# Office 12/11

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-12-11/476830>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 12, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-12-11/476830 "2008-12-12T03:35:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-12-11/476830/61 "2008-12-13T23:49:54Z")

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What exactly was preventing Phyllis from being the head of the Party Planning Committee now that the cat’s out of the bag. Angela Said she knew Phyllis wouldn’t tell because she wasn’t going to be able to plan tacky parties anymore, but wasn’t Phyllis, more or less, assigned the job by Michael?

> [@pulykamell](#):
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> The tone of the show has taken quite a turn this season. It’s taken me the whole season to get used to it, but I like it. On repeated viewings, each episode from this season gets better.

As far as this season’s shifting moods, it’s seems (to me) that a lot of it’s comedic attributes are presented to us for the first portion of the episodes, then spread on thinner and turning slightly more cynical through to the end. Maybe it’s always been like that, but I’m just noticing it now. If you ask me, it’s the ideal way to present a show like this. Make the viewer feel comfortable, keep it on the ‘lighthearted’, (‘The Office’ standard of the word), side. Throw in some drama that’s not your average “situational comedy fair”, yet still find wry humor in it, mixed in with the same one-liners, and a common joke or two. Then end with a shocker or a revelation, (not always a “downer”, just dramatic… like Pam and Jim proposal). This is a good ‘hook’ for viewers to keep watching when they are left wondering; “Well what happens next”?

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-12-11/476830/62 "2008-12-14T01:00:29Z")

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> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#):
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> Hilarious! I especially like the picture of the little girl sleeping and hugging the doll, with the horn jabbing her forehead.

Proficiently made. Girls and effeminate boys tend to have a strong affinity for it. For all your Unicorn Princess and paper needs, call Dunder Mifflin Scranton, and ask for Dwight K. Schrute!

- Dwight K. Schrute

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