The opening was great in this episode! Pam reveals to Jim that she is angry at everyone in the office because none of them had called her to congratulate her on their engagement. Jim bashfully tells her that he hadn’t told any of them yet so he puts her on speaker phone and makes the announcement to everyone. The reactions are nothing but unenthused and somewhat insulting. Oscar says he thought they were already engaged and Angela points out that she had been engaged to Roy before, not Jim. Kevin also finds it necessary to point out to Jim that Pam is not a virgin. Jim’s face during all of this makes it obvious that he knew this would happen when he told them and that’s why he’d waited so long. But of course Michael walks in as they are all discussing this and he finds out the great news and tackles Jim!! The scene is nothing short of perfection because you see Jim in the middle of the screen and all of a sudden Michael is pushing him out of the frame and you see them go down together right as the theme song starts.
The first scene is a big moment in The Office history because Michael does one of his song parodies with another person: Holly!! Holly is to give her first presentation at the office and it is about ethics because of Ryan’s little run-in with the law while he was at corporate. Her and Michael start some music and walk into the conference room singing “Let’s Get Ethical” while wearing headbands and dancing something that they had obviously choreographed and practiced. There is a cut scene to Jim’s face during the song and it is of him smiling and nodding with approval; it made the scene even more perfect. But when they are finished and Holly starts to give her presentation, tension breaks out in the conference room. It is much unexpected because when she enters the room singing with Michael, you feel like she is going to have a great relationship with everyone but as she starts to speak and just read from the book, everyone starts to realize that they like the way Michael does things. They like the songs and dances and ridiculous seminars that he makes up; they don’t like the reading straight from the corporate binder. Michael tries to help her out and tell her that “this is a tough crowd. They expect humor and sudden twists and surprise endings.” He then proceeds to tell everyone they have immunity and asks them what unethical things they have done in the office. Meredith says that she sleeps with someone to get discounts and Outback Steakhouse coupons. Holly is very concerned, whereas Michael finds it hilarious.
Michael and Holly attempt to go out to lunch and figure out what to do about Meredith and we see the first conflict between them. Michael talks about the office being like a big family and how they have to take care of each other and he just wants to forget the whole thing ever happened. Holly, on the other hand, thinks they have to follow the rules and report her to corporate. This makes Michael so angry that he avoids her for almost the rest of the day. There are very funny scenes with him not giving her any coffee when she enters the break room and him running to get to the copier before she does even though he has nothing to copy. She tries to report Meredith to corporate but they tell her that the company is in a tough place right now and could use the discount and so they are just going to sweep it under the rug and pretend it didn’t happen. The HR rep from corporate tells her that she is just supposed to get signatures from everyone in the office saying they went through the seminar and he really puts her down and makes her feel like she can’t do her job. But she is also obviously thinking about if she wants to stay with this company or not because of their views on ethics.
During all of this, Jim starts to record everything that Dwight does during the day because Dwight swears that he never steals any company time like taking extra time for lunch or making any personal phone calls. Dwight does not leave his desk for anything that day, he even pees at his desk, but he then mysteriously disappears for 19 minutes and 48 seconds. We see Angela buttoning her shirt when they come back and we know where he’s been! Jim asks him if it is really ethical for him to use that much personal time during work and Dwight just looks at the camera with his mischievous grin and we know the he realizes what he’s doing with Angela is unethical.
I was a little disappointed with this episode because I wanted a little more from it. The only real story line was with Holly and Michael having conflicting opinions on the Meredith situation. I just wanted to see more of the other characters. But it was an important episode because it shows us the start of Holly disagreeing with how Dunder Mifflin does things and we can see why she might end up leaving within a few episodes, because she is only supposed to be on the show for maybe 3 more. I can’t wait for the next one and I hope we see more of Jim and Pam engaged! And maybe find out more about Angela and Andy’s wedding, I can’t imagine she’ll go through with it! But we will find out!
The first scene is a big moment in The Office history because Michael does one of his song parodies with another person: Holly!! Holly is to give her first presentation at the office and it is about ethics because of Ryan’s little run-in with the law while he was at corporate. Her and Michael start some music and walk into the conference room singing “Let’s Get Ethical” while wearing headbands and dancing something that they had obviously choreographed and practiced. There is a cut scene to Jim’s face during the song and it is of him smiling and nodding with approval; it made the scene even more perfect. But when they are finished and Holly starts to give her presentation, tension breaks out in the conference room. It is much unexpected because when she enters the room singing with Michael, you feel like she is going to have a great relationship with everyone but as she starts to speak and just read from the book, everyone starts to realize that they like the way Michael does things. They like the songs and dances and ridiculous seminars that he makes up; they don’t like the reading straight from the corporate binder. Michael tries to help her out and tell her that “this is a tough crowd. They expect humor and sudden twists and surprise endings.” He then proceeds to tell everyone they have immunity and asks them what unethical things they have done in the office. Meredith says that she sleeps with someone to get discounts and Outback Steakhouse coupons. Holly is very concerned, whereas Michael finds it hilarious.
Michael and Holly attempt to go out to lunch and figure out what to do about Meredith and we see the first conflict between them. Michael talks about the office being like a big family and how they have to take care of each other and he just wants to forget the whole thing ever happened. Holly, on the other hand, thinks they have to follow the rules and report her to corporate. This makes Michael so angry that he avoids her for almost the rest of the day. There are very funny scenes with him not giving her any coffee when she enters the break room and him running to get to the copier before she does even though he has nothing to copy. She tries to report Meredith to corporate but they tell her that the company is in a tough place right now and could use the discount and so they are just going to sweep it under the rug and pretend it didn’t happen. The HR rep from corporate tells her that she is just supposed to get signatures from everyone in the office saying they went through the seminar and he really puts her down and makes her feel like she can’t do her job. But she is also obviously thinking about if she wants to stay with this company or not because of their views on ethics.
During all of this, Jim starts to record everything that Dwight does during the day because Dwight swears that he never steals any company time like taking extra time for lunch or making any personal phone calls. Dwight does not leave his desk for anything that day, he even pees at his desk, but he then mysteriously disappears for 19 minutes and 48 seconds. We see Angela buttoning her shirt when they come back and we know where he’s been! Jim asks him if it is really ethical for him to use that much personal time during work and Dwight just looks at the camera with his mischievous grin and we know the he realizes what he’s doing with Angela is unethical.
I was a little disappointed with this episode because I wanted a little more from it. The only real story line was with Holly and Michael having conflicting opinions on the Meredith situation. I just wanted to see more of the other characters. But it was an important episode because it shows us the start of Holly disagreeing with how Dunder Mifflin does things and we can see why she might end up leaving within a few episodes, because she is only supposed to be on the show for maybe 3 more. I can’t wait for the next one and I hope we see more of Jim and Pam engaged! And maybe find out more about Angela and Andy’s wedding, I can’t imagine she’ll go through with it! But we will find out!
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I really liked your post because I didn't catch this episode of The Office but it completely caught me up. This was very easy to read and full of details. It is perfect for those who didn't get a chance to see it but wanted to know what happened!
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