In Office time, it's been six years since our last (possible? probable?) Julius Caesar allusion (for which, q.v.).
In the intervening time, Dwight seems to have brushed up on his Shakespeare.
In the episode, Andy has made a decision about who gets to travel to Florida for a special project—and Dwight doesn't like it. But he knows that a straightforward approach won't work. Instead, he praises Andy's decision (while asserting that he doesn't understand the logic of it) and riles up his fellow employees to bring Andy's decision into question.
Does that sound familiar?
If not, what if I add that Dwight says, "Andy is an honorable man"?
I can't be the only Shakespeare / Office fan who finds in the setup an allusion to Mark Antony's surreptitious attack on Brutus in Julius Caesar during Caesar's funeral. Let's take a look:
Links: The Episode at IMDB.
I acknowledge that that is an allusion rather than a quotation, but it seems entirely in character for Dwight to employ the sneaky rhetorical strategy of Anthony in his own plan to bring down Andy.
Links: The Episode at IMDB.
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