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11/16/2008 9:19:32 PM

Pretty good episode tonight

11/20/2008 9:32:09 PM

great episode - my wife and i laughed the whole way through

11/20/2008 9:34:10 PM

best episode so far this season imo.

probably b/c toby is hilarious.

11/20/2008 10:09:45 PM

sometimes the ends justify the mean

11/20/2008 10:16:05 PM

gotta keep in in the office.
i'm tella ya

11/20/2008 10:31:57 PM

EVIL SLUG

11/20/2008 11:48:00 PM

creed was the man in this episode

11/21/2008 7:05:31 AM

"Act like we're talking until the cops leave."

11/21/2008 7:59:37 AM

carell's emmy clip needs to be one of his reactions to Toby in this episode, OUTSTANDING

11/21/2008 8:21:29 AM

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"EVIL SLUG SNAIL"

11/21/2008 8:24:55 AM

Best overall episode this season, in my opinion. The poor sap in me was glad to see Pam's reaction to the house. Some of my favorites parts were:

"GOD NO! NO!! PLEASE GOD NO!!"

"$500, that's a good price. I'm losin' money here. Just walk away now."

"Do we have to sleep in your parents' bedroom"
"No, we can just board it up and it'll be the mysterious room everyone asks about."

Dwight's description of his perfect crime at the very end

"No secrets between me and my lady."

11/21/2008 9:04:30 AM

"I tell her to meet me in Mexico...but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Plus I like the cold."

11/21/2008 10:12:56 AM

some good lines, but overall, again I think they are pushing the limits of realism and falling into some standard sitcom routines. Kind of like when a couple seasons ago they kidnapped the pizza boy, Michael planting weed on Toby's desk, which could send him to jail, then it turns out to be spinach salad? I expect more from The Office...

11/21/2008 10:46:22 AM

i agree ^

11/21/2008 10:51:35 AM

i think i'm going to watch the beginning again just to see michael's reaction to tobey coming back

and i know ryan has always been kind of a dick but in this episode they made him look evil - that is another case of the show being a little unrealistic

[Edited on November 21, 2008 at 11:03 AM. Reason : .]

11/21/2008 11:02:40 AM

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"I think they are pushing the limits of realism and falling into some standard sitcom routines."

yet you tell me 30rock is good this season?

11/21/2008 11:09:22 AM

well, Ryan has shown himself to be pretty evil, starting when he got his corporate job.
But on the same point - they just moved Ryan right back into his temp-job, as soon as Pam came back? So..... Ryan was there to fill in for Pam while she was in NYC, then Pam gets back, and Ryan goes back to his season 1 job?
and are we done with the whole New York think now? I was as tired as anyone of the drama they were trying to build with Pam in NY and Jim in Scranton, and it surprised me when last week, or 2 weeks ago, Pam just showed up in Scranton all of a sudden. But now they're right back to normal and it's like nothing significant is going to come out of her time in NY? I guess they were just using it as a stalling technique in order to drag their engagement out as long as possible.....



^ 30 Rock has always been set up on the basis of absurdity and have never presented themselves as a realistic show. Unlike The Office, where the entire premise is that it's a normal paper company with a f'ing documentary crew filming them.
And as I have said in the 30 Rock thread, this season of 30 Rock is not to up par with the previous seasons, but it is still far and away the best comedy on network TV, and much better than The Office this year. (continuing from last year, where 30 Rock S2 > The Office S4)

[Edited on November 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM. Reason : .]

11/21/2008 11:10:50 AM

Kinda wished they had resolved the whole microwave plot

Its probably in a deleted scene

11/21/2008 11:11:32 AM

^ actually, it is kind of
http://www.officetally.com/frame-toby-deleted-scenes
that scene dragged on way too long though

11/21/2008 11:14:25 AM

^^^ i meant more the falling into standard sitcom routines part.

11/21/2008 11:22:01 AM

well, i've criticized 30 Rock for that. After the first episode of this season I wrote:

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"yeah, it actually got a bit slap-sticky there at the end. Not big on the fast cuts and physical comedy. "

however, I think Tina Fey and the 30 Rock writers are keenly self-aware of how they present the show, and more often than not when they fall into a standard sitcom storyline, they twist it in an unpredictable way so the audience does not become complacent.
They even commented on it last night when towards the end of the episode Tracy said to Liz something like "I'm glad that Jenna's father's visit to the set turned out OK", and Liz didn't know what he was talking about. They were making fun of the fact that sitcoms often focus on key characters for an episode, leaving other characters out entirely (Jenna wasn't in the show last night at all) and how characters are entirely insulated from certain plotlines in order to make the writing easier or b/c of other writing and acting constraints.

11/21/2008 11:34:01 AM

Michael knows what pot looks like. He dropped a joint in the parking lot a few seasons back.

Ryan trying to trick Pam into cleaning the microwave was great.

11/21/2008 12:58:40 PM

Bring. Holly. Back. PLEASE.

11/21/2008 2:00:15 PM

[Edited on November 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM. Reason : dbl post]

11/21/2008 2:04:48 PM

she was one of the best parts of the last couple seasons of the wire. and she was quite good in the office as well. i do wish they had fleshed out her character a little better though. but if i had to choose between having toby and having holly. it'd be toby in a heartbeat.

