“So many old memories in this gym. Pretending to have PMS so I didn’t have to play volleyball…”
Season 4, Job Fair, 3 minutes into the episode.
But to be fair, it isn’t the first time Pam has contradicted herself. Earlier in Season 4 she mentions something being “perfect” during a talking head, and then remarks that it was the first time she ever used the word “perfect” at work, which is incorrect.
In Season 2, The Fight: “Timecards, he has to sign these every Friday. Purchase orders have to be approved at the end of every month. And expense reports - all he has to do is initial these at the end of every quarter. But once a year it all falls on the same Friday. I call it the perfect storm.”
I like the Pam and Jim thing because they’re the sanity in an otherwise bizarre workplace environment (aren’t we all???). It works for me if they never have a trauma.
I am surprised that folks are upset about the pregnancy thing. I guess it could turn into a bad thing, but in of itself it seems to be a pretty natural progression. I think that a couple would show excitemnt right away and only after it sinks in and then they can start to have doubts and/or worries. And they might not have been trying to having a baby and they also might not have been trying NOT to have baby. Who knows? There are no hard and fast rules for this kind of thing.
Ok, Mr. Always-Perfect-Sentence-Writer, why not work on some reading comprehension by looking up thread to see what I was responding to.
But actually, giving the dickishness of your post and your other notable failures, I’ll just explain, since I absolutely do not wish for further interaction with you:
Someone up thread made a comment that he hopes there isn’t a big sob story about a miscarriage. My point is that pregnancies fail early in term all the time, and that it actually doesn’t need to be such a big deal. 10-25% of all pregnancies fail within the first 20 weeks. Cite. Some women get pregnant and never know it. Some women do indeed get terribly excited and then fall to pieces when it (the pregnancy) doesn’t move forward, but any good counselor should 1) explain to a newly pregnant woman that miscarriages happen rather frequently and 2) it doesn’t mean there is anything wrong her (the mother).
That doesn’t mean I think a mother should be “meh” about it. That would be a radical reading of my earlier statement. And by radical I mean idiotic. But it doesn’t need to have the big stereotypical soap opera “oh my GOOOOD my BABY died I’m a FAILURE as MOTHER WAAAAHHH”-style response, either.
I can’t remember but was the travelling salesman character Ted (?) Packer just abandoned or did he get written out… I would have liked to have seen him at the picnic.
I have a rather convoluted solution to this contradiction.
I’m a former competitive volleyball player, and the last place I ever wanted to find myself was in a low-level volleyball game.
Weak players can still get by in basic games of basketball or softball. But REAL volleyball simply cannot be played without genuine skills in the game. A school or church picnic volleyball game is my idea of hell.
So perhaps Pam was a good volleyball player, but it pained her, as it would me, to play with the unskilled in school. So she faked being sick and sat out, only to bring her skills to bear in the company picnic game.
Only problem with this is that company picnic volleyball is almost always worse than school volleyball. I was laughing at that scene because no matter how hard they tried to make it look good, you could tell nobody on screen knew what they were doing.
I totally agree with this. I like the show enough and trust the writers enough that I think they will make it funny. I think there’s much fun to be made of the ridiculousness of the baby industry, and of Pam and Jim’s bumbling as new parents. Michael is going to lose his mind, Angela will be horrified at their out of wedlock conception, god knows what Creed will say. I think it could be really good.
There is no way Pam could lose the baby, after her and Jim’s effusive joy in the finale, and have it not be way too much of a downer for a comedy. I don’t WANT to see Pam have a miscarriage. I might be in the minority here, but I want Pam and Jim to be happy. Also, the plot-convenient miscarriage is one of the biggest TV cliches of all time, and I despise it as weak writing. Bring on the baby.
Good episode but not season finale-worthy. I think “Broke” would’ve been a real high not to end the season, but I love the show, so I’ll gladly take the episodes that followed.
Dwight was good and I guess he and and “Monkey” will be getting back together after all. I have mixed feelings about that because I really applauded him for ditching her instead of settling for being her consolation prize.
I loved the way Pam said she went to volleyball camp “every summah!” Pam with attitude is delightful.