I'll join you in the blame Paul Lieberstein crowd.

Seven seasons of the Scott's Tots Michael would have been five too many for me. There had to be some relief. There's a reason the U.K. Office had only 14 episodes, perfect as they were.

Yeah, nine reasonably short paragraphs doesn't seem like a huge infraction.

Good is not the word I would use to describe it.

Or maybe they'll just skip over a four letter comment.

Yeah, every time I run across a S2 rerun I'll sit down for 30 minutes. Of course in my town they run episodes back-to-back and they always follow it with some crap from S6 so the feeling fades pretty quickly.

Yeah, that was a pretty obvious wink at the audience wasn't it? I hope they take their joke seriously and bring old Kevin back.

It moved to Thursday at the start of season 2 after the six episode S1. It's hard to imagine that was the point the show went downhill.

Yeah, I liked last week's a lot more. There were way too many stories leading no where and little real point to any of it. It wasn't unpleasant, but didn't hold together. Unlike McNutt, I'm not going to write off the season on the basis of the second episode.

You'll defend season nine? You, sir, are history's greatest monster.

More singing is my major concern with Andy being elevated to manager. Excepting drunken kaoroke, I have never heard one of my coworkers singing.

You mean like the one he had with Erin just seconds after Jim's comment?

'The Fire', 'Chair Model' and 'Boys and Girls' were some of the weakest episodes of the early seasons?! I don't understand the world any more.

I think you'd be better off trying to watch some of the Season 2 episodes that defined this show to get a better idea of what it was and why so many folks still watch and comment on places like this. It's hard to remember 5 years later, but this show used to be the best sitcom on TV.

You can only credit one writer for an episode so all the other writers get credit as producers. It's a way for them to develop a resume.

Always good to hear from the "Jim and Pam are the worst people on TV" crowd. And how dare the writers not resolve every issue from last season in the first 22 minutes. Slackers.

Yes, you are horrible and shallow.

Come on, chins up!

Why is Ryan still there? What does he do and why does anyone in the office put up with hipster snark? If he worked in my office every time he opened his mouth, I'd tell to make me some copies.

I hope she keeps those boobs after the baby is born. Those could be their own sitcom….that I would watch religiously.