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In "Company Picnic," Holly, Michael's soup-snake soul mate returns — and performs a skit with him, no less — while the Scranton branch racks up the wins in the volleyball tournament, until their surprise superstar goes down with an injury.
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In "Casual Friday," Michael returns to the Office, and instead of finding fawning co-workers, he faces a full-fledged mutiny from his sales team. Meanwhile, Jim and Creed play chess, and Toby makes the office staff respect his authority.
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In "Broke" — a masterful episode directed by Steve Carell — the upstart Michael Scott Paper Company is siphoning off business from Dunder Mifflin but losing money in the process because their prices are way too low. So this leaves both companies at an impasse, and leads to a high-stakes negotiation between Michael and David Wallace.
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The Dundler Mifflin/Michael Scott Paper Company war escalates as Dwight's loyalties to Michael are tested. Meanwhile, Jim decides to prank Andy.
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In The Office's second new episode, "The Michael Scott Paper Company," it's the first day in the cramped new office for Michael, Pam and Ryan; Andy and Dwight find their new friendship threatened by the new receptionist, and Jim tries desperately to figure out what a "rundown" is.
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"Dream Team" chronicles Michael and Pam's first, ambitious and predictably uneven day at the Michael Scott Paper company, while Jim finds himself facing off against Charles in a pickup soccer game.
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Meatloaf
Meat Loaf would do anything for SEO, but he won't do that. On a conference call with reporters to promote his upcoming guest appearance on House (Monday, 9 pm/ET, Fox), TVGuide.com listened in as the Loaf schooled one scribe on the value of search-engine optimization. What follows is a verbatim transcript of the exchange between the rocker-actor and Troy Rogers of Thedeadbolt.com, along with our (very loose) translations of Meat Loaf's website wisdom.
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In "Two Weeks," Michael counts down his last days at Dunder Mifflin while the new regional vice president continues to assert his no-nonsense style on the branch. In the first scene, Michael's regaling the DM staff with his dramatic quitting story — so it looks like The Office writers aren't backing down on their dare. There was no dramatic "come back Michael, we need you" moment from David Wallace — this may actually be the last we see of Michael Scott at Dunder Mifflin.
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In "New Boss" Michael and Jim have major trouble with the new boss, which leads to a shocking twist ending.
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The Office returns after a longer-than-usual hiatus with a slightly misplaced Valentine's Day episode in March. Michael meets, loses and tries to find the cute girl he met at a blood drive by organizing a Valentine's Day lonely-hearts club meet-and-greet. Meanwhile Jim and Pam's lunch with Phyllis and Bob starts out innocent and sweet but then takes a horrifying, horrifying turn.
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