Company Picnic

"Company Picnic" is the twenty-eighth episode of the fifth season of The Office, and the 100th episode overall. It was written by Jennifer Celotta and Paul Lieberstein and directed by Ken Kwapis. It first aired on May 14, 2009. It was viewed by 6.72 million people.
==Cold open==
The Scranton branch office is dimly lit and Erin quietly answers the phone while Michael asleep in his office. Jim then explains that Michael ate a whole family size chicken pot pie for lunch, and has fallen asleep. The employees change the time on all the clocks so that Michael will think it is five o' clock and they can leave for the day. After resetting his computer clock, his watch and the clock in his car, they turn the lights back on and pretend to laugh at a joke, waking him up so he realizes the time. Michael says that they can all go, and they watch Michael drive off before cheering in the parking lot, with Jim and Dwight shooting fingerguns to the camera as they get into their cars.
==Synopsis==
The Scranton branch joins several other branches at the Dunder Mifflin Company Picnic. Dwight and his friend Rolf argue about sunscreen and bug repellent, which Dwight made homemade, because of EPA regulations. Michael sees Holly after Kevin points her out with her boyfriend, A.J.. They hug, and talk to each other. Michael pretends to not remember A.J., however, A.J. remembers him, and says hi.
Michael gets Holly and A.J. drinks, but makes it awkward. Michael explains that he lied to Kevin about how Holly was only his friend, he wants more out of their relationship. Michael continues, and says that he and Holly are soul mates.
Charles Miner continues to belittle Jim, by saying that Jim must be happy to get a rest from all of his rest.
Dwight plans the volleyball game carefully to not repeat what happened last year, when Jim found a supposedly poisonous spider in his glove. When Andy requests being next to Erin to Dwight, Dwight refuses, and puts him next to Phyllis. Meanwhile, Michael asks Holly and A.J. what is happening. He is shocked and sad when Holly tells Michael that they are building a house. Michael says that he is building a pants-chair, and A.J. says that he'll take a pair. When he reveals his size, Michael calls him a fatty, and Holly and Michael begin to prepare their skit, saying that the old comedy team is back together again.
Andy is angry at Erin for missing the volleyball. However, he pretends he was yelling at a guy wearing Ray-Bans, asking him if he is blind. When Kevin misses, Dwight and Andy belittle him to no end. Phyllis, tired, sits down on the ground, and an angry Dwight asks why. The Scranton Branch continues to play, and Ryan misses, however, Dwight finds someone holding the net, so he deducts a point from their team. Dwight tells Pam to serve, who serves well. In a talking head, she reveals that she went to volleyball camp most summers. She wins the game against Albany for the Scranton branch.
Holly and Michael have snacks and plan their skit, which they will wing. They bond once again. Pam continues to do great, but Phyllis quits. Rolf puts Meredith in the game and Angela asks why not her. Rolf explains why and in doing so calls Angela a cheater and tramp, which slightly alarms Dwight. Holly and Michael continue to plan their skit, but can't come up with an idea. As they complete their task, Pam wins another game, and Charles and David watch, saying that corporate will beat them. However, Rolf crudely tells them, "That they'll piss all over your faces," alarming everyone. Kendall and Toby reflect on a previous company picnic.
Holly and Michael finish planning their skit and David introduces them to the whole Dunder Mifflin company. Their skit, which is called Slumdunder Mifflinaire (based on the movie Slumdog Millionaire), starts well. Holly asks Michael questions, and Michael replies in an Indian voice. Holly then pretends to mimic the electrocution scene from the movie. They continue their horrible play, and talk about Robert Mifflin's suicide, and how he killed himself. Many people look at Holly and Michael with disgust. Stanley, surprisingly loves it. Holly and Michael accidentally reveal that the Buffalo branch will be closed down. Michael says that David told him that Buffalo will be closed down. David Wallace reveals it to be true, and he berates Michael and Holly for their performances. Meredith, Oscar, Dwight and Pam confer about their volleyball game and decide to, "kick corporate's ass." Charles continues to make fun of Jim.
