The Office: The Job, 3.24-25
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 | 744 comments
W: Paul Lieberstein and Michael Schur, D: Ken Kwapis
Summary (NBC): In a special one-hour finale, the office is still buzzing from the events of their day at the beach. A job opening in Corporate pits coworker against coworker as Michael, Jim, and Karen all head to New York for final interviews. In Scranton, Dwight’s new regime institutes sweeping reforms, Pam plays an interesting role and Jan comes in with exciting news. One hour, 8-9pm.
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Tidbits
- Blogs: Greg Daniels and B.J. Novak finale night blog
- Reviews: TV Guide | Entertainment Weekly
- Promos
- Buy The Job at the iTunes Store
Favorite quotes
Michael: I have got it made in the shade. I know this company. The other branch managers are total morons. (On phone) Hey, Pam, yeah. I forgot what day the interview was, and I drove to New York accidentally. Be, like, three hours late.
Kevin: What’s different about you? You look worse.
Meredith: He got a haircut. It’s sexy hot.
Andy: What’s up, Big Haircut? You are no longer Big Tuna. From henceforth, you shall be known as Big Haircut.
Jim: Karen suggested that I get a haircut. For the interview tomorrow. So that I could look presentable. And not, as she so lovingly puts it, homeless.
Pam: After I had my little outburst at the beach, Jim was really nice about it. He just basically said that, he missed my friendship, too, and I would always mean a lot to him, and I understand where he’s coming from. For the record, I am not embarrassed at all. It needed to be said, and I said it. And it only took me three years to summon the courage. So … (bows) thank you.
Michael: Please hand this letter of congratulations to Dwight K. Schrute.
Dwight: But that’s my name. (Reads letter) “Dwight, congratulations, a-wipe. Don’t screw the pooch.”
Michael: Stop crying.
Pam: Um, about the beach.
Karen: It’s okay. We all say things without thinking.
Pam: Oh no, it’s not that. I’ve actually been thinking that for a long time. And I’m glad I said it. I just, I’m sorry if it made you feel weird.
Karen: Oh. Okay.
Karen: Pam is … kind of a bitch.
Jim: So I was wondering if Karen and I could get off a few hours early, ’cause we want to spend the night in the city.
Michael: Why, so you could do it?
Jim: Whoops.
Michael: Convoys are really fun. Pull up next to each other. Give each other the finger. Moon each other.
Karen: Um, how would you moon us if you were driving?
Michael: Cruise control.
Karen: Oh.
Kevin: So Jim, who do you think is hotter, Pam or Karen?
Jim: Yeah, I’m not going to talk about this now.
Kevin: Pam is taller.
Jim: You sure?
Kevin: Yes. She has bigger breasts, too.
Jim: Wow.
Kevin: But I think Karen has a prettier face.
Jim: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. What else?
Kevin: Well, I mean, Pam’s face is really pretty too. It’s a very tough call.
Jim: Really tough call.
Kevin: Yeah.
Jim: You know what? Why don’t you take the rest of the day, figure it out, and then come back, and tell me what you got.
Kevin: Will do.
Jim: All right.
Kevin: Yes.
Oscar: Hey Pam? I’ve been meaning to say something to you. I really miss our friendship.
Pam: Ha, ha, that’s very funny.
Stanley: I’ve never heard you talk that much. I thought it was Kelly.
Kelly: Are you kidding? I would never have done that. It was patheticville. No offense, Pam.
Meredith: You know what? Don’t even worry about it. Everyone was so drunk, I bet no one even remembers what you said.
Creed: I remember. I blogged the whole thing.
Creed: www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts. Check it out.
Ryan: Last year, Creed ask me how to set up a blog. Wanting to protect the world from being exposed to Creed’s brain, I opened up a Word document on his computer, and put an address at the top. I’ve read some of it. Even for the Internet, it’s … pretty shocking.
Michael: There they are. The accounting department. I shall miss your humility and your promptly printed checks.
Michael: I sold it on eBay. The buyer was very motivated, as was I. It went for 80% of what I paid. Sold in record time.
Dwight: How would you like to spend the night with the regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton?
Angela: No, Dwight, I don’t care if that’s how they consolidated power in ancient Rome.
