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Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way. I hate... so much... about the things that you choose to be.
— The Office (U.S.) · 2005
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Michael responds to a practical explanation with a wish for Toby’s exclusion. The disproportion between an ordinary workplace exchange and a total personal rejection makes the cruelty absurd.
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In context
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In Casino Night, Toby explains why the scout children were not invited to the office fundraiser, listing the unsuitable activities and setting. Michael answers with a personal insult instead of accepting the explanation. The line condenses his irrational hostility to Toby into a particularly direct rejection.
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