Daddy Dan

Another great episode, especially the whole deal with Pam and Jim at the end of the episode.  I’m sure they’ll keep us hanging throughout this season before they get to the actual proposal.  Without further ado, here’s my list of best moments from this week’s episode.   

• Michael to Kevin after Kevin talked about his broken engagement: “You don’t deserve her.”  (Kevin nodding his head)
• When Michael was asking Oscar if he knew anyone to set him up with:  ”They know you won’t watch to touch them because of your condition.”
• Michael: “I want to play ball with my kids before I get too old, and before that I need to get laid, and before that happens I need to fall madly in love.”
• Michael, to Kevin and Andy when they asked for help getting their parking spaces back:  ”I wish I could but I can’t.  We’ll I can but I won’t.  I probably should, maybe, but I shorn’t.”
• After Michael assigns Kevin and Andy to get the spaces back Andy tells him they won’t let him down.  Michael:  ”Well, you can’t because I don’t care.”
• After Michael asks everyone to write a potential date on an index card, Stanley says, “There’s nobody I hate enough to write a name on this card.”
• Kevin writing down Wendy and giving Michael the phone number to Wendy’s.
• After Pam tells Michael that she might have someone for him after he’s in grief about the chair model, Michael:  ”I don’t think I’m ready.  Is she hot?”
• The whole uncomfortable scene with Michael and Pam’s landlord at the coffee shop.
• Michael, to the landlord:  ”I enjoyed this conversation.  It was like talking to the sweet old lady on the bus.”  Landlord: “That was incredibly rude!”  Michael:  ”Yeah, you ruined it.”
• Jim, about the coming proposal:  ”It’s going to happen, and when it does it’s going to kick your ass easily.  Stay sharp.”  Pam:  ”I’ve been warned.”
• Andy moonwalking in the parking lot as the construction workers move their trucks.
• Michael, at the chair model’s grave:  ”She was so innocent.”  Dwight:  ”She was stoned, apparently.”
• The whole fake proposal as Jim tied his shoe.
• The “American Pie” ending.

By the way, our DVR failed to record ‘The Office’ this week, so I watched it on NBC.com.  I had to wait until Friday, as Thursday night’s episode was unavailable late Thursday.  Does it always work like this?  Watching on nbc.com wasn’t so bad, except for the commercials that are impossible to fast forward through.

Well, I finally got a chance to watch the new ‘The Office’ episode, and I thought it was great.  

Did anyone else think that it seemed like a really short episode? Despite it seeming short, there were a lot of great moments.

Here’s the best of them:

•  ”We only have six wine glasses.” - Michael, telling Dwight why he wasn’t invited to the dinner party.
• The tour of Michael and Jan’s house:  the video camera in the bedroom, Michael’s “sleeping bench,” and his plasma TV.
• “I  have the best trophy right here (referring to Jan), besides my Dundies.” - Michael
• “It has an oaky afterbirth.” - Michael, about the wine.
• “Michael ran through the sliding glass door because he thought he heard the ice cream truck.” - Jan
• Michael’s three vasectomies.
• “It’s purely carnal, that’s all you need to know.” - Dwight, referring to his date, his ex-babysitter.
• “You’ll have to give me your e-mail, I have a lot of questions for you.” - Jim, to the babysitter.  The babysitter responded with “E-mail?”
• “That is a $200 plasma TV you just killed!  Good luck paying me back on your $0 a year, plus benefits, salary, Babe!” - Michael screaming at Jan after she threw a Dundie through the tiny plasma TV.
• “My apartment’s on fire…flooded.” - Jim, after Michael asks if he can spend the night.

…..but I didn’t watch ‘The Office’ last night.  I fell asleep before 9pm, which is a definite rarity for me.

We’re heading out to Disneyland today, so ‘The Best of The Office’ will have to wait until later tonight or, more than likely, tomorrow.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

I’ve been waiting a long time for this.  ‘The Office’ returns with new episodes tonight!

Watch for my famous summary of the best moments of tonight’s episode later this evening.

The description of tonight’s episode, from NBC.com:

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER - Pam and Jim find they have run out of excuses and are forced to go to Jan and Michael’s house for dinner. When Andy and Angela are also invited to dinner, Dwight’s jealousy gets the best of him.

