The Office: Back From Vacation, 3.12
Thursday, January 4th, 2007 | 289 comments
W: Justin Spitzer, D: Julian Farino
Summary (NBC): Still in “vacation mode” after his trip to Jamaica, Michael tries to hang on to his relaxed island vibe despite a wave of office hassles. But it becomes too much when an e-mail containing a racy vacation photo is forwarded around the office. Pam gets caught in the middle as Jim and Karen argue.
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Tidbits
- Deleted scenes: 1 | 2
- Blogs: John the prop guy’s MySpace blog | Angela’s MySpace blog
- Reviews: TV Guide | Entertainment Weekly | Northern Attack
- Buy Back From Vacation at the iTunes Store
Favorite quotes
Jim: You’re not allowed to take off your pants in the middle of the office.
Jim: Dwight, you know what, just back up, okay, that’s making me uncomfortable. This is sexual harassment, by the way. Omigod! He’s got a knife!
Dwight: I do not have a knife!
Jim: No, let the record show that Dwight K. Schrute is now completely nude and is holding a plastic knife to Stanley’s neck?!
Dwight: Let the record show that Jim Halpert is a liar!
Jim: Dwight Schrute is now wearing a baby’s bonnet!
Karen: Dwight, what is that on your stomach? Is that a Muppet Babies tattoo?
Jim: Omigod, Karen, you’re right, that is Animal from the Muppet Babies.
Andy: I am now chopping off Phyllis’ head with a chainsaw!
Michael: Aren’t you going to ask me how Jamaica was? Say it. Ask me.
Michael: At Sandals, Jamaica, when somebody says ‘hey mon,’ everybody says ‘hey mon’ back.
Stanley: I am not doing a lick more work until I get my full bonus check.
Karen: He said it would be like we were living together. In different houses. Two blocks away.
Michael: Feelin’ hot, hot, hot!
Michael: I want us all to start having pina coladas every day at three.
Michael: I specifically went on vacation so I would miss it.
Michael: Inventory is boring.
Michael: Tonight, we are going to have an inventory luau.
Michael: The Jamaicans don’t have a word for ‘impossible.’
Michael: How hard is a luau. All you need are some grass skirts, pineapple, poi, tiki torches, suckling pig, some fire dancers, it’s all you need.
Pam: Omigod. Is that Jan?
Michael: That’s a German woman named Urkel Grue.
Michael: Officially, I did not see her. But I did see Jan there. In our room. At night. And in the morning. That’s all I’m going to say. Sex. We had sex. I had sex with her. I had sex with Jan.
Packer: You took the ice queen? I don’t buy it.
Packer: They wouldn’t give you a subscription to Maxim.
Michael: That was supposed to go to Packer, not “packaging.”
Andy: Call me if she rolls over.
Michael: The file name is “Jamaican Jan Sun Princess.”
Pam: Honestly, I think you should go easy on her.
Pam: That’s what friends do. I help Phyllis all the time. Just yesterday, I untangled a piece of tape from her hair.
Pam: It’s better than listening to Michael play a conch shell.
Jim: What happened there? Kidnapping?
Toby: Michael, nine different people emailed me that photo, including my ex-wife.
Michael: Skeevy little perv.
Michael: Got enough, weirdo?
Phyllis: I called every grocery store in Scranton, and no one sells whole pigs.
Angela: Did you try the petting zoo?
Michael: I hit a deer with my car. Tell her I hit a cat.
Roy: Mike, you are a rock star, man. You are the man!
Roy: That corporate booty, he likes to hit it!
Dwight: I have disconnected the office T1 line.
Karen: The Day’s Inn room 228 was starting to get really depressing.
Dwight: So you’re PMSing pretty bad, huh?
Jan: I was in Scottsdale visiting my sister.
Jan: My psychiatrist thinks that I have some self-destructive tendencies.
Jan: I think I owe it to myself to find some kind of happiness.
Jan: You’re wrong for me. In every way.
Michael: And I, to you, in addition, feel the same feelings that you are as well.
