Category: The Office (Page 10 of 17)

With just two episodes remaining this season, I was fully expecting the plot to thicken in the Pam-Jim-Karen romantic triangle, but most of the episode was typical, hilarious “The Office.” Here are some highlights of the group’s visit to the beach (and Michael’s Survivor-esque quest for his replacement):

Marilyn forgot to put on her swimsuit top!

Michael: (to Oscar) “I’m just yanking your chain…not literally.”

Kevin leading the party bus in a rendition of Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler.”

Michael tells poor Toby that he has to stay at the office. As salt in the wound, Pam later tells him that she’ll be wearing a two-piece at the beach. Michael is such a jerk. (I sure hope someday we find out why Michael hates Toby so much.)

Michael: “If you don’t like it, Stanley, you can go to the back of the bus…or to the front of the bus…or drive the bus.”

Michael: “Dwight is an obvious candidate for my job. He has the best sales record in the office. He loves the work. He is, however, an idiot.”

Dwight and Jim’s whole argument about Voldemort (“he whose name should not be spoken”) was classic.

Kelly, when blindfolded, has a fear running into big rocks.

Creed, with his bare hand, can pluck a fish out of the water.

Dwight: (to Angela, after she agrees to sabotage her own team) “If Michael institutes some sort of group hug, stand next to me.”

Oscar: “If either of [Dwight or Andy] are put in charge of the office, I will transfer to Albany; Gil can come if he wants. I’m kind of looking for a way out of that relationship anyway. I think I might try girls for a while. Angela thinks I can cross over. We’ll see.”

Dwight pins Andy in sumo wrestling and screams, “Gryffindore!”

Andy falls into the lake with his sumo outfit on and asks an unwilling Angela to help him.

Michael: “Who’s ahead in points?”
Pam: “I think they’re even. At various times you gave Jim ten points, Dwight a gold star and Stanley a thumbs up. And I don’t really know how to compare those.”
Michael: “Check to see if there’s a conversion chart in my notebook.”
Pam: “I really doubt it, Michael.”
Michael: “Please, just check.”

Michael: (preparing for a fire walk) “The mind has to wrap around the foot.”

Dwight’s f’ed up fire walk was simply beautiful.

That’s all well and good, but at the very end, the show took a GIANT step forward after Pam’s fire walk prompted the following (amazing) monologue:

“Hey, I want to say something. I’ve been trying to be more honest lately and I just need to say a few things. I did the coal walk! I just did it. Michael, you couldn’t even do that. Maybe I should be your boss. Wow, I feel really good right now. Why didn’t any of you come to my art show? I invited all of you. That really sucked. It’s like sometimes some of you act like I don’t even exist. Jim, I called off my wedding because of you and now we’re not even friends. And things are just weird between us and that sucks. And I miss you. You were my best friend before you went to Stamford and I really miss you. I shouldn’t have been with Roy. And there were a lot of reasons to call off my wedding, but the truth is I didn’t care about any of those reasons until I met you. And now you’re with someone else and that’s fine, it’s whatever, that’s not what I’m…OK, my feet really hurt. The thing that – I’m just trying to say to you, Jim, and to everyone else in the circle I guess, is that I miss having fun with you. Just you, not everyone in the circle. OK, I am going to go walk in the water now. Yep. Good day.”

How great was that? It was wonderful to see Pam finally cut loose and make a move on Jim. With just one episode left, and a corporate job in New York hanging in the balance, will Jim once again leave the office? Or will Michael get the job?

I’ll tell you what – I think Karen is the dark horse.

There was nothing really going on plot-wise this week, but the episode was jam packed with some great moments:

Jim’s impersonation of Dwight

Jim: Question. What kind of bear is best?
Dwight: That’s a ridiculous question.
Jim: False. Black bear.
Dwight: Well, that’s debatable. There are basically two schools of thought…
Jim: Fact. Bears eat beets. Bears beat “Battlestar Galactica.”
Dwight: Bears do not – what’s going on? What are you doing?

Angela vs. Kelly

Angela: (popping aspirin) I don’t have a headache. I’m just preparing.

Creed covering his ass

Creed: The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job.

Dwight welcoming the reporter

Dwight: You’ve been granted level three security. Don’t get too excited, that’s out of 20.

Andy’s high school girlfriend

Andy: I had no idea (she was so young).
Jim: That’s not going to help you in court.

Andy: Who was that guy talking to her at her locker?
Jim: Not important. Because you’re not dating her. Because it’s a felony.

Dwight’s thoughts on the watermark

Dwight: May I point out that the sex appeared to be consensual. Both animals were smiling.

Dwight: I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat. A couple of chickens doing a goat with a couple of pigs watching. Whoever drew this got it exactly right.

Michael’s apology tape

Michael: They’re trying to make me an escape goat.

Dwight’s impression of Jim

Pam: You look really nice today.
Dwight: I look like an idiot.

Dwight: Lalala…little comment.

Man, I love this show.

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.