The Office thread: Shove it up your butt!

gundam470

Andy, you idiot!

Senjutsu

fucking hell andy

Wash

God, Andy. That is the most painful thing to watch.

Shaggy

I love how Ryan has some completely new outfit or look every week.

BloodySloth

Shaggy wrote: »

I love how Ryan has some completely new outfit or look every week.

I think it's great how he changes his style the most often but the show still doesn't give him any attention. It's like he knows he's a lame background character.

Rhesus Positive

BloodySloth wrote: »

Shaggy wrote: »

I love how Ryan has some completely new outfit or look every week.

I think it's great how he changes his style the most often but the show still doesn't give him any attention. It's like he knows he's a lame background character.

In the context of the documentary setting, that makes so much sense - he's just desperate for recognition, but he hasn't even been given a talking head this series, I don't think.

This episode was definitely the best of the series so far. I just want to hug Andy, he's so pathetically sweet

Spoiler:

"Do the Swedish Chef."
"I'm not familiar with him, what province is he from?"

Schrodinger

Has Michael ever snapped at anyone the way he snapped at Jim?

Kyougu

Schrodinger wrote: »

Has Michael ever snapped at anyone the way he snapped at Jim?

Stanley.

DarkWarrior

I like when hot ex-secretary gets in on the crazy.

lordswing

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

snip

Spoiler:

"Do the Swedish Chef."
"I'm not familiar with him, what province is he from?"

response to spoiler

Spoiler:

"He lives on Sesame Street, dumb-ass."

big oops,

and oh god, Creed. I just wanted to know what he was in such a big hurry for.

Slider

Good episode. Years ago, I was involved in one of those dinner games. They're a lot of fun.

Tarantio

lordswing wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

snip

Spoiler:

"Do the Swedish Chef."
"I'm not familiar with him, what province is he from?"

response to spoiler

Spoiler:

"He lives on Sesame Street, dumb-ass."

big oops,

and oh god, Creed. I just wanted to know what he was in such a big hurry for.

...

You really had no idea why Creed was in a hurry to leave the office?

Hint:

Spoiler:

He had just learned that they were trying to figure out who had committed a murder.

TonyTheLeper

Tarantio wrote: »

lordswing wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

snip

Spoiler:

"Do the Swedish Chef."
"I'm not familiar with him, what province is he from?"

response to spoiler

Spoiler:

"He lives on Sesame Street, dumb-ass."

big oops,

and oh god, Creed. I just wanted to know what he was in such a big hurry for.

...

You really had no idea why Creed was in a hurry to leave the office?

Hint:

Spoiler:

He had just learned that they were trying to figure out who had committed a murder.

This one flew right over my roomates head too and I was laughing my ass off and he was just like, how is that funny? What does he think he can have the day off or something?

And I was just like...man....its CREED. And explained the murder thing to him and he finally got it. His Identity theft and fraud stories are always frickin gold.

lordswing

Why was Creed late though? It just seemed to me like he was up to something else, whatever.

Nerdgasmic

I like the bit where a couple of teenagers show up at that one bar, all thanking Creed. He then offhandedly remarks to the interview guys that he runs a fake ID company.

Senjutsu

lordswing wrote: »

Why was Creed late though? It just seemed to me like he was up to something else, whatever.

Obviously he was involved in murder

SithDrummer

Easily the best part was Andy explaining how to effect a southern accent. I died at "molasses"

dlinfiniti

then theres dwight nuttapping himself

Ringo

dlinfiniti wrote: »

then theres dwight nuttapping himself

It was unfortunate that they showed that in the promo, as it kind of killed the bit as I knew the finale. Not as bad as the promos ABC does on their Wednesday night comedy block though, which basically show the three funniest parts of the episode out of context and ruin the night.

electricitylikesme

Oh man, Pam at the end seriously made the episode for me.

Also Andy's southern accent.

Creed was a little predictable, but he's Creed, and I hadn't put the whole "late" thing together yet. Now it's hilarious.

werehippy

Finally got a chance to catch this on hulu, and it felt like a return to form. This season hasn't been bad, but it's felt a bit ... soulless so far. Maybe I'm just a bit perverse, but the show isn't great when it's over the top or just hilarious, it's clicking when it's poignant and soul crushingly real and then the characters pull through and make you laugh. Andy/Erin's interaction and Michael's dealing with things and snapping set the stage for the rest of the stuff to be meaningful instead of just wacky.

