The Office: Body Language, 6.23
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 | 63 comments
W: Justin Spitzer, D: Mindy Kaling
Summary (NBC): Pam and Jim work on their first sales pitch together to Donna (guest star Amy Pietz), the manager of a local restaurant. But Michael keeps misreading the signals she’s putting out. Meanwhile, Dwight encourages Kelly to try out for the minority training program.
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Tidbits
Favorite quotes
Michael: This would be a healing thing for all of North America.
Dwight: I have it on very good authority that within 20 years, everyone will be speaking German. Or a Chinese-German hybrid.
Oscar: Your office is full of genitalia.
Michael: Eso es lo que dice el.
Oscar: That’s what he says?
Dwight: If you want people to put the best face on something, why would you get two people who probably have never cut the face off of anything in their lives?
Jim: I don’t even know who you are anymore.
Michael: Did somebody order a hooker over here?
Donna: You have some ancestors in common. Somewhere back.
Angela: I knew it. You should see their baby.
Gabe: You have to be a minority.
Dwight: Uh, glasses wearers, cholera survivors, geniuses, non-organic family farmers, the list goes on and on. You want me to keep going?
Darryl: Maybe one day I’ll be sitting in Michael’s chair. Wouldn’t that be something.
Dwight: How many Indian CEOs can you think of?
Kelly: I can’t think of any CEOs, any race.
Dwight: You could be the Indian Bill Gates. You could be the Indian Ted Turner.
Kelly: I could be the Indian Julia Roberts!
Michael: Those are Shrek-green eyes.
Jim: Maybe you shouldn’t try to kiss people at work.
Donna: I work in the nightlife industry, I get hit on all the time. In my 20s, it would have been annoying. In my late 20s, I find it really flattering.
Pam: Good luck, wingman.
Kelly: Indian guys always wear their cell phones outside their pants. It’s so dorky.
Dwight: 911, hello, Scranton Strangler’s in the house. Inside the house!
Creed: You ever notice you can only ooze two things? Sexuality and pus. Man I tell ya.
Michael: Sometimes, it makes financial sense to lose money.
Oscar: In this case, it makes more financial sense to gain money.
Dwight: If you’d have told me this morning that today I’d be creating a monster capable of my own destruction, I’d have thought you were referring to the bull Mose and I are trying to reanimate.
Kevin: Now you know how I feel sitting next to those M&Ms all day.
Andy: Well, why don’t you just move the M&Ms?
Kevin: Well why don’t you shut up?!
Pam: Most printer sales are done over the phone, Ms. Boob Shirt.
Michael: What sort of movie would Rudy have been, if he had just stopped and given up after two rejections? Would have been a lot shorter. Probably been a lot funnier.
Darryl: I’ve got my whole life to be a minority executive. I only have a year left in these knees, though.
Dwight: I wasn’t talking to you, Pale Face.
Stanley: I’ll slap you in the face with a rainbow.
Dwight: Speaking of rainbows, Oscar, you are kind of a double minority. Gay.
Kelly: For hobbies, yoga, belly dancing, snake charming, beds of nails, I like lying on them.
Hide: In Japan, heart surgeon, number one. Steady hand.
Michael: Was it the cleavage?
Pam: Yeah, and the shoulder cut-outs.
Andy: She’s touching around down there. It’s easy to get confused.
Erin: Should I put it in the lost and found for 14 days and then I can take it home?
Michael: Oh, you’re still here. I have your baguette.
Kelly: I’ll never forget everything that you’ve done for me. Because I never forget anything.
Dwight: Just once, I would like to be a puppetmaster and have nothing go wrong. Is that too much to ask?
Rating
In a poll conducted April 29-May 3, Tallyheads rated this episode: 7.93/10
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Tanster…you asked about the Spanish translation of That’s What He Said. I don’t know Spanish, but I meant to tell you…I have an app on my iPod Touch that’s called “TWSS Worldwide.”
It actually shows you how to say TWSS in tons of different languages! It’s so funny. They show you the words on screen, then you press the button and you hear someone pronounce it.
Great funny lines throughout. The black and white photo Michael showed in the sales pitch slide show looked so photo-shopped, and I loved that he said it’s a picture of him in a place where he’s all alone with his thoughts (or something like that), and then adds he went there with Ryan! It cracked me up! I loved that Kelly gets pulled over for texting! Not a complaint, but sometimes I wish the writers/directors would turn Dwight down a notch; he could still accomplish all of his attempts to manage the outcome of the situation in a hilarious subtle way rather than by having to act like a cartoon character!
