Robert California shows up, which leads Andy to, once again, freak out about impressing the boss. In the B-plot, Andy, Kevin, and Darryl are in the warehouse practicing their band because what is The Office if not a way for Ed Helms to show off. When the same plot featured a lame married couple (and make no mistake, Jim and Pam are a lame married couple), it made me realize how little I care about the Halperts and their “struggles.” I am sure that Jim and Pam are fine people in person, but they are certainly not a pair worth hanging out with. Not until watching Pam’s Replacement did I appreciate the value of Whitney. Through my hate, I was invested and engaged. But at least it elicited some emotion from me.
PAM THE OFFICE SEASON 8 TV
By the end of the adventure, I loathed TV Whitney as I have very few other characters.
Like every episode since and prior, it made you despise the titular character and want the main couple to split.
In the show’s third episode, Whitney punishes her boyfriend Alex for his untruth by first giving him the silent treatment and then giving him the babbling treatment. As much as it pains me to say it, Whitney handled the storyline if not better than more entertainingly. Pam convinces Jim to go to his doctor, and that’s how the episode ends.Įarlier this season, Whitney, which follows The Office, also had a plot that involved the male lying about finding a female attractive and his significant other trying to catch him in the lie. The scheme does not work, but Jim might have high blood pressure. Instead of developing a crazy device that Dwight can (and probably has) built, they disappointingly go to a pharmacy where Jim sits at a blood pressure monitor and Dwight determines “lie” based on blood pressure number. Eventually, Pam decides to go with Dwight’s plan about putting Jim on some sort of rigged up lie detector. Jim refuses to admit that he finds Cathy attractive, so Pam enlists the brutally honest Dwight to catch her husband in his lie. Then she abandoned that to become both mother and “office mom.”Īnd the core to the latest episode of The Office essentially revolves around the”office mom.” Pam is about to go on maternity leave so they hire a temp (Cathy) to replace her, despite them already having several people in the office who can probably fulfill the duties of a job that doesn’t really exist.Ĭathy is attractive, which causes Pam to feel very insecure about how she looks at nine months pregnant and how Jim feels about her. Even when she tried sales, at least she was trying to improve her situation from answering phone calls for the rest of her life. It provided her and her story with a relatable tragic element. We knew she was never going to make it, but most people never do. She wanted to be an artist she wanted to do more with her existence than remain with Dunder-Mifflin.
Obviously fatherhood changes a man, but that doesn’t mean for the better. In recent years, episodes like Lotto, Garden Party, and Classy Christmas were better venues for Jim because he got to do interesting/active things (and, coincidentally, had more interactions with Dwight), but for the most part he has turned into an incredibly dull figure. And, more than that, he seemingly got it all with very little effort. As the show progressed, he got the American dream- respect from his employers and employees, top sales figures, a promotion (that he could have regained once Michael left), the house, and, most importantly, the girl who became the wife who became the wife and kids. His battles with Dwight were the descendants of the pranks done in M*A*S*H– a way to keep one’s sanity in a horrific situation. Jim started as the audience surrogate a guy trapped in an all-around crappy life, hating every minute of it and being stuck as the level head in a world of fools. I briefly discussed in an earlier recap the failure of Jim and Pam as characters post…let’s say season 4.
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