|
"The Chump" is the 25th episode of the sixth season of the U.S. comedy series ''The Office'' and the show's 125th episode overall. It aired on May 13, 2010 on NBC. 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 is surprisingly cheerful after learning his girlfriend is married. The new parents, Pam and Jim, have trouble staying awake in the office. Meanwhile, Angela takes matters into her own hands when Dwight refuses to honor their prenatal contract.〔http://www.tv.com/the-office/the-chump/episode/1339610/summary.html?tag=prev_episode;title〕 It was written by Aaron Shure and was directed by Randall Einhorn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Office: The Chump )〕 The episode has received mixed reviews from critics and was viewed by 6.604 million viewers. ==Plot== The entire office braces for the fallout of Michael learning about his girlfriend Donna's (Amy Pietz) infidelity, but surprisingly, Michael is as cheerful as usual. The office deduces that Michael is secretly still seeing Donna. When they confront him about this, Michael becomes defensive and refuses to cut off the adulterous relationship. Andy, 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. They both go visit him while he's coaching a high school baseball team, and Andy gets the two of them to talk. Meanwhile, Dwight and Angela are working out the baby contract they signed a few months earlier. Instead of going to court, they have asked a mediator to sort out the issues. After pushing through the contract line for line, the mediator determines that the contract is solid but unenforceable. Instead, Angela could sue Dwight for damages up to $30,000 for breach of contract. Knowing that Dwight could never pay her damages, she offers him a 'settlement': five separate sessions of intercourse. He accepts. 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 beating it with drumsticks. Pam and Jim are both exhausted from the long nights with the new baby, and their work is being adversely affected. Gabe catches them both sleeping at their desks and talks to them privately about it. He asks them what they would do about the rumors of printers catching fire, but they both nearly fall asleep listening to him. Darryl 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. Unfortunately for them, this secret location is within earshot of Dwight and Angela's "warehouse meeting" place, where Angela complains about the damage to Dwight's testicles while Dwight gripes about having to perform foreplay. 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. Ryan tries the same attitude and petitions Erin for sex, but can't hold through and says he was just joking. He explains to Michael that to do what he's doing, one has to be completely cold and uncaring of what other people think, and that he doesn't know how Michael can do it. The rest of the office increasingly shuns Michael. 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. He consoles himself, alone, with his favorite ice cream, and tells the camera crew that he chose being able to live with himself over being happy. At the end of the episode, Michael is ambushed by WBRE-TV reporters asking about the rumors of Sabre printers catching fire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Chump」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|