The Office 4/9/09 Episode "Dream Team" Recap  4/14/09

Michael is having trouble starting his first day as founder of the Michael Scott Paper Company. Pam suggests they create a list of things to do to maintain a positive working atmosphere. Michael sets up a meeting with a potential investor and makes a list of potential salesmen to join the company. He receives a letter from his realtor saying that running a business from his condo is in violation of his residence agreement, so he needs to find an office to work out of. Michael and Pam leave to find potential salesmen and then have their meeting with the potential investor. Michael's first stop is his old telemarketing job (from "Money") to pick up Vikram. They then stop at a bowling alley, where Ryan, with blond hair, is now working behind the shoe counter. Michael successfully convinces Ryan to join them, despite initial reservations from Pam, and they head to the meeting with the investor. The investor turns out to be Michael's grandmother, referred to as "nana" throughout, at a nursing home. Michael gives her his pitch, but she doesn't believe his new venture will yield success and refuses to fund his company.

Meanwhile, at the Dunder Mifflin office, Charles Miner is revealed to have an obsession with soccer, and the rest of the employees pretend to feel the same way about it. When Jim tries to play it coy about his feelings about it, Dwight, attempting to humiliate Jim, requests that the staff play a game after work in the parking lot, to which Charles agrees, and Jim reluctantly does the same. During the game, when Charles kicks the ball towards Jim, Jim ducks and the ball hits Phyllis in the face. Charles berates Jim for ducking, and Dwight mocks him.

In the car on the way back from the nursing home, Vikram asks to be brought back to the telemarketing job when he learns that "nana" is a term for grandmother. Back at Michael's condo, Pam tells Michael that she made a mistake for leaving Dunder Mifflin with him and only did it because she became frustrated with being a receptionist. Michael tells her that the reality is that they both quit and that their only option is to continue trying with the new company. Michael makes a call to Billy Merchant (owner of the Scranton Business Park) to find office space in the Business Park, which turns out to be a large closet underneath the Dunder Mifflin office. At the end of the episode, Michael and Pam put their company name in the office lobby directory where they encounter Charles, who is seemingly agitated with the presence of Michael's new company occupying the same space. Michael makes a threat toward him, informing Charles that he can't kick them out of the building now that they own space.

"Dream Team" is the twenty-second episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 9, 2009. In the episode, Pam and Michael try to keep each other motivated as the two form their new paper company together. Michael recruits Ryan for the company, which sets up a new office in the same building complex as Dunder Mifflin. Meanwhile, Jim tries to impress new boss Charles Miner by claiming to be a soccer enthusiast, but it backfires when Dwight convinces the two to face each other in a game.

The episode was written by B.J. Novak and directed by Paul Feig. It aired the same day as the Office episode "The Michael Scott Paper Company"; the debut episode of the new NBC show Parks and Recreation was shown between the two episodes. "Dream Team" marked the return of Ryan, who had not appeared on the show since the November episode "Frame Toby". The episode received generally positive reviews and, according to Nielsen Ratings, was watched by 7.2 million viewers and captured the most viewers in its time slot for adults between the ages of 18 and 49.

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