Michael Scott

Michael Gary Scott
The Office character
First appearance	"Pilot"
Portrayed by	Steve Carell
Information
Date of birth	March 15, 1965 (1965-03-15) (age 44)
Occupation	• Regional Manager, Dunder Mifflin, Scranton • Co-Regional Manager in charge of Big Picture, Dunder Mifflin, Scranton
Family	a Mother and Father (divorced) Jeff (step-father) a Brother
Spouse(s)	Jan Levinson (ex-girlfriend) Carol Stills (ex-girlfriend) Holly Flax (ex-girlfriend) Helene Beesly (ex-girlfriend)
Based on	David Brent

Michael Gary Scott is a fictional character on NBC's The Office, portrayed by Steve Carell, and based on David Brent from the original British version. Michael, the central character of the series, is currently the co-manager of the Scranton branch of paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin. Prior to being co-manager, he was the regional manager of the branch, but on the September 24th, 2009 episode "The Meeting", he was demoted to co-manager with Jim. In the fifth season, Michael Scott briefly left his position to start his own company, The Michael Scott Paper Company. Dunder Mifflin purchased the Michael Scott Paper Company in an episode that aired on April 23, 2009 and as part of the agreement rehired Scott as the regional manager.

Michael insists everyone in the office think of him as a friend first, a boss second, and "probably an entertainer third", as did David Brent in the original version. Michael holds inflated views of himself and considers himself an office comedian, but his attempts at humor tend to fail. Often, he says things that are inappropriate, offensive, or unwittingly mean in the hopes of getting a laugh. He lacks maturity and self-awareness, has few friends, and is quite lonely, made worse because his efforts to make friends with people usually backfire. Michael will resort to any means possible to make himself the center of attention, and often takes credit for the successes of others. His subordinates, with the exception of Dwight Schrute, think of him as inept, and several of them remark that they get their work done when Michael is distracted.

Michael wasn't always an incompetent employee at Dunder Mifflin. Before he was promoted to regional manager he was a great salesman, able to relate well with clients and using his personable attitude to his advantage. However, his promotion put him into a position above his level of competence, making him an embodiment of the Peter Principle.^[1]

Casting

All original series characters were adapted for the U.S. version. NBC programmer Kevin Reilly suggested Paul Giamatti to producer Ben Silverman for the role of Michael Scott, but the actor declined. Martin Short, Hank Azaria, and Bob Odenkirk were also reported to be interested.^[2] In January 2004, Variety reported Steve Carell of the popular Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, was in talks to play the role. At the time, he was already committed to another NBC midseason replacement comedy, Come to Papa,^[3] but the series was quickly canceled, leaving him fully committed to The Office. Carell later stated he had only seen about half of the original pilot episode of the British series before he auditioned. He did not continue watching for fear that he would start copying Gervais' characterizations.^[4]

Two supporting roles in films helped get the attention of audiences: Bruce Almighty, in which Carell plays Evan Baxter (an arrogant rival to Jim Carrey's character), who gets a humorous comeuppance while co-anchoring the news. In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Carell plays another news personality, as slow-witted weatherman Brick Tamland. Although the series premiered to mediocre ratings, NBC renewed it for another season because of the anticipated success of Carell's movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin,^[5] and the show subsequently became a ratings success. Carell won a Golden Globe and Television Critics Association award in 2006 for his role. He also received Emmy nominations in 2006 and 2007 for his work in the series. He played the lead role in the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which he developed and co-wrote. Although the film was a surprise success, Carell revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he had no plans to leave The Office.

Character information

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Family and childhood

Michael was born on March 15 at 11:23 AM in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has at least one sibling, who is an older brother, and came from a 'broken home', once comparing an office situation to the time his mother "moved in with Jeff", and he "had to fix it". Via a recording of an appearance he made on a children's television show when he was a young boy, it is revealed that as a child, Michael's goal was to grow up "and have one hundred children so I can have a hundred friends and no one can say 'no' to being my friend." Michael claims Battleship got him through his parents' divorce.

