Another good episode. Fewer laugh-out-loud moments than some episodes, but I really liked the interactions between Jim and Michael. They’re both obviously played as broad characters for laughs some of the time, but it’s nice to also really see the writers give them some depth and personality.
Toby trying to ask Pam out was painful but hilarious.
Jim saying what happened when he saw Dwight, then when Dwight started talking, was very funny also.
Jim: I’ve sold forty thousand units this month.
Dwight: That’s impossible.
Jim: Well, it is possible, and I did it.
Dwight: Well, I did it, too!
(paraphrased)
I cannot wait to see how Michael is going to go about getting Pam and Jim together! And good for Jim for telling Michael that he left because of Pam…the classic cliche is to invent some other reason and then spend an entire season in missed opporrtunities and misunderstood situations.
And I thought it was very cool that Michael got the Hammermill account, and just blew it off as something less important than having a party in his room…shows once again his skill as a salesman that enables him to keep his job.
Toby was so sweet, and shy, and hopeful. Such good acting between the two of them in that scene with Pam. Oh, and that brilliant moment when Pam agreed to have a baby with Michael if they are both single and childless after 30 years…you could see her calculating the odds of that, and the fact she’d be well over 50 by then, and not likely to be able to have one. And Angela’s disguise, and the fact that Micahel didn’t recognize her at the check-in desk…
Didn’t Angela say “Is that you, D?” Not something a hooker would say…? Weird for them to have Jim of all people jump to a wrong conclusion.
And Creed with the drunk woman who presumably has worked there for some time…"{Some name similar to Angela}'s the office bitch, you’ll get used to her. I’m Creed."
I assumed Angela must have had her face covered somehow because from the hallway we could see her bare legs, and Jim was practically in the room before he spun around and left, so he must have been able to see more than her upper body. Maybe she was wearing a monkey mask.
Either Angela’s face was covered, or Jim was so shocked to see a naked woman in Dwight’s room that he didn’t get a good look at her face.
I want to see Michael’s swag-decorated condo. Microsoft logos everywhere!
Ryan really needs to grow some balls and get himself out of that relationship. Eew.
I love that Michael was able to make up for all his goofing off by taking one meeting with the Hammermill guy. And it was like a second thought for him.
I kind of cringed when Michael suggested that Jim and Roy get together to comisserate over Pam.
Yeah, that whole adoption conversation was freaky. When Pam suggested that the application alone for adopting a Chinese baby was $1000, Michael asked if she could find him a cheaper baby.
What did Jim mean when he told Michael he “laid everything on the line with Pam twice and she turned him down twice”?
We saw him making his case in the season finale and getting turned down.
Are we to assume he talked to her again at another time and got shot down again?
Jim got out of Dwight’s room PDQ after his brain registered “naked lady!” I think he assumed that there was no way Dwight could have a reasonably attractive naked woman waiting for him who wasn’t on the clock, so to speak.
Kelly is awesome. Or rather, she is awesomely portrayed. She cracks me up every time she opens her mouth.
Poor Pam, getting a ton of dating advice from the most clueless lot on the planet.
“Order the most expensive thing on the menu to let him know you’re worth it”
“You do that, you’re going to have to put out”
“Yeah, you’ll have to put out.”
Jobs must be hard to find in that town. I can’t imagine working there more than two weeks. Hell, I can’t imagine lasting a full interview with Michael (Jan, however, could interview me all night long).
Kelly: So, what are you wearing?
Pam: This.
Kelly: (Pauses) You look so pretty!
I really liked this episode because, although we have always known MIchael to want to be friends with the people he is supposed to be supervising, I really think this is the first episode, that I can really recall that emphasized how important these “freindships” are to him.
The fun part from last night’s episode was that she was a cartoonist (using the term loosely) when she was at Dartmouth. “Next time bring your sketches, I’ll let you pick my brain.” “It wasn’t a Love Connection.”
Just remembered something I was puzzled by… Angela and Philadelphia. First she implies that every girl in Philly is a whore. Then she defends Philly when someone attacks it. And at one point, she thinks there’s a fly in the room. I feel like there’s some connecting thread there, but I don’t know what it is.
One thing that bugs me a little bit is that I feel they’re a bit inconsistent about the existence of the cameras. On the one hand, sometimes they clearly know there’s a guy in the room with a camera, and basically talk directly to it. But no one ever actually out loud acknowledges it, no stranger ever says “hey, why are the cameras following you around?”, etc. It’s a bit inconsistent. But a minor complaint at best.