The Office: Gossip, 6.01
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 | 202 comments
W: Paul Lieberstein, D: Paul Lieberstein
Summary (NBC): Michael feels left out as the rest of the office gossips about the summer interns. While Michael searches for the next juicy rumor to share, Andy struggles with heterosexuality. Season 6 premiere.
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Tidbits
Favorite quotes
Jim: This is parkour. Internet sensation of 2004.
Jim: Technically, they are doing parkour, as long as Point A is delusion and Point B is the hospital.
Andy: Hardcore parkour!
Kelly: If they get married before I do, I’m going to kill myself.
Michael: This place is like Spaniard Fly.
Dwight: I guess I have a face you can trust. I think it’s because of my low cheekbones.
Michael: I should have known. Poop Ball?
Michael: The third wheel is what makes it a tricycle.
Dwight: Stanley’s way past the middle of his life. Especially considering his height to weight ratio.
Kevin: I might have extra. It just depends on how many I eat.
Michael: How do you un-tell something? You can’t. You can’t put words back in your mouth.
Michael: I have seen that movie half a dozen times, and I still don’t know who the real Spartacus is.
Michael: Anorexia. She’s an anorexitic.
Meredith: She’s gonna hate being a mom.
Kevin: Do you like it as much as you like men’s butts?
Oscar: If you resisted Brad Pitt a little bit, he would still need to get to you?
Oscar: What exactly is my responsibility here? To comfort insecure heterosexual men? That can’t possibly fall to me.
Jim: You’re going to regret that when you find yourself between a moose and her cubs at night.
Andy: Little Baby Tuna. Little Junior Toro.
Angela: You know a baby conceived out of wedlock is still a bastard.
Creed: If I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about? What am I working toward?
Oscar: You think I’m the voice of the Taco Bell dog?
Toby: I have a daughter. How could I be a virgin?
Kevin: Who’s been saying that there’s another person inside of me working me with controls?
Dwight: You told people that I use store bought manure, when I showed you where my manure comes from?
Andy: Michael, am I gay?
Creed: Who’s the OB/GYN?
Michael: Pam! Look at that! That is the inside of your vagina!
Michael: Did you pee on a stick?
Jim: I did. But it was inconclusive.
Pam: We should have realized that you are an equal part of this.
Michael: Hey, whaddup Cynthia.
Michael: You can’t stop love, I guess, and quite frankly, I don’t think you should ever even try.
Rating
In a poll conducted September 17-21, Tallyheads rated this episode: 8.11/10
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In case anyone was really interested in my previous post, the character’s name is Megan in both episodes – I imdb-ed it. I think it’s kind of cool that the writers kept that continuity with such a minor character. I just hope that someone else finds this interesting haha.
This could have already been in an earlier post, but did anyone else notice that the female intern from the premier has already been in an Office episode? I was watching season 4 deleted scenes last night, and in one of them she talks to Oscar about working for Dunder Mifflin. Her name is Megan in that episode, and I don’t have time to re-watch “Gossip” right now. That would be cool if it was the same character.
Hold on…don’t judge the whole season by the opener! There’s so much more show! I will admit that it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped but what saved it for me was that opening scene:
HARDCORE PARKOUR! That was a totally classic “Michael and Dwight antics” scene. It was so hilarious I watched it over and over and even showed it to a couple of friends who don’t even watch The Office. They loved it! Jim’s commentary on it was the best “Technically they are doing it as long as point A is delusion and point B is the hospital”. So funny! I still feel the season can only get better.
“That’s why Spartacus is a classic ‘who-dun-it’.” I couldn’t stop laughing. If this is a preview of things to come for this season, it’ll be the best one in 4 years (season 2 being the best).
@197: My guess is they told their parents but don’t want the rest of the family to know? But yes I caught that too.
Sorry if it has already been mentioned, but I thought Jim and Pam were trying to keep the pregnancy a secret from their parents until after the wedding, but they told Michael “we just barely told our parents last week.” does Pam just not want her parents to know, and Jim was talking about his parents they told?
Sorry.
