Last Day in Florida

Dwight Schrute celebrates his winning of the Vice President position on a golf outing with Jim Halpert, Robert California, and Nellie Bertram. After playing, Robert tells Jim that he dislikes the business plan for the Sabre store, citing the poor quality of the products; he only approved it because Jo Bennett wanted it. He plans to sandbag it at a high-level meeting, and Jim is stunned when Robert strongly hints he is going to fire Dwight over it. Jim makes several attempts to stop Dwight from attending the meeting with Robert, but Dwight is heedless and, feeling empowered by his promotion, continually insults Jim, who finally decides to leave Dwight to his fate. However, a guilt-inducing phone call to Pam Halpert makes Jim decide he has to tell Dwight what is about to happen, no matter what. Dwight ignores the news, thinking Jim is jealous of him and is pranking him, so Jim resorts to simply wrestling with Dwight outside the conference room. In the meantime, Nellie has Todd Packer stand in as VP in Dwight's absence. When Dwight finally makes it into the conference room, he hears Robert planning to fire the VP, so he sneaks out of the conference room and lets Packer take the fall in front of those present. Humbled, Dwight then silently extends a hand to Jim, and they head back to Scranton with Stanley Hudson, who has reverted to his old grumpy self over the thought of leaving Florida.

In Scranton, Darryl Philbin and Toby Flenderson are both trying to sell Girl Scout cookies for their daughters. When Toby's requests clash with Darryl's, Darryl tells him they need their own sections of the office to sell to in order to not interfere with each other. To Toby’s surprise, Darryl only chooses accounting while Toby gets every other section. Darryl had asked for accounting because Kevin Malone buys more cookies than everyone else put together. Toby eventually realizes Darryl's plan and the two end up fighting over who sells Kevin cookies, with Kevin coming up with absurd competition ideas. After doing a song and dance for Kevin, Kevin still can not make up his mind, so Darryl and Toby contemplate giving up until Kevin mentions he plans to buy hundreds of boxes of cookies, at which point they continue the competition. He has them record a voicemail message for him pretending to be girls who are having sex with him, but they finally give up for good when Kevin wants to ride them like a pony, citing they still want to maintain their dignity and will not go beyond the limit to what they would do for their daughters. When they walk away, Kevin says he will do any absurd thing for them to continue, kissing Meredith Palmer to prove it, but they still refuse.

Andy Bernard learns that Erin Hannon is not coming back to Scranton after she takes a job helping an elderly lady, Irene she met at the Sabre store opening, leaving Andy very distraught, especially when he learns that everyone else already knew through the social media of Ryan Howard, who returned to Scranton after freaking out. When Dwight, Jim, and Stanley return to Scranton and Andy sees Jim happily reunite with Pam, Andy decides to travel to Florida to try to bring Erin back.

"Last Day in Florida" was written by Robert Padnick, his second writing credit for the season after "Gettysburg".^[2][3] The episode was directed by Matt Sohn, his third director's credit for the season after "Pam's Replacement" and "Tallahassee".^[4][5] The episode features a guest appearance from David Koechner, who appears as Todd Packer in the series.^[3] He recently made a deal with NBC to do more episodes for the series and also possibly join the cast of series developer Greg Daniels's next series, Friday Night Dinner, an adaption of the British series of the same name.^[6] Lindsey Broad, who portrays Cathy Simms, Pam's replacement during her maternity leave, makes her twelfth and final appearance on the series.^[7][8] The episode also marks the second appearance of Georgia Engel as Irene, Erin's elderly new friend.^[9] Showrunner Paul Lieberstein said in an interview that he was excited for her appearance calling her performance "fantastic".^[9] She appeared in three episodes in the season.^[9] The Season Eight DVD contains a number of deleted scenes from this episode. Notable cut scenes include Irene introducing Erin to her grandson who asks Erin to go on a date with him, which she says yes to, and Packer attempting to have a conversation with California over the HBO medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones, but learns Robert has not seen the series.^[10]

In the episode, Ryan mentions that he told everybody through his Tumblr account that Erin was not coming back from Florida.^[11] Kevin forces Toby and Darryl to sing "Hello! Ma Baby" in the style of Michigan J. Frog.^[11] Sabre's Pyramid tablet makes a reappearance in the episode.^[3] The device serves as a parody of several tablet computers, specifically the Apple iPad.^[12] B. J. Novak described the device as "really the worst piece of technology that you've ever seen."^[13] The device was created by Paul Lieberstein, who originally envisioned that the device only had the rights to the 1993 film Coneheads.^[14]