Rolf calls Angela a whore, and Dwight angrily tells Rolf to stop which brings a smile to Angela's face. Erin, finally makes a point, yelling, "Booyah!". Pam slips and is supposedly injured. Charles and David, wanting to get the best player off Scranton's team, tells them to go to the hospital. Dwight tells them that there is a hospital around, and Pam tells him that they'll be back. Dwight kicks the ball into the woods, and tries to stall the game.
Holly and Michael talk about their skit, and they are unsure whether it was good or not. Michael has a hard time telling Holly that he loves her and eventually doesn't. At the hospital, a nurse tells Pam that she needs an x-ray and asks if she is pregnant. A.J. tells Holly and Michael that he liked the skit. In a talking head, Michael tells the documentary crew that he believes the relationship between him and Holly will take a long time, but then it will be perfect. He says he is in no rush.
Dwight stalls again to wait for Pam to come back. Jim, at the hospital, tells Dwight that they are hurrying and to buy them a few more minutes.
In the end scene, Jim walks into the X-ray room, and a doctor inaudibly reveals something to Jim and Pam. They are thrilled. Jim, holding back tears, calls Dwight and tells him to send in the subs.
==Deleted scenes==
These are deleted scenes from the Season 5 DVD:
*Meredith greets Stanley and his wife Terri as they arrive at the picnic. Meredith's son Jake calls her "Meredith", not mom, and tells her "up yours." Meredith orders him to stay in the car all day.
*Michael explains that he works all year to go to the company picnic, and that instead of bringing his family, he brings a guy from his condo complex. However, he says, this year he will hang out with people like Dan Gore. And Holly.
*Dwight explains to everyone how to play volleyball. When Dwight tells Jim to put his hands in a triangle position, Jim replies that his hands work on their own, and then slaps Dwight.
*Dwight and Andy tell Utica that they suck, and sing a song, "Ususktika, Usukskita." Jim comes from behind and pinches them, then apologizes to the Utica team.
*On the third touch, Ryan calls "set" and passes the ball to Andy. Andy tries to restrain his anger but gradually explodes as he reminds the others that you can touch the ball only three times. The ball goes to Buffalo, whose serve goes into the net. The Buffalo player (Mark) screams "Who moved?" and calls his teammates idiots. Andy laughs at him, saying, "What's up with that guy?" Jim reminds everyone that they're just here to have fun. Charles taunts Jim that all he knows how to do is have fun, even when he's supposed to be working. Jim confers with Pam, who suggests that he just release his frustration by playing better. Jim says, "I really don't have the skills for that," and Pam gives Jim some advanced volleyball advice.
*David Wallace congratulates Jennie Tan for the website. Behind the stage, Michael tells Holly, "I always throw up before I perform, but I don't feel nauseous now." Holly tells him not to worry, because she has a plan for working it into their performance.
*Oscar says that he didn't know about Buffalo, but he assumed the whole company was going under anyway. Also, the head accountant at Buffalo is a real homophobe.
*Kevin serves to Corporate, and each time the opponents are about to touch the ball, Dwight says "Miss it!" The ball heads toward Erin, who misses, and Andy yells at her loudly, but Erin calmly smiles.
*Angela is thrilled that Dwight nodded at her. Angela says that on the inside that she is a soft and warm as porcelain. She apologizes for gushing on about Dwight. "It must be the apple juice talking."
*Stanley relaxes in a folding chair drinking a . As the crowd applaud a point, Creed tells Stanley, "Our friends seem to be happy about something." Stanley tells Creed to move back to where he was, because he was providing shade for Stanley.
