# The Office; Niagara 10/08/09 (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126 "2009-10-09T00:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/1 "2009-10-09T00:14:36Z")
Tonight’s episode is the hour long one where everyone heads to Niagara Falls (New York or Ontario?) for Jim and Pam’s wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/2 "2009-10-09T02:11:39Z")
For those who missed the ending Kevin got most of a girl’s phone number, and then cooled off his incredibly sweaty feet in the ice vending machine. Pam’s mom dragged Michael into her room. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/3 "2009-10-09T02:17:06Z")
Regarding Kevin: He got six numbers. If he’d gotten one more, he’d have had a whole phone number. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/4 "2009-10-09T02:18:14Z")
Chain reaction barfing…and Creed unfazed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/5 "2009-10-09T02:20:30Z")
Man, it was horribly slapsticky and cheesy but it also great. Dwight pretty much killed every scene he was in. Especially the wolf shirt + Hamburger-on-the-Go + twins! scene. Great reaction shots from Creed too, like when Michael was talking about using protection. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/6 "2009-10-09T02:23:20Z")
I liked that Jim was the one to spill the beans about Pam’s pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/7 "2009-10-09T02:23:44Z")
And here I thought I was the only one who ever gives a turtle boiling pot, with shell hammers and bibs, as a wedding gift. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/8 "2009-10-09T02:24:11Z")
I liked a lot of it – The cold open, Andy tearing his nutsack, Dwight’s “turtle soup kit” – a lot of minor moments. I didn’t get the ending, though. Everybody just breaks into dance? WTF? Is this a high school musical all of a sudden? I thought the last ten minutes or so devolved into sentimental pap, but the tag with Michael nailing Pam’s mom was pretty good. Imagine Michael becoming Jim’s father-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/9 "2009-10-09T02:25:33Z")
Some good moments, sure; but I fear this is the jump the shark ep. Too many characters were waaaaaaaay over the top in this one; they were all Homer Simpson-ish to some degree. And that feel-good dance number at the church was something straight out of a Disney movie. I have to give it a thumbs down. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/10 "2009-10-09T02:26:15Z")
What’s with the spoiler tags? The thread title has an open spoiler warning. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/11 "2009-10-09T02:27:25Z")
Who plays Jim’s Dad? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/12 "2009-10-09T02:27:39Z")
What WAS the deal with that dance sequence? That made no sense at all. And what youtube video was Michael talking about. I feel so un-hip. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/13 "2009-10-09T02:27:55Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I liked a lot of it – The cold open, Andy tearing his nutsack, Dwight’s “turtle soup kit” – a lot of minor moments. I didn’t get the ending, though. Everybody just breaks into dance? WTF? Is this a high school musical all of a sudden? > > I thought the last ten minutes or so devolved into sentimental pap, but the tag with Michael nailing Pam’s mom was pretty good. > > Imagine Michael becoming Jim’s father-in-law. Missed the youtube comment? Sorry to be the one to subject you to this. 😉 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-94JhLEiN0/hqdefault.jpg "JK Wedding Entrance Dance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/14 "2009-10-09T02:30:35Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > …Imagine Michael becoming Jim’s father-in-law. I’d really like to see this become a recurring arc somehow. Was Stanley the only one who brought a spouse/partner? It seemed kind of odd that Phyllis showed up without Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/15 "2009-10-09T02:31:00Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I liked a lot of it – The cold open, Andy tearing his nutsack, Dwight’s “turtle soup kit” – a lot of minor moments. I didn’t get the ending, though. Everybody just breaks into dance? WTF? Is this a high school musical all of a sudden? There was a very popular [YouTube video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0) featuring a wedding party that broke into dance to that same song. I read an article a couple of months ago (on Slate maybe?) about how it had inspired a fad, which the author of the piece found really annoying. Anyway, some members of the wedding party (Jim’s brothers?) apparently decided to do the same thing at Pam and Jim’s wedding. Pam seems to have been afraid of something similar, as her sister mentioned knowing that the song was on Pam’s “Don’t” list. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/16 "2009-10-09T02:35:03Z")
I cried at the scenes on the boat at Niagara Falls. ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/17 "2009-10-09T02:37:05Z")
I’m almost certain Bob Vance was there. During the dance scene he was sashaying down the aisle with Phyllis and did a mock whack to her bottom if I’m not mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/18 "2009-10-09T02:43:42Z")
Ok, thanks for the links. I get it now. That’s a hideous video, but it’s exactly the kind of thing Micahel and/or Jim’s brothers would try to imitate, I guess. Am I wrong, or was Pam’s sister the same actress who played the loony fundy chick on _True Blood_? ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/19 "2009-10-09T02:55:04Z")
> [@drpepper](#): > > I’m almost certain Bob Vance was there. During the dance scene he was sashaying down the aisle with Phyllis and did a mock whack to her bottom if I’m not mistaken. You are correct. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126/20 "2009-10-09T02:58:28Z")
The actress playing Pam’s mother looked really familiar. Does anyone know who she was? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-niagara-10-08-09-open-spoilers/513126.md?page=2)