The Duel - The Office Field Guide - S5E12

We have two 'standoffs' in this one, between Michael and Wallace and between Andy and Dwight.
Not going to lie, there were so many great lines in this one that I couldn't work into the script...so let me hear about it in the comments!
#TheOffice is one of the greatest shows of the 2000s! I’m reviewing every episode with some background, trivia, the deeper meaning, and more. Today, we're looking at the #Duel episode.
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[@michaelbarker6732]

Oscar’s reaction when Dwight says “It seems like you already know” has always been so hilarious to me. Also the end of this episode where Angela gets neither of them is so cathartic in a kindof dark way.

[@BakedBeansILoveYou]

I love the deleted scenes with Angela on this episode. They're definitely too sympathetic to her. She deserves no sympathy. But I do really love how we see her reasoning and psyche.

[@tinas_hotdog_sophie]

How people hated Jam or Pam specifically when you have the trainwreck that Angela and Dwight are, is beyond me. 🤣

[@dingdongism]

¿Por qué no los dos?

[@arandomperson8189]

The strongest animal according to dwight is the sasquatch

[@amandaclarke763]

So I have a different theory about Michael and Andy’s talk. I think Michael wanted to tell him but couldn’t find the words (which we see later in episode where he says that sometimes he starts sentences and he doesn’t know where it’s going and he hopes he will find it somewhere along the way). I think Michael chickened because he couldn’t find the right words but then Andy tells michael through a closed window to give David Wallace hell boss. Michael then changes his mind again and tells him. Because Andy doesnt know. Michael is in the same position of not knowing why he is going to head office which he takes as bad. I think Andy’s clear loyalty to his boss and encouragement made Michael do the same thing for Andy.

[@Mulverine]

I like that!

[@amandaclarke763]

@@Mulverine I didn’t explain it very well maybe I am Michael! But it’s what I have always thought because it also reminds me of when Andy got Dwight fired/quit and Andy was always asking Michael where he is going and Andy says he will walk with him. So Michael in this episode asks Andy to walk with him, then the rest is above, Michael not having the right words and deciding not to do it but when Andy wishes him luck and encouragement Michael changed his mind again because of Andy’s loyalty to him. Anyway I am glad someone likes my theory.

[@razkable]

@@Mulverine the Wallace Mike b plot is planting seeds for later on this season when Charles is hired and Mike quits and the whole David vs Mike trust thing that ends the season basically with Mike winning...which calls back to when Ryan was chosen over Mike for the job to end season 3 when Jim didn't go for it and the whole Jan deposition stuff in season 4

[@sonnyschwichtenberg1369]

I’ve finally found someone who knows as much if not more than me about the office

[@ESJonas]

Make a channel. I'll probably watch it too. Haha

[@danielanderson6933]

I know more than either of you. I know the ENTIRE DUNDER MIFFLIN SCRANTON BUSINESS PARK LAYOUT BABY

[@booksxbritttv]

Angela was a social climber. That's why she wanted to be with Andy. She loved the prestige that came with being with Andy as his family were WASPs. Remember she bragged about his family coming over in the Mayflower and was upset when Dwight tried to belittle it. And when she got with the senator she was all giddy over the privileges and perks she attained by being with him. Bragging about 2 cameras at a dedication lol. Awesome video. And she was low-key jealous of how rich her women coworkers social lives were.

[@razkable]

The writers legit made an error making her and Dwight split over something so petty as an old sick cat dying maybe a month or two max before it was suppose to...which was all Mike fault for running over Meredith and Pam fault for forcing everyone to visit her leading to Dwight going to her house to feed her cat and give it medicine....which Angela decided to do....it was a stupid breakup plot point

[@BakedBeansILoveYou]

​@@razkableoh wow never get a pet. Or a child... Just because something is going to die doesn't mean it should die, or die horrifically. If someone killed my cats I most certainly would never marry them...

[@Lasagna_Garfield_]

Nobody should be bragging about being descended of the idiot zealots that crawled out of the Mayflower. England didn’t send their best on that ship…

[@Mibbitmaker]

I noticed that the moment Dwight grabs the bobblehead before throwing it in the trash mirrors the opening sequence when Michael adjusts his Dundee. The pause focuses that moment, as well as adding a bit of suspense about what he's going to do.