*Oscar asks if they can just forfeit because he's hungry. It's match point for Corporate, and Dwight tries to fire up the team, shouting, "I say Dunder, you say Mifflin. Dunder!" But nobody replies. Meredith is confused. "They're Dunder Mifflin too." Dwight tells her, "Just serve the ball, idiot." She throws the ball at the back of Dwight's head, losing the point and ending the match. Everybody is relieved, except for Dwight, who is furious.
Other deleted scenes, not released:
*Beth from Holly's Nashua branch interrupts Michael and Holly brainstorming skit ideas. Beth is the Nashua equivalent of one of the Scranton employees.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 3, page 6. Office Tally blog. June 2, 2009.
*In their sketch, after Robert Milffin (Michael) introduces himself to Robert Dunder (Holly), Robert Dunder asks, "Oh, how do you spell that?" Robert Mifflin answers, "R-O-B-E-R-T." Robert Dunder replies, "Oh, me too!"Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 4, page 2. Office Tally blog. July 13, 2009.
==Goofs==
*Jim turns the clock back at 12:50. Later, when Dwight adjusts the time in Michael's car, it is 12:10. The documentary crew must have rearranged the order of presentation for storytelling purposes.
*Michael and Holly claim that Dunder and Mifflin met during a tour of Dartmouth college. In "Dunder Mifflin Infinity", however, Robert Dunder himself says he knew Mifflin through the Rotary Club. Michael and Holly are not particularly reliable sources for this information, and neither is Robert Dunder, who is prone to rambling stories.
*Pam admits to playing volleyball in junior high school as well as senior high school and college and going to volleyball camp almost every summer, although in "Job Fair" in a talking head interview she says, "So many memories in this old gym, pretending I had PMS so I didn't have to play volleyball, pretending I had PMS so I didn't have to play basketball." Possible explanations are that Pam didn't want to play volleyball in gym class because the other students were so bad at it, or that she simply didn't feel like it. (Writer Jennifer Celotta confessed that she simply forgot that Pam didn't like volleyball.)Tan, Jennie. 'Company Picnic' Q&A with Jen Celotta. Office Tally blog. May 22, 2009.
*Dwight uses kilometers when referencing the distance to the hospital which Jim and Pam go to from the picnic. The Office is set in the United States, where the imperial system of measurement is more commonly used. 
*In a deleted scene, the ball goes toward Erin. Pam shouts, "Come on Ellie!", calling her by the actress's name, Ellie Kemper.
*In a deleted scene, Angela drinks apple juice, but apple juice is not on the picnic menu. Maybe she brought her own apple juice?
*When Michael is talking to Holly he says that "they'll have lots of good material for next year" implying that the company picnic is yearly when it wasn't previously documented or mentioned throughout the show.
*The documentary crew is not able to get any of the conversation between the doctor, Jim and Pam despite getting the conversation between Jim and Dwight seconds before he went in. 
==Trivia==
*The title sequence for this episode is abbreviated. (As noted below, this allowed for extra scenes to be included in the final episode.)
*First appearance of Dwight's "best friend" Rolf.
*According to the set decorations, the company picnic was held at "The Meadows" in upstate New York.
*In the episode, Holly mentions that Camden and Yonkers had recently been closed.
*When it is revealed that Pam is pregnant and Jim and Pam embrace one another, it is silent. That is a homage to the original BBC series, The Office when Tim asks Dawn in silence if she will go on a date with him.
*Michael and Holly wear similarly colored hoodies over their branch t-shirts.
*Last appearance of Charles Miner.
*Dunder Mifflin branch t-shirt colors at the picnic:
**Corporate - Black
**Akron - Yellow
**Albany - Light blue
**Buffalo - Orange
**Nashua - Green
**Rochester - Dark purple
**Scranton - Red
**Utica - Dark blue
*A banner shows the food and drink options available at the picnic:
DUNDER MIFFLIN INC 	DUNDER MIFFLIN INC
COMPANY PICNIC 	COMPANY PICNIC
FOOD 	BEVERAGE
HAMBURGERS 	PIÑA COLADA - MAI TAI
TURKEY BURGERS 	HURRICANE - TEQUILA SUNRISE
HOT DOGS - CORN ON THE COB	BEER - WINE
SALADS 	SODAS - WATER
==Amusing details==
*Dwight has taken off his shoes to keep quiet when he runs to change the clock in Michael's car.
