51 Facts About Pam Beesly

Pam Beesly later becomes a saleswoman and, eventually, the office administrator, until she leaves in the series finale.

Pam Beesly's character is at first shy and unsure but grows increasingly assertive as the series progresses.

Pam Beesly is artistically inclined throughout the series and attends art school.

Pam Beesly's character was originally created to be very similar to her British counterpart, Dawn Tinsley.

Pam Beesly created a rule with the set's hair and make-up department that it could not look as though it took Pam more than 30 minutes to do her hair, and she formulated ideas as to who gave Pam each piece of jewelry she wore or where she went to college.

Pam Beesly is apathetic toward her work, evidenced by her frequent games of FreeCell on her office computer.

Pam Beesly is interrupted by Jim, who enters and kisses her; she responds by kissing him back.

In "Gay Witch Hunt", the season's opener, it is revealed that Pam Beesly got cold feet before her wedding and did not marry Roy after all.

Meanwhile, Jim has transferred to a different Dunder Mifflin branch, in Stamford, shortly after Pam Beesly rejected him a second time after their kiss.

Jim and Pam Beesly appeared to have ended all communication after Jim transfers to the Stamford branch; after Jim returns to Scranton, the encounters between the two are tense, despite both admitting to still harboring feelings for the other during the presence of the documentary cameras.

Pam Beesly participates in an art show, but few people attend.

Jim withdraws his name from consideration and drives back to the office, where he interrupts a talking head Pam Beesly is doing for the documentary crew by asking her out for dinner.

Pam Beesly happily accepts, visibly moved, abandoning a train of thought about how she would be fine if Jim got the job and never came back to Scranton.

In Season 4, Pam Beesly retains the assertiveness she developed in the third season.

The office ultimately learns of their relationship after Toby catches Pam Beesly kissing Jim on the cheek.

In "Goodbye, Toby", Pam Beesly discovers she's been accepted at Pratt Institute, an art and design school in Brooklyn, and in an interview, Jim announces that he will propose to Pam Beesly that evening.

In "Business Trip", Pam Beesly learns that she is failing one of her classes and will have to remain in New York another three months to retake it.

In "Two Weeks", Pam Beesly agrees to become Michael's first saleswoman in his not-yet-established company, The Michael Scott Paper Company.

In "Company Picnic", Pam Beesly, after dominating the company volleyball tournament, injures her ankle during a game and is taken to the hospital.

Pam Beesly's pregnancy is confirmed in the Season 6 premiere, in which Jim announces the pregnancy to the office staff.

Jim and Pam Beesly have their wedding early in the season; the day of the wedding ceremony, Jim and Pam Beesly secretly get married at Niagara Falls before having the official ceremony at a church with their co-workers, friends and family.

In "Counseling", Pam Beesly feels inadequate about her poor performance in sales and tricks Gabe into promoting her to a phony new salaried position called office administrator.

Pam Beesly tries to use her new authority to force building manager Dwight to stop his annoying cost-cutting measures.

Pam Beesly saves face when Dwight secretly has his assistant provide her with a book on building regulations that proves Dwight's measures were not allowed.

Pam Beesly uses her position to buy Erin Hannon an expensive desktop computer to replace the original computer at the front desk, discreetly giving Andy a new computer, and giving Darryl three sick days.

Pam Beesly reaches the airport in time and is the last person to see Michael before he departs.

At the beginning of Season 8, Pam Beesly is revealed to be pregnant with her and Jim's second child, Phillip Halpert.

In both "Tallahassee" and "Test the Store", Pam Beesly is shown helping, and developing her friendship with Andy.

Jim begins spending part of each work week in Philadelphia; in "Customer Loyalty", the strain of this on Pam Beesly is evident when she breaks down in tears.

Pam Beesly is comforted by Brian, the boom mic operator of the film crew.

Over dinner, Pam Beesly reveals to Jim that she doesn't really want to move to Philadelphia after all.

Pam Beesly says that she did not watch much of the documentary because she cannot stand how long it took her to "reach" Jim.

From her years working the front desk, Pam Beesly has become well-acquainted with the Dunder-Mifflin staff and is consistently shown to have a thorough understanding of her coworkers' personalities, including the more eccentric individuals Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott.

Pam Beesly uses this familiarity to manipulate them, often for their and the company's best interests but occasionally for her own.

The "will they or won't they" tension between Jim and Pam Beesly is a strong story line in the early episodes of The Office, encompassing much of Seasons 1 to 3.

In Season 6, Jim and Pam Beesly get married in the beginning of the season, a feat considered noteworthy by many television critics, as bringing together the two lead love interests in a television series is often thought to be a risky venture.

Pam Beesly and Jim's second child is born during season 8.

In Season 2, when Jim encourages Pam Beesly to pursue a graphic arts internship offered by Dunder Mifflin, Roy objects to the opportunity and eventually convinces her that the idea is foolish.

Pam Beesly ultimately calls off her wedding to Roy, but they remain friendly and he is determined to win her back by being less of a jerk.

Roy flies into a violent rage and Pam Beesly ends the relationship on the spot.

Pam Beesly often makes suggestive, yet harmless remarks about her beauty and general appearance, and at one point lies to the camera that they used to date.

Over time Pam Beesly begins to soften her stance towards Michael, who expresses support for her artistic goals, even attending her art show when none of the Dunder Mifflin staff attend.

In Season 6, Pam Beesly becomes furious at Michael for dating her mom Helene; however, after Michael breaks up with Helene, they are civil towards one another.

In Michael's finale, "Goodbye, Michael", Pam Beesly spends the whole day looking for a shredder, believing that Michael was leaving the next day.

In "Cocktails", while walking into Poor Richards, Pam Beesly indicates a liking to one of the toys in a claw machine, and Toby tries to win the toy for her for the rest of the night.

In "Dunder Mifflin Infinity", Toby witnesses Pam Beesly kissing Jim Halpert in the break room, which prompts him to issue a memo about public displays of affection in the workplace.

Later, when Jim and Pam Beesly admit they are dating and ask to fill out a disclosure form, he hesitates to give them a form, saying they should wait and see.

When Pam Beesly learns that someone had complained about her to Toby, she immediately assumes that it was Angela and prepares to uninvite her from the wedding, only to be stopped when Jim admits that he had registered the complaint.

Pam Beesly tells Angela that she doesn't have to come to the wedding.

Once Angela is out of earshot, Pam Beesly tells Cece that Angela is just jealous because she doesn't get to come home to a baby as cute as her.

Pam Beesly, visibly offended, states that she hopes Angela has a beautiful wedding.