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"The Target" is the eighth episode of the ninth season of the American comedy television series ''The Office'' and the 184th episode overall. The episode originally aired on NBC on November 29, 2012. It features guest star Chris Gethard as Trevor. The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In the episode, Angela Lipton (Angela Kinsey) goes to Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) for help when she learns that her husband is having an affair. Stanley Hudson (Leslie David Baker) and Phyllis Vance (Phyllis Smith) take advantage of Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) when he needs a favor, and Pete (Jake Lacy) distracts Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) as she begins painting her mural. "The Target" received positive reviews from critics, with many commenting on Nunez and Kinsey's performances. The episode was viewed by 3.88 million viewers and received 1.9/5 rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, ranking fourth in its timeslot. The episode, however, ultimately ranked as the highest-rated NBC series of the night. ==Plot== Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nunez) believes that Angela Lipton (Angela Kinsey) does not know about his affair with her husband, but she is really hiding her rage over the fact that she does know. She goes to Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) for help, without telling him it's Oscar, and he calls a fellow former volunteer sheriff's deputy named Trevor (Chris Gethard) for assistance. After Trevor shows his credentials, Angela says she wants the target murdered, to which Dwight protests is too extreme, so they compromise to breaking the target's kneecaps. Dwight soon realizes the target is Oscar when Angela angrily crushes a cookie given to her by Oscar. Dwight tries to get Angela to reconsider, but Trevor has already arrived to carry out the job. Dwight rushes to get Oscar out, who is livid over Dwight and Angela hiring someone to punish him. They run into Trevor outside, who continues to hesitate to attack Oscar, giving Oscar the opportunity to take away Trevor's lead pipe. When Trevor runs away, Oscar and Dwight are confronted by Angela, who blames Oscar for turning her husband gay. Oscar points out that he was always gay, but still allows Angela to punish him, which she does by kicking him in the shin. Upset that they don't understand homosexuality, Dwight and Angela go to Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein), who is confounded by their outlandish questions over homosexual activity. Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) asks Dunder Mifflin CEO David Wallace (Andy Buckley) if he can work part-time so he can go to Philadelphia to help with his sports marketing job. David Wallace points out that he might be needed in the office if there's a crisis with one of his clients, to which he responds that he's asked Stanley Hudson (Leslie David Baker) and Phyllis Vance (Phyllis Smith) to cover for him, something he hadn't done yet. Stanley and Phyllis are unsure if they want to help him, but become elated when Jim treats them to lunch. Stanley and Phyllis order extra side dishes and allow themselves to an excess of wine, annoying Jim and not allowing him to talk. When they arrive back at the office, a drunk Stanley and Phyllis are seemingly passed out in Jim's backseat. When Jim puts his coat on them to keep them warm, Phyllis and Stanley say they will cover for him, laughing over taking advantage of Jim. Jim gives both of them a hug. Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) decides to start painting her mural in the warehouse, but has a hard time getting started as she is afraid of it not being perfect. She becomes distracted when Pete (Jake Lacy) builds a tower of customer complaint cards in the annex with other employees, as he finds them redundant because the complaints are already in the computer. They decide to try and make it go all the way to the ceiling, but end up having one complaint card short. Not wanting to put a blank card at the top as it would defy the point of the tower, Pam, who has never had a customer complaint against her, offers to get the last complaint. With others listening, she calls one of their smaller clients to make a fat joke at the expense of the client's mother. The client, whose mother was actually obese and is now deceased, drops Dunder Mifflin as their paper supplier, leaving them simultaneously excited over getting that last complaint and disappointed over losing a client. After celebrating the completion of the card tower, Pam finally starts painting the mural, saying artists should not care too much in what others think, further asserting this by telling off Hide (Hidetoshi Imura) when he insults her artwork. 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 Target (The Office)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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