I agree that the couple not shifting down one seat was glaringly unrealistic, but added some great Dwight moments.
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.”
Oh, whew.
My heart almost broke when Jim straightened up and declined to accept Pam’s “present”. Hmm, and Karen thinks Roy is cute. Perhaps it will be the junior-high-school partners shuffle. :smack:
Loved the episode, but I do think there are times when Michael gets too close to acting actually a bit mentally hadicapped. The whole bit with Carol (“Turn around.”) to cancelling Christmas was just barely on the correct side of believable, IMO. Michael is clueless I realize but sometimes it is too much.
I know where I work we would never be allowed to have a Margarita party with vodka.
Still I was dying through much of it.
What was the movie Jim and Karen got each other?
“And then…your HO ain’t your HO NO MO!”
So what was that interaction between Toby and the big guy in the bathrobe. Seemed weird. Creed sings! Michael’s listening to the sample cut on his computer over and over.
Oh yeah, Creed taking a present instead of leaving one cracked me up.
They came up one short on bathrobes so Michael said Dwight could take Toby’s away. Toby was longing for the bathrobe himself so that’s why he was stroking what he wished he could have. Pam must have given hers to Toby at the end.
The Kevin-led group singalong of “You Oughta Know” just about killed me.
My husband and I were trying to figure out what movie Jim and Karen gave each other. Quick reference to my own DVD shelf revealed that it was Bridget Jones’ Diary 2: The Edge of Reason. My sister loaned it to me and I haven’t watched it yet, but apparently the official view of The Office is that it’s terrible. 
My impression of the DVD exchange was that then Bridget Jones movie was something they had seen together on an early date and both thought was terrible (with both of them probably cracking wise, MST3000 style, all the way through it). Then, with both of them having the same sense of humor (and not a wide range of shared experience yet), they both got the other the DVD as a gag gift.
Oh, it is!
That was my exact take on that too.
My guess was that tune Creed was singing was by the Grass Roots, but I’m not familiar with their ouvre. Anyone hip to that?
I think this is an incredible show.
But does anyone else feel sorta bad for Meredith? She’s an alcoholic and her exchanges with other characters about it is usually very funny. But I still feel very bad for her and I sorta want her to get help and get better.
I know it’s just a show but it’s great how we can feel for the characters too.
I thought so too, but the Grass Roots were active in the 60s and 70s. That song that Creed was singing sounded more New Wave-ish to me, but I could be wrong. It woulda been a great touch by the writers.
Gawd that made me laugh, that and marking the waitress’ arm.
For this and MNIEarl both, I love the one hour formats. Extended gigglage.
Yes, even Ryan was head-bobbing and mouthing along to that.
I’m not ashamed to admit “We Belong” is one of my favorites, even after it was used in some commercial recently. But the sound of Kellie singing it may have turned my mind against it.
According to these boards, it’s <<Grass Roots indeed. “Beatin Round the Bush” co-written by Creed. Sound Clip on his website. www.creedbratton.com >> and plays when you open the website.
I didn’t think so either but I could have sworn he mentioned an ex recently…
Oh, and the funniest part of the show was when Michael was drowning his sorrows over that James Blount song:
Dwight: “Why don’t you just buy the whole song?”
Given that he also referred to the waitress in this episode as an “ex,” I would guess that Michael has a pretty loose definiton for how he uses the term. He tends to immediately categorize any kind of romantic encounter or casual date as a “relationship,” regardless of how little may actually be there.
Totally hot. Especially during the paired talking head when Karen said she didn’t think they had taking it far enough, and something about how they were going to wipe out Angela’s party, then Pam said “I got goosebumps”.
I also got… something akin to goosebumps.
Oh, okay. I’m new to the show. I have S1 and S2 on my iPod and am catching up.