[@deadparrothead3175]

About every manager has their own figurine for lack of a better word, were was I going with this sentence... Oh, ya. It's pretty cool how they did that at the end of the opening. I'd tell you all of them but it would be a spoiler. And Creed's is the best IMHO.

[@TCStall]

Sasquatch is the strongest animal! I don’t know if there’s another comment yet, I got excited that I knew this one and didn’t check. Edited: yeah, there’s a lot of other comments, haha

[@lobstepgaming249]

I think the branch does so well because Kevin is messing up the numbers and fraud is happening 😂 I love it

[@dm9489]

I hadn't watched this one in a while, I usually skip it, not sure why. After watching this video, I'm reminded that its a good episode, and maybe I should give it a go again. And you are right, bad green screen, but not as bad as the one where Michael and Dwight are at the dump, oh boy, that one was bad!!! Great review as always!!

[@razkable]

It's a great ep

[@bigwilly43729]

It's weird how Wallace doesn't understand what they are doing. They absorbed an entire branch's customer base and effectively dumped a bunch of salary & benefits with the personnel losses from Stamford. I guess the deeper answer is that the Scranton salespeople exemplify the calling card of the company: customer service & being very personable with the customers. Michael (when needed), Jim, Stanley, Phyllis & Dwight know how to turn it on when they need to; Ryan, Pam & Andy aren't as good, so we see them struggle with sales. You can see the disconnect between Wallace & his stuffy, corporate world and the more personal feeling Scranton has. Glad I'm not the only one who sees that Angela's motives don't make any sense. From the moment Dwight kills Sprinkles, almost nothing she does with or to him is done with any real clarity.

[@shady_the_one]

I think this is the case to a T, because I imagine that when we don't see Michael or any of the other characters from Scranton, Dunder Mifflin Corporate is, well... Corporate. Cold, bland, stuffy. Then we see Michael or Dwight or Jim or even Karen go in and it doesn't feel like it's as cold, but they're in a cold place. Ryan fit right in with the corporate office though, and he also started the fire

[@RenRavage]

@@shady_the_one "Fire guyyy"

[@razkable]

Its clear having Jim being an assistant manager to regulate everyone fairly when Mike isn't around thus giving Dwight more free time to focus on sales instead of petty tasks and having Jim motivated to work harder due to his dream girlfriend who he hopes to propose to marry move into a new house with and have kids with is the key to their success....Jim Dwight and Mike all are manager level people and great salesmen....their all at their peak performance in early season 5...Mike is motivated because he met Holly dumped Jan Dwight has Angela back and Jim has Pam...Andy sucks at sales but we find out later he too has manager level potential and the thing is behind the scenes I bet he secretly gives a little of his family trustfund money to the company to make up for his lack of sales and if his family is as wealthy and important as he claims and the show proves then the company can't fire him because of connections they may have created to important investors through his dad...which is why he was hired I bet

[@samiralawton7497]

I definitely wouldn't mind a mulverine style video on the history of dueling. You have a very comprehensive style. You still have a while till you finish the office but it's never bad to branch out

[@Mulverine]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@jacobrasmussen2389]

Sasquatch is the strongest animal on the planet

[@jenniferjuneau7329]

Wow so glad I found this channel. I am obsessed with The Office. I watch it every day, must have seen every episode a dozen or more times

[@coglineerro730]

Definitely of the best episodes of the show. Not my favorite, but it’s top ten.

[@Mulverine]

List me some Schrute Rules that all children must learn by the age of 5!

[@vhs3760]

Schrute children who bring home animals as pets must slaughter and cook them for the family dinner. Animals are food, not friends.

[@silverwinter6262]

I grew up hunting in eastern Europe and my family lived outside of Zagreb and there were legitimate families that i remember having rules like the schrutes you wouldnt be eaten but they would have harsh punishments like waking up and walking to the market to sell apples consider they were in rural areas of eastern croatia

[@Zaccancook]

number 7 you must know how to make beet wine

[@hero0fcanton190]

Saving the excess oil from Tuna cans!

