Golden Ticket
From Dunderpedia: The Office Wiki
This page needs serious attention!
| This article does not currently meet the standards set at Dunderpedia: The Office Wiki. Please feel free to edit it, and pose any questions you might have on the article's talk page. |
Golden Ticket
Production Code
517
Airdate
February 1, 2009
Written by
Directed by
"Golden Ticket" is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office, and the show's eighty-second episode overall. The episode will air in the United States on March 12, 2009, on NBC.
Contents |
[edit] Synopsis
Michael causes a huge problem in the office when he comes up with the idea to put "golden tickets" into packages of paper for clients to redeem for discounts. Andy, Jim, and Pam give Kevin differing advice on wooing a woman.
[edit] Amusing details
- After disposing of his Willy Wonka costume, Michael wears Andy's blazer for the remainder of the day.
[edit] Connections to previous episodes
- The last time Pam hugged Dwight was The Injury, another Mindy Kaling episode.
- Michael couldn't remember the name of the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in Goodbye, Toby.
- Kevin drinks out of the mug from Kelly's America's Got Talent party in Customer Survey.
- Michael also misused the phrase "No harm, no foul" in the episode Women's Appreciation.
[edit] Cultural references
- A knock-knock joke is a joke pattern popular among children. The joke pattern is demonstrated at the start of the episode when Michael tells a knock-knock joke to Pam. The ding-dong joke was invented for the episode.
- The KGB was the state security agency of the former Soviet Union.
- Michael's Golden Ticket idea and his Willy Wonka costume are taken from the children's movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
- The Golden Girls was a long-running American sitcom from the late 1980's.
- Golden Grahams is a brand of breakfast cereal.
- Michael is allegedly attending a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC (over 200 miles away).
- Another of Michael's excuses is attending an Obama fashion show. Barack Obama was President of the United States when this episiode aired.
- Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is a health insurance company based in nearby Wilkes-Barre. They also have an office in Scranton.
