She is a darker person since prison. You could see her get pissed with the celebrities and children, that were on the show. I could see she wanted to take away the projects and do them herself. She doesn’t always give her nice hostess response, when people try to be funny like she used to. Many of the projects are terrible too. The first time I saw her with her new show, she was glittering a chair. She painted on adhesive, and glittered the whole chair. Who in their right mind would want a glitter dropping chair in their house. She didn’t expect people to sit in it either, which is something only an idiot would do anyway. Hey people look at my glitter chair wasting space in the living room.
Nice post. Where should it have been? 
I’m gonna guess Martha Stewart.
Do I win anything? 
Yeh. I can’t explain how Martha Steward got substituted in there. The names are look a likes arn’t they? I guess it was because I was thinking about something bad I heard early, that has me thinking about it in the back ground.
Back to the OP. (Sorry, Martha)
I think Carrell having such a success in “The Forty Year Old Virgin” hasn’t helped the show at all. The writers have focused too much attention of him and turned him into a cartoon character.
I’m a recent convert to the office - I caught some reruns of late season 3 over the summer and have just watched one of the DVDs working backwards. (Missed the season premiere because I didn’t clue in that it was in the same time slot as GA, but that’s another matter 
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Not quite sure what I think about Michael overall yet - some of his antics are pretty cringeworthy, but I’m not going to give up watching because of them, certainly. 
It was just last night I was rewatching the Business school ep with the audio commentary, and one thing that they said about the Michael/Pam scene really struck me - not so much about Michael being supportive of Pam to be nice to her, but the fact that he genuinely thought that that drawing was SO COOL! (Example of the childishness of his character having a good side to it.) And, of course, that validated Pam much more than any amount of ‘sympathy attention’ would have - she could tell he really liked it.
And excellent channeling, even if someone beat you to it.
I’ve been considering the whole show story line, and I think Michael is just getting more and more ridiculous because his life has been going in the toilet. Lost Jan, was all psyched to get the corporate job and lost out to Ryan - I think he’s just loosing it. You could see it in Ryan’s face a couple times last night - the incredible “cringe-worthiness” of the some of the stuff. I think he (Michael) will calm down some once he gets back on his feet from some of his disappointments.
He didn’t lose Jan; she’s living with him.
The only thing worse than losing Jan, is not losing Jan.
The whole show is getting ridiculous. First of all Michael Scott acts like a sociopath. And not in a charming sociopathic way like Creed. He lost me when he kept trying to upstage the Bob Vance (Vance Refridgeration) weding. It’s starting to become tedious and uncomfortible watching him.
They can’t decide if they want to make him an well-meaning but socially awkward jerk, a narcissistic asshole, or an arrogant buffoon.
And what’s the deal with Ryan? Why has he been promoted to Jan’s senior management job? He is a a recent business school grad (I don’t know what decent business school is less than an hour drive from Scranton) who worked at D-M as a salesperson who never made a sale and as a temp for an incompetent branch manager before that. A more realistic position would be him working as some sort of analyst for whoever the hire to replace Jan.
True. I forgot they got back together after he broke up with her via a voice mail (which she happened to listen to while sitting in his office).
It seemed to me that the writers set it up to make it look like Michael (the most experienced branch manager), Karen, Jim, and Ryan had been in the running. Michael turned out to be a bust, it was implied that Jim told the interviewer that he couldn’t be in it for the long-haul because he would miss Scranton too much, leaving the choice as Karen v. Ryan. Ryan has an MBA, Karen does not. I think that his lack of actual sales probably reflects a reality that some employers put education above of talent.
I was wondering that too last night. He graduates business school and all the sudden a bachelors from a (night) business school qualifies you to be a regional manager? Huh?
I think he got an MBA. “Business school” is usually graduate-level work.
He got an MBA. When we saw Ryan getting hired at the end of last season, the corporate guy was saying, “it will be nice to have another MBA on board.”
I love, love this show but couldn’t agree more. Someone said upthread that it’s “…starting to become tedious and uncomfortible watching him.” Exactly my sentiments.
As I said in the weekly thread, I don’t think Michael is coming down with Homer’s stupidity disease. I think he is going crazy.