Season 2

Email Surveillance

The employees at Dunder Mifflin are upset when Michael (Steve Carell) starts monitoring their emails. Pam (Jenna Fischer) suspects Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Angela (Angela Kinsey) are having an affair. Michael shows up uninvited at Jim's (John Krasinski) BBQ and sings karaoke. BJ Novak also stars.

Memorable Quotes

Improv Classmate 1: I'm looking for my doctor. He's a tiny midget.
Michael Scott: BOOM! Agent Michael Scorn, I see through your ruse! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! ["shoots" people in improv scene]
Improv Classmate 2: I'm not even in this scene!
Michael Scott: BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! [classmate falls anyway]
Improv Instructor: Michael, c'mon, what are you doing?
Michael Scott: I'm making the scene better! The old scene was boring.
Improv Instructor: No it wasn't Michael. Michael, give me your guns.
[Michael "unstraps" guns from four holsters]

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[The improv instructor has told Michael that he can't use guns]
[improv exercise, a classmate is kneeling, Michael goes up to him and whispers something in his ear, and the classmate raises his hands.]
Improv Instructor: Michael, what did you tell him?
Michael Scott: nothing...
Improv Instructor: Then why are his hands up?... Bill...
Improv Classmate 1: He told me he couldn't show it to me, but he has a gun.

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Improv Classmate 1: [leaving the class] How do we get to Bernie's Tavern from here?
Improv Classmate 2: Oh don't worry, we're all gonna carpool.
Michael Scott: So Bernie's huh? We're all going to Bernie's?
Improv Classmate 2: Oh uh sorry. We're not going as a group. This is a private friend who happens to know all of us from different ways who is throwing a private birthday thing...

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Dwight Schrute: I think one of the greatest things about modern America is the computerization of medical records. As a volunteer sheriff I can look up anyone's psychiatric records or surgical histories. Yeast infections...there are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from that old bread factory...

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Kevin Malone: I'm gonna have to delete a lot of stuff. [pause] A LOT of STUFF.

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Michael Scott: There are certain things a boss does not share with his employees. His salary, that would depress them. His bed. And I am not going to tell them that I will be reading their emails.

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[In front of Michael's computer]
Michael Scott: Yeah, I tried to install it myself, but you guys have these things so password protected...
IT Guy: That just means you have to enter your password. What's your password Michael?
Michael Scott: Um...
IT Guy: [sees yellow post-it note on Michael's monitor] Oh...it's '1234'.

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Michael Scott: [on his approach to improv] Think about this, what is the most exciting thing that can happen on TV or in movies, or in real-life? Somebody has a gun. That's why I always start with a gun, because you can't top it. You just can't.