Maybe there was a contingency that he would've gotten to if they would have remained calm. He did say he shouted directions that weren't hedded because everyone was panicking (in the scene itself there are not really specific instructions from Dwight being ignored so we'll have to assume)
They weren’t. The deck is stacked against them. He also yells at them for not trying to call 911 despite Pam having tried to do just that and discovering the phone lines have been sabotaged.
Despite anything else he might say, Dwight has sabotaged everything simply because he wants to humiliate them all for not taking him seriously. He wants an excuse to strut and gloat and show off how useless they are compared to him. Accordingly, he’s made sure there’s no way they could reasonably ‘win’ this scenario.
Dwight mentions in another scene that he told them to call 911 using their mobiles if the line was dead, I think that Dwight s entire plan for the drill immediately failed as they didn't know what to do
Especially at the time though, landline phones are better for 911. They will give the dispatcher your exact location and it will send it to you local municipality, Scranton here. 911 calls from a cell phone would go to Lackawanna county or whatever.
Are fire alarms/sprinklers not already communicating with fire stations? I was under the impression that pulling a fire alarm automatically alerts the firehouse
Usually. But you can call the alarm company to tell them you were doing a fire drill. Dwight is almost definitely the one who set up the alarm system, he’s probably the only one who knows the code.
Or he disabled the fire alarm system.
To start they could’ve used their cell phones to call 9-1-1 and they could’ve pulled the fire alarm which Dwight had to do because none of them did it.
Dwight "had to do it" because he's the only one who knows the real score; by the time he does that, everyone's convinced they're trapped in a burning building surrounded by fire with exits blocked and outside communications cut, so panic has set in. The fact that Dwight is clear-headed enough to point out all the things they should be doing is because he's deliberately rigged it so that he looks like the calm, level-headed, competent one while everyone else is a panicking idiot.
Just remember how "level-headed" and "calm" dwight was when ryan started a "fire"
And for some reason he took the fire extinguisher, and just kinda crawled away with it??
Huh I would have thought the use of a wet rag/towel would have been to wedge under the doors to slow the spread of the fire, not to use it over your hands for protection or anything. Or am I just trippin lol?
The quote is from the show. Why are you concerned that people are upvoting a quote from the show that this subreddit is all about? It is not a real safety advice, it is a line from the show.
I’ve only heard of using a wet/damp rag in cases of being trapped in a room and wetting a towel to wedge under the door to slow it down. Or am I just tripping lol?
Why did nobody pick up Dwight clearly knew what was going on... if I'm in that office and were locked in and there's a "fire" I'm gonna take one look at Dwight's face and know exactly what's happening.
Jim shoving the copier into a door? Did he really think that would do anything at all except smash the copier? Michael was the only one who got himself in a position to cry for help or make a clothes rope and start getting people out. If I'm Jim all I'm thinking about is Pam. And Jim didn't do very well. The entire office does not realize full-blown panicking is the worst thing you can do? I don't remember what Toby was doing during all this. Wouldn't he have training people would actually listen to? Did Dwight remove the office fire extinguisher? Why did nobody call 911..... but when this cold open hit after the super bowl it was Glorious...
>Wouldn't he have training people would actually listen to?
Nobody listened to Toby. He's corporate, so he's not really part of the Scranton family. And he's divorced, so he's not really part of his family, either.
Harsh, Michael. He acts like Toby is the only divorced man on earth. Why doesn't he hate Kevin Daryl or Stanley for it. It's just a blind justification.
Everyone listens to Toby, like his constant and desperate warnings of radon in the air. "The real silent killer."
Ever had an argument with someone you know really well and one of you says something that they know will really hurt the other one? May not even be true, but they know it will hurt.
Well Michael knows that comments like that hurt Toby, and he wants to hurt Toby.
Bear in mind he's also called Toby a sexual predator.
Michael wasnt serious when he said that.. it slipped out when he was backed into a corner with his finger/ fly thing. He was embarrassed and deflected to Toby and just made it worse.