Personality

Michael is shallow and materialistic, with a tendency to judge people based on their looks rather than their talents, and his impetuous nature often leads to bad decision-making. He often makes idiotic remarks based on racial or sexual stereotypes. Michael is utterly incapable of behaving professionally, and will make choices without thinking about the consequences or assuming a best case scenario.

Michael's constant desire to be the center of attention often manifests itself in selfish behavior. For example, when he burns his foot in "The Injury", he expects Pam and Ryan to tend to his needs, despite Dwight's much more serious injury. When invited to be an usher in "Phyllis' Wedding", he assumes that his participation will be the high point of the ceremony and pouts when he is upstaged. Michael appears to emphasize moments of sympathy or civility directed at him by his co-workers (mostly Jim) and inflate their importance in order to compensate for his loneliness.

He often mistakes friendliness towards him by females to mean that they are romantically interested in him. He obsesses over having a family to the detriment of his own happiness. This paradox is best exemplified by his relationship with Jan. He becomes tortured by her selfish, shallow, moody, and fickle behavior yet stays with her for the hopes of having children with her and having a solid marriage, neither of which seem possible.

Due to his overall lack of common sense, Michael can withstand significant abuse from his peers and is often the butt of jokes. He is quick to take offense when he realizes he is being wronged and his response is often disproportionate to the harm suffered. Even though he is generally oblivious to criticism, derision and sarcasm, Michael has some limits to his patience, and leaves to question the extent of offense that he can actually acknowledge (demanding professional respect from Stanley in "Did I Stutter" or standing up to the employees in favor of Holly in "Business Ethics"). He, however, will not tolerate any disrespect towards clients under any circumstance.

In The Meeting we learn that Michael does not aim for his employees' betterment or his own, thinking that this would put his job at jeopardy; he unwittingly turns down a promotion that would put Jim in his position, choosing the status quo over his employees ambitions. He is eventually forced to budge, having to co-manage the branch with Jim.

Loyal to a fault, Michael goes through absurd lengths to make sure that his employees don't lose their jobs and has a great affection for the company that employs him. However, his mistakes often lead him to try and pin the blame on a lower level employee, usually Dwight. The people who surround Michael are well aware of his weaknesses, allowing him to be easily manipulated.

Interests

Michael writes song parodies. In Goodbye, Toby, it is said that he had written songs such as "Beers in Heaven" (which he tells Holly is 'very sexual'") and "Total Eclipse of the Fart". Michael's most common catch phrases are "That's what she said" and a whispered "Shut it". When he does an impression or otherwise makes a reference to a person or character, he feels compelled to identify the source afterward (although he sometimes identifies it incorrectly).

Michael also appears to have a history of playing ice hockey. In "Michael's Birthday", he takes the entire staff ice skating, and shows up in full hockey regalia, including pads, stick, and helmet. Michael says he thought about playing in the NHL but wanted to settle down with a family instead. On multiple occasions, Michael has also expressed interest in basketball even though he is terrible at it (in "The Fire" and "Basketball"). He also once stated that he is a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. In the Season Four episode, The Deposition, Jan also mentions Michael is an accomplished ice skater, most likely as a result of his history with ice hockey.

Michael attends classes in improvisational comedy and believes his skills are among the best in the world. He constantly compliments his own performances, from joke-telling to impressions to videotape skits he creates for presentation in the office.

Michael loves wearing jeans, in particular a white pair he refers to as his "Fun Jeans." ("The Convention"). He is so fond of his jeans that he gets them dry cleaned; Pam surmises that he instituted Casual Friday just to show off his jeans ("The Client").

Michael treasures his "World's Best Boss" mug, even though he bought it for himself at Spencer Gifts and presumably has multiple replacements. The audience knows that he has purchased at least two, because Dwight precariously places one of them on Michael's desk, and Michael accidentally knocks it off with a golf putter that he was using to practice with in his office. This is also proven in "The Promotion", when Michael presents Jim with his own "World's Best Boss" mug at the end of the episode that they share gin with together.

Michael also greatly enjoys franchise restaurants such as Sbarro, choosing to eat there on his visit to New York City rather than one of the many independent pizzerias. He also takes clients and business associates to Chili's on several occasions, and even hosts the annual Scranton Branch "Dundies" ceremony at the restaurant. In an argument with Dwight, he adamantly defends IHOP as his favorite restaurant for breakfast.

