‘China’
Season 7, Episode 10 - Aired December 2, 2010
After Michael reads an article about China at the dentist's office, he becomes worked up about the prospect of China replacing the U.S. as the world's dominant power. The office doesn't know how to react when know-it-all Oscar challenges one of Michael's facts and Michael is shown to be right. Meanwhile, Dwight works to make the Dunder-Mifflin building more profitable for him as a landlord, much to the annoyance of his co-workers.
Quote from Darryl
Darryl: [reads text] "Are you watching this?" Seriously?
Andy: Well, are you?
Darryl: I'm sitting right here.
Quote from Dwight K. Schrute
Meredith: Wow, so this building can get uglier.
Stanley: I will not work in a roach billboard.
Gabe: Oh my God, I can't look at roaches.
Angela: Michael do something about this.
Michael Scott: Absolutely, Pam this is exactly why I hired you as Office Administrator, handle it. Taking care of business.
Pam: Dwight, take it down.
Dwight K. Schrute: [chuckles]
Pam: I'm serious, take it down or else.
Dwight K. Schrute: Or else? Or else what? There's nothing you can do.
Pam: We can move out.
Quote from Pam
Pam: So, does anyone wanna know where I've been for the last 2 hours?
Jim: Oh God, I've been playing Zombie Soccer for two hours?
Pam: I went out to look for a better office space.
Dwight K. Schrute: Waste of time.
Pam: Not really, because I found one.
Jim: Oh, wow, these are nice.
Pam: Yup.
Dwight K. Schrute: Let me see.
Pam: Look at the huge offices, Jim. Check out that conference room.
Jim: Yeah, yeah. Totally.
Dwight K. Schrute: You can't just move out.
Pam: Oh, in three months we can. Check the lease. And if you don't undo all the changes you've made, we're moving.
Quote from Andy
Pam: Hey guys, can I show you some pictures.
Andy: [without looking] Oh my gosh, she is so cute. She looks like both of you.
Pam: They're not of Cece.
Andy: Oh, cool.
Quote from Jim
Jim: Wow, there is a lot of brainpower in this room. We've got Michael and Oscar, the two smartest guys in the office, also in that order.
Oscar: Funny, Jim. That is funny.
Michael Scott: Very comedically humorous, Jim.
Quote from Michael Scott
Kelly: I have a computer question. Hey, Oscar?
Oscar: What is it?
Kelly: Can you move aside so that I can ask Michael?
Oscar: Alright. Alright I get it.
Kelly: Michael, how do I create a new tab?
Michael Scott: Try 'Control P'.
Oscar: That's print.
Michael Scott: Not if the printer isn't hooked up. You are making some very dangerous assumptions, Oscar.
Quote from Andy
Quote from Michael Scott
Jim: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Do you know what you just agreed to?
Michael Scott: Coffee Jim.
Jim: No.
Andy: It is not just coffee.
Jim: He's trying to set you up Michael. What's going to happen is he's going to try and bring up what ever you're talking about in a very casual way, but secretly he'll be trying to trip you up, and when he does, boom, its awful. Haven't you noticed that I don't bring up the Tour de France around him?
Michael Scott: Yes.
Andy: And then he will smugly pay the check and make you feel so small.
Michael Scott: Alright, well I just need to learn everything about China. To be safe, I should learn everything about everything but I don't have time. Okay, okay, I'll just learn about China and science and geography and math and literary.
Jim: No politics?
Michael Scott: I'm pretty good on politics. [as Arnold Schwarzenegger] "California is bankrupt, and California, California."
Quote from Dwight K. Schrute
Dwight K. Schrute: Hey, Pam.
Pam: Yeah?
Dwight K. Schrute: Y'know what, I'm the only one here who you haven't asked about the new office.
Pam: I know, because you're the reason we're moving.
Dwight K. Schrute: Yeah, but I'm still an employee here, and that part of me is really excited about the change of scenery. What's the square footage in the new place?
Pam: Uh, I think it's something like um...
Dwight K. Schrute: What's the exact square footage?
Pam: Umm, let me see.
Dwight K. Schrute: How many offices are there? Oh, I'll just look at the one-sheet myself.
Pam: Oh, actually I don't know what I did with the one-sheet. Y'know, that's the problem. You only have one sheet.
Dwight K. Schrute: [chuckles] Oh, you're a funny guy, Pam. What's the first thing you guys are gonna do when you move in to the new office? I'm going to walk down the hall and say "Wow, I can't believe this is real, but it is." I can't wait.
Quote from Pam
Pam: I lied about some aspects of the building.
Jim: It's still on a bike path though right?
Pam: There's no building. It doesn't exist.
Jim: What does that mean?
Pam: I needed leverage so I pulled those pictures off the internet. It's just this Office Administrator thing, I don't wanna...
Jim: What?
Pam: Fail. I don't want to fail again.
Jim: But you didn't fail.
Pam: That's what you said about Art School, and that's what you said about sales.
Jim: And you didn't fail those things either.
Pam: Well, I'm not an artist, and I'm not a salesman. So what would you call it?