The Office: Suit Warehouse, 9.11
Thursday, January 17th, 2013 | 45 comments
Writer: Dan Greaney, Director: Matt Sohn
Summary (NBC): Dwight and Clark pose as father and son to make a sale — Clark returns from his sex jaunt with Jan and gifts the office with a new espresso maker, which everyone abuses. Dwight takes him to sell a father – son suit warehouse. Meanwhile, Darryl interviews at Jim’s company and Pam comes for a surprise visit.
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Rating
In a poll conducted January 17-21, 2013, Tallyheads rated this episode: 7.60/10
The Office Suit Warehouse quotes
Dwight: Jim and Dwight Schrupert. I was the dynamic, likable winner, that was doted upon by Mom. And Jim was the closeted foot fetishist, pretending to belong.
Dwight: Phyllis, my sister? More like my dead, great, great grandmother who died of stupidity.
Clark: Women reach their sexual peak at whatever age Jan was last week. I mean, it was like making love with a wild animal. But not like a cougar, like you might think. It was… like a swarm of bees. Bees that just find something wrong with every hotel room.
Meredith: Like my mom used to say, talk classy, act nasty.
Erin: I would feel super guilty if I broke anyone’s trust. About the pens.
Pam: I love the guy, but he’s basically Gumby with hair.
Clark: He calls me Clarky. ‘Cause he’s my dad.
Clark: My dad’s the best hunter there is. He’s like a serial killer. Of animals.
Kevin: Taste test? I’m in.
Oscar: YOLO!
All: We all drink them all!
Phyllis: Hey. Where’s my ring.
Creed: I’m sure it’ll turn up.
Darryl: You Zuckerberg’d this place out.
Dwight: What took you so long? Were you loitering out there like a hooligan smoking a doobie?
Darryl: If this company’s going down, I want to go down on it. With it. I want to go down with it.
Erin: I don’t want to be a busybody, but I don’t want to be a lazybones. Busybody, lazybones, busybody, lazybones.
Dwight: Adam’s apple like the prow of a ship. Thumbs like a low land gorilla.
Dwight: Please, kitty, may I have some more?
Dwight: He’s got cat turd collector written all over him.
Stanley: So this is what 2pm looks like around here.
Stanley: I usually take a siesta about now.
Pam: They’re the ones who put a fish tank next to a basketball hoop.
Kevin: It feels really hot in here. Is it hot in here? It feels really really hot in here.
Stone son: Does that suit come with a fire extinguisher?
Dwight: Next thing you know, you’ll be doing life on Riker’s Island.
Clark: That’s better than looking like the undertaker from Boring Island.
Darryl: Killed their fish, and they still hired me. That’s how you do that, baby!
Oscar: Kevin, move, I can’t pull up the rug if you’re standing on it with your rhinocerous feet.
Erin: You left me in charge of the pens, Pam. That’s what happened. The pens happened.
Pam: Are the pens here?
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Does anyone watch Wedding Band? Melora Hardin (Jan) is on that show as well, and this past week (aired before The Office) she had too many frequent flier miles and had to buy like 12 espresso machines and toasters and things to use them up. She bought the exact same espresso machine that Jan sent to The Office. Do the two shows share a writer? Is that an inside joke for us? Or just a bizarre coincidence?
Maybe I’m a nitpicker, but… Dwight produces a mini-Dwight suit for ‘Dwight Jr.’ out of thin air – we never see it again. Cartoon. The office staff drinks coffee, go nuts, and (get ready for the big laugh) they SWEAT! What great comedy writing! Erin has to receive a delivery of a box of pens: this is hilarious because she apparently is almost as mentally handicapped as Kevin.
Footage from the days when Dwight and Jim used to put on costumes and go on sales-calls. You know – before the Documentary. Documentary???? If the show started out this way, I wouldn’t be watching. I watch out of my sense of closure, but it hurts.
Gold!
@lynn, Haha, yes, I remember that. Seems like Pam has a few skills of her own, huh? ;)
@Jessie I don’t know why, but your comment made me think of Season 2 – Michael’s Birthday. Jim teaching Pam to skate.
Paraphrasing:
Jim: Do you think you can let go now?
Pam: No.
Later, Pam managed to glide along by herself.
This was one of the best post-michael episodes. I thought all three plotlines (dwight and clark selling, Darryl’s interview, and the office going crazy over caffeine and/or pens) were great. In response to some other people on here, I don’t think the basketball in the fish tank was a desperation move at all. I think it was a funny, unexpected way to end what had turned into a strong interview for Darryl. The pens plotline fit Erin’s naïve personality perfectly, and the office on extreme caffeine was pretty funny even if it was exaggerated (like the scene where Kevin Angela and Oscar are sweating up a storm). It was sometimes hard to tell the suit shop owner’s reaction to Dwight and Clark’s shenanigans, I wish we had heard more from him and his son. Overall a great episode though.
