# The Office - Test the Store - March 1, 2012 - Season 8, Ep. 17 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559 "2012-03-02T16:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/1 "2012-03-02T16:18:55Z")
In Florida: The team gets ready to open the new Sabre retail store. Dwight is eager to impress Nellie. Ryan is chosen to be Sabre’s Steve Jobs-style pitchman, but he suffers from performance anxiety. Jim futzes around until he has to step up and give the presentation. Erin is tasked with making like a hipster. Kathy must sex up the bloggers. In Scranton: Andy gets beaten up by a 12-year-old girl and Toby is asked to offer training on self defense. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/2 "2012-03-02T16:35:12Z")
I’m also a fan of Zooey Des Channel and Coacherita. I thought the funniest part was Toby’s lame self-defense training. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/3 "2012-03-02T16:37:48Z")
Least favorite this season. What I said in the other The Office thread: "I didn’t like that Andy didn’t just tell everyone what really happened. Yes, people may find it funny that he was hit by a little girl, but there’s nothing embarrassing about it. What was he going to do? Hit her back? Nobody would find the presentation Jim gave applause worthy." BTW, is it Kathy or Cathy? ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/4 "2012-03-02T17:30:02Z")
IAATG: It’s all about the groin. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/5 "2012-03-02T22:36:56Z")
Not a very good episode, but I LOLed at Creed’s strike-scream-run. A rape flute??? Loam. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/6 "2012-03-02T22:40:23Z")
Creed was great. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/7 "2012-03-03T00:06:32Z")
Dude, it’s totally humiliating to get beat up by a 12 year old girl. No man I can think of would want that news getting out. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/8 "2012-03-03T01:54:07Z")
I’ve realized everyone they left at Scranton is not interesting at all, they only work as background and secondary characters. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/9 "2012-03-03T01:54:55Z")
Very true. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/10 "2012-03-03T04:36:32Z")
The funniest bit was the comicly awesome sign guy at the end. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/11 "2012-03-04T01:36:53Z")
I liked all the Chuck references. I’m not sure if they didn’t realize Chuck would be off the air by the time this episode aired or if that was an intentional “meta” joke about how lame all this stuff in the Sabre store is (pyramids? seriously?) ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/12 "2012-03-06T05:04:37Z")
I like that the demo of the pyramid kept cutting off important parts of the image, demonstrating exactly why a triangle is a terrible shape for a tablet. ---
**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/13 "2012-03-06T05:52:07Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I like that the demo of the pyramid kept cutting off important parts of the image, demonstrating exactly why a triangle is a terrible shape for a tablet. But the pyramid contains all other shapes. That’s…not… ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/14 "2012-03-07T06:06:48Z")
I thought this was a better episode than some this season… [The Onion AV Club review](http://www.avclub.com/articles/test-the-store,70037/) links to an interview with Paul Lieberstein who apparently basically admits this season hasn’t been great and says it will get better. So… fingers crossed. I still find a few reasonably big laughs most episodes, and this was no exception. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-office-test-the-store-march-1-2012-season-8-ep-17/614559/15 "2012-03-07T06:30:58Z")
> [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](#): > > But the pyramid contains all other shapes. That’s…not… Of course it does… as long as you draw the other shapes small enough.