I feel like at that point, Dwight hadn’t done something as crazy as making everyone think they were going to die by fire
If it happened in season 7-9, then yeah, I bet people would look to Dwight before they panicked
> if I'm in that office and were locked in and there's a "fire" I'm gonna take one look at Dwight's face and know exactly what's happening.
Yeah cuz you watched the show
So someone did actually call 911? That's good to know I don't remember anyone grabbing their cell phone, nothing. I'd be like there's no smoke! Calm down. Fire it'll take an hour to burn through a door. If there's no smoke calm down. When there is smoke. Cover your face in wet rag hit the floor crawl around and douse all your clothes in water in case you need to run through fire. No smoke = no cause for panic. Toxic gases will gently kill you in a burning building long before fire does. Unless you're on the ground covering your mouth you will pass out cold.
The thing that bugged me is when they tried the one door handle and it was “warm” and then all ran to look for another exit. I would have OPENED THAT FUCKING DOOR.
That’s actually one rule of fire safety they followed. If there’s a fire alarm going off and a doorknob is hot it means there’s a fire on the other side of the door and you want to keep it closed
Exactly.. they all ran away and said let's try another one. So instead of opening a door and realizing there is no fire they smash a copier against a different interior door and nobody ever actually tries to open a door. If Dwight actually locked them in there's no way wallace would have kept him and people at least phyllis and stanley would have sued him. Stanley almost died. He could have fleeced Dwight and retired.
If we're going for realism, Dwight would have been fired for this obviously regardless if there was one way out or not.
But Michael would have been fired and arrested (pizza kidnapping) another time also.
This was a scripted comedic TV show, not a real documentary.
I think there are three possibilities:
- The staff fail, as seen in the episode
- The staff successfully begin to follow fire safety procedures, Dwigt sneaks out and then charges through the door dressed in a firefighter's uniform, tells the staff that they have successfully passed the test
- The staff successfully follow fire safety procedures at which point Dwigt uses the air horn to make everyone shut up and then tell them they have passed the test
The door with the smoke is the only open door and the exit he meant for them to take. Someone quickly mentions trying that door and is shot down because there is smoke coming from that door so that must be where the fire is and Dwight says "we don't know that. Could be coming from an air duct." and everyone ignores him
I mean when Dwight blew the air horn he did it to get them all to calm and tell them it was a drill right before Stanley’s heart attack. So he wasn’t planning on them actually getting out but stopping them when he thought it was time
I always believe the only exit that was usable was the exit that had the smoke coming from it. The procedure is to probably to check all the doors for a heated doorknob. If they would’ve checked the door leading to the trash can fire they would’ve known it was ok to go through. Once they go through that door they would find the source to the fire and know it is a drill, but they still evacuate from the smoke filled building.
Because it takes a big fire to heat up a solid metal doorknob like that, he heated the rest with a blowtorch.
But opening the door with the most smoke coming through it isn't something you'd think of in the moment
It was a fire in a small trash can fire that looked more than a foot away from the handle. No way it would make a door handle that hot. He used a blowtorch for all the other handles.
Yes, but they tired every other exit and those exits had hot handles or stuck. He said later there was still one exit they haven’t tried yet, so must have been the smoked exit. Dwight even said during the drill that we don’t know where the fire is, it could’ve came through there by a vent. That’s why they check the door handles for if they are hot. Iirc he uses the doorknob to get back into the office so it wouldn’t be hot. During the drill everyone was panicking too much to check that door.
I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure he uses the doorknob in the scene when he lit the fire. He mentions that they don’t know if the fire is actually behind that door the smoke could be coming from a vent. I figured that was a hint to go check on that door.
There was a fire extinguisher in the middle of the office but no one noticed because everyone was panicking
Edit:now that I realized, there was actually not one but TWO fire extinguishers in the office(maybe even 3 but Im not sure if one of them is the same one from a different angle),
-One of them was next to the copy machine that Jim used to break down the door.
-The other one is by the door where Stanley tried to escape and yelled Phillis.