*In the cold open, Pam has a Pratt mug on her desk, which she uses to hold pens and pencils.
*Michael offers Holly and A.J. lemonade. Holly accepts, and A.J. asks for iced tea. When they chat about building a house, Holly has her lemonade, and A.J. has his iced tea. However, neither iced tea nor lemonade is listed on the picnic beverage menu.
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*When they settle down to write the sketch, Michael unwraps a tray of chocolate-covered strawberries for Holly, which is a romantic choice of snack. He is most likely preparing to tell her that they are soulmates.
*As Holly tells Michael that they have not found their idea yet and are "circling it" and Michael agrees. Holly is talking about the sketch, but Michael is circling Holly, looking for the right moment to tell her how he sees them as soulmates.
*As David introduces Michael and Holly he makes a statement declaring that he has not seen their sketch, likely expecting it to be inappropriate. 
*In the Slum-Dunder Mifflinaire sketch, Michael adopts an Indian accent for a little while, then loses it just as randomly.
*Dwight enthusiastically hugs Jim after the latter scores a winning point, prompting Oscar to jokingly tell them to calm down.
*Charles Miner has a fruity drink in his hand while he waits impatiently for Pam to return from the hospital.
*After congratulating Jennie Tan in a deleted scene, David Wallace also congratulates Allison Jones for a service award. Allison Jones is the show's casting director.
*When the angry Buffalo employee Mark shouts at David Wallace, another Buffalo employee holding a baby tries to calm his baby down.
==Connections to previous episodes==
*In "Weight Loss", Michael gives Jim a condom so he won't get a "surprise pregnancy."
*Charles Miner continues his resentment of Jim in this episode, previously established in the "Michael Scott Paper Company" story arc.
*Holly suggests parodying the movie Back to the Future. In "Night Out", Michael cited this as his second-favorite movie and was disappointed when the woman he was talking to didn't recognize it.
==Behind the scenes==
*This episode was important to the network because it was the , reaching the traditional threshold for being eligible for , a major revenue stream for networks: The network (NBC) can sell the show as a package to cable and local television stations to air as reruns. Network executives and industry press showed up on the set for a photo opportunity with an enormous cake and champagne. Photo and more photos and media coverage. The celebration was only 15 minutes long because the cast had to return to work. Greg Daniels gave a brief but heartfelt speech. Rainn Wilson put his entire first into the cake and then offered to shake hands with people.Tan, Jennie. Happy 100th episode, The Office!, Office Tally blog, May 14, 2009. 
*The company picnic was filmed at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu Canyon.
*The hospital scenes were filmed at a decommissioned hospital, the , which became repurposed as the primary filming location for the television program Scrubs. The Scrubs producers allowed The Office to use their set.
*The writers knew at the start of the season that they wanted to finish with a company picnic.DVD commentary, "Company Picnic."
*The episode ran long, and the writers considered expanding it to an hour, but they realized that it's hard to fill an hour without a lot of story moves, and this episode had only two (Michael and Holly's relationship and Pam's pregnancy), so they squeezed the episode into a standard half hour. To free up some time, the opening credits were abbreviated, and the episode has no tag.
*Despite being the regional manager for the Utica branch, Karen does not attend the picnic. Rashida Jones was unavailable because she was working on Parks and Recreation full time. Writer Jennifer Celotta rationalized Karen's absence by concluding that she was on maternity leave.
*There was originally a story line involving Mose at the picnic, but Michael Schur was busy directing the season finale of Parks and Recreation and was unavailable.
