The Office running thread

Michael didn't get denied. He felt used and empty compared to what he had with Holly. Hence, him being upset with David Wallace about sending Holly away.

 

The weird part to me...that was clearly a hotel hallway (i.e. card slots for keys). Why would Clemmie the Concierge be staying in the hotel? Doesn't she live in Winnipeg? Did Michael get bounced from his own room?

 

I'm guessing she checked herself into an empty room for "business purposes."

 

Fantastic episode and I think I'm developing a serious crush on the girl who plays Kelly. She seriously nails every line she gets on that show (and as a producer, she's probably also loaded.)

 

I completely disagree with those saying this was a weak episode. Just finished watching it on Hulu and it might be one of the strongest episodes they've ever aired ... right up there with the basketball game from season 1 and the booze cruise from season 2.

Showed so many awesome sides of the characters ... Andy, for all of his dorkiness, will do anything for anybody. I mean, the dude tried to play wingman for a gay guy. Pam prioritizing, and realizing life with Jim is more important than chasing her dream. Oscar breaking down a wall of kind of gruff aloofness to show he's human, wondering just what anyone could see in Angela. Michael telling Wallace off ... Ryan proving once again that he's just a hyper-competitive twit who only wanted Kelly back because someone else had her. And Kelly proving once again that she's a clingy head-case that no one wants to be with for longer than necessary. All packed into 21 minutes.

Tremendous episode.

 

Because of this job, and having been there (w/o blindfold), I loved Michael getting nailed by the beverage cart. Motherf---ing hurts!

Besides, I'm always on the flights where someone brings stinking egg-salad sandwiches. Or worse.

 

Do you want me to do some more push ups?

 

Exactly.

The drunken phone call to Angela was the highlight for me.

 

I don't think Pam at all realized Jim is more important than chasing her dream. I think she realized she sucks at her dream ... and that will obviously be a problem in the future ... to return to just being a secretary at Dunder-Mifflen ...

 

Wasn't this the problem with her and Roy, though? Her always putting the relationship before her own aspirations? Why is this any different?

 

I'm with you.

This show is great sorta in the way The Sopranos was. People with very different tastes can find stuff they love in it - it's damn near all things to all people.

Like, with The Sopranos, I'm sorta in the liberal elite fake-America camp - I don't need a body to drop every episode, and I don't give a shit about what happened to the Russian, and I loved the ending of the last episode.

And, with The Office, I love the melancholy, exceptionally awkward, character-developing, light-on-Dwight episodes like this one. (Nighttime episodes is how Nathan Rabin at The Onion AV Club describes them, a fantastic connection I never made on my own.) Not that I'm not into the other flavors, I just like this kind best.

Did anyone catch what Kelly said when her and Ryan started making out on the desk? I rewound it five times and couldn't figure it out.

 

I was talking to a friend about this episode, and the more I thought about it, the more I agree with what you're saying here. I think Pam is afraid to take a chance. Staying in New York would be taking a chance on herself and would jeopardize the "safe" that Jim and Scranton offers. It's clear Jim is willing to wait this out for as long as it takes, yet she wants "safe."