Haha, liked Michael chasing down Meredith at the rehab center.
As Pyroguy mentioned, season 5 has a damn good story to it, drama here and there...like I couldn't help but feel sorry for Andy at the end of the episode.
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Comics Peace, like charity, begins at home. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maybe I need a 2nd re-watch to feel better about this episode, but this probably has to be my least favorite episode of The Office. The opening was hysterical, the beginning of the party was pretty funny, but it really went down hill from there. The whole intervention thing with Meredith in the office felt like a total drag. It wasn't funny. And then just when you thought was over, Michael decided to try and take Meredith to rehab against her will, which ultimately lead to nothing happening? What was THE POINT of all that? It was incredibly pointless and wasn't funny at all. Maybe if it lead somewhere significant story-wise, then I wouldn't be so hard on it. But didn't. All it did was put Michael and Meredith outside of the office when Phyllis gave that announced about Angela and Dwight sleeping with one another.
Even while Michael and Meredith were outside, nothing that was going on in The Office was paticularly hilarious. Only stand-out moment for me was the entire Toby/Princess Unicorn segment.
I'm not trying to say that this episode was completely unfunny, because it wasn't. I did laugh a couple of times through-out, but for the most part, I found myself just incredibly irritated with the unfunny Meredith storyline that lead nowhere. Didn't like the note it ended on either. Never thought I'd see an episode of The Office that was worse than Phyllis's Wedding...but it looks like this i it.
I agree with Droid, more or less. I felt like this episode was really disjointed, and didn't have the normal feel that I get from The Office. Plus the Meredith subplot was really not humorous, as he pointed out. I still enjoyed the episode enough, but it was probably the worst episode of the series yet. Guess that says something about the quality of the show, if I still had fun watching it.
I liked the episode, wasn't that bad, I guess in the end its just down to personal preference.
I am quite surprised people have said that the office should have called it a day after Season 3. Season 4 was fresh, the whole Dunder-Mifflin Infiniti/Ryan in Corporate storyline was nothing short of brilliant.
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And we laugh like soft mad children, Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy - The Doors
Updated the quote in my signature after the two months of ALF with the hilarious thing Dwight said in this past episode. I knew as soon as he said it, it was going to be highly quotable
The Office is getting the special post-Super Bowl timeslot, but it returns before then. It's back on January 15th with a new episode.
And yeah, Jessica Alba will be guest starring, along with Jack Black. I assume the network wanted big stars, considering it's airing after the Super Bowl, which usually means monster ratings.
Spoiler: Synopsis
In one plot of the special post Super Bowl episode of "The Office," some of the office workers try to secretly watch a bootlegged Hollywood movie during the workday. The movie stars Jack Black and other notable Hollywood actors.