Someone used a timestamp from 'The Office' to deliver a sweet love note

Fact: This idea is brilliant.
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Nicole Gallucci
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Fact: Yearbooks aren't the only places to stealthily reference quotes from your favorite television shows. Cards provide great opportunities, too.

Twitter user @jjedi_j recently shared a photo of some roses she says she was sent, which were very nice. But the card that accompanied the flowers was the true gift.

Rather than a typical "I love you" or "Thinking of you" message, the card pictured in the tweet simply read: "The Office Season 3 Episode 11," along with the timestamp "19:45."

Turns out, when you reach 19:45 in the episode, which is titled "Back From Vacation," Michael Scott is seen saying "You complete me" to Jan. Just to be sure, we double checked. And yep. A perfect moment.

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Isn't that much better than a boring, generic card? The official Twitter account for The Office certainly thinks so. (Though the super fan who runs it is likely extremely biased.)

Judging from the replies, though, many other fans of the show were equally impressed by the creative card, and even brainstormed some ideas for future deliveries.

A regular flower delivery is a Michael Scott-level move, but a flower delivery with a timestamp card like this is so extra it could very well be straight from the Date Mike playbook.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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