Dwight has won Dunder-Mifflin's Top Salesman of The Year award, and he's nervous about giving a speech in front of everyone at the convention. Pam uses office time to plan her wedding, which drives Jim crazy to the point where he decides to travel when she gets married. The employees each adjust the thermostat to a different temperature.
Air date: March 2, 2006
Tropes
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Dwight's attempt at a practice speech to his co-workers starts off with Michael's beloved "Gooood morning, Vietnam!".
- Did Not Think This Through: Jim gives Dwight a speech with phrases used by dictators like Mussolini in the hopes it will embarrass him when the audience hears it. What Jim didn't understand was that part of the reason those men were able to seize power in the first place was that the public speeches they made were incredibly charismatic. The result is that the audience is captivated by Dwight's passionate words and gives him huge applause.
- Erotic Eating: Dwight and grapes.
- Hidden Depths: Creed can speak Cantonese.
- Innocently Insensitive: Subverted. Ryan tells Kelly that he's not interested in ever getting married, leading her to storm out. Pam tells him to be more careful what he says given Kelly's clear crush on him, only for him to bluntly reply that he knew what he said.
- LOL, 69: Kevin says he always sets the office thermostat to 69 degrees, then smirks knowingly.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: It appears that Jim is pranking Dwight by telling him to bang his fists, and giving him a speech by Mussolini. But when Dwight delivers the speech, it's amazing.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Jim notes that Dwight has attained "the highest possible honor" for "a northeastern Pennsylvania-based mid-sized paper company regional salesman."
- Proud Warrior Race: In his speech, Dwight likens sales people to soldiers in the war of work.Dwight: (while pounding fists on the podium) It! Is! A PRIVILEGE! TO FIGHT!
- Pun: Abso-fruit-ly.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Jim books a flight to Australia to make sure he's as far away from Pam's wedding as possible.
- Michael walks out on Dwight's speech when he realises the latter's speech has a much better reception than his own.
- Truth in Television: Dwight's adapting one of Mussolini's speeches to sales is more plausible when you realize that many people already applied Sun Tzu's The Art of War to business.
- Wig, Dress, Accent: It's a big hat rather than a wig, but Angela's Paper-Thin Disguise while she takes off work to videotape Dwight fits here.Kevin: I have never seen you take a sick day.
Angela: Well, I've seen you take enough for both of us.
