In my experience the periods salesmen work equal the breaks everybody else takes. It’s a great life if you don’t mind the occasional cold call and can deal with rejection.
I’d like to see Jim and Pam end up together. But I’d much rather see Jim and Pam go their separate ways than an endless series of artificial mechanisms for keeping them apart.
So far, it all feels very believable to me – Jim’s advances, Pam’s declines, Jim’s moving on. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Also, I’m in the camp that thinks Angela liked Dwight taking charge and was repelled by his grovelling to Michael at the end. Angela doesn’t respect Michael, and my impression is that Dwight’s fawning over him is one of those things she makes her mind up to overlook in their relationship – unless she sees a chance to end it.
I thought of Lady Macbeth when Angela was urging Dwight to his power play.
And I loved Dwight ordering a huge lunch? breakfast? during his meeting with Jan and pouring syrup over everything.
He wasn’t even watching while he was pouring the syrup. I expected it to end up in his lap.
Looked to me like Angela was only slightly disappointed when Dwight demoted her from co-ruler to being in charge of the women. But still, it’s a first step toward the Angela takeover. Then when she watched Dwight groveling, it looked like she was rethinking all of it.
I thought Michael’s plan was to let Dwight run the office for a while – wait for Dwight to fumble around and screw things up as he undoubtedly would, embarassing him in public and showing him and everybody that he doesn’t have what it takes to be a manager.
(Maybe that’s what Michael was intending, until Dwight started dissing the Sebring.)
“Hug it out, bitch.”
I no longer have HBO; is this something they say on Entourage? Early in the episode, Michael expressed a fondness for that show.
Yes it is. Good call.
The best exchange:
Michael: We watch movies every Monday because it helps productivity.
Jan: How does watching a movie for 30 minutes help productivity?
Michael: Because everyone has to work that much faster afterwards to make up for the lost time.