High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Survivor Man" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series The Office—the show`s sixty-fourth episode overall. Written by Steve Carell, who also acts on the show as Regional Manager Michael Scott, and directed by Paul Feig, it originally aired on NBC on November 8, 2007. The episode aired during NBC`s week of "green episodes", which lasted from November 4 through November 10, 2007.