Dwight: No no, not Michael. Me. I’m taking his job.
Angela: Not now. (Smiles to herself) Goodbye, Kelly Kapoor.
Dwight: Jim, Jim, Jim. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.
Jim: Oh, hey, Dwight.
Dwight: I’m going to be your new boss. It’s my greatest dream come true. Welcome to the Hotel Hell. Check-in time is now. Check-out time is never.
Jim: Does my room have cable?
Dwight: No. And the sheets are made of fire!
Jim: Can I change rooms?
Dwight: Sorry, we’re all booked up. Hell convention in town.
Jim: Can I have a late check-out?
Dwight: I’ll have to talk to the manager.
Jim: You’re not the manager? Even in your own fantasy?
Dwight: I’m the owner. The co-owner. With Satan.
Jim: Okay, just so I understand it. In your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.
Dwight: Yeah, but I haven’t told you my salary yet.
Jim: Go.
Dwight: $80,000 a year.
Dwight: Once I’m officially regional manager, my first order of business will be to demote Jim Halpert. So I will need a new number two. My ideal choice? Jack Bauer. But he is unavailable. Fictional. And overqualified.
Michael: How are you, Janet? It’s good to see you.
Michael: Pam, DEFCON 10, Houston, we have a problem.
Pam: What do you want me to do?
Michael: Uh, I may need some immediate assistance. If you would slowly and quietly gather the ladies in the conference room. Phyllis, Angela, Karen.
Pam: What about Meredith?
Michael: No. She’s an alternate.
Jan: I tried calling, but I kept getting voicemail.
Michael: Weird, yeah. I didn’t get both of your messages.
Pam: I really hope you get the job.
Pam: No, it’s fine. I’m sure it must have been weird for Jim when Roy and I were joking around. That one time.
Meredith: I would never do that. Waste of money. In my experience, guys are way more attracted to the back of you than to the front.
Kevin: I love fake boobs. Often times you find them on strippers.
Creed: I find it offensive. Au naturelle, baby. That’s how I like ‘em. Swing low, sweet chariots.
Michael: That would be shallow. And this is the opposite of shallow. This is emotionally magnificent.
Pam: I’m happy for him. I hope he gets the job. I really just want him to be happy. And I know that sounds cliche, and I know saying it sounds cliche sounds cliche. Maybe I’m being cliche, I don’t care. ‘Cause I am what I am. (Thinks about it) That’s Popeye.
Dwight: How do you make a table?
Andy: You make a chair, but you don’t sit on it.
Andy: I am a great interviewee. Why? Because I have something no one else has. My brain. Which I use to my advantage, when advantageous.
Michael: Your advice was good, but Jan’s was bigger.
Michael: Love is a mystery.
Karen: I think you’re really going to enjoy this, Adult Jim.
Michael: Good night. And good luck.
Dwight: Who’s ready to work?
Karen: We don’t have a future in Scranton. There’s one too many people there.
Jim: You mean Kevin?
Jim: Who’s that?
Michael: That is Beardie.
Michael: Daddy is the best actor around. Daddy is Meryl Streep.
Andy: Three months ago, I was nowhere. I was just a Cornell grad in anger management. Look where I am now. Not bad.
Michael: Just say, “I want to squeeze them.” It’s code, she’ll know what it means.
Pam: So you would be the regional manager, and the assistant regional manager, Andy is your number two, I would be the secret assistant regional manager.
Dwight: Mmm, let’s call it secret assistant to the regional manager.
Pam: Mm-hmm.
Dwight: Do you accept?
Pam: Absolutely I do.
Michael: Well, my weaknesses are actually strengths.
Dwight: When you have done something good, you will receive one Schrute buck. One thousand Schrute bucks equals an extra five minutes for lunch.
Dwight: Just zip your lid.
Dwight: There’s a new sheriff here in these offices. And his name is me.
Pam: I literally cannot wait until I see what Dwight has planned. And I wish Jim were here.
Michael: It is always a treat when our paths cross.
Dwight: Don’t you want to earn Schrute bucks?
Stanley: No. In fact, I’ll give you a billion Stanley nickels if you never talk to me again.
Dwight: What’s the ratio of Stanley nickels to Schrute bucks?
