm, Dwight and Angela dating. Have been for six months.
Pam: No..
Jim: Swear to God. Aww this is great. I was actually gonna wait and tell you on your birthday, but this is much more fun.
Pam: No, they have been dating for like two years. Since before your barbecue.
Jim: Wait. What? You knew? And you didn’t say anything?
Pam: You didn’t say anything to me.
Jim: Fair enough. Wow! We should have started dating like a long time ago.
Phyllis: Hey Pam, by the way, it’s great that you’re dating. But when a new client calls, you just have to randomly assign them to a sales person. You can’t base who gets new clients on who you’re sleeping with that week, OK?
Jim TH: And… that is why we waited so long to tell people.
Michael: We had a foreign exchange student live with us when I was young. And we called him my brother. And that’s who I thought he was. Um, then he went home to what is now formerly Yugoslavia, taking all of my blue jeans with him. And I had to spend the entire winter in shorts. That is what Ryan is like. A fake brother who steals your jeans.
Kelly: Well, I hope you’re still committed because I’m pregnant.
Kelly TH: [shaking head]
Kelly: And guess what buddy, I am keeping it.
Ryan: OK. OK.
Kelly: Do you feel prepared to help me raise a baby?
Ryan: I can… I can’t talk about this right now, OK? After work, we’ll go out to dinner, we’ll talk about it then, OK?
Kelly TH: We have a date!
Creed: I’m thirty. Well, in November I’ll be thirty.
Angela: I can’t do this. I can’t be with you. Every time I look in your eyes I see Sprinkles’ stiff lifeless body.
Dwight: Then don’t look in my eyes. Look right here [points to middle of forehead above the eyes], it’s an old sales trick.
Michael: Ryan wants everything in our company to be about emails and IM’s, but I think he’s forgetting about the original instant message. Letters attached to baskets of food.
Michael: Ever since I was a kid people have been telling me I can’t do things. “You can’t be on the team”, “You can’t move on to second grade”. Well, now they’re telling me that I can’t win back clients using old fashioned business methods. We’ll see about that. And FYI, I eventually aced second grade, and I was the biggest kid in class.
Phyllis: How is giving people gift baskets going to get our clients back?
Michael: Gift baskets are amazing, Phyllis. Gift baskets are… the essence of class and fanciness. They are the ultimate present that a person can receive.
Andy: What about cash? With cash you can buy anything you want, including a gift basket, so… it’s kind of the best gift ever.
Jim: What about a gift basket full of cash?
Andy: Yes! Cash basket! Nice work Tuna.
Andy: He smells like what I think Pierce Brosnan probably smells like.
Pam: Yeah, I’m gonna do some mock ups, and then turn those into thumbnails, maybe do some..splash frames. [laughs] I don’t know what I’m talking about but I’m excited.
Jim: I guess he can’t get any girl he wants.
Michael: What’s missing… the turtles. Where are the turtles? Where are the turtles?
Ex-client: Come on guys, get out of here!
Michael: WHERE ARE THE TURTLES? WHERE ARE THEY?
Michael: Ryan thinks that technology is the answer. Well guess what? I just drove my car into a lake.
Oscar: You did what?
Michael: I drove my car into a [bleep]ing lake.
Michael TH: Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.
4. Trivia
- Ryan asking out Pam marks the third time Ryan’s gone after a woman involved with Jim. He asked for Katy’s number in “Email Surveillance” and emailed Karen to ask her out sometime before “Women’s Appreciation.”
- Michael called Johnson’s Towing to pull hi car out of the lake. Johnson’s Towing is a real Scranton company.
- During the conference room scene, Michael reused a picture from “Big” and one of Ben Kingsly. Those pictures were previously used in “The Injury” and “Diwali” respectively.
- When this episode re-aired in two parts, a new cold open was added for Part 2 with Toby kissing his girlfriend at Pam’s desk. There was also a new scene at the end with Ryan trying to explain the “vibe” of living in New York City.