11/21/2008 2:05:10 PM

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"and are we done with the whole New York think now? I was as tired as anyone of the drama they were trying to build with Pam in NY and Jim in Scranton, and it surprised me when last week, or 2 weeks ago, Pam just showed up in Scranton all of a sudden. But now they're right back to normal and it's like nothing significant is going to come out of her time in NY? I guess they were just using it as a stalling technique in order to drag their engagement out as long as possible....."

Get ready for more of this crap now that Toby is back. They'll probably work the Toby trying to make a move angle for a few months. And what's the deal with the Office's inability to simply get rid of a character. Jan, Ryan, Toby, etc. They always end up coming back, Roy even made a cameo. Now when someone "leaves" the show I fully expect to see them again in a month or so. Do us a favor. Keep Toby and make the rest stay gone. Especially Jan and Ryan.

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"Michael knows what pot looks like. He dropped a joint in the parking lot thought he smoked some at a concert a few seasons back."

Fixed? I was left with the clear impression that the guys from the refrigerator company (actually I think one of them was the one Michael talked to about buying pot in last night's episode) were the ones that dropped the joint in the parking lot. At the end of that episode they even showed a scene of them doing it. That was the point of the episode. Everyone was put through all that and it turns out it wasn't any of them.

[Edited on November 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM. Reason : -]

11/21/2008 2:25:53 PM

^ Shit. Yeah, you're right.

pwnt

11/21/2008 2:34:00 PM

Actually I feel pwnt for being that big a nerd about a TV show.

11/21/2008 2:38:42 PM

also kind of weird how they didn't even address the fact that Toby fucked himself up in Costa Rica

11/21/2008 2:45:51 PM

maybe toby just didn't want michael to celebrate his pain. i assume that he didn't actually have a good time at all in costa rica and he just returned once he was healthy

11/21/2008 2:47:58 PM

I love creed... he's been easily the funniest character this season in the moments he happens to show up.

It's too bad that he only has 2 lines or so in each episode.


I'm not saying to do a creed-centric episode, or to make him suddenly a major character... the sketchy-as-fuck mystery is part of why he's funny. But upping his presence to 5 lines or so couldn't hurt.

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 12:40 AM. Reason : .]

11/22/2008 12:37:47 AM

BJ Novak (Ryan) was here in boone last night and he said BY FAR creed is the funniest person to work with on set

11/22/2008 12:40:47 AM

BEST EPISODE since season 2

12/4/2008 9:20:46 PM

That was the best one in a while.

Was Michael putting sugar into Diet Coke?

12/4/2008 9:28:23 PM

^ yes he was

they brought the funny tonight

we were dying when the security guard came up

12/4/2008 9:50:00 PM

i thought it was sucky. chairs vs. copier with a shrute farms b story? sounds like it would have been good but they didn't pull it off except for classic michael routine where he can't make decisions.

12/4/2008 10:00:24 PM

ha, cow shit in the kitchen.

Hank was great. He should be in more.


btw, Jenna Fischer + Tina Fey always = best hour ever

12/4/2008 10:06:04 PM

I must've missed something... was not that impressive to me

12/4/2008 10:36:34 PM

i haven't seen it yet, but if i've come to find something out is that half the people that watch the show on the wolfweb are going to be impressed, and half are going to think it sucked.

12/4/2008 10:53:50 PM

was not the best since season 2, but it was a pretty good episode, shit in the kitchen, hank the security guard, "lemme see the copy machine again" had me loling.

but only thing that bothered me was that i coulda sworn pam did get a new chair at one point and she said she never had, because it was one of my favorite Creed moments, something along the lines of "Pam's giving me her old chair, then i'll have 2 chairs, that means i'll only need one more chair"

12/4/2008 11:43:09 PM

chair model episode didn't end with ordering a new chair if i recall correctly.

12/4/2008 11:44:14 PM

ah yes, that was the episode, and she was supposed to get Michael's old chair, not a new one

and the line was "When Pam gets Michael's old chair, I get Pam's old chair. Then I'll have two chairs. Only one to go" still makes me lol

12/4/2008 11:52:13 PM

Pam has huge boobs this episode.



[Edited on December 5, 2008 at 7:31 AM. Reason : a]

12/5/2008 7:21:49 AM

Jim and Pam's interaction was one of the best parts, IMO. My favorite of which was the tail end of the show, Jim's zing back at Pam:

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"I'm going to need three copies of these, coallated and stapled. I'm just kidding..... *whisper* I really need four."

12/5/2008 8:15:13 AM

^hahaha...that was great. Easily my favorite part of the episode.

12/5/2008 8:31:11 AM

I had a feeling watching the "rehearsal" that Dwight was really marrying her. Should be interesting to see what happens if/when Andy finds out.

12/5/2008 8:54:35 AM

I love anytime Stanley smiles

It happens like twice a season

12/5/2008 10:13:33 AM

^

12/5/2008 11:44:35 AM

"THERE HE IS!"

[Edited on December 5, 2008 at 12:13 PM. Reason : ;]

12/5/2008 12:12:42 PM