Thu, 3 November 2011
Dwight (Rainn Wilson) devises a system to find mistakes made by employees in the office. To improve efficiency, he installs a doomsday device that will get someone fired if they make too many mistakes. ----- As always, please leave your comments about the episode here on the blog. If you're looking for a real doomsday device, check out Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). Not the best of the series, mind you, but there's a great payoff at the end that I doubt will be seen in tonight's episode of The Office. -- Kevin Crossman
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-- posted at: 7:13pm EST
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This episode should be named "Stupid is as stupid does". I mean really, after spending an afternoon trying to figure our Dwight's password to shut down his doomsday machine and failing, why wouldn't someone simply have unplugged the machine, or disconnected it from the network? Or, if it was a program installed on the office computer system, couldn't they have just called the company's tech assistant/computer guy to stop the running of what they considered a malicious program? And are we really supposed to believe Dwight built this doomsday program; what, he's a computer programming beet farming software geniun? We've seen nothing to suggest that skill was a part of his talents. And another thing - how much further can the writers regress Kevin's mental abilities before he's nothing more than a fat slob "pooing" himself because he forgot to go? I used to like the less than socially confident Kevin who played drums in a Police tribute band to be cool and meet girls. It's easy to believe a college educated CPA (or any degreed professional for that matter) could have some social awkwardness in his personality like Kevin did. But it's not plausible to suggest a college educated CPA is so stupid that he does not kow where paper comes from, escpecially when he works for a paper company. The Kevin we have now is a 2nd grader at best, and we are supposed to just accept that he's kept on staff at what was once a bankrupt company. Oh yea - I almost forgot to say that I did not like this episode. It was stupid.
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I thought the premise of the plot was a bit cheap - some wacky device that somehow know every mistake that is made, however the in the office plot wasnt too bad in the end, it had a few laughs and i enjoyed the office working together to stop the doomsday device. However, like many other episodes in the office, once you step outside dunder mifflin they get worse. similar to his football skills, it doesnt go with his character that he would be so bad at squash. just cheap laughs in my opinion. and they cant seem to get enough of absurd kevin jokes can they? look forward to hearing your guys opinions
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Hey guys I'm a big fan of the podcast and would love to hear a retro of any season 2 episode that you have not yet covered. I wanted to comment on your news portion of the "Spooked" podcast when you detailed the precipitous drop in ratings for that week's episode. I am not sure if this was occuring for anyone else but my DVR completely neglected to record that episode even though I have a series recording scheduled. I ended up having to watch the episode on the office website on NBC.com. Keep up the good work, I know it is not easy to decipher the enigma that is a post-Steve Carell era Office.
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Well this had every right to be a terrible episode, based on the plot description. However, it is one of my favorites now, and definitely better than anything this season. Cold Open was hilarious, Stanley was priceless. Toby messing with Gabe? Loved it! The one flaw i can find with this episode was how silly i thought the rest of the Gabe plotline was after the Toby encounter. Not terrible, but my least favorite part of this episode. But hey, Pobody's Nerfect!
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Although the premise was outlandish, I really loved the first half of this ep...particularly the Toby/Gabe scene. The second half was a bit of a letdown, and it seemed like someone came up with the idea of Jim and Robert playing Squash, and then forgetting to write any jokes in the scene. I was also a bit disappointed in Andy's lack of leadership at Dwight's...what happened to that guy from "Lotto"? Interesting that they seem to be "Ryan-izing" Gabe in that a character who started off more-or-less straight, reacting to the craziness around him, is now becoming a "zany" in his own right.
posted by: Robert Connecticut (formerly Gazzoo) on 2011-11-04 12:05:54
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