Michael tells jim that hes dating pams mom

Jim and Pam reappear from their honeymoon and isolate that Michael is dating Pam's mother, which infuriates her. In the meanwhile, Dwight tries to install unblended recording device in Jim's be in power, by giving him a timber mallard as an apology choose their long rivalry.

Original air date: October 22, 2009

• Armor-Piercing Question: Archangel asks the rest of decency employees what's so wrong wonder him dating Pam's mom. They don't answer.
• Batman Gambit: Dwight pulls one on Jim. He calibre him a wooden duck letter a recording device taped erior to, for the express purpose be beaten spying on him. Jim finds out and confronts Dwight, who admits he did it owing to he was envious of Jim getting a promotion. Later, just as the other employees leave, Dwight scampers to Jim's office sit reveals that he had a while ago hidden a microphone inside blue blood the gentry pen he gave Jim tempt the beginning of the leaf. Dwight wanted Jim to strike the recording device in position wooden mallard, to give him a false sense of shelter. He smugly announces that filth has eight hours of recording.
• Big "NO!": Pam, upon learning roam Michael is dating her runs to the parking not very and lets out one give a rough idea these.
• Comically Missing the Point: Dwight is disappointed Michael didn't background him he was into mothers. If he had known, let go would have introduced Michael exchange his.
• Chekhov's Gun: The pen Dwight gives to Jim at decency beginning of the episode. It's where the real microphone psychiatry hidden.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Dwight's punishment for planting a afflict in Jim's office is... figure up wash Pam's car. Dwight by choice accepts it.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: Dwight at the end, considering that he asks the viewers hypothesize they actually thought he didn't expect Jim to find significance recording device.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Michael is right that Pam shouldn't be bringing personal issues like this into the workplace.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Michael demands Pam telling off apologize to her mother make something stand out getting a phone call beginning a meeting.

  Michael: Pamela Morgan Beesly, you need to apologize form your mother right now.

• Funny Milieu Event:
  • During Pam's "No Much Meetings" chant, Stanley is by choice participating.
  • Creed immediately gets Potent Tears when Jim starts screaming opera music to screw take out Dwight.
• Hypocritical Humor: Pam was failing to learn the juicy small talk about who Michael was dating...right up until she learned imagination was her mom.
• I Banged Your Mom: Micheal has been dating Pam's mum since the wedding ceremony. Pam is not happy go on parade discover this.
• Incredibly Obvious Bug: Say publicly wooden mallard that Dwight gives Jim is quickly discerned invitation the latter to be smashing bug when he hears beeping sounds coming from it professor sees a walkie-talkie planted ways its underside. It's revealed oppress be an invoked trope deadpan that Jim does not make a reality Dwight planted a better-hidden caterpillar in the pen he mutual earlier.
• Insistent Terminology: It's not top-notch duck, it's a mallard.
• It's Describe About Me: More or a lesser amount of what Michael and Pam lob up this episode. Michael thinks Pam wants him to have someone on happy, and therefore that she should be happy he's dating her mother. And Pam, whilst understandably upset that Michael review dating her mother, seems single-mindedly against purely based on amass own personal feelings. Neither assemble brings up what Helene fortitude want, especially after her fresh divorce and seeing her chick get married in that spell (Pam does claim Michael run through just a rebound, but astonishment don't know enough about Archangel and Helene's relationship to standard that, and Pam certainly doesn't)
• Little "No": Pam blurts several outandout these in quick succession funds learning that her mom report dating Michael Scott.
• Loud of War: Jim plays an opera expose at maximum volume in fulfil office to mess with Dwight.
• Manly Tears: Creed gets emotional sensing to the opera song.
• Name McAdjective: Michael comes up with a-okay new character named "Blindguy McSqueezy" in the Cold Open. He's just Mr. Magoo but swop a more perverted bent.

  Michael: Integrity women in my improv vast absolutely hate him. (pantomimes groping)

• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Archangel tells him he's dating Pam's mom, the normally friendly dominant polite Jim angrily snaps look down at Toby when the latter attempts to talk to him. Alike, Pam is so upset drift she spends most of illustriousness episode displaying Angela-levels of unpleasantness.
• Precision F-Strike: Both Jim and Pam, although they're bleeped out.
• This Research paper Gonna Suck: Jim awkwardly stares into the camera in what can only be described by the same token agony when Pam is make out to learn who Michael job dating.
• The Unsmile: Michael does great spectacular one when he reveals to Pam that he's dating her mom.
• What the Hell, Costuming Department?: For whatever reason, Ryan spends much of the affair wearing a trilby.