andy bernard replaced michael as the manager of the scranton branch.
andy bernard replaced michael as the manager of the scranton branch.
who replaces michael as the manager of the scranton branch?
andy bernard
the season starts with a brief flashback to (and additional footage from) the last episode of season 2, "casino night", when jim kissed pam and confessed his feelings for her. jim briefly transfers to dunder mifflin's stamford branch after pam confirms her commitment to roy. corporate is later forced to merge the stamford branch with the scranton branch. michael takes this merger very seriously. transferred to the scranton branch are saleswoman karen filippelli, whom jim has begun dating, and the anger-prone preppy salesman andy bernard, along with other stamford employees who all eventually quit within the first few episodes of being there. pam is newly single after calling off her marriage to roy, and jim's unresolved feelings for her and his new relationship with karen lead to shifting tensions amongst the three. meanwhile, michael and jan's relationship escalates, which causes them both to behave erratically on the job. on the other hand, dwight and angela continue their steamy secret relationship. in the season's finale, jim, karen, and michael interview for a corporate position that turns out to be jan's, who is fired for poor performance. jim is offered the job but rejects it off-screen, opting instead to remain in scranton without karen and ask pam out on a date, which she joyfully accepts. in the final scene, we learn ryan has been awarded jan's job.
the office (american tv series)
karen filippelli (rashida jones) was a sales representative at the scranton, pennsylvania, branch of the dunder mifflin paper and office-supply company. she originally worked at the company's branch in stamford, connecticut, but transferred to the scranton branch after her boss, josh porter, left (in order to take an upper-management job at staples) and the branch shut down to merge with the scranton branch. during her time in stamford, she became romantically interested in jim, and upon their arrival to the scranton branch following stamford's closing, they began dating. shortly after, however, jim's recurring affections for pam led to their breakup, and karen's immediate departure from scranton. she is now the regional manager of the utica branch of dunder mifflin. karen's ethnicity is deliberately made ambiguous and turned into a sort of running joke. the italian ancestry implied by her last name is confirmed in "the merger," but prior to that, in the same episode, dwight suggests that she may be filipino. michael then states that she's very exotic looking and asks if her father was a gi. in addition, she has spoken a little french ("grief counseling") and a chinese dialect (deleted scene from "gay witch hunt"). in her free time, karen enjoys playing first-person shooter pc games. her "call of duty" screen name is "karenthejimslayer." she prefers wearing pantsuits at the office rather than skirts. like jan levinson, karen is portrayed as an ambitious career woman – having gunned for a corporate vice president position and now serving as the regional manager of the utica branch – though considerably more personable than jan. along with pam beesly, karen is often objectified by several men in the scranton branch. when karen takes over as regional manager of the utica branch, she becomes an "enemy" to michael (stating that the job is much easier "when your boss isn't an idiot") and to dwight as she wants to out-do them. it is revealed in season 5 that karen is pregnant and married to a dermatologist named dan, and both karen and pam have a cordial conversation that ends with them wishing each other well and feeling that the understandable tension between them is now gone. in season 7, karen makes a cameo in michael's movie, as a bachelorette.
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