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Paris vs. Luke was inspired. "Rory, how much do you like this person?" "Do what you gotta do, Luke."

"You can't cancel a holiday." "Jim, take New Year's away from Stanley!" I'm sorry, but heartbroken Michael makes me laugh my ass off.

There were twelve exits!

Well, they're not for sale.

My favorite part might be Andy falling into the lake in his sumo suit and Angela pretending not to get it. "Look at what I'm doing and go tell someone it!!"

No love for the Christmas episodes? The "yankee swap" is good stuff (especially the fake-out with Jim nearly confessing his love to Pam), and I have major love for "A Benihana Christmas," mostly for Pam and Karen awesomely teaming up and Michael singing along to "Goodbye My Lover." Well, part of it. He just wants to

Basically my favorite thing about Ryan was Michael's alarming man-crush on him—that shot of Michael just staring at him through the blinds in "The Carpet" just kills me.

I feel like "Stress Relief" is a million times funnier [and it was already pretty damn funny—"I only weigh 82 pounds!" "BARACK IS PRESIDENT, STANLEY!"] now that we've sort of gotten to know the camera crew in S9 and realized that they're real people. I mean, they saw Dwight starting the fire and basically just sat

Dwight is pure gold in "The Injury," oh man. "You can't fire me, I don't work in this van!"

I was really invested in Kyle's unrequited love for Jimmy.

That's what I was thinking. Like, whatever, Scott is secretly evil and now Julia has to hate him, whatever—but I was genuinely taken aback that Jesse would be okay with his character grossly exploiting Kyle's death, since the whole thing is such an obvious Rent/Larson rip-off and he was actually there for that in real

Yeah, not gonna lie, same here. That character is god-awful and Kyle's death was cheap as hell, but the Jimmy/Kyle friendship did have occasional glimmers of genuine sweetness, and him tearing up during the song did get to me. Goddammit, Smash.

I dunno, I'm far less interested in him when he's not using an English accent and being flamboyantly evil.

I just kind of love that their way of showing just how dark side Gold and Lacey have gone is to have them drinking in the daytime. Jump back! They're practically Bonnie and Clyde!!

That, next to fact that everyone's motivation is "but it might upset Henry!", is probably the thing that drives me the craziest about this show. She just keeps on doing evil shit and everyone acts surprised every time. There's no logical reason not to kill her, really, but the show needs her and so they keep awkwardly

I feel like this episode was turning into all my other favorite shows—first the Homeland thing, which I also totally caught, then that chick hilariously calling the guy a "dildo" before the air conditioner landed on him, a la Deb Morgan, and then speakeasies and a dude getting shot by a sniper through a window, thus

I don't think they should confront it so much as they should keep having Luke deliver awesomely bitter asides about her, like the other week when he muttered "wow, something actually wasn't about you for a minute" or whatever it was. Heh.

According to my caption it was "Dunph-bags."

I feel like he was only a lughead when the plot demanded it. In the early episodes/seasons, when we were supposed to be rooting for Rory/Dean, he had hidden depths and quips and could toss out references as fast as the girls. And remember when he schooled Max on the girls' idiosyncrasies on their double date? But as

It's not in this episode, I don't think, but I love when Emily suggests a trip to the arboretum, and Trix says she has no need to hang around flowers all day—"I'm not a bee." It's the delivery that makes me fall on the floor.