Grid Effect

Thankfully this is mercifully the last post of the day/week. We need to buy jeans and eat a burger with guacamole on it from Red Robin. A day of rest is in order after last weekend, and we can’t think of a better way to spend it than to buy denim pants for the first time in two years and stuffing our faces with peculiarly concocted hamburgers. But, to the subject at hand…

Damn, melodrama is abound on this comedy, definitely a lot to like though. I suppose if they’re going to have another relationship triangle, which I am adamantly opposed to, an Andy-Angela-Dwight triumvirate is about the best they could do. It has the potential to be ostensibly funnier than Roy-Pam-Jim. For the most part, it was handled light-heartedly, with little sadness, sans Dwight, who evoked more pity from me than Jim ever managed to do. And pity from me is fairly unnoticeable. It consists of an utterance of something like, “poor bastard” before I’m distracted by my roommates dog, who’s in one of those cones.

Andy, putting forth way more effort than she is actually worth.

The Jim-Pam thing has really been put on the back burner, which I’m somewhat surprised by. It counts for two of the four leads on the series, and for the most part they’re an afterthought. We got them sitting on the rooftop, debating who has to go with Michael to New York (apparently the tie always goes to the girlfriend, which is something I don’t adhere to, which probably indicates why I’m currently single) and pulling a halfhearted prank on a depressed Dwight with a 5 o’clock shadow. That’s it. In the entire hour. And that I can handle.

The whole Michael storyline was just weird, and creepy. And deviated even more from the reality than rolling his car into a lake. I mean, I enjoyed him misinterpretation of the chatroom party, as well as his and Dwight’s excursion to New York for Sushi, but the entire thing with the pizza delivery kid was lost on me. While the kid was wrong, there is absolutely no chance in hell a pizza delivery boy is taking that much of a stand over a coupon, nor do I think the entire office sits idly by while Michael holds someone hostage. But there was little to laugh throughout the course of this episode. Though his rejection of Ryan’s newfound leadership just might break him.

Some highlights:

-The pre-credits scene.

-”I’m not going to sit around and cry about it, I did that in the car”. -Michael

-John Krasinski signing his actual name to Meredith’s cast.

-Dwight’s entire scene with Kelly and Darryl

-”Its caused a lot of unpleasantness between Dwight and Angela, who are both already prone to unpleasantness.” -Pam

-Angela abusing Phyllis, then Phyllis throwing a wad of paper balls in her face.

-”What is a Jim?”

-”I did so well last week, that corporate gave me two plaques in lieu of a pay raise.” -Dwight