The Office running thread

Just a bad episode involving Pam.

The stuffed parrot was good. I would have liked an awkward dinner scene with Pam, Jim, Michael and Helene. Of course, Dwight and Andy would show up in disguises and sit three tables over. It would be great.

 

Ryan's Fedora was also hilarious.

Where did you get it?

Don't worry about it.

Then the duck. The duck was hilarious. Jim named him Professor Duck and gave it to Kelly and then Dwight bought it from her but Ryan took the money and then said "you owe me $3."

 

I just saw it. I thought it was the funniest episode of the season to date.

 

"And just so you know, I'm going to date her even harder."

"What does that mean?"

"What do you think it means?"

Also loved Stanley grinning broadly and pumping his fist when Pam started the "NO MORE MEETINGS!" chant.

 

The slow reveal of Michael's "lover" in his office, with Pam getting less and less enthusiastic and Jim just standing there hanging his head, was fantastic.

 

Was Pam's reaction entirely believable? It seems that she has warmed up to Michael considerably the last couple years, leaving with him, for example, to join the Michael Scott Paper Company, then getting the sales job from him. I thought she had been positioned as the one character who "gets" Michael?

 

Another nit about Ryan's character. Remember in the first season when he hated Dunder-Mifflin, wanted to just blend into the background, didn't "want to be a guy here." ("Stanley's the crossword puzzle guy, etc., etc., etc.). Are we to believe upper management changed him this drastically? He's essentially played two completely different characters in the show's run.

 

Nothing to bring you down a peg or two like total career failure ...

 

Yep. Being a broke coke addict and working ion a bowling alley will do that to you.

 

No. No. He obviously is more cocky now, not less. The way he acts now just doesn't seem at all consistent with the way the early character would have reacted. Maybe I'm just being a continuity dork, but he was basically Stanley-in-Training early on.

 

Yeah, but he was super cocky when he ended up at corporate after having never made a sale. I think we saw him get more and more cocky even before that, too. I mean, really, starting with the episode where everyone brought their daughters in and Stanley's daughter was hitting on him.