My three favorite moments from last night's episode, after the jump …
3. Andy and Oscar drunk. First, we get to see Oscar in a way we haven't before. Second, Oscar's quizzing Andy about Angela not only reminds us how much Angela is disliked in the office (since Oscar unquestionably speaks for everyone else), but that in comparison Andy is an all-right guy. As big a doofus as Andy can be, the people he works with are smart enough to know that he is well-intentioned where Angela is just mean. And then, to see Andy's face when he realizes the next day that the call was real … Ed Helms kicks, doesn't he?
2. Michael on the phone with his boss at the end. Great to see an acknowledgment of how much he cared for Holly, and how miserable he is about being alone. I had to think of his lament a couple of weeks ago that he's going to end up back with Jan, and he hates Jan. Holly was, is, his soul mate. They just need to get him a soul mate who doesn't have a movie career.
And, at the top of my list …
1. Darryl's strut across the parking lot. His terse text message might have sufficed, especially in taking down Ryan. But the strut made it all that much better in defining Darryl, Kelly and Ryan. (And between Andy's calling and the Ryan-Kelly text, phones were pretty dangerous in this episode.)
You may have had other preferences. Creed rubbing Jim's back was pretty good. And I suppose the reuniting of Jim and Pam, although I haven't been all that taken with the recent developments between those two. And Jim-Pam just didn't seem to be on the same level as the rest. Agree/disagree?
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I don't know what to make of Jim/Pam right now. My wife is convinced that Pam was lying about having to re-take the course and then decided that perhaps she couldn't live with herself if she did. I'm not so sure about that, but I thing there are going to be some lingering regrets, and for me right now it's just the waiting for the big fight/break-up/etc. that is making watching the two of them difficult for me. And the stuff last week with Jim's brothers was just strange–were they trying to prove a point to Jim and hoping that Pam was oblivious to this, or were they just that unfunny?
I liked the Creed bit, simply because he's usually so tuned out to everything around him (I'm surprised that he can find his way to the office each morning), but he knew that Pam was coming back in six days. It really was the Kelly/Ryan stuff that made my night, though, along with Dwight's reaction to Pam's return.