From his office, Michael makes a phone call and asks an unknown person to go to Jamaica with him. Jim mentions that they are fun for a while, but then you keep on thinking about the girl that broke your heart, implying he still thinks about Pam (the girl who "broke his heart"). Jim initially makes fun of Michael's claim that the dismissive waitress was "the one" but then consoles Michael by explaining that he just had a " rebound" relationship. When he offers to take her to Jamaica, she declines and says that she has to attend school, and the two waitresses leave the party because it "blows". To remedy this, he secretly marks the arm of the waitress he thinks is more attractive with a Sharpie. Meanwhile, Michael is unable to tell the two waitresses apart. Michael and Andy each return with a waitress as their "new girlfriend" (though neither is the one who waited on them at the restaurant). Oscar enters the office with his partner Gil just as Angela is singing " The Little Drummer Boy," pauses for a moment, says, "Too soon" and leaves.
Angela gratefully accepts Pam's kind offer to merge the parties. Karen and Pam feel bad that Angela, for all her nastiness, is genuinely hurt that no one wants to be at her terrible party. Pam and Karen's party is a hit, while Angela's is a dreary affair. Pam is about to tell Karen about her long, sad history with Roy but then just replies "maybe." The rival Christmas parties begin, and the office staff members are forced to choose sides. After he leaves, Karen suggests that Pam should date Roy. Roy comes into the break room and chats with Pam. Jim appears uncomfortable with Pam and Karen's new friendship. In response, Pam reaches out to Karen, and the two plan a rival party. Meanwhile, Jim plays pranks on Dwight and realizes that his excuse for declining Pam's gift does not hold water.Īngela Martin ( Angela Kinsey) kicks Karen Filippelli ( Rashida Jones) off the Party Planning Committee. Andy successfully isolates Dwight from the rest of the party and convinces Michael to ask out their waitress, Cindy ( Brittany Ishibashi). The group stumbles upon an unexpecting couple (Anne Sertich and Stephen Saux) at the table and Dwight fails when attempting to impress the chef with his knowledge of Japanese knives.
Jim declines the gift and claims that as the new office "Number Two" he should not be engaging in such activities, leaving Pam discouraged by a more professional and less fun Jim.Īndy Bernard ( Ed Helms) takes Michael to Benihana to help him forget his recent troubles Michael drags Dwight and Jim along (Ryan actually impresses Jim with a phony work-related excuse that gets him out of having to join them). For the past several months, Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer) has led Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson) to believe that he is being recruited by the CIA, and her gift to Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski) is that he can choose Dwight's first assignment. Michael plans to invite her to join him for a sexy vacation in Jamaica, but she lambastes his actions and breaks off the relationship, leaving Michael heartbroken. Soon after, Michael and Andy's dates leave them, but Michael nevertheless finds someone to go to Jamaica with him.Ĭarol Stills ( Nancy Walls) confronts Michael Scott ( Steve Carell) about the Christmas card he sent her, in which he superimposed his head on the body of Carol's former husband in a family photo. When the majority of the office decide to go to Karen and Pam's party, Angela becomes upset, and seeing this, Karen and Pam decide to combine the parties. Back at the office, after a conflict with a bossy Angela, Karen and Pam decide to create their own Christmas party. Michael, Andy, Dwight, and Jim then go to a local Benihana restaurant, where Michael and Andy find dates with two of the restaurant's waitresses. In the episode, Christmas time at the office leads to depression for Michael, when his girlfriend Carol ( Nancy Walls) breaks up with him. The episode originally aired in the United States on December 14, 2006, on NBC. It was written by Jennifer Celotta and directed by Harold Ramis.
" A Benihana Christmas" is the tenth and eleventh episodes of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth episodes overall. 10th and 11th episodes of the third season of The Office " A Benihana Christmas"