<P> Ryan makes reference to Michael Chiklis in The Shield; Michael is not familiar with the show, but recognizes the actor from The Commish . Erin says that Kelly looks like J - Lo in her outfit, a reference to the actress and singer Jennifer Lopez . Kevin is shown to drive a Honda CR - V . </P> <P> "Casual Friday" included several callbacks to previous episodes . The scene in which Michael pretends to fire Pam, and she tells him, "Maybe you shouldn't fake fire people anymore," is a reference to the first episode of The Office, in which Michael pretends to fire Pam as a prank and she becomes very upset, which he then does exactly to Erin . Michael compares the difficult choice of choosing between renting the movies The Devil Wears Prada and Sophie's Choice, both of which star Meryl Streep . The reference to the former film is a callback to the cold open to fourth season episode, "Money", in which Michael discusses having watched the movie recently and acts rudely toward Pam in the same fashion as Miranda Priestly, the film's antagonist, who is played by Streep . When Dwight is writing the secret messages, he uses Ryan's coffee mug, that Kelly gave to him from the "Customer Survey" episode, to hold the urine . </P> <P> In its original American broadcast on April 30, 2009, "Casual Friday" was watched by 7.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings . It was the lowest original episode rating of the fifth season at the time of its broadcast, although the season finale "Company Picnic", would later receive a lower rating on May 14, being watched by 6.72 million viewers . "Casual Friday" received a 4.2 rating / 12 share among viewers aged between 18 and 34, and a 3.7 rating / 10 share among viewers between 18 and 49 . The episode received generally positive reviews . Most reviewers particularly praised the opening scene with Kevin dropping his pot of chili; Fickett called it "a great silent comedy moment (and) a quintessential Office moment". </P> <P> Alan Sepinwall of The Star - Ledger praised the episode, saying that it proves the show will still be good following the "Michael Scott Paper Company" arc, which he referred to as one of the best storylines in the show's history . Sepinwall said he thought all the supporting characters were excellent, and that he particularly liked the new adversarial dynamic between Michael and Dwight . Margaret Lyons of Entertainment Weekly said, "This was the episode I've been waiting for weeks ." She said she particularly enjoyed many of the subplots involving Kelly's clothing, Creed's chess game with Jim and Toby dealing with casual Friday problems . Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club gave "Casual Friday" a B+ grade, and said the episode had good character moments and a bit of dramatic depth in addition to a few good laughs . </P>

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