Weight Loss (The Office)

Written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and directed by Paul Feig, the episode first aired as a single 60 minute show in the United States on September 25, 2008, on NBC.

[1] "Weight Loss" guest stars Amy Ryan as Holly Flax, Dale Raoul as Ronni, and Rich Sommer as Alex.

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.

After Dwight Schrute abandons Phyllis Vance miles away from the office with no phone or money to force her to exercise, corporate responds with a memo that staff should not resort to drastic weight loss measures.

The Scranton branch ends up losing the competition, although Stanley Hudson is proud of his individual results, and decides to take the vacation anyway.

Holly continues to show interest in Michael Scott, who now sports a goatee, until she catches him talking to a pregnant Jan Levinson.

After Angela shoots down all of Andy's wedding ideas, she warms up to him until he tells her that he booked his a cappella band 'Here Comes Treble' to play at their wedding (he states the members are Carl One, Carl Two, Broccoli Rob, Spare Rib, Doobie, Lunchbox, Boner Champ (Andy), Pubie Lewis and the News, Hopscotch, Jingle Jangle, and Sandwich).

[3] The prop gas station building was large enough for background actors to move around, and a four-lane racetrack was built in front, where a team of 35 professional drivers drove cars and semi trucks at 55 miles per hour.

[3] Rainfall was created using rain machines, and an artificial "wooded" background was added in pre-production in place of the mountainous California backdrop.

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