The Office -- "Casino Night"
amycurl and marymary, I don't care if it's just the three of us blabbing about this. Because like marymary, I am DYING to talk about this episode of my other favorite show. There: I said it, and I'm glad I did. (OK, now I'm feeling bad, as if other shows I like would feel bad about that phrasing, so let me amend: As of 8 p.m. Sunday (sniff), "The
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But my first love is a good line, so here are my favorites.
"It's for charity. And I consider myself a great philanderer."
"The Lincoln assasination just recently became funny."
"We must decieve them, so as not to hurt them. And in that way, we honor them."
Ok, second. Pam. How much do you love Pam, Tom? When she used the umbrella to shake the coatrack for Jim? And then gave him that tiny wink? I wanted to marry her, so I can only imagine how guys feel. Plus, second to the humor, my favorite thing about Jim and Pam is that they're nice people. Remember when Jim saved Michael from making a fool of himself at Jim's party? Or when Pam saved Michael from making a fool of himself at Chili's? I loved, last night, Pam's "It's still me." "He does better on the second try." That is brilliant story-writing.
But, ok, the UST. They totally pwned me last night. And I was so wrong --- I thought it was going to be a sad cliffhanger. I thought that Jim was going to tell Pam he was leaving Scranton AND I thought he just might be upset enough to give Jan a little help with her raging case of "I'll-sleep-with-absolutely-anybody" sex deprivation. (Not that Jim is just anybody.) That would have been a littlebit hot and so very wrong, but I thought they might go there for a minute. I definitely thought the cliffhanger would be "Jim's leaving, Pam's sad; what's she gonna do a bout it?"
But this was SO VERY MUCH BETTER! He steps up...TWICE! The fact that he kissed her after she said "No". I loved that, because it wasn't a pushy, selfish thing. It had more of an "I believe in us" feeling. Sigh.
Ok, I'm sorry to ramble on so long. A conversation is where I say something and then you say something.... I'll stop now.
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I'll put it this way: After I get shot down by Donna because she's seeing somebody, I get on 95, cut over to 83 and head to Scranton to tell a certain paper company receptionist she can do SO much better than the doofus from the warehouse. There are TV Lust Objects, and then (but not mutually exclusively) there are TV Love Objects. As with Donna Moss, Pam Beesly is my TV Love Object.
This is due also to what a doll (in the most complimentary, respectful sense of the word) Jenna Fischer is. Allison Janney says she's not like C.J.? There's a lot of Jenna Fischer in Pam. And I don't see how she could have done much better last night.
-- Wordlessly holding up the umbrella.
-- Winking at Jim right after that. Oh my. Sexy and sweet simultaneously.
-- "He does better on the second try." Even though Michael drives them all crazy, Pam still covers for him.
And John Krasinski just knocked it out of the park last night. So many guys, myself included, have been Jim. Some of us even manned up enough to tell her how we felt. Most of us likely were left feeling the way Jim felt as he walked away. I knew he's an actor, and good actors can produce a tear when the director says "Action!" but IIRC that was a single-camera sequence; he had to produce the tear in the middle of the scene. I felt it, you know?
And we Keytus Kids have a kiss to rival The Kissage. The circumstances are different, of course -- eight years of slowly building "I know something is happening here" as compared to "I just found out 10 minutes ago" -- but that, my friends, was a Kiss. And a well-acted one at that; I don't know if they saw the J/D Kissage (it's possible), but you could tell that first, he had to do it, because he may be thinking he's going to have to leave Scranton now and doesn't want to have never done it. But then ... she kisses back. She went from shocked to "I want to do this, too."
Over at the TV Guide there are 39 people going "squee!" (well one guy says that because he has a pair, he can't use the word, but he's on board just the same) and one guy who says he doesn't give a crap about Jim and Pam. (Sound familiar?) He's entitled to his opinion, but ... how can you not like the Jim and Pam dynamic? They're so flippin' adorable. Oh, maybe the guy doesn't like adorable things. How sad.
(Stupid real life, getting in the way and making me take forever to finish this post.)
Quick hits on the rest of a brilliant episode:
-- Jan being so damaged that she actually wants to get together with Michael. Does she not know that she looks exactly like Melora Hardin, and that means she's smokin' hot?
-- Dwight! Attempting to move his own bobble head, not knowing what to keep himself re: The Guy Who Runs the Warehouse.
-- The Guy Who Runs the Warehouse (I'm sorry, I can't remember his name just now) disclosing that he gave Michael some things that "we Negroes say." BWAH!
-- Angela's post-slap smile. They're kinky, aren't they?
-- Kevin. What a delightful showcase for Kevin, even in the C storyline.
And Steve Carell wrote this one. Don't you just want to kill him for being THAT talented? I kid, I kid; nice 12 months he's had, eh?
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