Interesting tidbit about the concierge. I didn’t realize that.
And Andy being gay? Imagine what that would do to Angela, considering how she feels about Oscar’s lifestyle.
I don’t think they all stayed in the same room. DM sprung for three people to go when one was really necessary, and they bought Michael a Business Class ticket instead of making him fly coach. After all of that unnecessary expense, cramming them into one room wouldn’t have made much sense.
It also sounded like Wallace was using this trip as a way to make it up to Michael for shipping Holly off. They probably had Michael in his own room and Oscar and Andy sharing a room.
I’m really hoping that the Kelly/Ryan relationship ends with Kelly trapping him naked outside or in the office after one of their romps. 
Probally to much to hope for.
Agreed. We’ve just got to see the bizarro wedding Angela’s planned. Especially since Dwight how has a hand in planning it.
That may be, but while watching the show I just thought this was another sign of what a rube Michael is. A hotel that has an actual CONCIERGE? Fan-cy! Remember how impressed he was about the idea of business class, and the old episode where it was revealed that the special pizza place he likes to visit whenever he’s in NYC is a Sbarro.
It is possible that he had no idea what the word “concierge” actually meant, and when he found out the one at this hotel was a blonde woman who knew about the nightlife he wasn’t sure what to make of it all.
Anyone else think that maybe the wedding will go forward with Dwight as the groom? I’m thinking a last-minute, possibly at-the-altar confrontation between Angela and Andy, then Dwight steps in.
This is how I took it, too. She doesn’t seem to have any real talent–or as Oscar said, there’s no soul there. Nothing to make it interesting. She was absolutely right to take the class and see if she could make it as a graphic designer. But just because she took one semester of art school doesn’t mean that she has any real professional future. It’s sad, but it’s not the end of the world.
It’s not clear to me what we’re meant to think about Pam’s artistic abilities. Back in season three, her paintings at the art show were pretty good in a technical sense – they looked like the objects and places they were supposed to look like – but there wasn’t anything exciting, original, or creative about them. “Motel art”, as Oscar’s boyfriend said. It was also the boyfriend who said they showed no courage or honesty, and Oscar agreed that these weren’t Pam’s strong suits.
Since then we’ve seen Pam become braver and more honest in her daily life. Maybe her art has likewise improved? I don’t think we’ve seen any of her work this season. (I have terrible television reception so I’m not sure – I’ve missed other things like Darryl’s happy walk this week. 
) She was apparently doing well in all her classes but the computer-related one, and her classmate seemed to think she had real talent. Of course, he may have just been saying that to flatter her.
But even if she is talented at drawing and painting, if Pam can’t handle the computer stuff then she’s not going to make it as a graphic artist. Unless it was just sour grapes, she also seems to have realized that graphic design isn’t as fun as she’d expected. She may have thought that being a professional artist was going to mean getting paid to what she already liked to do, and found out that it’s a lot harder and involves performing tasks that she finds tedious. Jim’s brothers may actually have been right – she was trying to make a career out of something that could really only ever be a hobby for her.
You’re confusing two different types of concierges. The wikipedia article starts with the French definition (which is like a janitor/handyman)…it goes on to state:
In North America, a concierge is a member of a hotel staff. From the same Wikipedia article you quoted from:
This is the type of concierge depicted in the show. As others have mentioned–most likely she could finagle a free hotel room that night, especially if she’s working the next morning. A common perk in the hotel industry for high-valued employees. Speaking as a former concierge myself…
I agree, especially about the chemistry. It amazes me that they were a couple in real life and that even though they’re not together, they act very much like they’re in love. Both of them were simply glowing in this week’s reunion.
What? Krazynski and Fischer were a couple? Fischer left her husband for a co-worker? That’s cheezy.
And clichéd.
I think all this is true, but I think he also/ was confusing “concierge” with “concubine,” which might explain the geisha reference.
I thought this episode was mediocre, as have been most of the last 20 or so.
Also, I don’t see how anyone in this thread could have any doubt that Mike banged the concierge. They put it right out there and there wasn’t any subtlety to decode. He left her room after banging her. There was no doubt.
I might be wrong about that. I heard this all over the place when the show first started, but I should have checked before posting because now I can’t find anything that confirms it. Color me embarrassed at spreading gossip. :o
I’m pretty sure Jenna just recently divorced her husband.
Jenna Fischer married James Gunn in 2000, several years before she was even cast on The Office. They separated in 2007 and have since divorced.
You may be misremembering speculation as to whether there was a real romance behind Fischer and Krasinski’s great on-screen chemistry.
What I heard (or made up out of thin air) was that they dated years ago, before the show started. I’ve watched the show all this time thinking they used to be a couple and wondering if they were uncomfortable with each other on the set.
Speaking of real couples, though – the woman who played, Carol, Michael’s real estate agent who he briefly dated, was played by Steve Carrell’s real life wife, Nancy Walls.
The only reason it seems suspect is that Michael has just so seldomly had any success with women, and celebrates what little he does have. Look at how excited he was just a few episodes ago when he slept with Holly (twice!). I just find it out of character that he’d be so dejected after sleeping with a woman he considered exotic. He should have been bouncing off the walls.
I do think that they did it, but I think the shot could have been handled better.
I think you’re confusing their (nonexistent) relationship with that of John Krasinski and Rashida Jones prior to the character of Karen appearing on the show.
I think he was full of self-loathing and angry about the situation. He didn’t want to sleep with some strange girl, he wanted to sleep with Holly. He probably didn’t want to just sleep with her–Michael forms emotional attachments with people. He probably thought this woman really liked him.