Hello! I really don't have a story idea at all right now, but maybe if I sit here and force myself to think of one I'll come up with a good one - I know if I put it off any longer I'll just forget to write it! OK, here goes.....
Episode Title: Sick Day
It starts out in the office with Jim and Dwight at their desks. Suddenly, Jim sneezes - obviously aiming for Dwights desk. Dwight gives him a look that says, "I have pepper spray under my desk and I'm not afriad to use it if you try that again!" The scene changes to Dwight talking to camera crew. He says that he has a very important Beet Show (it shows a scene of Dwight and his cousin tending to their giant beets and attempting to hold up their prized possession, the 10lb beet)to win this weekend and he cannot get sick for it. He acknowledges this may be hard because it is the winter and there is poor venilation in the building. He suspects Jim is sick and is furious that he's aiming his sneezes at him. The camera goes back to Dwight and Jim's desks. Dwight has constructed some sort of barrier between the desks made of file folders and cardboard box lids. Jim gives a smile to the camera and prepares to sneeze. He mumbles something about a tissue, gets up and runs behind Dwights desk to get to the tissues by the water cooler but doesn't make it in time and turns to sneeze right on Dwights head! Jim says, "Oh, sorry, was your head always there?" Dwight stands up and says, "MICHAEL!"
~Theme song~
Michael is in his office playing with his toy train when Dwight storms in. He insists that Jim is trying to get him sick and Michael thinks nothing of it. He is too distracted with something that he says is important work and tells Dwight to leave. Michael goes to camera and tells us of his excitement about his new portable GPS system he bought. He says he originally went into the store to buy a new phone, but when he saw the display of GPS systems he just had to get it. When the camera crew asks how this one is any different from the one that made him drive into a lake he says that the one in the car was much older and this one was recently updated and it has a better-sounding female voice than the other one. (He plays the voice and smiles as it says, "Please enter an address.") He says, "I can even type our office address in here if I ever get lost getting here!" It goes to him outside typing in the address of the office and it leads him in the opposite direction. Then he sees that he typed it wrong and types it in again. This time it takes in down the road to the right of the office building. Finally he excues himself from the camera crew and, without realizing the camera is following him, goes inside to the security desk and hurridly asks for the street address of the office building. The bored security guard recites it from memory and we realize Michael had the totally wrong address. Michael types the real address in and the GPS says its not available. Michael mumbles something about the office being too new to be located on the GPS and goes inside.
~commercials~
Now it goes back to the office with Jim talking to the camera and answering the question "Is he really sick?" Jim replies no, but after he overheard Dwight making preparations for his beet contest (it shows Dwight saving a space on his desk for the ribbon he'll get if he wins) he is convinced that he can make Dwight think he's sick, which will be enough to make Dwight think that he himself caught his cold. It goes back to Dwight, who returns to his desk after a bathroom break. Angela passes him to give him a folder of some files and coughs into her arm before she hands them to him. Dwight takes the folders, puts them on his desk and reaches for his phone to find that it is wet. He looks at Jim in disgust and asks if he sneezed on his phone, Jim says he might have but he could have sworn he hit Dwight's bobblehead. Pam smiles from her desk. Camera goes to Jim saying that while Dwight was gone he poured water from the water cooler on his bobblehead and wet his hand and then picked up the phone. Dwight is enraged and leans over to inspect his precious bobblehead and realizes it is literally soaked. He reaches into a desk drawer and pulls out a first aid kit inside which he pulls out a pair of latex gloves and one of those surgeon mask things that covers your mouth and nose. Then he takes out a paper towel and carefully dries off both his bobblehead and phone and then wipes them both down with alcohol pads.
~commercials~
It is the next day and Michael waltzes into the office almost 30 minutes late. He calls Pam some sort of playful name and asks her for any messages. She says he was called by Ryan 1/2 and hour ago that he needed to be at a presentational meeting for all managers at 11 o'clock in NYC. Michael immediately runs out the door followed by the camera crew and peels out of the parkinglot. He tells the camera crew not to worry and that he can get there in good time with his handy-dandy GPS system. He programs in the address of Ryans building in NYC and calls Ryan on speaker phone. His phone isn't working and Ryan keeps breaking up. He says not a problem, he'll just text Ryan to let him know he'll be late. But while he is driving and texting he gets pulled over by a cop. The cop asks why he was txting while driving and Michael starts to explain until the cop sees the camera crew in the back and asks why they are there and Michael says that they are making a documentary of his office building and he's going to a meeting and he's late. The officer ignore the camera crew after that and gives him a ticket for driving while using a cell phone. Michael is ansy b/c he knows he's going to be late if he doesn't hurry. Then the officer says that he can't find his ticket pad and needs to go into his car to find it. He tells Michael to wait. After about 10 minutes of searching the officer still can't find it and so Michael peels away when the guy has his head in his car and doesn't notice. Michael quotes some sort of famous super hero to prove what he did is just but the expression makes no sense at all to his situation.
