andicus

That was pretty disappointing.

I enjoyed most of the clips, but I was really looking forward to a new episode, and felt kind of robbed with what aired.

the big train

Friends must have had like five or six clip shows. I think they had one in the fourth season and nearly every season that followed.

BDB

I want my 22 mins back.

superfro

I tried to be all pissed about it and cop an attitude at the begining about it being "A goddamn clip show?! Are you serious?!" but then I just laughed at all the old stuff anyway. No harm done here.

JTH182

What was the deal with Michael's hair? And I don't even think that was Dwight's voice at the end, lol

It was obvious this was just thrown together, oh well.

whoopdido

I believe Seinfeld had 2. One for its 100th episode and then another right before the final episode aired.

I'm actually surprised there was even that many. Larry and Jerry don't seem like the type of people that would go for a clip show.

kstublen

Yeah, that always surprises me about Seinfeld too. Not to mention they were both hour-long episodes if you include commercials.

The Highlights Of 100 comprised episodes 14 and 15 of the 6th Season and had a runtime of about 44 minutes.

The Chronicle comprised episodes 21 and 22 of the 9th Season and had a runtime of about 43 minutes.

Count Dooku

The difference with the Seinfeld clip shows was that the clips were just presented as "Here's some clips"
They didn't try to incorporate them into a story as people's memories,

So, if NBC wants to pay them to produce episodes that require no original material and very little effort, why say NO?

B.A.

Exactly.

Nausicaa

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy The Office. But this episode really made it obvious to me how far the show has fallen. Some of the flashback scenes absolutely cracked me up (Jim's pranks on Dwigt mostly) even though I'd seen them dozens of times before. The show hasn't been that good in years. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the characters are starting to wear and just don't surprise me anymore.

Parks and Rec, for me, has taken over as the better show. I never thought that would be possible last season!

Groucho

Congratulations, driving into the lake episode -- you are no longer the worst episode of "The Office".

cdollaz

No, that still belongs to "Survivor Man"

Vipper II

I think that Frasier is the only sitcom (that I watched) that never had a clip show.

NiCK Crush

Do you guys just never watch re-runs? You really had such a hard time watching a few classic moments again from a show you obviously like?

cdollaz

We laughed quite a bit at this episode. I can never get enough of Meredith on casual day. I wish they had included the clip of Jan breast-feeding in the lobby.

Since no one seems to like clip shows, everyone must hate Lost, who seems to do a couple of them a year.

SuperBatMan

Lost doesn't dedicate an actual episode to it. They're more 'supplements' to the seasons.

Randy Miller III

This episode sucked hard. Jim and Pam's bullshit "music video" was the worst offense, though...the American Office has always pushed all hints of "this is a documentary" to the back, but having a sequenced set of clips set to music just threw everything out the window. It wasn't the first time this happened, of course, but it was probably the most blatant.

Also, how would Toby remember anything that happened during Beach Day?
He wasn't even there.

whoopdido

Sure I watch reruns. The Office is on 5 times a day. If I want to watch a rerun of the The Office I'll just watch TBS or FOX--both those channels have a couple episodes of The Office on every day. It is what it is and I'm not going to get all bent out of shape about it, but when I sit down on Thursday night to watch an episode of The Office that says "new" I'm really not interested in seeing 5 minutes worth of new material and a bunch of clips. I can watch the entire show that the clips came from whenever I want.

chuckd21

Hmm, I didn't even realize that but yeah, a clip show done the way they did it last night makes no sense within the "reality" of this show being filmed by a documentary crew.

But, eh, I laughed. Clip shows suck, but I laughed during this show. No harm, no foul.

Oh, wait, I mean... FUCK YOU NBC! #teamconan

cdollaz

So why not consider this episode a "supplement" as well?

chuckd21

It basically was like a Lost supplement episode. Didn't they just add 3 episodes to the total run for this season?

Groucho

Because it wasn't promoted as such. It was advertised as a new episode.

cdollaz

All clip and recap shows are labeled as "new" episodes. Also, this one had just as much new content as it did old.

fumanstan

Disappointed that it was a clip show, but fake Stanley was pretty funny and it was touching to see the Jim/Pam moments. Something about that moment where Jim comes back to ask her out always gets to me

Trevor

But it's only the 4th best NBC show on Thursday nights.

I used to hate Community and Parks and Rec, but both have flown by The Office in quality.

And no complaints from me about the clip show part of it, I thought it was nicely done.