The Office: "The Duel" (open spoilers)

I sort of enjoyed this one. I liked seeing Michael have a good day, and liked that he was the only one willing to man up and tell Andy the truth. I actually thought Jim was being kind of a dick in that regard.

I’m also glad to hear that Andy got some from Angela. Poor guy worked hard enough to get it.

Where was HR during all that drama? Did Toby jump the fence again?

My favorite scene:

Andy: “What positions did you do?”

Angela: “Nothing fancy.”

Andy: “Missionary?”

Angela: “I said ‘nothing fancy’.”

That Angela is a wildcat, I tells ya.

Jim thought Andy should be told by Angela, not by his boss just before he leaves for a meeting. I don’t see how that’s so bad.

Yeah, but it was pretty clear she was never going to tell him, and there’s only so long you can let a guy twist in the wind like that. Somebody needed to tell him.

This has a very tough time moving the story along. its going to lose me soon. DwIGHt needs his ass beat.

The writers played us. Wasn’t it just a few episodes ago that Andy was complaining that he couldn’t get to second base with Angela?

Though I knew it was coming, Dwight tossing the bobble-head still made me wince a little.

I have a feeling they only had sex during the last 17 days while Angela felt guilty.

That was before Dwight pulled the mock-wedding stunt, and Angela was then shown going to Andy and aggressively making out with him. I thought the implication was that she had slept with Andy out of anger at Dwight.

All right then. I’d forgotten about the Andy-Angela kiss, and how Angela’s the type for revenge sex.

Dwight’s no saint, but Angela really deserved what she got.

Hour long episodes can be hit-or-miss, but I wish this one had more content. Perhaps Michael reveling one of his ‘secrets’ to Wallace without even realizing it. Maybe some more back-and-forth with Dwight and Andy as they realized that they were both being played.

I wonder what’s next since most of the story arcs are resolved in some way, (and probably not for long). When will we see Ryan and Jan again. Will we ever see Holly? Will Pam and Jim’s relationship be tested, or will they set a date? What’s Garbage been up to?

And… This was a half-hour.

Just sayin’

Joe

I meant I wish this were an hour long epiosode, (had more content).

Maybe they used the “sheet with a hole in it” method.

I don’t think Dwight’s Jewish.

This show is becoming less a comedy and more of a dramedy. The last few episodes have been rather unfunny.

I did like that Andy called Dwight on some of his ridiculous crap. “When was the last time you saw a bear in Scranton?”

“Filling out that form wrong was a whorish thing to do.” (paraphrased)

I so thought Wallace was going to decide that rather than trying to extract info from Michael he should visit the office first hand to make his own observations and then we’d see them pulling into the parking at the same time Dwight and Andy were going at it.

“Why isn;t he turning around?!!”

“The Prius is silent if he keeps it under 5 mph!”

Except that Michael is not Andy’s “friend”. He is his boss and they are in a workplace. It’s like when Dwight and Andy told Jim to “mind his own business”. It became Jim’s busines as the two of them started setting up a fight in the office.

Meredith: “I call the loser!”

That got a laugh anyway. It was a pretty good episode for me. I like how Jim had no idea how to handle the “duel”, but he ended up doing pretty well. He took away the means of escalation and let it handle itself.