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The Office Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Weight Loss
Thu, Sep 25, 200843 mins
Michael tries to motivate the Scranton branch to lose weight as part of an interoffice competition. Jim is lost after Pam leaves for art school in New York, and Angela continues to see Dwight even though she is now engaged to Andy.
Episode 2
Business Ethics
Thu, Oct 9, 200822 mins
A confession at an H.R. business ethics seminar leads to a dispute between Michael and Holly over whether Meredith should be fired. Dwight tries to prove to Jim how long he can go without taking a personal break.
Episode 3
Baby Shower
Thu, Oct 16, 200822 mins
After planning an office baby shower for Jan, Michael is upset when he finds out that she had the baby without him--even though he's already been told that he's not the baby's father.
Episode 4
Crime Aid
Thu, Oct 23, 200822 mins
Michael and Holly have sex for the first time, and Michael holds a fundraiser for the office after it is burglarized. Dwight confides in Phyllis after Andy and Angela set a wedding date, and Jim runs into Pam's ex-fiancé, Roy.
Episode 5
Employee Transfer
Thu, Oct 30, 200822 mins
Michael and Holly are forced to question the future of their relationship after she is transferred out of Scranton. Dwight gets on Andy's nerves by pretending to be interested in his alma mater. Pam and Jim have an awkward lunch with his brothers.
Episode 6
Customer Survey
Thu, Nov 6, 200822 mins
Dwight and Jim believe that something is suspicious about their low customer performance ratings. After consulting with Angela, Andy finds the perfect site for their wedding--Dwight's beet farm.
Episode 7
Business Trip
Thu, Nov 13, 200822 mins
David Wallace sends Michael on a business trip to Winnipeg to help him forget about Holly's transfer to Nashua, and Pam tells Jim that she failed a class and has to stay in New York City.
Episode 8
Frame Toby
Thu, Nov 20, 200822 mins
When Michael discovers that corporate has brought back Toby to replace Holly, he tries to frame him with drugs and to get him fired. Meanwhile, Pam has issues with the disgusting microwave. Finally, Jim surprises Pam by buying his parents' house.
Episode 9
The Surplus
Thu, Dec 4, 200822 mins
Michael has to spend the office surplus by they end of the day, but he can't decide between a copier or new chairs. Dwight plays a dirty trick on Angela and Andy as they prepare for their wedding on the beet farm.
Episode 10
Moroccan Christmas
Thu, Dec 11, 200822 mins
Phyllis blackmails Angela into doing the work for the Christmas party, which Michael turns into an intervention after Meredith gets drunk and sets her hair on fire. Meanwhile, Dwight corners the market on a popular Christmas gift.
Episode 11
The Duel
Thu, Jan 15, 200922 mins
Just before leaving for New York for a meeting with David Wallace, Michael tells Andy that Angela is having an affair with Dwight. Andy and Dwight then decide to have it out in the parking lot.
Episode 12
Prince Family Paper
Thu, Jan 22, 200922 mins
Michael's conscience gets the best of him after he and Dwight go undercover to scout a family-run competitor. Back at the office, everyone else spends the day debating whether Hilary Swank is hot.
Episode 13
Stress Relief
Sun, Feb 1, 200942 mins
Dwight's too-realistic fire alarm gives Stanley a heart attack. When he returns, Michael learns that he is the cause of Stanley's stress. To remedy the situation, he forces the office to throw a roast for him.
Episode 14
Lecture Circuit: Part 1
Thu, Feb 5, 200922 mins
While on lecture tour to other Dunder Mifflin branches, Michael and Pam discover that Jim's ex-girlfriend Karen is pregnant. At the office, Andy falls for a prospective client, and Jim and Dwight try to set up Kelly's birthday party.
Episode 15
Lecture Circuit: Part 2
Thu, Feb 12, 200922 mins
Michael and Pam go to Nashua and discover that Holly has a new boyfriend. At the office, Jim and Dwight try to come up with a theme for Kelly's birthday party, and Angela gets a new cat.
Episode 16
Blood Drive
Thu, Mar 5, 200922 mins
Michael holds a lonely hearts party on Valentine's Day at the office, hoping that he will run into a woman he met earlier that day at a blood drive. Meanwhile, Jim and Pam have an awkward lunch with Phillis and Bob Vance.
Episode 17
Golden Ticket
Thu, Mar 12, 200922 mins
Michael gets extremely carried away with a new, imaginative idea; placing promotional 'Golden Tickets' - giving the lucky finder 10% off next shipment - in the paper reams, which backfires spectacularly. Placing all five tickets in the same ream, which goes to their biggest client, means a 50% deduction. Corporate - not too pleased by this - is looking for someone to blame, and Michael looks to Dwight to take the fall. Meanwhile, Kevin receives three different kinds of romantic advice from Pam, Jim and Andy. The only problem is, all three of them seem to be letting their own past experiences cloud their judgment on the situation.
Episode 18
New Boss
Thu, Mar 19, 200922 mins
Michael gets upset when he gets a new boss to act as a buffer between him and David Wallace, and he gets even more upset when he disbands the Party Planning Committee and cancels Michael's fifteenth anniversary party.
Episode 19
Two Weeks
Thu, Mar 26, 200922 mins
Michael leaves the company and thinks about starting with his own Paper Company. When David finds out about Michaels plans he gets the security to throw him out of the Office. Before leaving Michael asks everyone to join him but they all decline his offer, and in the end Pam agrees to join him on the condition that she is a Sales Executive. He asks Jim but he declines.
Episode 20
Dream Team
Thu, Apr 9, 200922 mins
Michael and Pam begin their first day at the Michael Scott Paper Company putting together the rest of the staff and trying to raise money.
Episode 21
Michael Scott Paper Company
Thu, Apr 9, 200922 mins
Tension and disillusionment begin to emerge as Michael, Pam, and Ryan move the Michael Scott Paper Company into a cramped "workspace" at the business park.
Episode 22
Heavy Competition
Thu, Apr 16, 200922 mins
Dwight chooses loyalty to Dunder Mifflin over loyalty to Michael, which leads to a bitter battle between Michael and Dwight over Dwight's accounts. Back at Dunder Mifflin, Jim pretends to confide in Andy.
Episode 23
Broke
Thu, Apr 23, 200922 mins
The Michael Scott Paper Company is gaining clients by offering lower prices than Dunder Mifflin, but is going broke in the process. However, Dunder Mifflin is losing clients to Michael, and is desperate to buy him out.
Episode 24
Casual Friday
Thu, Apr 30, 200922 mins
Michael returns to Dunder Mifflin and brings Ryan and Pam in as salespeople, but the existing salespeople demand that Michael return the clients they stole back to them. Meanwhile, some employees take the idea of Casual Friday too far.
Episode 25
Cafe Disco
Thu, May 7, 200922 mins
Michael tries to create a place to escape from work in the storage room that used to house the Michael Scott Paper Company, while Jim and Pam consider taking off and getting married that day.
Episode 26
Company Picnic
Thu, May 14, 200922 mins
Michael runs into Holly at the company picnic, and the two of them accidentally reveal that the Buffalo branch is closing during a comedy skit before corporate has made the announcement.
