The Office S05E03 Running Blog (”Baby Shower”) And Review
I’ve got rants about WalMart, rants about Fantasy Football, and (hopefully) a resolution to my complaint with Costco, but I can deal with all of those another time.
On to my Office running blog!
- Dwight in an apron? Oh wait…he’s pretending to carry a baby??? This episode already blows last week’s episode out of the water!
- Jim: “Now, this baby will be related to Michael through (draws a ? on a whiteboard) delusion.” I couldn’t have put it any better myself.
- Tell me that he had some container of water under that apron.
Oh my…
- Dwight: “Babies are one of my many areas of expertise. Growing up, I performed my own circumcision.” Growing up? Oh my.
- Was this episode rated R? ZE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!!!!
- EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW….AND HE’S EATING THE WATERMELON????????
(passes out)
That might have been the worst (not bad, just absolutely ridiculous) first two minutes in Office history.
- “AS-TIRD?” Nice…I think.
(EDIT: I actually had to go back to this point in the episode—you’ll see why later—to check the spelling of “AS-TIRD” on the M&M bowl.)
- Michael (to Phyllis): “…we gave you your wedding shower here…we all came into this room and gave you a golden shower. Well you know what? Where’s my golden shower?” Seriously?
- That phone call between Jim and Pam was pretty telling, no? Great…an entire season filled with Jim-Pam moments of them starting to drift away…?
- Gee, I wonder who the little black kid is?
(But seriously, that’s pretty awesome that the entire cast donated their baby pics to this episode, assuming that those pics are real, and why wouldn’t they be?)
- Angela (to Andy, after he stuck his baby pic next to what he thought was Angela’s baby pic): “That’s Phyllis.” Oh crap!
- LOL! Is that really Angela?
- No, that whole conversation with Michael and Holly was not weird at all. “And I’m treating Ryan the same way.” WTF?
- Thank you Stanley, but I do not care to hear about your sore nipples. *gag*
- Dwight: “Jan had the baby, and Michael wasn’t there to mark it. So the baby could be anybody’s. Except Michael’s.” That about sums up the first part of this episode.
- Ah, it’s “AS-TRID” You kids out there named Astrid might want to change your names, anyway.
- Thank goodness Jan did not let Michael pick up the baby.
- Michael: “If a baby were president, there would be no taxes. There would be no war. There would be no…government.”
- Wow, he wasn’t kidding about being cold to Holly.
- I agree with Dwight…$1200 for a stroller? That thing better have an ABS system and air bags on it!
- Dwight: “$1200 is what I spent on my whole bomb shelter.” Is that a good thing? “For that kind of money, the stroller should be indestructible.” I can’t believe this. I’m totally agreeing with Dwight!
(AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)
- And the Jim-Pam drift continues…
So Jan is singing a wholly inappropriate song to the baby, huh? She should have sung Hunter’s love song :P.
- Of course…Creed is the only one eating cake while Jan talked about her tub birth.
- Michael: “I usually love babies, but when I held Astrid, I felt…shortchanged.” Oh oh.
- It appears Darryl is busy as usual.
- Thank goodness…if Darryl had sat on Michael’s lap or something, I would have banned The Office from my house.
- Ok, that scene with Holly and Jan was AWESOME.
- WTF Angela??? And turn off the flash, at least!
- Wow, that stroller really is worth $1200!
- Jan (to Michael): “Don’t date Holly.” Hmmmmmm…does somebody still have feelings for somebody?
- Michael: “Wanna go out?” Holly: “Yes.” That was quick.
- Michael: “I didn’t feel much when I held Astrid. But I got a good feeling from Holly.” Great line to close the episode with!
- Oh, that last scene…*sniff*
(Where’s my box of kleenex?)
- Here’s my review:
The episode was definitely a bit too relationship-heavy for my liking, and it sure looks like that will be the norm for the remainder of the season.
One relationship at a time:
1) Angela/Andy/Dwight: The tension between these two is amazingly underrated. We know that Angela has nothing in common with Andy, and she’s only with him because Dwight chased her away. I just love how she is getting more and more uncomfortable with Andy as the season progresses (did you she how uncomfortable she got with all the baby talk? It’s a shame that she was pregnant in real life last season.). Too bad Dwight was too busy, um, testing the stroller, to perform any extra-curricular activities with Angela this time around.
2) Michael/Jan/Holly: So what do we make of Jan telling Michael not to date Holly? Is Holly really not right for Michael, or does Jan still have feelings for Michael.
(Survey says…the latter, most definitely.)
In a move that should have surprised no one, those words actually pushed Michael (literally!) into Holly’s arms, and now it seems Holly and Michael are officially an item. I’m guessing we are not close to seeing the end of Jan visiting the office, probably with AS-TRID in tow. Or maybe Jan just cares about Michael too much, and really thinks that Holly is not right for her.
(Not a chance.)
3) Jim/Pam: Just when we thought they were seemingly drifting apart, that dual voice mail “call” showed just how close they really are. At the same time, though, the phone call seems to tease that they are now so far “off” that, maybe, just maybe, they need to question whether or not their relationship is going to work.
I hope the writers do not introduce a third person into their relationship, as the barrier between them—the drive to NY from Scranton, namely—is obstacle enough. In just one episode—I’d aruge just one moment—the writers have now brought serious doubts to the minds of us viewers as to whether or not the Jim/Pam relationship will survive.
And you know what? Don’t put it past the writers to decide that the Jim/Pam relationship is headed for failure, as unpopular as that will be!
Tonight’s “storyline” episode was FANTASTIC, despite being so relationship-heavy, and a plethora of one-liners kept me laughing my butt off throughout. How dare I doubt your ability to entertain me, The Office! Shame on me!
Until next time!
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