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NBC gave them the promos when Jerry objected to their scheme to digitally insert his image into their shows and threatened to buy the network outright.
Me, I was shocked to see that they were sponsored by Ford. The commercials have commercials!
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I thought that was just a *30 Rock * storyline. That didn’t really happen, did it?
If so, holy hand grenades, Batman.
If not, then it’s just a lame continuation of a *30 Rock * joke.
In real life we know, at the very least, Michael would lose his job immediately over his actions here. What else would he realistically be charged with? Would kidnapping really be on the table? As far as I can tell, apart from Dwights laughable attempt to scare him which the kid saw straight through, nobody actually threatened him or restrained him. Attempted theft of $32? I’m guessing somewhere in between.
[QUOTE=drm]
I am annoyed with the 1 hr shows though. All that means is there will be bigger gaps between new episodes. I hate the 6 weeks of reruns that seem to be in vogue in recent years. I’d almost prefer scrubs treatment and get 25 consecutive weeks with new episodes and a slightly longer summer…
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They’re doing 30 half-hour episodes of The Office this year, 10 of which are being combined into hour-long episiodes. That means there will be 20 normal airings, and five hourlongs. They’ll probably have a break around December when everything goes into reruns, but with that many episodes they don’t have all that much time to take breaks between now and May.
[QUOTE=cbawlmer]
They’re doing 30 half-hour episodes of The Office this year, 10 of which are being combined into hour-long episiodes. That means there will be 20 normal airings, and five hourlongs. They’ll probably have a break around December when everything goes into reruns, but with that many episodes they don’t have all that much time to take breaks between now and May.
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If that’s the case, it’s not so bad, I was a little worried things would be pared down to 15 airings or so. 20 isn’t so bad.
[QUOTE=Mayo Speaks!]
I’d say he probably has over $4 million from “Seinfeld” reruns on TBS. (Just a guess. I don’t know how that money gets split up.)
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Jerry Seinfeld was making a million dollars per episode the last couple of seasons of his show. That doesn’t even count what he makes from DVD sales and syndication, not to mention the odd movie or HBO special here and there. His personal wealth is well into nine figures. The “four million dollars” remark was an allusion to the “30 Rock” episode in which Seinfeld threatened to buy NBC and Alec Baldwin asked him if he just had $4 million lying around. Seinfeld probably has that in the seat cusions of his car.
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus]
I liked Kelly in this episode, when she asked Micahel if Ryan said anything about them getting back together in his memo to when she smahsed Ryan’s face on the TV with a slice of pizza.
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Yeah-- “Did he mention if he’s seeing anyone?”
[QUOTE=pricciar]
Fun episode. Oh man. Ryan with his feet up on the boss’ desk spouting cliches was awesome.
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:o I recognized a few of these from my boss, who is actually a lovely person and a great manager. “30,000-feet view”, “it is what it is”. But she’s never strung that many together with no real content in between!
I loved the animation Phyllis showed as she got ready to try out the Googled “How to deal with difficult people” material.
The episode could have used some Creed moments. On a side note, I just found out that I share a birthday (8th of February) with Creed Bratton. Neat!
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When they showed Kelly dumping random items into the shopping cart to hear the pretty noises, I was hoping that the programmer had formatted the website sales to read what items were being loaded into the shopping cart and not waited until the sale was final. And then when she x’d out of the website without completing the sale, the website sales would have plummeted and Ryan’s joy would have been pre-empted.
I hated the pizza guy kidnapping story, I hated that Phyllis is being a stone cold bitch (we already have one) and I even hate Pam and Jim’s romance.