+In order to get permission to use the song "Your Body is a Wonderland" in this episode, John Mayer asked that he be given a Dundie. In this episode, Creed is singing "Spinnin N' Reelin", a song that he wrote himself. Creed Bratton is a musician as well as an actor, and has released some albums. +Angela sings "Little Drummer Boy" on the karaoke machine, which is her favorite song. In the pilot episode, Dwight is seen singing that song. +This episode is the first double-length episode of the series. In The Netherlands, it was aired as two separate episodes. +Carol (Nancy Walls), Michaels (Steve Carell) girlfriend who breaks up with him at the beginning of the episode, is actually the real life wife of Carell. Known for her mid '90s stint on SNL, Walls and Carell have been married since 1995. +Before Jim creates The Committee To Determine The Validity Of The Two Committees, Dwight demands that Pam and Karen turn over all party supplies that they gathered to throw a rival office Christmas party opposite Angelas. Dwight tells them that the supplies would be returned on January 4, which also happens to be the same day that the next episode would be aired. +The closest Benihana to Scranton, PA is actually nearly 2 hours away in Plymouth Meeting, PA. +The Benihana restaurant that Michael, Dwight, Jim and Andy go to is the same one featured in the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), also starring Steve Carell. +Pam said that for the last few months she's been sending Dwight letters from the CIA, and Jim's Christmas gift is to decide what his top secret mission is. In the "Branch Closing" episode, Jim revealed that he'd been sending faxes to Dwight from future Dwight. +When the two waitresses first arrive at the office they are wearing make-up. In the next scene when Michael Scott offers his date the bike, both girls are no longer wearing any make-up. +The movie that Jim and Karen give to each other is "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason." It came out in 2004, two years before this episode aired, two years before Jim and Karen started dating, and about a year and a half before they ever even met. +Dwight wears the same orange beanie as he does in The Office: The Merger (2006). +The Benihana restaurant that Michael, Jim, Andy, and Dwight go to is the same one featured in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), also starring Steve Carell.
Goofs
Anachronisms In the photo of Carol's family on their ski trip, she mentions that the trip was "two years ago" placing it at 2004 / 2005. The snowboard that Carol's son is holding is a 2007 model Burton Custom, which was the current model year when the episode aired... thus did not exist when Carol's family were on their ski trip.
Character error The "missing" cable for the karaoke machine is an IEC cable, which could be found on the back of any computer monitor or any computer desktop.
Spoilers The two actresses who play the waitresses at Benihana are not the same actresses who arrive with Michael and Andy to the Christmas Party.
Review by Felipe IbañezBlockedParent2018-07-15T00:15:34Z
Trivias
+In order to get permission to use the song "Your Body is a Wonderland" in this episode, John Mayer asked that he be given a Dundie.
In this episode, Creed is singing "Spinnin N' Reelin", a song that he wrote himself. Creed Bratton is a musician as well as an actor, and has released some albums.
+Angela sings "Little Drummer Boy" on the karaoke machine, which is her favorite song. In the pilot episode, Dwight is seen singing that song.
+This episode is the first double-length episode of the series. In The Netherlands, it was aired as two separate episodes.
+Carol (Nancy Walls), Michaels (Steve Carell) girlfriend who breaks up with him at the beginning of the episode, is actually the real life wife of Carell. Known for her mid '90s stint on SNL, Walls and Carell have been married since 1995.
+Before Jim creates The Committee To Determine The Validity Of The Two Committees, Dwight demands that Pam and Karen turn over all party supplies that they gathered to throw a rival office Christmas party opposite Angelas. Dwight tells them that the supplies would be returned on January 4, which also happens to be the same day that the next episode would be aired.
+The closest Benihana to Scranton, PA is actually nearly 2 hours away in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
+The Benihana restaurant that Michael, Dwight, Jim and Andy go to is the same one featured in the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), also starring Steve Carell.
+Pam said that for the last few months she's been sending Dwight letters from the CIA, and Jim's Christmas gift is to decide what his top secret mission is. In the "Branch Closing" episode, Jim revealed that he'd been sending faxes to Dwight from future Dwight.
+When the two waitresses first arrive at the office they are wearing make-up. In the next scene when Michael Scott offers his date the bike, both girls are no longer wearing any make-up.
+The movie that Jim and Karen give to each other is "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason." It came out in 2004, two years before this episode aired, two years before Jim and Karen started dating, and about a year and a half before they ever even met.
+Dwight wears the same orange beanie as he does in The Office: The Merger (2006).
+The Benihana restaurant that Michael, Jim, Andy, and Dwight go to is the same one featured in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), also starring Steve Carell.
Goofs
Anachronisms
In the photo of Carol's family on their ski trip, she mentions that the trip was "two years ago" placing it at 2004 / 2005. The snowboard that Carol's son is holding is a 2007 model Burton Custom, which was the current model year when the episode aired... thus did not exist when Carol's family were on their ski trip.
Character error
The "missing" cable for the karaoke machine is an IEC cable, which could be found on the back of any computer monitor or any computer desktop.
Spoilers
The two actresses who play the waitresses at Benihana are not the same actresses who arrive with Michael and Andy to the Christmas Party.