The Office: The Promotion, 6.03
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | 161 comments
W: Jennifer Celotta, D: Jennifer Celotta
Summary (NBC): David Wallace breaks the bad news that not everyone will get a raise this year. Dwight reaches his breaking point with Jim and looks to the rest of the office for allies. Pam would like cash instead of wedding gifts.
UPDATE: get Jim’s pie chart here!
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Tidbits
Favorite quotes
Jim: Where’s the “please”? We’re not animals.
Jim: I’m just going to write “held back tears.”
Dwight: $18,000 and a chance at the title. OOH HAH!
Stanley: Can I also be a boss?
Oscar: Where would Catholicism be without the popes?
Michael: To be fair, Jimothy … that sounds weird. Are you okay with being called Jim?
Michael: I can be very surprising.
Pam: Why doesn’t Crate and Barrel let you register for a toaster full of cash?
Stanley: “If you don’t smell this, you’re fired.”
Michael: That is not the way I heard it.
Kelly: I love rivalries. Michael or Jim. Paris or Nicole. Heidi or LC.
Michael: This is Michael, Senior Co-Manager.
David: Michael, are you texting me?
Michael: All I can see is how big and gross the pores on your nose are.
Michael: You use your brain too much.
Michael: Sometimes the smartest people don’t think at all.
Michael: Con: you unzip your pants and you find that there’s a calculator down there.
Jim: This tiny sliver here is “Critical Thinking.” I made it bigger so that you could see it.
Kevin: In the memo line, I’m going to write “To love’s eternal glory.”
Pam: Oh look! “Mrs. Pam Halpert”!
Michael: Omigod are you going to make another pro and con list? I’m going to kill myself.
Michael: I can see it in your crusty little eyes that you are going to make everything perfect.
Michael: Why don’t you tell me what those are, Jim. Why don’t you enliven me.
Michael: Okay, Skippy, here we go.
Michael: This had better be terrible.
Oscar: It’s because Jim wants to give the raises to his friends and the people he sleeps with.
Kelly: What the hell? Why are you being such a jerk?
Kelly: How is that going to repair Ryan’s car?
Dwight: Her kid needs shoes, Jim!
Jim: Wow. I’m just going to rewind and back off a bit.
Michael: These are the people who will open their hearts to you. They all have heart-ons for you.
Phyllis: This isn’t a game you know, it’s our livelihood!
Dwight: People are starting to notice how terrible Jim is. It’s great.
Dwight: They determine our worth by putting beans on our faces.
Kevin: What does a bean mean?!
Jim: Michael’s my only friend left in the office. Except Pam. I think.
Rating
In a poll conducted October 1-5, Tallyheads rated this episode: 6.90/10
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I really think people should re-watch this episode. Ok it is not the best ever, but is far, far, far from the worst ever. I think it’s actually a pretty strong episode.
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It hasn’t been there in the past. They moved Creed closer to Meredith and threw up 2 small walls to make an office in the corner.
I just loved this episode, I loved the tension in it, and the absence of romance. I don’t care that much for the so-called JAM couple – I think the OFFICE would not suffer from the absence of that lovely love story, but I guess it’s good for the feminine audience (no I’m not misogynist!).
I don’t understand the low rating (6.90). Steve Carell is still a genius.
But I want more Toby and Andy (my favorite).
(sorry for my english – I’m a french bastard;-)
Where did Jim’s office come from??!!
I never noticed that extra room, in the previous episodes. I read through most of the comments to see if anyone had any info on Jim’s office.
Tanster Help!
When I first watched it on TV, I thought it was an okay episode, not bad not great. But when I re-watched it, I was laughing so many times. I advise people to go rewatch the episode. I gave it a second chance, and I’m very glad I did.
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Great episode, continuing the greatness of season 5. (Just so you know I thought season 4 was quite sub-par).
146- Obviously it’s not just this episode, this entire season has been a disappointment to me and a lot of other people I have talked to about this. I watched this episode with 4 or 5 friends and each of us laughed out loud once or twice. This season is incredibly weak, so far. I have hope though, this is still my favorite show in the world, (:
It’s weird because I hated seasons 4 & 5 soooo much, while I thought the preceding seasons were all hysterical. I think that they’ve started to regain some of their magic. Granted, they’ll probably never be the same, but this was a step in the right direction.
