But the general public doesn't look at show synopses.

Did anyone actually expect David Wallace was going to be Andy's ace in the hole? Was anyone actually expecting the writers to use him for anything more than a random cameo?

Thanks!

Stephen Root's Jimmy James is the Macho Business Donkey Wrestler   in all continuities.

If both you and C.S. Lewis are correct, McNutt is the very Devil.

Scranton revanchism go!

The Scranton branch has some weird relationship with the company CEO, not unlike how multi-zillionaire Jimmy James had a weird closeness with WNYX, or as he called it, "the heart of the beast." They know they won't be getting fired anytime soon.

Just how are people supposed to react when a fellow branch of their company is downsized? The Scranton sales team feasting like vultures on dropped clients seems like the sort of thing that the Office is supposed to satirize, the cold opportunistic nature of corporate capitalism. How is this criticism worthy, and not…

I view the David Wallace development as a commentary on the military-industrial complex.

If you're gonna eat a soft taco, you might as well eat a burrito.

It would be more entertaining if they made a movie that was all-out a parody of Gaddafi, Kim Jong-Il, Saddam, and Bin Laden, The Great Dictator style. They can all be characters and go to fictional Mugabe's dinner party. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Nah it's more like "Man wasn't Gaddafi wacky? TIMELY RELEVANCE!"

It was a clever little touch.

Okay, instead of disparaging things as "white", we can use its neighboring pejorative, "whitebread" instead. Hope this helps, Wonderbreads!

Whoa I can't believe someone else thinks that the Office is now the new Arrested Development (see my comment)

The Office is basically Arrested Development now. In the sense that both have the same wackiness to realism ratio. So everyone quote my first sentence and learn to love the zombieSimpsons Office.

I particularly liked the opening with Dean Pelton as Skrillex.

One thing I liked about that whole not-montage series of activities was how well it worked out without any dialogue to telegraph what was happening. And I liked how Liz was a bit player during it (and in this episode in general in fact). Sometimes it's interesting to see main protagonists become background characters…

It's actually funny because I thought this episode was overrated by the review because it was kind of schmaltzy and maudlin with regards to the sudden change of heart between Jack and his mom. I'm all for that happening, but the way it played out was just so abrupt and unconvincing. I fear this is what Parks and Rec…

I've been an apologist for this show this season ever since the Miami arc, but this episode was just painfully bad in terms of characterization. I laughed quite a few times, though.