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The Injury

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The Injury
Season
Episode

12
Production Code
02011
Airdate
January 12, 2006
Written by
Directed by


"The Injury" is the twelfth episode of the second season of The Office. It was written by Mindy Kaling and directed by Bryan Gordon. It first aired on January 12, 2006.

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[edit] Synopsis

Michael burns his foot stepping on to a George Foreman grill, and then tries to convince his staff that he has a serious injury. Meanwhile, Dwight, who tries to pick Michael up and bring him in to work upon hearing of his injury, crashes his car exiting Dunder Mifflin's parking lot, giving himself a concussion.

[edit] Deleted scenes

The Season Two DVD contains a number of deleted scenes from this episode. Notable cut scenes include:

  • Jim popping some of Michael's foot packaging bubbles. Jim then says he has had a grill for six years, and has never burnt himself on it because he does not use it as a pillow.
  • Michael explains that sometimes when he is zoned out, he will pop some bubble wrap at home.
  • Dwight explaining that the pioneers never wasted anything, and Jim says Michael should go to the hospital.
  • Ryan is assigned to draw a handicapped sign for Michael so he can park closer to the building.
  • Michael rubbing butter on his foot, and Angela passes and asks, "Who made popcorn?"
  • Michael talking to someone on the phone, but he hangs up on him when Ryan walks in with Michael's movies. He rented some for Michael to watch, and then gives Michael some dark meat chicken. Michael then tells the camera no matter what you have, if you eat dark meat chicken, you can walk on the moon.
  • Dwight using the copier to copy nothing. In a talking head interview, Dwight describes the signs of a concussion, but his explanation becomes disjointed and incoherent.
  • Dwight getting scared that he needs to go into a machine. He then asks Michael if he will come into the room with him and stand next to him.
  • Michael and Jim watch a movie in Spanish in the hospital waiting room.

[edit] Trivia

  • Brian Baumgartner and Angela Kinsey are caught out of character in the opening seconds of the episode. Kinsey admits that she didn't realize the cameras were rolling.
  • Dwight refers to Pam's MP3 player as a Prism Durosport. In reality, it looks much more like a Creative Zen Micro. The show's writers developed a fake Web site for the Prism Durosport.

[edit] Amusing details

  • When Michael says (in the conference room meeting), "When I clamped my foot into a non-stick grill," Pam turns to Dwight and laughs.
  • Michael's exasperated, "I'm sick of Chuck E. Cheese," suggests that he goes to the children's restaurant often.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Oscar mentions the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a series of movies released between 2001 and 2003.
  • Michael interjects Sue me! into opening his talking head. The litigious nature of United States culture is reflected in its slang. "Sue me!" means roughly "So what are you going to do about it?", suggesting that if the listener doesn't like it, they can sue the speaker.
  • A George Foreman Grill is a small cooking appliance sold under the name of the former heavyweight boxer. It has a hinged cover.
  • Protruberance is a mispronunciation of protuberance.
  • Stroudsburg is a town about an hour's drive from Scranton.
  • Dwight mentions this Russian website where you can download songs for two cents apiece. At the time this episode aired, the Russian web site AllofMP3.com made songs available for pennies per song.
  • Country Crock is a brand of butter substitute.
  • Mail Boxes Etc. (a UPS company) is a chain of mailing supply stores.
  • Stevie Wonder is a singer who is blind.
  • Helen Keller is a woman who was born deaf and blind. Larry Flynt is a publisher of pornography, paralyzed from a murder attempt. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States and hid his paralysis from the public. Tom Hanks portrayed Forrest Gump, a man with low intelligence, as well as the adult Josh Baskin, a boy trapped in a man's body.
  • Born on the Fourth of July is a movie about a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran.
  • Carbondale is a town about a half-hour's drive from Scranton.
  • Shotgun is a protocol for determining who sits in the front passenger seat.
  • Chuck E. Cheese is a chain of restaurants targetting children.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main Cast

[edit] Recurring Cast

[edit] Guest Cast

  • David Doty as Doctor
  • Julia Prud'homme as Nurse
  • Stephen Pisani as Hospital Visitor


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