I loved the billboards and all the parking parts. I watched on Hulu and I had to skip through anything with Andy and his family. They made such strides earlier this season with the Nard Dog tattoo, yet revert him to Michael on his worst day. I’m not giving up on this show, as there classic moments still scattered throughout (like poor Kelly shivering and Erin trying to get her hat out of the tree), but if it continues on this trajectory, “had a garden party” will be the new “jump the shark”.
“I’d like to toast the troops… All the troops… Both sides.”
I’m picturing the garden party how-to book as being pretty light on content anyway - maybe 150 pages, with big margins, lots of bulleted lists and such, like the kind of random self help books that show up at the dollar store. Jim could have pulled it together over a week or two during mid-afternoon lulls at work and an hour or so at home in the evenings. Also I figured he went with a print-on-demand website but a local print shop could do it too. Probably less than $100, and Jim’s put way more time and money into pranks in the past.
I know I should look it up, but was Andy’s dad the dad on Seventh Heaven?
Yes. Also on It’s Always Sunny on Philadelphia for a recurring role a few seasons ago.
I, too, didn’t like Andy going Michael Scott in this episode, but I’ll cut the writers a little slack. Just so long as they don’t go there too often.
I found Dwight announcing his guests endlessly funny. Which is good, because they really beat it into the ground after the credits.
Michael Scott may have done the same thing, (I think he would even be worse than Andy), but it’s NOT out of character for Andy. Remember when he tried to teach sex ed in the office? His father’s such a tool, that you can sympathize with Andy more.
Andy has a history of anger management problems. Although he has been getting better.
And frankly, his father belittling his accomplishment and showing huge favoritism to Andy’s brother, I don’t blame Andy at all. Not that I would do things that way, but none-the-less, I don’t blame him.
Well, who would you rather sing a duet with, Ed Helms or Josh freakin’ Groban?
When Groban came up to join in on the song I’m pretty sure I heard someone say, “Go, Josh!” or something similar in the background. Which wasn’t his character’s name, of course. He was just so darn nice! even if he never did figure out which one was Pam.
Didn’t they previously show a photo of Andy’s father, but obviously not the same actor?
BTW, I agree that it’s really implausible that Jim wrote and printed a book just to play a prank on Dwight. But I was willing to put that aside, because it was funny.
I think Andy invited his parents to come down when he asked Angela to marry him. Not the same people.
They changed Pam’s parents too, IIRC. This always irks me a bit…
Maybe the original actors couldn’t make it.
Well, her mom, and yeah I know.
Pam likes when Jim pranks Dwight, though. That was their thing, even before they got together.
Also the villainous Dr. King on No Ordinary Family last year and the captain of the Enterprise who got shoved aside when Star Fleet put Admiral Kirk back in charge as acting captain in the original Star Trek movie.
Not good episode and I’ve liked this season so far.
I’m pretty sure anyone can self-publish a book nowadays and get it up on Amazon so it’s not a stretch.