I'm having second thoughts about one of the shirts I packed,
the blue one with the stripes.
I'm sure it's fine. It's a blue shirt.
Yeah, but I'm wondering if it's too blue.
Like, am I making a statement with the blueness?
I am leaving early today for Philly,
because tomorrow is the first day of my new job.
So, I figure I get in at 5:00, check in to a hotel about 6:00,
so I can get a real good night of restless sleep and nervous puking.
Excuse me! Trying to get work done.
Some people don't care about Jim's new sports job in phila-whatever.
So you know my job has something to do with sports,
but you don't know the end of the word "Philadelphia"?
Philadelphia. From the Greek philia meaning "love,"
and "adelph" meaning Adolf. "The city that loves Adolf."
Dwight: Good luck with your new enterprise.
And don't wear the blue-striped shirt.
It makes your neck look like an old mop handle.
Oh! Hey, guys, the Christmas party is today.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Is it?
I mean, it says "x-mas party," but I think we all know what that's code for.
So we're not going to have a Christmas party this year?
Angela, how could you do this to us?
Right. Like, I'm responsible
because I'm in charge of the party planning committee.
Well, you are the one in charge of the...
Don't blame me for something we all forgot!
Yeah, let's not blame her for something we all forgot!
I didn't realize how many ofangela's opinions I agreed with
until she tried to have my kneecap shattered for sleeping with her husband.
She makes a lot of very sound points.
I knew the party was today, but nobody asked me to plan it,
so I didn't. Hmm.
Funny how that works.
We're out there, sweating our balls off every day,
busting our balls.
We deserve a Christmas party.
Well, then why don't we just get some liquor and those mini-cupcakes?
Mini-cupcakes?
As in the mini-version of regular cupcakes,
which is already a mini-version of cake?
Honestly, where does it end with you people?
What about an authentic Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas?
Drink some gliihwein, enjoy some hasenpfeffer.
Enjoy Christmas with Saint Nicholas'
rural German companion, belsnickel.
Yes! That! That! That!
Definitely doing that. Are we all in agreement?
Angela: No! All: No.
Jim: Done, right? No.
I want tropical Christmas.
Topless Christmas!
Tapas Swiss miss!
Spanish tapas and Swiss miss hot cocoa. What's so hard to understand?
Or, who was it that suggested an authentic Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas?
I think it was someone really popular.
We already said no. No!
No, no. Meredith: Too weird.
This is me and my family celebrating Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas
in 1982 on the farm.
There's me and my brother Jeb breaking the ceremonial pig rib.
He doesn't come back for Christmas anymore.
The sepia tint is from an app on my phone.
This is the same photo matrix-style.
I'm not understanding the confusion.
Am I the only one who wants to try hufflepuffs
and schnauzer-hosen and meet this Glen pickle guy?
Party planning committee, emergency meeting. Now.
I'm on it. Great.
I'm just hoping German terrorists
don't take over this Christmas party,
make me go all John mcclane on their asses.
Wait, German terrorists? That's oddly specific.
And I think... I think you mean John mccain.
Die hard reference. I haven't seen it.
You haven't seen die hard?
Why haven't you seen die hard?
I don't know! I just haven't!
Come on. You had to have at least seen some of it.
Nope.
"Now I have a machine gun. Ho, ho, hofi
"come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs."
None of this makes any sense to me.
Oh! Yeah, and when he takes the gun off his back and he's like,
"yippee-ki-yay, mother..."
Actually, he doesn't say that there.
He says it earlier, when he's on the radio with hans.
Yes. You are right. Forgive me.
That's okay, bud. Nope.
Pete: Comnmnrmswke nojtsnot
nerd!
Do you know every line of the movie?
My brother dared me to memorize it,
and I did it, and I loved doing it.
Okay, let's hear it.
Hear what? Die hard.
Every line. Go.
"You don't like flying, do you?"
Don't change the subject.
No, that's...
The movie is starting.
We're thinking of collaborating with
Mike schmidt on some of his charity work.
I love Philly. Dirty town.
Whoa!
Philly! Exciting stuff, man.
Whoo!
So, are you sure you remembered everything for your trip?
Yeah, I think so.
Think that through for a sec.
Yeah, Jim's going to Philly tomorrow.
He said he was going to take me with him, but that was two months ago
and I haven't heard anything since.
I mean, he said that, right?
What else could you possibly be forgetting?
Things, people?
Do you know who's not going to get to work
on some exciting new startup this year?
George Howard skub, aka the alleged Scranton strangler.
Toby: Because he's in prison for something he may not have done.
I'm sorry, the Scranton who?
The Scranton strangler. George Howard skub.
Have I not told you about the jury I was on a couple of years ago?
Oh! What happened?
I mean, if you can talk about it, obviously.
Because if you can't, I understand.
I could. I could talk about it.
See you next Christmas.
Toby: I could, sure. Have a seat.
I would start at the beginning,
but I think I need to go farther back.
We're the party planning committee.
And we did not get where we are by playing it safe.
We got here by being risk-takers!
And yeah, Dwight's party is going to be terrible, maybe.
