Seconding “You can’t unsee that.” Funny.
Not being familiar with Dave Matthew’s music, why did Andy initially react to the song the DJ played with “deep cuts only!”, only to then smile, nod, and skate away happily?
I thought it was great. Loved the three going roller skating, and Daryl hiding his paper killing device “Old Lady PORNOGRAPHY”. Actually, Daryl was all around awesome this episode. The previously mentioned “You can’t unsee that” the fact that he brought up the bookstore to get a ride to the book store.
Creed was really funny. And, it was neat to see Pam try something and then see how the cynical officemates pretty much killed the idea.
Loved how when Michael and Holly were doing their annoying ET stuff Kelly screamed STOP.
Fun episode all around.
I forget the name of the song. But, it was a big hit. And, at first Andy was upset that the DJ was playing a hit, and not one of the unplayed tracks in the Dave Matthews catalog. Then he listened to the song and really got into it, and started to skate. As Andy would do.
It did seem odd that nothing ever became of that. I have to assume there’s a deleted scene. I can’t believe they filmed they wrote and filmed that for no reason.
Also, I was kind of disappointed that we didn’t get to see Andy skate more. I figured he’d do some figure skating and we get to hear him say something like “Yeah, I was on the roller figure skating team at Cornell, we took 2nd place in the nationals. They called be Randy…Roller Andy”
That made a lot of sense. Daryl is one of those people that even though he’s a bit of a slacker (in work and life) he seems to have a pretty good moral compass. OTOH, his motivation for not going into a strip club at noon on Monday wasn’t that it was wrong so much as that you can’t unsee the girls that dance at a strip club at noon on a Monday.
I think it was Ants Marching. Whatever the title was, it was one of the songs that was on the radio 17 times a day back in the late 90’s.
I thought it was a good episode. I loved the field trip with Darryl, Andy and Dwight. They really should have at least had Dwight mention something to Darryl about how he was right about the strip club.
Andy skating was hilarious because he was so into it even though he was the only one out there.
What had me laughing really hard was Kevin asking Ryan how his “Fart project” was going and then he started making farting sounds and then farted for real and got that suprise, 'Uh Oh." look on his face.
My thinking with making Michael the way he is is to lead up to his departure from the show.
There were funny parts.
I loved when Erin started to giggle after Michael was recording; “I know it may seem like a good idea to kill yourself, but it’s not”, because it sounded like he said “snot”. Micheal tries to think about where he left off, and then starts to giggle too.
Just felt like a weird episode.
Can’t wait for the next episode though! If they pull it off…
I’ve said too much!
Where did Holly say she was going? Tennessee? If Michael chases her, that would set up sending him off.
Daryl and the Nard-Dog had some good stuff.
I thought she said Nashua (NH), which would be the branch the she was transferred to when her and Michael were dating. Come to think of it, she’s only here temporarily while Toby is on jury duty for the Scranton Strangler. So yeah, Nashua is what she said.
I think the episode is kind of meh. The broccoli scene is one of the more cringe-inducing ones in the series.
Darryl is a pretty cool dude.
Objectively, I’d say the broccoli scene was cringe-worthy… but it was so well executed, I found myself laughing more than I have in a long time! Well, at The Office, anyway. The broccoli under the tongue just slew me.
Between that and “Right back at ya, bitch!”, I think Kevin stole the episode in a really great way.
Edited to add: I’m guessing Kevin might be in line for Michael’s chair, and that’s why his character has become so exaggerated lately. Darrell is another choice, but I’m not sure how the “straight man” works if he’s the boss; wouldn’t he stop a lot of these antics?
I agree that the office these days isn’t as great as it was in seasons 2-3, but I thought this episode was quite entertaining, and one of the better ones of late.
Lots of good humor about the new years resolutions, and it was both in character and cleverly moving the way Michael first insulted Holly by proxy, then realized it, then apologized to her by proxy.
-Bears sad, worms happy—c’mon Erin!
How on earth would Kevin be in line? Angela outranks him in accounting! Angela as the new manager, now THAT would be interesting…!
Huh. I loved the episode. I laughed more than I had at a new episode in quite a while.
i liked the episode too but… the opening. wtf was that? was “flashlight tag” the big “haha” moment? did i get whooshed, or was the entire premise: “oh look, jim walked in on dwight being a dork with his dorky friends, and dwight knows that they’re dorky.” ? weak. very weak.
Well, the punch line, such as it was, was Jim getting the phone call, proving that he was lying about why he was there.
Oh, I assumed he had just found it (before he started eavesdropping on the meeting), and Pam, having estimated how long it would take him to find it, called to see if he had in fact gotten it.
Agreed with this. I just rewatched the scene and they don’t show Jim the entire time, or what he’s doing very closely. I didn’t find any reason to think he hadn’t found his phone, and if that was what the writers were going for, they did a pretty poor job.
Well, he isn’t doing much of anything. Apart from when he’s being yelled at by Dwight, or smirking conspiratorially at the camera, we see him vaguely look under a stack of papers, lingering too long for it to be anything but an excuse for eavesdropping. Next thing we know he’s hanging in the doorway. If the phone call wasn’t meant to be a reveal, what was the point of it? And why else did Dwight suddenly get mad again? He realized he’d been suckered.
I think the phone call was meant to show that Jim had found his phone a while ago and now was just watching the crazy.
The way I saw it, the opening probably went on for an hour or so and Pam called because she was wondering what the hell was taking Jim so long.