Too many jokes to single out just one favorite, this episode had it all!!!! I gotta agree with the one post though, when Kevin just screamed “Why don’t you just shut up!” Literally, crying of laughter!!!
Pam’s cringe-worthy jokes in this episode added to her overall adorkableness in this episode and considering she spent her formative saleswoman time with Michael Scott I didn’t find it too out of character. It is new for Pam which is why I think we got the Jim line, “I don’t know who you are anymore’.
Overall a thoroughly enjoyable episode where I found myself giggling and cringing in equal measure. Very classic Office.
Anyone else laugh out loud at “Why don’t you move the M&M’s” “Why don’t you SHUT UP!”
One of the best episodes ever! Have watched it 3 times and laughed hysterically every time.
The only laughable moments were the cold open and the “Well, the joke’s on you” talking head. Other than that, this one ranks down there with Mafia.
Favorite line? “How do you think we got together?”
“Because I stopped at your desk like 50 times a day”
“Speaking of rainbows, Oscar.”
One phrase: Miss Boobshirt!
Great episode!
“I can’t think of any CEOs, any race” was my favorite line. I thought this was a solid episode, and it didn’t bother me at all that Erin and Andy weren’t addressed in this episode. It makes perfect sense considering the mockumentary format- if no drama occurred with Erin and Andy while the cameras were there, then there’s nothing to tell. Jim and Pam were great during most of the episode, but I really cringed (and not in a good way) at Pam’s jokes early on. Ever since they got together, both Jim and Pam are occasionally bumbling and awkward in a very out-of-character way, and I hope it stops!
Tanster, “Eso es lo que dice el” is literally “That’s what he says” what you are getting is “Es lo que dice” which is also accurate, but the “el” is used to differentiate between genders (masculine), something the English language lacks. “Es lo que dice” is gender neutral, which could be “That’s what he/she says”.
Hope I helped
Source: Spanish is my Native Language.
[from tanster: ah, awesome. muchas gracias!]
I thought this episode was great!! Loved Jim and Pam’s banter and jokes, very cute! It reminded me of season 1 and 2. I missed them!! Kelly/Dwight and Michael/Donna were great in the storyline too, the show was more balanced.
Okay you guys, help me out here, since I don’t know Spanish:
The closed captioning on this episode said “Eso es lo que dice el” — is that a direct translation to “That’s what he says”?
Because when I enter “That’s what he says” into Google Translate, it gives me “Eso es lo que dice.”
Thanks for your help! :)
Actually, thinking about it some more:
Why are so many people complaining about Pam? This was classic Pam. She was cheerful and playful and looking out for Michael, which is classic Pam. She was flirty and joking with Jim, which is classic Pam. Granted S2 Pam would have never made those jokes, but that was funny too – she’s always becoming more and more like Jim in subtle ways. I love how Jenna Fischer even copies some of his mannerisms now.
Seriously, for those who liked S2-3 Pam the best, this was a great episode. Just a great Pam episode in general.
Don’t understand the complaints about Jim and Pam. This was CLASSIC Jim and Pam, which the show has desperately missed. Their banter (and Pam trying lame jokes) was the best part of the episode!
Loved that the 4 main characters all got the most screentime again. Doesn’t happen very often. The entire episode was golden, from the cold open, to both A, B and C storylines. Great, great episode, one of the best of the season.
Overall, really good episode. However, I am getting tired of Dwight constantly trying to sabotage people. I think it’s been really overdone. Anyway, much better episode than last week! Go Office!
Hilarious episode!! But I agree with those who thought Pam was acting weird – not in helping Michael, which was sweet, but in making those bad sort of bada-boom style jokes. That is so not Pam at all. Pam used to be wonderfully understated and wry in her sense of humor.
Why has Jim become such a stick in the mud this season?
Was not a fan, at all, of last week’s ep, but this one knocked it out of the park! It brought the awkward in spades and did so in a realistic fashion which is all I ask for from my Office. Who among us hasn’t heard or seen the person we’re interested in do something and extrapolate all the different ways they’re secretly wanting us to make a move? It could have been goofy had they not set it up brilliantly throughout the episode and in the moment itself. I know I wasn’t the only one sucked into the moment, crining, and pleading, “Don’t do it, Michael, don’t do it.”
This is also, hands down, the most I’ve liked Jim and Pam since they’ve gotten together. Angst-ridden, unrequited love affairs obviously play better and tug at the heartstrings more than the (sometimes annoying) happy couple, but their banter last night was quite enjoyable.
Universal sign for male and female? Awesome.