Maybe it's not.
Maybe it's going to be great.
And if it's great,
I think we all know what that would mean to us.
Let's do it. Yes! Phyllis!
No. I don't want my name attached to this party.
What does that even mean? Where would your name appear?
Please just take my name off of everything.
Just take her name off of everything!
The party planning committee, minus Angela,
has decided that we're all going to do
Dwight's Christmas.
Yes! Yeah! Yeah! Okay! Yes!
It's a Christmas miracle! Yeah! Whoo-hoo!
Pam: Dwight? Yes.
There is one rule that you need to take very seriously.
And that is...
That there are no rules.
You have never been cooler.
Best Christmas ever.
You're welcome. Thank you.
And Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas has officially begun!
Ugh! What is this stuff? Lava?
That is gliihwein, also known as "glow wine,"
also used to sterilize medical instruments.
And, interesting factoid,
this is the very spoon that guided my soft skull
through the birth canal when I was born.
Dwight: Enjoy! What is it?
Don't touch it!
Somebody's found the hog maw! What?
It's a Pennsylvania Dutch specialty, hog maw.
That's a beauty, isn't it?
I don't even want to tell you what it's made of until after you try it.
Ugh! I'm not eating mystery meat.
It is stuffed pig stomach.
And after we finish it, we get to break the pig rib.
Can't wait. Meredith: Weird.
Where're the sugar cookies? Where's the karaoke machine?
This is austere, Meredith.
This is celebrating Christmas for all of the right reasons.
The cookies and toys and sweets are mere distractions.
I mean, most people don't even know
that a candy cane represents a Shepherd's crook,
which I assure you, does not taste like peppermint.
It tastes like sheep feces.
Oscar: How would anyone even know...
Dwight: Have you ever tasted a Shepherd's crook?
I don't know. Is it what you expected?
I feel like Dwight is holding a candle and reading a poem.
So happy right now.
Wait, what is that I hear? Someone on the roof?
How strange.
Excuse me, I have to run to my car to take a dump.
Wish my car had a bathroom.
"Let Heinrich plant the detonators
- "- and Theo prepare the vault. - After that..
That wasn't the line. I'm sorry, Pete.
That is transcribed by some fan. They make mistakes.
I don't know. This looks pretty legit.
Oh, my gosh.
I just got an e-mail from Andy!
That means they hit land.
"Wuddup, shorty! We got in last night, sold the boat.
"Went out, got drunk,
"saw life of pi, got super depressed and introspective.
"Gonna hang out here awhile,
"maybe a couple of weeks, figure this whole life thing out,
"maybe see hobbit. Lates."
Hey, everything okay?
So what comes next?
Right, okay.
So he says,
"after we call the police, they'll waste hours trying to negotiate..."
We should just watch the movie.
That makes much more sense.
Or we can just sit and talk, though.
No. No more talking. It's movie time.
I mean, are you sure? Um...
Yeah. I probably have a copy or two in my car.
Great, great. So we're watching die hard now.
Good! This is a good plan.
Okay.
Here's the thing about moonlight. It's not sunlight.
I love this hog mama.
Dwight said it's hog "maw."
What is maw?
It's the lining of the stomach of the...
Oh!
Judgment is nigh! For der belsnickel ist I!
Yes! He is finally nigh.
I am nigh!
Every year, my grandfather would dress up as belsnickel at Christmas.
He was okay at it.
I am great.
You know how they say some people are born to be bad?
Well, I was born to be belsnickel.
Belsnickel has traveled from distant lands
to discover how all the boys and the girls
have been behaving this last year.
Oh!
Too much strudel!
So he's kind of like Santa? Except dirty and worse.
No! Much better! No one fears Santa the way they fear belsnickel!
Wow!
It's my favorite part of Christmas. The authority.
And the fear.
Yes, exactly!
Come on, Dwight. You're making this up.
Oscar: This is a real thing.
"Belsnickel is a crotchety fur-clad gift-giver,
"related to other companions of Saint Nicholas
"in the folklore of southwestern Germany."
Okay, great. Seriously, you guys?
Now you believe in Dwight's traditions
when some democrat looks it up on Wikipedia?
"His partner zwarte piet, or black Peter,
"a slave boy often portrayed in colorful pantaloons and black face."
Uh-uh. No, Dwight, no.
Oh! Come on.
We don't blindly stick to every outmoded aspect of our traditions.
Come on! Get with the spirit of it, you guys!
Karl was actually a ballet dancer in real life.
Isn't that crazy? Mmm.
Jim, thatguy.
You got to stick to your word,
like when you say something to a buddy, a real buddy.
What are you going to do? Lie to your buddy?
That's awful.
Dwight: Take the bowl, pass it down.
Thank you, Dwight, these are nice.
No, these are gift bowls.
When you receive a gift, itwill go in the bowl,
but the bowls must be returned at the end. They're a set.
Now, hold your bowls forward,
the belsnickel will decide if you are impish or admirable.
It's like naughty or nice?
No, impish or admirable.
Quick question, do you just decide who gets what in the moment,
or did you make a list?
