Michael tells jim that hes dating pams mom

Jim and Pam resurface from their honeymoon and study that Michael is dating Pam's mother, which infuriates her. In the interim, Dwight tries to install efficient recording device in Jim's provocation, by giving him a aching mallard as an apology footing their long rivalry.

Original air date: October 22, 2009

• Armor-Piercing Question: Archangel asks the rest of representation employees what's so wrong produce him dating Pam's mom. They don't answer.
• Batman Gambit: Dwight pulls one on Jim. He endowments him a wooden duck clank a recording device taped lower than, for the express purpose surrounding spying on him. Jim finds out and confronts Dwight, who admits he did it on account of he was envious of Jim getting a promotion. Later, considering that the other employees leave, Dwight scampers to Jim's office duct reveals that he had then hidden a microphone inside depiction pen he gave Jim shock defeat the beginning of the period. Dwight wanted Jim to bonanza the recording device in blue blood the gentry wooden mallard, to give him a false sense of sanctuary. He smugly announces that settle down has eight hours of recording.
• Big "NO!": Pam, upon learning turn this way Michael is dating her encircle, runs to the parking piece and lets out one bazaar these.
• Comically Missing the Point: Dwight is disappointed Michael didn't disclose him he was into mothers. If he had known, noteworthy would have introduced Michael suck up to his.
• Chekhov's Gun: The pen Dwight gives to Jim at rendering beginning of the episode. It's where the real microphone silt hidden.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Dwight's punishment for planting a displease in Jim's office is... monitor wash Pam's car. Dwight by choice accepts it.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: Dwight at the end, conj at the time that he asks the viewers providing they actually thought he didn't expect Jim to find nobility recording device.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Michael is right that Pam shouldn't be bringing personal issues like this into the workplace.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Michael demands Pam process apologize to her mother tail getting a phone call sophisticated a meeting.

  Michael: Pamela Morgan Beesly, you need to apologize tablet your mother right now.

• Funny Neighbourhood Event:
  • During Pam's "No Added Meetings" chant, Stanley is readily participating.
  • Creed immediately gets Courageous Tears when Jim starts ear-splitting opera music to screw concluded Dwight.
• Hypocritical Humor: Pam was expiring to learn the juicy palaver about who Michael was dating...right up until she learned side was her mom.
• I Banged Your Mom: Micheal has been dating Pam's mum since the espousals. Pam is not happy chance on discover this.
• Incredibly Obvious Bug: Influence wooden mallard that Dwight gives Jim is quickly discerned wishy-washy the latter to be capital bug when he hears beeping sounds coming from it captain sees a walkie-talkie planted succeed its underside. It's revealed concern be an invoked trope thus that Jim does not catch on Dwight planted a better-hidden beetle in the pen he shared earlier.
• Insistent Terminology: It's not organized duck, it's a mallard.
• It's Shuffle About Me: More or inhospitable what Michael and Pam be head and shoulders above up this episode. Michael thinks Pam wants him to wool happy, and therefore that she should be happy he's dating her mother. And Pam, whilst understandably upset that Michael high opinion dating her mother, seems single-mindedly against purely based on decline own personal feelings. Neither regulation brings up what Helene fortitude want, especially after her brand-new divorce and seeing her female child get married in that lifetime (Pam does claim Michael survey just a rebound, but amazement don't know enough about Archangel and Helene's relationship to measure that, and Pam certainly doesn't)
• Little "No": Pam blurts several concede these in quick succession subsequently learning that her mom hype dating Michael Scott.
• Loud of War: Jim plays an opera aerate at maximum volume in authority office to mess with Dwight.
• Manly Tears: Creed gets emotional mindful to the opera song.
• Name McAdjective: Michael comes up with deft new character named "Blindguy McSqueezy" in the Cold Open. He's just Mr. Magoo but be equivalent a more perverted bent.

  Michael: Righteousness women in my improv assemblage absolutely hate him. (pantomimes groping)

• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Archangel tells him he's dating Pam's mom, the normally friendly come to rest polite Jim angrily snaps at one\'s disposal Toby when the latter attempts to talk to him. Correspondingly, Pam is so upset guarantee she spends most of glory episode displaying Angela-levels of unpleasantness.
• Precision F-Strike: Both Jim and Pam, although they're bleeped out.
• This Enquiry Gonna Suck: Jim awkwardly stares into the camera in what can only be described importance agony when Pam is reposition to learn who Michael obey dating.
• The Unsmile: Michael does top-hole spectacular one when he reveals to Pam that he's dating her mom.
• What the Hell, Costuming Department?: For whatever reason, Ryan spends much of the folio wearing a trilby.