[@MrCider-vz9io]

If you kill a goose, always save the grease. Don't wanna go to the store for a can of expensive goose grease.

[@georgemason2182]

This is a great episode. The reason for the b plot is to prove Michael is important to the company, so the Michael Scott Paper Company arc makes sense.

[@evanbookout]

found prison mike in the vending machine, 2:20

[@briantidwell651]

In that Moroccan Christmas episode, I always thought it was rude and heartless of everyone to basically snub Andy after his song... if I had just found out what THEY found out and then the victim of that story performs a song for me, I would have gone out of my way to gush over the performance... but everyone acts like ANDY just kicked their dog lol... NEVER fit for me 🤷‍♂️ ...RUDE

[@mechengr1731]

I dont think they knew what to do. They just learned that Angela was making their whole relationship a sham, yet he had been innocently learning a song for her the whole party.

[@BakedBeansILoveYou]

I think a lot of it's shock but really we all know Kelly would say something....

[@kandlerhappe6796]

Sasquatch got to be the strongest one 💪

[@gete2526]

Easter egg is at 2:21 on the vending machine Trivia: a squatch

[@pendragon2012]

I don't have much sympathy for Angela here. She's caught in her lie and tries to lie her way out of it by suggesting that if Andy doesn't dump her, she'll stop sleeping with Dwight.

[@razkable]

The reason Angela broke up with Dwight is so stupid and her being with Andy for so long never made sense to me...its a relationship we all forget happened honestly so when it's ever brought up again like 1 time a season we all cringe cause we like to forget it

[@pendragon2012]

@@razkable Because he killed her cat and lied about it? lol. I don't even like cats and I agree that's a decent reason for breaking up. Let's be real. Dwight was a walking red flag.

[@markfigueroa1681]

His philosophy is never way too long for youtube. It's one of the best parts of the series.

[@Beavis-ej3ny]

Sasquatch is the strongest animal on the planet! -Dwight Kurt Schrute

[@jacktaylor6155]

I should thumbs down for an ad break right at the funniest moments of the show!

[@Mulverine]

Fixed! I think.

[@Rickrollmachine23]

You should do an episode/series on office parodies like "the class"

[@ProvencaLeGaulois]

To add on to your point about learning from your past, Angela says she's already had two men duel over her (might be a deleted scene? I have no idea), so there's another possible mistake from her past that she didn't learn from. Also I've been trying to find a Schrute rule for 10 min but I got nothing for you my man, sorry...

[@Mulverine]

Oh you just make some up! These are fake rules! And yes! How did I not include that in the episode.

[@ProvencaLeGaulois]

You must always taste the soil your relatives are buried in.

[@razkable]

To be fair Oscar owes Dwight for not ratting out that he was gay when he took a day off...

[@AriCircuit]

I always liked this episode!

[@razkable]

I like how intense it is and how it's shot

[@BakedBeansILoveYou]

The surplus, Moroccan Christmas, and the Duel are some of my favourite episodes. Mostly because of DwAndGela

[@kimsomniac2144]

I'm guessing Dunder Mifflin took a huge hit financially during and because of Ryan's time in corporate. He was lying to stock share holders, I assume many investors dropped them as soon as they could .

[@razkable]

Which is funny cause they already had layoff issues in season 1 and 2 and in season 3 they were told they were being dropped until the manager at the other branch screwed their plans up and in season 4 Jan loses her job and in season 6 they get bought by Sabre so ironically season 5 is the only season the branch is stable

[@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD]

I just rewatched not to long ago maybe day or 2 on comedy central

[@jasonellis9777]

Love the channel! Have you ever thought going to 10 point max system? I see you take slack over 4/5 for mostly episodes.I agree with you because most episodes where you are rating now are really good episodes. Lol. I’m sure you have thought of it just maybe a way to give you a bit more wiggle room. Almost like when boxing switched from winning the round to the 10 point must system. Anyhow, glad I found the channel and really enjoy your breakdown of such a great show!

