You have a lot to learn about this town, Dinsy. 
This show has become one of my favourites. It has surpassed the UK series in almost every respect now IMO. I didn’t think that it would be translated so well to the US market. It’s kept all the things I loved about the original (actually it’s improved a hell of a lot of them).
Great job all round. Fantastic comedy and also brilliant characterisation.
Eh. I disagree. Tim didn’t like anyone in the office except for Dawn. I thought it was pretty clear he didn’t like Gareth at all and declined the boss job because he knew he’d NEVER get out of there if he took it.
Oh, duh, obviously. I somehow completely failed to realize that was THAT Kelly.
Guess I really Schruted that.
(Another great little moment: Angela putting the jelly beans on the desk.)
Strangely enough, whenever someone points out a woman has a huge forehead, it’s almost always someone I find extremely attractive.
Apparently, I like big foreheads.
But Garner does nothing for me. Huh.
-Joe
this came up in the sexual harrasment episode as well
oh, and the last time she tried to wear makeup, Dwight asked her if it was a disguies and then called it “clown paint”
I rarely watch this show but I have a surface knowledge of the characters.
That said: I was actually crying at one point last night. Others have brought it up: but when Stanley (think that’s his name: again, see first line) was laughing at his partner in the car after the “Hi Hi Hi” part----man. I was weeping. And when Dwight just starting dialing the phone at their pitch and screaming “ONE; THREE; SEVEN” like a tool, only, in the end it was a brilliant move: great stuff. I may have to mark this down as a TV date.
Seconded on the jelly beans. “I don’t want those.” 
Not really so. If you remember, he was actually offered a promotion to corporate and was going to take it, but failed a physical. I think it was high blood pressure. That’s when Neil from the Swindon branch took the job and his people got folded into David Brent’s location.
So although he is really seems like an ass in the series, there must have been something positive to make the board offer him the promotion. (Well, other than a plot device…)
Hmm… I was always under the impression that he lied about the physical and didn’t take the promotion because more than anything that character needs to be liked. He saw that if he took the promotion that most of his branch would get fired and HATE him.
On his incompetance, I think the way he was presented was more riffing on the idea that people who are still terrible at their jobs manage to stay employed and prosper because in some cases its too much trouble to fire someone.
Dwight was noble, but I thought that Angela should have come clean and told Michael just why Dwight had to go to New York. Aside from that, I liked the episode.
It was my experience when working in a wholesale distribution firm like that that it was always the sales ninjas who were given management of local branches. The person who ran the office administratively was usually a glorified clerk whose authority stemmed almost entirely from the eternal gratitude of the manager for handling things that he quite simply did not understand. “Just do it the way Ms. Gretchen says,” was a typical answer to a why do we do it this way question.
I actually took it the opposite way. He was talking a good line about protecting everyone but would have thrown the branch under the bus for the promotion. It was one of the staff who mentioned that he failed the physical, not David himself. The guy implied that David had told everyone he saved the branch but really it was him not getting the promotion that “saved” everyone.
That episode always stuck we as strange as to why he would be offered a promotion by the Board when he was such a screw-up. He was never shown as being a good salesman like Michael.
I watched that slap scene 3 times and I swear it was ad-libbed. Look at Dwight’s reaction: either Rainn is a great actor or he never saw it coming.
“Her makeover was sheer genious, I thought. When the prospect showed the picture he was so proud of from the Bahamas, his wife had a huge Texas bouffant and Tammy Faye makeup. Brilliant of Phyllis to stop by the Beauty Shop.”
“I liked how Phyllis knows her client so well that to make the sale she gets herself and Karen the “clown” makeovers so they look like the clients wife.”
I gotta stop being on the internet and trying to watch this show at the same time, I miss too many key details!
I don’t think she works customer service. She does answer the phone “Dunder Mifflin” and she has the perfect “I’msoexcitedtohearfromyou,youaremybestfriendintheentireworld” phone voice, which Jim & Dwight needed to prove their point.
When I was watching, I thought that there spiel was going to get ruined because Pam was out for coffee with Angela and Pam’s line would go to voice mail. I liked how they did that much better. It showed that Jim and Dwight were a kick ass team back in the day and also how the contempt built up because they spent more time alone together than we realized until now.
I always got the impression from the British version (which, granted, I’ve only watched twice, and not all that recently) that David Brent is basically bad at his job, but is generally good as sucking up to board members and radiating a veneer of competence. Or something of that sort.
I giggled the whole show. I’m so glad because something has been “off” in the last few episodes, IMO.
Phyllis and Karen’s makeover was hysterical. At first, I thought she was skipping out on the challenge altogether.
Jim slapping Dwight was laugh out loud funny.
I was disappointed that Angela let Dwight fall on the sword to protect her. I immediately thought that Angela had an ulterior motive for inviting Pam for coffee. I guess she was just euphoric and had to share it with someone.
Michael’s look of sadness when Dwight resigned was darling. He’s such a putz.