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This week, we talk about The Office and Michael Scott. We don’t talk about the birth of Shirley’s Chang Baby on Community, or Condoleezza Rice’s cameo on 30 Rock, or how great April and Andy are on Parks and Recreation (so great!). This week, we talk about The Office and Michael Scott. Goodbye, Michael! For all of the build up to Steve Carrell’s exit from the show, I think they handled it pretty perfectly. He just sort of, you know, left. And I will tell you this: I got a little emotional watching it and that is a VERY WEIRD THING and also DIFFICULT FOR ME TO ADMIT. Like, how does that even work? How do you make someone get emotional watching a fake middle manager fake leave a fake paper company?! Congratulations, The Office. That is a neat trick! It was also nice, for what it’s worth, to see the show make some sort of acknowledgement of its basic and at this point deeply illogical premise that these people are STILL the subject of a documentary. There has been talk in recent weeks about the show’s writers and producers being nervous about where the show will go next and whether or not it will be able to retain viewers without Steve Carrell, and while I think they will probably figure it out, because they are a huge major network sitcom with a bunch of money and a good time slot and a very smart team of writers and producers, they aren’t wrong to be a little worried. Steve Carrell carried the show this whole time. Yes, there was Jim and Pam and Creed and Andy Bernard and all of those things, and each of them is really great in its way, but there is glue and there is macaroni, and while you can’t have a macaroni collage without the macaroni…I’m not actually going to finish this metaphor because it’s too stupid even for me but I think you see what I’m saying. Anyway: good send off to the character on that TV show. Let’s see some Michael Scott GIFs today.
Memories!
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When I see Condi, my brain says ‘no’, but my heart screms ‘yes!’ #dilemmagum
Incidentally, I hope everyone got the fax about how ‘screms’ is how cool people write ‘screams’ now.
I cried like a little bitch, you guys!
Can you find one of April listing the house rules?
You have to where mascara when we watch sad movies, so we know if you cried. That gave me all the LOLz.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a strong lady centaur, CA!
Adam Scott Gif Fridays are the best.
April’s House Rules:
1. You can’t use the front door. You have to climb in through the back window.
2. No personal phone conversations.
3. If you ever speak to her in Spanish, please use the formal usted.
4. No electricity after 6 pm.
5. If you ever watch a sad movie you have to wear mascara so she can see whether or not you’ve been crying.
6. No noise allowed on Mondays.
7. No TV after breakfast.
That was awesome! I need a gif STAT!
sorry for the delay
sorry addict for stealing your bear hat
Revolting and cute, not an easy task to accomplish.
Do you even know what cute means?
All the upvotes for you!
Amy Poehler was SO HOT in this episode. I don’t even normally find her attractive, but the first scene of the show where she was so nakedly sexual turned me on. Ooooohh Leslie…
In case you missed your shout out last night
You guys are filming people when they go to the bathroom now?
Good afternoon and good art.
Parks and Rec won the night for me. It also solidified what I’ve been thinking for a while: my life will not be complete until I own a “Ya heard? With Perd” coffee mug.
I want one of those too, in addition to a Troy and Abed in the Morning coffee mug.
I loved Parks & Recreation in spite of the ridiculous “BURN THE ARTWORK” premise. I imagine you would just return the mural to the original artist. Or at least if I was Jerry I would have asked for its return.
But the whole struggle and the premise had to be believed, which I was more than happy to do because I love the show and in this instance it could have very well not been within Jerry’s power to get the mural back, being so weak-willed and all.
Yeah but Pawnee takes place in a world where outside of their department 90% of people are crazy. I love that the humour often comes from these (fairly) normal people dealing with the really abnormal population of Pawnee. At least that’s how I see it.
I actually liked the Lost In Translation moment with Pam. Can we get a .gif of that?
For me it was more of a lovely tribute to the Office UK. Either way it was amazing. I was so surprised at how much my heart kind of broke when their cars missed each other in the Dunder Mifflin parking lot.