Sounds like a classic episode.

In case you haven’t heard, all-new episodes of The Office will begin airing on April 10th.I can.not.wait!!!To whet your Office appetite between now and then, here’s an excerpt from Creed’s latest blog post,  here:

I posted my profile up on one of the sites a week ago – don’t ask me which one because I don’t post and tell. Within a day, all these people sent me messages saying they wanted to buy me dinner and take me to Italy and all kinds of crazy stuff. That’s when I realized I had signed up as a 30 to 45 year-old woman looking for a man in his sixties with lots of issues. Apparently I mixed up the “who I am” section with the “who I’m looking for.” What can I say? It was confusing and I filled it out fast. So I deleted all those messages (after a few really nice dinners with some surprisingly friendly but embarrassed guys) and started over with the right information. 

As we all know, The Office has a very large ensemble cast, almost all of whom were completely unknown before they got their big break on The Office.  Some of the cast, I’m sure, will most likely use their roles on The Office to start a successful acting career.  I’m thinking about Rainn Wilson (Dwight), John Krasinski (Jim), and Jenna Fischer (Pam).  All three of them are already getting movie roles, and we all know that Steve Carell has been in several big-budget movies already.

Who I’m more worried about are the other Office actors.  Where will they go after The Office?  Sadly, they’ll probably go back to playing the type of roles they played pre-Office.  And what types of roles did they get?  Here’s a partial list, courtesy of IMDB.com:

 Leslie David Baker (Stanley)

• “Line of Fire” (1 episode, 2004) - Large Man
• “That ’70’s Show” (1 episode, 2001) - Janitor
• “Malcolm in the Middle” (1 episode, 2000) - Cop

   Creed Bratton (Creed)

• Secret Sins of the Father (TV Movie, 1994) - Gas Station Worker
• Seven Hours to Judgment (Movie, 1988) - Subway Worker
• Mask (1985) - Carnival Ticket Taker

  Oscar Nunez (Oscar)

• Glory Road (Movie, 2006) - Locker Room Janitor
• The Italian Job (Movie, 2003) - Security Guard
• “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (1 episode, 2000) - Male Parking Lot Attendant

  Kate Flannery (Meredith)

• Carolina (Movie, 2003) - Cafe Waitress
• “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (1 episode, 2002) - Cop #2
• Life Without Dick (Movie, 2002) - Crampy Legs Partygoer

  Brian Baumgartner (Kevin)

• “Everwood” (1 episode, 2005) - Contractor
• “Arrested Development” (1 episode, 2005) - Gun Vendor
• “CSI” (1 episode, 2003) - Dog Man

Now I hope this doesn’t come across as me making fun of these fine actors.  I just don’t see them parlaying their Office roles into major careers.  For their sake, I hope the writers strike ends soon and The Office returns to TV.

On a related note, I wonder how much these actors get paid per episode of The Office?  Does anyone know?  What about for the other roles they’ve paid?  I’m very curious, because I don’t think they could’ve supported themselves playing an occasional janitor or security guard.  They must have to have regular jobs between roles, but then when would they have the time to go to auditions?

First off, I liked this episode much better than the last one. What’d you think?

Now, my top ten moments/lines:

1. Pam’s bringing “phone messages” to Michael during meetings to make him seem more important.
2. Michael: “The company fired Jan for having the courage to augment her boobs.”
3. Jan’s hair after they arrived at the deposition.
4. Kelly: “I don’t talk trash, I talk smack!”
5. Michael, after he was caught lying in the deposition: “Line”
6. Jim, to Dwight after being caught playing ping pong: “I’m so glad you’re here. It turns out our biggest client is a ping pong master and I have to play him tomorrow or we lose the account.”
7. Michael’s diary entry about his vacation with Jan. Priceless.
8. Dwight: “Daryl is the client? No, no, no. He works here dumbass!”
9. Kelly: “The floppy haired girly boy won a point.”
10. Michael: “You expect to get screwed by your company, but you never expect to get screwed by your girlfriend.”

Also, did you see the very end? Who the hell was that playing ping pong Forrest Gump-style against Dwight???

One last thing, Becky pointed to this useful site that shows how many new episodes are left for all of the major shows. Bad news - The Office only has one more new episode left.