OfficeTally Survivor Poll: Season 4
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 |
It’s time for a little summertime distraction — vote one Season 4 episode off the island every week, until we’re left with the most popular episode as the ULTIMATE SURVIVOR! Status: ‘Dinner Party’ has been voted off; vote for the next episode off now! |
Current poll and rankings after the jump.
The Office Season 4 Survivor rankings
- [To be determined by next poll]
- Dinner Party
- Local Ad
- Chair Model
- Launch Party
- The Deposition
- Branch Wars
- Dunder Mifflin Infinity
- Job Fair
- Did I Stutter?
- Night Out
- Survivor Man
Current poll
Poll ends August 28th.
Related links: Survivor Season 1 | Survivor Season 2 | Survivor Season 3
YES! Joe, comment number 756, those are the same thoughts as me! I started watching this show since the first episode was first aired on NBC, and I’ve noticed a great decline from season 4. FINALLY someone feels the same as me!
757 | David Thu. Aug. 28, 2008 at 10:01amI think the show is losing whatever it had that made it funny. While I still like the office, I think season 4 was the least funny. They should stick to being in the actual office instead of all the outside stuff.
And enough with the romance already. To be honest, I hope Jim and Pam need to breakup. Things are better that way. Dwight and Angela make a better couple in my book.
756 | Joe Thu. Aug. 28, 2008 at 8:17amUNCRAZY SIDE— thank you. Been saying it all along, and I’ll repeat it again: it’s not “The Jim and Pam Show.” It’s “The Office.” And, it’s not a romantic comedy. It’s a comedy, and their romance is one facet of a diversified show.
Money is overrated and- in fairness- good but excessively dramatic toward the end. Chair Model was the season’s best, followed by Goodbye, Toby, only one of those being left.
1. Goodbye Toby
2. Fun Run
3. Money
My order before the latest elimination (Dinner Party relied too much on shock value with little in the way of clever writing) was:
755 | Joshua Wed. Aug. 27, 2008 at 8:39pm1. Chair Model
2. Goodbye Toby
3. Local Ad.
748 - the thing is, though, that ‘Goodbye Toby’, while being packed with things (especially in those last fifteen minutes) that made me ‘react’, I got annoyed with it because it goes against my favourite things about the show - when big moments come in this show, like in ‘Casino Night’, or ‘Booze Cruise’, they don’t come in groups, and they don’t make me feel like I could’ve seen them coming in from a mile away. The finale cemented the fact for me that the show is losing some of what made me love it (the banality of office life) and making it more couple-based, character-based, drama-based…and I’m not the biggest fan of that. :/
Still! I did like the episode, I just didn’t love it. I didn’t really love ‘Money’ much, either. And I consider myself a Jim/Pam fan, but my favourite episode of the season has to go to ‘Local Ad’. So I’m probably in the minority here, heh.
754 | Rachna Wed. Aug. 27, 2008 at 8:29pmI do not get why Fun Run is still on the list even above Dinner Party. I’m sorry but it was not that funny. Was it the cat in the freezer? Was it the joy of seeing Jim/Pam in the first blushes of romance? Or Michael puking up pasta? Ugh.
753 | Thor Wed. Aug. 27, 2008 at 1:04pm748- I concede! Point taken, and well put. Now that I have thought about it, I totally agree with you about Goodbye, Toby. I might just change my vote now…
752 | SSE Wed. Aug. 27, 2008 at 10:21am748 - Good point. Don’t misinterpret the fact while I downtalked it I still think Goodbye Toby was better than Money by a longshot. I was merely comparing it to other finales, but in retrospect you’re right, I wanted to throw myself off the booze cruise when Roy/Pam set a date. I do mean to say that while I was “sad” about the finale episode this year, I just meant that it didn’t give me the stir of emotions (whether good OR bad) as episodes revolving around a Jim/Pam storyline have in the past. I hope that makes sense.
751 | SlapFest Wed. Aug. 27, 2008 at 7:20amI find it strange/interesting that Chair Model only came in 6th when it tops the list when going by ratings. Dinner Party is in a significantly different spot, too - it jumped from 9th to 4th.
I’m really surprised that Fun Run made it so far, too. Much as I loved it, I don’t think I’d have put it top 3.
750 | Gemmapants Wed. Aug. 27, 2008 at 3:49am748 - well said. although i do like money but that is how i feel about fun run. like eh? whatever. no real strong feeling about it.
goodbye, toby for the win!!