Back at the office, Pam and Jim are talking about ways to make Dwight think he's sick when Dwight, who was sitting at his desk actually sneezes. Pam and Jim turn around and Dwight has a look of horror on his face! He runs to the fridge and drinks the entire container of orange juice. Then he sits back down and says to Jim, "That should take care of it." Jim and Pam smile and start talking about what they are going to do for lunch. Then, after about 5 minutes of talking, Jim goes back to his desk. He starts to work when he notices that Dwight, who is currently making a call with a customer, is squirming in his seat. Jim stops what he is doing and stares at Dwight, as does Pam. Dwight is squirming so much but refused to hang up and lose the customer. When Jim and Pam realize that Dwight needs to pee, Pam gets up with her half-empty water bottle. She takes a large drink of it as she walks over to the watercooler to refil it. She fills it up very slowly, letting the watercooler make that glub-glub sound. Dwight squirms even more and finally he says, "holdononemomentsir" to the customer and dashes to the bathroom, almost falling when he turned the corner. Pam and Jim smile.
Michael has reached the city but he is totally lost. He refuses to admit to the camera crew that his GPS has led him astray. He mumbles to himself about passing that Starbucks before. Then he pulls over and tries to get people to come over to the car to give him directions but no one stops. Finally he gets someone to come over and they tell him that the street he's looking for is 10 city blocks in the opposite direction. The guy looks at the GPS and asks him if he put in the right street address b/c the thing is sending him the opposite way. Michael thanks the guy hurredly and zooms away, almost hitting a taxi. He takes a look at the GPS and realizes he did in fact type in the wrong address. Hoping that the camera crew won't notice, he ignores the GPS and follows the guys instructions.
Pam and Jim decided to eat lunch at a restaurant and when they return to the office, they find Dwight has placed all of his personal items in plastic baggies and is still wearing his latex gloves but has added a gas mask to his ensemble. He goes to the camera and says he bought if for when they were exterminating his ranch from cocroaches and that is should work to filter the air while in the office so he won't get sick. He also wiped down his and Jim's desks with Clorox and Pam and Jim start coughing from the smell. Suddenly, Dwight sneezes again, and then a second time. Now he is panicking. He goes to the bathroom to wash his hands and Jim and Pam make predictions about how Dwight actually got sick. Then they hear a scream from the bathroom and Dwight runs out and his hands are chapped, blotchy and cracking! Dwight runs past the couple and out of the office, they look out the window to see him get into his car, put on winter gloves and pull out of the parking lot. Jim talks to camera and says, "Well, I guess Dwight's allergic to latex."
Back in NYC, Michael finally reaches the building, parks the car, and runs into the meeting followed by the camera crew. The meeting already started and he appologizes for his lateness and Ryan says, "I got your text message. You wrote, 'sry ill be ate' ." Michael appologizes again for his lateness, corrects Ryan that he meant 'sorry, I'll be late' but couldn't text correctly while driving and then the police officer comes out from the shadows and says, "so you admit you were driving while texting and ran away from an officer." Michael is speechless and the officer gives him 2 tickets and exits the room. Now all eyes are on Michael and he says, "Soooo, lets get this party started!" and sits down.
~commercial~
Back in Scranton, Jim and Pam are talking at the reception desk when Michael walks in looking flustered after his meeting. He calls for the attention of the entire office and makes a speech about how you should never give technology a second chance because it always lets you down and he chucks it into the garbage can with a loud bang. Then Toby tells him that he could have returned it to get his money back if he hasn't had it for more than 10 days. Michael tells Toby to shut up and stop being so depressing and goes into his office. Then, he realizes what Toby said and after the crowd dispursed, he dashed out of his office, picks the GPS out of the garbage and runs back in saying, "please be alive, don't die on me, don't die, don't die" Jim and Pam exchange a look and at that moment Dwight comes in with mittens on and tells Jim that he knew that he wasn't really sick the whole time. He sits down at his desk and takes the plastic baggie off his phone, pad and pen and makes a call. Then he coughs. So does Angela. The camera is on Angela and she says with a smirk, "Yes, I've had a cold for quite some time now. It's a shame Dwight caught it." The camera goes to Dwight, "Do I think (sneeze) Angela purposely got me sick? No. (sneezes) Do I think that I can get over (cough) it before this weekend? (hacking cough, sneezes, blows his nose and replies, more stuffed up than ever) Absolutely."
~commercial~
The next day at the office, everyone is there already except Dwight. Pam gets a call from Dwight saying he is taking a sick day. She puts him on speaker and tells him, "but Dwight what about your perfect attendance record?" He sneezes and says that he cannot function in the workplace properly today and needs to recover at home. In the background you can hear Moe spilling something and yelping. Dwight says, "Moe, don't touch my teapot." Then, to Pam, he says, "Excuse me, I have to place a teakettle spout up my nose." and hangs up. Pam beams.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think it's pretty great! And it only took me an hour-wow! Well, hope u like it!
Saturday, December 1, 2007
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FYI:
For anyone else besides KKras and Mrs. Shrute who read this. Don't get any funny ideas - I've mailed this episode outline to myself and I'll literally attack you if you try and copy it.
Thank you.
You are awesome. I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, since the writers are on strike, maybe you could mail this idea to NBC and they could turn it into a real episode!!! Oh wait, never mind Steve Carell won't cross the picket line. Maybe we could get together and act it out!!!! How fun would that be? Wonderful job, iheartbigtuna. I hope to see more of these in the future. Actually, I had an episode idea, as well. Maybe I'll add it to the blog, but I don't think that it could stack up against what you just put up, iheartbigtuna. That really made my weekend. :)
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