Disrupter

As much as I love Creed, I hope hes never on the show again. Because that would be the best send off of a character ever.

He probably thinks they suspect him for the murder of the original Creed....

Nerdgasmic

I sure love the episode where Oscar wears the sax-playing babies poster as a win-win-win solution.

ZeroCow

electricitylikesme wrote: »

Oh man, Pam at the end seriously made the episode for me.

Also Andy's southern accent.

Creed was a little predictable, but he's Creed, and I hadn't put the whole "late" thing together yet. Now it's hilarious.

Richy

Seeing Michael be competent at his job (and downright brilliant and insightful, in fact) is what made the episode for me.

Nerdgasmic

The episode where he held a meeting at chili's and managed to actually be charismatic was nice.

Robos A Go Go

I think it's gotten to the point where we shouldn't act like Michael being a competent business man is surprising. He's had far more business successes than failures.

Drakeon

So, I know the show isn't going anywhere soon (isn't it one of NBC's highest rated?), but what are they going to do about

Spoiler:

Dundle Mifflin going bankrupt? I mean, I guess they might not lay off everyone, but they sure are painting a not too bright future for our favorite office workers. I'm interested to see where the season finale leaves us after this now.

Schrodinger

David Wallace gets fired and employed under Michael as a temp.

InHuman

Dwight works for the government.

Michale becomes a Steve Carrell impersonater at parties...

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Drakeon wrote: »

So, I know the show isn't going anywhere soon (isn't it one of NBC's highest rated?), but what are they going to do about

Spoiler:

Dundle Mifflin going bankrupt? I mean, I guess they might not lay off everyone, but they sure are painting a not too bright future for our favorite office workers. I'm interested to see where the season finale leaves us after this now.

If it's anything like last season, they'll make it look like everything's been tossed up in the air, but by the season finally everything falls back to the status quo as Jim and Pam find out with a smug smile their baby is an angel. Naturally.

The writers have essentially begun writing the series from the beginning again. Andy and Erin are the new Jim and Pam, while the bankruptcy plot mirrors the branch closure/merger plots.

I often wonder if the show's popularity has grown to the point where NBC is afraid to allow the writers to do anything fresh with the series. :?

InHuman

they gonna pull a scrubs

half the characters replaced with young pretty blondes..

Rubick

Spoiler:

Couldn't Dunder-Mifflin get bought out by some other company (IE Staples)? Then the next season could be about the changes this would bring, which staff would stay on versus who would get fired, etc.

Ponge

Ah do declare!

TexiKen

They foreshadowed the Jim development where he might pull in a big sale that keeps the company afloat, and he moves up the ladder as he takes on more and more "big" sales, overtaking Michael and his big idea title, to where he ultimately becomes as high as Wallace in the company (president sales & marketing or something).

INeedNoSalt

InHuman wrote: »

they gonna pull a scrubs

half the characters replaced with young pretty blondes..

i can dig it

DarkWarrior

Havent the last few episodes shown that Jim isn't a capable manager alone?

Robos A Go Go

DarkWarrior wrote: »

Havent the last few episodes shown that Jim isn't a capable manager alone?

It's hard to tell how much of that is because of him and how much of it is because Michael has warped the environment of the Office in such a way that he's the only person who can manage it somewhat effectively.

DarkWarrior

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

DarkWarrior wrote: »

Havent the last few episodes shown that Jim isn't a capable manager alone?

It's hard to tell how much of that is because of him and how much of it is because Michael has warped the environment of the Office in such a way that he's the only person who can manage it somewhat effectively.

In teh other office they were playing COD all day, it seems to be the standard, Jim isn't good at managing people as shown by the way he tried to do bonuses.

Robos A Go Go

The other office only played CoD on their breaks. Apart from that they seemed to respond to normal management techniques, which is why most of the people from that branch who were absorbed by Scranton didn't stay.

Karen seems to be doing alright as a manager and she had just as many problems with Scranton as Jim did. She probably wouldn't have excelled in that branch either.