"Casual Friday" Recap & Review

The Office
Casual Friday

Original Air Date: April 30, 2009

Shannon - Associate Editor
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

This week Michael, Pam, and Ryan are back. Michael has a meeting and invites everyone to say whatever they want, but basically he wants everyone who didn’t follow him to his new company to grovel in forgiveness. The staff is upset that Pam and Ryan are coming back as salespeople and that they’re keeping the clients they stole.

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Golden Ticket - Recap & Review

The Office
Golden Ticket

Original Airdate: March 12, 2009

Shannon - Senior Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Opening: Dwight and Michael get into a girl fight. That’s all you need to know.

Michael comes to work dressed as Willy Wonka. My husband says he called it. Whatever. The title is “Golden Ticket”. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, pal.

Michael put Golden Tickets into random boxes of paper that offer the customer 10% off. Michael is very proud of himself, of course.

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Blood Drive - Recap & Review

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Blood Drive

Original Airdate: March 5, 2009

Shannon - Senior Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

A phone salesman comes by to see Michael, but Pam doesn’t want them to get a new system that will basically replace her. She tells him that Michael isn’t in and when the salesman wants to make an appt, Jim cuts in and pretends to be Michael. Michael happens to walk up at this time. Jim calls Michael "Jimbo" and to get Michael to play along Jim and Pam give him meaningful looks. Surprisingly, Michael plays along and there is a lot of Fonzie Ayyy-ing going on. Salesman kinda gets freaked and leaves. Best cold opening I’ve seen this season.

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Lecture Circuit Part 2 - Recap & Review

The Office
Lecture Circuit Part 2

Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Angela is extremely perky because she sold her engagement ring on ebay and bought a $7000 cat named Princess Lady. Angela has a nanny cam on her cats which just tells me all I need to know about Angela.

Jim gets Kelly a birthday cake, but Kelly hates it because her name isn’t on it and it has no theme. Kelly is way too freaking high-maintenance. If someone presented me with ice cream cake right now, I’d be all over that thing.

Pam and Michael go to the Nashua branch to see Holly, but Holly is on an HR retreat. The receptionist kindly directs them to speak to A.J., Holly’s boyfriend. Oh snap!

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Lecture Circuit - Recap & Review

The Office
Lecture Circuit

Original Air date: 5 Feb 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Michael learns the office has a p.a. system. It goes about as well as you can imagine until Jim discreetly cuts the cord.

Pam and Michael go on a lecture circuit to explain Michael’s secret for success. Pam is along as Michael’s assistant. Michael would prefer Pam dress as a magician’s assistant. Also, she gets to carry all Michael’s stuff by herself. She’s also not looking forward to seeing Karen.

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Stress Relief - Recap & Review

The Office
Stress Relief

Original Air date: 1 Feb 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Dwight sets the building on fire because no one paid any attention to his Power Point presentation of fire safety. Dwight ends up trapping them in the office and chaos ensues. Stanley has a heart attack from all the stress.

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Prince Family Paper - Recap & Review

The Office
Prince Family Paper

Original Air date: Jan 22, 2009

Shannon - TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

David Wallace asks Michael to do some field work usually given to supervisors. Michael’s job is to spy on Prince Paper with Dwight. This is not going to end well. The rest of the office debates whether or not Hilary Swank is hot. They group vote is tied.

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Moroccan Christmas - Recap & Review

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"Moroccan Christmas"

Original Air Date: 11 Dec 2008

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

This year’s Christmas party is a bust, of course. Phyllis oversteps her boundaries with Angela, Meredith gets drunk and sets her hair on fire, and Dwight corners the market on this year’s hottest toy. Just another Christmas at the office!

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The Surplus - Recap & Review

The Office
"The Surplus"

Original Air Date: 4 Dec 2008

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com


Oscar tells Michael there’s a $4300 surplus in the office budget that has to be used before the end of the year or they’ll lose it. Michael needs him to break it down into lemonade stand terms, of course. Oscar suggests that they use the money to buy a new copier for the office, but when Michael suggests that to the rest of the crew, Pam says she wants new chairs. Jim and Pam have their first public fight when Jim votes for the copier. Pam passively aggressively threatens Jim to reconsider changing his vote from new copier to new chairs. Looks like a little hubba-hubba to me, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

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Frame Toby - Recap & Review

The Office
“Frame Toby”

Original Airdate: Nov 20, 2008

Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com


Toby is back from Costa Rica (yay!) and to commemorate the occasion, Michael yells “NO!” loudly and copiously. Apparently, Toby has been back for a week but Michael didn’t notice since he doesn’t go in the back part of the office since that’s where Holly used to work. Michael complains to David Wallace, but David is having none of Michael’s whining.

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The Office - Recap & Review "Business Trip"

The Office
“Business Trip”

Original Airdate: Nov 13, 2008

Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Michael is super excited to go on a business trip to Canada, while Jim is counting the days until Pam comes home from art school. Kelly and Ryan pick up where they left off and Angela almost gets caught with Dwight. Wow, for my first Office recap, this one’s a winner!

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