The Office: Dinner Party, 4.13
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 489 comments
W: Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, D: Paul Feig
Summary (NBC): Pam and Jim find they have run out of excuses and are forced to go to Jan and Michael’s house for dinner. When Andy and Angela are also invited to dinner, Dwight’s jealousy gets the best of him.
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Tidbits
- Photos
- Promo and preview videos
- Deleted scenes
- Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky answer ‘Dinner Party’ questions
- You can buy Serenity by Jan candles at the NBC store!
- Download Hunter’s song That One Night!
Favorite quotes
Michael: Do you have plans tonight?
Michael: These people are my friends, and I *care* about them!
Michael: How about you, Pam, mi casa, a little dinner, dancing, drinks?
Michael: You said you didn’t have plans.
Dwight: Michael, what time should I be arriving?
Michael: Dwight, it’s couples only. And besides, I only have six wine glasses.
Dwight: Does it bother me that I wasn’t invited to Michael’s dinner party?
Jan: This will be great to cook with.
Michael: Make yourself to home.
Michael: Totally your call, babe.
Jan: So sorry about this god-awful carpet.
Michael: As you can smell, there’s a lot of different odors going on in here.
Pam: So you have an office and a workspace.
Jan: I cannot create in the same space that I conduct business. I’m sure that you’re the same with your doodles!
Michael: Bond! James Bond Fire!
Jan: These walls used to be white. Like an asylum.
Michael: Guess what. White and eggshell white are exactly the same color.
Pam: What a cute bench.
Michael: Thanks! That’s my bed. Jan has, uh, some space issues so I crawl up on that puppy.
Jan: He fits perfectly!
Michael: I finally broke down and bought myself a plasma TV.
Michael: Voila. Right into the wall.
Michael: Sometimes I will just stand here and watch television for hours.
Michael: I think that is either pine or Nordic cherry.
Jan: It was between the neon beer sign and the Dundies.
Andy: What’s up, Tuna? We gonna have some tuna for dinner?
Angela: What am I supposed to do with this?
Jan: The osso bucco needs to braise for about three hours. Everything else is done.
Pam: Three hours from now, or three hours from earlier, like four o’clock?
Jan: You know, Pam, in Spain, they often don’t even start eating until midnight.
Michael: When in Rome …
Michael: Here’s to good friends.
Michael: Kinda sorta an oaky afterbirth.
Jim: What was that?
You took me by the hand,
Made me a man
That one night
You made everything all right
So raw, so right
All night, all right
Oh yeah oh yeah
So raw, so right
All night all right oh yeah …
Angela: Sometimes I think she holds on to faxes.
Pam: I don’t care what they say about me. I just want to eat. Which I realize is a lot to ask for. At a dinner party.
Pam: Why didn’t you just say Forty Niners quarterback?
Michael: My-my-my-my turn!
Jan: Could you just simmer down.
Jim: Michael and Jan seem to be playing their own separate game. And it’s called let’s see how uncomfortable we can make our guests. And they’re both winning.
Jim: Pam, see you at home. Thank you so much.
Pam: Oh Jim, I don’t think you’re going to abandon this party here all by itself.
Pam: You can buy new stuff, but you can’t buy a new party.
Jan: No names, no rhyming, no soundalikes!
Michael: Rhymes with Parnold Schporzenegger.
Jan: Michael ran through the sliding glass door because he thought he heard the ice cream truck.
Michael: I shouldn’t say that jokingly because she will sue me. She loves to sue! She loves lawsuits.
Michael: That door was extremely clean, and it looked invisible.
Michael: She is the devil! I’m in hell! I’m burning. Help me!
Jan: You should see our bathroom after Michael takes a bath. Whew!
Pam: Not ever, not now, not then, not now, not ever, ever.
Michael: Have a hand.
Michael: For only $10,000, you could become a co-owner of “Serenity by Jan.”
Michael: Dwight brought glasses and a … person.
Michael: Snip, snap, snip, snap, snip, snap!
Michael: You have no idea the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person!
Michael: I bought this condo to fill with children!
Jan: Let’s have a [bleep]in’ kid!
Jan: I hate my life.
Dwight: Great turkey leg.
Angela: I hate beet salad.
Angela: The thought of popping one of your beets in my mouth makes me want to vomit.
Michael: I can’t prove it, but I think she might be trying to poison me.
Pam: If she was going to poison the food of someone at that table, wouldn’t it be me? Michael’s former lover?
Michael: You know I have soft teeth.
Dwight: It’s purely carnal, and that’s all you need to know.
Jim: Would you write down your email, because I have just so many questions.
Michael: B.F.D. I’m a screenwriter.
Michael: Man, I would love to burn your candles!
Jan: You burn it, you buy it!
Michael: Oh good, I’ll be your first customer!
Jan: You’re hardly my first.
Michael: That’s what she said!
Michael: That is a $200 plasma screen TV you just killed!
Police officer: Not now, Dwight.
Michael: My girlfriend threw a Dundie at my TV. Plasma.
Pam: This is the best burger I have ever had, babe.
