Once again Creed stole the show. “I want Peach Cobbler. I don’t care how just make it happen! Tell her it’s from Creed. She’ll know what that means.”
Then at the end he’s eating the entire cobbler with a fork straight out of the dish.
Then there’s the time when Creed storms out of the room. “Come on, Gang!”
:smack: I just now got this. :smack:
“If I don’t eat some cake soon, I might die.”
“Why don’t you eat an apple?”
“Why don’t you mind you business?”
I loved the conversation at the end with Michael and Jim. It really demonstrated that Michael isn’t just a gigantic Homer Simpson running around the office and not having any idea of what he is doing.
Since we can see a fairly sane character as Jim do something reasonable and have it blow up in his face and see that Michael had tried that before, we get a better since of Michael as a person and that, in fact, he did try and have good ideas a while back. That alot of what he has become is because of the people he has to work with and the situations he has to deal with. For instance, he said that he doesn’t ever know who “she” is when he says “That’s what she said” but infact he does it to alleviate tension in the room. Much like Jim.
That whole conversation with Jim can give us a GREAT deal of insight into Michael. He may, in fact, have been Jim Halpert some decade or so ago. Fun loving Sales Person. Wanted the office to be a great place to work and have a great time. Sounds just like Jim does now…
I loved this episode and hope they do much more with this storyline.
Also, that was great with the sniper rifle!
Not only that but he was kind of a cut up and an office clown, just like Jim.
I loved seeing those first little seeds of Toby hatred from Jim.
The last convo with Michael and Jim was excellent. I wish that version of Michael Scott was the one we saw more often-- not that he’s actually stupid, clueless, and useless, but that he has adapted to a dysfunctional workplace full of nutcase, jerks, and whiners (both above and below him in the corporate hierarchy) and has become what he is now. That’s not how the show has portrayed him, esp. lately, but it’s much more believable and makes for a more sympathetic, realistic character. The idea that Jim could become Michael is not particularly believable at this point because Michael has been portrayed as actively unintelligent, and Jim is not; however, it is plausible that Jim, despite being clever, might become an ineffectual, out of touch manager in the long run.
I like seeing Michael as someone who does a fantastic job within his core responsibilities, but is entirely clueless on a social level. He has a child-like perseption of intersocial behaviors. I love that most of his antics stem from his gross misunderstnding of PC situations, so much so that when he tries to be PC, he always manages to do the opposite. And he’s completely clueless that he offended. But you can see that it’s coming from his best intentions. Also, his love of pop culture and comedy always aggrivates things more.
My favorite part was Mike stuffing his face full of those so obviously poisonous mushrooms.
But were they really? Dwight might be full of factoids, but I’m not sure I’d follow his lead in the wilderness.
I’m just WAGing here, but the last rhing you want do in the wilderness is stuff your face full an unidentified species of mushrooms. They can be some of the most lethal flora around, if you make a mistake. Turn your liver into goo in no time.
Perhaps Dwight is a creepy know-it-all, but if he thought those shrooms would do you in, he’s probably right!
I did love that he toppled over himself in order to save Michael’s life, even after vowing he’d let harm befall him, even death take him, so long as he kept his dignity. A true friend after all. 
“The Overkill Killer” still cracks me up.
Even knowing nothing about any individual species, would you let a friend eat some random forest mushrooms?
Oh heck no. It just struck me funny, Dwight’s reaction, and what if the mushrooms were all right.
I’d take Dwight’s word over Michaels about mushrooms. I can easily picture Dwight hunting for mushrooms when he wasn’t beet farming, paintballing, laser-tagging, running his bed and breakfast or volunteering with the sheriff’s department.
I loved the Battlestar Galactica sweatshirt that obviously belonged to Dwight.
An coworker of mine is a veteran mushroom hunter in his spare time, and his ironclad rule is if you cannot positively identify the species, don’t eat it. There are some absolutely delicious shrooms that look pretty similar to fantastically poisonous ones, and he won’t even attempt to distinguish between the two - he just leaves them alone.
Don’t agree at all. We like him because he’s a three-dimensional character? To each his own, obviously, but simply throwing me an occasional bit of “evidence” that he has another dimension is nowhere near good enough for me to see Michael as a three-dimensional character. The writers have made him a colossal tool, and there’s no point stepping back an inch or two from that position to say, hey he’s really an OK guy, with a good heart, and it’s kinda the fault of the others if he’s a jerk. I’m still not even close to buying that. I don’t think you can make a character such an overwhelming, astonishing ass and then also try to make him a good guy. But it’s a sitcom. I should know that by now…
I enjoyed the episodes in season 2 when we saw Michael have his idiot savant moments and close some deals by being the same guy that no one else could stand.
It seemed that he was a good salesman and probably got to be manager based on his success, not on his ability to manage.
Last week’s episode wasn’t exactly the same kind of episode as the ones in season 2. The last episode tried to show us that Michael was turned into the person he is by the people around him.
I don’t know, I like Michael but I don’t want his character to be over sympathetic. But I guess having him be a cartoon can only last for so many seasons.
Maybe Michael is some kind of mad genius like Stanley said? I mean his job is to manage the branch and the branch does seem to run. Clearly the traditional management style of Ryan or pre-crazy Jan is not effective in managing the wackos who work in Scranton. All but the craziest Stamford employee (Andy) couldn’t handle working there. Maybe there is some method to Michaels madness?
It wasn’t the ‘wackos in Scranton’ though. The fat guy, the black guy and the Mum al left directly because of run-ins with Michael.
Well they did demonstrate that Dwight was at home in the wilderness. He found the bird’s eggs, built a perfect, stone-ringed fire, and I think even had a nicer shelter than Michael. Now if Dwight told you it was OK to eat a mushroom, I might second-guess him (after all, Dwight has a super-human constitution). But if he tells you not to eat one, then it probably is bad.
The sniper rifle scene was funny, especially when you realize that he must keep that thing in his trunk all the time. I liked all of the places Dwight stashed his weapons – especially the file, Mr. A. Knife.