On with the running blog!
- Engaged??? WTF???
(LOL!)
- Darryl: “I was there, and that dude is not engaged. I’m not a big believer in therapy, but…I’ll go into my own pocket to cover his copay.” LOL
- Andy: “Big idea! Double wedding! Me, Angela, you, Holly.” Remember this?
Bad, Bad Jim, for not telling the rest of the office about your engagement!
(thinks about it for a second…)
(thinks about it for thirty seconds…)
Smart move, Jim! Seriously, why the heck would he want to tell anyone about their engagement? Why, so Michael can throw them a stupid party? So Dwight could say something wholly inappropriate? So Andy could ask Jim if they could do a double-wedding?
Damn I’m good!
- OMG. Michael is actually calling his mother to tell her that he’s supposedly getting married?
- Michael: “Whenever I’m getting married, you…don’t believe me.” Gee, I wonder why she wouldn’t believe you! Well, at least Michael won’t be spending the rest of the episode trying to perpetuate his lie.
- Jim: “Those reports [the customer evaluations] affect our bonuses, which is kinda great for me…because you wouldn’t know from looking at her, but…Pam’s a gold digger.” 2:44, and we have our first spit-take of the evening.
- Pam: “Hey! (inaudible) New York ain’t free! Get back to work!” 2:47, and we have our second spit-take of the evening, except that one was much more forceful than the first :P.
(Thanks to my sister for figuring out what Pam said.)
- Pam: “We wanna stay on the phone all day, but the company has a policy against eight-hour personal calls, so we’re not telling anyone.”
- Pam and Jim, at the exact same time: “A sprinkle of cinnamon.” AWWWWWWWWWWW.
- Abrasive and distasteful. That sounds about accurate.
- OK, I can already tell that the “World’s Smallest Bluetooth [Headset]” is going to make this episode awesome.
- Ah, a Jim-Dwight “special” moment. Gee, why is Jim’s head tilted in one direction?
- “Good luck.” “Thanks.” “I didn’t say anything!” “I love you.” “I love you too.” “What do you think I’m saying to you?” “I’m not talking to you.” I’m crying here.
- Dwight: “I’ve caught Jim talking to himself several times today. What a loser! Get a friend, loser!”
- Michael: ” ‘Jim Halpert…is smudge and arrogant.’ ” “And there’s our smudgeness.”
- Jim: “…and if history tells us anything, it’s that you can’t go wrong buying a house you can’t afford.” Ouch! Financial meltdown smack! “Pam doesn’t know about the house, so it’s a…fun surprise.” Oh oh.
And for the record, I am thoroughly enjoying Jim turning on and off his Bluetooth earpiece from time to time.
- Pam: “Maybe it’s because you spent the whole year flirting with the receptionist.” Jim: “Little bit. Worth it.” Gag. And that might explain this past year, but what about the four years prior to this year?
- Micro-gemant? OK.
- OK, I’m seriously crying here over the entire role-play between Dwight and Jim. Last week, I was given Dwight v Andy, and now Dwight v Jim? More, more, more!
Is it too early for me to declare tonight’s episode the best one of the season so far?
- Jim: “The three words I would describe you as [are] aggressive, hostile, and definitely difficult!” LOL!!!!!!!
- Jim: “There is one condition, Michael. You have to fire the salesman that treated me so terribly.” Dwight: “Don’t do it, Michael.” Michael (whispering to Dwight): “It’s a million dollar sale.” Michael’s bosses ought to be so proud.
- There is paranoia, and then there is what Dwight is going through. And I can’t believe Jim actually got into Dwight’s car.
- Gee, who didn’t see what place Andy was going to rent out for the wedding, given Angela’s demands? Did he use TripAdvisor to find the place? And why is Andy acting like renting out Dwight’s B&B is going to be a good thing?
- Kelly: “And maybe if you were a little bit more nice and polite, people wouldn’t give you such bad customer reviews.” OMG. Kelly…made sense???
- Kelly: “Get out of my nook.” Pam: “That’s what she said! That’s what she said!” Awkwardly funny, most definitely.
- OMG. Dwight’s conspiracy theory…was…RIGHT ON??? Even Jim can’t believe it!
(My jaw is still on the floor, five minutes later.)
- Oh oh. Here comes the “wrench.” I wonder if Pam will actually turn off her earpiece.
- Aw crap, he’s being a wrench, of course, but not at all (so it might appear) in the way I expected him to be.
- No, there was nothing at all strange about that final scene with Dwight, Angela, and Andy.
What a fantastic episode, for the second week in a row! We had another wonderful clash—this time between Dwight and Jim—and this time, we got another bit character heavily involved in a storyline.
(Yes, I’m still crying over the Dwight-Jim mock phone call.)
I have to applaud Kelly for being able to nearly pull off such an elaborate scheme (and kudos to Jr. Gumshoe Pam Beesly for finding the clue that incriminated Kelly!). I’m still in utter shock that it Dwight was RIGHT about Kelly being involved in the whole scheme, but does this mean that Dwight really isn’t aggressive, hostile, and difficult?
The final scene, with Dwight presenting Andy and Angela a Schrute Farms wedding arrangement, was a fantastic touch to end the episode (even though the Jim-Pam “shippers” still had a bad taste in their mouths from the previous scene), especially with Angela and Dwight exchanging pleasant smiles at the end. With one major relationship (Michael-Holly) seemingly over, the writers need to place more emphasis, in the immediate future, on the Dwight-Andy-Angela struggle. Also, kudos to the writers for giving Michael just one scene involving his currently-off relationship with Holly.
The episode was great…right up until the nineteen minute mark, where a gigantic-sized monkey wrench finally got thrown into the Jim-Pam relationship. However, as remarked above, it wasn’t close to the type of wrench I expected. Pam’s NY friend…actually made a hell of a lot of sense. Could he be keeping her in NY for a future relationship? That’s possible. For now, though, just think about what what he said, and how right on the mark he is. What good would spending three months in an art program in NY be, if Pam’s going to return to Scranton right after it’s over? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of too many art-related career fields that could be pursued there.
Think back to the restaurant scene of “Employee Transfer.” Remember how Jim vehemently defended Pam’s choice of pursuing an art degree? Now what is Jim to do? If he really believed that Pam is going to be successful, doesn’t he have to echo those sentiments to her? Doesn’t he have to tell her to stay in New York? You could kinda tell, by looking at Jim’s reaction at the very end of the episode, that he knows what’s right for Pam, and that, unfortunately, isn’t what’s right for him. And what does that do to Jim’s plans of buying his parents’ house? Assuming he was buying the house for himself and Pam, and assuming that his parents live somewhere in PA (the latter being not a safe assumption, of course), what’s the point of buying the house now? I wonder if the writers will continue this thread in a future episode.
In any event, this decision that Pam is going to have to make will clearly lead up right to the winter break, if not longer.
Again, this could easily have been, at the very least, a winter-break episode, where Jim would have the next few weeks to decide what he should advise Pam on doing. Couple that with the antics of Jim v Dwight, and I’m almost glad that I watched the past two episodes back-to-back. In fact, both of these episodes could have been run together as a single hour-long episode.
I’ll end my review of this episode with a question, and I hope that anybody that comes across this review and gets to the end takes the time to answer this question: Are you surprised that neither Jim nor Pam, at any moment in that second-to-last scene, did not even think about reaching for his or her earpiece?
Until next time!
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