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Hello, I'm Michael Szary, and this is my first blog post! Now that the introduction is out of the way let's get down to business: Netflix. My first blog will be about season two, episode five of "The Office," "Halloween," since Halloween is right around the corner.

This episode of "The Office" is about how Michael Scott, Steve Carell's character, has to fire one of his employee's. However, the real horror is he doesn't know who to fire. While all of this is happening, Jim Halpert, played by John Kransinski, is trying to sabotage Dwight Schrute, Rain Wilson, resume to a company in Maryland.

Later on in the episode, Michael finale decides on who he wants to fire. He decides on Creed Bratton, another employee. As Creed is being fired, he convinces

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