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Originally Posted by Table 5
Maybe it's Will Ferrell....
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He just moved there from New Mexico or Arizona. Maybe he'll be the Strangler's next victim.
IIRC, the first mention of the Strangler was when Jim and Pam's baby was born and Andy made them a gift of framing the front page of the local newspaper for the day she was born.
When he first showed it, the headline was something nice and fluffy like "Spring has arrived in Scranton", but then Pam's labour took longer than expected and the baby wasn't born until the next day. So, he changed the gift and put the next day's paper in the frame and it was something like "Scranton Strangler Claims Another Victim" with a bloody photo of the crime scene.
Since then, they've used the Strangler as a random comment every once and a while. Then, they used his trial as a way to write Toby out of the storyline and bring Holly back into the picture while he was on jury duty.
I think this week's mention served two purposes: First, to remind people why we haven't seen Toby for such a long time (he was on jury duty); and second, to show us that Toby is still a mousy loser who nobody (especially Michael) really listens to when he talks.