Oh Michael!
How did i miss the episode where he gets hair plugs?
The whole first season featured a Michael Scott with hairplugs and a gut. Then he made The 40 Year Old Virgin and he got into better shape and let his hair look nice to be a leading man type. Never looked back. In fact the show saw Michael Scott change from kind of a racist asshole into kind of a lovable doofus.
My dvr didn’t record Community(I will be writing a letter), so first, THANKS FOR THE SPOILER! J/k, I’m going to go hulu that now before I join in the discussion, but can I just tell you how much I cried at the last five or so minutes of The Office? Definitely more than I’ve ever cried during a sitcom. That was like, season two of The Wire heartbreaking.
Also, I think I’m addicted to Wire references.
Wait a minute – you thought Season 2 was the most heartbreaking of The Wire?
No way, it’s Season 4!! Fuck, around episode 9 of Season 4 I get such high anxiety. Those kids, so much tragedy.
NOTHING gets to season four of The Wire levels of heartbreaking. The Office hurt, but it didn’t, like, rip my heart out and feed it to me.
YAY! Stupid broken Videogum didn’t let me see this until now. BONES BONES BONES!
I loved how Leslie was so proud of the painting of her. The next day when she showed up with a braid was a nice touch.
I know that awards are just sort of an institutional back-patting event in Hollywood, but I really want Steve Carrell to win an Emmy. He has been great and I hope he is recognized for that in the form of a golden statuette.
JUST MAKE OUT ALREADY! AHHHH.
I want a whole show of just Donald Glover fake-crying?
Also, Betty Grable image time:
Not a question, just a typo. I’m the worst.
Who’s Betty Grable?
So this happened:
And it was at this point that a bunch of dust got in my eye and I teared up. Weird.
My allergies totally acted up exactly at that moment and during the final scene between Jim and Michael.
THAT SCENE
I’m sorry, I just have to go stand over here for a minute. No… I’m fine.
Thank you, because now I have to go to a meeting with tears streaming down my face! Fucking pollen!
I AM CRYING RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me watching the Jim and Dwight scenes:
For me, this too was the solitary moment where it rained on my face.
Is anybody else still rooting for Ricky Gervais to take over next season? I am even though he said it isn’t going to happen.
Only if he does this…
I had been under the impression that Will Ferrel was the permanent replacement, but now it looks like he’s just a guest star until the end of the season (DOES DWIGHT SHOOT HIM??)
If they replace him, I’m betting on (and rooting for) Will Arnett because he’d be the cheapest (but maybe NBC would spring for the big money with James Spader, I kid!) and already has relationship with Greg Daniels (via his wife)
if you really want the answer, search tumblr for “deangelo vickers”. It’s just a rumor but I believe it. If you want no spoilers, do not do this!!!
That premise seems far-fetched to me, but I guess we’ll see. *goes to search tumblr*
Whoa! Total spoiler, if it’s true, but I still kind of hope so.
I have watched this gif at least one hundred and forty million times this afternoon. I think you may have just single-handedly turned my life around.
As stale as the premise for the office seems, you gotta hand it to them for actually finishing story lines. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I was surprised that Scott took out his mic in the end and addressed the documentary aspect of the show, which is something i just assumed they chalked up to abstract storytelling long ago. Last night did feel like the end of the series and whatever comes next will feel like one of those spin offs where they try to rehash the success of the original, but I’m curious to see how they will end it now that they addressed the cameras.
thank you this has been TL;DR with your host Chris Trash.
They’ve addressed the cameras and mic’s several times. In season 2 when Michael burns his foot and Dwight gets an MRI, or when Michael and Holly hook up in the stair well and Michael tries to turn off the mic. I’ve never seen a boom mic, but I assume they probably use them or else nonemployees wouldn’t be as audible.