Stanley: The same as the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns.
Pam: Hey, c’mon! Let’s listen to Dwight’s presentation.
Michael: Let’s just run away to Jamaica, live in a bungalow.
David: Your behavior in the last two years has been completely erratic.
David: You are clearly unstable.
Michael: Hey, you’re unstable.
Jan: Yeah.
Michael: No. We’re all unstable.
Andy: It’s like I’m staring into my soul when I look at this wall.
Dwight: It’s like outer space without the stars, it’s so black.
Dwight: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Jan: Good luck with your band. Don’t let them change you.
Jan: So long, [bleep].
Michael: I don’t think I could take my girlfriend’s job. That’s not being a good boyfriend.
Karen: Wow. That was some serious, hardcore, self-destruction.
Michael: Well, I guess you could come and stay at my condo. I think I could back out of the sale. Probably get some negative feedback on my eBay profile.
Jan: I could wear stretch pants and wait for you to come home at 5:15.
Michael: I’m back. For goooooood. Kevin Nealon.
Michael: Why is my office black?
Dwight: To intimidate my subordinates.
Michael: That’s stupid.
Dwight: It was Andy’s idea.
Michael: You shouldn’t have taken it.
Michael: Ryan, coffee.
Ryan: I don’t do that stuff anymore.
Michael: No, it’s for me, bimbo. Kids.
Michael: So I’m back. And I am never, ever, going to leave. I am going nowhere.
Dwight: You served the office with great dignity.
Pam: No, I don’t know what the future holds, but I’m optimistic. And I had fun goofing around with Dwight today. Jim and I are just too similar. Maybe one day I’ll find my own Karen. But, you, that is a, um, you know, not … a man. A man version. But uh, until then, I can hold my head up. I’m not gay.
Jim: So is the question how’d I get to be so awesome?
Jim: How are your feet?
Pam: Medium rare. Thanks.
Jim: The real reason that I went to Stamford was because I wanted to be … not here.
Pam: I know.
Jim: And even though I came back, I just feel like I’ve never really come back.
Pam: Well I wish you would.
Pam: I haven’t heard anything. But I bet Jim got the job. I mean, why wouldn’t he? He’s totally qualified, and smart, everyone loves him. And if he never comes back again, that’s okay. We’re friends. And I’m sure we’ll stay friends. We just … we never got the timing right. You know? I shot him down, and then he did the same to me, but you know what? It’s okay. I am totally fine. Everything is going to be totally …
Jim: Pam. (To camera) Sorry. Um, are you free for dinner tonight?
Pam: Yes.
Jim: All right. Then it’s a date.
Pam: I’m sorry, what was the question?
Kelly: Who was that?
Ryan: Nobody. You and I are done.
Kelly: What?!
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I just re-watched the Pam/Jim scene and I would hope that they could somehow change Jenna’s nomination for the Emmy. I think she was submitted for “the coup”, which she was great in. But she played such a wide range of emotions in “the job”. Anyway, she is a fantastic actress that I feel is under rated.
I really really hope that Jim and Pam are going to have a new beginning next season. It would really really upset me if that ending with them was a rotten trick. They belong together, I felt really happy when Jim asked Pam out and her reaction. Please, please don’t take this away from us Office fans!!! Is it time for next season yet? Boy, it is going to be a very long summer……
PS the finale was great!!!
Anyone notice that while Jim is looking at the yogurt lid/comment, David is talking about an irritable HR guy there named Kendall. Hopefully , he will be introduced next year.
I think Pam is under the impression that Jim is done with Karen. I don’t care if they’re engaged or whatnot in the final episode, I just want them to be a happy couple like Tim and Dawn.
Karen “fighting” for Jim would be as pathetic as Roy’s attempt. “Your sales calls are the prettiest sales calls of all the sales calls.”
Just in case I confused anyone, I was referring to Pam Pam Thank You M’am’s subtext comment #596. Thanks Tanster, for the reminder. I forgot about keeping the comments at a minimum. We definitely have a lot to say.
This is the one I don’t understand (I think the numbers got messed up):
“I heard that Karen actually got the job and she the one who was actually talking to Ryan at the end.”
