You Have a Son, It's Me - The Office epidsode 4.5

The Local Ad

"The People Person's Paper People"

Huzzah! The Office is back to its standard 30 minute format after 4 long weeks of hour long episodes. Now you may be asking yourself, why is he happy about less Office? Well here's the thing, more is not always better. The hour long episodes seemed to drag, there was too much time between jokes and the story lines were being stretched thin. The half hour episodes provide just enough time to bring the funny at a pace the works best for the show. I realize this has been written about ad nauseum over the past few weeks, so I will bore you no longer...

The Scranton branch creates a Dunder-Mifflin ad to run in the local markets.

Corporate had something else in mind, using a real creative ad team to create a packaged ad for all the branches to use. Michael is having none of that and has the Scranton team create their own ad and sends it to corporate for them to choose. They go with the cheese-ball ad the creative team made. After everyone watches the premiere of the Dunder-Mifflin ad at Poor Richards, Jim gets the bartender to pop in the "Dunder-Mifflin Local Ad: The Michael Scott Directors Cut" for everyone to see...


You know, with some real production value that could actually be a pretty good commercial.

Episode Highlights:

• Andy blanking on the end of the Kit Kat jingle - gimme a break, gimme a break, break me off a piece of that-- applesauce / Chrysler Car / Grey Poupon / Football Cream'
• Stanley is the key to Urban Vibe
• "The Nard Dog" and his fartful aromatherapy
• Dwight has a Second Life Character...that flies! "I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great that I literally wanted a second one. In my second life I was also a paper salesman and I was also named Dwight. Absolutely everything was the same. Except I could fly."
• Phyllis is assigned the task of finding a celebrity in Scranton to be in the spot, she finds out Sue Grafton is in town for a book signing. Michael tells her to get her and don't take no for an answer. She is removed by security because she refuses to take no for an answer.
• Creed thinks Sue Grafton is "Crazy Hot"
• Kevin used to be called the "Kool Aid Man" and then does an off the charts impression...LOVE KEVIN!
• Darryl, Kevin, Kelly, Andy, and Creed create a jingle "Dunder-Mifflin: The People Person's Paper People"...Michael thought it was going to be a rap, leading Darryl to ask "What's rap?" Michael tells him his has a lot to learn about his own culture, he'll make him a mix. Great.
• Pam sleeps at her desk so she can finish the animation followed by the line of the episode "I worked until about 2:45am. And then I had to decide if I wanted to spend the night with Michael, editing in his office, and Dwight, watching Michael editing in his office, or drive home and probably fall asleep at the wheel and die in a fiery car wreck. I passed out on my keyboard trying to decide."
• Angela called Andy "D" while they were necking (literally rubbing their necks together)...Dwight is thrilled, queue the maniacal laughter. Those two are headed to a reconciliation. Should set up a good competition between Dwight and Andy for the affections of Angela.

Good episode! Chock full O funny with a little smidgen of a Rudy underdog feel thrown in for good measure.

Note: This was my first foray into the world of show recapping. I plan to do recaps weekly as well as hit some other of the shows on my must see list like 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights (if you are not watching Friday Night Lights you are missing out on the best show on TV!)
Let me know what you think.

Kevin the Kool Aid Man