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The Office (USA)/Performance Review
| Performance Review | |
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| Season 2, Episode 8 | |
| Airdate | November 15, 2005 |
| Production Number | 2009 |
| Written by | Larry Wilmore |
| Directed by | Paul Feig |
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| ← 2x07 The Client |
2x09 → E-mail Surveillance |
| The Office — Season Two | |
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Performance Review is the eighth episode of the second season of The Office, and the fourteenth episode overall.
Starring: Steve Carell (Michael Scott), Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute), John Krasinski (Jim Halpert), Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly), B.J. Novak (Ryan Howard)
Guest Starring: Melora Hardin (Jan), Leslie David Baker (Stanley Hudson), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone), Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer), Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor), Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin), Paul Lieberstein (Toby Flenderson), Oscar Nunez (Oscar Martinez), Phyllis Smith (Phyllis Lapin)
Co-Starring: Creed Bratton (Creed Bratton)
Contents |
Plot Overview
Yearly performance reviews for the staff are the primary focus. Jan Levinson is going to come to the office to review Michael, causing him to speculate as to what her intentions are. Asking Pam for advice, she is flustered into suggesting that Jan is interested in him to avoid a negative performance review. Jan comes to the office causing much speculation among the staff and an embarrassing reading of the suggestion box entries that have sat unread for over six years.
Dwight mistakenly thinks that the day is Friday when it is instead Thursday. With the help of Jim and Pam, who reinforce the idea that it is Friday, he doesn't come into work the next day ruining his perfect attendance record.
Notes
- Michael gives Stanley an excellent performance review based on his skill in reading into Jan's phone message while both Dwight and Angela get satisfactory results.
Arc Advancement
Happenings
Characters
- Dwight gets drunk with his laser tag team on Wednesdays. His motivating song he plays while preparing to present his justifications for a raise is Mötley Crüe's Wild Side.
Referbacks
- Jan and Michael's rendezvous in "The Client" is continually and painfully referenced throughout the episode.
Trivia
The Show
Behind the Scenes
Allusions and References
Memorable Moments
Quotes
- Stanley: Sometimes women say more in their pauses than they say in their words.
- Michael: Really?
- Stanley: Oh yes. Let's listen to it again, but this time really listen to the pauses
- Michael: God Stanley, that's frickin' brilliant. How do you know that? Did you learn that on the streets? ...Sorry.
- Stanley: No, that's ok. I did learn that on the streets. In the ghetto in fact.
- Michael: No kidding.
- Stanley: (later, in a camera interview) It's all about my bonus.
- Jan: Please don't smell me Michael.
- Michael: (pulling from the suggestion box) Next suggestion.
- Dwight: Next suggestion.
- Michael: Don't s...Ok, that's is blank. Don't...
- Dwight: Don't sleep with your boss. Do you think is referring to you boning Jan?
- Dwight: Michael...I'm sorry, I'm interrupting. Were you two making out?
- Dwight: (going over his justifications for getting a raise) I've even come in on holidays.
- Michael: You do? How do you get in?
- Dwight: I have a copy of your key.
- Jan: That's a serious offense!
- Michael: That is a serious offense. Very serious. As is toying with a man's heart.