749 | tuna tuna tuna Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 6:29pmIf Money wins just because Goodbye, Toby made people feel sad about Jim/Pam, it will be malfeasance for malfeasance’s sake. I think it’s great that it had such a reaction in people, otherwise the writing, acting, and directing would have all been for nothing! Real life doesn’t always deliver “perfect” moments with spectacular kisses or offers for dates and The Office (most of the time) keeps it real. Some of the best Office episodes (Booze Cruise, The Secret, Dundies, Casino Night) put you through a roller coaster of emotions, make your stomach twist in happy and sad ways, and leave you wondering what will happen next, but knowing you will be entertained while watching it. Goodbye, Toby delivered on that! Plus it was a hilarious episode. Money was mediocre at best. The point is…people had a reaction to Goodbye, Toby, whether sad, happy, or shocked. I haven’t even thought about Money again until this poll started.
748 | uncrazy side Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 5:24pm743, I agree!!! I was so sad after the finale, I just didn’t know what to do. I found myself obessively checking OfficeTally for some small glimmer of hope. It was just so depressing to me. And it wasn’t just because of the botched proposal, it was because I felt awful for stupid, naive Michael and even worse for poor Dwight (before the tag, of course). To end things on such a down note was such a shock to me. And I feel your pain…my husband loves the show but he thinks I am crazy. My vote is Money for the win. NOT b/c of the JAM kiss (I mean really, are we all in middle school here?) but because of the exchange between Jim and Dwight and the “cool” Michael at his other job and seeing Jan in a different dimension. And I think the topic of money is something in which we all can relate. While Goodbye, Toby certainly had its hilarious moments, it ended too sadly for me to vote it number one.
747 | SSE Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 12:38pmThank the Lord Dinner Party is gone! Now time for Fun Run to go. I want Goodbye, Toby to win. I miss Chair Model, though… That was a goodin.
746 | Amanda Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 11:37amUGH! Why is Money still here? That’s probably my LEAST favorite season 4 episode. R.I.P. Dinner Party, you were my favorite :)
745 | iheartbigtuna Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 8:48amWOW. “Dinner Party” is gone. I honestly thought that “Dinner Party” and “Chair Model” were the best two of the season. ” I thought “Chair Model” was brilliant, about as close to a Season 2 gem as there was in this group. Oh well. Not sure which one I’m pulling for yet…
744 | Kevin Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 8:23am742 - I’ll be the first to “downtalk” -Goodbye Toby .
While there are SO many good things about the episode - Michael celebrating all he hates about Toby, everything about Holly (need I say more anyone?), there was also something missing - our JAM moment.
I can hear the irrate JAM fans now. But hear me out. Every season finale we’ve had captured our hearts because of how it ended - with JAM hope. Right? It made us get off the couch and go YES!!! Well, this year, that didn’t happen. This year was the complete opposite - we were sad for them. It was the first year I didn’t get off my couch and shake my husband out of excitement. Sure, the last scene with Dwight and Angela made me gasp a little inside, but it just doesn’t compare to the Casino Night kiss or Pam’s “what was the question” moments of yester-years. I mean, I love the show forso many other reasons too, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Does anyone else agree?
743 | SlapFest Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 6:34amGoodbye Toby will obviously win, nobody ever downtalks it.
IMO-
1. Survivor man
2. goodbye toby
The rest, i’m not going to bother
742 | Pants Fashioned Into Hat Tue. Aug. 26, 2008 at 1:22amI loved Michael and Jan on the train in “Money”. It showed how two odd, slightly crazy people could come together and really care about each other. And I also liked how Jim and Pam were changing things up by caring for Dwight. That being said, I guess I didn’t like seeing everyone in their pajamas, visiting each other’s bedrooms, cuddling in bed, and waking up together in the morning. It made me feel weird; like I shouldn’t, and actually really don’t want to, be seeing those kinds of things. It wasn’t a good, “Dinner Party” weird either.
“Goodbye, Toby” was everything that a great Office episode should be, and it should win for more reasons than “it was the season finale”!
741 | uncrazy side Mon. Aug. 25, 2008 at 8:47pmFinally…come on guys, Dinner Party was lucky to make it this far.
740 | Andrew Mon. Aug. 25, 2008 at 8:03pmI hate to say it, but Money has got to go. It was a funny episode, but just nowhere near compares to Fun Run or Goodbye Toby. Although I’d be happy with any of them winning at this point.
739 | Diapers Schrute Mon. Aug. 25, 2008 at 5:55pmDinner Party should’ve been the number one episode this season. Out of the three left, I believe Fun Run was the worst. It got way to long and weird with the rabies thing. The revelation of the Jim and Pam relationship was weird. They kept making odd references to previous episodes like when Kevin might have skin cancer and the stripper makes a reappearance.
738 | John Mon. Aug. 25, 2008 at 5:48pm