Obviously. That scene was a nod to something that happened before.
In an earlier episode, Stanley complained in one of the “confessionals” that he bought a toaster for the Roy/Pam wedding and then when the wedding was canceled they wouldn’t let him return it so now he had two toasters. He was finally able to get rid of the extra toaster by giving it to Vance and Phyllis.
I get the sense that Creed wouldn’t care. When that point arrived, he’d just shrug it off.
Sure, why not. Amazing Race does it.
Give it up, people! Pam is so Small Town she doesn’t stand a chance against Big-City Sophisticate Karen! What does Pam have to offer? She may be cute but she’s sweet to the point of being insipid. She’s not very bright. She’s not much of a conversationalist. She has no backbone to speak of. She and Roy were made for each other and have turned back into the cute couple they probably were in high school.
Nobody noticed the color of Michael’s tie? It was the exact same bird-vomit-blue as the bridesmaids’ dresses.
He was so in love with being a part of the wedding party. I love those little touches.
By all means, check out the wedding pictures at nbc.com. Some real gems in there.
Regarding the camera crew, I caught a whiff of them trying to tip off Pam and/or Jim (I can’t remember which one they were talking with) in this episode. They have done something similar before, I recall. If I were a cameraman talking with both Pam and Jim, I would have stood up and yelled at both of them by now, “PAM, YOU LOVE JIM. JIM, YOU LOVE PAM. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST GO OUT WITH EACH OTHER ALREADY!!!” But that wouldn’t make much of a story arc.
Bears strike when you don’t expect them.
Heh…love the closeup of the wedding invite:
Phyllis Lapin
Of Scranton, Pennsylvania
and Robert Vance
Of Vance Refrigeration
I noticed his tie was the same color. I figured he had the same tie as the groomsmen.
But she and Jim communicate well, and have the same sense of humor. That goes a long way. And Jim is more Small Town than Karen, certainly. And Pam does have dreams of something outside of Scranton. Although…Roy did describe her art as beautiful last week so perhaps he would support her going out of town for school…
I thought it was something along the lines of having a one-night hookup??
I think that was the color of the tie for all the wedding party participants.
Somebody: I thought you weren’t supposed to wear white to a wedding?
Kelly: It was an emergency.
[Talking Head]
Kelly: I look really great in white.
I think Dwight may not live in the consensual reality most of us accept as true. He believes in magical futuristic faxes, strange governmental conspiracies, ejecting old men from weddings into the street, and other things that normal people do not believe. This is why Jim has so much fun with him. You just have to accept this, because it is the basis of the character. He’s a weird guy, for sure, and not quite a real person, but he’s funny as hell, so it’s OK with me.
As for the Pam & Jim thing-- really, Jim is in an unfortunate position. He is committed to Karen mostly because of her continued, ill-advised commitment to him. She moved for him, after all. I had someone do that for me, and I stayed with him for several more YEARS after that even though I wanted it over, out of sheer guilt and sense of obligation. So there’s that holding him back.
But now it’s kind of Karen’s own fault if she gets hurt. She has enough information to walk away but doesn’t. After all, Jim told Karen flat-out that he was still into Pam, and in typical delusional chick fashion, Karen convinced herself, through many hours of late-night conversation (most likely her talking, him listening with feigned interest) that it’s OK that her BF is in love with someone else, it’s in the past, nothing will come of it. She’s fooling herself. Jim was probably hoping against hope that Karen would take this cue and walk away, but she didn’t, and so he’s stuck.
Jim, meanwhile, has been rejected by Pam solidly and often enough that he’s not going to be (in his perception) a dick to Karen, or give up what he definitely has, over someone who might or might not string him out again. Can you really blame him? I don’t. He doesn’t have all the information that we have about how Pam feels. They are both playing it way cool, so it’s not fair to expect either one of them to make a drastic move based on knowledge of the other’s sentiments at this point.
It’s Pam’s turn to step up and make her feelings known. The ball is in her court. I don’t blame her for not saying anything at this point, now that Jim is clearly with Karen. But she had her chances and blew them all. Now she’s stuck with Roy again. Ah well. It’s Karen who’s going to get hurt in the end, though.
I agree with pretty much everyone - Michael isn’t being written well. Make him a jackass, fine, but unless we’re suddenly animated, don’t make him a cartoon.
Actually, that’s why I hate the Andy character, now that I think about it.
What was someone saying about Phyllis’s bald spot??
-Joe
Have we ever seen Kevin’s fiancee Stacy before? There’s a pic of her and him at the wedding - she is waaaaayyyy out of Kevin’s league!
Did you see the pic of the wedding cakes? The groom’s cake was a little refrigerator - with a GE (NBC company) logo on it! lol
Re: Dwight & Ben Franklin: I think Jim just flusters Dwight and puts ideas into his head. All Dwight focuses on then is the matter at hand. He thinks “these faxes are from the future!” and doesn’t think past that (as in “uhm…how am I getting faxes from the future?”)…Jim says “that is the real Ben Franklin” and Dwight thinks “I will prove this is not the real Ben Franklin!” and doesn’t think “uhm…Ben Franklin is long dead.”
I’m one of those apparently rare people who realizes that if someone is “one in a million” that means there are thousands (one billion being a thousan millions) of people just like them in this world. Jim could make the Karen thing work forever if he chose. Karen shares his sense of humor, too.
I think the Ben Franklin thing is slightly more believable if Jim presented it to Dwight in the form of some kind of sci-fi, time travel or alternate universe scenario. Since Dwight is a sucker for that stuff, I could believe that Jim might be able to place that one percent of doubt in his mind. I’m sure Jim would have said more than just “this is the real Ben Franklin.” He would craft a story around it somehow.
I don’t thing Dwight would need that. He seems quite capable enough to construct such a scenario on his own.
Yeah, I don’t think Dwight would need all that either.
Jim: " You know that’s the real Ben Franklin, right."
Dwight: " Shut up, no it isn’t."
Jim: " Oh yeah, it is. Go check it out. It IS the real Ben Franklin."
Dwight: " You’re an idiot."
10 seconds later…
Dwight: " WHO IS THE KING OF AUSTRIA?"