This was awesome! I love that the office writers get so involved. Billy reappears in the episode "Casino Night", attending the event of the same name, with his girlfriend, whom Michael mistakes for his nurse. are going through problems and that she is upset that he has not proposed to her yet. At the end of the episode, it is implied that he has sustained brain damage,[25] and is said in the subsequent episode to be in a coma. He is friendly towards Michael, sharing his dinners and giving him good advice. There is a child actor in Threat Level Midnight with a similar name (Ferd Winkdale). In "Whistleblower", the season finale, Jo comes to Scranton determined to find out who leaked information to the press about Sabre's printers catching on fire. William "Billy" Merchant (Marcus A. York) is the property manager of Scranton Business Park, the office park in which the Dunder-Mifflin Scranton branch office is located. It was one of those episodes that seemed to come in too long to be a half hour, but not long enough to be an hour-long). Tension is then created between Jim and Pam when the latter's emotional break down from a few weeks back is revealed to the former after Brian begins to get misty eyed and Pam comforts him, leading to him to joke about the two having to stop tearing up in front of one another. Yay! : Yes. He appears in "The Seminar", attending Andy's seminar on starting a small business, where his presence causes Jim, who was originally one of the guest speakers, to abruptly pull out and spend all day outside of the office. Great interview! Josh later became Jim's boss, after Jim was transferred to Stamford, and it seemed that he thought of Josh as a role model. He is first seen sitting at his desk as Michael exits the building at the end of "Halloween". Since he worked for the Dunder Mifflin corporate office, it is presumed that he was fired from the company, along with all of the other corporate executives, after Dunder Mifflin was bought out by Sabre. Tony Gardner was born on January 10, 1964 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. : In the shooting script, Michael revealed that David Wallace was Michael’s original choice for Goldenface – in his mind, the James Bond model of a smooth, handsome villain – but that Wallace had to turn it down since “it wouldn’t look good to people at corporate.” Then we had a talking head from David Wallace, which Andy Buckley performed beautifully, explaining why he actually regretted his decision: DAVID WALLACE TALKING HEAD In the episode "Happy Hour", Oscar invites the warehouse crew and the office to drinks in an effort to hang out with Matt. [67] In "Cafe Disco", when Kelly and Erin start dancing in Michael's Cafe Disco, Leo and Gino are shown to be eager to dance with them. While he is surprised at the news, Michael does not appear to mourn Ed's death, until Creed informs him of the gruesome way Ed had died: He was apparently "drunk as a skunk", and driving on Route 6, when he managed to go under an 18-wheeler, decapitating himself. He is an office employee who sits across from Creed (who is directly responsible for getting Devon fired, to save his own job). She prefers wearing pantsuits at the office rather than skirts. Phillip is last seen in "Safety Training", attending the Warehouse and office safety seminars. Lonny joins his friend Darryl in open displays of irritation by and intimidation toward Michael. Michael later recruits Vikram to work in his own company in "Dream Team" only to have Vikram give up on the idea and return to his job after finding out how ill-conceived Michael's plan was. Nearly a decade later, in the ninth-season episode "Work Bus", it is mentioned that Jerry has died. He appears in a deleted scene from the episode "Office Olympics", where he encounters Michael and Dwight, and is perturbed by Michael's personality. He vengefully reveals a number of personal secrets that various office members have kept hidden on their computers, and gives everyone "the finger" as he leaves. Michael meets him on his Lecture Circuit and becomes devastated when he learns Holly is dating him. This is confirmed in the subsequent season, where she is shown to be dating Darryl. The two end up in a scuffle, but Frank is restrained by two other documentarians. In "Secret Santa", it is revealed that the warehouse employees refer to her as "Garfield" for her affection for lasagna. Michael then declares that their "friendly" game has led to violence, and abruptly ends the game, declaring his team the winner. In the opening of "Viewing Party", the office staff are watching a live broadcast of a police chase of the Scranton Strangler, and they get excited when the cars pass by on the road in front of the office building. Anthony "Tony" Gardner, is a fictional character played by Mike Bruner in the television series The Office. Very interesting to find out this was Steve’s idea. Paul Lieberstein later confirmed that she would not return to the show, but did not explain why.[30]. In the fourth-season premiere, he participates in Michael's Fun Run for Rabies, and appears to have been the second person to cross the finish line. It is later revealed her ethics are questionable. Dwight then bursts in with chemicals to spray for bed bugs, and Jim tells him a bug is following Cathy. In "Night Out", Jim forgets to let Hank know that the office workers would be working late and Hank locks them and their cars behind the parking lot's gate. (Rob Huebel) is an affable salesman at the Nashua branch who becomes Holly's boyfriend after she's transferred there from Scranton and breaks off her relationship with Michael. Why would he be in Michael’s movie if he worked at Scranton for under a day and got fired/quit? Michael mistook her name by calling her "Pudge" and later "Padge", not knowing her real name. In the following scene, Michael reveals that it was Devon chasing him, and cluelessly reflects that it was nice to see Devon again and get closure on their whole story. (The episode really had to be cut to the bone, in order to tell the story of Michael showing the movie as well as tell the story of the movie itself. In her free time, Karen enjoys playing first-person shooter PC games. However, it is also confirmed that Charles no longer has any authority over the Scranton office. After that point, Matt does not appear in the show anymore. He is a Sikh but resents being only classified by his religion, telling a meeting during "Fun Run" that he likes listening to hip hop and National Public Radio, and is restoring a 1967 Corvette. Don't get me wrong but the manliest men often have man-crushes on effeminate men.