Got three episodes for you today, so let’s get started.
Customer Loyalty
This was a pretty uncomfortable episode. There wasn’t a ton of laughs, and everyone
was being jerky to one another for no reason.
Let’s start with…
Erin and Pete are
on a youth task force to drum up interest on Facebook for Dunder Mifflin, under
direction of Nellie. They are having a great time, but as
Nellie watches them, it occurs to her that there may be more to this business
relationship than there should be, considering Erin is still technically dating
Andy. And since Andy was so nice to
Nellie in giving her the reference letter, Nellie goes about sabotaging their flirting, even going as far as to call
them out in front of everyone, and disbanding the taskforce. But when creepy Toby asks her what her deal
his, she tells him, and he reminds her that Andy basically abandoned Erin,
hello. Nellie decides that she needs to
put the taskforce back together, against Erin and Pete’s wishes, and everyone
leaves smiling. Aww.
Dwight and Daryl
also have a lovely little plot in which they are terrible to each other. Daryl lets it slip that he is working
weekends at Athlead, and Dwight does not take it well. He starts by calling Athlead Stumpany, for stupid company, and ends with
trying to get everyone to sign a loyalty pledge so Daryl won’t be poached. When no one falls for the tricky signature
page, Dwight storms off in anger. Later,
Daryl gets a call for a delivery, and heads down to find…Dwight in a truck, adamant
he is going to show Daryl how exciting it is to work at Dunder Mifflin. He has party lights and music, and a ball to
play ‘sports.’ Daryl is not impressed,
wanting to get done with this as soon as possible. Dwight instead makes a stop at a fast food
restaurant, and throws an ordered milkshake back at the server. Daryl looks at him like he’s crazy, and takes
the keys out of the ignition.
The next we see them, Dwight is cleaning up his mess, and
then getting a milkshake thrown at him from another doof in the drive
thru. I have to admit, I did laugh at
that. I also laughed with Daryl as he
watched it over and over again in the tag, as the perpetrators did in fact post
it to youtube.
Lastly, ugh. Jim and Pam. So Jim is in Philly,
losing investors left and right, and is in a generally bad mood. Pam, on the other hand, is all excited for
Jim to come back for CeCe’s dance recital.
She calls him to ask where he’s at on his trip back, and Jim spills the
bad news: he’s not going to be able to
make it back, due to the investor snafu.
He asks Pam to tape the performance for him, and Pam is super-confident
in her ability to handle this task, even though she fails at hanging up her
phone. Dun dun DUN!
So anyway, Pam is at the recital, she gets a phone call in
the middle of CeCe’s performance, completely interrupting her recording of
it. Of course, when she goes to look at
the recording, nothing’s there. Jim
calls later asking about the recital, and Pam has to break the news she didn’t
get it. Jim is upset from that, clearly,
but the investor issue from before is bubbling around and he completely looses
it on Pam, yelling at her, and being a complete douchecanoe, until Pam looks
about ready to break down. She tersely
hangs up on him, and then actually does break down. And then…
The boom operator walks into frame! Holy crap!
He comforts her a bit, and then cuts off the camera to end the show.
This episode, beyond the final crew reveal was blech. Everyone was a jerk to everyone, and it did
not make for compelling television. If
there were any actual jokes in the episode, it may have made up for it, but not
so much. Not looking forward to the
inevitable love triangle, that is for sure.
No funny lines, cause
this episode was not funny.
Junior Salesman
Hmm. I’m going to
reiterate something I think I’ve said before:
it’s a good thing The Office is on it’s last season, cause this has just
been painful.
We open with the camera on the ground, with Pam and boom guy
Brian talking about how he got in trouble, but he tells her not to worry about
it, it was his first slip-up in nine years.
In actual plot news…
Dwight TH’s that
David Wallace is letting him hire someone to fill Jim’s space. Clark is
pushing hardcore to get the job, but Dwight is gunning for one of his friends,
so he’ll have someone in his corner.
Dwight’s choices are:
Rolf-Dwight’s
best friend who tries to turn the interview against Dwight, asking him all the
questions
Trevor-The guy
who was going to kneecap Oscar earlier in the season, and completely fails at
the interview
Clark-He rocks
the interview, but he ‘looks like a Shrute, thinks like a Halpert, and acts
like a Beasly.’
Meanwhile, Jim
has been tasked with getting David Wallace to invest in his new company, but no
dice. After he realizes that the new
person will be taking over his desk, and possibly teaming up with Dwight
against Pam, realizes he has a huge stake in who gets the job, and tries to weasel
his way into the interview process, but Dwight is having none of it.
In fact, after Clark rocks the interview, Dwight is so
enraged he calls a ton of his friends to interview instead. He got:
His cousin Mose, who
completely and utterly lied on his resume
Mose’s Brother, who
heard about the job in the cow shower
His old babysitter/lover
who offers to change him as Dwight writhes on the floor trying to make a
decision
A X-men school friend,
who still thinks he has super powers(night hearing, anyone?)
One of the warehouse
guys who is very overqualified, but very Asian with a heavy accent
A friend named Wolf
who refuses to sell paper
In the end, all of Dwight’s friends and family are
completely unsuitable, but he doesn’t have the heart to tell them. But Dwight does remember that Jim wanted in,
and has him be the bad guy. We end up
with Clark as a sales guy, because of course.
And then, Jim TH’s about how desks mates are important,
because that’s who you spend all your time with, and look at him and Pam…he
fell in love with her, didn’t he? As the
camera pans to Brian. Dun dun DUN!
This was SUCH a pointless episode. Dwight’s friends were not funny, the outcome
was never in question, and everything the episode did could have been compacted
into a cold open. Lame and lame.
No funny lines again.
Vandalism
Let’s see…this episode has three main plots, as follows:
Daryl and Jim are
living in an apartment together, and Jim is a complete slob, while Daryl is
getting pissed about the squalor. They
have antics, and coffee mug stealing, but in the end, Jim realizes that the
people you live with you need to keep happy, cause blah blah blah Jim is being
a total dick and I want to punch him in the face.
Angela, Oscar, and
Kevin are at Angela’s house for the baby’s first birthday, and the senator
uses it as a campaign fundraiser and photo op.
It’s pretty lame, but Kevin does call the senator on his shit, and ta
done.
Lastly, Pam, in
Scranton, has discovered vandalism on her mural, which is supposed to be butts,
but really looks like another part of the male anatomy. After whining about being alone in this(with
a boom mike tap on the head to remind her Brian is there too), she goes on a
witch hunt to find out who did it, and Dwight
and Nellie help her out.
They first try questioning the warehouse staff, but that
gets them nowhere, so they send Clark in as a spy. He was utterly ineffectual, so Dwight and Pam
play good cop/bad cop on one of the guys, who rats out the offender.
Pam and Toby get a confession out of the guy, and Toby
writes him up. Pam is not satisfied with
this conclusion, and she enlists Dwight to paint things in water-based paint on
his car. Too bad the guy’s a loose
cannon, and when he finds the ‘artwork’ charges Pam in a rage. Luckily for her, Brian is there, and he
whacks the guy with his mike.
Gah. That is all I
have to say about that.
In the tag, Pam and Brian are talking in the heretofore
unseen film crew locker room. She’s
upset he got fired, he just tells her he’ll be around if she needs him.
I am going to be SOOO pissed if they actually do go through
with this love triangle thing. It is
ridiculous, and I am over it already.
This episode was the third in a row.
AAAAND no funny lines for a third episode in a row. Lamezor.
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