@Mustard Shirt– the actor that played the son looked super familiar to me, too. It was driving me crazy, so I tracked him down. His name is Will Greenberg. I looked him up on IMDB, and he was in Cloverfield and a number of other things.
This was a satisfying episode, but not one of the season’s best. The sub-plot at the office was somewhat flat and had too much slapstick.
I liked Dwight and Clark’s sub-plot with the father-and-son salesmen. The Jim and Darryl story-line was pretty good as well. However, I totally agreed with Pam on the whole aquarium thing. Why would it be right next to the hoop? I also thought that might have been a homage to a “Modern Family” episode where one of Jay’s pictures accidentally falls into an aquarium.
@lynn, I agree with your post completely, but I also think that Jim has always used those skills on Pam, in a benign way. He charmed her away from Roy in the first place, and since they’ve been together, he never likes to see her upset or angry, and will try to charm her, cheer her up and, on occasions, lie to her, rather than deal with her emotions head on. For example, he was perfectly willing to keep the fact that Michael had been sleeping with her mother from her in ‘The Lover’ and we saw this season how he kept the fact that he had accepted a new job from her. Much as I love Jim, there is something a bit cowardly about him, and it is time he grew up and started communicating with his wife in a more honest and straightforward way. As for Pam not telling him how she feels, I see her this season as trying so hard to be supportive and positive to Jim, despite the fact that she’s worried, stressed and alone.
There was a great focus in this episode on the salesmen of Dunder Mifflin. These guys go to great lengths to make a sale, and really enjoy it. It’s about persuasion, or a great con. Since that’s what they do for a living, and this is “The Office,” it was nice to have that focus on their jobs.
The Athlead office says “we are successful,” but they don’t have the capital to pay Jim. To get new clients, the business has to look established and successful. It’s a great con for new clients.
Jim charms a nervous client the same way that he’s been selling Philadelphia to Pam – he presents a false timeline, and supplies her with a mental image of the business that she’s comfortable with. What’s a bit hard about seeing this is that he’s using those skills on Pam.
I really wanna know what happened to Erin in the annex at the end. Next episode will tell, I think.
Gee, I liked the overcaffeination/pens/flavors. Maybe I need to start drinking coffee to get grumpier? I thought it was a riot, and I thought the episode was really nicely paced. Darryl’s interview, basketball shot, dead fish in the tank, right up there.
Such good observations from others so far:
@ thx4077 (Erin walking from the annex at the end)
@ jjsally (True, where’s Toby ?)
@ MuckMallard (Jim and Pam being the focus of the opening credits to imply the main basis for the documentary)
I also thought the espresso storyline was too much. Erin’s panic attacks at how she should handle the pen delivery ? Really ? At her head shot interview, she was so irritatingly ditzy and high on caffeine, I almost turned it off (Hmm-keep it on or turn it off ? On, off, on, off)
Does anyone else think the blue booklets that Darryl handed out at his interview were “Somehow, I Manage”, that Michael gave him before he left ?
Roared when Oscar told Kevin to move his rhinoceros feet !
Darryl singing in the car at the end with a discouraged Pam reminded me of when he was trying to cheer up Michael after moving Holly to NH.
@Andy: True enough. After all, it is a comedy. But during seasons 1-4 there was better balance between the drama and the comedy. Moreover, the more far-fetched stuff (like what you mention) were added in like a chef adds finishing salts onto a fine meal. They weren’t the main course. As well, for example, Kevin and Meredith were not always, at every moment, a caricature of the original character.
@Smells Like Tide: Great point!
A bit too slapsticky for my tastes. Was that espresso cut with Walter White’s special blue meth?
Last night I really needed a good laugh – Thank you to everyone at The Office for giving me that!
Maybe I’m wrong on this, but seems like Pam’s mopiness is less about Jim’s job than the fact her old world order at Dunder Mifflin is falling away …
TV writers start using slapstick when they don’t have any more good ideas. The Office has been 80% slapstick for about 3 years now. Darryl shooting the ball into the fish tank wasn’t uncomfortable; it was just predictable.
I think it’s obvious why Pam isn’t saying things to her husband. She sees how much happier he is at Athlead and she remembers how unhappy he was at Dunder Mifflin.
@MuckMallard I was wondering the same thing about the revised intro. And I think we’re right.