Not one of the best….but being a huge fan of a little show that I like to call the hills, loved the reference to the Heidi-LC rivalry. Although I would like to point out that maybe to make it better she should have said spencer and lc….i always took kelly to be a hills fan!
I liked it and I agree with poster #46. Jim and Pam just aren’t so “young” anymore. It reminded me of seeing people and even myself try new things and grow up a little. Sometimes it’s not so pretty or graceful.
I wasn’t a fan of this episode, but this was still better than at least 75% of season 5. The worst episode of all time was Lecture Circuit Pt. 2. And remember Prince Family Paper? Or Baby Shower? Or (UGH!) Stress Relief? Or Company Picnic?
While this one wasn’t necessarily good, it certainly wasn’t as bad as some of the other episodes out there. This is definitely an improvement, and I’m hoping it’ll keep picking up.
I had to watch this episode twice just to be sure I took everything in. After the second time around, I really enjoyed it. I know that people were upset for the majority of the episode, but that is what The Office thrived on in its early seasons. There were a lot of tense moments that reminded me of past episodes (anyone watch ‘Health Care’ lately?) I think that Jim and Michael will be able to find a really good balance once they figure each other out a little more. I just hope that Jim remains the one that is constantly pushing for more productive action in the office.
I loved the Mrs. Pam Halpert scene!
Anyway, I think that this is going to be an interesting season for all of us Office fans, but so far I’m really loving it. :)
A few things:
@119, 127 – people ask for money at weddings all the time – hence the dollar dance, etc. You just have to do it in an appropriate way (or register at a place where you can return everything for groceries, like Target)!
Also, it was cute the way that both Michael and Jim started to understand and value each other a little more.
This was probably one of my favorite Jim episodes. This episode showed that Jim has a lot of potential to become a good boss but he also has much to learn. I think everything he said about Michael was spot on and he was actually treating Michael very well. I felt bad for Jim and Michael they were in a lose-lose-lose situation. No matter what they did people would have complained. Giving raises to your money-makers and giving merit-based raises were two reasonable ideas. I found Jim really trying to do a good job sweet and charming…and a little sexy. I loved his pro and cons lists. I felt the episode was resolved because it wasn’t about the raises; it was about the new dynamic of the Jim/Michael relationship.
My second favorite part of this episode: “Mrs Pamela Halpert”
143:
“The writers need to step up their game, or the office won’t be on much longer, :( ”
Based on what? You not liking an episode doesn’t mean everyone else will just stop watching, leading to terrible ratings. You’ll notice that a lot of people like this season so far.
142: No, it hasn’t been there. They added 2 walls in the corner behind Creed.
I suggest everyone go rewatch the first few seasons if they actually think this is a bad episode.
Jim wasn’t being a jerk. He knows he has to try and establish himself as a boss figure with people he’s worked with as an equal, and he missed an opportunity to really establish it when Oscar got on his case about the raises. So he could have come off far worse, because if it was me, I would have promptly cut off Oscar and said, “You’re crossing the line right now. If you have a problem with the decision, you can come talk to me privately in my office about it, and maybe we can come up with something together that will be fair to everybody. But what you’re doing right now, I won’t tolerate it.” Of course if that happens, you lose the awkward tension of Jim trying to back off.
I can also understand why he was that way with Michael, because he knows how Michael can be, and that sometimes you have to be firm with him to make sure there’s no mistaking what’s supposed to be going on.
Nothing good about this episode, at all. By far the worst one in a long time. I agree with 134, I’m starting to just watch the show out of habit. I just bought seasons 2 and 3, and the difference between this season and earlier seasons is tremendous. The writers need to step up their game, or the office won’t be on much longer, :(
This episode was necessary. They had to introduce the relationship between Jimothy and Michael, and how that affects the dynamic of the office. And it had to be done before all the craziness of the wedding. I don’t think the writers meant for Jim to be a jerk, and JKras wasn’t trying to be – he was trying to show that Jim is a smarter and more logical boss than Michael, so together, they can create a pretty good combo of imaginative and realistic.
Question: Where did Jim’s magical office come from? I like it, but has it always been there and just not in the camera angles? Wouldn’t Charles Miner have used that instead of the conference room, if it had existed before? It just seems like it poofed into existence behind Stanley.