*John Krasinski struggled with the talking head in the cold open because the knob to adjust the clock was very tiny, and he kept overshooting or undershooting the target time of 4:50pm.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 1. Office Tally blog. May 18, 2009. It was such a struggle that once they got a take where the clock ended at the right place, they declared it good and moved on.
*In addition to 14 guest actors, the show hired 185 background actors, many of whom were chosen because they listed volleyball as a special skill. According to the call sheet,Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 2, page 2. Office Tally blog. May 26, 2009. the breakdown was
Group 	Employees	Friends/family	Teens	Children
Utica branch 	15 	8 	2 	1
Albany branch 	15 	8 	2 	1
Nashua branch 	15 	6 	 	1
Corporate 	15 	9 	2 	1
Buffalo branch 	15 	9 	2 	1
Scranton branch 	15 	12 	2 	1
Akron branch 	10 	 	 	
Rochester branch 	10 	 	 	
Refreshments staff	3 	 	 	
Caterers 	4 	 	 	
*A real-life married couple played a husband and wife from Buffalo with two very young children. Both the baby in the stroller and the baby in the dad's baby carrier were dolls. The dad is easy to spot in the background because of the baby carrier.
*Although most of the background actors were unfamiliar with The Office, the show did have a reputation for treating its background performers very well and providing great food. There was a breakfast buffet and a breakfast burrito truck, a hot lunch buffet with dessert, and afternoon snacks.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 2, page 3. Office Tally blog. May 26, 2009. Triple the usual amount of food had to be prepared to feed all the extras. On most shows, background performers have the lowest priority at meals, at which point there's barely any food left. They are usually also forbidden from visiting the snack table.
*The prop food was real food, but it was not safe to eat because it had been sitting in the hot sun for hours, and eventually days. If you watch carefully, you'll notice that nobody eats the food.
*After the table read, Rainn Wilson and another actor suggested getting James Urbaniak to play Rolf. Urbaniak was already known to Greg Daniels because he had auditioned and was called back for the role of Dwight.
*Everyone in the episode wears a plain hat with no logos because any visible logo has to be cleared with the trademark owner. Notable exceptions are Charles Miner with a Nike hat and Toby with a baseball cap with an unclear logo. There's also a background performer watching the volleyball game in a New York Yankees hat, likely an error.
*Director Ken Kwapis told everyone to just play volleyball for a while while he filmed. It turns out that everybody on the Utica branch was good at volleyball, but the actors for the Scranton branch were terrible. The actors were sad and asked to just do the scene. He may have been unaware that the extras were chosen specifically because they were good at volleyball.
*During one of the improvisations, Ryan kept serving aces, and this excites Kelly so much that she runs onto the court and gives him a big wet kiss.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 5, page 6. Office Tally blog. September 3, 2009.
*Writers Jennifer Celotta and Paul Lieberstein wrote the volleyball scenes with nine players on a side, because that's how they remembered playing volleyball in school, unaware that once you get out of elementary school, volleyball is six on a side.
*Director Ken Kwapis gave up rotating the players after each change of serve because it ended up too complicated.
*Mark from Buffalo is played by , a writer on Conan O'Brien. We see more of his short temper in a deleted scene.
*The man with Ray-Bans is played by Emmy Award-winning editor of The Office, David Rogers. Like Jennifer Celotta, Rogers wanted to play a Schrute, but he decided that his hope was unrealistic and settled for this cameo.
*One of the Buffalo staff members is played by Jennie Tan, Webmaster of the site Office Tally. In a deleted scene, she is thanked by David Wallace by name for her work on "the web site."
*Writers Jennifer Celotta and Paul Lieberstein didn't know that volleyball is one of the few sports that Jenna Fischer cannot convincingly act, due to an earlier arm injury that prevented her from raising her arm above her shoulder. The show hired doubles for Pam's volleyball scenes. (One of them is in the background of this behind-the-scenes video.) Stunt performer Nancy McCrumb side-by-side photo at end of this slide show was used in scenes when the camera films Pam's serve from behind (so as not to show their faces), and provided advice to Jenna Fischer on how to serve convincingly. Fischer first attempted a service with a ball, but she winced in pain, and line producer Randy Cordray decided to film all future serves with no ball and to insert the ball via computer graphics in post-production. Actors had to dive for an imaginary ball. Sometimes they returned the invisible ball.
