DVD Josh

I agree. The rest of you are real fuddyduddies. I picture you wish mustaches like the ones shown on the episode.

The funniest scene to me was where Jim, Dwight and Michael were sitting in the office and only Dwight had his mustache still on.

Steak and eggs and eggs and steak for breakfast, delicious.

DVD Josh

I got from that interaction that it was actually PAM who didn't want him in the club.

I loved the credits throwaway. Toby "which was the most fun part about Angela's Ashes? Was it the death of the twins?"

dvd182

Also amusing was Jim shooting the cameraman a "seriously?" look after the cameraman tried to get a shot of Karen and gave away their position in the car.

Michael's "we're going to make Karen wish you'd never dumped her" line meant to get Jim pumped up about the mission was funny as well.

Doughboy

Not a particularly memorable episode. I still laughed a few times though, so I wouldn't call it terrible.

Looking back, I really like the awkwardness in the scene with Jim and Karen in her office. That felt much more realistic than the two of them making peace with each other and Karen forgiving Jim for dumping her.

printerati

I thought this was one of the worst episodes of the series. Now I know why.

lordwow

And on top of all these great lines, the Karen/Jim Chastising Scene was of UK Office uncomfortable level quality

starseed1981

"Cut my penis on the lid" mwahahahahhahahaha

DVD Josh

He only directed it, he didn't write it.

Ayre

I agree, but I still think the episode plot devices were too flat. The branch war was one sided. The car scene with Karen was telegraphed way before it happened. The portable radio stuff was a riot, but the car trip setup for it was boring. From a plot standpoint the whole cell phone thing was pointless. Dwight threw it out the window, they stopped and retrieved it and moved forward. What waste of 2 minutes. The whole lunchroom club thing wasn't funny to me at all. Sure some of the one liners were funny, but usually the setup is funnier and the payoff better.

Yeah, there was some good slapstick fun, but the rest was just a bunch of weak setups. In the end, the entire episode was irrelevant.

jonw9

I got the impression Jim went along to prevent Dwigt from lighting his homemade stink bombs, or real bombs.

Vipper II

I figured that, as well. I guess my biggest problem was just the fact that they even went there. I know Michael and Dwigt do bizarre things, but that was just way out there. Being unprofessional is one thing, but they were being downright insane.

Randy Miller III

"Jim, just take her to a motel and make love to her."
Waay over-the-top but still a fun episode:

Overall Rating: Joss Whedon zOMG!!!!1

DVD Josh

And the end of the day, this is still a show about people in an office acting silly. There's barely any continuing plot.

What did the B&B at Dwight's house develop? Nothing. Nor should it. It was funny regardless.

Meglos

"Lay on top of her and think of Stanley!"

DVD Josh

What are you doing Phylis?

Making Popcorn

Why don't you use the microwave in the kitchen?

Someone needs to clean it, it smells like popcorn.

JuryDuty

I agree, too. I think this was the best episode this year, and maybe one of the best episodes ever. Great stuff. Hope to see more like this.

Yavin

A lot of great lines in this episode, including Dwight and Michael's encounter with the security guard, heard over the radio:

"Hello, we are warehouse workers ... would you like more proof?"

Once again, Michael is de-evolving and now Dwigt is doing so with him. All that stuff about stabbing the security guard in the eyes with chalk and bombing the Utica office with real bombs was too stupid, even for him.

Still, it was one of the funniest episodes as of late.

Shannon Nutt

Guess you either love this one or hate it...I hated it. As one poster said, it was too absurd. The Office seems to be going slapstick this season, and that isn't where the show should be.

Mopower

Once they got Jim and Pam together there isn't much of a continuing plot thru the whole series anymore. Jim and Pam were the main thing. Now that that's over they have to either do these zany plots or Micheal and Jan plots (yawn) Or Dwangela. I'd rather go with the zany plots with some relationship stuff in between.

wishbone

I like having Karen/Rashida involved with the show again, hopefully the continuation of her character will not be just the jilted ex-lover.

JasonF

Jim mouthing to the cameraman to get out of Karen's line of vision was awesome.

Sorraffy

Jim being rendered speechless, that doesn't happen too often
all you have to do is say "Michael was involved" and it'll make perfect sense

... and I guess we call him "Dwigt" now

SFranke

If only there were a way to search and replace this common error with the correct spelling.

magiccmom

I loved this episode, but that said, I do miss the simpler plots of say "Office Olympics" or "Diversity Day" where the comedy was based on more toned downed events rather than stealing a copier or driving into a lake.

Imail724

I thought it was a great episode.
Dwight: Jim, go without us
Michael: No, don't leave us

or maybe it was the other way around, either way, very funny stuff.