[@KyleDavis328]

One thing that I just thought about at the end of the video. Having watched a bunch of your videos out of order and agreeing that the greenscreening throughout the series isn't very good. One thing that came to my mind, the time that this show was originally airing was the late transition between CRT and LCD televisions, Michael famously spending what he thought was a lot of money on what he thought was a large plasma TV. For one, this was all being broadcast at standard NTSC resolution of 480i, and for a non-negligible number of viewers, watched on a CRT. Given these conditions the special effects probably weren't as jarring or obvious. Not having a way to play the show on a CRT anymore, I wouldn't be able to confirm, but these does hold true for a lot of cinema, old special effects look really bad when a full HD or ultra HD remaster is made. The Star Wars prequels I think are a great example of this, the Phantom Menace looks extremely uncanny on the Disney+ version, but it never looked bad before, it looked great. Well, DVDs are 720p, a fraction of the resolution modern 4K releases are, and that upscaling used to make the higher res versions destroy the special effects.

[@user-or3zy2ed7t]

you didn't mention the weapons, my favorite part

[@oceanman6528]

2:21, vending machine 😁

[@NostalJackMusic]

Is “Splitting up Together” any good? I don’t think I ever heard anything about it since it started airing a couple years ago.

[@sarajinki]

It's one of my fave episodes!

[@nightwingjosh8491]

speaking of the history of duels, you could have easily referenced hamilton

[@armargo]

Sasquatch is the strongest animal

[@Zaccancook]

Sasquatch is the strongest animal on the planet at least I am 99% sure

[@liambrewerpowerlifting]

sasquatch is the strongest animal

[@LebowskyDude]

Easter Egg at 2.21 in the vending machine but I can't figure out how much dollars is that worth 🤔

[@marksotnikov5587]

I hate angela more than anyone else in this episode.

[@KingRioT1]

I hate Angela in every single episode she’s in

[@razkable]

Well duh

[@linzzyy]

another great episode breakdown, thank you

[@owenmcguire525]

It's a sasquatch I've been bing watching these and this is the first trivia I got besides car ones but I'm a car guy n pay attention to those things so doesn't count

[@dominicmaino4331]

The trivia answer is Sasquatch!!!

[@ajhuffman8158]

He says Sasquahes are the strongest(I think I spelled it wrong but whatever)

[@cynicaltheastrocreep4504]

The strongest animals is sasquatch

[@Ok-sl6le]

Sascuach

[@thenewmilescopeland805]

Don't waste Goose Grease Rule

[@parkerplays6465]

Easter egg at 2:21

[@sonnyschwichtenberg1369]

Next weeks 👑👨‍👩‍👧‍👦📃🦈🚗

[@theclc9143]

Saquatch

[@evanbookout]

sasquatch

[@user-uu7fe9wi2k]

Sasquach is the strongest animal according to Dwight, I'm probably too late but I wanted to comment anyway

[@AriCircuit]

🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🔪🤴📄🚗🛠️☹️

[@brookethebaron9270]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@razkable]

Angela never deserved Dwight in the end....he was better off leaving her to be a mess and ending up with Ester

[@JA-bh3cq]

Sasquatch

[@bumdow]

Sassquatch

[@sweettea527]

Is the Easter Egg a literal egg?

[@BakedBeansILoveYou]

Egg Helms

[@yohebs]

call me a sasquatch

[@mikepastor.k6233]

The correct answer is "sasquatch"

[@dr.roberts4508]

When Michael asked for the Pasta. That was the beginning of the end

[@perk3098]

Box jelly fish

[@mikepastor.k6233]

Angela did het her revenge..

[@jordansweet8054]

Always hated Angela after this one. She was always the worse.

[@vhs3760]

strongest animal on the planet? gotta be bears, right?

[@lauriyna132]

THIRTY ONE

[@graceisawesome539]

I had o idea they used a green screen

[@BakedBeansILoveYou]

Do you not have eyes??

[@nelsonmlazo4449]

💁‍♀️🔥👑👨‍👩‍👧‍👦📃

[@Sheldonjplanktonthethird]

First

[@AriCircuit]

Nah Mulverine was first

[@1santillan1]

Sasquatch

[@jameswilson3246]

Sasquatch

[@ThemobileGamerYBA]

Sasquatch

[@o11iepdragoon32]

Sasquatch