The Office: Christening, 7.07
Thursday, November 4th, 2010 | 133 comments
W: Peter Ocko, D: Alex Hardcastle
Summary (NBC): Pam and Jim’s baby, Cece, gets christened and Michael invites the entire office to celebrate.
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The Office Christening trivia
- Promos | Photos
- Pam blogs about Cece’s christening
- A tale of two Ceces
- Baby Cece wears an Arcade Fire t-shirt during her christening
Rating
In a poll conducted November 4-8, 2010, Tallyheads rated this episode: 5.58/10
The Office Christening quotes
Kelly: I heard your mama has more bacteria per square inch than a toilet seat.
Dwight: Do you have any idea how expensive wool is in Transylvania? ‘Cause of the euro.
Dwight: If Sabre really cared about our well-being, they would set up hand de-sanitizing stations. A simple bowl at every juncture, filled with dirt, vomit, fecal matter.
Dwight: I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do this. Maybe they have something against living forever.
Ryan: I hope you brought your pipes. We’re about to smoke the opium of the masses.
Michael: It’s not a day for just Jim or Pam or the baby or me. It is about us all. And I thought we should all celebrate my joy, and our, and all of our joys.
Andy: Does the Nard Dog want nard pups? Yeah, I want a big ol’ litter of nard pups, all jumping around sucking on the teat. Put ‘em in a box, give ‘em to my neighbors. Yeah, I want kids.
Michael: I got an offer that you can’t refuse. Scooch over.
Michael: Scooch. Before I shoot you in the head.
Michael: You have great seats. Enjoy the show.
Michael: Cece is turning out to be a little b-i-t-c-h.
Ryan: I’ve heard of that place. If you go to Cabo San Lucas, all the prostitutes are from Cabo Corrientes.
Toby: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Jim: Cece, no! No no no, not on the dress! Cece stop!
Ryan: For all their generosity of spirit, they password-protect their wireless?
Michael: I am feeling this. Call it the holy spirit or the passion of the Christ, I am lovin’ these people!
Pam: We’re going to need a loaves and fishes kind of miracle to feed them all!
Angela: Jesus is not your caterer.
Michael: No I insist. After me.
Stanley: This is not the meal I was promised.
Kevin: Sometimes, Michael. Sometimes.
Ryan: Teach for America girls are way hotter. But they’re nuts!
Stanley: I would run to Mexico if that’s where the sandwiches are.
Dwight: You want to know my 11th commandment? I will not be undersold. I am ready to love thy neighbor with these kind of discounts.
Andy: What if the moon was your car and Jupiter was your hair brush?
Jim: I think that was Sconesy Cider. Noted baptism reception critic.
Michael: Let’s go help Africa. Let’s go build an airport. We’ll start small. We’ll have a carwash. We’ll send some cheerleaders to regionals.
Darryl: We are hanging out. Right now. You want some more of this?
Michael: These are church-going people. And they know how to party.
Michael: You’re mean. You’re mean girls. Like the movie “Mean Girls.”
Michael: If you don’t stop worrying so much about what you’re going to put in your gullet, you’re going to die in about a month!
Michael: Tell them that I died and I turned into an angel.
Erin: I wish I had a job that I could just leave.
Andy: Save me an aisle seat, Michael! I’m coming!
Michael: Everybody thinks that I am crazy, and that tells me that I am the sanest person I know.
Toby: Why you always got to be so mean to me?
Andy: Do you smell like a weird, warm cheese?
Jim: Stop that tiny blonde woman! She stole my baby!
Jim: Travel safe, Angela.
Kevin: What kind of a person steals scones from a baby?
Michael: You guys are young, that’s great. You want to give back to society, I’ve done that. I need to take.
Michael: Go save the world. We’ll keep an eye on America for you.
Michael: It is so nice to be back in a country that has movies.
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Not the best episode. I wasn’t feeling that connection between Pam and Jim at all, she seemed annoyed with him most of the time and Jim wasn’t at his best. I too love anything Jim and Pam related, however this wasn’t it.
@127:
So you aren’t going to watch the show anymore, even though you just said “this season has been going strong so far.”
This is the only episode in the history of this series that I didn’t like. On the bright side, that’s a very good track record.
I’m still waiting to find out who gave Michael the herps.
@James
Toby dropped out of a seminary to marry his now ex-wife. But you have a point about Niagara. Maybe the problem wasn’t so much the building itself but that there was an actual service going on inside?
I just have to say: seriously, baby CeCe was the cutest baby ever! And she totally had a Jim face going on sometimes:) Perfect baby casting!
Just thought of something: what’s up with Toby’s religious hangup? He had no issues whatsoever with entering a Presbyterian church for Pam and Jim’s wedding no less. This plot point in CHRISTENING has to be a retcon, right?
