E-mail Surveillance

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"E-mail Surveillance"

Phyllis karaokes in "E-mail Surveillance"
Episode No. 15
Prod. Code 208
Airdate November 22, 2005
Writer(s) Jennifer Celotta
Director Paul Feig

The Office Season 2
September 2005 - May 2006
  1. The Dundies
  2. Sexual Harassment
  3. Office Olympics
  4. The Fire
  5. Halloween
  6. The Fight
  7. The Client
  8. Performance Review
  9. E-mail Surveillance
  10. Christmas Party
  11. Booze Cruise
  12. The Injury
  13. The Secret
  14. The Carpet
  15. Boys and Girls
  16. Valentine's Day
  17. Dwight's Speech
  18. Take Your Daughter to Work Day
  19. Michael's Birthday
  20. Drug Testing
  21. Conflict Resolution
  22. Casino Night
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"E-mail Surveillance" is the ninth episode of the second season of The Office (U.S. version). It was written by Jennifer Celotta and directed by Paul Feig. It first aired on November 22, 2005

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After Michael mistakes the company's tech support employee for a terrorist, he informs Michael that he can monitor his employee's e-mails which causes Jim to worry that Michael will discover the party he is throwing that night, to which Michael is not invited. Inevitably, Michael notices and tries to get Jim to admit that he's having a party, while Jim acts nonchalantly as if nothing is happening. Pam notices some things that lead her to suspect that Dwight and Angela are dating. However she discreetly abandons her suspicions when she realizes that suspicions could just as easily be raised about her and Jim. Jim and Pam bond when she sees Jim's room for the first time and looks through his high school year book. After ruining an improv class, Michael decides to crash Jim's party, much to the staff's dismay (and Dwight's cluelessness). The documentary crew catches Angela and Dwight making out in Jim's backyard.

[edit] Trivia

For a list of songs featured in this episode, see List of songs featured on The Office (US TV series).
  • John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer had a major laughing fit during the lunchroom scene with Michael. Jenna stated she was amazed they were able to cut the scene together.[1]
  • When in the lunchroom Michael mentions that he misses the parties he used to go to at college, even though other episodes ("The Fire", "Business School") establish Michael as not having gone to college. The story was most likely made up in an attempt to get invited to Jim's party, especially since Michael makes a point that the professors (and by analogy, the boss) were invited.
  • Fischer's favorite moment of this episode is when Phyllis sings Karaoke.[1] Although her character sings Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again," the actress Phyllis had never actually heard of the band and practiced for days beforehand before the scene was filmed. Fischer and Angela Kinsey stated everyone on the set was laughing.[2]
  • Kevin calls Ryan the "Fire Guy", referring to the episode "The Fire".
  • Angela Kinsey improvised the line (outside with Dwight at the party), "I think that's all right. I mean, Jesus drank wine." She was apparently very surprised it made it in the final cut of the episode.[2]
  • Dwight and Angela are actually making out in a small dollhouse in Jim's backyard. There was a scene that was cut that explained that it belonged to the people Jim rents the house from. [3]
  • Kate Flannery, playing Meredith drunk at Jim's party, jokingly pretended to pull her top up at the camera. Although the scene wasn't used, the writers wrote the topless gag multiple times in later episodes. Flannery states, "I think I did it to myself, unfortunately. My parents are real thrilled about that."[4]
  • There is a reference to the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four. When Oscar asks about the "Big Brother" implications of e-mail surveillance, Michael replies that "I love my big brother".
  • With this episode, the US version of The Office officially surpassed the British counterpart in total number of episodes including two Christmas specials.
  • In the Evite for Jim's BBQ, the time and date of the party was November 5 at 8pm. The address was 2147 West Silverlake Drive. (The date is a production error, because November 5, 2005 was a Saturday even though the episode takes place on a Friday, as confirmed by Michael in the opening scene.)
  • During Michael's stirring rendition of "Islands In The Stream", we see Toby playing Call of Duty on Jim's Xbox 360. Being that the episode air date (November 22nd, 2005) corresponds exactly to the release date of the Xbox 360, the console used was probably given by Microsoft. This explains Toby's unflinching attention to the new game on the new console.
  • Both Dwight's and Angela's shoes are featured prevalently. Dwight's are Birkenstocks upon which Jim's roommate Mark remarks. Angela notes on the porch that she got sap on her shoe and the camera pans down to show them. When we see a couple making out when Jim and Michael sing their duet, the pairs of shoes shown give proof that the couple is indeed Dwight and Angela.
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  • At the start of the tour, Jim reveals to Ryan that he hasn't talked with Katy for some time, foreshadowing their eventual break-up in "Booze Cruise".
  • The shirt Creed wears to Jim's barbecue is similar to the one he gives Jim at the Christmas party, but is not identical. The one in this episode has green stripes; the one in the "Christmas Party" episode has brown stripes.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Fischer, Jenna (November 22, 2005). "Email Surveillance - Fun Facts" (View All Blog Entries), MySpace.com
  2. ^ a b Kinsey, Angela (December 2, 2005). "Behind the scenes stuff from Email S.--a lil' late" (View All Blog Entries), MySpace.com
  3. ^ Kinsey, Angela (December 16, 2005). "Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah & Kwanza!" (View All Blog Entries), MySpace.com
  4. ^ Wolk, Josh. "The Drudge Report: A Visit With 7 More 'Office' Mates." Entertainment Weekly 24 February 2006: 24-25.

[edit] External links

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