Blood Drive

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"Blood Drive" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office, and the show's eighty-first episode overall. The episode will air in the United States on March 5, 2009, on NBC

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Connections to previous episodes 3 Cultural references 4 Cast 4.1 Guest Cast

[edit] Synopsis

It’s Valentine’s Day at the office. Michael meets a mysterious woman at a Valentine’s blood drive. Dwight and Kevin pair up with single women at the office “Lonely Hearts Party.” Meanwhile Jim and Pam are banished from the office for being too publicly affectionate, and have an awkward lunch with Phyllis and Bob.

[edit] Connections to previous episodes

• Jim previously pretended to be Michael Scott in Halloween.
• Michael's enthusiastic rendition of Fonzie's Aaay echoes his enthusiastic Whassup? in Pilot.
• In this episode, Pam gets flowers for Valentine's Day, while Phyllis gets sex. In the episode Valentine's Day, Phyllis gets flowers for Valentine's Day, while Pam gets sex.

[edit] Cultural references

• A Blood Drive is an event in which people are encouraged to donate blood.
• Valentine's Day is a holiday that celebrates romantic love. Symbols for the holiday include hearts and Cupid, the Roman god of erotic live (who causes people to fall in love by shooting them with a magic arrow).
• Jim quips, "Those mines aren't gonna sweep themselves." He refers to the game Minesweeper which comes with Microsoft Windows, the operating system used on computers in the office.
• Jim distracts Michael by saying Aaay (with thumbs-up gesture) in the style of the character Fonzie from the 1970's-1980's comedy Happy Days.
• Kelly receives a Valentine, short for Valentine's Day card.
• Michael calls himself a human juicebox, referring to an aseptic container for holding liquids, usually juice. He also makes puns on Hawaiian blood punch and Type O-Ocean Spray, referring to Hawaiian Punch and Ocean Spray, brands of fruit juice.
• Michael says, "We no need no stinkin relationships" (and points at Oscar) during the mixer, an allusion to the line "We don't need no stinking badges" commonly (but erroneously) attributed to the 1948 film The Treasure of Sierra Madre.
• In the sport of bowling, a perfect score is 300.
• The Eagles are a professional American football team who compete in the East Division of the National Football Conference (called the NFC East).
• The Circle Drive-In is a real drive-in theater in Dickson City.
• Kelly exclaims, "This is like a modern day Enchanted!" Enchanted is a 2007 movie about a fairy tale princess who is forced to cope with the modern world.
• Jim wonders whether Bob and Phyllis dined and dashed, slang for leaving a restaurant without paying.
• Michael talks about Cinderella and her glass slipper, a classic folk tale in Western culture.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Guest Cast

• Kathryn Aselton as Woman giving blood
• Hugh Dane as Hank Tate
• Bobby Ray Shafer as Bob Vance
• Tate Hanyok as Catalog woman
• Julie Remala as Phlebotomist
• Jason Rogel as Erik
• Lisa K. Wyatt as Lynn

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