Thu, 24 September 2009
From NBC.com:
THE MEETING | 09.24.09 | 9/8c PT | TV-PG DL
 TOBY
AND DWIGHT GO UNDERCOVER FOLLOWING AN INCIDENT IN THE WAREHOUSE -- A
request by Jim (John Krasinski) leaves Michael (Steve Carell) feeling
insecure and defensive. Meanwhile, Pam (Jenna Fischer) deals with the
guest list for the wedding, and Dwight convinces Toby (Paul
Lieberstein) to investigate Darryl's (Craig Robinson) worker's comp
claim. Ed Helms, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery,
Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Oscar Nuñez, Creed Bratton,
Ellie Kemper, Andy Buckley also star.
-------------- Roll on, episode two. Sounds like a LOT of different plots to break down this week, as well as a lot of potential for wackiness. As always, leave your comments below, and join Kevin and me in the TWSS Chatroom during and after the episode airs.
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-- posted at: 6:05pm EST
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So far, four people have graded this episode and the average is 5.75 (out of 10). I already suggested this at the end of last season and here it goes again. Matt&Kevin, why not make every \"new episode post\" a poll so every commenter would grade the episode in question?
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I\'m really surprised by the lack of enthusiastic responses for this episode. I thought it was a win/win/win. Win for comedy, win for drama, and win for giving us an episode with a clear idea of where this season will be headed. If I had to fault it, I would have to say the Darryl\'s sister thing was a little over-the-top, but it paid off well enough for me not to care too much. Overall, 8/10.
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It was an episode more for plot advancement, rather than laughs. Not the funniest episode, but it will be interesting to see how Jim takes on the promotion, and how Michael takes on the...side-motion. I do have a lingering question, though...if Buffalo\'s clients were absorbed mostly by Scranton, shouldn\'t we also see at least a few of Buffalo\'s employees joining the Scranton branch? After all, that\'s what happened when Stamford shut down. I find it hard to believe that all of the Buffalo employees were let go. Were they just shifted around to other branches?
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Liked the episode but Jim and Pam both got on my nerves. Jim seemed very arrogant to me and Pam seemed a little snarky about the inviting the other office personnel to the wedding. Seems like it would have been more appropriate for David Wallace to talk to Michael before Jim as Michael is Jim\'s immediate supervisor. Over all really liked the episode was very funny though. Dwight and Toby cracked me up.
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I learned two things from this episode: 1. I still love David Wallace and welcome any appearance from him no matter how far-fetched the context. 2. Flenderson is almost likable when paired with Dwight, who knew that was possible? As for the rest of the episode, there were quite a few funny moments yet in it\'s entirety I found it fairly mundane. Maybe Jim as co-manager will shake things up a bit.
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Loved it, loved it, loved it...it made up for \"Gossip\" which I thought was mediocre.... Cold open: I gasped with laughter; from the moment Michael mentioned \"routine procedure,\" you knew what he was referring to, and why he called in Oscar. I thought it touched the comedic core of The Office; edgy and well-intentioned at the same time. Michael being worried about creating a pleasurable experience for him and the doctor doesn\'t make him an idiot, it makes him eccentric. I thought it was brilliantly acted by both Michael and Oscar, to boot. Query: does it have a continuity issue? Aren\'t colonoscopies routine only when you reach 50? Isn\'t Michael more like 45 (From the Michael Scott Paper Company episodes)... I thought the Michael plotline was awfully reminiscent of the \"boys and girls\" episode when Jan had a meeting with the women in the conference room. But the dialogue was so sparkling in this episode, with lines that made me laugh all the way through, I liked it a lot better. (Examples: \"There has been work everyday. I had to come in on a Saturday...to retrieve my cell phone.\" \"Wallace had to show up in the one four month period when I\'ve been completely overwhelmed.\" and that HILARIOUS bit where he makes sound effects to make David Wallace think Jim is entering the office; it reminded me of those tours of Universal Studios...) re: Dwight/Toby...I thought Dwight was hilarious with his suspicions about Darryl. Re: the sexual harrassment claim by Darryl\'s sister...#1 it\'s not sexual harrassment because as far as I can tell she doesn\'t work there, and besides that, wouldn\'t the documentary footage trash any possibility of that claim?? But again with Toby/Dwight, great funny lines (\"I\'m renovating a steam engine in our old slaughterhouse.\" \"I\'d like to take a look at that.\" \"It\'s just a run of the mill slaughterhouse.\") Re: Andy...extremely funny cheese tray idea. Also, between this, the business trip episode, and Andy questioning his own sexuality in the Gossip episode, I think we\'re being set up for an Andy/Oscar romance...may I suggest \'Ascar\' as the blended name? ;) re: Jim and Pam...why is Jim so glum? He\'s got another job offer so even if Michael sticks his foot in this one he\'s still fine. The wedding invitations...if you think the people in the office were being a**holes about responding, you probably haven\'t had a wedding. I actually had a woman tell me she wasn\'t coming to my wedding because she didn\'t want to spend the weekend \"with those people who were at your bridal shower\" (i.e. my family and friends)!! With the promotion...I love David Wallace but since when does he need to get Michael\'s buy-in to promote Jim (and Michael too, for that matter?) ...and Toby\'s review that trashes Jim...we all love Jim but you can\'t say it\'s not true. He\'s a slacker - a really good looking, funny one - but he\'s always spent more time messing around than working, he does bug Dwight,he hasn\'t thrived when he\'s been in charge. Maybe he\'s \'nutting up\' because of the impending baby but that doesn\'t mean he\'s got a stellar record to build on. Ooh I could go on and on and on. Wait! I already have! But I think this episode is AWESOME and it\'s hard to stop talking about it...
