The fundamental truth of reunions is that people generally like the idea of hanging out with people from their past more than the reality. I thought the finale did a good job of capturing that.
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. IMHO it gave it a kind of reunion feel. You know, like when you go home for a high school reunion or something, but then spend a couple of extra days in town taking care of other stuff and keep running into other people who either still live there or are likewise lingering around. People don’t just show up to a reunion then all jump on a plane back to their lives at the end of the night.
Which didn’t make any sense to me. I mean wouldn’t the guy have moved on in his career in the past seven or eight years?
Because when Michael was in charge they were part of a big corporation, now it’s just their one branch with nobody to report to. I imagine David Wallace had a say, but as long as things were going well i can’t see him objecting to Dwight running things as he saw fit. And things were apparently going extremely well.
Was there resolution to the Scranton Strangler storyline? Wasn’t it supposed to be one of the Office people, or did I miss something? I didn’t catch every episode this season. I mean, I guess Creed was hauled off by cops at the end there, but was that supposed to be about that?
Yes. Toby was on the jury that convicted a guy of being the strangler but after, he doubted the verdict. So Toby visited the guy in prison. During his visit, the guy tried to strangle him, confirming that he was in fact the Scranton Strangler. So they resolved it, but I thought unsatisfactorily.
He’s in jail, Toby went to visit him, to make sure it was really him and he [the Strangler] strangled Toby. He came back to work with red marks on his neck.
Ah, I missed that. For some reason, I thought they were hinting that it would be one of the office characters (with Toby, Creed, and Gabe being the usual suspects.)
They weren’t, but for some reason the idea was floated around here an awful lot. I assume the internet as a whole had that idea in mind which is why they had Toby go down to the jail and get strangled (to put it to rest). OTOH for quite a while they were dragging out the “I think we put the wrong person in jail” storyline, so they were clearly going somewhere with it and then probably scrapping the idea when they used that resolution.
No, it was mentioned earlier in the episode that Creed was wanted for various crimes dating back to his (real life) rock band days in the '60s. That’s why he was in “disguise” with the big beard.
Remember the episode where they played “Murder Mystery” or something? Creed walks into the office, Pam yells, “You’re wanted for murder” and then Creed takes off running.
I really enjoyed the “Guten Pranken,” especially the bazooka. It looked like Rainn Wilson really got to fire that thing off. Must have been fun as hell to film that scene.
I’m an acquaitance of Phyllis’ stunt doubl–yes, surprisingly Phyllis has needed a stunt double more than a few times on the show…Carrying Angela down the aisle was the last time. I’ve seen pictures of them side by side in costume and it is freaky.
I’d have liked for him to have tried to turn the panel into a campaign event. I do like that he’s running for state senate…against his old lover.
That’s what I thought, but I’m not sure. It seems like the kind of detail they would have gone for.
Was what on stripper son’s face? If look like he had a neck tattoo, and if they stopped there I would have dismissed it as a generic white trash neck tattoo, but IIRC he a “47” on his cheek that looked like magic marker. If it was supposed to be a tattoo, they didn’t do a very good job with it and he didn’t like like the face/neck tattoo type.
Dwight’s stripper was the girl giving over the giant check in “Fun Run” and was also giving lap dances in “Ben Franklin.” Not sure if she was Bob Vance’s stripper, unless his was in one of those two episodes.
Also, did everyone notice that the Realtor was Michael’s ex, Carol, who’s played by Steve Carell’s real life wife?