Okay, I’ll start one if nobody else will. I thought this was a decent ep after last week’s mess. Some laughable moments and some bits of lunacy with Dwight and Angela. That smirk after she said she wasn’t a farm animal: priceless.
Jim and Pam sneaking off to sleep and ending up having to listen to Dwight and Angela go at it was great.
I was laughing at Darrell telling Pam & Jim about the bed in the warehouse racks, because when I worked at a floorcovering distributor years ago, the warehouse guys did exactly the same thing. The company used to have an apartment where the owner stayed when he was in town. When he decided the expense wasn’t worth it, they moved the furniture into the warehouse, including a very comfy couch that was conveniently situated facing the wall on an upper shelf. The guys would either climb up the rack, or have one of the other guys lift them on a forklift. Many a hangover was slept off on that couch.
The Dwight & Angela stuff saved it, because Michael was particularly hateful and unsympathetic in this one.
What I didn’t get was why Michael had told the entire office that she was married if he was still carrying on with her. It was almost like there was a missing 15 minutes of show between the last episode and the start of this one.
Other than Darryl, the warehouse manager, still working upstairs AWAY from the warehouse and occupying a private office, the computer screens still never opened to any programs, nobody ever really talking on the phones to sell anything, the corporate guy working in the office as what??? manager??, Pam and Jim BOTH taking naps at the same time instead of covering for one another and Michael returning from a HIGH SCHOOL baseball game where a mom brings orange slices for the players (that is done for small kids soccer leagues), it had its good moments.
But it is definitely second rate now and it is only the talented cast that saves it.
Breaking news: Television workplace comedy is not an accurate depiction of an actual paper-supply and printer sales office.
Oh come on, its Michael! Of course he told them, probably bragged about it too.
Coach: “Oh… Are you two… Kenny’s dads?”
Seeing Dwight trying to nuke his nuts with the microwave cracked me up.
Well in that case, why don’t they just have the actors wear whatever they wore when they showed up at the studio that day and not waste money on phony sets and just have them sit on folding chairs with the scripts in their hands and read their lines?
But seriously folks…mothers don’t bring “treats” to HIGH SCHOOL baseball games just so the lazy ass writers and the three or four dozen “producers” can have Michael steal them and throw them at people for a cheap laugh.
And the point of this thread is to rip errrrr critique this popular show, which IMHO, insults the viewer with these absurd actions. Now if he had been at a kid’s soccer game and had taken the orange slices, it would have been kinda funny.
It is time to wrap this shit up and do a spin off with Dwight, Angela, Creed and Kelly.
I think that the show is best viewed assuming a degree of Rashomon-style inaccuracy. Imagine the characters talking with their friends or loved ones (that aren’t part of the show) and starting an anectode with “You wouldn’t believe what this fuckin’ guy at my office did today…” or “You think your boss is a moron? Let me tell you about Michael Scott…”. What we see is their exaggerated stories.
Keep in mind that Ricky Gervais based the original series on the actions of a boss that he knew and hated. According to him, it wasn’t all that far-fetched.
I love the fact that Michael thought he lived in a world in which his love life was the stuff of the evening news.
david brent was about 100 times more believable than michael scott.
My daughter broke her leg on a playground when she was 11. She asked me if it was gonna be on the news. I think because there was an ambulance – flashing red lights, siren, etc.
It’s been a few days now, but IIRC, Jim was supposed to be covering for Pam but was so tired he fell asleep
At the end they were both in the hidden nap spot together.
Only after he placed a cup of something in it. He’s nothing if not efficient.
Why was Toby testing for radon? Don’t you usually test in the basement, or lowest level if there is no basement? They’re on what? The 2nd or 3rd floor? Michael was right to throw out the tester, stupid Toby. He sickens me.
I was referring to the scene where they were both asleep at their desks and Pam gave Jim a dirty look for not watching out for her.
Wasn’t thinking of the nap in the wherehouse scene… my fault.