Thu, 22 April 2010
From Wikipedia:
SECRETARY'S DAY | 4.22.10
Andy tries to make Erin's Secretary's Day a memorable one. While out to lunch with Erin, Michael accidentally informs her of Andy and Angela's past relationship. Oscar circulates a video he made which compares Kevin's voice to Cookie Monster's. -----
So after a lengthy hiatus, we are presented with what COULD be a "classic episode"-- it's written by Mindy Kaling, and directed by Steve Carell himself. More Andy and Erin stuff, which is OK, but certainly lacks the stakes of the classic Jim/Pam romance. Do I really CARE if they break up over the old Angela relationship? Not really. Still, we'll see where it goes. The Oscar/Kevin thing sounds rather ridiculous, but the potential for laughs seems rather high.
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-- posted at: 6:06pm EDT
Comments[13]
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A homage to \"that program where all the puppets live in the barrio\" can only be described in one way... \"C\" for super. The Cookie Monster-Oscar subplot was hilarious, but the Erin Andy drama is close to getting stale. Still, when the human side of Michael shows up to make Erin\'s day, that topped off an overall well-done episode. But maybe Gabe is right...leave the impressions to \"the pros at \'Mad TV.\'\"
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I am not lying when i say that i did not laugh once at this episode. I hated jim and pam in this episode because they just seemed like the cool kids teasing the fat kid. Seriously, those two need to grow up. I don\'t know why they are adding something so major to the andy and erin plot line with only four episodes left in the season. But if i had to say one thing that i liked, it would have to be the character development of gabe. i can\'t to wait to see where that goes.
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Totally agree with how mean Jim and Pam have been this season, and I REALLY, REALLY want to like them. I was hoping parenthood would soften some of the dickishness of these two, but it\'s only worse. Kevin is a clown as all of the characters are clowns, but making fun of him this way is just like EmaLee said - making fun of the fat kid. They danced such a great tight rope laughing at Kevin\'s mannerisms in Holly\'s first episode when she thought he was mentally challenged. That was funny, and not mean. Probably because Holly was funny and nice and not such an asshole. The Office used to be Thursday night appointment viewing - recorded on the DVR just so we could cut out the commercials (sorry, NBC). Now it sits there a couple of days. I watch \"Kendra\" before I watch The Office anymore and that makes me kinda sad (probably because I just acknowledged liking \"Kendra\"). If this is what the rest of the season is going to be, bring on summer (or Sommer!) :-)
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I thought the episode was pretty good overall. Loved Dwights gift to Erin- the bushel of beets and they way he plopped them down hastily. I thought at the end Michael was going to let it slip to Erin about Andy punching the wall and his trip to anger mangement therapy. I think Andy has changed a lot since those days and she shouldn\'t be too concerned. The way she portrayed being upset at the restaurant was not so much funny but convincing. She seemed like she was going to become physically ill. The parody videos and imitating Kevin were ok. The best part was making fun of Gabe. Ok so he have an office now, and is he around every week? Or only occasionally? He is certainly not a very strong leader.
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Erin\'s behavior in the restaurant was very real to me. I have a coworker that reacts that way over the smallest things. People that aren\'t familiar with her have called the police. She had the longest tantrum over her favorite soda not being in the vending machine. It may not be real in your office but it is in mine. I enjoyed the episode. I wouldn\'t call it a classic.
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The Office frequently walks the line of being offensive, but they have a formula that makes it work. Usually Michael does or said something, everyone in the office reacts to how inappropriate it is, and awkward hilarity ensues. (See: Michael dressing up as Jesus in this season\'s Christmas episode.) Tonight was different. The scene with Erin and Michael in the restaurant pissed me off. They\'ve made her into a crazy former foster kid cartoon character. Come on, \"in the foster home, my hair was my room\"? Granted, I\'ve been working with teens who are in foster care for two years now, so this is a topic I\'m pretty passionate about. It would have been nice for Erin to be a former foster youth who fell into neither of television\'s crazy and/or criminal stereotypes. The whole scene was uncomfortable, disappointing, and not at all funny. Maybe if I watched it again I could enjoy the Kevin storyline, but that scene with Erin ruined the rest of episode for me on Thursday. Right now though, it\'s my least favorite episode ever.
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So, it seems Erin is actually mentally disturbed, or am I missing a poor joke? I can understand being miffed over finding out what she did. It would naturally raise the question as to whether this person simply goes after every female in the office, which was true about Andy in Season 3, or if he\'s intent on having a serious relationship. But, her retreating into her \"hair room\", that went over the line from funny to disturbing. In my opinion, their pushing Erin out of the realm of delightfully ditsy, to mentally disturbed, which I fail to see the humor in. Also, judging by my username, you get the idea how I feel about the new parents on the show. Perhaps some unpaid time off would do Mr and Mrs Assholes some good. Any time that Dwight does or says anything to Jim, there MUST be instant retribution, yet they feel it is ok to constantly make fun of Kevin, after being asked not to, without any repercussions? I\'ve worked for my fair share of companies in the past, and I\'ve never come across a single one that would even come close to allowing such things to take place, especially when the employee complains about it. In the real world, if they continued to do so, they WOULD be written up or sent home without pay, I\'ve seen it happen. Yea, so the joke is supposed to be that the powerless boss overstepped his bounds. At what point would a company put itself in danger of getting a lawsuit brought up against them for taking no action to stop the verbal abuse against Kevin? It might do Mindy some good to work in a real office environment before she makes these vein attempts at portraying them on television with any level of reality. But, I suppose we can add this to the ever growing list of actions that would\'ve ended in firings, injuries or lawsuits in real life. I\'m sad to see one of my favorite series of all time sink to such low levels. I will continue to watch, but that\'s only because I don\'t want to miss a minute just in case they go back to the old office philosophy, and start filming episodes that don\'t waste 30 minutes of my life. On a side note, once again, I love the podcast! But, it\'s just that guys, just a podcast. Take your time with whatever is going on in real life, it certainly does take priority over this. When you get a chance, I for one love hearing your comments on the episodes, but also fully understand when it falls down the list of \"must do\'s\". Keep up the awesome work!
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A thoroughly uneven episode but with a good payoff. As someone who works extensively with foster children in a therapeutic capacity, I found Erin\\\'s portrayal of foster-child awkwardness to be caricature-ish and extremely uncomfortable, to say the least. I have never seen anyone over the age of 8 go into a public tantrum as she did; I guess this is supposed to be part of her annoyingly arrested development. I found the Cookie Monster plot far more enjoyable, but do we really need another ineffectual corporate link? Isn\\\'t one Toby enough? However, tying the two story lines together did give us some good Pam & Jim moments. The two of them continue to be the main reason I watch this show. BTW, Matt, was it me or did your vocal delivery towards the end of the last episode have somewhat of a stunted Cookie Monster-ish quality? Were you simply trying to foreshadow things to come? No offense meant...I kid because I love. :-)
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I’ve been dreading this episode ever since Andy & Erin started flirting. I hoped and prayed the writers wouldn’t stoop to this tired, overused and thoroughly stupid plot device, yet always knew deep in my gut that they would. And they did. In the real world, people talk about stuff like this and deal with it. But in TV and Movie Land, it always has to involve a big explosion, a breakup, then a “will they/won’t they get back together” mystery. Bleech! I’m sick of it. Besides, if nothing else, Andy & Erin hardly rate an “A” plot. Their silly romance is a cute sideline, nothing more. The Sesame Street “B” plot didn’t do anything for me, either. What an un-funny, depressing downer of an episode.