Michael is also very passionate of YouTube. In several episodes, he gets distracted by YouTube, to the point of saying that when he "discovered" YouTube, he didn't work for five days and instead watched "Cookie Monster Sings Chocolate Rain" about "a thousand times" in "Business Ethics"". He also has a great deal of respect for YouTube, thinking that it is a very important news source. For example, in "Product Recall", when talking about how their paper crisis would get a lot press coverage he says "First, Newsweek picks it up and then CNN does a story about it and then YouTube gets a hold of it!".

Michael is an avid fan of the HBO television series, Entourage. He even forces the office to watch a single episode of the show six times during their "Movie Monday" sessions in the Season Three episode, "The Coup."

It is also established that Michael tends to be a bit "behind" when it comes to pop culture references, particularly in music. This is mainly shown through his cellphone ringtones, such as "My Humps" early on in the show, or "Salt N Pepa" in "The Lover".

In "Dream Team," it is revealed that Michael's condo is at 126 Kellum Court in Scranton.

Education

Michael's plans for a college degree at Manhattan college were thwarted when he lost his college savings (earned while employed at an Arby's Restaurant) in a pyramid scheme, specifically Vector Marketing. He is moderately insecure about his lack of a degree, especially when he feels threatened by people with more education; Ryan Howard's business school attendance is especially destructive to his ego. In the episode "Dunder Mifflin Infinity", Michael reveals that he had to take the second grade at least twice.

At times, Michael struggles with his vocabulary and tends to mispronounce words such as "prodigal" ("The Convention"), or completely confuse words, such as when he calls himself a "philanderer" when he obviously meant "philanthropist" ("Casino Night"), or when he tells fellow employee Stanley that he would be unable to save him if his heart "disappears" to be working ^[6]. He frequently is unable to form complete sentences or return insults on the spot.

He is known to take things literally: when he was told that all his money problems would go away by declaring bankruptcy, he then shouted, "I declare bankruptcy!", believing that no further action was necessary. (When told by Oscar he can't merely say bankruptcy and expect his problems to leave, Michael replies, "I didn't say it, I declared it.") Michael also seems to have difficulty with math; he once thought a 5K race was five thousand miles long ("Fun Run"). Occasionally, in order to fit in, he implies that he attended college, though his specious "recollections" of his college days come across as bizarre (like when he stated that the professors were the life of the parties). Other times, Michael boasts of his executive status despite his lack of a degree.

Work demeanor and management style

Michael Scott in "Pilot"

Still a talented salesman, Michael has a way of relating to potential clients through regular conversation that has helped land his branch some big accounts. In addition, he advocates a personal touch in business relations. However, Michael's almost savant-like sales skills do not translate into good management skills. His laid-back approach more often results in lower than expected workplace productivity, particularly when Michael places his personal interests as a priority over work (such as his birthday, someone else's birthday, or his various seminars). To avoid being disciplined for his foolish actions, Michael often resorts to scapegoating employees to cover himself. Although his actions often lead to more problems for his employees, Michael believes that Scranton is "the cool fun branch", and is genuinely upset when the top salesman from the Utica office trashes Scranton in a phone call by saying it's "worse than Camden".

Although his position as Regional Manager gives him broad decision-making authority on branch operations, he often places those responsibilities secondary to his desire to be friends with his employees. On the other hand, he also oversteps his authority by hosting events that Corporate disapproves of such as "The Dundies", and a "Booze Cruise".

One of the more frequent things Michael does is host seminars that range from diversity, sexual harassment, the handicapped, public speaking, drugs, homosexuality, grief counseling, prison, obesity, religion, and women's appreciation in an attempt to educate his staff, who all seem more aware of and more mature about the subject matter than Michael. Michael's ignorance results in these seminars being an embarrassing disaster every time, alternately amusing and shocking the staff. Michael does his best to thwart the efforts of serious guest speakers on these topics, mostly to gain attention for him himself or trying to take over their role of speaking while in the midst of a presentation, usually to little success.