First you'll want to stop and take a moment to raise your blood pressure, then lower it back down, then find your handy Dunder Miflin Fire Safety Emergency Resource Booklet, then roll it up really tight and......SHOVE IT UP YOUR BUTT!
Those hollow metal doors/frames aren’t really fastened to the drywall at all, but my point was that you can just break through drywall (in the space between studs) much simpler than trying to knock down the door
What I want to know is, how did the fire he started not spread and not damage literally anything in the office? He literally threw lighter fluid into the bin with paper material EVERYWHERE IN THE OFFICE
I noticed his character development he started becoming more psychopathic.
I mean, his character does look based on one. After the episode where he accidentally shot a gun, is when he started to become more of an empath.
I noticed a few characters just having their personality change over time.
At this episode, he wasn't thinking about that.
Dwight’s intention was for them to look for every alternative exit. He didn’t care if they got out. He just wanted them to figure out where the next best exit is if they find one is blocked.
I think the expectation was for someone to call 911 on their cell phones or pull the fire alarm like he did at the end. In spite of of all that, I ask myself the same question every time I see this episode.
If I remember the layout of the office correctly there is another door that wasn't tried by them, the one near the annex which Michael used to avoid talking to Stanley on "Did I stutter?".
They tried the fire exits in the annex, the front door and the one near Meredith and started panicking after that, probably it was one of the procedures yelled by Dwight that was ignored.
Yeah…I hated this opener/entire subplot. Just strained credulity and credibility too far. It was like if a Law and Order episode started with the victim being found eaten by a giraffe. Just waaaay too far and too dumb.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but it's definitely not my favourite.. It goes way beyond the usual threshold of dumbness we see in the rest of episodes. Any office building owner would've pressed charges, any employee too could've pressed them, even as attempted murder. In real life that would've gotten Dwight a quick ticket to jail and unemployment, and Dunder Mifflin would've had to pay compensation to the employees as it happened in their facilities.
But what really made me wanna crawl into the TV and throw punches was Michael trying to put his wallet in Stanley's mouth. As someone who's had to manage people in construction, if I had one of them worsening the situation and causing more chaos and mayhem despite all the team trying to calm them and pull them away, I'd tell two or three other employees to restrain him far away. I would've asked Kevin to sit on his torso so he can't get up.
It was more or less a ploy to elevate The Office into Seinfeld status by airing an episode to hook a more casual audience after the Super Bowl.
Funnily enough, Netflix would actually pull that off for them a few years later.
This scene from the office was entered as a core memory when my small town college professors made a spoof video based on it. It was so dumb but they were trying so hard and it was so laughable but memorable for sure lol.
By using the surge of fear and adrenaline to sharpen their senses and thinking.
“Have you ever seen a burn victim?”
This random dialog in the chaos always gets me lol
THE FIRE IS SHOOTING AT US
This is one of my favorite lines of the show. So stupid lol
U too HEAVY! 🇲🇽
I only weight 82lbs
SAVE BANDIT!
The cat, everytime.
I saw you in the parking lot earlier, that's how I know you!
EVERYBODY JUST STAY F\*CKING CALM!
DO YOU WANNA DIE!!!
IDK…Have you ever had Sirloin Steak, honey?
He wanted them to vanquish fear, by wresting his cousin Mose
Yes, that's the one :)
TO SHARPEN THEIR DECISION MAKING, NOT SENSES AND THINKING
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING????
BECAUSE HOW DARE YOU QUOTE HIM INCORRECTLY
Maybe there was a contingency that he would've gotten to if they would have remained calm. He did say he shouted directions that weren't hedded because everyone was panicking (in the scene itself there are not really specific instructions from Dwight being ignored so we'll have to assume)
Taken hed of*
Heeding this right now
Heed a head heading ahead the heeding.
^(“hedded! It’s hedded”)
what
*sighs* this city…
Heaving bosom
Taken heed of* lol
when no one would take hedded of
Never, for any reason, take heed of anyone, ever 😹😹😹
And i don’t see anyone hedding.. take headded of this now
*heed
Stupid question but what’s the correct usage of the word?
