Their Friday evening now free, and have no excuse for declining Michael's latest invitation to socialize - in this case, a dinner party at his condo. Although wants to attend, Michael explains that the party is only for couples, that he also invited andand that he only has six wine glasses. Jim and Pam are welcomed by Michael andwho give them a tour of the condo. Jan then leads the guests into the master bedroom and playfully scolds Michael for not putting away the video camera tripod. Michael is also proud of a crude wooden table he built. To be polite, Jim confesses that he has no talent for crafts, and Pam joins in by mentioning that Jim couldn't set up her. All that's left to do the office dinner party episode cook the ossobuco, which will take three hours, she says. The lyrics of the song and Jan's provocative dancing suggest that he lost his virginity to her. During a disastrous game ofJim excuses himself and pretends to have received a telephone call informing him that his apartment has flooded. His attempt to escape the party with Pam is thwarted when Michael notes that only one person needs to check on the damage. Jim concedes the point and tries to escape alone, but Pam forces a smiling Jim to stay. Jim returns to the game of Celebrity and undermines Michael's turn by intentionally guessing the wrong names to obvious clues. Pam and Angela join Jan in the kitchen, where Jan says that Michael told her that he used to the office dinner party episode Pam. Pam is disgusted and tells Jan she never has and never wants to date Michael, but Angela quickly comments that she sees Pam staring at Michael in the office. Michael and Jan argue openly about very personal matters: while Jan debated whether or not to have children, she forced Michael to undergo a vasectomy, have it reversed, then undergo another vasectomy. The tension between Michael and Jan only grows during dinner. Michael confides in Pam that he thinks Jan has poisoned his food; Jan is upset with Michael for dipping his food in wine. Michael then plugs in a garish neon St. Pauli Girl beer sign, and the tension erupts in a shouting match. On the advice of the responding officers, Michael agrees to go home with a friend. In Michael's condo, Jan tries to repair his Dundie. Angela and Andy make their own stopover for ice cream cones; Andy playfully takes a lick of Angela's cone, who gives him a look of unbridled disgust and smears the rest of her ice cream on the side of his car. Oh, hey guys, welcome to my home. Oh, here comes the waiter with the soup. Hope you guys are hungry. Meanwhile, the waiter subtly nods at me. But I don't acknowledge him. But I know he's an assassin because I trained him. Boom, two minutes later, five dead psychopaths on my dining room table. All that's left to do is dispose of the bodies and collect the reward. Angela teases Andy when he brags about having studied in France while at Cornell. Michael emerges from the rest room. It bit me on the arm, and I didn't even feel it. The neighbors watch the situation from their front door, with their dog on a leash. The word spray-painted on the dog is blurred out. The writers inserted a reference into nearly every episode, but most of them ended up cut. In this episode she continues to be jealous of the relationship between Pam and Michael. The scene was the office dinner party episode at the Home Plate Burgers restaurant in nearby Reseda. The music was written and performed by of the group. To determine whether McCain's appreciation for the show was authentic or merely a media image, he asked the candidate what his favorite scene was. McCain said that his favorite joke was the video camera in Michael and Jan's bedroom. Novak was impressed because this was a very quick joke. After that, Dwight has a talking head interview talking about if not being invited bothered him, and, in the background, Stanley and Creed are hard at work even though Creed left and Stanley was packing up earlier in the scene. The painting reappears as office art in ; realizing that Jan is the anonymous female executive she and Dwight are trying to sell to, Pam recoils in horror at the sight of it. This was first mentioned in where he tells the office ladies that Jan likes to film them during sex, and then play it back afterwards to help him improve. It is also briefly mentioned that Jan watches the tapes with her therapist. But not the famous one; a knock-off. The one exception is boxes of cookware, a high-end brand of kitchenware. Jan prepares the dinner with Le Creuset cookware. No wonder there's no room for Michael. There were no pictures of Michael. Angela has stood a pillow upright between herself and Pam to keep them from touching. 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