The Office Season 8: It Kinda Seems Like the Left Side is the Side to Be On

I'd like to think Erin's parents saw her on the doc, and then tried to reach her through PBS, and then the docs producers persuaded them to reintroduce themselves at the panel to spice up the eventual bonus feature.

i liked the kinda-cheesy casting of Ed Begley Jr. and Joan Cusack. they seem like such generic hippy rom-com parents

Best part of that scene was how everyone else in the panel and the audience realized what was happening before she did.

yeah, that erin's a dopey sweetheart

Also loved Pete's bit about he's still not famous or anything, but now all his friends call him "Plop" so that's great.

Though the episode overall was basically a clip show where nobody felt like acting.

― Evan, Friday, 17 May 2013 23:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! in that respect it was hard to tell the difference between the talking heads in the retrospective clip show thing and the actual final episode

<3 erin, xpost. but yeah, overall this episode was lame and unsurprising. i felt happy for andy in the end, getting a job in the admissions office at cornell. i didn't even know i cared about that character but this was the only emotional response i had to this episode.

i didn't have much emotional attachment at all. it all happened, there were things, people did stuff, they all did their final speeches, the end. only time i actually felt nice about it all was in that group photo in the warehouse with greg daniels &c., but even that was awkward.

They added 15 minutes to it, but imo they could've cut out 15 minutes of Dwight and Angela's wedding and it would've been perfectly okay with me. I guess they needed that so Michael could have his cameo, Nellie could get her baby, and Ryan and Kelly could flee together.

the baby thing was depressing to me. isn't it traumatic for babies' primary caregivers to keep changing?

i mean functionally it all ~worked~, and everyone did the sorts of things you would expect them all to be doing, but the execution felt a bit by-the-numbers

xp yeah, the baby thing was in character for ryan, slightly dissonant for kelly, and just completely wtf for nellie (because we still don't know who she is; she might as well be an extra for all the difference it makes)

actually no i take that back, perfectly in character for kelly

losing the wedding also meant losing the string band version of "Sweet Child of Mine", so NO.

It was very Dwight that his first reaction to the limo stopping and seeing a man with a bazooka standing in a field was to assume that Jim had turned on him.

yeah that was good. the part with dwight and the stripper was stupid and forced though. i don't know what they could have done better with this episode... this season was a mess. the early seasons of the office still contain many of my favorite moments in television history though.

otoh, the fact that Angela's stripper was Meredith's son and the only person not weirded out by that being Meredith was p awesome.

yeah that was great. i think it could have been better executed because it was undermined/cut short by the ridiculous mose kidnapping plotline, but i shouldn't complain bc it was still funny

The wedding was good, come on. The hair metal and the entire Kelly/Ryan scene was A++++ for their characters. "It's a combination of Drew and Blake".

"She went out to get a battery for her E-Cigarette..."

And come on, the "you came" "that's what she said" was expected, but perfect.

Definitely, but Michael desperately needed just a few more actual lines. Or some more 1 on 1 sneak ups like he did with Dwight.

i suspect michael was only there to appease the audience. the show is in no way about him any more.

sort of like when hitchcock started doing his lol cameos right at the start of films so the audience would stop looking for him and just enjoy the movie

yeah, we found out all we needed to know about the rest of his life from Pam.

He's so happy that he's got a family plan!

We watched the finale tonight. I'm so glad I jumped ship when I did.

when did you? I think I stopped watching after the 2009 season

Maybe it was the beginning of this season? When it was revealed that James Spader was gone and Andy was the new boss?

I've got to hand it to Gervais/Merchant: One season, two seasons, a Christmas special and OUT.

james spader was fumbled and catherine tate was just utterly wasted

I liked the finale, but I also didn't watch the retrospective until afterwards, which helped.

Brautentführung is a real tradition.

I liked the finale!
I didn't like the previous episode where it was revealed the baby was Dwight's - I'd rather it wasn't and Angela hadn't lied to him the whole time.

Amusing "Where Are They Know" character pix from NBC site.

geez, "Where Are They Now?"

So I eventually made it to the end. I really liked the final season and the elegiac tone they found throughout.
The restraint of Michael Scott's appearance in the finale was a bit surprising. Also I found a bit sad that they would do a 180 and move the Halperts to Austin, when the whole season seemed to emphasise that one could be happy in a 9 to 5 paper job, that love, friends and community were was it's all about.

Just screened Obvious Child--didn't know that Plop played the baby daddy.

that is possibly the least important connection anyone has ever made

weirdly that makes me more motivated to see it

John Krasinski now JACKED for a role, ie no longer hot.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/25/john-krasinski-criticizes-politicians-for-exploiting-13-hours-i-think-it-s-pretty-disgusting.html

Also, kinda dumb