The Office: Frame Toby, 5.09
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | 174 comments
W: Mindy Kaling, D: Jason Reitman
Summary (NBC): A mysterious person in the office has made a huge mess in the microwave and will not clean it up. Meanwhile, Michael has to come to terms with the fact that there have been certain personnel changes in his staff without his knowing.
Favorite quotes
Angela: Are you swallowing them whole? You’re eating them so fast, are they even touching your tongue?
Dwight: Pastry cubes made of sugar and fat?
Michael: No, God, please, no! Nooooo!
Michael: Look at him. With his stupid face. Stupid … tan.
David: Do you know what 911 means?
Michael: That’s true. People say it’s icky.
Michael: I have cause. It is because I hate him.
Andy: I got peepers of an eagle.
Kevin: So Jim, you’re going to live in the same house that you used to pee the bed in?
Andy: You’re in for a spanking, my friend. Myself and my lady? — no secrets.
Creed: We should hang out by the quarry and throw things down there.
Andy: The note is way more obnoxious than the mess.
Meredith: Get off your high horse, Richie.
Michael: Well, Mr. Kurt Russell, you are about to be served.
Michael: Nice beaches? Pristine beaches?
Michael: That is like trying to be friends with an evil … snail.
Michael: I feel like Neve Campbell in “Scream II.”
Dwight: I love catching people in the act. That’s why I always whip open doors.
Dwight: Men find me desirable.
Dwight: It’s a good day, too. I’m wearing my mustard shirt.
Pam: Are you inching away from me?
Pam: “Please hug and kiss me, no matter how hard I struggle. I’m too shy to tell you that I love you.”
Kelly: Punch him, Toby!
Dwight: It’s illegal, but … everything they do on ‘The Shield’ is illegal.
Dwight: I framed a raccoon for opening a Christmas present. And I framed a bear for eating out of the garbage.
Michael: Sometimes the ends justify the mean.
Leo: What makes you think we’d have weed?
Pam: I guess that’s why we have a temp, huh?
Dwight: My name is Andy Bernard. Andrew Bernard, that’s my name. See you soon.
Creed: Just pretend like we’re talking until the cops leave.
Toby: I didn’t put caprese salad in my drawer, Michael. Did you?
Michael: You think I framed you, and you’re worried about the taxpayer?
Michael: Welcome back, jerky jerk face.
Ryan: Let’s have sex one more time. And if you have any extra cash, that would be amazing.
Pam: You bought me a house!
Pam: Do we have to sleep in your parents’ bedroom?
Dwight: No, I go for the chandelier. It’s priceless.
Dwight: It’s her father’s business. She’s Tiffany.
Rating
In a poll conducted Nov. 20-24, Tallyheads rated this episode: 7.59/10
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A nice detail: Jim’s bike with the basket from “Diwali”.
#97-I was also wondering what Pam is supposed to be heating up! I have watched that part 3 times and I can’t figure it out. It looks like the watery stuff that is at the top of fruit on the bottom yogurt when you open it up…but I don’t know. It does look like pineapple juice too. but why would she be heating any of those things up? Weird.
I loved this episode, I thought it was great. Michael’s hatred of Toby is one of my favorite parts of the show. Is it ever explained why he hates him so much? Or is it just because Toby is HR and always bugging him?
179. chevy: Fans can have fun analyzing and overanalyzing… this is a site for commenting and getting really into the show. I doubt it bothers the writers.
You know, guys, there is such a thing as overanalyzing.
It’s a show. Appreciate it for what it is, because the writers are gonna do what they want. And that’s a good thing. Writers should be having fun with what they do…that’s how we get the funny episodes.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but it struck me as so funny during Michael and Toby’s TH when Michael said something like, “You said you were leaving and you came back and made huge liars out of all of us.” I thought it was a subtle way of teasing Paul L., because didn’t he say that he was leaving as a character but remaining on the writing/producing part of the show? And then he came back hahaha. Anyway, I found it funny and I am also glad everyone is back at DM :)
Please keep comments on-topic. Thanks!
Actually, Josh (#159), the wedding site lists the wedding date as Thanksgiving 2009.
So, I am going to take a leap here and predict NO WEDDINGS in season five.