Rating
7.91/10
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Michael on the bench at the end of the bed…my favorite moment. Good to have the office back. (kinda getting tired of Jan being so pathetic)
#254 Brad – “I love Pam and Jim together tonight, but overall this season is starting to feel more reliant on the “Curb Your Enthusiasm”/awkward/uncomfortable-situation humor than on the classic/clever/witty, roll-on-the-floor humor we’ve come to love from “The Office”.”
The Office has always been based on awkward/uncomfortable moments while at the same time being clever and witty. This was a classic Office episode in that they took something very plain and ordinary like a dinner party and made it incredibly uncomfortable and funny.
Also…So awesome to have the quote randomizer back with actual quotes!
#242 and #255, re: “What happened to the wise Michael who sat next to Jim sharing lessons he’s learned, bonding when Jim never expected it?” Survivor Man?
Angela and Andy with the ice cream cones made me laugh so hard I was crying. Angela is just getting better and better! And her comment about the rose “What am I supposed to do with this?”…perfect!
My other favorite part was Jim blatantly not playing along with Michael’s game. Hilarious!
I agree with StephanieG #193 completely! I loved the part when Jim tried to get them out of the party and then was going to leave on his own. It was true to their relationship of jokes and pranks and challenging each other to “top this”. Also loved Pam’s line “Oh Jim, I don’t think you’re going to abandon this party here all by itself”. I think Jim knew there was no way he was actually getting out of there. And when they were eating in the car at the end – loved it! Welcome back!!!
Such a funny episode. Things change, people change, so let’s just move on and enjoy the show for what it is–30 minutes of joy in the week. Not the greatest 30 minutes or the worst 30 minutes of the week, but 30 minutes of happiness all the same.
I think Angela was hilarious tonight.
“What am I supposed to do with this?”
“You shouldn’t joke about that.”
“Sometimes I think she holds faxes.”
HAHAHA. I also loved trying to see how they were hiding her belly.
I think I built up this episode too much in my head.
It was a bit of a let down for me. It might have been fun for them to make but it was hard for me to watch.
Wow. What are you supposed to do after a dinner party like that? Send a thank you note? I have to say that last night I really couldn’t figure out how I felt about this. I saw it again, and liked it a bit more. I saw the first 10 minutes this morning, and loved it. The dark humor takes a few viewings to get into, but I did think this was really funny.
One personal gripe for me: I don’t find much humor in people pinning Pam as some kind of office slut. She seems to be the backboard for a lot of insecure women on this show who seem to be jealous of her because men like her, she was engaged to a oafish hunk for 10 years, and then started dating the very desirable Jim, whom everyone knows adores her. I get the psychology here, but enough already. I admire her resolve and letting it go, but there has to come a time when she (and/or Jim) stands up for herself.
If the point of the episode was to make you feel like, “I never want to step foot in that condo again as long as I live” then, it completely succeeded. I agree with #243 that it was too much of one joke. As far as Michael’s character, I thought he earned a lot of sympathy. He just seemed so desperate.
I thought this episode was hilarious. I laughed the whole time… and I know Angela was upset about Dwight, but I felt so bad for Andy. He was so sweet and she was just, well, a little evil. I did love the “What am I supposed to do with this?” line after he gave her a flower, though.
I’m predicting that the spinoff will star Jan Levinson. Last night’s episode seemed to set up her swift decline in the eyes of everyone. There was nothing likeable about her character at all! She was mean and vindictive- especially towards Pam! (And Michael!)
Or maybe that’s just my opinion.
I don’t get the big deal about Jim leaving Pam there. It would’ve almost been a prank on her to leave her there. And Pam would have done the SAME THING. It’s not like she was getting left in a burning house…just a crazy dinner party.
It’s official…Angela is now the best thing about The Office. I didn’t like this episode myself. The first shows of this season saw it coming back to form. Then this. Jim’s puppy dog faces can’t save scenes anymore. Too over the top with Jan and Michael. Not enough Rainn. Nothing “must see” about it. There’s always next week.
I think why I loved this episode so much was because it was so relatable – at least to my life. I had to go to a dinner party where the couple throwing it basically went at each other and fought and just made it very uncomfortable for everyone around. Now, the couple didn’t go to the extent to which Jan and Michael did – but still, the awkward, cringy moments were practically the same for my situation. I must admit though, I really don’t like Jan anymore because of this episode – don’t get me wrong, her scenes were some of the funniest ones…it was just her overall behavior that kind of made me dislike her. I hope if they do have a character leave, please keep the Scranton people and get rid of Jan!!!
The Dinner Party episode was a little too dark for me. But I’m glad that The Office is back on the air and I look forward to next Thursday’s episode.
My sister had a good theory…she seems to think Hunter’s song was about Jan, which is why she was so obsessed with listening to it (and danced around like a fool haha). Anyone agree?
This episode is akin to Sexual Harrassment. I knew it was funny, but almost couldn’t laugh because of how much I was cringing. Kind of like I didn’t want to laugh.
I think I will like this more later, after a few more viewings.
Any of you babes know where I can find an MP3 of Hunter’s song? It’s just SO bad and yet…I can’t stop listening.