<P> "New Guys" featured one of the final few performances of Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor, who left the series to star in her own comedy television series The Mindy Project, which was created for the Fox Broadcasting Company . Both Novak and Kaling appeared in two episodes of the season--"New Guys" and "Finale". The episode features both Clark Duke and Jake Lacy as two new Dunder Mifflin employees who have been hired to "go through the back log of over 4,000 unanswered customer complaints that" Kelly has ignored the past few years . Duke noted that filming the slack lining scene "was not that fun; it was really hard". He did, however, state that Helms was able to do it well "with no practice". The voice of the documentarian that responds to Jim is that of series director David Rogers . Rogers also voiced the same character in the penultimate episode opener "A.A.R.M.". Originally, Daniels had re-recorded the line in "New Guys", but ended up liking Roger's voice better . He asked him to reprise the role in "A.A.R.M." to preserve continuity . </P> <P> The official website of The Office included several cut scenes from "New Guys" within a week of the episode's release . In the first 40 - second clip, Dwight tries to bond with Clark by discussing an article he read in Time magazine about dub - step . Clark teases Dwight for reading the magazine, something he considers for older audiences, but Dwight is oblivious . In the second 75 - second clip, Toby calls a workplace bullying meeting and the office discussing how Andy has been harassing various people . Kevin tries to maintain that Angela bullies him, and states that she will not give him her cat because he killed his turtle "a few times". In the third and final 30 - second clip, Jim tries to convince Dwight that the relationship Dwight shares with Clark is similar to that of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, characters from the popular science fiction movie franchise Star Wars . </P> <P> Much like the sixth season starter "Gossip"--which featured parkour in the cold opening--the seventh season opener "Nepotism"--which started with a lip dub--and the eighth season premiere "The List"--which opened with a bit about planking--"New Guys" also contains a plot involving a popular Internet meme, in this case slacklining, which is a practice in balance that typically uses nylon webbing tensioned between two anchor points . When Ryan is leaving, he claims he is going to Ohio because "they call it the Silicone Prairie," a reference to Silicon Valley, a part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States that is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations . Andy returns from Outward Bound, an organization that aims to foster the personal growth and social skills of participants by using challenging expeditions in the outdoors . Dwight tries to talk to Clark about the heavy metal band Slayer, noting that he has tickets for a show in ten months . Jim asks Pete if he likes the Philadelphia Phillies, but Pete mistakes his reference to mean horses . </P> <P> Erik Adams of The A.V. Club compared Dwight and Clark's relationship to that of the mythical characters of King Laius and Oedipus, respectively . The story, which was later turned into a popular play Oedipus Rex by Greek writer Sophocles, tells of how Laius hears of a prophecy that his son will kill him . Fearing the prophecy, Laius abandons his son, Oedipus', who is raised in the city of Thebes . Oedipus later crosses paths with Laius and gets into a fight and, not knowing that Laius is his father, kills him . Adams, thus, states that the "break - room conversation" Dwight and Clark share starts to make Dwight paranoid and fear that Clark is after his job . </P>

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