Dwight and Jim are slightly less annoying in this one here they're just kind of irrelevant.īest joke in this one is Robert's Black-Eyed-Peas rant, with the little moment with Ryan to the camera after. I probably should have this swapped with "Classy Christmas," it's just this one has the virtue of being shorter. Again, though, it's not enough to just be meta. Or Angela, the Senator, and Oscar, or Jim as sports-guy, or Darryl and the warehouse lady, fake-Mose, everything Andy, everything season eight and nine: no one sells the new set-ups.Ĭome to think of it, they're trying to be meta, here, as well, with Jim and Dwight soullessly pranking one another and no one buying it. I think they wanted to be meta about it, like Toby just can't give up on a bad idea or read social signals and the irony of his being the HR guy. His Chad Flenderman novels started off as a good idea, and then it's run into the ground over several seasons. Take Toby, again, who here serves up another representative example.
The things they gave the ensemble - or even former leads like Jim, Pam, or Dwight - to do just weren't very good. Not a problem unique to The Office, but one it failed to solve. (Six and Seven, too, pretty much.) As the ensemble grows, you've got to give them new things to do, etc. This is the central problem with seasons eight and nine. It's difficult to sympathize with a writing staff that had such a formidable talent - and one who was clearly motivated, to boot, ready to add another eccentric character to his ouevre - and failed to give the show to him the way the earlier seasons are given to Michael. “I need to find ways to push Meredith to the bottom” is funny but not the whole thwarted-take-her-to-rehab stuff, where Meredith screams unfunnily for a small eternity of screentime. The rest is mainly Michael in stubbornly clueless mode, which is usually well worth it, but it never really goes anywhere. Two Michael facts: (1) He invented the screwdriver, sorry the “orangevod juiceka.” (2) He celebrates Groundhog Day privately. “Have you ever under the influence of alcohol questioned the teachings of the Mormon Church?” Dwight's disgust at the Princess Unicorn phenomenon (“ How does that happen? A king had sex with a unicorn? A man with a horn had sex with a royal horse?”) and with Michael's knowing the theme song. Most of the episode isn't funny, but there are a few bits worth mentioning: They called me 'Ace.' It was totally awesome. Probably gotten expelled if I'd let it affect my grades, but I aced all my courses.
Pass out, wake up the next morning, boot, rally, more SoCo, head to class. My nickname was 'Puke.' I would chug a fifth of SoCo, sneak into a frat party, polish off a few people's empties, some brewskis, some jell-o shots. " When I was in college, I used to get wicked hammered. I tried and failed to screencap it but here's a link to the gif. It's set up way too much throughout the episode, but the physical comedy payoff is funny. The funniest bit is at the end when Darryl crashes through the table. Why? So Toby could become a bore on the subject? How many miles did they seriously expect to get out of that, and why the multiyear run-up to it?ĭwight's Pennsylvania German pageantry is all fine enough, but the later seasons's general direction of Dwight and Jim becoming bestich menschen never lands with me. They made it such a conspicuous thing for so long. Or they just go nowhere.Ī good example of that last point is Toby and the Scranton Strangler, one of the more baffling near-storylines the show ever attempted. Either that or everyone struggles to sell new dimensions they're given. That's kind of the general vibe of the last two seasons overall. This one's enjoyable, but its best bits are retreads of better bits from earlier seasons. Pete learns Erin has never seen Die Hard, and Jim prepares for his new job in Philadelphia. When the Party Planning Committee fails to put together a Christmas party, Dwight steps up to throw a Shrute Family Christmas, replete with traditional fare (hog maw and gluhwein, also used to sterilize medical instruments) and himself dressed up as Belsnickel.
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