Jim was really awkward in this episode and his hunting down the customer doesn’t really fit his character. I know he said he was going to try something new (“try”), but that was a little odd.
Andy was hilarious with his “blisties.”
Creed: “I’ve had my work done for months.” Plus his call to Angela, “Hey punkin…”
Looks like Pam’s leaving for either New York or Philadelphia. I’m guessing Philly – see ya, Jimbo.
I was so expecting Dwight and Angela to hook up. What was the purpose of that scene with them in the office alone? Are the writers planting seeds? It seemed like Angela was dangling the carrot a bit, but Dwight wasn’t biting.
My wife and I began cringing when Michael grabbed the microphone, but it didn’t turn out to be that bad, strangely.
Well, yeah. He has well outside of his comfort zone. He was actually putting effort into the job.
I don’t know. I can’t see her leaving without inviting Jim to come with her. I can’t see Jim passing on that invitation. There’s nothing in Scranton for him except for Pam. Which means neither of them are going anywhere, since I don’t see the show jettisoning both of them (unless it’s over the summer break or only for an episode or two).
I loved Michael’s final monologue about how Jim could do anything, but he chooses to sell paper.
Yeah, Michael was mean to Pam, but then when she walked away, and he said “I’d never say this to her but she’s a wonderful person and a talented artist,” and Oscar said, “Why won’t you say that to her?” I was thinking the same thing.
Does Michael even know about Jim being on probation? If I recall correctly, he wasn’t in the meeting room last episode when Ryan warned Jim, and he didn’t have anything to say about it this episode, unless I missed something. Does he even know? Unpredictable as he is, he nonetheless seems like the kind of guy who’d be all over a situation like that.
Not that bad? Security was coming to get him! Of course, that’s pretty commonplace in the Land of Michael, but he did everything but get down on his knees and beg for an intern. It was definitely cringeworthy.
It was a good classic style Office episode. Best scene: a line at the copier with only two people in the office. It was a sub-level farce underneath the more obvious Dwight and Angela tension. That’s the kind of writing that makes this show stand out for me.
I read that as a nice passive-aggressive move toward Michael. She didn’t agree with the whole one-sheet-of-paper-as-our-display thing in the first place, and despite obvious failure Michael wouldn’t abandon the concept. So Pam figures, “OK, if that’s the way he wants to play it, that’s the way we’ll play it.” It gets her out of the job fair for an hour or so, with the potential for more if the second piece of paper gets written upon.
It looked like they were setting it up for them to start getting on in the office since everyone was gone and for Pam to walk in on them in the midst of it.
Nothing too laugh out loud funny in this epsiode besides Andy’s golf cart crash.
If last night’s episode does not point to Pam leaving for art school in New York and Jim becoming Michael (ending up in Scranton with Michael’s job), I don’t know what does? I’ve said it before, this is how I see the show ending.
I hated Michael for being mean to that kid, and then telling him that he could do Pam. Has he learned nothing? He’s pimping Pam to get an intern? A high school intern? And all she did was give him dirty looks. It looked like she was going to speak up.
I thought Pam was discouraged after talking to the graphic artist guy, that Photoshop, CorelDraw, etc. aren’t what she considers art. If she had been really interested, wouldn’t have she asked for more specifics about Philadelphia or New York? That’s pretty vague.
Graphic design != art, though it’s a good way to make a living if you’re artistic and want something a little more reliable than trying to sell your stuff in a gallery. I think she was disappointed that she’d have learn all that software to even get an entry level job, but I don’t see her giving up.
I don’t think she was discouraged; I think she was embarrassed. Pam is, of course, older than anyone else who would have been looking into that internship (which the guy drove home with that “adult education” comment), and it took the wind out of her sails when she realized just how much she has to learn in order to even start getting where she wants to be.
Her quick exit was a sign that she was embarrassed, not that she thinks lesser of Photoshop.
That said, I think that her total ignorance regarding that stuff is a little weird. She used some type of software to make that animation for the Dunder-Mifflin commercial, after all.
I think that she had done something in high school that was considered so good by her teacher that it was put up on the wall. She was looking to see if it was still up in its place of honor.
They wanted an entry level position at a high school for a kid that knows Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Corel, and After Effects? I mean, some schools do teach those, but man - how often does a high school kid get to see those programs at all? Not like they got three grand of software for Christmas…
This episode was weird. It felt necessary, to fully realize everything that came before and to set up for the finale, but it wasn’t really funny. Certainly not as funny as all the other ones this season.