Pam is not getting back with Roy and she’s not messing around in NYC — Now can we talk about the new episode?
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The Office is back this week after a democracy-induced one-week hiatus (you know, the veep debate), and I’ve gathered a few items to help you get primed for a new episode three days from now.
First off, Kristin is starting trouble by asking “Is Roy Coming Back to Steal Pam?” The answer, of course, is no (but I included the adjacent photo in case you needed help getting back off the ledge).
It would be an awful turn of events, one from which the show could not recover as far as most fans go. But David Denman, who portrayed Roy for three seasons, is returning for an upcoming episode. The reason seems to be that the writers are addicted to angst.
Word is, somewhere around the fifth episode of the season, Jim and Darryl will meet up with Roy at a bar (as usual, to avoid some hijinks cooked up by Michael), and the meeting is fairly benign (no punching this time). However, it could still spell trouble for Jim and Pam. I’m told Roy throws out a zinger that makes Jim worry about Pam being away at art school and whether any of her new guy friends could steal her away (just as he did to Roy).
And just to add to the angst, potential spoilers are leaking out that include a possible romantic dalliance for Pam. Or maybe that’s just made-up. It’s 50-50, according to dos Santos, who lists spoilers and foilers side-by-side. I’m going with numbers 3 through 7 and 12. The jury is still out on Andy’s man parts.
Here’s the episode summary for Thursday’s “Business Ethics.”
Following Ryan’s recent scandal at corporate, Holly must hold a business ethics seminar. The meeting gets out of control when Michael lets everyone speak freely about their unethical behavior at work. Meanwhile, Jim makes Dwight comply with the company’s “time theft” policy.
Meanwhile, do you think Pam Beesley’s an icon? She doesn’t. Rather, Jenna Fischer doesn’t think her character and John Krasinski’s Jim Halpert have approached the level of Friends’s Ross and Rachel or Cheers’s Sam and Diane. I’m inclined to agree.
The Office has never gotten those shows’ ratings, so it’s hard to argue Jim and Pam have penetrated the public consciousness the way those other, less interesting couples did. And that’s OK. So they’re not iconic. Whatevs. They’re compelling, which those other duos never were.
In real-life Scranton, Pa., news, Mayor Chris Doherty recruited the city’s top accountant — Is “top” the right word? — to help send a message about keeping the city clean. That’s a politician who knows how to cultivate a good thing, which having The Office set in his city is.
EW.com compiled a greatest hits of Jim Halpert’s best pranks (mostly on Dwight Schrute), and all the usual suspects are there, from hiding Andy’s phone in the ceiling to the original placing of a stapler in a Jell-O mold. My favorites, though are when Jim spent $11 to come to work dressed as Dwight (Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.), and when he put Dwight’s belongings in the vending machine.
You know, the thought of Meredith raising a child is disturbing, as her Sex and the Electric City blog continues to illustrate. J.C. Penney catalogues? Seriously?
Finally, here goes another Angela video.
Whoa!
Kristin originally didn’t say Roy was coming back for five episodes. She said he was coming back for the fifth episode. Are you changing/adding to her info?
If you are, may I say Holy Mother of God!
You’re right. I misread the earlier line in which she said Roy will be back “in one of the next five episodes of the new season.” Thanks for catching that, because a five-episode run might be more Roy than some fans could bear.
heaves a sigh of relief
Thanks.