Jan: Wait 15 minutes, find an excuse, and meet me at your condo.
Michael: You complete me.
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premenstrual symptoms.
What does PMSing stand for?
I love the scene between Dwight and Pam. When he takes off his coat to wrap around his waist, very funny.
Jan and Michael, romantic and cute in a weird way.
Oh, I love that episode. That PMSing line is the best of the season. I laugh so hard every time I hear it.
Not funny. Wished it would’ve been, hoped for it. But not.
Mrs. Michael Scott,
I believe its from Michael. I think its sorta unspoken that Darryl possibly asked Michael for it and in exchange he wouldn’t forward the picture or possibly say anything to Jan.
I am the only one whos a little bit confused when Darryl finds the ipod? Did Michael give him that? thanks to anyone who responds.
Roy didn’t say “corporate booty”, Darryl did…
Todd Packer finally reappears!! WHATS UP MY NERDS
in response to Gruel Omlettes post, they cant get rid of the credits, thats one of the best parts. i even have it as a cell ringtone!
I am STILL laughing when I think of this line:
Michael: And I, to you, in addition, feel the same feelings that you are as well.
Clearly, the funniest moment! Why isn’t it on the site header?
Dwight, chivalry is NOT dead. After Pam used a thermometer to time you running and pretended she was the CIA, you managed to be there for her!
someone needs to make a wallpaper of the picture of jan and michael
Forgive me, but I do not know where to post this.
–On televisionary.blogspot.com there is an article that says that Joss Whedon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) could possibly direct an episode of The Office. I don’t know if its true or not, but its a geek’s dream come true. You can also go to whedonesque.com and click on the link for ultra easy access. I hope someone finds out if this is true or just a rumor.
Does anyone have the link to the “Jamaican Jan Sun Princess.”
Does anyone think they’ll ever get rid of the opening credits to give the episodes just a little more time?
Keyser – your point of view that the Office is a comedy, there fore it should be nothing but funny is ridiculous. It would be completely unrealistic for the show to be funny all the time, without any kind of drama. The scene with Pam crying was pivotal to the story line. It was important to explain how Pam is feeling about Jim. It was genius for the writes to take such a serious moment, and make it light hearted with Dwight comforting Pam. You obviously didn’t appreciate that, since all you care about is laughing
Someone posted that the whole show was Jim and Pam, granted a large part of the show is about Jim and Pam’s relationship or rather non-relationship but I think the other characters make the show just as much if not more so. Don’t get me wrong I am hands down a JAM fan I want them to get together but I understand that every show has their reasons for not doing something so I live with it and wait for the episode where they finally get together but I thoroughly enjoy the little nuances that is The Office. I think characters interactions make the show what it is Jim/Dwight’s interactions are always great, Michael and…well just Michael actions and reactions to everything. Little things like that to me make the show for but then again that’s just my feeling. I don’t think we are going to find another show with the same qualities.
Can someone please post a link to that picture that shows michael and Jan on the beach in Jamaica, that is turned into a poster in the warehouse. THANKS!
Andy W (post 276) – great picture!
keyser- i disagree. sure michael has done some out-of-character things, but that’s what the show is TRYING to do. their FLESHING out the characters. no one has just one characteristic. everyone has different qualities. sure, michael is a complete nuissance sometimes, but he’s not JUST a nuissance. he has a good heart. and he cares about people. just like dwight. i mean he’s completely weird, and even he has nice qualities in him.
i guess what im trying to say is that no one is one sided. michael isn’t JUST wacky all the time…that would get old after a while. people are complicated, we all have different characteristics- the good and the bad.
and as for the comedy thing, this show focuses most on the realism. i personally think “the office” labeled as a comedy was a mistake from the start. i don’t think funny things happen ALL the time in life. sure, occasionally it would be nice if everything in life was light-hearted, but as of now, the people in the office (ex. pam) are going through some hardships. and i can completely relate to it because im going through some crap myself. and it doesn’t just last a day and then it’s over. it takes a long time to figure things out and fix things before everything is back to normal.