<P> While browsing an office - chair catalog, Michael Scott (Steve Carell), who has broken up with Jan Levinson, becomes enamored of one of the female chair models . As a result, he decides to resume dating with the help of the office employees, even going so far as threatening to fire them if they do not help . No one in the office wants to set up any of their friends with Michael, but when Michael learns that the chair model had died in a car crash some time ago, Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) takes pity and sets him up on a blind date with her landlady (Brooke Dillman). The date does not go well, beginning with Michael pretending he is not who she was supposed to be meeting . After Michael admits his own blind date was a failure, Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) convinces him that he needs closure on this person he loved who is gone . The two end up in a cemetery at the grave of the chair model, where Michael "grieves". They are both singing "American Pie" by Don McLean and dancing on her grave . </P> <P> With Michael busy, Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner) and Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) work to reclaim parking spaces that they have lost due to construction in a neighboring office . They arrange a meeting with the bosses of the office park, and are given the parking spots back . The spaces are retrieved, Kevin feels happy to have won one, as his fiancée Stacy broke off their engagement and it's been a hard time for him . </P> <P> While flirting, Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) reveals he is ready to propose to Pam, even going as far as telling her that he is not going to do it at work ("because that would be rather lame") and when he does it, it will "kick her ass". Pam is not sure if he's joking . Alone with the camera, Jim reveals that he was not joking and shows an engagement ring that he bought "the week after (they) started dating ." After work, while walking back to his car, he stops and gets down on one knee . When Pam stops and looks he says he has a question to ask her . After a second or so of hesitation, he asks her if she will wait while he ties his shoes . She laughs and they continue walking hand in hand . At the end of the episode, Michael and Dwight are seen singing "American Pie" and dancing in the same cemetery at night, presumably having never left . </P> <P> "Chair Model" was the third episode of the series directed by Jeffrey Blitz . Blitz had previously directed "The Convict" and "The Negotiation". The episode was written by B.J. Novak, who plays temporary worker turned corporate manager Ryan Howard . Novak was originally going to name the episode "Michael Dating", but the title could have potentially been a spoiler because fans with DVRs would have seen it before "Dinner Party" aired and deduced that Michael and Jan's relationship had completely fallen apart . For a while, "Parking" was going to be the title, but even that was decided against because that refers to the subplot, and also because it was generic and boring even by the show's no - frills - titles standard . Eventually, someone suggested "Chair Model", which was eventually kept as the name . Originally, Novak wrote Jim putting Dwight through a "phony management training", but NBC pointed out that it felt like the writers had done it before even though they had not . As a group, the writers tried to think of a new idea for the plot; they considered having Pam move in with Jim, but they thought that first the two should be engaged . </P>

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