Dwight finds half a joint in the parking lot and launches an investigation in the office, to find the culprit. Michael needs clean pee. Jim loses to Pam in a game of "Jinx," and has to be silent until he buys her a Coke.
Air date: April 27, 2006
Tropes
- *Cough* Snark *Cough*: *cough*Narc!*cough
- Gaslighting: Jim indulges in a bit of this when Dwight interviews him as part of the investigation:Jim: I'm just saying that you can't be sure that it wasn't you.Dwight: That's ridiculous, of course it wasn't me.Jim: Marijuana is a memory loss drug, so maybe you just don't remember.Dwight: I would remember.Jim: Well, how could you, if it just erased your memory?Dwight: That's not how it works.Jim: (suspicious) Now how do you know how it works?Dwight: ...knock it off, okay, I'm interviewing you!Jim: No, you said that I'd be conducting the interview when I walked in here, now exactly how much pot did you smoke?!Dwight: (wide-eyed and silent)
- Ignored Expert: When Creed identifies a photo as being "Northern Lights Cannabis Indica," Dwight dejectedly says, "No, it's marijuana," and continues interviewing people.
- Insult Backfire: When Michael calls Dwight a narc.Dwight: If you are attempting to compliment me, then you are doing a very good job.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All:
- Michael's lecture to the employees about drugs is woefully uninformed. He warns them against "smoking drugs" and "doing alcohol", then his list of drugs includes cocaine along with several street names for it listed separately, "heroine" and "hookah", which Toby points out is a type of tobacco pipe rather than a drug.
- Dwight himself is also shown to not actually know that much about marijuana. When he shows a picture of it to Creed, Creed identifies it as "Northern Lights Cannabis Indica". Dwight, not realizing Creed just identified the marijuana by its strain name, thinks this means Creed doesn't know what it is and that he's innocent.
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Michael makes some dubious claims in his presentation.This year more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children!
- Motor Mouth:
- One of the few times Kelly is called out on this.
Kelly: And the guys are saying "chug! chug! chug!" but I’m so small and all I’d eaten that day was one of those Auntie Anne pretzels from the food court so I said “Is it okay if I sip it?” and they said no, but Ryan seemed cool either way...Dwight: Stop! This is not Kelly Kapoor Story Hour! Illegal drugs were consumed on company property, okay? Your ass is on the line, mister! My ass is on the line!- Later in the episode, though, this helps Jim, since Kelly's one-sided monologue in her "best conversation" with him means he doesn't need to talk, as per his Jinx from Pam.
- Oblivious to Their Own Description: It takes Kevin a while to catch on when Dwight goes through the side effects of pot smoking with him.Dwight: You tell me who this sounds like...Slow moving. Inattentive. Dull. Constantly snacking. Shows a lack of motivation.Kevin: (nods in agreement, then pauses for a bit) Hey!
- Secret Test of Character: When Michael suddenly chastises everyone for mocking Dwight, the others point out that Michael was doing it as well. Michael then very unconvincingly tries to claim that he was actually testing them, and they failed.
- Serious Business: Dwight finds a smoked joint in the parking lot and not only does he start interrogating everyone to find out who it belonged to, he even draws a chalk outline around it and surrounds the spot with traffic cones like it's a crime scene.Jim: As it turns out, Dwight finding drugs is more dangerous than most people using drugs.
- Shout-Out: In his lecture, Michael notes "Everybody knows that Cheech & Chong are funny, but just imagine how funny they would be if they didn’t smoke pot!"
- So Unfunny, It's Funny: Michael's attempt to imitate a stoner.Michael: Dude, where's my office? I totally lost it...'cause I was half-baked...smokin' doobies...Doobie Brothers...I was smokin' doobies with my brothers...peace out, Seacrest!
Ryan: I don’t think Michael’s ever done drugs. I don’t know if anyone has ever offered him any. - Turn in Your Badge: Dwight becomes so disillusioned after providing Michael with his urine that he resigns as a volunteer sheriff afterwards. This is played with in a deleted scene, where it's revealed that Dwight wasn't supposed to have a badge, or weapons-grade mace, or perform any law enforcement activities.
- The Unreveal: It's never revealed who left the joint behind in the first place. A deleted scene revealed the perps were a pair of Vance Refrigeration employees, Leo and Gino.
