# The Office, "Jury Duty" (Feb. 2, 2012)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 3, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664 "2012-02-03T17:56:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/1 "2012-02-03T17:56:43Z")
A plot: Jim’s jury duty ends in half a day but he stays home for a week. Dwight gets suspicious when Jim refers to Ernesto’s lunch truck as a “restaurant” and tries to expose Jim’s lie and get him fired. When Jim confesses to Andy, Andy suggests a coverup.
B plot: Angela gives birth, a month early, but Oscar immediately catches on that the baby is not a newborn premature baby. Angela finally confesses to Oscar that the baby was conceived before her wedding.
Thoughts: Decent episode. Plenty of the old-fashioned awkward moments, with Jim calling in his wife and children as sympathy reinforcements.
I was totally into Dwight’s glee and was practically cheering for him. The Schrutemeister spawned! Way to go! Cancel the circumcision!
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/2 "2012-02-03T17:57:44Z")
So, Dwight might be a father, unless someone taught Mose sex.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/3 "2012-02-03T17:59:31Z")
I thought the beginning with the Nard Dog dancing was very funny. He also had a great line in the ep, but I’ll be damned if I can remember what it was.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/4 "2012-02-03T18:00:28Z")
Ordinarily I love references to Kevin Bacon’s Angry Dance, but Andy didn’t seem to be trying very hard to make it good.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/5 "2012-02-03T18:04:14Z")
:DSince the other thread on this started a whole MINUTE earlier, reported as a duplicate
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/6 "2012-02-03T18:06:42Z")
Oh, I got in a thead minute after you. I was woundering where the thread was for this episode. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/7 "2012-02-03T18:14:34Z")
Threads merged.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/8 "2012-02-03T19:01:21Z")
“That is not a premature baby. And Angela’s husband is gay. I don’t know which thread to follow!”
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/9 "2012-02-03T19:05:53Z")
I liked that the Senator couldn’t even be in the same room as an exposed breast.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/10 "2012-02-03T21:07:57Z")
I wonder how this will effect…
the Dwight Spin-Off show. Will he and Angela get back together with the new baby?
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/11 "2012-02-03T21:20:02Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#):
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> I wonder how this will effect…
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> the Dwight Spin-Off show. Will he and Angela get back together with the new baby?
Apparently that was just a rumor.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/12 "2012-02-03T21:26:34Z")
no it isn’t… [spoiler]-or at least there are real talks about it going around. Though I wouldn’t say it’s **confirmed**. I have a video to back me up:
[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/rainn-wilson-confirms-office-spinoff-works-sag-awards-red-carpet-interview-article-1.1014100?localLinksEnabled=false[/spoiler]](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/rainn-wilson-confirms-office-spinoff-works-sag-awards-red-carpet-interview-article-1.1014100?localLinksEnabled=false%5B/spoiler%5D)
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/13 "2012-02-03T22:35:32Z")
“The only premature baby is the one this baby ate.”
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/14 "2012-02-04T18:06:31Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#):
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> I wonder how this will effect…
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> the Dwight Spin-Off show. Will he and Angela get back together with the new baby?
Oh, god. The American Gothic spoof just presents itself.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/15 "2012-02-04T23:00:03Z")
Thursday was a big night for Jack Coleman, big things happening for his characters on both the Office and Vampire Diaries.
And his characters on both shows are gay, apparently. (That’s not a spoiler for the VD ep, his character was established as gay long before he even became an onscreen character.)
At first, I thought something else was going on with the giant preemie, rather than Dwight being the daddy (though that crossed my mind too, a little before Dwight showed). I was thinking maybe to play up the “state senator is gay” theory of Oscar, that the baby was really adopted and Angela was never really pregnant.
I loved that for all the squirming Jim had to do trying to get everyone to not be mad at him for playing hooky for the week, all it took was the kids showing up at the Office and turning into screaming brats.
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### Author:  [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/16 "2012-02-06T04:32:45Z")
This was the best episode of what has been a pretty dismal season for “The Office.”
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### Author:  [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/17 "2012-02-06T04:36:33Z")
> [@alfonzos](#):
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> This was the best episode of what has been a pretty dismal season for “The Office.”
I strongly disagree! It’s a great episode in a pretty great season for The Office. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/18 "2012-02-06T21:41:57Z")
Gabe: “I love maternity wards. It’s the perfect blend of love and horror.”
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/19 "2012-02-06T21:59:23Z")
> [@Mosier](#):
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> I strongly disagree! It’s a great episode in a pretty great season for The Office. 🙂
Oh, I agree!
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-jury-duty-feb-2-2012/611664/20 "2012-02-06T22:54:54Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> I thought the beginning with the Nard Dog dancing was very funny. He also had a great line in the ep, but I’ll be damned if I can remember what it was.
I big ol’ LOL-ed at his “I’ve never been lied to before.”