We can argue this until the cows come home or just be polite and spoiler promos because a significant number of people would like us to do so. Jeez.
Anyway, I thought that this was the best episode in a long, long time. Lots of laughs. They just love to fake us out with Jim and Pam potentially having an issue.
Fuck DirecTV, by the way, for screwing up the DVR listing so that it recorded some lame true crime show and not The Office and then my girlfriend chewed me out when she got home from the gym even though she doesn’t even really like The Office that much and now it’s my fault because the DVR listing was wrong and I should have foreseen that and now she likes The Office since I got her hooked on it and she doesn’t like to watch TV shows on her laptop. Man. I apologized, of course.
Too silly and disjointed for me. luckily nothing big happened, so I can try to forget this episode existed. Sorry guys, It’s my favorite show, but this episode’s worth forgetting imo.
I’m used to the show being a farce, but the way Dwight escaped any kind of punishment for having set the office on fire, sending Stanley to the hospital, and then destroying the CPR dummy was too much for me to accept! Otherwise, it was a good episode.
It was too much a farce for my tastes in this episode. The real drama of the show suffers as a result, (Well, for me it does). I like when the show’s “straddling the line” of real life and outlandishness.
This episode went far over the line, (kind of like when Michael drove his car into a lake). I think everyone draws their own lines of acceptability, which could account for all the mixed reactions from dopers for each episode.
The movie wasn’t being released for another six months, is there a chance the movie wasn’t fully edited yet, (like maybe Leachman really DID have problems with the controls of her motorized chair IRL?). Either way, I didn’t mind that part so much, which is weird because I was most concerned about that part to begin with. The humor seemed to translate with the show.
Did we figure out who that guy was she was kissing at the end?
I would love it if the fire bit stayed contained as the opening. It was so over done that it went past ham-fisted and ended up hilarious again, if they had the balls to never reference it again, it would be one of the best moments in the entire shows history. There was no way to reconcile that scene with reality, not even TV alternate reality, so there’s no use trying. It was still awesome though, some great physical comedy, such as Kevin smashing the vending machine for no explicable reason, or knocking down the camera guy, or a) Angela pulling a cat out of a file cabinet to b) her throwing the cat into the vent (“Save Bandit!”) to c) the cat falling out of the ceiling to d) her whispered “Bandit…?”.
I enjoyed this episode aside from the Jack Black/Cloris Leachman movie. Was this footage left over from some other project? I can’t see any other explanation for it. It was pointless, didn’t fit into the episode well, and wasn’t very funny.
I think it was basically a device to be able to promote some guest stars for a Superbowl special. I agree the fake movie didn’t work, though. I mean, we complain about some things on this show being implausible or unrealistic, but a guy ditching Jessica Alba for Cloris Leachman makes SpongeBob Squarepants look realistic by comparison.
The Farrelly Brothers would make a movie like that. **Harold and Maude **is Mary’s, (in There’s Something About Mary), favorite love story of all time. I’m not clear on what type of movie it was supposed to be. A Comedy? A intentionally bad movie?
It made me laugh, since Andy said it was Cloris Leachman taking on the role that Nicole Kidman had dropped, with some minor rewrites. Then the screen shows Jack Black helping Leachman put on the robe and them saying stuff like “I’m going to put it there” and “yeah, that’s how it goes” and other lines like that. Took me until the second time of watching the episode to catch that, but it made me laugh.
I’m assuming than in The Office universe, it was supposed to be a serious drama/romance, but became unintentionally funny with the cast change.
I’ll try to watch it online tonight, but if someone could recap the last 15 or so minutes, I’d appreciate it (the last thing we saw was Pam answering the phone and taking another message for Michael the day after the roast).
I loved Creed looking around the warehouse after Michael announced “if you’re here for the Grabowski wedding, it’s the 2nd door on the right” or whatever.
At the roast, was the woman sitting next to Stanley supposed to be his wife? I don’t remember ever seeing her before. My favorite part of the roast was when Darryl asked Michael the name of the warehouse guy way in the back. I’d also like to see a translation of what Oscar said.
I noticed that some of the talking head interviews were next to the boarded-up window that Michael had thrown the overhead projector through during the fire. Nice touch.