Appraisals

"Appraisals"
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Episode no.	Episode 8
Original airdate	7 October 2002 (BBC 2)
Written by	Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant
Directed by	Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant
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Appraisals is the second episode of the second series of The Office.

Quotes

• Gareth: I can read women. And you’ve got to know their wants and their needs, and that can be anything from making sure she’s got enough money to buy groceries each week to making sure she’s gratified sexually after intercourse.

• David: Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That’s what I’m...you know. Trust people and they’ll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.

• David: (to Dawn) Keep the dream alive, because, you know, otherwise one day you'll "Oh! Could I have made it?" You know? If you keep trying, at least then when it doesn't happen, you know, you can go, "At least I gave it a go".

• David: Tim Canterbury. The Canterbury Tales. By Chaucer. And Shakespeare.

• David: Today I'm doing the staff appraisals, and some people get a little bit nervous about that 'cos they think they're walking the long mile to put their head on the block. But they're wrong, it's a chance for them to tell me where we're going wrong. It's very much an opportunity...
  Gareth: -to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  David: Well, no, that sounds bad. It's not a witch-hunt, we're not trying to find out who the worst people are.
  Gareth: Well, we know who they are already.
  David: Well, no.
  Gareth: I've written them down on my form.
  David: You shouldn't have written them on your form.
  Gareth: I've underlined the worst ones.
  David: You're missing the point.
  David: (looks at Gareth's form) Yep.

Trivia

• The scene where Brent gives Tim the appraisal took 74 takes.

Cultural References

• Denzel Washington was mentioned by David about a film he saw the previous night. Denzel Washington is probably the second most popular African American actor in Hollywood. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2002, which made his the second African American actor to win an Academy Award for leading actor.
• David's favourite actor is Mr. Sidney Poitier. Sidney Poitier is the most famous African-American actor, who in 1963 won the Academy Award for Best Actor making him the first African-American actor to win this award.
• Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

Gallery

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External links

• BBC episode guide: "Appraisals"