The Office, 9/17/09 "Gossip" (spoilers)

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No one else saw this? Come on now - summer is OVER, television is BACK! Hurrah!

Nice cringe-worthy episode. I reaaaallly wish we had more than one glimpse of these interns, they seemed awesome. They could totally tell what’s up.

I’m glad the whole ep didn’t revolve around Pam and Jim’s baby (as the promos led us to believe). Instead the writers treated it in a really creative way, IMHO.

Was Stanley smashing his car or Michael’s car? Was he mad at himself or Michael? It was really weird when he was confessing to Michael - that’s an interaction we’ve never seen before (humble Stanley talking nervously to Michael). Interesting!

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That was Michael’s car. Loved the line about the Taco Bell chihuahua, and Andy’s reaction to his rumor.

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Meredith rubbing up against the intern was hilarious.

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I thought Michael had a PT Cruiser? Where’d I get that from?

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Sometimes the best lines are in the little scene at the end. The interns are telling the camera what they learned from their internship (from memory):

Intern 1: I learned that a ream has 300 sheets.
Intern 2: No, a ream has 500 sheets.
Intern 1: Then I didn’t learn anything.

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I think Andy is going to go on a season-long self-discovery arc. And I’ll be right with him.

I was sure Stanley was setting Michael up for a sting. That was totally out of character, his confiding in Michael.

I’m pretty sure Michael demanded a Sebring in his negotiations with Dunder-Mifflin when they bought the Michael Scott Paper Company.

Erin: I’m really glad you’re eating again!
Kelly (shoveling it in): Me too!

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Did anyone else think the interns were mini versions of Dwight, Pam and Jim? Jet Li was even wearing a mustard-brown shirt.

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When Dwight kicked open the ladies’ room door during parkour, what was Meredith spraying under her arms?

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I would have been a little happier if they let the ‘baby rumor’ work out the Stanley situation, (although in the office I suppose it did). Not because it was uncomfortable, but because Michael’s the freaking boss. It’s a happy coincidence he hasn’t been fired or sued, and Stanley’s a volatile character. It was really clever to have one of the rumors to be true by mistake, (possibly two if Andy can figure things out… although he did have a crush on Erin I wouldn’t mind being explored either). But it wasn’t a bad start overall. His smashing up his car was funny.

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I’m not certain, but I think it was that air can you use to clean your keyboard.

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Ahhh. I don’t recall them making a point that he got the Sebring, which is way cool if they did it this subtley.

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Pam?

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No, I’m pretty sure it was Meredith. Pam was at her desk when Michael walked on it. Maybe I misinterpreted it; was Meredith drinking something?

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I missed half the episode so I was kind of lost as I watched the second half. The bit with the interns at the end was funny, but I missed a lot of jokes because they were set up earlier.

At one point I was thinking “Is that Stanley? Why’s he smashing that car?”

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“It’s like that move Sparticus. I’ve watched it a half-dozen times and at the end I still don’t know which one of them is Sparticus. That’s why it’s one of the greatest whodunits ever.”

ETA: My wife has never seen that movie, so we had to pause the show while I explained why that made me laugh.

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I’m a little surprised the people in this office don’t smash things more often.

What’s the over-under on the last episode featuring a shooting spree?

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I think he was referring to the Pam cooking spray. I thought it just looked like deoderant.

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I just opened the ep on Hulu to see if I could tell what Meredith was spraying in her pit. The bottle looks like it has blue liquid in it but it also looks aerosol? I have no idea, but it’s something that isn’t supposed to go there. Cleaning product maybe?

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Oscar: What exactly is my reasonability here? To comfort heterosexual men? That can’t possibly fall to me.

Creed: If I can’t Scuba, then what’s this all been about?

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Even though I knew with 99% certainty that that refrigerator box was empty, I still cracked up. I’m glad to see The Office is just as funny as ever.

In a weird way, Michael’s solution was brilliant.

Best deadpan line ever goes to Pam: “We should have acknowledged that you’re an equal partner in this.”