The Office: Glengarry Glen Scott

This episode reminded me vaguely of Glengarry Glen Ross. All of a sudden there’s all this talk of sales leads. Basically, the plot of this episode was that Sabre passed down a bunch of sales leads to the office, which Michael then withheld from the rest of the staff because apparently they were getting carried away with Sabre’s new “sales is king” policy. This endears Michael to all the members of the staff who were not acting like assholes as a result.

His newfound adulation meets some obstacles when Gabe from Sabre calls and wants to know about the status of the leads. Michael then distributes them, but only to the staff that has nothing to do with sales. They then hide them throughout the office, and it becomes a sort of bizarre scavenger hunt amongst the sales staff. Jim comes into the possession of a list of clues, and Dwight receives a false hint from Kevin that the leads are in the trash (leading him, no pun intended, wow I crack myself up, to first search the trash, then the dumpster, then a garbage truck, then the city dump; in sum, Dwight spends the episode rolling around in a lot of trash for nothing).

Dwight and Michael end up throwing trash at each other, before bringing bean bag chairs back to the office from the dump. Eventually everyone thinks the leads are in the garbage. Andy and Erin look as well, and don’t find them, but they finally end up making out, which was for me the only reason this episode is absolutely necessary to watch. That is of course, if you’ve cared about that angle of the plot as much as I have.

Season 6, Episode 19: New Leads (originally aired March 18, 2010)

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