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Casual Friday

‘Casual Friday’

Season 5, Episode 26 -  Aired April 30, 2009

As Michael, Pam and Ryan return to Dunder Mifflin, there's tension with the existing sales staff over who should get the clients who were lured away. Meanwhile, the return of Casual Fridays leads to a number of questionable outfits.

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Dwight K. Schrute: We need to do something. I'm thinking maybe a coup or we take Ryan hostage.
Phyllis: Those sound too harsh.
Dwight K. Schrute: No, I'm not saying we do those things. I'm saying something like those things.
Jim: Of course. What is like a hostage?
Dwight K. Schrute: Excellent question.
Andy: We could write a strong-worded letter.
Dwight K. Schrute: Words will never be enough.
Jim: Strongly-painted picture.
Dwight K. Schrute: No, pictures are too interpretive.

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Quote from Michael Scott

Michael Scott: Six weeks ago, none of these people wanted to come with me. You two were the only ones with the stones to follow.
Pam: Mm-hmm.
Michael Scott: That was us, right there.
Pam: We were something else.
Ryan: What you gotta do is you gotta go down to that warehouse and you gotta crack some skulls.
Michael Scott: Mm-hmm.
Ryan: Chiklis style.
Michael Scott: Yeah, the Commish.
Ryan: Yes, but Chiklis Shield style. Not Commish style.
Michael Scott: Yeah, yeah. The Shield.

Quote from Jim

Creed: No. If you do that, I'm gonna do that. If you do that, I'm gonna do that. If you do this, I'm gonna do that.
Jim: Well, what if I just do this?
Creed: You don't want to do that.
[aside to camera:]
Jim: I'm just hiding out until all this stuff blows over. With Creed. Playing chess. At work. He's winning. I feel like I'm describing a dream I had.

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Dwight K. Schrute: We want our clients back or we quit, Michael.
Michael Scott: Who quits?
Phyllis: Me.
Stanley: And me.
Andy: Me too.
Michael Scott: You guys gotta be kidding.
Dwight K. Schrute: No, we gotta be deadly serious. We'll start our own paper company. The Schrute-Bernard-Lapin-Vance...Stanley Paper Company.

Quote from Michael Scott

Michael Scott: No matter how I look at this, I am in the wrong. And I have looked at this thing, like a hundred different ways. From my point of view, from their point of view... 98 others. And the bottom line, I am in the wrong. I'm the bad guy.

Quote from Michael Scott

Michael Scott: So from the bottom of my heart to the top of my heart, I am sorry.
Stanley: Are you giving us our clients back?
Michael Scott: If we could just focus and go down the line, and everyone would say, "apology accepted", I think we would all feel better. And then we can break out my gift to you, complimentary white chocolate bark.
Stanley: Nobody likes that stuff except for you.
Michael Scott: They wouldn't make it unless people liked it.

Quote from Jim

Michael Scott: I need your help. This whole Pam/Ryan debate is screwing with my head.
Jim: I don't want to be biased, but I am very close to Ryan. You know that.
Michael Scott: You're close with Pam too.
Jim: Eh, she's nice, I guess.

Quote from Toby

Andy: You don't understand clothing, Toby. You're dressed like this amorphous blob of khaki.
Toby: All right, look, what you gotta understand is that when you come to work, you give up certain rights.
Dwight K. Schrute: Listen up, Flenderson. You're being weak and ineffectual. I'm cowboying this meeting, okay? Here are the new rules. Earth tones only. Also, women are forbidden to wear pants.
Toby: All right, come. Sit down, Dwight.
Dwight K. Schrute: No.
Toby: I'm running this meeting.
Dwight K. Schrute: That's debatable.
Toby: It's not. It's not. Sit down or I am writing you up.
Meredith: Ooh, where has this guy been?
Toby: Casual Fridays are cancelled. [everyone protests] Let's just not do it anymore.
Andy: That's not a solution. You're running from the problem.
Toby: There's not a single appropriate outfit in this whole. Except mine, quite honestly.

Quote from Meredith

Toby: Hey, Meredith. Can I talk to you privately for a second?
Meredith: About what?
Toby: Your outfit.
Meredith: What? What's wrong with my outfit?
Toby: You- You might consider pulling it down a touch. It's- It's riding up a little high.
Meredith: A bunch of prudes. You know, Oscar's allowed to wear sandals, but I'm not allowed to wear open-toed shoes? [pulls down dress, office gasps] Is that how it goes?
Oscar: Meredith, your boob is out.
Meredith: Fine. [pulls dress up, everyone gasps]
Angela: Meredith, too far!
Kelly: Dammit, Meredith, where are your panties?
Meredith: It's casual day. Happy?

Quote from Darryl

Darryl: What'd I tell you about building forts in my warehouse?

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