4.17: Job Fair
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | 337 comments
Written by: Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky.
Directed by: Tucker Gates.
Summary (NBC): Jim hits the links with Andy and Kevin to try and land his biggest client ever. Meanwhile, Michael sets up a booth at a local job fair, which happens to be at Pam’s alma mater, to find “the best and the brightest” for Dunder Mifflin’s summer internship.
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Tidbits
Favorite quotes
Michael: Wanna get some fresh blood, youthanize this place.
Kelly: Omigod, Darryl, you look like Barack Obama. Everybody, I’m dating Barack Obama.
Dwight: Maybe he’s going to church. Or court.
Darryl: Figured I’d look presentable. You … went a different way.
Michael: Pam will be eye candy.
Jim: I am about to do something very bold at this job that I’ve never done before. Try.
Michael: A blank sheet of paper equals endless possibilities.
Andy: Got my knot on.
Creed: I finished my work months ago.
Dwight: I will tell on you.
Michael: You could be a classy janitor or a cashier with dignity. Or a migraine worker.
Michael: Maybe for you, paper should be more of a hobby.
Darryl: The booth is lame without it.
Pam: And then you sneezed in my tea and then you said, don’t worry, it’s just allergies.
Michael: Thank you, Dateline.
Creed: Hiya, Pumpkin. It’s Creed.
Creed: Say, we’re going to ditch this bitch. You in?
Creed: Pumpkin’s out! Let’s go, gang!
Michael: Yes. And don’t call me Shirley.
Pam: I could have just had them fax it to me, I guess.
Jim: Oh, I like you.
Phil: It’s not in the stars, Jim.
Andy: I fell in the sand trap.
Michael: He’s the most important thing in my life right now.
Michael: This is Darryl Philbin. Isn’t he big?
Michael: She will do you.
Michael: I would never say this to her face, but she is a wonderful person and a gifted artist.
Oscar: What? Why wouldn’t you say that to her face?
Justin: You were, you were kind of a jerk to me.
Michael: H&R Block? C’mon! I mean, I don’t even know what they do.
Michael: Air Force is cool.
Michael: He chooses to work here, selling paper. Just like me.
Michael: Yeah. Kiss her. Kiss her good.
Pam: New York or Philadelphia.
Impulse Design guy: That’s where the action is.
Rating
7.82/10
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hahahah #312!
Tuna, you’re funny. And I agree. I loved that line! It was my favorite of the episode.
Does anyone love Creed as much as I do?
“I finished my work months ago.” And the Pumpkin line… :]
I really hope they show more of Creed in return of Toby’s leave (which I will cry when it finally happens, the writers have no idea how much I adore Toby)
Nathan the Temp- i was cracking up at oscar’s “why wouldn’t you say that to her face” i love that oscar is the proverbial ’straight man’ to all the office antics. i like the idea that they made the gay guy in the office the straight man.
Ok, this may be a stupid question, but my co-worker’s and I are baffled by this: who is the other bobblehead doll that is on Dwight’s desk? We all saw it in this episode, but had never seen it there before… Any help would be greatly appricated!
327- Although I agree with you completely, I might have to take that bet. Because when someone gives you 10,000 to 1 odds on ANYTHING… you take it. =)
I didn’t buy the fact that Michael would show up to a Job Fair with a blank sheet of paper. It was out of character.
The expectation would be that he would be planning for weeks and then come up with something like “Win a kiss from Pam” or pass out inappropriately worded t-shirts (Dund her Miflin “That’s what she said”)…
Michael made his own Dunder Miflin commercial, organized the Rabies marathon, held a Survivor game to find his successor, etc. He invests heavily in his project, goes overboard, and ends up with little in return.
…that’s his M.O. and a blank sheet of paper was out of line with his character…just my 2 cents…
It was a solid episode. I liked that they were doing office-related stuff even though they weren’t in the office. And I really liked that there was a little story back in the office to go along with the two “off-site” storylines.
