Season 9 Nelly is actually a case of a rare improvement of an existing character. I have no idea what she does, but she's far better than the abomination of a character from last season. And Season 9 Angela has been awesome- I always loved the character, so it's hard to say it's an improvement, but maybe it's just…

robinm: I'm under the impression that he brought the idea up in the off-season because when he mentioned it in the first episode, it sounded like it was very quickly dismissed… it'd be interesting to see how that conversation went- could be revealing.

Yeah, all those minor league Scranton-Wilkes Barre athletes need marketing experts to help them get local sponsorship deals with auto dealerships and insurance agencies.

Stanley's reaction was hilarious… I was really hoping we'd get the same rage-faced charge from his inflatable-Sumo fight from way back when

He was also the goofy skier with the righteous dance moves in Ski Patrol… His lip-synching to Dancing in the Streets totally saved the ski resort. True story.

I wonder if the Andy-Erin-Pete stuff was Daniels' and his writers way of "fixing" that mess from last season and getting it out of the way, maybe with an added screw-you to whoever's idea it was. I remember no one seemed to like the Andy-Erin pairing last year, especially the sheer stupidity and general mean-ness that…

After watching each episode, I'll do a little reflection and come to a general opinion. This week, I my thought was, "wow, on the whole that wasn't a very good episode of The Office," for many of the flaws/reasons listed here. Though I've found this season to be a vast improvement over last, that's mostly been the…

You forgot the ending: When they returned to the office Stanley didn't want to walk back up the stairs, so he stabbed himself with another tranquilizer dart and told Dwight and Clark that since they carried him down, they could bring him back up before passing out again.

It's a little jarring because Pam knows how much he hated the office life, but because it was their little thing that they got to share/suffer in together, that's what she liked about it. Go back a few weeks where she was floored in her reactions when she went to visit him at the office in Philly- he was actually…

I always wonder what happened to that girl from the gym that he brought to Phyllis' wedding and who caught the bouqet… "Yeah! Toby!"

My revised dream finish is, after all this, Jim agrees to return to Scranton with Pam and accept their life there… and hey, since Andy wants to go be a star, he'll even toss his hat into the ring for the manager position, and she drives down with the kids to help him pack up, waits in the car as he cashes-out his…

I dunno- I would say there's plenty there to support it- marketing in general is essentially a sales field and Jim was continuously shown to be a very successful salesman over the years despite his apathy. Also, he was pegged several times for promotion and upper management by David Wallace and Jo so he's got some…

I'm surprised Angela would know about "The Good Wife" as a show. Does Harry Connick Jr. make appearances in it? He's…very talented.

Thank you. Remember fist-pumping Stanley at the end of that episode after hiking the stairs and losing 20+lbs?
 
The only explanation is that Florida Stanley killed off Scranton Stanley in their hotel room and we've had Florida Stanley this entire time, indulging in all sorts of hedonistic and gluttenous activities.
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Wasn't he the guy who went running with the Senator and Angela all the time? I seem to recall a photo where it's obvious there's a thing there.

That was "Basketball" Season One, Episode 5. Remember when Kevin was a competent basketball player and Stanley could move more than a few feet at a time?

Well, Florida Stanley gave him advice last season, something to the effect of "Careful Jim, after the first time, it just keeps getting easier…"

Hey that's cool you think the AV Club is getting shoutouts and all that, because of course it's all about you guys, but Josh McAuliffe is an actual reporter for the local Scranton Times-Tribune: http://thetimes-tribune.com…

That's how you know you're watching an earlier-season episode of Storage Wars- when the item they insist on getting appraised isn't worth squat and at the end, all four participants end up in the red, even with their insane self over-valuations of the unit contents.

I've written about it elsewhere in this thread, but you hit on a few more instances of where this show has veered into overt phoniness and contrived scenarios.