Scott's Tots
| "Scott's Tots" | |
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| The Office episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 12 |
| Directed by | B. J. Novak |
| Written by |
Gene Stupnitsky Lee Eisenberg |
| Production code | 6013 |
| Original air date | December 3, 2009 |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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"Scott's Tots" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the U.S. comedy series The Office and the show's 112th episode overall. It was written by Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg and directed by B. J. Novak, marking his directorial debut on the network series. It aired in the United States on NBC on December 3, 2009. Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg submitted this episode for the 2010 Emmys.
The series—presented as if it were a real documentary—depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In the episode, Michael Scott and Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper) meet "Scott's Tots", a group of local teenagers whose college tuition was promised in one of Michael's grand delusions ten years prior. Meanwhile, in Michael's absence, Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) convinces Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) to start an employee-of-the-month program with the intention of sabotaging Jim.
Michael Scott (Steve Carell) realizes he cannot keep a promise he made to a group of underprivileged children nine years ago, that he would pay for their college tuition provided they graduated from high school. He reluctantly visits their high school with Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper) to break the bad news. Over the years, the students have pushed to graduate because of his promise, and greet Michael with standing applause. When Michael addresses them, he congratulates everyone for being able to graduate from high school, before admitting that he does not have the money to pay for college. Everyone is upset, despite Michael's attempts to calm them by giving them laptop batteries.
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