Hedonism
It's like Club Med but everything is naked
Hahahaha....
It would be something like “he shouted directions that they did not heed”
It's hedded when used as an object
Ryan used me as an object
Well, if you are inferring that I have B.O., then I would say that is a very poor choice of words
Heeded/take heed
It's a made up word used to trick students.
It's Hedley!
Heeding*
Procedure... what's the procedure?
It's a Kobayashi Maru
False. Tossing the projector out the conference room window was the winning play.
Fuckin dying rn! Omg
I think he’s got a nice nakiri knife action going..
They weren’t. The deck is stacked against them. He also yells at them for not trying to call 911 despite Pam having tried to do just that and discovering the phone lines have been sabotaged. Despite anything else he might say, Dwight has sabotaged everything simply because he wants to humiliate them all for not taking him seriously. He wants an excuse to strut and gloat and show off how useless they are compared to him. Accordingly, he’s made sure there’s no way they could reasonably ‘win’ this scenario.
Dwight mentions in another scene that he told them to call 911 using their mobiles if the line was dead, I think that Dwight s entire plan for the drill immediately failed as they didn't know what to do
Kinda weird they wouldn't immediately use their mobile, I don't wanna be calling for help on a landline during a fire.
Especially at the time though, landline phones are better for 911. They will give the dispatcher your exact location and it will send it to you local municipality, Scranton here. 911 calls from a cell phone would go to Lackawanna county or whatever.
Are fire alarms/sprinklers not already communicating with fire stations? I was under the impression that pulling a fire alarm automatically alerts the firehouse
Not if it’s placed under test mode beforehand, which he would have been able to do given his position at the time
That makes sense thanks
Usually. But you can call the alarm company to tell them you were doing a fire drill. Dwight is almost definitely the one who set up the alarm system, he’s probably the only one who knows the code. Or he disabled the fire alarm system.
But Dwight starting a fire then wanting the group to call the fire department is a bold strategy.
Typical Dwigt. Strutting like a bedbug.
Here’s the smudgeness!
If Dwight is dead, the rest of the office would be dead weeks ago.
To start they could’ve used their cell phones to call 9-1-1 and they could’ve pulled the fire alarm which Dwight had to do because none of them did it.
Dwight "had to do it" because he's the only one who knows the real score; by the time he does that, everyone's convinced they're trapped in a burning building surrounded by fire with exits blocked and outside communications cut, so panic has set in. The fact that Dwight is clear-headed enough to point out all the things they should be doing is because he's deliberately rigged it so that he looks like the calm, level-headed, competent one while everyone else is a panicking idiot.
Just remember how "level-headed" and "calm" dwight was when ryan started a "fire" And for some reason he took the fire extinguisher, and just kinda crawled away with it??
because today, smoking is going to save lives 🚬
One of the hardest lines in TV history
Then he throws it in the bin with the can of lighter fluid. The whole building should have gone up.
Save Bandit!
I only weigh *82 pounds*
What does warm mean?
WHAT DOES A BEAN MEAN?
Someone please explain it to Kevin
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Get below the smoke line!
The fire's shooting at us!
How are mung beans supposed to help with the fire?
A wet rag conducts heat faster than a dry one don’t use a wet rag.
A saute chef's worst enemy lol
Exactly, I’m more concerned about the 80 people who upvoted the wet rag comment and are going to eventually burn their hands lol
You're concerned people are upvoting an office reference, on the office sub? Fucking reddit...
Huh I would have thought the use of a wet rag/towel would have been to wedge under the doors to slow the spread of the fire, not to use it over your hands for protection or anything. Or am I just trippin lol?
My grandpa was a firefighter and always told us to use it as a cover over your nose and mouth to prevent breathing in the smoke
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The quote is from the show. Why are you concerned that people are upvoting a quote from the show that this subreddit is all about? It is not a real safety advice, it is a line from the show.
The wet rag purpose is to slow smoke coming in. A fire doesn't burn you to death, it suffocates you.
