Agree. I think my favourite parts were Dwight's "anus" conversation with Stanley and Andy assuming Pam's photos were of CeCe and just saying what she wants to hear.

@Lurkbot - I'm happy for all the characters to develop. But the way to develop a character is over time, incrementally, not to totally change the character for the sake of one episode.

@Todd - I'm not saying that there isn't room for drama and pathos within a comedy, but there should at least be some damn comedy or else it's failing at its one prerequisite.

@Scanner - You say less jokey, I say not funny. There's one true crime a comedy can commit and that's to be unfunny, which, sadly, tonight's episode was.

@Lukbot - a 30 second bit at the end of the episode doesn't make up for the prior 22 minutes of boring Troy.

Nice touch
With regards to Pam stealing the Office Administrator position, I like how the show had Michael say something to Pam like "this is why I hired you for Office Administrator", as it served to both legitimise Pam's position and highlight Michael's general ignorance.

Conversely this is one I know I'll skip when watching the DVD.

Not for me
Yep, I'm definitely one of the haters, I thought the episode plain sucked. My least favourite, frankly.

How the fuck can they overlook badass albums by Deftones and Dillinger Escape Plan, yet reward tired old shit like Megadeth and Iron Maiden?

The shoulder pop was undoubtedly the Gloria moment of the week.

I can no longer think of Nikola Tesla as the genius engineer that he was, instead all I think of is David Bowie fucking about with a hat.

Perhaps Bass would have scoffed, but he hasn't exactly reached the heights that Timberlake has. It would take a real career meltdown for Timberlake to ever do this.

It'd be a great TV series. Hopefully TV execs see the success of Walking Dead and take a chance on this (if the movie doesn't get made first, of course).

Throw in some beer and you've got a solid night in.

Yeah, it ranks alongside "Rudebox" where Robbie single handedly tried to bring back the long disabused notion that white people can't rap.

@Violet Crumbles - The comparison to Robbie Williams isn't apt. Timerberlake went from boy-band lameass to credible pop star and actor, going back would be career suicide. Robbie Williams went from boy-band lameass to karaoke singing lameass whose career was dead, he then returned to a resurgent and reinvented Take…

Norm rules.

Mmm…tryptophan.

It's a damn near miracle. He used to be the curly haired little pussy in N*Sync (my money would have been on him to be the gay one, not Lance), now he's hanging out with Jay-Z, campaigning for Oscars, and banging hot broads.

It's not just about the money. Timberlake has managed to carve out a career as a respectable R&B/pop artist and a rather good actor. There's no way he'd piss over that to return to the boy-band image he worked so hard to shed.