5.04: Baby Shower
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | 270 comments
W: Aaron Shure, D: Greg Daniels
Summary (NBC): Michael practices for the birth of Jan’s baby by having Dwight go over possible birthing scenarios. Meanwhile, Michael tells Holly that he will pretend to dislike her for Jan’s benefit.
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Favorite quotes
Jim: Michael is preparing for the birth of a watermelon with Dwight.
Jim: This baby will be related to Michael through … delusion.
Michael: Andy, would you like to have my baby?
Michael: Scream it out! Scream it out!
Dwight: Growing up, I performed my own circumcision.
Dwight: Do you have the Sharpie? Do you have the Sharpie?
Dwight: Butter. Newborns are slippery.
Michael: This is going to be the happiest day of my life.
Michael: Phyllis, did you get the live storks?
Angela: This is your boy bowl. With the name, “Chevy.”
Angela: Michael wrote down “Astird.”
Michael: Well you know what? Where’s my golden shower?
Phyllis: I’m no longer under Angela’s heel, and her little grape head is under mine.
Michael: Pump it!
Jim: Who’s Sarikaya Komzin?
Angela: I hope you two are very happy together. Pervert.
Michael: She is in the terminal stages of her pregnancy.
Michael: I am doing this to pay respect to her bloated feelings.
Stanley: You think my nipples don’t get sore, too?
Michael: I try to pick up and hold a baby every day.
Michael: If a baby were president, there would be no taxes, there would be no war.
Michael: It would be a better screenplay idea than a serious suggestion.
Michael: I’m fine, weirdo. Such an HR weirdo.
Dwight: $1,200 is what I spent on my whole bomb shelter.
Jim: The song is about losing your virginity next to a church.
Jan: Oh yeah, the afterbirth floats.
Creed: Must be like the tide at Omaha Beach.
Jan: Remind me to talk to you about Astrid’s 529.
Michael: I usually love babies, but when I held Astrid, I just felt … shortchanged.
Darryl: You want to hold me, and see how you feel?
Holly: Oh, I think she’s on a sales call. Waah. More paper. Waah.
Michael: She smells like old tomatoes. And dirt.
Dwight: I like to call this, The Bumper Test.
Jan: There’s one more thing you can do for me. Don’t date Holly.
Michael: I didn’t feel much when I held Astrid. But I got a good feeling from Holly.
Rating
In a poll conducted Oct. 16-20, Tallyheads rated this episode: 7.74/10
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Maybe this is a bit obvious and has already been said, but Michael and Holly = Molly.
267 & 269: That’s what I’ve been wondering as well… apparently a 1(meet half-way) or 2 hour drive is too much…
@ 267 | jjsally
or Jim and or Pam could stay with the other on weekends.
I also don’t understand why they need to call each other during the daytime. Didn’t Jim learn anything about stealing company time in “Business Ethics”? If it’s too much of a hassle for them to speak during work/school hours why not wait until the night?
For me the only part that fell flat for me in Baby Shower was Jan’s singing (no pun intended). It just seemed more like an amusing deleted scene. Loved Creed’s comment on the afterbirth! Such a classic line you would never hear on any other show on television.
Honestly, even though so many people have said the show is dying out and “inferior to Seas. 1&2,” I think it is starting to get a second wind after the slowness of season four. It is looking for meaning outside of just Jim and Pam, and it will find it. Just give the writers time.
I guess I just don’t understand why Jim and Pam don’t see each other more. If they’re really that desperate for each other, why doesn’t Jim get in his car and drive into the city?! He leaves his office at 5:00 apparently and could be with Pam for dinner at 7:00. I’m assuming the office doesn’t get going until 9:00, so he could easily stay the night with her (at least a few days a week).Seems like their problem could be easily remedied.
I loved that episode. Holly is deeply into the bottom of my heart, and I wish Jan would go instead of her…
Btw, I frankly don’t know that’s wrong with season 5.
seriously, in season 2 everybody dreamt of jim and pam finally together, and then finally when they got together, it’s boring. I just don’t get it!
well this episode bring me one of my fav quote ever: Jim: This baby will be related to Michael through…delusion.
First off, for anyone who has ever been in a long-term relationship, the Pam-Jim thing was spot on.
Second, I thought the same thing about whether that baby is Angela’s in real life (forgive me, I don’t remember the actress’s name - isn’t it actually Angela?).
And third, this is one of the better episodes in a long time, because Michael was very much himself, but still incredibly likeable. Maybe it’s terrible of me, but I have never liked Michael more than when he said he just felt short-changed holding ass-turd. For all of his LACK of self-awareness, it was a bright shining spot that reminds you of just how sensitive he is.
I agree with #243-Agent Scarn. This doesn’t even seem like the same show anymore. I think the writers should go back and watch Seasons 1-2 for a refresher course. I really do not like the Dwight-Angela-Andy triangle and how psychotic they have made Jan become.
i agree with the synchronized voice messages - a little too cliche for me. also, dwight’s plotline was a bit too much.
michael and holly were cute though! i hate jan.
i liked last week’s episode better.
So, people have already started to brainstorm, but we definitely need to find a name for Holly and Michael…
Just watched the scene again on nbc.com where Jan asks Michael not to date Holly and after she drives off, I noticed the stroller they bought her, she left by the front door. She didn’t even take their gift home.
I loved this episode. The writers demonstrated once again a capability to surprise and move us by unexpectedly revealing something endearing and human in these characters. Michael began this episode as a deluded, annoying, unstoppable idiot, yet somehow in only 22 minutes we saw an incredibly pure and tender side of him that gave us a way to relate. My heart was pounding as much as during JAM’s first real kiss when Michael moved in towards Holly and held her. I cried!
There were too many parts I liked to talk about them all. But I came away once again thinking, “Damn! This is the best show on TV!”
I felt so bad for Holly! She’s so adorable.
Jan is bat crazy!
i prefer MAH…haha
252 & 253:
Holly
and
Michael
That’s how you get “Ham”.
This may have already been said but I think the baby in the scenes is Angela’s baby Isabel!!
I really wish that there were deleted scenes to show what happened to that Orbit stroller after Dwight’s bumper test. That stroller is obviously pretty indestructible, but I would have loved to see Jan’s reaction when she discovers what Dwight had done to her fancy stroller!
Actually, Ham would be Holly and Pam… not sure where you got Michael from.
248-no that would be Holly and Pam