This was the worst episode of the season, obviously, and I think of the entire series. I love this show and this episode made me feel like all the critics are right: this show just isn’t good anymore.
What’s especially sad is this season has been going strong so far. Great episodes featuring everyone in the cast in new and unusual ways. And then, this one. How much more can we see Michael acting like a selfish child for no reason. Do the writers think this is funny? What was funny about this? Also, there was no story in the episode, just scene after scene of contrivances leading up to foolishness. And none of it, except the first scene with the sneezing, was funny.
There are those who say, “why critique so much, this is fan site.” But I was once a fan of the show, and now I think I’m going to have to start watching Nurse Jackie or Modern Family.
To reiterate a poster: Why Peter Ocko, why?
To think this series won an emmy too……..
Jim’s character wasn’t off. He was Jim, but frustrated. If anything, this episode adds to his status as the “straight character” or regular guy.
He accuses Angela which nicely strikes a balance with the beginning of the episode where she insults them but is infatuated with Cece… he has a daddy-like learning experience and then gets into a fluster which happens to many people during important events that you don’t get do-overs for, and he leaves CeCe with the most readily available person who proves incompetent…and you can tell feels like a total dope.
I might also add the character portrayals of Stanley getting up to leave a second early, the children’s smarminess about their cause, and many of the lines “kool-aid”… make me feel exactly like I’ve felt on my odd Sunday at service. It was well-written.
The character shows the end results of a frustrating day.
Man, people really are overly critical of this episode. The Sting is…and just IS…the worst episode of the season thus far.
That was almost “Mafia” bad.
The only thing which saved it was Toby finally waling into the church and asking God, “Why do you have to be so mean to me?” Funny and oddly touching. Kudos to Paul for that moment. Now, the other 22:15 or so…just bad.
And you were on a roll this season! I hope it’s better next week.
Not the best episode ever, but there were a couple of things that made me happy (as a Presbyterian minister who is a woman):
1. Church people were not universally judgmental and dour. Groups of enthusiastic young adults headed to do good work is a common part of American church life, but it’s almost nonexistent as a religious image in the American popular imagination. Good for The Office.
2. Score 2: A woman minister (a great rarity on TV but not in real life!) who actually said real liturgical words and not sentimental crap. Nice work.
One reality check: Presbyterians (which Pam is, yes?) do not do christenings. They do baptisms, and usually the minister holds the baby upright or horizontal, not the parent holding the baby’s head toward the font. The rite they showed looked Episcopal to me. Not that the audience much cares, but there you go.
I remember watching “License to Wed” a few years ago, and during a scene where John Krasinski got peed on by a fake baby during a diaper-changing class I recall thinking, “Wow. Krasinski is really slumming… At least he’s got a well-written role like Jim Halpert which more than makes up for this formulaic and degrading nonsense!”
Sadly, during “Christening”, Jim Halpert hit that “License to Wed” low… getting peed on by Cece, losing Cece, accusing Angela of stealing Cece… this is not the textured and well-written character from the glory days of the show.
Don’t get me wrong, I still laughed a few times during this episode, but man… The Office today is a far cry from The Office in 2006 or 2007.
I didn’t care for this episode that much, but hey, they can’t all be winners.
I did love the cold open, though, and I laughed so hard when Erin said she would love to have a job that she could just up-and-leave for three months.
Funniest line of the episode: “Jesus is not your caterer.”
I mostly liked this episode.
I find it hilarious that I just found out two of the guys from Arcade Fire live in my area.
Not the best, not the worst. But can I please address Jim’s dad’s beard? Ooooooh-weeee, What’s up with that?!
I agree with many of the comments that this was “sitcom” funny rather than “Office” funny. It strikes me that either The Office does not do “sitcom” funny well or we viewers do not accept it from the show. Compare the plot lines with this week’s episode of Modern Family, another ensemble, “realistic” show told in a documentary style. It actually makes me appreciate The Office more and realize how underrated it is because its usual style of humor is so different from most everything else out there.
Only the cold open took place outside of the actual office…weak episode :(
Kristen H – the babies playing her just turned one so they were probably 10-11 months old when they taped this episode.
@diahern, I am a Presbyterian, and that baptism was pretty authentic.
I was a fan of this episode, but I’ll like anything that’s focused on Jim and Pam (in the general sense). But I also loved Toby; for once we got to see him going through a problem that is not caused by Michael. I thought that Angela was hilarious. And personally, I love that Erin listens to Lake Woebegone.
Personally, I really liked this episode.
When they did the first table reading for the cold open, does anybody else think that the conversation went something like this:
PETER OCKO. Rainn, in this cold open John and Ellie sneeze in your face, and Ed sneezes on your food.
(Pause.)
RAINN WILSON. Well, it beats the cold open in “Murder” where I had to punch myself repeatedly in the groin.