Friday, May 5, 2006

"Just take it."

For me, the highlight of last night's "The Office," if not the last year of TV comedy, was Toby's despair and frustration as he had to pose for the employee ID photo.

Simply a brilliant episode all around. Since I wrote about it in Wednesday's column, let me just list some of my other favorite bits:
  • Stanley's "We sit close" to Phyllis.
  • Michael trying to swap clothes with Ryan.
  • Pam using the word "hussy."
  • The perfect camera pan to Jim lip-synching to Michael's "That's what she said."
  • Creed being the one who complained about the men's room being whites-only.
  • Creed keeping mung beans in his drawer ("very nutritious, but they smell like death")
  • The Raiders of the Lost Ark/Citizen Kane homage at the end. (Does that mean that Toby has hundreds of these complaint boxes, or that Toby wants the complaints to be shipped out to a customer?)
  • Jim's dawning realization about how wasteful his relationships with both Pam and Dwight have become.
  • The Photoshopped picture.
Just superb. What did everybody else think?

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