I really thought Pam would hate the house and they’d get into a big fight or something and I was totally dreading that moment, but I knew it was okay when he showed her the garage with the ‘art studio’. That was sweet and I knew she wouldn’t hate it. Anyway, for some reason I’ve learned to appreciate this episode way more after reading everybody’s comments on here. I already liked it, but with other people’s insight it becomes even better. Gotta love Officetally!
173. Schticky: Great comment/analysis. I like when fans really get into the show. Sure it’s fiction, but fiction can show us a lot about reality. Entertainment can be a good teaching tool, not just a mindless emotional anesthetic or roller coaster. It’s no substitute for studying or life experience, but it can be a nice supplement.
I have a NEW theory. I know most of you, as I felt the microwave story kind of fizzled. No resolution. 1) that’s the way it goes in the real world, someone else just gets in there and cleans it up. Hopefully the TEMP. 2) and I just made this up, If it HAD been resolved, Pam would have been more chipper leaving work, reponded to Jim faster about the house. As it was, she was still wrapped up in her bad day, and took a little bit to respond and thus the reveal scene.
the evil snail line was my favorite, and of course everything creed..for a while i was completely bummed they outed toby so i’m really glad he’s back
this was a very good episode :]
The scene where Toby is shadow boxing Michael and talking to himself is brilliant.
i thought this was a terrible episode. i hate toby, but what michael did to him was not cool. mike went way overboard. just a terrible episode.
Someone might have mentioned this already but after watching the episode a second time I noticed that when Michael came up to the Vance Refrigeration men to buy the ‘grass weed’, I think it was Lee Eisenberg’s character (forget his name), but I saw that he was putting the poppers or whatever they’re called (the things you throw on the ground and they explode) inside the tennis ball. I found that quite an interesting take on what goes inside his mind. Makes you wonder what his intentions were?
RE: Toby’s trip… I am seriously wondering if he photoshopped those pictures to make it look like he had more fun than he actually did. If he’s not going to tell them he was in the hospital, it’s not that far-fetched that he’d make up pictures also… “I hired a local guy to take them.”
Absolutely superb episode–packed with so many funny lines I was continually stopping the Tivo to laugh!
163- I totally agree! Well said!
#160 SSE: YES! I feel the same way! Those episodes are heartbreaking! I LOVE seeing them happy. If I wanted to watch something with tons of relationship conflict or zero passion, I’d watch a different show. People argue that relationships (especially JAM) shouldn’t be a focus concerning this show, but re-watch the pilot. That element has been there heavily since DAY ONE.
As for JAM being boring together, they’re SUPPOSED to be ordinary- isn’t that the whole premise of the show? To find the humor in the mundane? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy seeing them have realistic relationship bumps- especially when they’re funny. But I don’t need the “on-again/off-again, will they, won’t they?” drama. And I don’t think it makes sense for them to break up. Both scenarios are just not suiting to their characters. I’m not sure what more people want from Jim & Pam. ??? If they broke up- then what? Two 30-somethings of marrying age who share such history and love just plug away at the office until maybe a third party catches one or the other’s attention? BORING. I like a little romance in my cup of humor!
gosh, i haven’t commented this much in a while. i guess i really like this episode!
i think the microwave story was interesting because, especially after you watch the deleted scene, there may be a little resentment towards pam for leaving. i could see that – in the british office a big part of the characters and the show was this idea that they are sort of stuck in these lives. it’s part of what made the original office darker but i do think there is an element of that in this show. especially this episode. they try to break out but they are all stuck a little in this comfort zone and sort of content with that but also not. so they might resent pam for leaving. it is what makes angela go for andy, this same resigned nature. that is why toby, ryan, pam and jim have all ended up coming back.
how has no one mentioned “pam-town lady sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah”?!
i am so glad pam is back but not because of the pam/jim dynamic. don’t get me wrong, it was really nice to see them together again but i’d also liked seeing forlorn jim again – for old times sake. i really missed pam’s dynamic with the whole office and in particular, michael. michael probably loves pam almost as much as jim, in his own way. and the terrible plays-on-word with her name are the best. i am so glad to have the interactions of michael going up to pam at reception again. and i would be a liar if i said i wasn’t looking forward to a pam and jim prank on dwight soon!