And Michael isn’t?
I liked the party:
“Ooh, champagne”
“Only for the new people”
And
“Who’s Bob Vance?”
“You have a lot to learn about Scranton”
100%
I couldn’t believe the love in the Earl thread this week. I thought that was a really poor episode.
And, didn’t the Stamford manager, who backed out of his promotion and forced the office closing, accept a job at … Staples?
When Toby handed Kevin a box that said “Dunder Mifflin Stamfor Office Personnel Files” and told him to take care of it, I totally thought they were setting Kevin up to shred important files that Toby wanted, you know, filed (although I don’t know why Kevin would be doing Toby’s filing).
“I’ve got this hock!”
My favorite was
“I saw your car in the parking lot, what does it get like four miles per gallon?”
“Try twice that!”
“X-Terra isn’t even a real word!” [and Trans Am is?? 
]
Ed Helms vs Rainn Wilson was brilliant.
Pam actually starting looking plain to me in the face of the other girl, not just her looks but the way she was carrying herself. And as mentioned before, it’s great that they make the other girl attractive and likeable and not a stereotypical bitch you wonder why Jim is with. And it makes it clear that he could like anyone who gets his humor and enjoys it, not necessarily just Pam.
“Jim’s a nice guy. And that’s why I got the desk.”
Was Lazy Scranton supposed to be a parody of something?
Yes. It was a parody of the “Lazy Sunday” short film/video that was on Saturday Night Live last year.
You should be able to find it fairly easy on youtube.
So, does an old Trans Am really get 8MPG?
-Joe
Especially since Pam is Jim’s lobster.
Maybe downhill with a tail wind.
I felt sorry for the fat guy. That scene was painful to watch.
I actually had that car (mine was an '85 his is an '87 but close enough). I averaged about 13 MPG. But, if you drive around with your foot in the carb, you could easily get less than 8 MPG.
And there was a time when nobody, okay, nearly nobody, gave it a second thought.
“1985 is calling. It wants its car back.” 
Well then, 1985 must have a time machine, because my car’s an '87!
It was on the Curb Your Enthusiasm level of the cringe-o-meter for me. I was saying out loud, “No…stop…please, I can’t watch this…stop!”
And yes to Trunk and Dinsdale—I don’t even watch Earl anymore.
So what can one realistically expect from one? It seemed bizarre to me that he was defending his car by saying it got “double” four MPG.
-Joe
Actually NBC had them removed from You Tube but you can see it at NBC here:
http://www.nbc.com/Video/videos/snl_1432_narnia.shtml
And you can actually see “Lazy Scranton” here:
I agree.
At first I couldn’t believe he was gonna try to get the guy on the table. Absolutely wrenching.
Then against my wishes I had to laugh at “I’ve got this hock!”
Then it went a little longer such that it became really uncomfortable - until I almost died when he hollered that he was “in his crack!”
Then, whipsawed back to respect for the big guy for quitting.
I think it is an extremely short list of shows/flicks that can convey and switch between emotions this effectively.
The fat guy really did a helluva job with what could have been a very minor and stereotyped role.
Dwight isn’t exactly the king of logic. He’s been known to say something completely preposterous and think he really “burned” someone, like last night when he said that he’s really won their ‘idiot’ exchange.
I really expected Michael to make a Noah reference.
The office had two hot girls, two black guys, two suck ups and two fat guys.
This was really a spectacular episode.
I like that Michael still managed to complete his goal of uniting everyone…against him.
I still don’t like Karen though. She’s completely uninteresting to me.