Man, that episode rings a vague bell, but I have no real memory of it. What season/episode is that? Seven? I've only seen that season once, a couple of years ago (still haven't seen eight or nine).

Yes & no. Jim was pretty terrible in the season four episode 'Survival Man', when Michael left him in charge for a few days.

I've said before that I find Jan's season four character arc a bit much to take sometimes, but lines like this - there are others but this is the best example - do come close to selling the idea that she might flip completely out under the right circumstances.

I always loved how Jim got on well with David Wallace. It was a nice touch that both David & Jan thought very highly of Jim - including as possible management material - since it put them in the same place as us, having Jim effectively as the sane, responsible if underachieving one, in the Scranton branch.

I'm still reading! But between the excellent reviews, Wallflower's ditto, and that I haven't watched these episodes for a few years, I don't have much to add…

I love 'Dinner Party' a lot too, but part of me finds it exists outside the rest of the show - not just because it's unusual in its setting/use of the cast. Partly I think it just goes a *little* too far with Jan being awful. I know she was always high-strung, and that being with Michael pushed her further along the…

I'm the reverse. I mean, intellectually I know that what he does in 'Scott's Tots' is the worst, but it's 'Phyllis' Wedding' I have trouble rewatching. Maybe because it's more relateable? I don't know. But between the walk up the aisle, the premature introduction of the happy couple, and the speech at the reception,…

And remember how this experience of nobody (you say 'including', I would say 'especially' Jim) coming to her art show becomes a key part of her speech - in that it's a specific thing she can point to - on the beach in 'Beach Games'.

That's a fair point, although it asks us to believe things that aren't ever shown (obviously). Still, even the most aggressive, agenda-driven editor in the world couldn't create some of the things we *see* David do, including lying to his boss.

I'd forgotten the Tide detergent one, but that really is a magnificent line.

I always felt that the two ways the American Office improved over the British one - & I love the British one - were:
a) Jim's season three romantic relationship with Karen is much more plausible than Tim's series two relationship with Rachel. In a word where Pam didn't exist, you could totally see Jim & Karen together…

It's also kinda amazing how much they don't appear to care about their music. That's clearly a first take, and the Jennifer Lawrence one barely seems to care about while she's being filmed.

We might be alcoholics perverting a childhood favourite with our need for booze, but we're not THAT sick.

'Get Smart Again' is a considerable improvement over 'The Nude Bomb', but in fairness: it really is just a long episode of the show. Every joke made in 'Get Smart Again' was made in an episode twenty years earlier.

I was a massive fan of 'Inspector Gadget' as a child, and a few years ago my mother bought me the boxset dvds for Christmas. Good god, that show does not hold up to adult viewing.