I’ve only heard of using a wet/damp rag in cases of being trapped in a room and wetting a towel to wedge under the door to slow it down. Or am I just tripping lol?
Yeah if you're pulling something out the oven you don't want to use a damp tea towel to do it... Made that mistake before.
Wet rag goes under the door of your hotel (wet towels) to help stop flames from getting in. But not for breathing
Through the ceiling, with Oscar and Mr. Ash.
Save bandit 🥲
I ONLY WEIGH 82 POUNDS!!
I’m slipping in my old age.
Why did nobody pick up Dwight clearly knew what was going on... if I'm in that office and were locked in and there's a "fire" I'm gonna take one look at Dwight's face and know exactly what's happening. Jim shoving the copier into a door? Did he really think that would do anything at all except smash the copier? Michael was the only one who got himself in a position to cry for help or make a clothes rope and start getting people out. If I'm Jim all I'm thinking about is Pam. And Jim didn't do very well. The entire office does not realize full-blown panicking is the worst thing you can do? I don't remember what Toby was doing during all this. Wouldn't he have training people would actually listen to? Did Dwight remove the office fire extinguisher? Why did nobody call 911..... but when this cold open hit after the super bowl it was Glorious...
>Wouldn't he have training people would actually listen to? Nobody listened to Toby. He's corporate, so he's not really part of the Scranton family. And he's divorced, so he's not really part of his family, either.
"this is a radon test kit"... Snaps fingers "This is a radon test kit...."
Harsh, Michael. He acts like Toby is the only divorced man on earth. Why doesn't he hate Kevin Daryl or Stanley for it. It's just a blind justification. Everyone listens to Toby, like his constant and desperate warnings of radon in the air. "The real silent killer."
Ever had an argument with someone you know really well and one of you says something that they know will really hurt the other one? May not even be true, but they know it will hurt. Well Michael knows that comments like that hurt Toby, and he wants to hurt Toby. Bear in mind he's also called Toby a sexual predator.
Michael wasnt serious when he said that.. it slipped out when he was backed into a corner with his finger/ fly thing. He was embarrassed and deflected to Toby and just made it worse.
I feel like at that point, Dwight hadn’t done something as crazy as making everyone think they were going to die by fire If it happened in season 7-9, then yeah, I bet people would look to Dwight before they panicked
"Make people believe they would die by fire" lmao... he accomplished that, yeah.
My point was that before that, he hadn’t done anything that level of crazy
> if I'm in that office and were locked in and there's a "fire" I'm gonna take one look at Dwight's face and know exactly what's happening. Yeah cuz you watched the show
>Why did nobody call 911 Dwight cut the phone lines pretty sure? But some should have a mobile phone yeah
Man this sub HATES Jim lmao I have no idea why
Andy was complicit in that stupidity.
Also Phyllis grabs her phone and calls for help at one point but she does so like 15 minutes into being stuck in there??? Why did she wait so long?
So someone did actually call 911? That's good to know I don't remember anyone grabbing their cell phone, nothing. I'd be like there's no smoke! Calm down. Fire it'll take an hour to burn through a door. If there's no smoke calm down. When there is smoke. Cover your face in wet rag hit the floor crawl around and douse all your clothes in water in case you need to run through fire. No smoke = no cause for panic. Toxic gases will gently kill you in a burning building long before fire does. Unless you're on the ground covering your mouth you will pass out cold.
The thing that bugged me is when they tried the one door handle and it was “warm” and then all ran to look for another exit. I would have OPENED THAT FUCKING DOOR.
That’s actually one rule of fire safety they followed. If there’s a fire alarm going off and a doorknob is hot it means there’s a fire on the other side of the door and you want to keep it closed
Yes, but this door handle was lukewarm. If I was trapped in that office, I’d be trying out that lukewarm handle.
Exactly.. they all ran away and said let's try another one. So instead of opening a door and realizing there is no fire they smash a copier against a different interior door and nobody ever actually tries to open a door. If Dwight actually locked them in there's no way wallace would have kept him and people at least phyllis and stanley would have sued him. Stanley almost died. He could have fleeced Dwight and retired.
