Michael on Donald Trump and his dream catchphrase
Dwight presses Michael about downsizing, then Michael explains how firing people differs for him and Trump, and pitches his own catchphrase.
S1E4 · The Alliance
13 moments · 17 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Michael's surprise party for a birthday a month away
Michael launches Operation Morale Improvement with a drum roll, picks Meredith's next-month birthday, and does a Star Trek bit at Pam.
The party planning committee fights over streamer colours
Angela, Phyllis and Pam deadlock over streamers, Michael shows off his planners, then pushes an ice cream cake on a dairy-allergic guest.
Dwight asks Jim to form a secret alliance
Fearing downsizing, Dwight proposes an alliance and Jim cannot believe his luck, then uses it to flirt with Pam in plain sight.
Jim convinces Dwight a sandwich chat is a rival alliance
Jim reports on a kitchen conversation as enemy plotting, and Dwight erupts at the thought that everyone is out to get them.
Michael's $25 pledge to Oscar's charity
Oscar asks for a donation for his nephew's cerebral palsy charity and Michael shows off with a generous-sounding pledge and a speech on morale.
Dwight's research for Meredith's card: a hysterectomy
Michael asks Dwight for something funny about Meredith for her card, and Dwight's file offers a detail Michael cannot use.
Dwight hides in a box to spy on the warehouse
Dwight the deer hunter hides in a cardboard box to catch a rival alliance, leaving Jim to wonder about trust as the party starts upstairs.
Pam feeds fake gossip to Dwight in his box
Michael tells dairy-allergic Meredith how good her cake is, while Jim sends Pam downstairs to stage a phone call beside Dwight's box.
Michael learns his pledge was per mile
Jim mentions the donation and Michael realises a walk-a-thon pledge is per mile, then fumbles trying to talk Oscar down.
Michael's birthday card jokes bomb
Meredith reads the card aloud, Michael's downsizing pun falls flat, and his backup old-age jokes only make it worse.
Michael's anonymous hospital wing fantasy
Losing the room, Michael flaunts his per-mile pledge and imagines being a philanthropist whose anonymous gift everyone knows is his.
Dwight betrays Jim when the prank is caught
Jim's whispered plan to send Dwight undercover is interrupted, he confesses the alliance prank, and Dwight disowns him, then gloats.
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