@avclub-d7d1e0309597c93cda923d6b631281cc:disqus Yeah, they didn't do a very good job of showing how that went down. I'm sure it's because they wanted the surprise reveal with Peggy finding it out, but how the hell would they have been able to merge overnight with only Roger and Don in Detroit?

As VanDerWerff noted in his review, I'm curious if that was a fake-out by Chaough (though I don't know what purpose that info coming out it would serve now that they merged and signed the deal already), since earlier in the episode he talked about how their pitch involved rocket ships, then suddenly it's just "Play…

That is actually a real campaign that Lucky Strike used, and it was supposed to show him cleverly sidestepping the health claim crackdowns of the time by coming up with a way to make the product sound different and better, despite the fact that all smokable tobacco is "toasted".

Yeah, it's clearly a mock-up and not the final product. Plus "the women are facing the camera" doesn't really make any sense as an argument for the real ad being objectively better. The Belle Jolie ad was just a mock-up too.

They're my go-to dumb action movies. Tom Cruise is obviously super icky or whatever IRL, but Mission Impossible delivers the goods for gadget-ey, fun heist capers in a way that James Bond has never been able to do satisfactorily (for me at least).

Well, what I meant was they should have let him keep the position for the duration that Andy's had it, since zero good storylines have come out of Andy being the manager.

It would have been great if he got hit by a semi inexplicably going 1,000mph down a narrow alley and flew a city block only to be fine, as happens in nearly every comedy movie in the last couple years

They should have made Dwight the manager immediately after Michael left. It would have been a hell of a lot more interesting than front-lining Andy, a character they absolutely do not know how to write for

Agreed. Plot summaries are pointless. If I simply want to know what events transpired in the episode I'll watch it, or read Vulture or whatever.

Well, they've constructed the story so that Jim can now have the best of both worlds, he doesn't have to move to Philly, he just has to go on a 3-month trip out west.

That's pretty much exactly why they're having her bottom out in the current storyline, so she can regain some audience sympathy before getting back together with Dwight for a happily ever after ending.

The weird thing with Dwight is that he just agreed to run his Aunt's farm in addition to his own (which is also a bed and breakfast), he's already the office park superintendent AND now he's the manager? Some explanation of how he can possibly perform all those jobs at the same time would be nice.

He only locked the break-room door if memory serves, mostly so he could heat up the handle to simulate the fire. And David Wallace wasn't involved at all during the gun shooting incident. It was kind of odd how OK with his promotion Jim was though, given how dead set against it he was the other times it's been…

"Smasher? No, where did you get that?" Was a great, season 2 esque joke.

Yeah I think the idea was that Wallace was trying to do whatever he could to let Andy quit and therefore not have to pay severance or anything.

Yeah that was odd. Normally he's too busy being dismissive of her for being a woman/unskilled at farm labor and feigning disgust at her and Jim's affection to say anything nice. But I guess I could see him being overly defensive in an "only I can make fun of my sister" way.

I was OK with the mercy-kill aspect of it until they mentioned there being claw marks on the food in her fridge. That was a bit too callous (and didn't really line up with Dwight's assertions that it was unconscious and presumably knowing what he's doing when dealing with animals)

Yeah, the ads for Hangover III starring Ed Helms every act break kind of destroyed any suspension of disbelief for all the "Andy could never be famous" stuff

The most frustrating thing is that Jim STILL has not learned the lesson that he just needs to communicate and stop making huge decisions without even consulting Pam.

It would be perfect if this video was part of a series Walt made to teach Jesse how to cook the Heisenberg blue meth