“Blood Drive” March 5th, 2009 I don’t know if the Super Bowl plans or just some weird scheduling resulted in the situation we find ourselves in here, but it’s Valentine’s Day in the world of The Office, which means that the single people are sad, and the couples are fee...

I’m excited to have my parents in town tonight visiting my brother and I. I believe we are going to head to Ike’s bistro and have dinner. So that should be a good time. I think my brother must be pretty excited too because he cleaned the entire house and even bought a new shower curtain....

Filed under: The Office, Celebrities, Reality-Free I don't think this is going to happen (not permanently anyway), but Zap2It thinks that it's possible that Michael Scott could be leaving Dunder-Mifflin. We haven't heard any rumors that Steve Carell is leaving the show, but we do know that Michael S...

“Lecture Circuit Part 2″ February 12th, 2009 One. Big. Letdown. That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the second half of “Lecture Circuit,” which will go down as an entirely uneventful piece of comedy for a whole lot of reasons. Alan Sepinwall really sums it up best in argu...

Filed under: OpEd, The Office, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S05E14) I don't usually cringe at The Office. For whatever reason, it's hard for me to disconnect the part of my brain that understands that the people I'm watching are actors speaking words written by writers. I know that makes me sort'v...

Filed under: OpEd, The Office, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S05E14) Last week's episode of The Office was kind of like a one-night stand that happens after way too much drinking: good for what it was, but ultimately unsatisfying. Tonight's episode is like finding the girl you're going to marry. An...

“Lecture Circuit” February 5th, 2009 Only four days after I was admittedly frustrated by an hour long episode, we have a unique test of my concerns in “Lecture Circuit,” the first of two parts of the same basic episode. What we have, essentially, is an hour long episode split...

“Stress Relief” February 1st, 2009 I am not conditioned to enjoy this hour of The Office. First off, I don’t think the show should be in this position in the first place: Chuck has a special 3D episode ready to go tomorrow night, and is much more vulnerable to audience erosion than...

“Moroccan Christmas” December 11th, 2008 A week after getting it so very right, The Office has gotten it so very wrong. “Moroccan Christmas” is a mess of an episode, a mostly charmless affair that offers small tidbits of potential but masks them in an unnecessary and forced i...

Filed under: Industry, The Office, Reality-Free Finally after seasons of torment, humiliation and just plain squirmishness, the members of The Office will have their revenge on the man they call their boss. Hot, stinky, nasty revenge. Who says it's best served cold? People who are too lazy to pre-he...