Adam Grant

And the phone handle is just too light.

And he just whacks himself in the head.

First of all, I mean, the...

the genius of the person who came up with this prank.

I cannot, I want to hang out with that writer every day.

But more important than that is the fact that this is a benign violation.

Like you are not supposed to cause, you're not supposed to cause your coworker to hit himself in the head, but also it's not going to leave a mark.

And it happened on TV.

And the office is full of these kinds of moments.

How can you not love that?

So how many of these do I have to give you before you decide that the pros are worth the cons?

I mean, that was a little sad.

But what made me okay with that episode, even though it's not a storyline I would have written, it's not one of my favorite episodes from the show at all, is you have Michael Scott.

And if you just take him at face value, you think he's a jerk.

But what you forget is he's in this documentary stuck in Scranton, Pennsylvania at a paper company.

And he's trying to become famous.

He's trying to become a reality TV star.

And so he does all these idiotic things in front of a camera to try to get attention.

And it's a parody of how reality TV works in our culture.

And that makes it funny to me because he's basically saying, this is what somebody would do to try to get famous.