For once, last night’s super-sized 40-minute long episode of The Office was just the right length, and featured the moment — MOMENT — half of America has been waiting for: The Pam/Jim reunion! It was safe to say The Merger was going to be amazing from the getgo, what with the Stamford, CT bunch moving in with those crazy kids over in Scranton. Upon arrival, the 5 new employees + Jim were handed “nifty gifty”’s, bags filled with pencils and coupons. (Aw, Michael.) Once again, Mindy Kaling stole the show with her “Suri/Shiloh Update Hour.” We are already loving Michael’s relationship with new BeFri Andy — though Andy out-douches Michael 3 to 1. Equally as dorky and inappropriate, but his heart doesn’t seem to in the right place. One can trace that back to his a capella days, surely.
But laaaaaaaaadies! Jim is back!! We’ve been fency about our feelings regarding the Team Pam/Team Karen debate. At first, we were a-clearly sisboombahing for Pam, and even though her refusal to “do it” with Jim was a real downer, we understood her complicated feelings. This Karen… she’s so modern looking! She straightens her hair, and probably listens to college radio! City girl! But slowly, she grew on us. She’s sophisticated, see? And her relationship with Jim has the chance of being equally as adorable, as it seems like Jim is just so adorable at whatever he does.
Read Our Decision on the Team Pam/Team Karen Debate after the jump!
Last night was our big decision night. Pam seemed perkier than ever (point Pam), but then Karen comlimented her cardigan (point Karen) and received a racial slur from Michael (G.I. Dad has to earn at least 2 points). Sure, Pam was trying hard to win Jim back.
But the chemistry was completely off/awkward last night. It’s kind of like when you leave home for college, you leave behind your pre-teen furniture and high school trophies and photos. Then you get your own place and start to feel like an independant adult. Only every now and again, you have to return home and sleep in your teen bed again, feet dangling off the edge, the white-painted wicker headboard creaking neath your twenty-something girth. It’s demoralizing. You miss your new furniture, your adult furniture. On The Office, Karen is Jim’s adult furniture and Pam is the bed he doesn’t quite fit in anymore.
So, we know this is a very controversial stance, and we know many of you will think less of us for it. But we’re calling Team Karen. Yes, we know this is self-defeating. We know Jim and Pam are MFEO. But last night, Pam just seemed different. Almost kind of mean and desperate, in a way that made us uncomfortable (Ed Note: You’re right, she wasn’t mean. I had a lot of feelings pour out in this post and they got confused. Sorry!). Hopefully, they’ll fall back into their old flirting habits shortly, and yes, when they finally do reconnect, we’ll scream with delight. But let us have our adult furniture for a coupla more weeks, ok?
Finally, our hands-down loudest laugh moment of the night involved Michael and Dwight hoisting the heavy-set (we’re being polite) Tony Gardner onto the table. Namely because of Michael’s exclamation of “I’m under the tock!” a word we previously only associated with tiny animals asses.
And why do we love NBC and The Office so much? Cause they keep on giving! Extended Shmextended, they still have deleted scenes up at their site! And the entire Lazy Scranton Music Video!!
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