So here goes The Office and Parks and Rec, for all you
lovelies who actually read my blog.
The Office
So, in our first episode, Jim is in Philadelphia for several days, wooing a very special
client, some sort of basketball guy. The
end.
Pam, while in
Scranton being single mom to two kids, is completely and utterly frazzled. Not only is she taking care of the kids by
herself, CeCe got lice. Of course, it
got spread over the whole office, but luckily, Erin has extensive lice
experience, and immediately goes to checking everyone out. Four don’t have lice, but the rest have to
partner up to administer treatment. Pam
decides to use the obvious scapegoat of Meredith,
and no one doubts it for a second.
Meredith ends up shaving her head, while Erin partners with Pete, Pam and Creed, Angela
with Oscar, and Meredith helps Stanley. Erin and Pete are super cute, playing around,
and things, Angela is terribly passive aggressive to Oscar, who is less than
appreciative, and Creed thinks Pam is strange.
Things are going swimmingly until Pam’s mother calls, and spills the
beans over speaker phone that Pam brought them in. Everyone is super pissed, but Meredith gets
over it pretty quickly, and she and Pam have a nice girls night out, with
Meredith commiserating about single motherhood, and it’s really nice.
On the other side of the office, Daryl, Phylis, Kevin and Nelly are chilling in the warehouse with
their non-infected heads, and Daryl reveals he broke up with Val since he didn’t
see their relationship going anywhere, but lied about it to his coworkers, who immediately
try to get them back together.
Successfully, to Daryl’s chagrin.
This was a decent episode, and I really enjoyed Pam and
Meredith’s interactions at the bar, with their karaoke and mutual respect and
whatnot.
I did get a funny line:
Erin, as Stanley
tries to leave without the mayonnaise treatment, and she jumps on his back: “I’m
trying to save you from yourself!”
The Office, part deux
Part of this episode had me rolling, and other parts, not so
much. Let’s jump right in.
So Clark is back
from a vacation with Jan(!?!), and he brought an espresso maker for everyone,
with a bunch of different flavors.
Dwight and Clark leave on a sales call, and Pam and Daryl head to
Philadelphia for his interview, leaving the rest of the bullpen to try the new
espresso. No one is sure which flavor
they like the most, so everyone makes shots of each kind for everyone. The results are…as to be expected, but it was
pretty freaking funny. Oscar decided he
needed to move the copier to the annex, and managed to rip up a big chunk of
carpet, revealing hardwood, which Oscar immediately gets a gigantic boner
for. So what do they do, but decide to
rip up all the carpet, of course! It’s
just too bad that they all crash when only about twenty percent of the floor is
ripped up, and everyone gives up and goes home…at the same time…with massive
swatches of floor partially torn up.
While this is going on, Dwight
and Clark are on that sales call, at a family owned business. They try to tailor the sales pitch to the
owner, first showing a great relationship, then, when the owner reveals the
relationship with his son is terrible, leads to Dwight bashing Clark in very
odd, but very specific ways. That is,
until the son comes in, and it turns out he owns the business, and his dad can’t
make any decisions regarding the business.
Things turn on a dime, and Clark takes the lead on the sales call, and
the whole thing was so long and drawn out, I got really bored.
Oh, and Daryl and Pam,
while in Philly, see Jim, and then Daryl had his interview. He’s terribly nervous, since he sucks at
interviews(see: Andy’s job, which he had in the bag until the interview). Daryl is a screwball during the whole
interview, awkwarding all over the whole thing, AND killing their fish with an
ill-timed basketball shot. Even with the
terrible interview, though, he gets hired, and is super excited. Less excited is Pam, who is coming to grips
with the fact that Jim is eventually going to want to move to Philly. *Sad
face*
So, the espresso thing was freaking hilarious, but the rest
of the episode was rather meh. It was
like a freight train barreling toward it’s destination, and the destination
here is the series finale.
No funny lines, mostly because the comedy was physical
rather than one liners.
Parks and Rec
This was a great episode.
Two parallel plots, with two very different resolutions.
It’s bachelor(ette) party time!
Ben’s party was
super lame awesome. The writers
tried to make it seem like it would be the worst, but seriously? Board games and alcohol with good friends
followed by some great shows, what could be better? The guys are not incredibly impressed, and
after a round of Settlers of Catan, Tom insists
on going to a bar for some drinks, and it is the craziest bar in the history of
bars. They have whiskey-infused lotion
posing as a drink, for God’s sake! But
while they are there, they realize that no one got a bachelor party, and so,
Chris plans something for everyone. Andy
gets to play on the Colts field, Jerry gets ice cream at his favorite joint, and
Ron gets a great steak dinner, and all are toasted perfectly by Chris. The whole thing is extra adorable, and
everything was lovely. And there were
shirts!
Leslie’s party
completely fizzled practically before it started. She’s been working on getting a Wamapoe section
in her park model, only to find out that Councilman Jamm has started
construction on a Paunch burger behind her back. Leslie is fully distracted during her party,
and decides it would be a good idea to bury Indian artifacts in the pit to
cause construction to come to a halt.
She almost immediately has regrets, and co-opts everyone at her
party(stripper included) to dig them back up again. Everything would have been fine, but Leslie
in her drunken tiredness texted a PR person, and the artifacts they didn’t find
were found.
Leslie has to apologize to her Native American friend, but
he totally covers for her, and manages to get Jamm to go back to the original
agreement , and Leslie has more time to devote to her park. Yay?
So this episode was about 40/60 strong to weak. Ben’s party stuff was really good, really
sweet, and I enjoyed it immensely. The Leslie
stuff, thought? It really dragged. How many obstacles need to be thrown at the
pit/park? I wish we could have seen
April’s dream bachelorette party, that would have been fantastic.
I did get lots of funny lines for you!
Ann, when
planning Leslie’s party: “I am stress-eating gummy penises”
Ben, after
describing his dream party plans: “They thought I was kidding…I was not kidding”
Ron, after Tom
sort of explains the weird concept bar he wasn’t to go to: “There is no wrong
way to consume alcohol…this is the wrong way to consume alcohol.”
