A Glance At The Television Program The Office

Most likely a majority of people in the United States at this point have seen at

least one episode or part of an episode of the popular NBC television show The Office, that's how popular the show has become in recent years. Some of the shows catchphrases have even come into the mainstream lingo, with lots of young people all over the country using boss Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, famous phrase "that's what she said". The program has had episodes revolving around all kinds of topics, many of which ring true to people in the world of business for real. One such episode that may hit home to business employees, is the two part episode where the members of the office have to compete against other branches to lose weight, which of course includes standing on weighing scales certainly not a gram scale.

There are many other plotlines on the weight loss episode and one of them includes Jim, the office jokester who is constantly playing pranks on his rival Dwight, being upset that his girlfriend and company receptionist Pam is off in New York. In a previous episode, Pam had decided to go to New York City to go to art school, which was a fascination that the character had held and not explored in previous seasons when she was with her old fianc Roy.

Most of the episode depicts the employees strenuously attempting to shed weight so that they can get extra days off offered as a prize. However, somebody brings down the teams effort by over eating, something that happens at all the other branches too. In an effort to make the contest more appealing, corporate decides to increase the days off being offered as part of the prize, which results in one of the characters on the show saying that maybe if they all stay fat for long enough they can get an entire month off.

Another humorous subplot of the episode sees office weirdo Dwight attempting to get the more husky members of the office to lose weight forcefully. Dwight tells Phyllis, a more rotund member of the staff, that there is a sale that he needs help with and offers to split commission with her. As it really happens, Dwight drives Phyllis to a remote destination about five miles away from the office and pushes her out of the car and then drives away, thus forcing Phyllis to walk back and lose weight.

At the end of the second part of the segment something that viewers had been waiting for a while to see happens when Jim finally proposes to his girlfriend Pam. At the very end, after attempting to turn up the heat in the office and sweat off the weight they need to win, the group weighs in and finds out they didn't win the competition and were beaten only by a few pounds. The episode finishes when the only black man in the office, Stanley, describes how he's had a great summer anyway and the final shot is of him doing a pose with one fist in the air on the scale like that at the 1968 Olympic Games.

by: Connor Sullivan

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