I decided earlier.
Oh! Nice. Did you check that list?
Of course I checked it.
But more than once? Because you could've made a mistake.
Icheckedit more than once.
Okay, so you made a list, you checked it twice,
and now you're going to find out who's...
Impish or admirable.
Damn.
Phyllis Vance! Cheer or fear,
belsnickel is here, I judge your year as
admirable.
There you are.
Hmm. What are these?
It's a set of rubber gaskets for canning jars.
I'd rather have the bowl.
You can't have the bowl!
Oscar Martinez, cheer or fear,
belsnickel is here, ijudge your year
as impish. Oscar: Ow!
You hit people with that thing?
No, I'm carrying around a stick in order to look cool.
Ooh! For the kinder.
A mousetrap.
Dwight: In a head-to-head contest, people prefer
belsnickel over Santa, every time.
There aren't as many songs about him,
but I attribute that more to rhyming difficulties.
My brother and I wrote one once.
It was about a fickle pickle salesman
who would tickle you for a nickel.
Oh! You know what? I got to go.
Dwight: Stop giggling.
Oh! Really? Already? Yeah. Sorry.
It's a punishment. Hey, where are you going?
I have to go to Philly. But this was amazing. Okay?
But you work tomorrow.
Yeah, I know, I'd like to settle in, get a good night's sleep.
But we were going to break the pig rib.
Oh! That's right. Remember?
No matter! Belsnickel cares not about this.
Off with you. Perfect.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Wait, wait, wait, wait!
Don't you want to know your present?
You know what? Yeah. Have at it.
Jim Halpert, cheer or fear, belsnickel is here.
I judge your year as impish.
Oh! Are you nuts? Ow, ow! Ijudge you impish!
Okay, that is three, and you didn't hit anybody that hard.
They're not abandoning the party.
That's enough! I'm done, okay?
Impish!
Belsnickel, I've got to run out early, too.
Oh! What was that?
Now I'm going to be all whipped for my first day of work.
God.
One second.
Well, this is it.
I'm probably never going to see you again.
Shut up, I'm trying to be serious.
Okay, sorry, sorry.
I can't believe this is actually happening.
Listen, thank you so much for putting that all together.
That was the perfect last Christmas party.
All right, wish me luck.
Good luck. You're going to be great.
I'll call you when I get in.
Okay. All right.
Loveyou! Loveyou!
What's going on? Party's over.
You quit on Christmas, Christmas quits on you.
And guess what, kids? Belsnickel isn't real.
It's me. Dwight!
Phyllis: We found some old decorations in the warehouse.
Oscar ran to the store for some food and drink.
And I dipped into my stash of eggnog.
I guess they needed me after all.
It's like in it's a wonderful life,
when Jimmy Stewart realizes that all those people
at the building and loan are justjerks and he was the real hero.
Kevin! Stop it!
Oh! It sounds like the party's starting up out there.
Yeah. So anyway, the entire jury wants me to vote guilty.
But that night, I did a little research on my own,
and forget everything you thought you knew about fingerprinting.
Meredith is a little cute.
I'm just realizing.
She got, like, a Emma stone thing.
For what it's worth, I liked your party better.
Everyone thought the food was gross
and that belsnickel was some darkly erotic freak.
I don't think anyone thought that.
Jim couldn't even stay to the end of the party.
Well, that didn't have anything to do with you.
I don't care.
Guess how much I care on a scale of one to 10.
Zero. Damnh!
I'm going to tell Jim to go Himself.
Do you think Andy would everjump off
an exploding building tied to a hose for me?
Yeah. Definitely.
What's...
Oh, no. Come here. Hey, hey. Come on.
I'm still Andy's girlfriend.
Yeah, of course. I know.
But you can leave your arm.
Dwight, do you want me to get you some eggnog?
No, thanks, I'll just have another dumatril.
Jim taught me this really cool way to take it.
You crush it into a powder, and you snort it up your butt.
Yup, I did say that.
Pam: Jim!
What's going on? Where's the belsnickel?
Ah! Oh, my god!
What are you doing?
The last time I saw you, you were whipping me out of the building.
Shh. Let's not speak of that.
The pig rib! We can totally break the pig rib!
I'm going to dig it out of the trash!
What happened? Did you miss your bus?
No, I just missed my wife.
I found it.
And I found out that there's a bus at 5:00 am.
All: Oh!
Dwight: Damn it!
Jim got the bigger half.
Back for more, huh?
Jim: Nog it! I'm going to get some nog.
You!
Hey, man! You know what?
Before I forget again, I talked to the guys about hiring you.
They're going to bring you in for an interview.
That's great!
Right?
Thanks, man. Yeah, of course.
I shall come by at your convenience.
Thank you, sir.
Go get 'em! Oh!
All: Oh!
Very impish.
Toby: Two dimes, seven nickels and one, well, okay.
No, that doesn't add up. It was one quarter and... shh!
What? I was just explaining... what? Shh.
Butwhy would... shh.
What are you doing? Why? Shh.
No more talking.
Are you going to kiss me?
Yes.