Andy Bernard, having been in the situation of the cuckold when Angela was cheating on him with Dwight, decides to step up and make Michael confront his girlfriend's husband.
Later, Dwight carries out various methods to try to sterilize himself before the first "session", such as holding his crotch near a running microwave, dropping books on it, and aggressively beating it with drumsticks.
Darryl Philbin hears them discussing how to get enough energy to make it through the day, and lets them in on a secret sleeping place in the warehouse they can use.
After returning from the baseball game, Michael expresses a sense of freedom and power from the knowledge that he is having sex with another man's wife.
He leaves to secretly meet Donna at a motel for sex, but on the way there has a change of heart and breaks up with her via text message instead.
The characters on the show make reference to a fictional video game title, Rock Band: Billy Joel, to which Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly said "let’s hope never actually exists ever".
[4] Billy Joel, in response, sought to authorize the use of his songs with the actual Rock Band series as a means to snub Franich's comment.
[8] Cindy White of IGN gave the episode a 7.5 saying it was "Good" and "The show is at its best when it mixes the business aspects of the office setting with the character's personal lives.
Rabin said Michael was too much of a jerk although he noted that "if the episode came up short in the likability and realism department it was nevertheless funny and full of great little character moments, like the dreamy, faraway look Darryl gets while describing the warehouse employee’s secret napping spot or Ryan’s response to Michael's new gung-ho, take-charge personality.
"[4] Neil Turitz of TV Guide remarked "One of the funnier episodes of late, especially the montage of Dwight continually causing himself great pain in the crotch area.
"[12] Will Leitch of New York said "All in all, this penultimate episode took care of Michael, Dwight, and every other lingering thread from a meandering season except for the big one, in a very funny last-scene reveal.