Office Watch: Road Trip!
Brief spoilers for last night's Office coming up after the jump:
"To be continued"! You bastards!
I wasn't crazy about either of the subplots on last night's Office. (Although: Kelly was in juvie? Inquiring mindsa wants to know more!) But the main storyline showed what a good setup for the season Michael's relationship with Holly has been—his Dunder-Mifflin road trip with Pam brought both the funny and the touching as Michael decided, inspired by Pam's encounter with Karen, to get the closure he needs. In particular, it was a good choice to pair him up with Pam—doing it for the time and a half—because it played well off her put-upon yet oddly supportive relationship with him.
A few favorite moments:
* The look on Pam's face as she throws the mini-Mounds bars to Michael's audience
* Karen and her new husband dressed up as a hot dog and hamburger
* Michael's learning the Pledge of Allegiance by setting it to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm
* And, OK, Andy's courtship of Stanley's client did produce a couple beauties. First, the conversation with Phyllis: "For your information, Phyllis, I have been with lots of beautiful women." "Sexually?" "This conversation is over." And Creed's advice: "This is how I got Squeaky Fromme..." Dude must have had one crazy 1970s.
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I still can't find Michael sympathetic as a dramatic character. Both Michael and David Brent were sociopaths, but Michael is borderline insane. It works for comedy, not so much for real life stuff. It's not that I don't think Michael and Holly have good chemistry, but I can't in good conscience hope for them to get together any more than I could hope for Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter to get together.
Andy was hilarious as always, quickly becoming my favorite character.
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Come on! You didn't like Jim and Dwight heading the Party Planning Committe?! That was spectacular. Their party for Kelly wasn't even half-assed. "It is your birthday."
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Dwight's balloons were the best! And as much as I like Jim, it's always funny when they put him in a situation where he's not master of his little universe. He was better at party-planning than Dwight, of course, but he was still pretty clueless.
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Also, how obvious is it that Karen just married the first guy she met after Jim? At least she's a competent branch manager, though. -
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nah, michael is an idiot. brent is a sociopath.
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My new greeting to anyone on their birthday is , "It is your birthday" spoken in a monotone. Classic.
I also like Michael's "mnemonics" for remembering people's names: Lazy Eye, Bald Guy, Sugar Boobs, Black Woman...
Pregnant...Knocked up...K...Karen!
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Also, come on... the best part of the Creed and Andy scene (although the Squeaky Fromme joke was indeed great) was "Have I ever steered you wrong, Jim?"
(pause)
"Um, what?"
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