I hope they continue doing tidbits/storylines about Pam’s art. You can tell that’s one of her passions (besides Jim of course).
Hey Big Haircut. Oh, Andy.
So I’ve just rewatched the Jim and Pam scene for the 6th time at least, and I love how Jim says “it’s a date” with a nervous little tap on the doorframe. It’s very endearing. …I’m not gay.
Also, Jenna Fischer, wow! I watched her face before, and her eyes are fine. But when she turns back she is tearing up and madly blushing. Blushing! That takes talent. I love this show and its wonderful cast!
I like how Jim left Karen in nyc. haha… I actually liked Karen(not for Jim obviously) up untill she called Pam a bitch. I was like awww hell to the no… Pam’s my girl.
…I’m not gay. lol.
I just had a daydream that season 4 ended with Jim proposing to Pam. How awesome would that be.
Did anyone else hear what Dave Wallace was saying when Jim found Pam’s note? He was talking about the HR guy, and how he’s the only guy there that Jim will probably not like. He also said: “Ken. Eck!”
I guess Wallace is a lot more like Michael that we thought.
The whole thing is that they never SAID that Karen and Jim split(Rashida Jones is supposed to be back next season from what I heard) and Jim only invited Pam to dinner, not a date(Even though he said, it’s a date, friends say that stuff all the time when making an appointment) He could tell her how it went. I think that Ryan got the job and now gets to be Michaels boss. What woulda been better is if Toby got the job.
Daniel
#606 – What?
Even though “The Rules of Starting Over” is a midseason replacement, they’ll start filming at the same time as “The Office.” Episodes need to be ready in case the show needs to step in early, in the case of a Fall show that begins disastrously and needs to be canceled in, like, two episodes. So, the chances of Rashida Jones coming back to “The Office” are nil. After all, Ryan got Jan’s job and Karen wanted to hightail it out of Scranton even *before* Jim asked Pam out on a date. They’ve written her out of the show. Pretty obvious to me.
As I was watching this woderful final episode, it suddenly struck me what the key nagging difference between Karen and Pam is. Pam cares about people, while Karen does not. The thing is, Jim cares about people also. They all have fun with the amazing situations, but Jim and Pam actually care about the people around them. The moment of revelation for me was as Jan stormed out, Jim expressed a little concern, and Karen expressed derision. Then I started remembering many such similar situations. To me, it’s a key insight into understaning why Jim and Pam work, and Jim and Karen eventually won’t.
@ 593: The song was Kind and Generous by Natalie Merchant. Slowed down a bit, it sounds ;)
I’m a bit late to the comment party but GO TEAM PAM!
I just read some of the most recent post and the idea of Karen and Jim breaking up before the interview is pretty interesting speculation. I never thought of that. Looking back now I guess they weren’t acting lovey dovey that morning and Karen did seem like she just wanted to be with friends instead.
I heard that Karen actually got the job and she the one who was actually talking to Ryan at the end.
#601–I agree with you Yogurt Lid (love your name!), Karen is history. And if she doesn’t quit after Jim cuts her loose, or at least transfer to another branch, she really doesn’t have much self-respect. If they have her stick around purposely to try to get Jim back, wow, we would have to believe she is truly out of touch with reality and she wouldn’t be a very believable character. Even though she stayed with Jim and tried to make things work (when they clearly weren’t working) for far too long, I think this time she’s going to “get it”.
AT the most, I think we may see her for a few episodes while she’s still working in Scranton but looking for a new job. That’s if the show doesn’t “skip” the summer. If it does and we get a series of flashbacks, I’m sure we’ll see at least a TH of Karen talking about the breakup and what she did afterwards.
#594 Amy –
Great idea! After downloading the episode and watching the end a few more times, I noticed that Jim and Karen weren’t really acting very romantic at corporate that morning, but I assumed that was because kissing and holding hands and such stuff is just inappropriate in that setting. For example, Karen just says “good luck Halpert” and walks away instead of cuddling up to him or anything like that. But…I really like the scenario that perhaps they broke up the night before. This would explain their body language, Karen’s eagerness to go meet friends instead of waiting for Jim, AND (most importantly) Jim’s ability to leave NYC immediately in order to head back to Scranton to be with Pam.