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Pam and Jim go to Roy's wedding - David Denman guest stars. The wedding toast of Pam's ex-fiance Roy causes Pam and Jim to examine their relationship for buried secrets. Dwight stubbornly protests Nellie's mandatory charity initiative by supporting the Taliban and agreeing to live by their severe laws. Clark hits on Erin by dangling a fake newscaster job: Andy also takes the bait.
Damnit I had to type it all out. The nook doesn't have a cut and paste function that I have found.
Damnit I had to type it all out.
Me too. The site I got it from wouldn't let me copy it. But I type real goodf.
I had to type it all out
Me too.
You poor dears. You must be exhausted.
Thanks for starting the thread(s).
I remember a time when the idea of Roy showing up on the show would have generated 5 pages of posts.
Dwight stubbornly protests Nellie's mandatory charity initiative by supporting the Taliban
Wow. That joke has gone from too soon to too late.
Pam and Jim go to Roy's wedding - David Denman guest stars.
I'm intrigued. They could do some really interesting things with this premise.
The wedding toast of Pam's ex-fiance Roy causes Pam and Jim to examine their relationship for buried secrets.
OK, now they ruined it.
Dwight stubbornly protests Nellie's mandatory charity initiative by supporting the Taliban and agreeing to live by their severe laws.
He's not a terrible character at all. They should give him a spin-off. I wouldn't put a hatchet through my TV if they did.
Clark hits on Erin by dangling a fake newscaster job: Andy also takes the bait.
Who's Clark?
Who's Clark?
I didn't know which Junior he was. BUT! I knew it was one of them. Go, me!
He's not a terrible character at all. They should give him a spin-off. I wouldn't put a hatchet through my TV if they did.
This.
Who's Clark?
Superman, silly.
I'm intrigued by the Roy's wedding story. Andy and Erin, not so much.
Even though TO is technically a comedy, I have to say I personally was actually sucked into it by the Jim/Pam relationship story in the first three seasons. The Office I loved is about them, and about sane people trying to work amongst crazies - with lots of funny along the way. I think Greg Daniels will remember that and take this season that way. People will have story arcs. Not every episode will be stupid sitcom "laugh a minute" writing. That is what I hope, anyway. YMMV
Maybe I'm a crazy optimist. I concede that point.
Now that Mindy Kaling is gone, you may be right. Man . . . she might be funny, but she is not the kind of funny that The Office was back when it was good.
I have been a huge Mindy critic in recent years, but after reading about the death of her mother and how she was not as involved with the early planning for S8, I think I may have been wrong with how much she was responsible for last years mess.
But she's been writing the worst episodes of the show for years. I didn't even watch last season.
Mindy written episodes:
1."Hot Girl" (April 26, 2005) – Season 1
2."The Dundies" (September 20, 2005) – Season 2
3."The Injury" (January 12, 2006) – Season 2
4."Take Your Daughter to Work Day" (March 16, 2006) – Season 2
5."Diwali" (November 2, 2006) – Season 3
6."Ben Franklin" (February 1, 2007) – Season 3
7."Branch Wars" (November 1, 2007) – Season 4
8."Night Out" (April 24, 2008) – Season 4
9."Frame Toby" (November 20, 2008) – Season 5
10."Lecture Circuit: Part 1" (February 5, 2009) – Season 5
11."Lecture Circuit: Part 2" (February 12, 2009) – Season 5
12."Golden Ticket" (March 12, 2009) – Season 5
13."Niagara" co-written with Greg Daniels (October 8, 2009) – Season 6
14."Secret Santa" (December 10, 2009) – Season 6
15."The Manager and the Salesman" (February 11, 2010) – Season 6
16."Secretary's Day" (April 22, 2010) – Season 6
17."The Sting" (October 21, 2010) – Season 7
18."Classy Christmas" (December 9, 2010) – Season 7
19."Michael's Last Dundies" (April 21, 2011) – Season 7
20."Christmas Wishes" (December 9, 2011) – Season 8
21."Test the Store" (March 9, 2012) – Season 8
I see a few clunkers, but overall it seems pretty solid to me. I'd say her two S8 episodes were probably top-5 for the season (that's not saying much, I know).
I liked 1 and 2. That's all I got.
I could never understand why The Injury was everybody's favorite episode.
That said, I don't think she's a bad writer, I just don't laugh at the same things she does, if that makes sense.
After The Dundies and The Injury, she gets a lifetime pass from me.
Hot Girl goes on that list for me. Also, since Scott's Tots and The Christening aren't on that list, I won't advocate she be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
After "Branch Wars", the only one I've seen is "Niagara", which I thought was pretty awful, soooooo . . yeah. The first three were great, but that was also when the show had a clear direction and didn't suck. After that, she went down the drain very, very quickly; "Branch Wars", "Diwali", and "Ben Franklin" are all among the weakest episodes of the first four (read: good) seasons.
Didn't Branch Wars have Jim & Dwight and Michael go to the other branch in janitor costumes?
Why did I use an ampersand and spell out the word and in the previous sentence? Stupid Toos!
It's the one in which Dwight pees in a can and cuts his penis. I wrote a review of it for NA that was highly controversial.