Cribbed from what I posted in the Earl thread-
I thought it was a bit off aswell. Alot of episodes start that way and then something happens to shake it up. Like in the burned foot episode. I didn’t think it was that good, until they took Dwight to the hospital and from that moment on I was dying with laughter. This episode seemed really light. Dwight’s success was supposed to be the turing point but since the subplots were so weak it wasn’t nearly as funny as it could have been.
The thermostat was a pretty lame c-plot.
Re: Creed’s Chinese… well the last word he said was “ne-how” which is Hello… I have no clue what he said before it.
I wish they had gone another direction with the Tobey Amsterdam joke. Yes everyone knows people go to Amsterdam for the drugs. I’d rather have the joke been that since Tobey just got divorced… he went for the hookers.
I do like that Ryan the Intern is an asshole, rather than another sclub or nice guy in the office.
The whole Jim’s vacation being right before the wedding was just written weird. Jim essentially told Pam he’s immature. He could have atleast lied and said “The only time I could go” or “The deal on airfare was too good.”
The Dwight and Angela bits were the best. I liked them shouting too eachother as he left.
I now revise my prediction for the last scene of the season… It will be Pam and Jim at the airport on June 8th. She’ll be there meeting family who are coming in from out of town for the wedding while he’s waiting to board his plane. He’ll give her a hug good bye and she’ll kiss him. They’ll be interrupted and Jim will leave for his plane. So the question over the summer will be if she went through with the wedding.
That was the joke?..Uhhh… I don’t think so. It seemed to me since he said in a lazy dazed voice “A week… maybe a month.” That implies drugs… not hookers.
He has nothing to lose because he’s not trapped there. He can be fairly honest and doesn’t have to be as involved in the office dramas. I temped for years and that was my favorite aspect of it.
He’s already blown off her post-makeout attempts to get together again. She’s not 14, even if she acts like it. She needs to realize it’s a lost cause and get over it, and he’s trying to help her along that path. It’s not like he’s leading her on. If she’s upset, well, she needs to do that on her own time.
Furthermore, Ryan hasn’t had the best experiences at Dunder-Mifflin: Michael’s creepy man-crush, Dwight’s open contempt, and the fact that he’s generally ignored or dismissed by everyone else, even Creed. Ryan has a life outside the office, and thanks to business school, he’ll probably go further than any of his co-workers. As a result, his greatest fear is probably ending up in a dead-end job like all of them, and he doesn’t want to socialize too much or get too close to any of them, at the risk of becoming like they are. Making out with Kelly complicated his plans, thanks to her crush – he just wants to get through his job and be left alone, and have as little to do with them as possible.
Add me to the list that thinks Ryan is not an asshole, but Kelly is a psycho stalker (ok, maybe not that bad, but annoying as all Hell and can’t let go).
I liked this episode, and the best part of the thermostat joke was when Kevin sheepishly says he sets it to 69. LOL!
The football tackling of Ryan was great as well. Shows the true character of Dwight in a one second span.
And Dwight’s spelling bee story was hilarious! “I misspelled, in front of the entire school, failure”!!!
You do realize these are TV characters…right?
I think you guys who thought this episode sucked are nuts.
I’ve decided that there are two types of people in the world. People who find awkwardness hilarious, and people who just find it awkward. People who find it hilarious think that The Office and Arrested Development are the funniest shows ever aired. People who don’t prefer Seinfeld and Cheers.
I think this episode of the The Office was less focused on the awkward humor and non-traditional pacing. Instead it featured a little more in the way of scripted humor and characters. For that reason I thought it was pretty great.
Dwight’s Mussolini speech was one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV this year.
The football scene was pretty funny.
Kevin sniggering like a 13 year old as he sets the thermostat to 69 was funny.
All in all, this episode was one of the better ones I thought. Different than to original series for sure, but funny in it’s own right.
Well, that sucks. The DishNetwork guide says it’s a Take Your Daughter To Work Day episode - where Michael strikes up a conversation with the five-year-old daughter of his enemy (who? Jan?).
Hey if a TV show can make me laugh out loud once I consider it 22 minutes well spent.
They had me on the Football and tackling stuff – I was LOL’ing a bit right up until Michael looking scared, upset at Dwight after his run thru the office and tackle said:
“You OK Ryan?”
“Yeah”
PIVOT "PAm look alive…"
After that I was DIEING.
So, if the rest of the show amused me rather than made me actually laugh – well it was still worth it to me.
Yeah. I find I have to “power through” to the funny when The Office revels in people’s (read: Michael’s) obliviousness to imminent awkwardness. CONFESSION. I often briefly flip channels when shit gets too embarassing/humiliating, then flip back when I think the worst is over. I find myself empathizing a bit much. How weird is that?