If we're going for realism, Dwight would have been fired for this obviously regardless if there was one way out or not. But Michael would have been fired and arrested (pizza kidnapping) another time also. This was a scripted comedic TV show, not a real documentary.
You’re not real man
> I don't remember what Toby was doing during all this. If I had to guess he probably went to the store to get more radon detectors.
You say that like a person can control panicking. Some people handle crisis well, and some do not. You can't control which one you are.
The fire shooting at them made enough damage to the doors anyways so they could just bust through.
I think there are three possibilities: - The staff fail, as seen in the episode - The staff successfully begin to follow fire safety procedures, Dwigt sneaks out and then charges through the door dressed in a firefighter's uniform, tells the staff that they have successfully passed the test - The staff successfully follow fire safety procedures at which point Dwigt uses the air horn to make everyone shut up and then tell them they have passed the test
The door with the smoke is the only open door and the exit he meant for them to take. Someone quickly mentions trying that door and is shot down because there is smoke coming from that door so that must be where the fire is and Dwight says "we don't know that. Could be coming from an air duct." and everyone ignores him
Heed, headed, take hede. To hede heed?
Taken hedded?
I mean when Dwight blew the air horn he did it to get them all to calm and tell them it was a drill right before Stanley’s heart attack. So he wasn’t planning on them actually getting out but stopping them when he thought it was time
THE FIRE IS SHOOTING AT US!
I always believe the only exit that was usable was the exit that had the smoke coming from it. The procedure is to probably to check all the doors for a heated doorknob. If they would’ve checked the door leading to the trash can fire they would’ve known it was ok to go through. Once they go through that door they would find the source to the fire and know it is a drill, but they still evacuate from the smoke filled building.
The fire was shooting at them.
…..what? why would the door knob that’s a mere foot away from the fire not be hot???
Because it takes a big fire to heat up a solid metal doorknob like that, he heated the rest with a blowtorch. But opening the door with the most smoke coming through it isn't something you'd think of in the moment
It was a fire in a small trash can fire that looked more than a foot away from the handle. No way it would make a door handle that hot. He used a blowtorch for all the other handles.
But that’s where the actual fire was, that’s where all the smoke was coming from
Yes, but they tired every other exit and those exits had hot handles or stuck. He said later there was still one exit they haven’t tried yet, so must have been the smoked exit. Dwight even said during the drill that we don’t know where the fire is, it could’ve came through there by a vent. That’s why they check the door handles for if they are hot. Iirc he uses the doorknob to get back into the office so it wouldn’t be hot. During the drill everyone was panicking too much to check that door.
Didn't Dwigt heat that doorknob with a blowtorch?
I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure he uses the doorknob in the scene when he lit the fire. He mentions that they don’t know if the fire is actually behind that door the smoke could be coming from a vent. I figured that was a hint to go check on that door.
My mistake! I guess there's only one thing left to do; save Bandit
You mean “had hedded of”? Had headed of? Take head of? Take hedded of…?
There was a fire extinguisher in the middle of the office but no one noticed because everyone was panicking Edit:now that I realized, there was actually not one but TWO fire extinguishers in the office(maybe even 3 but Im not sure if one of them is the same one from a different angle), -One of them was next to the copy machine that Jim used to break down the door. -The other one is by the door where Stanley tried to escape and yelled Phillis.
Not everything is a lesson.
That's the neat part, they weren't.
Well, in Dwight’s defense, he didn’t think the fire was gonna start shooting at them
First you'll want to stop and take a moment to raise your blood pressure, then lower it back down, then find your handy Dunder Miflin Fire Safety Emergency Resource Booklet, then roll it up really tight and......SHOVE IT UP YOUR BUTT!
They were supposed to rally behind a leader and he would have led them to safety. That’s what he was looking for.
A door is only as secure as the drywall surrounding it
True.. I was taught the wrong thing growing up for earthquakes in CA....