I love the show, but I was disappointed by the season opener. Sure, it was better than most of the previous season, but I expected a return to form and was let down. Biggest problems? Too much mean spirited behavior on the part of Michael and (even though it was just 1 line) Angela, and when did Andy and Kevin become Dumb and Dumber? I mean, there’s funny-dumb and then there’s ridiculous-dumb. Jim and Pam seemed to phone in their performances. How would the ‘real’ Pam react to the ‘bastard’ remark? I hope the characters become real again soon….
Thanks robef. Now I will be able to sleep at night ;)
@InYourFaceMachines it was a chrysler 300. hardcore parkour rocked though, love it !
With apologies to #191: Where’s the bashing? Too much love.
The Office’s descent into mediocrity continues. Worst season opener ever. I stopped Tivo-ing The Office after Season 3, but I still watched because there were occasional glimpses of its brilliant past. Now I’m totally over it.
I already thought this episode was better than any episode from last season. I am a die-hard fan, but I thought last season was REAL weak. I am now absolutely stoked for this season. Paul Lieberstein, if you happen to be reading this: thank you, thank you, thank you (:
In regards to Pam and Jim plot development:
There’s really not much they can do. Sure, they can have them argue and whatnot or throw some loop but that’s not what they’re going after. They’re trying to show that Pam and Jim are PERFECT for each other (they always have been trying to show this). They dabbled in it a bit with Stress Relief, however. Pam and Jim are two happy youngsters in love about to be wed. I think what they’re doing right now is fine. We’ll see what happens when the “honeymoon” stage is over.
@190-
I wasn’t talking about plot detail… and perhaps detail wasn’t the correct word. I was just talking about the random little things in the background that I look forward to finding every week. All the stickers and things near Dwight’s desk, photos of Jim and Pam on Jim’s desk… things like that. I know that Creed isn’t a salesperson… but his name is on that list with some sort of a number. I don’t think that Ryan’s name was up there, and I was basically trying to figure out who else’s names were on that board.
Where’s the love? Too much bashing :( I loved this episode. It was awesome. Some of the looks Michael gave the camera made me laugh out loud.
186. AndIHaveWorms….
Umm… Creed and Ryan are both not sales people, first of all. Creed is quality assurance and Ryan is once more a temp. And about the office’s ‘consistent attention to detail’: do you realize that in the second season they have Meredith’s birthday ‘be a month away’ and the only birthday in sight, wherein in the 4th it’s one of many in the middle of ‘birthday month,’ a total contradiction. There’s more but I don’t have room.
I am SO EXCITED about this season!!!!! :) I can hardly WAIT until the Jim/Pam office episode…it’s going to be AMAZING!!!!!! ;)
Aussieaunt, I definitely agree with you. The Pam & Jim talking head interviews seem so fake and forced. They have not been the same since season 4. Where is the chemistry? Their relationship is too perfect now and it’s just unrealistic. And I have nothing against sweet moments but there is a point where it becomes cheesy and overdone. We know Jim’s a good guy but he just comes off as completely whipped now. There has been no character development, as far as their relationship goes, for either of them since the 4th season. And I agree with another poster’s comments here: Pam’s suits have got to go.
I agree about Stanley not being out of character regarding the cheating part, but I think he definitely is when talking freely and/or as an equal to Michael in the car…
About Stanley’s car: is it really a Bentley or is that a similar looking (and hopefully cheaper) car? Is it weird or am I wrong?
Also, did anyone else think Erin looked different? Hardly recognized her…
Ok, so this may be fun for those of you who have a little extra time… When Michael is first telling Kelly about Stanley’s affair, you can see on the dry erase board on the wall the amount of sales that all of the salespeople have. Jim is above Dwight, Phyllis and Stanley have about the same amount, and it looks like Creed has the least amount. There is actually someone above Jim, though, and I can’t make out the name! Also, there’s another name at the bottom that I thought may have been Ryan but I’m not so sure. Anyone else have any thoughts? I just thought it was interesting… I love The Office’s consistent attention to detail!
183…goodcoffee, I think it was just spray deodorant. I thought part of the joke from the tag was that Michael would think the interns look like celebrities, but I thought the one intern looked like Hiro from Heroes and of course the other one looked like Matt Damon, I can’t figure out the girl. Of course Michael would think of someone like Alan Thicke