Promo for the biggest Weddings this television season

Here's a video for those anticipating the JAM wedding.



Thank Officetally.com for hosting and posting the video on their youtube account.

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I've just added a translation app to this websites html code, hopefully its work and will allow any international readers to be able to read their blogs in their native languages.

If its working, could someone please let me know?

Preview - Episode 3 "The Promotion"

Here's a preview of an upcoming clip from the next episode...its a great clip(I'm really digging the new season, I hope it doesn't let me down)

Season 6 Episode 2 - The Meeting

The Office - Season 6 Episode 2 "The Meeting"
Directed by Randall Einhorn
Written by Aaron Shure

Cold Opening.

This is by far, one of the best cold openings for the show. It goes back to the awkward moments that happened during the beginning of the series...a lot of 'no he didn't', I love Oscars facial reactions during the questioning...ah man, it was perfect

This was Steve Carell at his finest. He's such a great actor, but for the last couple of seasons and the films that he's starred in, I've felt that they've held him back a little...kinda like the whole Eddie Murphy situation.


Steve Carell used to be like Eddie Murphy in RAW, but lately they've made him like Eddie Murphy in Daddy Day care...

The last 2 seasons of the Office, Michael's character went from 'Jerk of a Boss' to down right stupid but lets throw in a couple of sympathy moments to hook the audience...it was the Homer Simpson effect.



Anyways, I really was on Michael's side for this...I'm glad he didn't sugarcoat anything and spoke honestly about Jim and his potential at being a manager. We all know that Jim isn't manager material, the Jim fans beg to differ. But he commands no authority(except from Dwight), the other employees don't think much of him and when it was announced that he was a co-manager they didn't seem so pleased. Whats interesting is that Jim was offered another position at another company. He mentions this to Wallace as a form of leverage so that he could be promoted to Manager of Scranton. Josh from Stamford did the same thing, and I remember Jim being all pissy and had that talking head where he goes "Michael Scott wouldn't do a thing like that". I've noticed Jim is a pretty big hypocrite, last season there was a scene where Charles went to go shake hands with Wallace and Jim had that talking head where he was making those 'kissing sounds' to imply that Charles is a 'kiss ass'. Whats funny is that Jim has done the same bullshit, in fact he tried kissing Charles' ass...fucken hypocrite. Thats why I dislike the Jim character...I don't get all the love and admiration for him...he's not all that(even though he probably thinks differently). I'll end my rant off there.

Pam was checking off who was coming to the wedding. Now, here's my problem with this storyline...and I blame the writers. I enjoyed this episode with Pam, as she had some great scenes with Kelly, Ryan, Merredith & Angela. But my problem is, in the Cafe Disco episode...Jim & Pam decided they wanted to get married at City Hall, right before they left the office they took a peak at the cafe disco and loved the vibe and 'cheeziness' of it and wanted a wedding. Now Pam wants a wedding, but doesn't want anyone from Dunder Mifflin to attend...does anyone see the problem here? The reason they decided to go with the wedding was because of how much fun the employees were having at Cafe Disco, and that atmosphere changed her opinion...and now she's hoping the cause of that atmosphere to show up to her wedding...give me a break.

Lastly, Toby & Dwight...they need more story lines together. What would be great if they continue this bond, if Michael found about it somehow and was hurt over Dwight's friendship with Toby and tries to 'win' him back to his side. Anyways, the plot involving them and Darrel was classic...so many great scenes.

Dwight - We thought she was you.

Darrel - Why would you think a lady is me?

Dwight - Are you serious? Because you look exactly alike. (Turns to camera) Am I the only one seeing this?

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Darrel - "And I'm gonna tell them(Corporate) that you guys sexually harassed my sister.

Dwight(looking at Darrels sister) - "No judge is going to believe that"

LOL. Classic.

Anyways, this was a great episode...the story plot is placed in business related...no more 'lets throw these guys in a weird place and see what zainy antics they come up with', it sets up a season where I believe there will be a rift between Jim and Michael(I hope Michael has the balls to stand up for himself, I hope the writers don't turn him into a cowering idiot when he's against Jim)

Solid 8.5/10 for me

I hope you guys enjoyed it.

Ever wanted to know the rankings of The Office staff, check it out

http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/downloads/dunder_mifflin_org_chart.pdf

S06E02 - The Meeting, Wow!

I loved the episode last night. If the rest of the season turns out to be as good as episode 1 & 2, then I believe The Office is back to form. I'll post my review up later today, for those who have been reading. If you haven't been able to watch it, check the link....


