DJariya

By djariya at 2010-09-11

Synopsis:




A Glee viewing Party really? I'm a fan of Glee, but this is weird.

skiman

Erin's cluelessness has gone from being cute to tiresome.
The same with Michaels juvenile need for attention.
Pizza in the fan was funny though.

I had my doubts about whether or not the show could succeed without Michael, but this ep convinced me otherwise. Everything with Michael made me shrug, but the moments with the rest of the cast showed me that if they can find a decent enough replacement for Michael the show will be fine.
Just really getting tired of Michaels immaturity.

Drav3n

Ive always wanted to eat a pig in a blanket...in a blanket

maingon

I thought it was a excellent episode. Reminded me of Season 2. Pam and Erin looked amazing tonight as well.

Groucho

"....and I would blow your mind."

Goldblum

Yikes, another misfire. The only part I found remotely funny was when Michael was tossing the dough.

MrX

"He probably wishes he had a hybrid right now"

"No, he probably wishes he was strangling someone right now"

JuryDuty

I fully expected this episode -- out of the office -- to be as bad as the last, but I found it hilarious!

I think a key is that when they're out of the office, at least have it somewhere that it gives you insight into a character. This episode revealed a lot about Gabe and was on par with the hilarious episode or two from a few seasons ago with Michael and Jan in Michael's house.

superfro

This entire season has reminded me of S2. I think they've all been awesome thus far.

The stuff with Dwight and Jim was fantastic. "You married my mortal enemy."

rocket1312

It's amazing to me the broad range of reactions to each episode of this show. It seems like some people always love it and some people always hate it. And I don't think it's a case where the same people always hate it and the same people always love it.

As far as this episode goes, I really liked it. There were a couple of things that bothered me though. Michael turning off the cable was going a bit too far for my taste and that plot point was never really paid off for anyone other Erin and Michael. Did everyone else find out it was him? Was everyone just glad the cable came back and that was it? I did really like the resolution with Michael and Erin though. I thought the revelation that Erin looks up to Michael as a father was a really sweet moment and the kind of genuine emotion that this show has been good at over the years. I've always liked the chemistry that those two have.

The other bit that bothered me was Jim's continuing descent into a-hole teritority. I get that he didn't care about Glee and we've all been in that situation before, but if you were at a party to watch some specific show and someone changed the channel and you missed part of it, you would be pissed. We've been trained for 7 years to believe that Jim is the rational, smart one and his co-workers are crazy, but he was clearly in the wrong here. I LOVED Dwight getting the upperhand on him with the baby. I was laughing pretty hard when Dwight made him feed him.

kstublen

I thought this episode was actually pretty good. The season as a whole has been a real return to form for The Office. This episode reminded me of the party Jim threw way back when. While there was some stuff I thought didn't work (mainly the Glee stuff), I thought most everything else was really good.

I liked that they sort of resolved the Scranton Strangler storyline after all these years.

Yeah, that was my favourite line of the night.

It's always nice to see Dwight get the upper-hand every once in a while. I liked how he said he would prefer if Jim thought of it as degrading. Dwight calling Jim his mortal enemy and Jim saying they had a nice back-and-forth was good too.

I did like how Michael recognized that Erin looked up to him and felt bad about being a jerk there at the end. And he had a nice final line with "If you break that girl's heart I will kill you. That's just a figure of speech. But seriously, if you break that girl's heart I will literally kill you...and your entire family."

zombeaner

This cracked me up!

SexualPudding

Erin is so fucking irksome. Best part for me was Kevin hopping into Gabe's bed and eating.

Damfino

I'll have to try that myself, in a snuggie!

Great episode, but I was really shocked that an NBC show would cross-promote a Fox show.

I'm sure the producers of whatever NBC shows on Tuesdays at 8 are really upset about this. (I don't know what NBC has on in that time slot and I'm too lazy to look it up)

Kal-El

Loved it, except for the appearance of Michael Douche. Good riddance when that character leaves.

andicus

Both those bits were very funny!

A much better episode than last week.

Bill Needle

As quoted above there were a couple of great lines in the this episode, an improvement over last week, and more in line with the quality of this season as a whole.

grrr

I've never cared much for the socially awkward humor that the Office will occasionally try to force down viewers' throats. It's like there's one staff writer who can't do anything but put Michael and Andy into the most painful, cringe-inducing situations possible. This episode had its fair share of those, but at least there was some great Dwight-Jim-Pam dialogue to ease things.

All in all, though, I much prefer oblivious Michael to insecure Michael.

NiCK Crush

Anyone else notice they seem to be referencing past seasons more often this year?

EdTheRipper

Episode was just okay. As is usually the case when I actually get to watch the show as it airs, I was a bit underwhelmed.

Matt925

Thought it was a great episode (much better than last week).

"I wonder if there's a guy in china right now looking at some of my stuff."

Goat3001

As usual the best one liners were from Creed. First him reading the bottle to Andy and not telling him what it means and then him recapping Glee at the end after reading about it on Twitter.

Other then that I liked the Dwight/Jim stuff. But I'm getting even more tired of Jim and Pam, they just aren't as charming and funny as they used to be.

Don't like Gabe at all and the Andy stuff kind of fell flat, although I did like him puking in the bed and covering it with the pillow.

Hated the Michael and Erin stuff. I just don't enjoy when Michael goes out of his way to be a douche it's not funny anymore. Then the end with Erin seeing Michael as a father figure was just weird. I'm surprised anyone liked it. It just seemed creepy to me.

Al Padrino

The awkward humor is true to the British version of the show, so I don't ever outright dislike it, even if it's not always my favorite stuff.

Gabe looks similar to my brother and even has similar mannerisms and a way of speaking, albeit in a much more extreme sense.

I, like others, am tired of Jim and Pam. I'm glad they've at least taken a back seat in many episodes to other characters. Be thankful it hasn't been the opposite with the writers forcing the couple to the forefront of each episode.

dan30oly

I thought for half a second that Erin was going to come out and say that Michael was her father (remember she grew up in a foster home). If that had happened I would have shut off the tv and never watched the show again. That would be a true jumping the shark moment.

Drav3n

I was really expecting them to go that route but am glad they didnt... it would explain her lack of intelligence though