I don't understand the sentiment that Dwight didn't deserve the treatment Jim dished out. He was a raging asshole for almost all nine seasons and Jim never had any real authority over him,

The other thing that makes "Dinner Party" more tolerable is that Michael's selfish behavior is confined to the people of the office. When outsiders are involved the cringe factor just goes up exponentially for me.

Him dragging the wheel chair up the aisle works for me.

Man, was Pam's art lame. I thought they should have given her a little more talent than those watercolors displayed.

If the U.K. version had gone on for more than 14 episodes then Dawn's continuing to stay with Lee would have become really difficult to understand.

I can't imagine the episode without that scene. The stuff with Michael at Ryan's school was funny, but painful and needed to be leavened with some humanity. I often found Michael's antics with the world outside of the office to be somewhat forced and unrealistic. This episode following right after Phyllis's Wedding…

There was no real setup or payoff to the joke.

That he bought some wine coolers for after meeting in a 7-11 parking lot. That's the Andy I liked.

Yeah, I can see that, but I really wish they had started the relationship back in Stamford well before the merger. It would have added a lot more power to why both Jim and Karen hung on so long. Having them start dating just before (or just after, it's never been clear to me) the move to Scranton made the revelation…

I just felt that the Roy at his wedding was more written to further the conflict between Jim and Pam about Jim having ambitions outside of Scranton and Dunder Mifflin. The implication being that Pam's love of stability/stasis was going to be the conflict that drove the season and Roy's breaking out of the dimwitted…

The ridiculous Andy/Erin stuff was the worst thing the show ever did. Turning Andy into the romantic lead just didn't make sense.

I kind of wish that Karen had dumped Jim's ass after his admission that he still had feelings for Pam. Her clinging onto a pretty short relationship with him sort of made her look desperate.

I found the S9 retcon of Roy to be a huge fail. The idea that Pam had turned him into a lunkhead drunk with no ambition was ludicrous. They shoehorned it in to further the drawn out "Jim wants a new job in Philly and Pam doesn't" story, but it made no sense in terms of the S1-3 Roy we had met. That he might have gone…

Her portrayal of being aroused by the description of Dwight macing Roy in The Negotiation is my favorite scene of hers.

"Cocaine! One million stars!"

They needed someone to be the romantic lead after Jim and Pam hooked up. Andy got chosen. It was a mistake.

Yeah, I kind of see why they originally deleted it. It undercut the whole "Jim is devastated and can barely be around Pam" storyline.

The problem for me is that there just isn't any explanation that isn't "Gee, wouldn't it be funny if…" Much like Kevin's descent into idiocy or Dwight's increasing violence in the later years of the show.

Yeah, I always wondered why that couple wouldn't have traded seats with Dwight. Who wants to sit between people from another party?

Yeah, I did that once. It was unpleasant.