*According to the DVD commentary, the original script had Michael and Holly consider "It's a Dunder-ful Life" as a movie they could spoof. "Back to the Future" and "Jaws" were improvised. According to the Office Ladies podcast, the line "We could do Back to the Future" was scripted, but the remarks about the Delorean were not. "Jaws" was an inspired choice because it dovetailed with scripted line from Michael that they're circling their great idea, and ties into the fact that Michael himself is circling Holly looking for his moment with her. This improvisation was also notable because it occurred in the middle of a scene. On the show, significant improvisations were usually at the end of a scene due to the difficulty of continuing a scripted scene after an improvisation.
*The writers couldn't figure out what Kendall should be like. Greg Daniels had the idea that David Wallace would irrationally hate Kendall the same way Michael hates Toby, and Kendall ended up as just a corporate version of Toby.
*It took many takes to film the deleted scene in which Mark from Buffalo yells at his teammates because the actor kept accidentally serving the ball over the net instead of sending it into the net.
*Amy Ryan was very uneasy performing the Slum-Dunder Mifflinaire scene because nobody was laughing, and she felt like she was bombing. She was unaware that the background actors were instructed not to laugh.
*Steve Carell improvised different accents in different takes of Slum-Dunder Mifflinaire, which was so funny that they decided to leave it in the final version of the episode, which explains why Michael's Indian accent comes and goes.
*Steve Carell improvised Michael throwing his hands in the air with a "Yay!" after answering a question correctly.
*Amy Ryan came up with Holly stabbing Michael with the microphone as part of the pretend torture scene.
*Steve Carell and Amy Ryan improvised taking a bow at the end of their performance.
*Director Ken Kwapis was impressed that the extras kept straight faces and acted horrified. Even the kids didn't like the performance.
*Holly and Michael's sketch took hours to film, and the extras had to stay in their places to preserve continuity. Andy Buckley entertained the crowd by telling stories and jokes from the stage.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 4, page 4. Office Tally blog. July 13, 2009. The crew brough the extras water and extra sunscreen to keep them comfortable.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 4, page 5. Office Tally blog. July 13, 2009.
*It took many takes to get Jim to spike the ball against Corporate, and many more takes for the spike that is blocked.
*It was an acting choice of Brian Baumgartner to keep his hands in his pockets for Kevin's talking head from the volleyball court.
*After a few takes of the final intimate conversation between Michael and Holly, director Ken Kwapis told them, "Don't plan on this scene going anywhere in particular." This cleared their minds and allowed the scene to play out to great effect.
*The intimate conversations between Michael and Holly were difficult to shoot due to lack of space. Some of them were shot through a mirror, and in post-production, the images were reversed and the mirror distortion removed.
*In the first few takes of Dwight kicking the volleyball far away to stall for time, a background performer was hiding in the shack and waved his arm out of the shack when the volleyball went past, ruining the take. Production kicked the actor off the set.
*Paul Lieberstein wrote the part where Dwight stalls for time by counting slowly. Early versions of the episode cut when Dwight reached five, but Jennifer Celotta kept the scene going until eight.
*Production took a brief break to bid farewell to Mike, one of the crew members who was going back to school to get an MBA. (In "The Mindy Song", they sing "We're going to miss Michael," referring to this crew member, not Michael Scott.) Steve Carell presented Mike with a Dundie, and there was a goodbye cake.Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 3, page 3. Office Tally blog. June 2, 2009.
*There was initially discussion over whether Jim would be so overwhelmed by the news of Pam's pregnancy that he wouldn't acknowledge the camera, but in fact it was the opposite. Director Ken Kwapis reminded John Krasinski that Jim has had a five-year relationship with the documentary crew, and he treats them like friends. As a result, Jim looks to the camera to share the news with them.