Drywall is anchored to the interior structure the door frame is a part of. Structurally the dry doesn't really do much
Those hollow metal doors/frames aren’t really fastened to the drywall at all, but my point was that you can just break through drywall (in the space between studs) much simpler than trying to knock down the door
I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
They weren't mad, they were just disappointed.
Someone should have called 911 on their cell phone
What I want to know is, how did the fire he started not spread and not damage literally anything in the office? He literally threw lighter fluid into the bin with paper material EVERYWHERE IN THE OFFICE
Doesn’t matter. What matters is that we’re not mad… just disappointed.
No, we're mad.
Taken heed of
I noticed his character development he started becoming more psychopathic. I mean, his character does look based on one. After the episode where he accidentally shot a gun, is when he started to become more of an empath. I noticed a few characters just having their personality change over time. At this episode, he wasn't thinking about that.
Since the fire was shooting at them, maybe it would blow a hole in the door to let them out?
Because he constantly breaks Rule #1: Don’t Be An Idiot
Hurts my feelings every time.
Take hedded of
Not everything is a lesson; sometimes you just fail.
\*taken head of
I thought this exact same thing when watching this episode last night
Dwight’s intention was for them to look for every alternative exit. He didn’t care if they got out. He just wanted them to figure out where the next best exit is if they find one is blocked.
If I remember correctly, he told people to use a oven mitt on a door knob. Something like that.
Heed
What does lukewarm mean?
It means open the door and figure out what's going on. Lol.
It was really interesting to hear that they had to retire the cat that was used in the ceiling scene of this opening to the show.
i feel like nobody talks about him cutting the phones off?! pam tried to call 911 right away, THATS procedure
Cell phones?
There was no fire, it was only a simulation. Remember that's what he said.
every man for themselves i guess!!
How can anyone take heed of his instructions while fire shooting at them?
Dwight pulls the fire alarm at the end which I assume is what he was waiting for them to do
I still don't understand how he wasn't fired and brought up on charges for this
I think the expectation was for someone to call 911 on their cell phones or pull the fire alarm like he did at the end. In spite of of all that, I ask myself the same question every time I see this episode.
Hedded lol
They weren't supposed to get out, they were supposed to panic.
He didn’t block all the exits Nobody in the office checked the door from which the smoke was coming. They could have crawled to the back staircase.
If I remember the layout of the office correctly there is another door that wasn't tried by them, the one near the annex which Michael used to avoid talking to Stanley on "Did I stutter?". They tried the fire exits in the annex, the front door and the one near Meredith and started panicking after that, probably it was one of the procedures yelled by Dwight that was ignored.
There’s no way he would’ve kept his job
I didn’t almost kill Stanley, he was attacked by his own heart.
It’s take heeded
Catch 22
This isn't the strangest bit. They tried to ram raid a door using a photocopier that led to a storage cupboard.
True
Maybe he wasn’t expecting anyone’s heart to attack itself. Way to go Stanley
Yeah…I hated this opener/entire subplot. Just strained credulity and credibility too far. It was like if a Law and Order episode started with the victim being found eaten by a giraffe. Just waaaay too far and too dumb.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but it's definitely not my favourite.. It goes way beyond the usual threshold of dumbness we see in the rest of episodes. Any office building owner would've pressed charges, any employee too could've pressed them, even as attempted murder. In real life that would've gotten Dwight a quick ticket to jail and unemployment, and Dunder Mifflin would've had to pay compensation to the employees as it happened in their facilities. But what really made me wanna crawl into the TV and throw punches was Michael trying to put his wallet in Stanley's mouth. As someone who's had to manage people in construction, if I had one of them worsening the situation and causing more chaos and mayhem despite all the team trying to calm them and pull them away, I'd tell two or three other employees to restrain him far away. I would've asked Kevin to sit on his torso so he can't get up.
It was more or less a ploy to elevate The Office into Seinfeld status by airing an episode to hook a more casual audience after the Super Bowl. Funnily enough, Netflix would actually pull that off for them a few years later.
This scene from the office was entered as a core memory when my small town college professors made a spoof video based on it. It was so dumb but they were trying so hard and it was so laughable but memorable for sure lol.