# The Office: "Heavy Competition" (Open Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384 "2009-04-17T04:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/21 "2009-04-17T15:27:15Z")
“Look at that old dude and his roladex go!” “I thought Michael Scott left the paper business after his nervous breakdown.” “Go to our spot and walk 100 feet…towards the sun…noon…you have 2 seconds.” ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/22 "2009-04-17T15:30:48Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I would too. I wonder if it’s among the deleted scenes online. I would just love to see Charles try to absorb Dwight telling him all about his beet farm and the danger of bears, over a Grey Goose and a . . . what would Dwight drink? Grain alcohol and rain water. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/23 "2009-04-17T15:32:57Z")
> [@LionelHutz405](#): > > Pam mentioned she spent a month transferring it to his Blackberry (which he uses as a nightlight), so that might be a way he gets it back. Hopefully she somehow implemented his color coding system on the blackberry, so Michael doesn’t turn into Dwight. ---
**Author:** ![regginbrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@regginbrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/regginbrow)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/24 "2009-04-17T15:33:56Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > [Here](http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/2009/04/office-threesome.html) is an interview with Idris Elba in which Elba indicates that the door is being left open for his character to return. I’ll spoiler these quotes because they contain some hints about where the season is going: Thanks for the link. I’ve been somewhat worried about how they’re going to end this character arc. I was really hoping that it doesn’t end with Miner getting fired for the Scranton branch going to shit, and David Wallace begging Michael Scott to come back to his old job, ensuring that everything in the Office world going back to normal. Speaking of which, does anybody know if David Wallace is named after [David Foster Wallace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace)? They seem to have nothing in common, so I assume it’s probably a coincidence, but it’s who I always think of whenever Wallace is mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/25 "2009-04-17T15:35:44Z")
I’d guess that Dwight would drink something German - and not Beck’s either – more like some obscure import in a gigantic, eccentric looking bottle and with a 7 syllable, virtually unpronounceable German name. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/26 "2009-04-17T16:38:00Z")
> [@regginbrow](#): > > Thanks for the link. > > I’ve been somewhat worried about how they’re going to end this character arc. I was really hoping that it doesn’t end with Miner getting fired for the Scranton branch going to shit, and David Wallace begging Michael Scott to come back to his old job, ensuring that everything in the Office world going back to normal. > > Speaking of which, does anybody know if David Wallace is named after [David Foster Wallace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace)? They seem to have nothing in common, so I assume it’s probably a coincidence, but it’s who I always think of whenever Wallace is mentioned. I don’t know any of David W Wallace’s work, but I do know that he’s John Krasinski’s favorate author. I think I read that’s how Wallace got his name. Plus Krasinski adapted to screenplay and directed this: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790627/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790627/) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/27 "2009-04-17T17:41:46Z")
> [@malkavia](#): > > Did Dwight say “Spinmove!” when he twirled past the receptionist at his clients office? > > If so, I’m completely enamored. I thought the guitar playing a couple weeks back sealed the deal, but “spinmove” was brilliant. He definitely yelled spinmove. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/28 "2009-04-17T18:05:49Z")
“Did Mose fall into the well again?” “No, I roped it off.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/29 "2009-04-17T18:18:54Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > “Did Mose fall into the well again?” > “No, I roped it off.” Heh. Mose is dead to me - it’s baseball season, and I have no Ken Tremendous. (Apologies for the total hijack for people who have zero idea what I’m talking about.) ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/30 "2009-04-17T18:49:03Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > (Apologies for the total hijack for people who have zero idea what I’m talking about.) Somewhere Joe Morgan is laughing. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/31 "2009-04-17T19:07:39Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I’d guess that Dwight would drink something German - and not Beck’s either – more like some obscure import in a gigantic, eccentric looking bottle and with a 7 syllable, virtually unpronounceable German name. I would guess that Dwight doesn’t drink because it dulls the reflexes and leaves him vulnurable to attack. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/32 "2009-04-17T19:09:06Z")
See, I would think that Dwight is impervious to alcohol. But something like apple juice would bring him to his knees. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/33 "2009-04-17T19:12:49Z")
I loved that Dwight changed out of his white long-sleeved shirt into his short-sleeved mustard color one on his way to stop Michael stealing the client. And then he changed back in the parking lot. Another funny gag was Pam writing notes to Michael because he kept missing the point of what Dwight was saying on the phone. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/34 "2009-04-17T19:19:10Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I would guess that Dwight doesn’t drink because it dulls the reflexes and leaves him vulnurable to attack. Well, we know if you try to buy him a drink, he’ll discard it to guard against being drugged. But ISTR him holding a beer while at the bar with Michael & Ryan in NY. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/35 "2009-04-17T19:21:52Z")
I also liked the awkward handshake between Dwight and Charles. “Firm.” ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/36 "2009-04-17T19:25:30Z")
I can see why Michael is such a great salesman, what i don’t get now is how Dwight is also a great salesman while being so completely socially inept. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/37 "2009-04-17T19:29:07Z")
I think Dwight’s mistake was getting outside of his own style and trying to adopt Michael’s without really knowing what he was doing. Dwight’s own sales style is clipped and impersonal but efficient in its own way. He’s direct, focused, knowledgable and efficient. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/38 "2009-04-17T19:30:39Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I can see why Michael is such a great salesman, what i don’t get now is how Dwight is also a great salesman while being so completely socially inept. Last night’s episode showed Dwight being inept at using Michael’s techniques. He can’t pull off the act of being your best friend who remembers that your daughter has a nut allergy, even when he has that information at his fingertips. His technique is to point out how badly things will go wrong if you stay with your current supplier, and terrifying and bullying you into buying from him. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/39 "2009-04-17T20:10:27Z")
I loved Michael’s rolodex notes for Dwight: Tall. Beets. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384/40 "2009-04-17T20:15:26Z")
Pretty much a winnah for all characters. The writers seem to be having a tough time coming up with plot devices for the Jim character, now that the sexual tension is gone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-heavy-competition-open-spoilers/493384.md?page=3)