Last night’s episode of
The Office delivered up its usual share of hilarity, but it ratcheted up the
awkward level quite a few notches above the norm. Michael Scott’s diarrhea of the mouth was certainly not limited to him blurting out “
Jan and I are lovers,” to the Dunder-Mifflin CFO hosting the party.
For those of you that haven’t seen the episode yet (
shame on you):
SPOILER ALERT!
Yes, it’s true, the
Awkwardness™ passed from character to character like a baton at the relay race in the
Socially Retarded Olympics. Dwight and Michael traded it a couple of times:
Dwight: What’s the square footage?
David: About 5,000.
Dwight: Does that include the garage?
Michael: Dwight, that’s not appropriate.
David: I don’t know.
Dwight: It’s a common question.
Michael: David, how much did this house cost?
Jim grew more and more awkward as he found that his girlfriend had “relations” with just about every guy at the party.
What? Karen’s a ho?
Nah, she just punk’d Jim so bad he didn’t even see it coming.
On the other side of town, at the bar, new heights of uncomfortable were reached by the whole gang. Creed, who is never awkward cause he’s Creed, reveals that he runs a fake ID business out of his car with a laminating machine he stole from the Sheriff’s office. Dang, he must carry a wheelbarrow with him everywhere he goes. Toby spends the entire evening winning a stuffed animal from the resident Evil Claw Machine™ for Pam only to have her rebuff his attempt at romantic generosity by reminding him that his daughter would like it, oh, and where was he all evening? She really wanted to hang out with him.
Nowhere was the unease more apparent than when Pam bared her horrible secret about Jim’s kiss to her on-again boyfriend Roy. The episode, directed famed Lost and Alias producer, J. J. Abrams, ended on a sincerely sinister note with Roy vowing to kill Jim Halpert after demolishing the bar with his drunk brother.
Yeah, kill.
So there you have it. While it was a hilarious episode, even in the Awkwardness™:
Dwight: Oh good, your up. Who makes this chair?
9-year-old Startled Awake: I don’t know, it was here when I was born.
Dwight: I want one. Really good solid construction. It’s comfortable. What is this? Oak?
9-year-old Obviously in Shock that a Stranger is in His Rocking Chair in the Middle of the Night: I don’t know.
Dwight: What do you know?
It ended on a decidedly creepy note. Pam and Roy are obviously through, this time for good, I’m thinking. Pammie’s newfound resolve to get what she wants may prove an interesting plot driver. Jim and Karen are still cute together and should stay that way. Michael’s retardation is stymieing Jan’s search for the forbidden high. Dwight is Dwight and I wouldn’t have him any other way. And Dunder-Mifflin soldiers on.
Oh, and thanks again to www.officetally.com for the quotes from this episode. Those cats are quick!
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