Due to a rather bizarre morning routine gone wrong, Michael accidentally burns his foot on the George Foreman grill. Dwight immediately rushes to rescue him as soon as he hears about it, but gets injured himself when he crashes the car into a pole.
This episode is a glorious display of how far Michael will go to make sure the attention is on him and nobody else. Most people who injure themselves feel a bit embarrassed over it, and will usually try not to make a big deal out of the whole thing. Not this guy. He makes such a theatrical showcase of this unfortunate, but on the whole survivable injury that you'd think he's had his legs blown off. I can't even count the amount of times he keeps yelling after Pam and Ryan to come and help him, as if they are his permanent personal assistants. Ryan's discomfort with the whole situation in particular really cracks me up.
Of course once confronted by people in worse conditions he still manages to act selfish, if not even more so. Dwight he pretty much ignores, despite his head injury being so severe it affects his entire personality. And let's not even talk about when he brings in Billy, a wheelchair-bound guy for "awareness". Due to being disabled for most of his life, he has a fairly easy-going and positive approach towards his handicap, even cracking a little joke about it which Michael for some reason takes objection with.
And when asked about how doing everyday things in a wheelchair is like, Michael desperately tries to make it look like his life is nothing but a constant barrage of misery. This subconsciously reveals that he's trying to justify his extreme overreaction and attention-whoring over his own burnt foot, not genuinely wanting to bring awareness about disability.
I love the sequence of him breaking down disabled heroes so much. Not only are several of these movie characters, and AIDS not a disability, but it's not even the correct movie character in one of the examples. This confusing attempt at inspiring his co-workers had me crippling over with laughter (Pun maybe intended).
Dwight also gets a lot of funny moments as his head injury makes him act more approachable and friendler than usual, especially towards Pam. In my opinion Dwight is actually a sweetheart deep down, but he's rarely this upfront and lovey-dovey about it. Except for with Michael, sometimes.
If I thought it all couldn't get any more perfect, we have Michael in a final act of selfishness trying to stick his foot in under the CAT scan at the same time as Dwight is going through it. What makes it even better is that his foot has already healed at this point, so it's just another way for him to try and be noticed.
This episode is a glorious display of how far Michael will go to make sure the attention is on him and nobody else. Most people who injure themselves feel a bit embarrassed over it, and will usually try not to make a big deal out of the whole thing. Not this guy. He makes such a theatrical showcase of this unfortunate, but on the whole survivable injury that you'd think he's had his legs blown off. I can't even count the amount of times he keeps yelling after Pam and Ryan to come and help him, as if they are his permanent personal assistants. Ryan's discomfort with the whole situation in particular really cracks me up.
Of course once confronted by people in worse conditions he still manages to act selfish, if not even more so. Dwight he pretty much ignores, despite his head injury being so severe it affects his entire personality. And let's not even talk about when he brings in Billy, a wheelchair-bound guy for "awareness". Due to being disabled for most of his life, he has a fairly easy-going and positive approach towards his handicap, even cracking a little joke about it which Michael for some reason takes objection with.
And when asked about how doing everyday things in a wheelchair is like, Michael desperately tries to make it look like his life is nothing but a constant barrage of misery. This subconsciously reveals that he's trying to justify his extreme overreaction and attention-whoring over his own burnt foot, not genuinely wanting to bring awareness about disability.
I love the sequence of him breaking down disabled heroes so much. Not only are several of these movie characters, and AIDS not a disability, but it's not even the correct movie character in one of the examples. This confusing attempt at inspiring his co-workers had me crippling over with laughter (Pun maybe intended).
Dwight also gets a lot of funny moments as his head injury makes him act more approachable and friendler than usual, especially towards Pam. In my opinion Dwight is actually a sweetheart deep down, but he's rarely this upfront and lovey-dovey about it. Except for with Michael, sometimes.
If I thought it all couldn't get any more perfect, we have Michael in a final act of selfishness trying to stick his foot in under the CAT scan at the same time as Dwight is going through it. What makes it even better is that his foot has already healed at this point, so it's just another way for him to try and be noticed.