Stanley is uncharacteristically cheerful as he enters the building for the day, but that ends in a hurry as he is horrified to see the elevator down for maintenance. Erin follows him inside and happily leads him to stairwell, saying it's "Stairmageddon." She's all excited about it, as she is about everything. Apparently Dwight has been spending lots of prep time getting people ready, complete with informative posters on how to operate stairs and even a small practice flight set up in the bullpen. Now the big day is here, and Erin is coaxing Stanley up step by painful step, while Oscar THs, "Our office has an unusually large number of... unusually large people." Thus the need for cardiovascular effort must be compared to the end of time.

After some truncated credits, Andy enters the bullpen all "Red alert!" about a text from his brother notifying him about a review of the documentary in the local paper. Dwight points out that they're already at red alert because of Stairmageddon, and wonders if they should up it to double-red. Meanwhile, Stanley appears to have ascended another step, with the help of a 5-hour ENERGY.

Up in the bullpen, everyone's reading the online version of the review that describes Kevin as "Falstaffian;" Dwight as always chasing a manager position he'll never get; and Andy as a manager whose incompetence is emblematic of the economy, though Andy asks for a printout when it mentions his musical talent. From his office, Andy THs that he's probably not long for the company now that the documentary is coming out, which is fine; "I wanted to be my generation's Lisa Loeb." Erin reads on about a "lurid subplot" involving a hypocritical public figure in a gay affair. She figures it's Katie Couric, but a couple of other people in the office appear to know better. Stanley finally shows up, looking like he just ran a marathon, and Dwight says they need to go on a sales call together. He tries to make it an order, but Stanley yells right back that Dwight isn't his boss and never will be. And Stanley wasn't even here for the reading of the review.

Nellie overhears a call from Pam setting up her mom to babysit, and fishes for more information about the Halperts' exciting plans for the evening. Pam's cagey, so it's not really a surprise when we cut to the two of them outside, just after Pam has confided to Nellie that they're going to marriage counseling. "That is the only kind of counseling I have never had," Nellie says.

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