*For security purposes, none of the scripts (except the table draft) had the final scene in it. In the scripts, Scenes 51, 52 and 53 were labeled "See production for details." Furthermore, the DVDs that the show sent to the network didn't have the final scene on it. The show also watermarked each DVD so they could be tracked, even though the final scene wasn't on it!
*For the last day of filming, Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, and Oscar Nunez hired a coffee truck for the staff and cast. A frozen coffee drink was a welcome relief from the hot sun.
*The four lead actors gave every member of the staff an end-of-season gift: A Dunder Mifflin-branded Flip Mino HD video camera. (Smartphones with high quality video cameras were not yet widely available.) On the camera is printed the message "Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, The Office Season 5. Thanks for 100 great ones! (That's what she said.) JF JK RW SC."Tan, Jennie. The Office Set Visit 2009: Day 5, page 9. Office Tally blog. September 3, 2009.
==Cultural references==
*Dwight says, "Like clockwork" as he changes the clock in Michael's car. "Like clockwork" is an idiom that means "always on time." Dwight is making a pun about clocks.
*When Michael wakes up, he asks, "What's so funny?" Pam answers, "You had to be there," which means "It is funny only for people who experienced the situation." Michael, however, misinterprets the statement and thinks it was a joke about geography.
*Michael says, "See you all tamale," a joking sound-alike substitution for the word "tomorrow."
* is a chemical used to make insect repellents. Its use is regulated by the (EPA) due to being linked to seizures in children when used in large quantities. Dwight brags that his homemade insect repellant exceeds EPA regulations. In fact, the EPA permits concentrations up to 100%, although studies suggest that DEET effectiveness does not significantly improve above 50%.
* is a sport similar to baseball. It is popular at company picnics due to the relatively low level of athleticism required.
*Holly shouts, "Extry extry, read all about it!", mimicking the old-timey accent of a newspaper boy.
* is a brand of sunglasses.
*Holly says, "Crystal cool," merging the phrase "Crystal clear" (meaning "completely clear") with Michael's "That cool?"
*Holly suggests parodying the movie , a time travel adventure-comedy movie. Michael asks if they could get a , the model of vehicle that served as a time travel machine.
*Holly suggests parodying the movie , a thriller movie about a shark that terrorizes a beach resort. She and Michael parody the movie's theme music.
*Michael and Holly present "SlumDunder Mifflinaire", a parody of the movie (which in turn incorporates the quiz show ""). Holly and Michael pantomime the movie's electrocution torture scene.
==Quotes==
==Cast==
===Main cast===
*Steve Carell as Michael Scott
*Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute
*John Krasinski as Jim Halpert
*Jenna Fischer as Pam Beesly
*B.J. Novak as Ryan Howard
===Supporting cast===
*Ed Helms as Andy Bernard
*Leslie David Baker as Stanley Hudson
*Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone
*Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton
*Kate Flannery as Meredith Palmer
*Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor
*Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin
*Paul Lieberstein as Toby Flenderson
*Oscar Nunez as Oscar Martinez
*Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Vance
===Special guest stars===
* Amy Ryan as Holly Flax
* Idris Elba as Charles Miner
===Recurring cast===
*Ellie Kemper as Erin Hannon
* Andy Buckley as David Wallace
* Bobby Ray Shafer as Bob Vance
===Guest Cast===
* Rob Huebel as A.J.
* James Urbaniak as Rolf Ahl
* John Hartmann as Kendall
* Joanne Carlsen as Teri Hudson
* Brian Stack as Mark (Buffalo branch)
* Ken Bernfield as The Doctor
* Molly Bryant as Albany Branch Employee
* David Rogers as Man wearing Ray-Bans
* Marla Garlin as Picnic Attendant
* Jennie Tan as Jennie
==References==
Category:Season 5 episodes