It is revealed in the episode "The Duel" that, despite Michael's unorthodox and seemingly ineffective management style, the Scranton branch outperformed both Utica and Albany, reporting strong sales despite the foundering economy. Michael is called to Corporate to answer the question, "What are you doing right?" After several minutes of Michael's inarticulate babble, his superiors concede that while Michael is definitely doing something right, they will probably never know exactly what.

Michael seems to remain loyal to the company and his superior David Wallace because he seems to give Michael a good deal of respect. However, there have been moments when Michael has questioned his loyalty to the company; after Michael becomes upset that the company transferred Holly out of Scranton, Michael says that he has stayed at the company for a long time not because of the pay, but because his superiors give him enough respect that he could talk them down and nothing would happen.

In the fifth season, Michael begins to display more selfishness than usual, sometimes stabbing his employees in the back or going back on his word to his employees for his personal interests. In "The Duel", Michael intentionally tells Andy about Angela's infidelity, just as he's leaving for a meeting with David Wallace in New York so he won't have to deal with the fallout at the office. In "Golden Ticket", he angers David Wallace by placing discount coupons in their shipments without prior approval by corporate. As a result, he tries to convince Dwight to take the fall for him, and attempts to persuade his coworker to just be a farmer.

Michael makes plans for his 15 year anniversary with the company in "New Boss" just as he meets his new boss: Charles Miner (Idris Elba) who has accepted the position vacated by Ryan. Charles' no nonsense management skills clash with Michael's laid back managerial style. When Charles dissolves the Party Planning Committee while they make plans for Michael's work anniversary, an infuriated Michael decides to confront David Wallace after pestering him with phone calls. When Wallace tries to make amends for the sudden cancellation of Michael's party, Michael abruptly resigns and walks out. In "Two Weeks" Michael decides to form his own paper company entitled "Michael Scott Paper Co." He manages to convince Pam and, eventually, Ryan to join him in his new venture, and the three of them rent a space in the building. In a deleted scene for that episode, it is revealed that Michael got his first job at Dunder Mifflin by smelling a woman's hair on a bus, following her to where she worked (Dunder Mifflin), and ended up getting hired as a sales representative.

Interpersonal Relations

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Michael's relationship with the company warehouse employees is tense. Michael has a tendency to disrupt their daily work flow, and in a talking head interview, warehouse supervisor Darryl Philbin reveals that they have never been able to make a full year accident-free because of Michael's antics. Of the employees, only Dwight Schrute shows an interest in Michael's antics; Michael tends to put down Dwight but apparently likes the attention. While Michael often tries to distance himself from Dwight, they do spend some time outside of the office together: It is revealed in "The Fight" that they spent one New Year's Eve together watching Armageddon. Michael's respect for Dwight seems to be threatened by the presence of Andy Bernard, an obnoxious employee from the Scranton-Stamford branch merger with intentions of moving up the corporate ladder.

Michael is particularly cruel toward Toby Flenderson, the human resources representative, partially because Toby reports to Corporate directly and is therefore not a member of the Scranton branch "family." However, Toby still tries to offer comforting advice to Michael when he is dejected. Michael's old high school classmate, Phyllis Lapin-Vance, is often a target for Michael's ridicule. Although they are the same age, which Phyllis likes to remind him of, Michael often refers to her as the grandmother of the group, and once said she was the "Mrs. Butterworth" of the office. In Blood Drive when Bob Vance and Phyllis are having lunch with Jim and Pam, Bob refers to Michael as "a jackass."

Michael also has a tendency to reveal personal information about staff members to the entire office. Notable examples include Michael reading aloud confidential complaints given to Toby by staff, revealing Jim's feelings for Pam, and outing Oscar Martinez. He also makes a sincere, if misguided attempt to stage an intervention when he thinks Meredith's alcoholism has crossed the line.

Michael fixates on Ryan Howard, an employee (temp in Seasons 1-2, full-time in Seasons 3 and 4) at the office, buying him inappropriate gifts and making inappropriate comments. It is unclear whether this is a sexual interest or simply Michael's misinterpretation of his role as a "father figure" to Ryan, or some combination of the two. Michael also seeks the approval of Jim Halpert, whom Michael considers his best friend based on the fact he was the first person Jim told of his crush on Pam. Unlike Ryan, who puts up with Michael because of his role as a temp, Jim seems to genuinely feel sorry for Michael, although this doesn't stop him from pulling minor pranks on his boss when an opportunity presents itself.

