The Office Season 5 thread

[pitchleague]

"Dang you, Creed! I've been up since Four!"

 

Classic.

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

"It's pronounced "Colonel." It's the highest rank in the military." I love Creed.

 

I thought they lost it, but the writing this season has been very good.

[Fatter than Joey]

I thought this episode was superb....

 

"Did Darrell touch you?"

 

"When the hourglass strikes 3...."

 

And the whole Cornell/cabbage thing was great.

[Oldcity]

I will say that I wish they wouldn't have shown Creed as the joker in all the previews. That was the funniest part of the episode but I was a bit desensitized to it because of the previews.

[NeedMoreFans]

I loved that episode. It was one of the best ones in a long time. I loved Darrell calling Kelly, just so he didn't have to listen to Michael and Holly. Creed was fantastic, and I loved the Andy/Dwight stuff.

[homer]

I had to rewind the "that's what she said" whisper about ten times because it was so funny.

[valpocrewsader]

Very surprised that everyone is praising last night's episode; I thought it was about as awful as the Office can get. The Cornell stuff was pretty great, but that was only 1/3 of the show. The other 2/3 -- the Michael/Holly/Darrell trip and the Pam/Jim/brothers lunch -- were absolutely awful. Especially the Pam/Jim/brothers scenes, I don't think there was a single joke anywhere in there -- brutal. The Michael/Holly/Darrell scenes had a moment or two, but were largely wastes of time and/or overly soap opera-ish. I expected to come here and see a lot of comments about how lame and terrible it was.

[Dmiles23]

I thought the Dwight/Andy stuff was great. I thought the Michael/Holly/Darrell trip was good. And I thought the Jim/Pam/brothers thing was awful. All in all, I thought it was a pretty good episode... but I am kind of getting sick of the Jim/Pam long distance thing. I like Jim and Pam together, but since Pam went to New York it has been kinda stupid. I did laugh though when Pam dressed up and nobody else did. I thought that was funny. I just hope they don't try the Michael/Holly long distance thing, but I'm going to miss Holly if she doesn't come back because I thought she was very good with Michael.

[Gobias Industries]

Very surprised that everyone is praising last night's episode; I thought it was about as awful as the Office can get.

I was about to post a very similar review. The cold open and Cornell stuff was good, but I can't get past Jim's brothers. It was just awful writing, as you alluded to, along with some horrible acting by the two actors. The Michael and Holly stuff wasn't so great either.

 

Side Note: When is Pam coming back? Wasn't the program only supposed to be 3 months?

[I Heart Brewers]

Did anyone else get confused that suddenly they went from dressed up for Halloween to back in regular office attire? Was I missing something?

[thebruce44]

Did anyone else get confused that suddenly they went from dressed up for Halloween to back in regular office attire? Was I missing something?

 

It was especially confusing because they started it off with Jim, Michael, and Holly walking out of the office...none of whom I remember seeing in costume from before. It took me a while before I realized they had advanced a day ahead...or rather over the weekend since Halloween would have been a Friday.

 

I agree on the Jim/Pam/brothers part. I think it could have been much better if they had better actors for Jim's brothers. Sometimes the awkward humor is really great on this show, but those guys couldn't pull it off like Steve Carrel sometimes can.

 

 

[Invader3K]

The ending stunk. I hate that Michael and Holly just started dating, and now they're already broken up. I assume they'll eventually somehow reconcile, though.

[Menotti80]

the pam stuff was terrible, but the cornell and most of the car trip made up for it big time. overall the best one this season - hands down.

 

when they are all singing life is a hwy, michael and darryl singing the blues, and "did darryl touch you"... those alone made the car ride overall pretty dang funny.

 

i laughed during every cornell scene...

[mothershipconnection]

Especially the Pam/Jim/brothers scenes,

 

Yeah, that sucked something fierce, but the rest was gold. I loved Michael crying and saying he'd have no choice but to go back to Jan.

 

Now that I'm thinking about how funny it was, I'm gonna have to fire up the DVR and rewatch.

[homer]

Overall I thought it was very average. There were some funny parts (as mentioned earlier) but on the whole it was 'meh'.

[BrewCrewForever]

For me worst episode of the season. The only good thing was the Dwight/Andy Cornell stuff. And even that couldn't save the episode for me.

[Schlitz001]

Nothing really stands out from this episode. Probably my least favorite so far.......from this season.

[DougJones43]

Wow. No comments yet.

 

I thought the "Bill Buttlicker" scene was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on a TV show.

[PrinceFielder28]

I agree with Bill Buttlicker!

 

The rest was pretty boring and unexciting

[homer]

Bill Buttlicker was genius.

 

I laughed at Pam's "that's what she said" line and when Michael said "You can't use the rape excuse again". But the rest was just OK. The mini bluetooths was a good idea but poorly executed.

[JJHardy7]

I thought the "Bill Buttlicker" scene was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on a TV show.

 

I agree. I laughed so hard during that seen. I love how it was treated as such an actual sales call.

 

I thought overall it was a pretty good episode, but some parts were a bit slow. Where was Creed?

[bjkrautk]

Mixed bag -- the dedicated comedy bits (including the Buttlicker call) were really good, but the plot points (the sales call, the wedding plan, and the ending) brought the show down a bit.

 

(Also, I liked the picture mug idea way more when I thought it was just an Andy thing.)

[FVBrewerFan]

Where was Creed?

Same place as Kevin. Actually, that's what makes Creed and Kevin funny, they're used sparingly. This ws the worst of the year IMHO. Buttlicker was comedy gold, but nothing else was very funny for the rest of the episdoe- other than a well-placed "that's what she said" by Pam.

[Team Canada]

As someone commented before, it's funny that we all love the show, but every week there's people who hated it and people who loved it. I was a fan of this week.

[Oldcity]

I loved Dwight in the car screaming over the loud music.