"The Office", 4/14 OPEN SPOILERS

Both her parents need taking care off, specially after one of them dies. Remember the phone conversation that basically boiled down to “I take care of him, he takes care of me”.

I wasn’t aware that she was leaving. Perhaps she has better writing gigs to tackle and is getting out before the show completely tanks.

Even for movie stars, TV has major cache.

It makes a lot of sense. On a TV show you are the same character year after year, it’s no surprise that people start thinking of you as that person.

She denied the rumor on her twitter feed.

“I guess this is my life now.”

Best line. So bleak and resigned.

Maybe she went to Colorado early, and Michael’s going after getting DeAngelo up to speed? That or they just didn’t want to pay the actress for this episode.

Could somebody explain this joke to me? Because I’m just not getting it. It simply sounds like a really awkward phrase to me, and I can’t tell what it’s riffing on.

“Meet cute” is Hollywood jargon and refers to the kinds of ways that two characters in a romantic comedy come together in their initial meeting. It’s a “meeting” that a fan of such films might describe as being “cute” in nature. As in, “awwww, isn’t that cute?”

A meet cute is a real thing; it’s just a cute way two people meet. The joke isn’t that she used that term; it’s that she tried to force one to happen (unsuccessfully).

Thanks for letting me know, although now I feel stupider for knowing. God I hate romantic comedies.