However, Michael soon realizes he is actually the source of his employees' stress when the beeping of Stanley's stress reader quickens the closer Michael gets to him. With tensions running high in the office, Michael tries to calm his workers down with yoga and meditation sessions.
Dwight is ordered to apologize to his co-workers and get signatures acknowledging that they forgive him, but after he openly declares that his apology is insincere and denies that he is responsible for Stanley's heart attack, they refuse to sign. The session ends awfully when Dwight destroys the expensive CPR dummy to try and "extract the organs" for organ donation, then wears its face, earning another rebuke from David Wallace.
Michael arranges for a CPR training session for the employees, but they are too easily distracted and the lesson proves fruitless. After Stanley is released from the hospital, his doctors warn him to keep his stress levels under control to avoid further damaging his health. Later that day, Dwight is subsequently reprimanded by Dunder Mifflin CFO David Wallace ( Andy Buckley), and Michael strips him of his position as safety officer. Dwight eventually reveals it was just a "test", but things go terribly wrong when Stanley Hudson ( Leslie David Baker) suffers a heart attack and collapses in the commotion. In the panic, among other things, Michael Scott ( Steve Carell) smashes open the window to call for help, Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski) bludgeons the photocopier into doors to try and ram them open, and Oscar Martinez ( Oscar Nunez) crawls through the ceiling trying to escape. Setting a fire in a trash can, Dwight calmly explains the proper safety procedures as the panicked employees try to flee, only for Dwight to have made the "fire" non-survivable by sealing the office exits shut and cutting the phone lines. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and received another nomination for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series.Īnnoyed that none of his co-workers paid attention to the fire safety seminar he gave last week, Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson) decides to get revenge by simulating a fire. Because it aired following the Super Bowl, "Stress Relief" was the most viewed episode of The Office with 22.9 million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research during its original broadcast. Many commentators particularly praised the chaotic cold open scene, in which Dwight panics his co-workers with a simulated fire as part of a twisted safety demonstration. The episode is considered a favorite by many fans of the series.
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The episode received generally positive reviews, with Time magazine declaring it the best overall television episode of any series in 2009. The Office creator Greg Daniels said this was done to keep the episode more grounded in reality. Guest stars Black, Alba and Leachman do not interact with the regular characters themselves, but rather appear in a film within the episode.
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Meanwhile, Andy, Jim, and Pam watch an illegally downloaded movie at work starring Jack Black, Jessica Alba and Cloris Leachman, and Pam deals with her parents' recent argument that's caused her father to move in with her and Jim temporarily.īoth parts of "Stress Relief" originally aired together on February 1, 2009, immediately following NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII, and The Office writers and producers sought to attract newcomers to the series with the expected increase in viewership. In this episode, Dwight stages a fire in the office to test the office's fire safety skills, but things go from bad to worse when Stanley suffers a heart attack, causing Michael to come up with ways to relieve stress in the office, including a comedic roast of himself. Both episodes were directed by Jeffrey Blitz and written by Paul Lieberstein, who also plays Toby Flenderson on the show. It constitutes the fourteenth and fifteenth episodes of the fifth season, and the 86th and 87th overall episodes of the series. Give us time here." Stress Relief" is a two-part episode of the American comedy television series The Office. Tumblr: we can't currently log in to our old account. Girl Genius Twitter: || Kaja on Twitter: || Phil on Twitter: on Instagram at: The Girl Genius Discord (we don't run this one, either!): The Girl Genius Subreddit (we don't run this!): It's completely fan run, we had to find it by accident back in the day! It's amazing, and we sometimes use it to look things up when we're in a hurry. You can now play the game demo on Steam! Please wishlist us on Steam, even if you're going to get a physical copy, because it helps our visibility.ĭon't forget that the Girl Genius Wiki is at and someone pointed out that it was high time we added it to the main page.
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