# The Office--hour episode starts at 8 PM EST
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 14, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195 "2006-12-14T22:19:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/1 "2006-12-14T22:19:45Z")
Don’t forget it starts early tonight and goes on for a whole hour!
Send you Xmas e-cards [here](http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/justforfun/ecards.shtml)! 😉
And your Office holiday gifts [here!](http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/index.php?v=nbunbcnowoffapp&SESSID=370b771f2d53427a5897a8ea66645399)
Is it my imagination or did one of the trailers show Kevin with mistletoe stuck in the front of his pants?!
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### Author:  [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/2 "2006-12-15T01:58:41Z")
I think Jim’s going to leave hottie. Of course, it’s for another little cutie, but can’t he just have both? And by him, I mean me? Can’t I just have both?
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### Author:  [@jacob\_wrestling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacob_wrestling)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/3 "2006-12-15T02:18:07Z")
Oscar is back!
So, bets on who Michael was talking to on the phone at the end? Jan? We’ve seen so little of her this season.
I thought this was a great episode. It struck the important Michael-humiliating-himself and Michael-redeeming-himself balance very well. There weren’t as many laugh-out-loud moments as usual, but we got a lot in the way of plot and character development. I feel sorry for Dwight, being supplanted as the office sycophant, but Andy does it much more subversively (to Michael, at least). Great moment between Pam and Toby. And Jim still loves Pam!
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/4 "2006-12-15T02:21:28Z")
Something about Pam and Karen together was kind of…hot. Does Jim dare try to work the three way?
So much about this episode was great. Dwight and the goose (I hit it with my car. It’s a Christmas miracle"), Pam sending Dwight letters from the CIA. Pam and Karen ganging up against Angela. Michael “canceling” Christmas (“Will they still air Rudolph”). Michael not being able to tell the Benihana’s waitresses apart. Pretty much all the karaoke numbers (“We belong, we belong we belong together Ryan”).
Also a little bit of telegraphing for where the Jim Pam karen storyline may be going with Jim kind of realizing he’s talking about himself in the “rebound” speech.
This has become one of my favorite shows.
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/5 "2006-12-15T02:21:35Z")
“Naga-sake”
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/6 "2006-12-15T02:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth]
“Naga-sake”
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I think it was “Nog-a-sake.” Egg nog and sake. Blech.
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### Author:  [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/7 "2006-12-15T04:20:18Z")
Best episode ever! Too many laugh-out-loud moments to remember. I even loved the little ones like “validity committe.”
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/8 "2006-12-15T04:40:50Z")
It’s only been 38 minutes so far and I’m pissing my pants with laughter.
“…request denied.”
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/9 "2006-12-15T05:03:54Z")
Oh my God. I’m going to remember this one like the WKRP Turkey promotion, the David Cross Donnie “My pants are tight!” Just Shoot me, etc.
“It’s too soon.” :🍃:
“You have been compromised. Abort mission, and destroy phone.”
Wow. One for the ages.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/10 "2006-12-15T05:28:31Z")
[QUOTE=jacob wrestling]
So, bets on who Michael was talking to on the phone at the end? Jan? We’ve seen so little of her this season.
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It has to be Jan.
Great episode. I love how Dwight is so strict at following the chain of command even to the point of having to listen to the hated Jim.
Jim at first turning down the prank and then following through was swiped from the UK version but it was still well done.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/11 "2006-12-15T05:35:45Z")
In an odd way, I was kind of glad for Dwight that they gave him the “abort mission” text message rather than just letting him stand around all night and get his heart broken. He’s still getting pranked but at least they gave him a way out that still makes him feel like he’s having an adventure.
It allows them to keep milking the prank too, of course.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/12 "2006-12-15T08:17:56Z")
[QUOTE=jacob wrestling]
So, bets on who Michael was talking to on the phone at the end? Jan? We’ve seen so little of her this season.
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I thought I heard him distinctly say her name. Anyone want to check the subtitles?
Another hilarious episode… Michael marking her harm was just classic.
But does anything think the waitresses actually going with them was even remotely plausible?
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/13 "2006-12-15T11:07:33Z")
Big fan but I just realized two things this week …
1. Karen is Quincy Jones’ daughter
2. Jan is Steve Carrell’s wife
… am I always the last to know ? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/14 "2006-12-15T11:51:09Z")
[QUOTE=What the … !!!]
2. Jan is Steve Carrell’s wife
… am I always the last to know ? 🙂
[/QUOTE]
Actually, [Carol](http://imdb.com/name/nm0909391/) is Steve Carrell’s real-life wife. Now, at last, you know. 😉
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/15 "2006-12-15T13:33:24Z")
I thought the woman on the phone was either Jan OR his ex-wife, who I don’t believe we’ve seen.
Oscar!
Great episode, though my favorite is still The Christmas Party from S1. (“I gave Ryan an iPOD and all I get is a stupid oven mitt?”)
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/16 "2006-12-15T14:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper]
Actually, [Carol](http://imdb.com/name/nm0909391/) is Steve Carrell’s real-life wife. Now, at last, you know. 😉
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Thanks for the catch … actually that’s who I meant.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/17 "2006-12-15T14:05:49Z")
I agree - excellent ep.
But can anyone explain to me how they ended up with 2 different waitresses than they were talking to at the restaurant?
One thing that kinda struck me as a clinker was the couple sitting amid the 4 guys - thought it was really unrealistic and didn’t think the “I can’t hear anything” added much (until he started explaining how to kill poultry!) But that is picking he tiniest of nits.
Loved Toby at the beginning, “We went over this, Dwight…”
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### Author:  [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/18 "2006-12-15T14:17:21Z")
What was the deal with the bathrobes? If everyone got one but Toby, and then Dwight took his away I could see the sadness.
But it seemed like only a few people had them. What was the deal?
-Joe
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/19 "2006-12-15T14:17:51Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa]
I thought the woman on the phone was either Jan OR his ex-wife, who I don’t believe we’ve seen.
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I didn’t know he had ever been married before.
“Angela…double-fudge brownies. Angela…double-fudge brownies.”
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### Author:  [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/20 "2006-12-15T15:02:04Z")
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> I didn’t know he had ever been married before.
He hasn’t.
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