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How an Episode of ‘The Office’ Helped Save a 4-Year-Old Girl’s Life

Who knew comedy could be so educational?

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On April 25, 2021, Indiana dad Matt Uber was playing a game of tag with his daughter, Vera Posy, when suddenly he heard a thud. He found the 4-year-old balled up on the floor in the corner of one of the rooms in their house and initially assumed that she had fallen down and hit her head. After picking her up from the ground, Uber noticed that Vera’s body had gone limp and her eyes were rolling in the back of her head. She also wasn’t breathing and was starting to turn pale.

In that moment of panic, Uber remembered something he’d seen in an episode of the hit Steve Carell sitcom The Office. In the Season 5 episode “Stress Relief,” which aired on February 1, 2009, Michael........

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