" The Deposition " is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy TV series The Office, and the entire episode of sixty-five shows. Written by producer consultant Lester Lewis and directed by Julian Farino, the episode aired in the United States on November 15, 2007 on NBC. "The Deposition" was the last original episode of the show to air before the show was a hiatus due to the 2007 Guild Writers strike.
Jan Levinson (Melora Hardin) and Michael Scott (Steve Carell) travel to New York City to hand Jan's lawsuit against the company. While Michael initially intended to be a witness against the company, he eventually defended the company. Meanwhile, Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling) chatted with Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) after Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson) defeated Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) in a ping pong game, prompting Jim to spend all day practicing in the conference room..
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Plot
After his girlfriend, Jan Levinson (Melora Hardin) sued his former employer, Dunder Mifflin, for a false job termination, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) found himself forced by Jan to be a witness against his employer. Ryan Howard (B. J. Novak) wants to make sure Michael will not say anything to hurt Dunder Mifflin even though Michael is Jan's boyfriend. Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) was present as HR's representative, against Michael's protest. The deposition went well for Jan at first, as he claimed that he was stopped because of discrimination over breast enlargement. To counteract evidence that he had a romantic relationship with Michael before they revealed it to the company, Jan filed a personal diary of Michael, which he brought to deposition without his knowledge or permission. Michael gets angry with Jan when he learns that he gave him a sharp performance review after they started dating, claiming that he is not worthy for his current position and should be downgraded to sales. Michael learns he never became a competitor when interviewing for the former position of Jan in the corporate office, with the CFO insisting repeatedly that he is a good man, but ultimately unsuited to that position. Michael still defends the company, and then states that "You expect to be confused by your company, but you never expect to be confused by your girlfriend." Jan and Michael return home, obviously angry with each other over the events of the day.
Back in Scranton, the branch of Pennsylvania Dunder Mifflin, Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) has repeatedly lost the Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson) foreman's warehouse in ping pong, pushing Darryl's girlfriend, Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling) to laugh at Jim Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) over his girlfriend's superior skills. Unable to tolerate Kelly's rubbish, Pam built a makeshift ping-pong table in the conference room for Jim to train against other office employees. Throughout the day, Jim practiced against his co-workers, finally finding the greatness of Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) in the game. When Jim and Darryl did a rematch, Jim again lost to Darryl. Disgusted by continuing to mock Kelly, Pam challenges him to the ping pong game, but both play badly. Jim and Darryl quickly bored watching them and decided to play ping pong in the conference room. This episode concludes with Dwight playing a high-intensity pingpong game against his cousin, Mose Schrute (Michael Schur), with both in a dead end.
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Production
"The Deposition" is the first episode of The Office written by Lester Lewis. Lewis also works for the show as a consulting producer. The episode was the second of the show directed by Julian Farino. Farino also directed the third season episode of "Returning from Vacation". "The Deposition" was the last original episode of The Office to air in 2007 due to the effects of the 2007-2008 Guild Writers strike. Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike at 12:01 am Eastern Standard Time on November 5, 2007. Filming Office was immediately terminated on that date, as Steve Carell, a member of WGA, refused crossed the WGA picket line. Writer members Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West voted to end the 100 day strike on 12 February 2008. The author was allowed to return to work on the same day. WGA allows to show runners to return to work on February 11, in preparation for the conclusion of the strike. The event runner for Office , Executive Producer Greg Daniels, returned on February 11, while the show's author returned to work on 13 February. Office finally returned with the original episode on April 10, 2008, with the episode "Dinner Party".
Executive producer and performance runner Greg Daniels stated that one of the main goals of "The Deposition" is to add tension between Michael and Jan. This tension will eventually end the buildup with the split of Michael and Jan in the episode of "Dinner Party". The scene where Michael pushed Toby's lunch tray from the table was not written. The crew did one last shot of the scene and actor Paul Lieberstein suggested that Steve Carell push his food off the table. The ping pong game between Dwight and Mose is created using Computer generated imagery. Rainn Wilson and Michael Schur mimicked the ping pong action, and during the editing and post-production stages the ping pong ball was added as an effect.
Cultural reference
Dwight names Zoran Primorac, Jan-Ove Waldner, Wang Tao, JÃÆ'¶rg RoÃÆ'žkopf, Ashraf Helmy, Hugo Hoyama, and Andrzej Grubba as his personal hero; all are professional table tennis players.
Acceptance
"The Deposition" received a Nielsen 5.1 rating and 8% Share. This episode was watched by 8.86 million viewers and reached 4.8/11 in adult key 18 to 49 demographics, which means 4.8 percent of all 18 to 49 year olds watched the episode, and 11 percent of all 18-year-olds up to 49 years of watching television when watching the episode.
Rick Porter of Zap2It.com praised the writing of the episode, as well as the acting of Mindy Kaling and Jenna Fischer. Porter also praised the last scene of the episode, when Jan and Michael came home after the day. Porter states, "I do not know whether to laugh or turn away in embarrassment from the last scene, because they quarrel about what to eat when they're driving home.It's like watching two friends quarrel - interesting and very uncomfortable at that time same." Christine Fenno, from Entertainment Weekly 'The Deposition' is a slow cooker of corporate intrigue, peppered by Michael Scott's silliness, with spicy talks on the side. "Fenno, like Porter, also praising Jenna Fischer's acting, said that she "stole the low-key opening scene". Travis Fickett, from IGN, stated that "this is the best episode of the season and one of the best episodes of this series.Almost as if the authors planned it like this - to emphasize the importance and remind us how much we will miss them when they leave." Fickett went on to praise acting between Steve Carell (Michael) and Paul Lieberstein (Toby). Senior writer BuddyTV Oscar Dahl stated that the episode was an oddity among the series, saying "The Deposition" is an atypical episode of The Office, which basically puts Michael Scott's character in trial and embarrasses it. again and again."
References
External links
- "The Deposition" on NBC.com
- "The Deposition" on IMDb
- "The Deposition" on TV.com
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