It may be inferred that Michael has a crush on Pam, since he once claims that he "likes her boobs" and in one instance attempted to kiss her ("Diwali"). More often than not, Pam has had to deal with Michael not so much as a boss, but as a child behaving badly either by comments he makes or job duties he does not perform as required. Despite his inappropriate behavior towards Pam, he seems to care for her. Likewise, Pam appreciates his good personality traits and doesn't like to see Michael depressed. Pam later follows Michael to the Michael Scott Paper Company and is chosen by him as a salesperson over Ryan when the Company is bought out by Dunder Mifflin.

Michael is romantically hopeless at the beginning of the series, but does manage to have a few romantic relationships. Michael has dated Jan Levinson (Melora Hardin), his boss from Corporate, Carol (played by Carell's wife Nancy Walls), a real estate agent with whom Michael worked to buy his condominium; and Holly Flax (Amy Ryan), Toby's replacement as HR Representative. Michael is reasonably successful in this last relationship, as Holly has the same odd sense of humor and social awkwardness (although this is less evident), and calls her his soulmate. However, after David Wallace witnesses Holly and Michael kissing, he transfers her to Nashua and the two are forced to break up. It is evident, however, that Michael still has strong feelings for Holly, and is suggested that Holly feels the same. After Jim and Pam get married in "Niagara", Michael is caught on camera entering one of the hotel rooms with Pam's mom, Helene. He is soon revealed to be dating her in "The Lover", which infuriates Pam and puts them at odds with each other. Michael cares for Pam's mother and even plans a lavish birthday lunch with her, Pam and Jim in "Double Date". However, Michael breaks up with Helene during the lunch when he found out how old she was turning. This, ironically, also upsets Pam.

Alter egos of Michael Scott

Given his proclivity of constantly trying to keep his employees entertained (and coupled with his juvenile personality), Michael has created a variety of different alter egos which he uses for both entertainment, and, at times, educational purposes. Often at times he uses these characters names to hide transacting information, and at one point his credit card uses "Michael Scarn", instead of Michael Scott.

Ping (The Dundies), an Asian caricature based on Michael's Chinese food deliveryman.

Agent Michael Scarn (The Client, E-mail Surveillance, referenced in Money, Dinner Party, Prince Family Paper) is the star of Threat Level: Midnight, a derivative spy/action hero screenplay written and illustrated by Michael. He had kept it hidden in his desk drawer until it was discovered by Pam without his knowledge.

A thinly-veiled portrayal of himself, Michael also adopts the persona in one session of his improv comedy class, ignoring the rule to base his dialogue off of his scene partners, and ultimately shooting everyone in the room, regardless of their participation in the scene. He also uses the alias in another episode to go undercover in a local paper competitor to attain information from it.(Prince Family Paper)

Prison Mike (The Convict) wears a purple bandanna over his head, speaking in a caricature of New York English, and explains that he is in prison for theft, robbery and kidnapping the president's son for ransom (although he claims, in knee-jerk defensiveness, that he was never caught). He proceeds to paint an awful, and somewhat fanciful, picture of prison life. He states that the scariest part of prison is the Dementors. The character is likely the result of Michael's take on the Scared Straight documentary series.

Michael the Magic (Cocktails) attempts to escape from a straitjacket but fails because of a lost key (actually hidden by Jim). Michael's fondness for magic is referenced throughout the series, including an off-screen visit to a children's magic camp. Michael also attempts to utilize a magic prop briefcase (which included a working chainsaw) while speaking at Karen's Utica branch in Lecture Circuit.

Michael Klump (Weight Loss) attempts to show that overweight people are people too. Michael wears a partially-inflated sumo suit underneath a business suit, and is patterned after the Eddie Murphy character in the Nutty Professor remakes.

