10 Crazy Foreshadowing In The Office You Totally Missed

7. Michael Predicts Stanley's Heart Attack

In the season five two-parter "Stress Relief," you'll probably remember that Stanley (Leslie David Baker) suffers a heart attack after Dwight (Rainn Wilson) stages an especially "authentic" fire drill.

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But this was tacitly "predicted" an entire season earlier by Michael in the episode "Did I Stutter?". While administering a fake firing to Stanley for his infamous titular outburst, Michael tells Stanley that he's "Fired like a heart attack."

It says a lot about Stanley, however, that even after suffering such a serious medical event, he still managed to perform 25 push-ups in order to leave the office early in the season six episode "Happy Hour."

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