wow i thought it was eons better than the first one back and still a lot better than the second one back.

For me it was this weeks about even with the dinner party and both much better than last week. I thought this week's episode had a lot of good stuff. The scenes with Ryan, Dwight, Michael and the hobbit were all really good and while it wasn't all great there were a few really good lines from both office parts of the episode.

I think I laughed the hardest, once again, at Creed's line.

found the acting to be very poor. i thought ryan/pam/jim/toby were all pretty unconvincing

Dwight was insanely good this week.

I agree with all this.
All of the Dwight/ Hobbit stuff was gold.
(takes off glasses) "Do you have powers?" or "Don't step on him."


Also, I can't figure out their endgame with Pam and Jim. I could see them possibly breaking up/having a fight then getting back together and getting married to end the series.

This continuing trend of Jim acting like Michael when he isn't around has to stop. It's so dumb and Jim's character is way too funny to have him turn into an idiot.

This episode was a lot less horrible than most of the ones from the past season+. Michael was a lot less stupidly implausible and caricaturistic and Ryan's character was a lot more natural feeling and believable, apart from the first few minutes when he's visiting the branch which was pretty painful. Toby's bit came off as super forced and not believable and the "Jim gets everybody stuck in the building and now they are mildly annoyed at him" subplot was pretty flat and didn't make me care a single bit about their plight. I felt like I was just waiting for those scenes to be over so they could get back to the Michael/Dwight/Ryan.

Overall it was bittersweet. Disappointing because it still had so much of what I've come to loathe about the show, but good because it seemed like they're hopefully moving back to the right direction. Sadly, the only part about watching it that I can think back on that makes me happy is LCD's Tribulations playing in the background of the first club (imo their best track to date).

Oh yes, and Dwight's character was way better than he has been in a long while, mostly because he didn't have as many lines and they weren't shoving a seemingly never-ending stream of his parody-of-himself qualities down the viewer's throat like they have been lately.

Yeti is the voice of reason on this episode. It was a pretty weak episode by Office standards. The episode looks great on paper as he said, but it was just sloppy writing. And the Pam/Toby thing is not funny Office awkwardness, it's too weird and forced. They keep beating us over the head with the awkward scenes these past 3 episodes. I like it when it's just subtle and believeable.

Good ep. I think that this ep was the best presentation of the Dwight character in a long time.

The Hobbit in the deleted scene was classic..."Don't blame me for what Ryan does. I'm not his dad. I'm his friend. Friends help you have a good time.....and sell you the stuff you need to have a good time".

this episode was hit or miss. when i saw the description online, i was very excited bc i figured this premise had a lot of promise, but it didnt fully deliver.

dwight was excellent. ryan was funny at times. michael was ok (the calling his mom in the club was very amusing). the stuff in the office wasn't engaging or all that funny. i found myself just hoping for the scenes to cut back to the club every time.

i think the jim is a bad manager storylines always seem forced and odd (the previous episodes with the one birthday party a year idea was something that made no sense for his character to think) and the whole idea that the security guard would lock the gate when there are still a ton of cars inside makes no sense. also, how is it that jim, whose job is to sell people stuff over the phone, was so awkward in a phone conversation?

now that they've lost the dramatic tension of the will-they/wont-they pam and jim stuff, they seem to be struggling with what to do for the more serious subplots. i honestly like it better if they just do purely light-hearted stuff. the british version of the office was far superior in infusing drama into the show.(then again, that was probably the best depiction of the soul-crushingly brutal life of working in a **** white collar job i think there will ever be on television)

just watched; this was easily the best recent episode. great stuff.

Bump.

MGS? No. Some idiot named Mark Greg Sputnik will take credit.

SCARY BLACK MAN!





and I thought toby was supposed to be in costa rica.

"DID I STUTTER?"

Holy ****, Stanley the Manley.

LOL @ Dwight. Master negotiator.

omg this episode is the nuts so far

Is an Xterra really a chick car? I've never really gotten that impression.

Yeah, unless the second half is god awful, this will easily be the best episode since the restart, if not the whole season.

OMG Creed, you kill me.

Creed!

"I'd like to put a piano in front of Pam without her glasses and see what happens. I'd also like to see her topless."

That's [censored] gold.


EDIT: If Michael tickles Stanley, I will **** my pants.

Just about to post about Creed. LOL at the topless comment.

Do you really watch TV shows with this in mind? Really?

LOL @ dwight scameing andy

if this episode had stock I would go all-in.

Do you really make posts like this on message boards? Really?

Edit: And for the record, no I don't. But a common theme of this thread has been ranking each show compared to the others, so I'd thought I'd share. Sorry that got your panties in a bunch.

this is awesome. So good. Ive loved every moment thusfar.