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Krasinski is barely holding it together during that scene.

I have watched that blooper reel far too many times and the opening where Carrel tells Dwight to "shut the f*ck up." cracks me up every time.

Well, technically the bitch comment came before the "I hope you get the job" jab, but Karen did have a point. Not only did Pam stake her claim to Jim in front of the entire office, but then came back and "apologized" by basically reiterating it to Karen.

Yeah, you sort of feel the lack of women besides Mindy Kaling in the writer's room with Pam's arc. They gave her the Michael Scott Paper Company stuff in S5 and then just said "Hey, we'll get her pregnant and that should just about do it."

That she lost to Jaime Pressley that year is just unbelievable.

I love Women's Appreciation and her talking head is a big reason for it. She starts out strong and then the whole thing just gets away from her. How Fischer didn't win the Emmy for this season I still don't understand.

While I love that scene, a little part of my brain always says "You know Pam, this might have been better done with just Jim and not the whole office listening. Oh, and maybe three months earlier?

Again, this failure on his part requires a series of events that just don't track. Why didn't the security guard wonder why the parking lot is full? They have often stayed late at the office (in "The Client" for instance) so the protocol for leaving the gate unlocked must be well known.

Thank god someone else hates that story line as much as I do. Combined with Michael's destruction of the kid's dreams makes "Scott's Tots" unwatchable for me. I could have handled it if had just been Michael, as dark as that was, but to have Jim just blindly follow Dwight's tips on how to run the employee of the month

"When you land, try and land like an eight year-old. These bouncy castles are not designed for adults."

Andy was on the verge of a breakdown from the first episode of the season. Something would have sent him over the edge eventually. Jim gave him exactly the treatment he deserved especially here. If he hadn't of stopped Andy from blurting it out in the principal's office, Andy would have been up on charges.

I always wondered in "Product Recall" was supposed to air earlier in the season. Andy bizarrely asks Jim how his new apartment is which seems odd five months after moving.

The certificate of gratitude with the stuffed animal graphic and Dwight noticing it was a nice touch.

Yeah, was Jim supposed to pretend that everything was fine, enjoy the evening in NYC and then dump her on their return to Scranton? Given that Karen was having lunch with her friends while he was interviewing with Wallace I always figured she told him to leave and she would get a ride back to Scranton with one of

You could make a pretty decent season out of the five that followed S4. The last third of S5 with the Michael Scott Paper Company would have to be in there.

What was never explained was how Michael went from the worst manager at Dunder Mifflin to the best. Scranton was the one branch to be selected for closure and was only spared because Josh bailed out of Stamford. Then somehow in S6 Scranton is the best performer of the lot. Jim's failure as a manager was a similar

If I was Jim I would have made Ryan's life a living hell after S4. Ryan was attempting to get Jim fired for reasons that were never made clear, but mainly seemed to be that Jim might have been a better fit for Ryan's job. The idea that he returned as a temp and Jim was supposed to let that slide is nuts.

Couldn't agree more about Roy's reaction. It seems like the writers were flailing around trying to think of ways to prevent Pam from just telling Jim how she was feeling and getting the whole thing behind them. Roy developing an anger management problem was too much. It feels like Jack Bauer's wife getting amnesia in

The Roy of Seasons 1-3 was a boorish drinker whose major ambition was to hang out with his brother at the lake. Suddenly he reappears in S9 running his own business and taking piano lessons to sing to his wife. Once again they went with the sledgehammer approach to storytelling as they did all too often in the later

Except for the fact she spends a significant amount of time in Stamford after Josh bails on the position. The idea that they would change a reorganization on the fly like that is one of the early examples of how they didn't quite get corporate culture.