But what in the world was up with Andy wrecking the golf cart? That may have been the most disappointingly broad “joke” they’ve ever done. Bleh.
“Why wouldn’t you say that to her face?” Oscar Martinez may be the most level-headed worker in Scranton. He knows how to tolerate Michael’s antics quite well; he even helped him out in “Money”. He has two weaknesses, though: he’s overly sensitive to the baby poster, and he’s easily tempted by shopping with Gil on spring cleaning day. :-)
I haven’t read through all the comments, but from reading the first 100 or so I know there’s speculation about John Krasinski playing the graphic design guy. I really think it’s him, the “oh, absolutely” when Pam asks if she can sit is a dead give away. Then towards the end there’s a facial expression that is so Jim. (Sorry if this has been mentioned already.)
I don’t think the graphic design guy was being mean or rude. I’m not a graphic designer, but even I know how to use Photoshop and have heard of Corel Draw, Dreamweaver, etc.
I was watching the episode where Michael drives his car into the lake, and where Ryan asks Pam to draw up some logos for the new website. In her talking head, she says that she’s going to make some mock-ups, then turn them into thumbnails and then make splash screens. Then she laughs and says that she has no idea what any of that is. So she clearly knows that’s she’s not exactly familiar with all things graphic design, and yet hasn’t done much (over what we assume would be at least 3 or 4 months) to get up to par.
(#312)
Hahaha!
cagematcheswork: that seems to be how michael acts whenever he is spitting distance from a microphone! remember booze cruise too?
I just watched Job Fair again and the graphics guy is absolutely not played by John K. I will give anybody here 10,000 to 1 odds on it.
I totally thought that Angela and Dwight would start making out or something since they had the whole office to themselves. I was kind of disappointed that not much happened while they were there.
[from tanster: 200-word limit]
314-”From himself, from the future”–That is a VERY good point!! I think that may definitely be it! A house…why didn’t I ever think of that! (Cuz I’m an idiot, that’s why)
I came to the office for two reasons -
1 I loved the original
2 I love Steve Carell.
More and more I find myself looking forward to watching the ’supporting’ characters. This episode was no exception. Brian Baumgartner - you are a god sir!
I agree with #89 headphone. It’s a bad thing when an episode is only seen as set-up too; it should be good by itself. I found myself really not enjoying Michael’s antics in this episode. He was a little “Phyllis’s Wedding.”
Ok, so I haven’t looked at any spoilers this season, so I could be totally off, but does anyone else think that instead of an engagement for the season finale we’ll get a potentially break-up-able conflict between Jim and Pam? Pam’s character arc completely sets her up to go to NYC or Philly for graphic design. I’ve been wondering why they introduced Jim’s plan to propose so early in the season, and now I think that’s just to make it more tragic when things don’t go well. This pains me to say, but it’s the nature of TV shows that inevitably happens in order to “keep things interesting.” The show doesn’t want to put them together forever until the series ends, and here’s hoping that will be a while away. I will hate to see the writers follow a typical sit-com love story style, but it’s hard to see how they’re going to avoid it.
#307–AwesomeBlossom
You are “extra awesome”–good sleuthing! I must admit, I was one of those who believed it could be JK (mainly due to the voice), but after finding a Nelson Franklin on myspace, I have to give you some kudos. I still find it odd that his voice is so strangely similar to JK’s (especially when he says, “absolutely”). I have to wonder if this was deliberate. Of course, it’s more likely that I am reading WAY too much into it!
How is it that Dunder Mifflin can get away with internships without giving college credits nor pay? That’s cold…Maybe it’s pretty common but I’ve never heard of such positions. And guys, come on that’s clearly not John Krasinski.
Overall I enjoyed this episode better than last week’s but I can’t help noticing that I haven’t been laughing as much on The Office lately. I guess you could say certain episodes are for plot advancement and some are clearly meant for laughs but I don’t necessarily believe that those two things are mutually exclusive. They’ve already shown it was possible back in S2.