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I was listening to \"The Merger\" podcast earlier today, then I watched this episode and I think Matt that we may be finally seeing some repercussions of Jim being higher in the office than Dwight. Funny that some of your remarks from 3 years ago are so appropriate for this episode. Overall, not a great episode for me. I guess that since we\'re in season six now, we\'re going to get to know the characters better, I just don\'t know how funny/believable some of these situations are. First Stanley cheating on his wife, now Darryl committing fraud, lying, and misuing company property. I guess I just don\'t like seeing the dark sides of characters I care about. Funny though how Angela cheating didn\'t seem to bother me. My moral compass must be off. Anxious to see what everyone else thought...
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Extremely funny cold open! I liked the episode (a solid 6/10) but I\'m worried about what it will do for the rest of the show. Michael being the boss is one of the main points of \"The Office\". I don\'t know how Jim as co-manager will affect the chemistry. I have a guess though. Probably in future episodes, things will settle down and the hierarchy will be something like Michael being the branch manager, while the sales manager (Jim) will report to him. This will bring everything back to normal. On another note, is anybody watching \"Parks and Recreation\"? That show is kicking butt. I think it\'s (sacrilege!) better written and funnier than \"The Office\". Of course, it may be cancelled anytime now, since I\'m probably the only one who watches it (on Hulu, of course).
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This wasn\'t very good. It\'s definitely one of those \"plot-heavy\" episodes, as Matt would say, but that\'s not where it fails. Some of my favorite episodes were plot-laden (I\'m thinking of \"Money\"). I don\'t watch The Office for pure slapstick comedy. I\'m so passionate about this show and I\'ve grown so familiar with these characters, that I\'m totally satisfied with them even if they aren\'t delivering \"Stress Relief\"-type wackiness that any ole casual viewer could appreciate. Having said of that, this episode just didn\'t do it for me. First thing\'s first: the Dwight and Toby stuff was stunningly flawless! I\'m as much of a Toby-hater (sometimes Toby-pitier) as the next bloke, but it\'s not a literal hatred. He\'s an enjoyable and interesting character. This may sound hyperbolic but I don\'t think there\'s ever been a single Toby plot I didn\'t enjoy. He\'s an awesome character. Dwight\'s awesomeness is established and doesn\'t even merit mentioning. Class A stuff from the writers on that plot. While Dwight and Toby were enough to keep me from trashing the episode forever (i.e. deleting it from computer, a la \"The Duel\" and \"Blood Drive\"), it wasn\'t enough to substantially higher my opinion of it. The Michael-Jim stuff was painful, and actually more than painful. I understand there\'s a need for these people to have realistic and topical concerns but the continual nod to the Great Recession(the business squeeze, the branch closings, etc.) are a little depressing. As the economy gets even worse, TV is going to have to decide whether they\'re going to deal with the sorry economic state or provide us with an avenue of escape. I\'ll take the latter myself. Also, I don\'t mind Jim wanting, and receiving, added responsibilities but there\'s no need to shaft Michael in the process. In what world would a branch manager, who\'s been with the company for fifteen years, has been promoted numerous times, who\'s been placed in charge of a consolidated staff once before, and actually had his competing but short-lived venture bought out by the company, really resign to having his #2 bumped to \"co-manager?\" In what world would David Wallace and the higher-ups even consider such a move. It\'s stupid. I don\'t like it because it\'s an insult to Michael. More importantly, it\'s obvious that Jim\'s sudden motivation is necessitated by that f\'n pregnancy. Don\'t even me started on that... 5/10
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Hey Boys, Hope everything is alright, missing listening to your podcast on the season prem, need your thoughts on it to guide my own!! So The Meeting, I wasn\'t expecting much after watching the cold open, I felt it was a shocker. The rest of the episode was pretty damn good though, a solid B in my opinion. Some great laugh out loud moments with Michael hiding in the cheese cart and Toby yelling obsenities to the Darryl-a-like. I mainly enjoyed seeing Carell\'s reaction when he realises that he has completely screwed the pooch by undermining Jim to Wallace. And ultimately being the bigger man and deciding that keeping Jim is more important to him and \'the family\' than getting a promotion. One question though, where the hell has this new job offer that Jim tells Wallace come from?! Surely Jim wouldn\'t be considering making a major change like that just before marriage and a baby.
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thought the \"A\" plot in this episode was badly written. I never thought I would like a \"B\" plot that starred Flenderson, but here we go: Flenderson and Dwight teaming up against Darryl was hilarious, especially the scene when they stake out his house and try to make their ill-fated getaway. Overall, however, I felt like this was a 4 out of 10 on the episode scale. In other words, BAD.
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I feel overall this was a great episode, the cold open was just the right level of uncomfortable, Andy\'s description of cheese platter is a good reminder of why people think he\'s gay. The promotion plot line was spot on, Michael was really trying to help himself out and understandably so. Sure he metaphorically drove his car (promotion) into a lake, but not literally. Its also refreshing to see Creed 2 episodes in a row being used properly, this is turning out to be a great season and hope it continues this way
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First, too much Battlestar Galactica for Michael :) (permission to speak off the record; big bird dont make though decisions :))). Second, i dont think Michael was di*k, he is just scared about his position, and dumb as he is, he dont think about anything forward. That is his curse, and, lets be real, the thing that we love on him. Anyways, big shoutouts to Matt and Kevin from Croatia..
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