Michael Scotch (New Boss) was co-created when Michael and Dwight were trying to contact David Wallace to complain when Charles Miner cancelled Michael's fifteenth anniversary party because of budget cuts. Michael Scotch is an overly aggressive character who threatens that he has kidnapped David Wallace's son.

Blind Guy McSqueezy (The Lover) is a character Michael created at his improv class so he could feel up women.

Caleb Crawdad (Murder) Souther Persona used for the purposes of a game.

Comparison with David Brent

Although originally based on David Brent, Scott has developed into a significantly different character than his British counterpart. Whereas Brent is shown to be irredeemably incompetent,^[7] Scott is portrayed as an outstanding salesman, unwisely promoted to a management role to which he appears completely ill-suited (see Peter Principle). A scathing performance review written by Jan Levinson stated that he should be removed from the Branch Manager position and put into a more suitable position in Sales. However, Scott has been oddly successful as regional manager. When he took over the Scranton Branch he decreased costs by 17%, without firing any personnel. After the merger of the two branches Scott does not lose a single client despite a great deal of employee turnover (much of which he was directly responsible for). He received a $3,000 bonus for firing Devon, most likely because his doing so saved the company around $50,000. Although it is suggested that Brent has had similar success, such claims only ever come from Brent himself, thus making them unreliable.

Scott's social immaturity and inability to cope with responsibility is balanced with a personality that is much more caring than Brent's, even if both make unwise comments in the heat of the moment. Unlike Brent, who pretends to be friendly with many of his employees purely for the benefit of the cameras, Scott seems to genuinely like his colleagues, with the exception of Human Resources Director Toby Flenderson. Brent appears much more aware of his own social awkwardness, whereas Scott's belief that people see him as a genuine friend leads him to become very hurt when he realizes this is not the case.

The DVD commentary to the Pilot episode suggests that Scott's character continues a process begun in the second UK series, in which Gervais and Merchant intentionally made Brent less nasty, and more of a buffoon. It is said in the commentary that Gervais and Merchant suggested that this be applied to Scott. This also reflects a general change in the US version's attitude, which is more sympathetic to the characters, and tones down the cruel humor of the original. The commentary also says that Steve Carell had not seen more than a few minutes of the original UK series when he was offered the role of Scott, and has since made a conscious decision not to watch it in case it influences his own performance.

The show's writers have said that the 2005 hit movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin provided very useful guidance as they refined the character along with Steve Carell between the 1st and 2nd seasons. Michael Scott wore a large amount of hair gel and dressed sloppily in Season 1, but by Season 2 he had a more conventional haircut and dressed much more neatly. Also, while Michael is often rude and nasty in Season 1, he is generally nicer and less hard-edged in subsequent seasons.

Behind the scenes

• U.S. Developer Greg Daniels envisioned Michael Scott behaving as if "I was hoping that the documentary about this would one day be seen by Jennifer Aniston, and I was just trying to impress her any way I possibly could"^[8] and notes the occasional need to show Michael being competent or even effective, to justify why he is not simply fired.^[9]
• Writer B.J. Novak explains that Michael Scott drives a Sebring because it is the most ostentatious car he can afford, opting for a convertible even though the climate in Scranton is cool even in the summer.^[10]
• The script for "Gay Witch Hunt" called for Oscar to turn his head and Michael to kiss him on the cheek. Steve Carell improvised the lip-kiss.
• In most episodes written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, Michael will make a reference to Pam's breasts:
  • In "The Secret", Michael tells Jim that what he likes best about Pam is "her boobs, definitely."
  • In "Michael's Birthday", Michael tells Pam she should give herself a breast self-examination. "Those things are like ticking time-bags."
  • In "The Convention", Michael advises Pam to "unbutton that top button, let those things breathe" when she goes on her date.
  • In "Traveling Salesmen", Michael uses a speech synthesizer to say "boobs" after Pam leaves the room.
  • In the producer's cut of "The Return", Michael holds a pair of maracas in front of his chest and tells Pam, "I will shake mine, and then you will shake yours."
  • In "Women's Appreciation", Michael says, "If Pam wants to show more cleavage, she should be able to. I encourage it." In a deleted scene, Michael suggests that Pam "show 'em the twins" to entice a passing motorist to stop and help.

References

External links

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