The Office season 5

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very glad to have The Office back!!

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Great start to a new season. LOL funny!

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I liked seeing Pam's talking head interview via computer.

Holly finding out that Kevin isn't mentally handicapped was hilarious.

And when Michael and Holly did their rap and it went to commercial, the first commercial (in my market anyway) was a Tide ad featuring some dork trying to rap. I'm sure Tide is happy that their spot was turned into a bigger goof than it already was.

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I was a little concerned near the end that they were going to insert some artificial drama in Jim and Pam's relationship. Maybe something like what happened to Dwight where one of them got stuck and couldn't go, or maybe each of them went to the same rest stop but on opposite sides of the highway so they were both waiting for the other or something stupid like that. I'm very glad they didn't take this route.

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I'm glad they stayed away with the artificial Jim/Pam drama as well (at least for now).

The funniest moment for me was Michael's unspoken "That's what she said" joke during the first weighing. Jim's incredulous "Really? Nothing?" was so well timed.

When Michael tore up the concert tickets, it broke my heart. What a clueless moron. But then, I expected nothing less.

Though I'm not one for artificial drama (which I guess the entire show is, by definition ), I was kind of hoping they'd string the Retarded Kevin thing along for at least a few more episodes. I think it was good for a few more jokes.

Jan's disappointment on hearing that the missing girl had been found was a good moment.

Poor Andy. Poor, poor Andy. Angela is as heartless as Michael is clueless.
May her dead, frozen cat haunt her forever.

Great season opener!

And before I forget, my DVR cut off just as
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) What, if anything, happened after that?

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Nothing really. I think he said "It would be nice to have visitors" but it ended after that.

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I thought he said, "It's nice to have visitors." meaning the film crew, who weren't really visitors at all.

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That was probably it

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Great episode! Very satisfied. My DVR cut off before the Toby thing came on. What happened to him anyway? I forgot.

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Toby left Scranton to go to Costa Rica, where he apparently suffered a zip line injury.

I liked the goatee thing: Michael grew one to match Ryan's, so Ryan shaved his off, so Michael shaved his off, leaving Dwigt with the goatee he had just grown.

I liked Angela explaining to the cameraman how she sleeps at night.

What was up with Meredith's face? She didn't get any lines this episode I believe, but whenever they showed her in the background her face seemed red and puffy.

Glad to see Darryl back after the actor's legal issues...

The scene with Kelly standing on the chair and everyone -- including Ryan -- telling her how beautiful and perfect she is (and Creed's comment about her ass) was great. You can see that Kelly really loves adoration like that.

I like how Phyllis attained the rank of party planner.

How about Dwight smashing or kicking or spraying anything related to food around the office?! And the flies in the vending machine!

"Andrew Bernard doesn't lose contests. He wins them. Or he quits them, because they weren't fair."

And of course, Jim and Pam in the rain. :-)

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I watched with a couple friends last night. One of them thought the show had "jumped the shark" because everyone seemed overwritten and cartoony. I can see a bit of that, but I've heard that complaint online since season 3, and my friend never thought it before. Another complaint I read online about this premiere was "too much soap opera," and I can kind of see that, too.

But I thought the episode was very strong and very funny. The subversion of expectations (misdirecting Jim & Pam's storyline) and filling up the scenes with small details that aren't obvious (Darryl nonchalantly eating a candy bar while everyone else is weighing in) are the strengths that continue to make "The Office" one of my favorite shows.

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I read somewhere that it was due to being stuck in Holly's car with a raccoon in the season finale. Then I thought it was a reaction from Dwight pepper spraying the food. But, in rewatching, her face didn't act up until the second weigh-in, I think...

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Although the show has gotten steadily more "broad" in its plots and characterizations since Season 3, last night's episode was good because it kept itself to the office (for the most part), and to the interplay between the characters inside the office, during their work day. The week-at-a-time pacing was also a good choice.

Steve Carrell is much funnier when he understates - when he's allowed to be just SLIGHTLY believable and vulnerable. It makes his subsequent mistakes even more uncomfortable.