For American Viewers.(for some reason, I haven't been able to make my links clickable)

http://www.hulu.com/the-office?c=Comedy

Rest of the World

http://www.sidereel.com/The_Office/_season/6/_episode/2/_search

Enjoy

Entertainment Weekly - "JAM " on the cover

Entertainment Weekly wrote an article on Jim and Pam Wedding. Its a nice cover, but man...they went overboard with photoshop on Jenna Fischer. Now, I think Jenna is an attractive woman, but I hate when magazine go overboard with the editing and airbrush here & there to the max. She looks completely different, no wonder I'm less than thrilled when I've seen actresses up close...

Anyways, the article goes on to place JAM on that pedestal...seriously, they've become the most 'boringest' part of The Office. I was a fan of the courtship from s1 - s3. I cheered for Jim as he was the underdog and things weren't going for him 'love wise' as I've gone through the same thing(he was also less of a prick in the earlier seasons) and I felt that warm fuzzy feeling when he confessed his love for Pam at the end of Casino Night(what, maybe its because I'm a helpless romantic at heart). But now, its gone way too far. Their characters add nothing to the show. Once they were together, I knew their story arc would end up shit...the writers could 'play with fire' but they're too pussy to change things up as they know the massive JAM following would riot in front of their doorsteps. What's even worse is when the writers try to make us gush by showing how perfect they are as couple ...for fucksake, they've written these characters as if they're on Grays Anatomy.

I know a majority of the JAM supporters are women, and maybe that's why many of them love Jim...because he's a fucken pussy, and clearly has let Pam where the pants in their relationship. Now, I don't wanna come off as sexist, or misogynistic in anyway. Because I'm not. I was brought up by two strong women in my life (my Grandmother and Mother)...but I clearly feel the women who watch this show because of JAM have caused its decline in quality. If JAM fans didn't have that much influence, we would have seen some issues in Jim & Pam's relationship. If you don't believe me, check out this article.



This is how much clout JAM fans have...they were able to change a potential storyline. Here are some highlights from that article.

Originally, my character -- and I know this part to be true -- my character was supposed to be enamored of Pam. He was supposed to be a potential roadblock for Pam and Jim. What I understand happened, or at least it seems chronologically to make sense, was we shot the first two episodes. Before I shot my third episode where I had this big monologue where I was to profess my love to Pam, the first one aired.

The audience response to seeing Pam being even mildly flirtatious or being flirted with by some art-school guy ... the Internet exploded. People were like, "No, no no. We don't want more roadblocks for Pam and Jim. We just want to see them get together." And it was so big a response that when I showed up to do that final professing-of-love monologue, every bit of it had been changed. It was still the monologue, but it was about being in New York. Instead of "I love you," it was more, "Listen, you have all of these opportunities here. You're an artist. You need to follow your dream. You need to stay here."

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Anyways, back to the Entertainment Weekly Article...here's the link and a few highlights from the article on Jim & Pam



It’s about keeping this relationship as real as we can instead of making it a television romance,” explains Krasinski. “When you have two characters who are so perfect for each other, it’s a little weird for them to not get married. So you have to put that step in, whether it’s been done on television successfully before or not.” Adds exec producer Greg Daniels: “We didn’t want to do the soap opera-y thing and cheapen it. Besides, our ratings keep going up, so I don’t think anyone minds them being together.”

The Emmy's

Just watched the Emmy's(Nothing else on. Plus I can't find the remote and couldn't be bothered to search for it or get up and change the channel)

Anyways, just wanted to report Office/Emmy related news.

Unfortunately Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, nor The Office won any awards in their respective categories, however Jeffrey Blitz who directed Stress Relief won an award for Best Director in a Comedy Series.

Ricky Gervais (creator of The Office) was there to present an award for the show...he was great, but it wasn't as good as what he had said last year.

Next time on The Office

SPOILER ALERT - Michael Scott

Jim makes a request to Michael that leaves him feeling insecure and defensive. Pam tries to deal with the guest list for the wedding and Dwight talks Toby into investigating Darryl's worker's comp claim.(Courtesy NBC)

The Office Season 6 Premier - Gossip

BACK IN SCRANTON! The Office season 6 premier was great, which is a relief because I've been having doubts on continuing to watch this series. I thoroughly enjoyed the episode, I'm not sure if its because the writing has improved or is it because I've lowered my expectation greatly. Ah well, thats just my opinion and hopefully some of my fellow Dundermiflinites will share their thoughts and opinion on last nights episode.

I loved the cold opening.

Parkour! It was great to see Michael, Dwight and Andy perform(at least try to attempt to) those hardcore stunts. I love how out of shape these middle aged men with hearts of children are. One area where I think they should have edited was the last portion when Andy fell into the empty box, it was too predictable. One can guess right away whats going to happen, they should have edited out the portion of him explaining the next move on the roof, if they had let the parkour stunts scenes roll one after another...the roof scene would have been less predictable.

The rest of the episode dealt with gossip being spread around The Office by Michael which he hears from an intern. I am getting sick of the characters on this show having affairs, as that storyline has been milked in other TV series as well as this one(Angela Affair). But the results of Michaels gossip spreading was delightful, I loved the rumors he made about Dwight.

