The Office: Lecture Circuit, Pt. 2, 5.17
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | 118 comments
W: Mindy Kaling, D: Ken Kwapis
Summary (NBC): Michael and Pam continue their tour of the branches with Michael taking a lesson from their visit to Utica. Dwight and Jim struggle to fulfill their new party planning duties with a grumpy staff. Angela’s new cat causes a stir. Second of two parts.
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Favorite quotes
Kevin: I didn’t eat lunch. I didn’t eat all my lunch.
Angela: This company still doesn’t recognize cat maternity.
Meredith: I had my second kid just for the vacation.
Dwight: Juvie … nile. Detention center.
Dwight: If she’s old enough to get married, she’s old enough to follow the law.
Kelly: Like Thelma and Louise, but with, like, a boat.
Jim: How do you hate it? It’s a cake.
Jim: Birthday.
Dwight: Frosting.
Kelly: Those aren’t themes. There’s always a theme.
Phyllis: There’s always a theme.
Kevin: That one ugly cat is humping Princess Lady!
Meredith: Yeah, I know fixed; that ain’t fixed.
Michael: Good morning, Viet … Nashua!
Pam: Sales is like a box of chocolates. You never know which vendor you’re gonna get.
Kevin: I was looking at pictures of food on my computer.
Oscar: The psychological issues that go behind licking a cat are not things I want to go into. Also I’m pretty sure she coughed up a hairball.
Michael: I stole a sleeve of her sweater.
Pam: What? I’m not in love with her.
Jim: I’m not writing “horse hunt.”
Jim: So far, our ideal party consists of beer, fights to the death, cupcakes, blood pudding, blood, touch football, mating, charades, and yes, horse hunting.
Jim: Okay, stop. Forever stop that story. That’s disgusting, and it doesn’t count.
Dwight: You know what’s even cooler than triceratops? Every other dinosaur that ever existed.
Kelly: You don’t hear a theme. You see it. Why is there a chiclet on my cake?
Creed: Bonnie Hunt is on.
Dwight: We’re going to be eating cake at our desks. Let’s go.
Kelly: I’m too excited to sleep.
Michael: We should go apologize to Roy or something.
Michael: Too fat. Big fat fatty.
Rating
In a poll conducted Feb. 12-16, Tallyheads rated this episode: 7.14/10
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This episode was pretty good, in my top 15. I liked it slightly better than the first part because of Dwight-Jim, Michael-Pam stories.
iluvlax-
if you rewatch the episode crime aid, michael and holly get caught in their romance by david.
It’s simple. she learned through michael and now she can have fun with this new guy w/o getting caught.
That’s how life goes, lol! You learn from one, move onto the next.
Gee, do I sense some score bias due to a lack of a certain actress whose names rhymes with Shmamy Shmyan on the show?
This episode, while not as good as stress relief or the first installment of the two-parter was certainly NOT in the bottom third of episodes. Middle of the pack at worst.
if holly had to leave scranton because she was dating michael, why is she allowed to have an open office relationship in nashua?
I really liked this episode, and reading everyone’s insights on it gave me some perspective on it. I loved that Pam was in it a lot, but it wasn’t a JAM plot line. Pam doing the presentation and Angela with her cats… priceless.
My only question is, did Jim seem a little out of character to anyone else? It seemed like he was more annoyed with Dwight than usual, instead of being slightly annoyed and resolving to play a prank to get back at him. Could this be leading to something, or am I just overanalyzing?
I don’t think that Angela was a “different person” in this episode. Yeah, she was friendlier to her co-workers than normal, but she gets like that when she gets excited about her cats. Remember she offered Pam one of her cats when Sprinkles had babies? She was glowing. The woman LOVES her cats.
96. Bob Vance:
i feel the same way about angela and the cats as i did about michael driving into the lake and dwight setting the office on fire. take weird over the top people, place them under stress and they will act out in even weirder more over the top ways. we are supposed to relate to jim and pam, not dwight and angela. jim and pam observe the bizarre antics of the other characters along with us. and when was angela ever nice or sweet or normal?
I love the parallel between Pam comforting Michael and Jim comforting Dwight last season.
Except while Dwight understood what Jim was doing for him, Michael–quite expectedly–didn’t get it. “Please Pam, I’m going through a thing right now.”
As for Angela and her cats? Hilarious, and unfortunately not that far off from reality; people are weird about their pets. I used to work with a woman who referred to her dog as “the baby.” I though she had a kid until someone told me the real deal.
Really liked this episode. At first I questioned why Holly could openly date AJ, but I have explained it away by assuming it’s not her dating people at the office that is a problem, it is David Wallace finding out about it. And there’s not any reason to assume Wallace is keeping close enough tabs on Nashua branch to know about the Holly – AJ situation.
I did not care as much for this episode as the first one but man I can not get enough of this show.
Really thought this 2 parter was great!
Jenna was amazing. It was cool to see her have so much screen time!
Steve Carrel was great too, he really made me feel for Michael.
That look on his face when he was outside crying to Pam was perfect, as was his face when he saw the Ed Grimley wallpaper on Holly’s computer.
I’m hoping for a Holly comeback in the season finale.
I’m sorry if this has already been said (there are a lot of comments!), but when Pam says, “It’s not over,” the first thing I thought was that Holly is pregnant. Wouldn’t that be crazy? It would be his, not like with Jan’s baby. He would be so happy! Maybe I’m just dreaming…
I watched the episode 3 times, and now I really like it. The whole Angela thing was weird, at first, but it really makes sense now. She’s slowly going crazy after being dumped by two guys, she’s slowly turning into that crazy cat lady that never married, and like post 103 said, she can’t handle a relationship with a human but can with cat. Also, that deleted scene with the “Finer Things” club was great.
How do you come back from Angela licking her cat?
I really liked this episode, especially of course the party planning and the actual party. I do think Pam was lying to Michael (look at her eyes, she feels sorry for him). And Angela is clearly losing her mind, which is pretty funny/interesting/ pathetic. Kevin and Oscar’s reactions to her behavior were great.
Pretty funny episode I guess. Not as good as last weeks. I still love The Office and wouldn’t miss an episode for the world, but I think the point where the show started getting worse was when other people in the office besides Michael, Dwight, Jim, and Pam had plot lines. I love all the characters, but I really think the those four should be the main characters like it had started out being. Maybe Andy too, because he’s a good main character. That doesn’t mean I don’t want any other people having lines or anything; they always have, and I love it, but not full on plots and what-not. It just gets too confusing with 12 or 13 main characters. In my opinion, of course.
102, Far Away-
“I have tasted my cat’s food on occasion.”
You do realize everyone can read what you write, yes?
;)
Jim, Dwight, and Kelly are magic together! I thoroughly enjoyed this two-parter- plus I think it’s nice to have episodes without Jim/Pam interaction because it makes me appreciate it more.
I know someone who uses cats to fill an obvious emotional void in her life. It’s disturbing and nonsensical at times. It really puts this week’s Angela plotline into perspective for me. I thought it was great. C’mon, Angela’s always been bizarre.
Now, I understand the reaction to Angela licking her cat. I’m with you. However, I don’t see much difference (gross-wise, not weird-wise) in that or when people kiss their dogs on the mouth. Do you know what dogs eat and sniff? I’m just saying…..