The Office: Dream Team, 5.22
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | 43 comments
W: B.J. Novak, D: Paul Feig
Summary (NBC): After getting off on the wrong foot with his new supervisor, Charles (Idris Elba), Jim finds himself face to face with the new boss in a soccer game in the Dunder Mifflin parking lot. Meanwhile, Michael, afraid to face the workday, has trouble leaving his house.
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Favorite quotes
Andy: You are murdering the Nard Dog!
Andy: My maid died.
Michael: Oh good, my hooker is here.
Dwight: Oh no! The new boss does not find Jim adorable!
Michael: I have egg in my crocs.
Michael: Like Benjamin Button in reverse.
Michael: He’s everything I’m not, and everything I am. He’s the whole package.
Pam: I hate that I just used the word ‘relationship.’
Jim: If you really want to impress your boss, you go in there and you do mediocre work. Halfheartedly.
Pam: Next on the list, song parodies.
Dwight: Great ideas are just part of what I bring to the table.
Jim: I was on the orange team.
Pam: We got Vikram!
Vikram: Confidence — it’s the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool.
Vikram: Is it possible he’s bowling?
Michael: Everyone deserves a second, second chance.
Ryan’s boss: Back to work, shoe bitch!
Ryan: Do you guys want to hear about Thailand? It was indescribable.
Michael: Ryan Howard is about to make a splash in paper.
Jim: My strategy is to touch the ball as little as possible. Chalk it up to teamwork.
Vikram: What kind of a name is Nana?
Pam: It means ‘grandmother.’
Vikram: Oh sweet Jesus.
Phyllis: I swallowed a crown.
Pam: I was just feeling impulsive! I should have gotten a tiny tatoo on my ankle!
Michael: I do my best work when people don’t believe in me.
Michael: You know what they say. Keep your friends close.
Rating
In a poll conducted April 9-13, Tallyheads rated this episode: 8.00/10
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Not my favorite episode, but better than ‘Two Weeks’. It was really original and different, but overall the funniest quote was “I have eggs in my crocs.”
7.5/10
Brilliant. I love where the writers are taking this! Bringing back Ryan? Hilarious.
I thought both episodes were Great! I love this season.
Charles is a great addition. He’s not supposed to be funny . He’s the ‘regular army’ guy taking command of the 4077th. He’s Col. Potter in the first few episodes of MASH after he replaced Henry Blake.
I love his relationship with Jim.
He helps answer a great question: What happens to the office staff when a typical, serious, boss takes over?
Plenty of creative possibilities.
i’m enjoying the other side to jim, but i feel the past two episodes the writers have left us hanging with his story. they showed him getting prepared for the soccer game and the beginning of the game but what happened? they showed jim trying to figure out what a “rundown” was but what happened?
This episode was definitely different but still enjoyable. I like seeing Pam and Michael interact. He would waffle on his decision, and then she would. My favorite part of the episode was near the end where she was still sitting in his car and he was standing outside the car giving her a pep talk. Deep down, I still feel like they will both return to DM, but Michael will return more appreciated by his “family.”
Michael finally changes his small Plasma TV for a big one!!!
Charles isn’t supposed to be funny. He’s the anti-Michael.
I’m really upset about Charles. I don’t know what the point of his character is, but he’s not funny. He just makes me sad for people that work under his authority.
I just watched it again and noticed 2 things…sorry if they have been brought up before.
1. Michael replaced his plasma TV
2. There is an available office in the Scranton Business Park.
LOVE THE SECOND HALF OF THIS SEASON!!!! I love the roundness of the characters! Dwight’s not JUST the idiot. Andy’s not JUST the doof. Jim isn’t JUST the calm, cool, collected one. Stanley isn’t JUSt the bored slacker. And I can again count on squirmy, uncomfortable The Office-ness.
Wow, am I the only one upset about the time slot on this and the fact that I missed it?
I never expected everyone to stay in the office when they’re so unhappy with their job. True it’s a job but I would hope they would want more for themselves. I like the story lines because it’s going back to the fact that this is their work. Sometimes you have to suck up and be unhappy and sometimes you have to quit when you can’t handle it anymore. I think that’s very, very realistic.
Some people still have two grandmas…it’s tough when you’re that age though. Might be why he calls her Nana, because he already has a “Grandma”.
29- Maybe it’s his other grandmother. Most people have two of them. ;)
I really enjoyed the episode, but did anyone else think there was a discontinuity with Nana? In “Goodbye, Toby,” she keeps sending Michael $10 because she’s not sure when his birthday is. Now, she’s a shrewd investor who thinks her grandson’s business plan lacks merit. Over the past year, she’s gotten a lot better with money…
And yes, Sticious, when I saw that someone got hit with the ball I was sure it was Meredith!
Someone please post that quote of Michael talking about how he was failing out of school, but scored the most goals for the hockey team!
I thought that Pam was amazing in this episode. Her character is really evolving. I think the reason some people don’t like it so much is that change is hard to deal with. Everything IS changing but it’s ok. It’s going to make “normal” that much better when it comes back. (If there is such a thing as “normal” for The Office).
Also, I’m a huge Jim and Pam fan, and I love their story but this is not the Jam show, this is about the whole office. I’m glad that they don’t make everything about the two of them. I love that the writers include everyone in the storyline. I wouldn’t object to one overly Jammy episode, though.
Really liked it. Uncomfortably-squirming-but-still-able-to-crack-a-joke Jim is awesome. Pam and Michael is always a win and Michael’s pep talk was incredibly well done, especially the framing with her in the car. And more Vikram is always a good thing.
Only bit I didn’t like was the soccer story just seemed to stop after Phyllis’ face was destroyed, but maybe that’s because I was really enjoying that whole thread: Jim squirming, Charles actually enjoying work (!!), and Dwight ribbing Jim wholeheartedly.
2 Thumbs Down. Way down. The characters are not themselves anymore. Jim acting like a little girl, Dwight not being an idiot, Stanley actually being happy to see Michael, or even caring to go see his new workspace? Ryan sucks and I’m sick of his character. Please bring the office back, please?