Dwight - You told people that I use store bought manure...when I showed you where my manure comes from, hmm?

Steve Carell was great in this episode. I love how well he can portray Michael as the insecure buffoon. Michael is so juvenile in this episode that it brings up great lines like "If no one tells me I'm gonna scream!" Whats great about this episode is that it features the entire cast, pretty much every character had a line except Ryan. It would have been great if the episode could have been longer, as I thought the interactions between everyone would have generated more hilarious bits. Creed gives us another few seconds of classic creed moments

"Whose the OBGYN?"

"If I can't scuba, then what is this all about? What have I been working toward?"


I thought the intern feature was fresh for this show(but will most likely be dropped which is a shame I love new characters(usually normal) being thrown into the crazy Office environment. Although it would have been great to have some scenes with Ryan and the Interns. He could have been like one of those experienced combat vets who discusses the horrors of war(but in The Office). A temp that could have had some bond with the interns...he was once them. But I guess the reason why there was a lack of Ryan scenes was due to the filming of Inglorious Basterds (BJ NOVAK was apart of).

Lastly, Jim and Pam have a couple of new boring scenes...since they got together in season 4, their characters have become very bland. When are they going to stir up some controversy between these two, we get it Jim and Pam are in love, but thats not reality. No one is happy in America, in love, marriage, work, etc. The writers of this show don't have the balls to do anything that will upset the legion of JAM fans. Which is a shame, as this show used to push the boundaries like the original UK Version.

I would like to hear your opinion on the matter.

Some Spoilers for the upcoming season

I've been reading up on a few entertainment sites that have been informing readers about potential plot elements, spoilers and other juicy gossip for the upcoming season of 'THE OFFICE'

If you don't want to be spoiled, I suggest you stop reading...................now

Michael Scott - Ugh! Spoiler Alert

This season we will be invited for the wedding of the year, the one we've all been waiting for...Jim and Pam's Wedding. It will be shown during the forth and fifth episode, apparently Jim and Pam are having the wedding in Niagra Falls, in hopes that none of their fellow DM employees will bother to show up.
Seems quite contradictory, since the only reason they're having a wedding was due to the Cafe Disco episode. They seemed to be having a ball of a time with their fellow employees...

Michael will be upset with Jim after he finds out that Jimbo had a meeting with David Wallace CFO(Not his initials, by the way)

Dwight and Tobey will team up together to investigate the workers comp claim by Darryl.

Somebody in the office will be caught having an affair, and it won't be Angela(taken the slow train from Philly)

This season will have Andy question his sexuality...who knows, he make hook up with Oscar and then we'll have the "Oscy" or 'Andcar' shippers.


As Pam was the focus of last season, its now time for the season to start focusing more on Jim

Company Picnic

Company Picnic
Originally aired: May 14, 2009

Summary
Michael reconnects with Holly at the company picnic and the two accidentally reveal that a regional office of Dunder Mifflin is to be shut down. Pam and Jim receive some exciting news.

Background Production/Notes




Company Picnic was the 100th episode of The Office(US), it was written by Paul Lieberstein(who plays Tobey) and Jennifer Celotta(The Duel) and directed by Ken Kwapis(whose other directorial work include 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants', 'License to Wed', and 'He's just not that into you'). Greg Daniels(developer of The Office US) has stated that he was proud that the series made it to a 100th episode.
Daniels said, "I remember interviewing with Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant(creators of the original Office, and Extras), seven years ago, and this (100th episode) was certainly the goal, so I'm very pleased that we got to 100 episodes in a strong fashion. I think the show is in a very good place right now.

Whats also interesting is that the hospital that Jim and Pam went to may look familiar to some viewers, as it was the set used on another hit NBC show --Scrubs.

Review

Personally I did not enjoy this episode and felt that it was the weakest finale for the show. The episode was predictable in every sense, Michael and Holly's sketch wasn't funny...which is a shame as I felt these two characters have had memorable moments in previous episodes.


I did not like the fact that the show hints of a reconciliation between Dwight and Angela, its not shown but a subtle eye glance between the two can be seen and the viewer can easily guess that these two will be back together. As much as I loved this quirky pair in previous seasons, this arc starts treading on the Ross/Rachel relationship.

I feel that the writers were afraid to take chances with this show this season, I dunno if its because Gregg Daniels has left to work on Parks and Rec, but the shows governance isn't working. Whoever is at the helm of this ship is moving it into a wrong direction, which will ultimately lead to the demise of this once great show.

The Office

I've decided to create a blog focused on all things about 'THE OFFICE' television show on NBC. I will provide episode summaries, favourite quotes, personal reviews, news, rumors, spoilers, etc

This blog will allow readers to comment on the show and voice their opinions

Michael: This, is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outa here.