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Special Project

‘Special Project’

Season 8, Episode 14 -  Aired February 9, 2012

After Sabre puts Dwight in charge of a special project in Florida, he and Andy assemble a team which will spend three weeks working down in Tallahassee.

Quote from Angela

Phyllis: Are you glad to be back?
Pam: Yeah. Yeah, I mean I could have used another week, or three.
Stanley: You still had eight weeks more than we did.
Pam: [laughing] Well, it's not exactly a vacation.
Angela: Hello everyone! Remember little old me. Hi!
Dwight K. Schrute: What are you doing here? You just had our baby. Our collective Dunder Mifflin... family baby. Four days ago.
Angela: I wanted to come back to work. Not everybody needs some long luxurious Parisian maternity leave.

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Quote from Angela

Oscar: Angela, you look amazing.
Angela: Really? I feel like this big rhinoceros. Anyway, I wanted to thank you guys for covering for me so I made some treats. I've got brownies and magic cookie bars.
Pam: Oh, Angela, those brownies have walnuts in them and I think Kevin's allergic to walnuts. You're allergic to walnuts, right Kevin?
Kevin: Extremely, but I'm gonna fight through it.
Pam: Aw. It's OK, Angela. I have mommy brain too.
Angela: I don't know what that is, Pam. I made a batch with no nuts, special for you Kevin, right here.
Pam: When did you find time to do all this?
Angela: Babies sleep a lot Pam, if you feed them enough. Brownie, Pam?
Pam: Thank you. [takes bite] Oh my gosh. It's really good.
Angela: I wouldn't know, I'm watching my weight. Ugh.

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Dwight K. Schrute: [v.o.] My first task as special project manager Dwight Schrute? Assembling a crack team. I need people who are loyal. People who'll help me get an inroad with the gay Hispanic community. People who won't be missed. We don't need idiots, good for nothings, meth-heads or... What's your name?
Kathy: Kathy.
Dwight K. Schrute: [v.o.] Kathy.

Quote from Stanley

Andy: Mooshie mooshie.
Dwight K. Schrute: Uh, the Florida picks got out, and people were just kind of curious as to why they weren't picked and maybe you could just clarify?
Andy: Well, uh... Well, the deliberations were confidential so I feel like we should respect that.
Stanley: Respect it? You're trying to tell me Kevin Malone deserves more than Stanley Hudson.
Kevin: Hey!

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Angela: Okay, it's obvious Andy picked the people that are least important to the office.
Kelly: Important? Oh because you and your enormous monster baby are so important to the branch.
Angela: My baby is not a monster!
Dwight K. Schrute: Hey. Be proud of your enormous monster baby. I was once an enormous monster baby.

Quote from Kevin

Kevin: Because I feel like that I'm in a place with my gambling rehab that I can finally start going to dog racing again. You know, just sitting, watching, enjoying the sport? Maybe putting down a few dollars if there's like a crazy mismatch or something...
Dwight K. Schrute: Okay. Thank you Kevin, we'll let you know.
Andy: Thank you.
Kevin: When do we leave?
Andy: Thank you.

Quote from Toby

Toby: It has been a long, lonely winter.
Dwight K. Schrute: Wow. Seasonal effective disorder, A.K.A. sad. That sounds like a very real thing, Toby.
Toby: It is real. Thank you for saying that.
Andy: Yeah, wow. It's almost like we're not all experiencing the same winter?

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Dwight K. Schrute: Let's go, step it up you runts. Infants, let's move.
Stanley: Why is it so hot in here?
Dwight K. Schrute: Hot? What are you talking about? This is a nice temperate Florida morning. Eighty-five degrees, seventy-five percent humidity. This is the exact environment you will be facing for the next three weeks of your life. Welcome to special projects orientation. The next three weeks of your life are gonna be the most miserable you've ever faced. They're gonna be hard, they're gonna be dirty. You're gonna wish you were dead.
Ryan: But...
Dwight K. Schrute: But? There's not buts. That's it. You'll wish you were dead. You seem a little disturbed, you wanna stay here?
Ryan: No, no, I wanna to go.
Dwight K. Schrute: Cause if any of you would prefer to stay here, all you need to do is ring this bell.
Jim: Is that the buzzer from Taboo?
Dwight K. Schrute: Shut up, maggot! You don't want to go, you ring the bell. Ring it!

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Dwight K. Schrute: Yes, when he brushes your soft supple cheeks with his worn leathery hands and says "I'm gonna make you the seventh Mrs. Rosenblatt" unless you ring this bell. Ring it! Ring the bell. You wanna spend the rest of your life changing your husband's colostomy bags? Huh? Do you? Ring it!

Quote from Dwight K. Schrute

Dwight K. Schrute: So Sabre has set up a conference room for our use while we're at corporate.
Jim: So, what is this special project?
Dwight K. Schrute: Basically, Sabre has tasked us with helping them branch into the retail marketplace. They want to set up their own version of an Apple store.
Jim: That sounds awesome.
Dwight K. Schrute: It did. It did.
Ryan: You know what might be great is if instead of a genius bar we have a lounge area where people can ask questions about the product with other customers who liked it.
Erin: Yeah. And they should have a place where people can check their computers or printers before they see you so you don't have to carry it around like a dope. Like a coat check. [Dwight writes on whiteboard] Oh, don't write it down unless you like it.
Dwight K. Schrute: Oh, I like it.
Ryan: It seems to me that the Apple store is kind of like a party. So I think our question is: How do we make this a better party?
Dwight K. Schrute: No. We sell business tools and the stores need to reflect that. They need to be all business. Let all the other stores look like a toy store.
Ryan: Right. Think different, from Apple.

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