Anyone else here think it was really straining credulity that Ryan would EVER be allowed back at Dunder Mifflin? The "temp" explanation seemed a little thin.

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I didn't understand why the scale went down 220 lbs when Pam stepped off.

Anyone care to elaborate (or correct my math)?

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It only went down 126 pounds (2336-2210). Kevin screwed up the math.

I had to think about the joke for a bit. The long pause was more about people being people and trying to figure out what Pam weighed, not that they thought she weighed alot.

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Ugh...I wasn't home last night and we had a power outage so my DVR missed most of it. Does anyone know if they'll be doing an encore any time soon? I don't want to have to watch on my PC or non-HD BT (am I allowed to say that?).

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that I know of no rerun...i'd tune into NBC.com and look for the episode there.

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"Math is hard."

It does but would Michael still be working at Dunder Mifflin with everything he has done (and not done) in the time that he's worked there?

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Lol,poor Kevin and his math. Another reason Holly probably continued to think Kevin was mentally challenged. Who was it that started this yarn about Kevin being challenged? For some reason I have a feeling Stanley has something to do with it.

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Nope it was Dwight in the finale last year, because they were hazing the new person.

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My biggest LOL moment was when they caught the 'cake eaters' and Dwight kicking the cake and saying 'Happy Birthday Stanley' with the cake flying everywhere.

Angela calling Kevin an idiot and Holly coming to his defense was great too.

I really enjoyed the whole episode and amd very happy The Office is back.

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no love for Michael falling down the stairs *TWICE*?

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Michael: What is wrong with these people? That have no will power; I went -- I once went 28 years without having sex. And then, again -- for seven years. Spoken like a true accountant, Kevin.

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Deleted Scene #2 explains this on NBC.com

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Business Ethics

Not a great episode, but still funny.

Liked Creed's line in the begining
"The tall guy got engaged."
I'm wondering if Creed even knows Jim's name

Very funny when Jim went over to talk to Andy in front of Dwight to irritate
him and talk like he knew nothing about Battlestar Galactica, and get him to break his ethical working status.
And just seeing Dwight cringe and stopping himself from saying something.

Nice end how the other HR rep Kendell, let Meredith keep doing her sex discount situation

And here is that Cookie Monster, Chocolate Rain You Tube video Michael was obsessed with.
Seems like lots of Office fans are trying to make this video popular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJsJ5dW7jHo

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Not as great as the premier episode, and Pam doesn't appear. Coincidence? I still thought it was funny though.

I liked Jim's stopwatch fun with Dwight. I loved the Battlestar Galactica stuff with Andy. "Is it me, or is every episode a scene-by-scene remake of the original?" And then when Jim "confused" BSG with Lord of the Rings, I thought Dwight was going to blow a vein.

I'm glad Meredith got some lines and a bigger plot role this week.

I felt bad for Michael and Holly when they disagreed at lunch. Do people near the East Coast typically have lobster for lunch? Here in the Midwest it's for a special occasion, which of course I'm sure Michael thought his lunch with Holly was. I loved the scene back at the office in which Holly wanted a refill on her coffee and Michael walked out of the room holding the pot.

I liked some of the "immunity" confessions, like Angela reporting Oscar to the INS three times. (He's clean.)

I liked how Corporate didn't want to know anything about an actual violation of ethics policy, but only wanted Holly to collect signatures from everyone saying they'd gone through the course.

I loved the scene at the end with everyone eating steaks. "I don't care how she's getting them, just keep 'em coming."

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I kind of took this as a joke that Michael and Holly were being just as bad about corporate ethics by ordering huge lobsters for lunch (I'm assuming the lunch was expensed to the company since they were talking business.)

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Michael did say, "Let's bang it out over lunch. Dunder Mifflin's treat. You're not actually a client. You want to split it?"

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I loved Creed's line of "The tall guy's getting married" and Dwight trying not to react to Jim telling Andy about Battlestar Galactica.