4.03-04: Dunder Mifflin Infinity
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | 479 comments
Michael drives his rental car into the water #2.
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i love this episode- the lake was the BEST
I was re-watching season 4, and during this episode I noticed a funny candle on Michael’s desk while he and Jan are eating salad for lunch. It (the candle) definitely has a homemade label placed on the jar with what appears to be a picture of Michael’s head, lol! I wonder if this was a prototype of “Serenity by Jan”?
Just to clarify, the “elephant in the room” comment was not used by Michael. However, there are several parallels between MGS and RBH.
Sorry if someone else has already pointed this out - didn’t have time to read all the posts.
But to those who think it’s completely over-the-top that Michael would drive into a lake because of a GPS foul-up, well, it actually happened about a year ago, in Germany.
Probably where the writers got the idea.
I actually really liked this episode!! =]
why does it have such a low rating??
Re 494: Michael Scott is the kind of person who should NEVER turn down rental insurance.
This has probably already been said by a few, but I don’t want to go back through almost 500 comments to find out…Michael driving into the lake totally worked for me because he did it on purpose. It was obvious to me that he was trying to drive home the point that relying blindly on technology may get you murdered in a lake. After the gift baskets had failed, it was his own desperate way of going to extremes to show Ryan the error of his ways. I thought it was completely in character for Michael, being the man-child he is, as it was also completely in character to be too dumb to waive the rental car insurance.
#491 - I didn’t notice the “elephant in the room” comment was used by both Michael and Ryan.. It will be very interesting to see if Ryan models some of his behaviour after Michael.
I had tried to see the logic of Michael driving into the lake since i saw the episode last week. Maybe I’m just grasping for straws, but… maybe Michael did it on purpose. Maybe he was trying to prove a point.
Through the better part of the episode, after of course Jan and Creed gave their opinions of Ryan’s new regime, Michael was against technology. His attempts at “staying with the old”, didn’t seem to be working, and when he thought all hope was lost, he saw an opportunity to fight technology when the GPS gave them the wrong instructions.
Yes, his tactics were unorthodox, to say the least, but eventually proved to have some kind of effect.
I arrived at this explanation after watching the episode a third time and noticing that the GPS had shown that the right turn was into the lake!
It does sound silly, but in the mind of Michael Scott, he was completely in the right.
Saying this, I REALLY wanted this to be a good episode.
I loved it when Ryan referred to “the elephant in the room” with Jan just like Michael had in S3. I wonder if there will continue to be more small Ryan=Michael parallels? I hope so.
A Skeptic!
I just saw the 3rd deleted scene..”cars, the penguins of the airplane family”.. WHY OH WHY was this not included in the episode?? This was sooo much better than a lot of the stuff they did include.. it makes me miss Jim-Dwight interaction even more now.
i know i’m a little slow on the posting seeing as it’s tuesday…but yikes. after the first and secod episodes i’m a little worried. i’m hoping they’ll get better when the hour long episodes are over.
i’m glad that there are other people posting that seem to think the season doesn’t have the same “feel” as the past seasons, and that it’s a little ridiculous. we all know that the show is make-believe, but in the past there was a sense of believability. that’s what made it so good…it was an exaggeration of things that could happen…now…it’s just a little out there.
I don’t think the basket scene showed Michael being a bad salesman - in fact, the first scene in the lawyer’s office shows that’s he’s very good with clients. Taking the basket back, for me, was symbolic of the end of customer service, not just at DM, but in the real world too, because all the client cared about was having an inhuman interaction on the Internet. And I’m writing this opinion to people I’ve never met, on the Internet, which is really ironic and weird, actually.
#464 Halpert’s Girl - well thought out and interesting comments on the Jim character. He’s a mystery in many ways yet it’s easy to relate to him. We know his heart because for the most part it shines through his face (John Krasinski has that unique gift of being able to say so much without saying anything at all). I’m looking forward to seeing where the writers take him this season.
ahhh it was sooo funny! hahaha they drove into a lake! OMG so hilarious! WHERE ARE THE TURTLES?! i was cracking up the whole time. love it.
#482
Future Dwight-
I think that the truth is that Ryan asked Karen out. Remember when he asks Jim in Season 2 if it is okay for him to call Katy? I think that that scene was to show us the depth of Ryan’s slimeball-ness. He was never committed to Kelly and on top of that, he is able to lie to her face. Yuck!
I think it is totally legitimate to like or dislike scenes from the show, but whenever there is a moment in an episode someone doesn’t like, must he or she immediately throw out the term “jump the shark”? It’s getting to be like the boy who cried wolf! Or, more appropriately, the boy who cried shark.
Maybe I missed it…but did anyone notice the comment from Ryan that in actuality it was Karen who asked him out in the email? Remember in the Women’s Appreciation episode in the bathroom when he and Jim talk about it…Jim thought Ryan asked her out….I have been saying since that moment that something would happen…and new jealous Toby heard it…..could trouble be brewing?
michael eating broccoli as he ponders ageism…he can crack me up without saying a single word.