One of the better fan theories is that the documentary aspect is being filmed by a class at a local community college or something. It explains why they’ve never “published” anything and the convenient breaks for summer and Christmas and such. Doesn’t get around some of the geographical anomalies from the product placement (Looking at you, Chilis/Hooters/Benihana!)
Can we talk about Margaret Cho, and how much I love her?
“Let’s go, black partner!”
It was pretty sad
(he says about a fictional tv character while ignoring his own family)
Can we discuss Erin as the daughter Phyllis gave up for adoption?
We need Britta gifs. She had some of the best lines of the night.
“First of all, together my cats can do anything. Secondly you disqualified yourself from this conversation the moment you decided to grow a wang.”
“No problo, Rob Lowe.”
and….
“Step aside, people. BRITTA FOR THE WIN.”
“I CAN DO IT! I’M GOOD AT LOOKING!”
Oops. Wrong Thread.
Michael and Erin were great. That whole scene on the bench was impeccable.
Can we discuss how great Michael and Erin always were together? I loved them so much.
I didn’t even make that connection! You’re a genius!
I totally missed the possibility of the Phyllis/Erin connection but now I can totally see the show going there.
There’s a scene when they’re both holding the phone the same way – find it, CA!
Anyone want to talk about how great Will Ferrell was in this episode? He was really great! The cake scene!
Dwight saying “Uh Oh.” to Jim and Jim just nodding was perfect.
Excellent show though I didn’t like Kelly being mean to Scott.
The paintball scene was very endearing.
Um, I feel like I have to mention that next week is Paintball 2 on Community staring Josh Holloway:
Also, Annie running:
ENHANCE!!!!
I don’t understand how Community can introduce new characters. They’ve made plenty of jokes about how small the school is and how we know pretty much everyone in that school. That being said, I’m excited about Josh Holloway on Community.
Here’s a rationalization: the number of students is always fluctuating because of when specific classes are offered. Like competitive welding is only offered in spring term or something. Community colleges often have a lot of vocational/certification classes, plus different rotating recreation/personal enrichment classes that would attract different people at different times, plus adjunct faculty that would be hired for niche classes part time. So while there’s probably a limited number of “full-time students” like the core study group and regulars like Starburns, Fat Neil, Leonard, and Garrett , there would be plenty of other students who would be taking classes that wouldn’t necessarily be the same “general education” classes the study group takes (assuming the goal of most of the study group is to transfer somewhere else like it is for Jeff and Annie).
Claim your No-Win prize, sir!
Holy wow, have I missed looking at that man on television. #handsomegum
Howdy Monsters!
Long time lurker, first time caller, or something to that effect. All credit to Critter on this one, but did anyone else take the issue of Dean Monthly at the end of Community to be a last-minute burn on the Paul Reiser Show’s untimely end?
“Dean Magazine Shuts Down After Two Issues: worst idea for a magazine ever.”
Also, just one post in and I’ve already embarrassed myself. That should be “Dean MAGAZINE,” and the article came from “MAGAZINE Monthly.”
I’ll show myself out now. Toodle oo.
Shame about the flawed yet observant post. Good user name, though. I picture you as a very old lady with exceptionally nice breasts.
Were you frying marbles? That gave me lots of lolz.
Hi everybody!
First time poster, long time lover of this site and the thursday night threads. While everyone was definitely at their best last night it just seemed impossible for anything to match The Office. Heartbreaking to say the least, why this wasn’t the series finale I’ll never understand. Michael’s reaction to Oscar accepting his gift had me in tears as did Michael and Jim’s final moment.
If anyone could find a gif of Liz screaming “Mortality!” as all the plastic bags rise up into the air they would be my hero.
Tardy to the party as usual but a couple of things on the office:
1. what is up with Andy’s pants???
2. How much of a creep is Gabe (office Gabe)
3. I cried like a bitch.
The writer in me (there is no writer) really wanted Pam not to catch Michael and get there only to watch the plane leave.
The fangirl who smiled and cried and hugged every cat in the vincinity was very pleased that they connected. HOORAY!