The Office: The Angela Saga

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Angela has been sleeping with Dwight while being engaged to Andy. Andy is oblivious. Everyone else in the office knows though.

Including Michael which is a dangerous thing.

It's dangerous because Michael, wanting to be way more of a presence in your life than you would like your boss to be, will tell secrets to become that presence he wants to be so badly.

And he did. He told Andy that Dwight and Angela were having an affair and that it's been going on for a while. And then he drove off to New York leaving Jim to manage this time bomb.

See, Andy has anger issues. Dwight is willing to fight for Angela and Angela is so... messed up, that she's willing to let someone else decide for her who she should be with. Apparently she's having a tough time with it.

So! Andy confronts Dwight and Dwight proposes a duel during their break so it wouldn't be breaking company policy where they would fight for Angela's hand. Angela says she'll respect the result of the duel.

How about that?

Well, the duel happens. Andy, through his superior intellect manages to distract Dwight long enough to get his Prius and pin Dwight to a fence with the full potential of breaking his legs or just plain running him over.

OK. That's enough for now.

In the real world if this were to happen someone would have to leave. The potential groom would want to leave if his fiance was banging someone else in the office and chose to be with him. That's just plain embarrassing for the would-be groom.

The potential bride would want to leave because she might as well have a scarlet "A" on her chest. There's no way anyone would respect her and as a result, no one would treat her the same in a professional manner and she would turn into a horrible employee because her peers wouldn't let her shine.

The stud the would-be bride is banging would want to leave because he'd be known as a dog and end up much the same as the would-be bride work-wise.

So you see? Everyone has a reason to leave, and if one person leaves, life could PROBABLY get on without too much trouble.

But all three are fairly strong staples in the Office world. So what would the writers do?

They made both Andy and Dwight feel slighted by Angela. Apparently she had been telling Dwight that she wasn't sleeping with Andy.

Dwight and Andy come back upstairs and Angela is anxiously awaiting the result of the duel. Andy calls the baker and cancels his order for the wedding cake and Dwight picks up a bobble head that Angela had given him for Valentine's Day so long ago when they were dating and throws it away.

How clever is that? Everyone can stay if they want to and justice is served to an acceptable level. Really, that's all you can ask for.

So kudos writers. You bundled up this saga in a great little ribbon and it worked out pretty well.

Good job.