Pam keeps faking labor.
Robert California thinks Kevin’s opinions about cookies are analogies for business strategy.
Andy organizes a field trip to Gettysburg to … make people like him? … and Jim tells them that they already like him.
Gabe gets corralled into recreating Abraham Lincoln and he really gets into it.
Gabe was the only thing that did anything for me.
I understand that the writers need to reinforce the whole “Andy is different from Michael - people worked for Michael in spite of Michael, they work for Andy because they like him”, but that’s enough. The point has been made.
The baseline has been established. Andy is needy and seeks approval and affection. Got it.
Back to the funny, please.
-Joe
The “Battle of Schrute Farms” being a euphemism for a retreat for the men of artistic and delicate character was pretty funny. Dwight’s consternation in front of Oscar on seeing the photos of the men in their dandy getups was great.
Yes, I was getting really tired of the Dwight plot, but that payoff was really good.
Robert’s realization at the end was great: “It’s always been just about the cookies, hasn’t it?”
I think I’m going to try Kevin’s Big Mac idea, because, hey, free Big Mac.
IMHO a very weak episode.
I liked everything about it but Andy’s excuse to take them on a field trip to Gettysburg . Merijeek’s right about that. We get it.
Who was that woman sitting a row or so in front of Robert during the pitch meeting? I know the actress from other shows but don’t remember her being on the Office.
Pam’s replacement for when she’s on maternity leave, pretty sure.
Agree with weak episode except for Alan, who reminded me of Chauncey in Being There. (And man did skinny boy James Spader pack on some weight.)
The history geek in me has to point out that Gettysburg wasn’t the northernmost action of the Civil War. That would be either Salinesville, Ohio or, if you count it as a battle, St. Alban’s, Vermont. The latter was such a minor affair it’s understandable if you count it as more a “bad day for a couple of Union soldiers”, but Salinesville saw the capture of hundreds of Confederates.
You can let the writers slide on Gettysburg being the most northern of any action in the Civil War. 99 out of a 100 people have never even heard of Salinesville or St. Alban’s. And if you want to get really geeky, it depends on how you define action. Montreal might be your answer.
If you let that kind of detail bother you, you must hate the history channel or the military channel, which constantly refer to Gettysburg as the "high water mark of the confederacy’. Which is was.