### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/41 "2006-12-16T04:11:22Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
I thought I heard him distinctly say her name. Anyone want to check the subtitles?
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After my screw-up on The Wire, I rewatched the scene with Michael on the phone to make sure sure sure… no name was mentioned.
He said: Yeah, yes, I just wanted to see if you wanted to come to Jamaic with me. There’s this resort called Sandals. Really? Ok? All right! I promise you won’t be disappointed. It’s all inclusive…\
Other good moments: Oscar walking in with his partner, saying, “Too soon…” and immediately walking out.
Jim saw Pam hugging Roy and looked away ruefully, believing nothing had changed.
Bunkie, this Possum, do you copy? Copy Possum, what’s your 20?
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### Author:  [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/42 "2006-12-16T04:54:21Z")
I think Michael invited his mother to Sandals.
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### Author:  [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/43 "2006-12-16T19:44:44Z")
[QUOTE=randwill]
I thought maybe I was as blind as Michael because the waitresses looked different from the ones at the restaurant to me too. Maybe there was a deleted scene in the restaurant where the first two waitresses we see set up the boys with two other waitresses. Unless someone comes in here and tells us they were the same girls with their hair down.
“All . . . waitresses look the same.”
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They were definitely different girls. I thought it was supposed to suggest that they’d been rejected by the first two they invited. I even said to my boyfriend while we were watching, "I wonder how many different waitresses they had to ask?
Also, there’s no question in my mind that Michael asked Jan to go to “Sandals, Jamaica” with him. The surprised, “Really?” gave it away, fo sho.
I _really_ want Jim and Pam to get together, but I was annoyed by Jim’s self-referential rebound speech. It seemed way too obvious. I appreciate the typically subtle development of that plot.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this in other episode threads (because I don’t read them every time), but is anyone else getting sick of Jim’s looks to the camera? They were funny (because infrequent) the first two seasons, but I feel like we get one every other scene nowadays. I’m going to try to count them next episode…
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/44 "2006-12-16T20:10:59Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus]
I know where I work we would never be allowed to have a Margarita party with vodka.
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Because they don’t let you drink at work or because they know you’re supposed to use tequilla?
We have vodka!! Lot’s of it!
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### Author:  [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/45 "2006-12-17T04:48:17Z")
I’m pretty sure the waitresses were the same ones. They called the one girl Cyndi from beginning to end (well, at least Ed did - Michael obviously had no idea). I think she just let her hair down.
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### Author:  [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/46 "2006-12-17T20:47:56Z")
Yeah, we were confused by the waitress’s appearance, but finally chalked it up to her hair being down. With some people that makes them look very different.
I think I definitely qualify as a hard-core fan of this show. When Angela called for green streamers, I said, “I thought green was whorish?!” a second before Phyllis did.
I also suspect Michael asked his mom to Sandals. Though Jan has been bipolar enough about him to actually say yes in a moment of insanity.
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### Author:  [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/47 "2006-12-17T20:50:39Z")
The waitresses who came to the party were not the same ones in the restaurant. There were different ones listed in the credits.
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/48 "2006-12-17T21:14:33Z")
I didn’t think the waitresses were the same either. I figured it was just the writers try to screw with us.
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### Author:  [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/49 "2006-12-17T21:26:59Z")
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> I didn’t think the waitresses were the same either. I figured it was just the writers try to screw with us.
Yeah, they were definitely different. We rewound to make sure. What’s funny is that I’m pretty sure that the pair of waitresses we see accompanying Michael and Andy into the office just before the commercial break are played by different actresses not only from the ones who were in the restaurant, but from the ones who interacted with them for the rest of the episode. The one on Michael’s arm just before the c-break, in particular, looks strikingly different from any shot of any other waitress we see. But that might just be me.
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/50 "2006-12-18T00:29:39Z")
Another thought re the different waitresses is that they may have made it more obvious during filming and then it got cut. They’ve been showing a different deleted scene every day on the website.
Today’s outtake was Ryan presenting Kelli with a Christmas gift. She’s all pissy because he broke up with her but in the end she can’t help but return to fawning all over him when he tries to leave.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/51 "2006-12-19T14:20:45Z")
Didn’t someone sing something by Styx? I immediately thought of **Diogenes** watching after the white-hot hate he showed for Chris Daughtry singing Styx on American Idol last year!
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/52 "2006-12-19T20:09:40Z")
[QUOTE=gigi]
Didn’t someone sing something by Styx? I immediately thought of **Diogenes** watching after the white-hot hate he showed for Chris Daughtry singing Styx on American Idol last year!
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I believe that Dwight sang _Lady_ (to Angela).
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### Author:  [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/53 "2006-12-19T22:41:44Z")
I’ve been watching the third season on and off. When did Ryan and Kelly break up? I know Ryan tried in the episode where they thought the office would close, but it didn’t look like it took.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/54 "2006-12-19T23:11:22Z")
They haven’t broken up. Ryan probably thinking getting some is better than getting none, but he despises Kelly still.
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-hour-episode-starts-at-8-pm-est/384195/55 "2006-12-21T12:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak]
After my screw-up on The Wire, I rewatched the scene with Michael on the phone to make sure sure sure… no name was mentioned.
He said: Yeah, yes, I just wanted to see if you wanted to come to Jamaic with me. There’s this resort called Sandals. Really? Ok? All right! I promise you won’t be disappointed. It’s all inclusive…\
[/QUOTE]
I think the clips NBC is showing for the 1/4/07 episode gives it away … but they could be trying to fool us.
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