The promos said that we shouldn’t miss the first two minutes of this episode and they were right. It looked like Roy was going to open up a can of whoop ass on Jim, but Dwight’s pepper spray came out of nowhere. The bit afterward where everyone was tearing up from the spray was hilarious. (So was Dwight’s arsenal of weapons. Chinese throwing stars velcro’ed to the underside of his desk? That’s classic.)
Roy’s turnaround over coffee was pretty unexpected. He knows that Pam needs encouragement going after what she wants – will he be the driving force behind her finally telling Jim how she feels? It doesn’t look like Karen is going anywhere for a while, so this will probably drag out into next season. It’s no matter; it’s not really detrimental to the show. Not yet, anyway.
Now, for a few of the best lines from the episode:
Jan: “What did I tell you about ‘yeppers’?”
Michael: “Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you’re getting the best possible information.”
Toby: “I don’t think Michael intended to punish me by putting Ryan back here with Kelly, but if he did…genius.”
Kelly: “What’s wrong with naming our baby ‘Usher’?”
Darryl: (about Michael’s suit) “He looks like Hilary Clinton.”
Michael: “Toby is the worst human being I’ve ever known.”
(What is Michael’s beef with Toby, anyway? I hope someday they do an episode about why Michael gives him such a hard time.)
Michael: (to Toby, after he threatened to withhold sex from Jan) “What are you writing, pervball?”
Toby: “Just preparing for the deposition.”
Finally, if you missed the tag, Andy returned from his anger management training and caught a face full of pepper spray as a “welcome back.” Supposedly, Ed Helms is now a permanent cast member, which I think is good for the show.
Hibbity-flibbity.
