Surely I’m not the only one who almost fell off the couch upon seeing John Krasinski without a shirt on?
“Blink once if you want me to pull the plug.” <to a fully conscious Meredith>
“Couldn’t they have made it a circle?”
“You’re a Hindu. That means you believe in Buddha, right?”
“I don’t know.”
I was nonplussed by Dwight’s killing the cat and being so non-comforting to Angela after how nice he was to Pam that time, but I do see how the mercy killing fits into his worldview.
ETA: Oh, and Pam’s computer crashing after she clicks on porn/for a porn tape?
I just reached for some sunglasses.
“Sprinkles has gone to a better place, that place is the freezer. She was starting to stink.”
Is the Sikh going to be there all season, “I’m a sikh, but that doesn’t define me. I’m also into hip hop, working on cars. . .”
I liked it when Dwight asked Michael, “why did you do it?” But the “double jeopardy” and “negligent” lines were great as someone mentioned.
It was actually little better than that:
“Kelly is a Hindu, so that means she worships Buddha.”
“No, that’s Buddhists.”
“Are you sure?”
“no.”
Phooey on that. The boundary is there as part of the gag, and it disappears whenever the writers want it to, or we would never have even gotten the Casino Night stuff. If they’d never done all that, and actually kept the fourth wall up for the entirety of the J&P saga, I wouldn’t have expected any sort of moment. They set us up to expect it by ever having the whole admission/kiss scene, we get all invested in it, and then no payoff. We got more payoff for Jan & Michael! Thus, I reiterate: BOO.
Speaking of Jan, though, I’m inclined to agree with those who’re uncomfortable with the direction her character is taking. I was ok with her not being the perfect dream girl for Michael that he thought she was, when it came out that she was all kinky or whatever, but at least she was still the upright, self-motivated Boss Lady who had her shit together. I always admired her, in a way, even as I felt sorry for whatever part of her was attracted to Michael (I loved how she vehemently denied it forever, though). Now they’ve got her as this complete vegetable who has nothing better to do than tag along on Michael’s work events and hiss territorially at other females? Blah. I want old Jan back. I liked her constantly trying to maintain control & a professional image and Michael completely thwarting this by being a total jackass.
I gotta agree with Happy Lendervedder. This aint Dawson’s Creek, this is a comedy set in an office. And why was the Casino Night stuff a violation of the boundary between the camera crew and the office people? The camera operators ducked out of sight both for Jim’s statement outside and the kiss at Pam’s desk. You could say it’s a stretch having enough cameras available to cover everywhere in the office (especially in areas that should be deserted at the moment), but it certainly wasn’t a violation of the rules like following them on a date would be.
Did they?? I totally don’t remember that. I’ve only seen each episode once, though, and a lot of times I don’t pay attention to the camera work.
Well, I wouldn’t expect them to follow them on a date (even though they followed Jim & Karen around NYC all day/night); I just figured they’d find a way to work something in so that we saw the resolution of all the tension they built up over all this time. I know it’s not Dawson’s Creek, and thank god for that, but they’re the ones who decided to make a romance a major storyline, and I just don’t think they delivered on what they set up. shrug
They revealed a lot of stuff between PB & J (ha) during flashbacks last season. For instance, we didn’t see their interaction at the lake (when Pam was dunking her feet in the water) until Jim was interviewing for the big job.
And wasn’t the kiss in the office done in flashback as well?
The kiss in the office was real time, but the follow-up “You’re still going to marry him/Yes” was a flashback the next fall.
I agree that it would have been a mistake to show any intimate details of the PB&J romance. It’s supposed to be an workplace documentary. The employees personal lives are only ever seen from the outside. The show generally doesn’t follow people home (except for Michael who invites it) and I don’t think it would be plausible for Pam and Jen to allow an audience to leer at them during their date. It’s better just to continue seeing them as the people they are at the office and let their most private moments stay private. The last thing this show should ever do is turn into just another couple-centered sitcom.
I also think we’ve seen all the “resolution” that we need. Showing any more would be shameless fan service. I don’t get why anyone would want to see it anyway. Watching people make out is never entertaining in real life and I’ve never seen the appeal of it on screen or television either.
it’s not a slippery slope, guys. I don’t think it should be couple-centered, and I don’t think that one scene showing the conversation they actually had which led to them becoming a couple would change the dynamic of the show one bit. you can huff and puff about them not showing “intimate details” all you want, but the fact is, they already have shown intimate details and that’s why it left me cold not to see the climax of it all.
I don’t want this taking over the thread, though, so if anybody cares to continue discussing it, I’m sure the OP would appreciate it if a new thread was created.
Back to “moments I laughed at”…
“The sight of his…”
“Baguette?”
“Dangling participle is burned in my mind!”
I couldn’t see where it started but I saw where it ended.
There was a brief scene where Ryan called the Scranton office, and got a voice-mail greeting saying that the office was closed for the Rabies Race. It sounded to me like Kelly’s voice on the greeting, not Pam’s. Was Ryan trying to calll Kelly? Is he, against all expectations, missing her?
Obviously, your mileage varies, but so far as I’m concerned, they have shown the climaxes – Jim’s confession of his feelings, their first kisses, and then later Jim asking Pam out on a date. Anything after that, to me, would feel like denouement, not climax. I’m not in the “they couldn’t have done it” camp, but I didn’t really need it for the story to feel complete.
On Jan, she’s obviously seriously depressed – sleeping in “for another few hours”? Yikes. I’d actually like it if one of this year’s storylines involved her coming out of her current funk and reevaluating her life. I’ll be disappointed with her characterization if the writers don’t evolve the situation.
Nope, it was Pam’s voice. Her Michigan/Wisconsin/upper Ohio accent gives it away.
“I ended up puking my guts out. But I never puked my heart out.”
Michael Scott is my hero.
They did show that conversation. It was when Jim asked Pam on a date. That was it. That was the payoff. That was the resolution. Anything after that would have been academic and would not have been anything they’d want to do on camera. If they do this right, the PB&J arc will now be essentially over. We’ll know they’re a couple. We’ll see them having fun and pranking Dwight and stuff and generally being a little happier, but it won’t be a central engine for storylines anymore and the show can move on to other themes and plot ideas.
Agreed. If this season has them enjoying their relationship while hiding it from everyone else in the office and pranking Dwight and Michael, I’ll be happy.
If there is a relationship angle begging to be explored further it’s the Michael/Jan relationship, IMO. I, like many others, want to see Jan reassert herself and make a strong comeback, and I think if Michael somehow facilitates this it would also vindicate him somewhat.
I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the bleeding nipples.