The Seminar
| "The Seminar" | |
|---|---|
| The Office episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 14 |
| Directed by | B. J. Novak |
| Written by | Steve Hely |
| Production code | 714 |
| Original air date | January 27, 2011 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
"The Seminar" is the fourteenth episode of seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's 140th episode overall. Written by Steve Hely and directed by B. J. Novak, the episode aired January 27, 2011 on NBC.
In the episode, Andy holds a small business seminar in the office. He asks Kevin, Creed and Kelly to help him while Michael and Holly embrace the opportunity to improv. Meanwhile, Oscar and Pam help Erin in a Scrabble battle against Gabe.
The episode begins with Michael bumping into David Brent (Ricky Gervais) (the star of the British predecessor show) outside an elevator. After they exchange several ethnic jokes, David asks if Dunder Mifflin is hiring. Michael says "not right now" and David asks him to drop a line if they do have any openings.
In order to improve his worst-in-office sales totals, Andy holds a seminar on starting a small business. He enlists Jim to be one of the guest speakers, but Jim abruptly pulls out when he sees one of the audience members. The other speakers (Dwight, Phyllis and Stanley) lose faith in Andy's plan and also pull out, leaving Andy to replace them with Kevin, Creed and Ryan. Kevin's speech goes bad when he gets ill from running around the room and vomits in front of the audience. Kelly, who replaces Ryan, calls up an old professor from her management training time at Yale to talk business lessons. Creed delivers a bizarre speech about the Loch Ness Monster.
Meanwhile, Erin is battling Gabe in a game of Scrabble. The winner of their Scrabble games always picks the movie they watch, and since Erin is poor at the game, Gabe has already subjected her to numerous horror movies such as The Shining and The Ring. With the help of Oscar and Pam, she almost beats Gabe but loses on the last turn, because she doesn't realize Oscar is trying to feed her a winning word ("apoplexy") and instead puts in the word "ape".
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