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TV Recap: The Office - Lecture Circuit - Part 2
By Kelly West: 2009-02-12 20:32:31
Who doesn’t love closure? Who doesn’t love naps? Who doesn’t love cleaning their cats the old fashioned way? Ah, The Office. You never really know what you’re going to get in any given episode of this show. Tonight we learned that Creed’s a fan of The Bonnie Hunt Show. Or at the very least, he’s aware of when it’s on. And, he can get you a kid for seven grand. In the meantime, Pam and Michael visited New Hampshire while Dwight and Jim finished planning Kell(e)y’s party.
As we saw last week, Michael’s on a lecture circuit, traveling around the northeast area with Pam giving useless lecture after useless lecture about sales. After Pam got closure last week when she got to sit down with Karen and see how happy Karen was, Michael wanted to get closure with Holly. It’s clear that he’s still completely in love with the HR woman and he needs to see her again. Pam’s all about helping Michael out so they blow off the next city on the tour and drive north to the Nashua, New Hampshire branch. When they arrive they find out that Holly’s on a retreat and that she happens to have a boyfriend. His name is AJ and he’s a sales rep at that branch. Michael freaks out over the news but Pam convinces him that going through with the lecture will leave a good impression on the branch and Holly will surely hear of it when she returns. Michael tries to give the lecture but when he calls on AJ during the beginning portion, he can’t seem to help himself from asking him about his relationship with Holly. He even goes as far as to ask AJ if Holly ever mentioned him. It’s awkward and embarrassing but nothing less than what we’ve come to expect from Michael. And to be fair, it’s not like the lecture he was going to give would have been all that useful. When Michael crawls away to cry, Pam proceeds with the lecture. Here I was thinking that maybe Pam might pull it off. Sure, she has no sales experience but she’s been working for DM for years. How bad could she be? Pam doesn’t deviate from Michael’s lecture outline. Instead, she uses the index cards to go through the routine pretty much exactly as Michael had at that other branch in last week’s episode. This includes using the name-association trick and referring to a portly looking man in a suit as “penguin.” Yeah. It’s just as awkward and stupid as Michael’s lecture would have been, chainsaw and all. While Pam’s humiliating herself on Michaels behalf, Michael is over by Holly’s desk cutting the sleeve off her sweater in true stalker-form and then stealing a document off her computer. It’s totally shady but the document did say “Dear Michael.” How could anyone resist that kind of temptation when they’re still completely hung-up on their ex. I thought the sleeve bit was the real low point in that whole scene. Pam tells Michael he can’t read the letter but then agrees to read it for him and tell him what it says. When Michael goes to get his laptop, Pam justifies this to the camera by saying she’s not in love with Holly. So reading the private document is ok, then. Right? I love Pam. She reads the letter and then deletes it. Then she tells Michael that Holly does still have feelings for him and leaves it at that. Michael’s elated by this “closure,” which really isn’t closure at all. It’s the opposite of closure. Who knows when Holly even wrote the letter? She’s got a new boyfriend. Now Michael can obsess even more about the love of his life. Let’s face it though, Holly really was his perfect match. They need to get back together sooner or later, don’t that? Back at the office, Dwight is hounding Kelly about her juvy record. She finally admits that when she was 14 she stole her ex-boyfriend’s (father’s) boat after he dumped her. No shock there. Anyone who wouldn’t guess that Kelly Kapur might have some kind of criminal record due to an obsession with a guy doesn’t know her character very well. I’m just surprised Dwight didn’t dig up anything a bit more recent than that. Dwight and Jim get Kelly’s party thrown and despite the lack of “horse hunting” and “mating” that was included on the possible theme list, and the fact that Jim had Kelly’s name spelled wrong on the cake (When you’re not sure, always default to no extra E when spelling Kelly, Jim!) Kelly’s party turns out to be a success. Dwight and Jim offer her the option to watch TV for an hour or nap for an hour. Oh how I would love to be offered an hour of napping at work. Even if it meant curling up under the table in the conference room. Kelly opts for the nap and is almost too excited to fall asleep when Dwight clears everyone else out of the room and turns the light off. Congratulations Kelly. It is your birthday. And finally, we all knew Angela was the crazy cat lady but she took it to a whole new level tonight. First she announces that she sold the engagement ring Andy gave her on eBay to purchase Princess Lady, a third generation show-cat that cost her seven grand. Angela shows off Princess Lady and her other cats through the nanny-cam set up she has. She can watch her cats frolicking via the internet. It is through this medium that she, Kevin and Oscar discover that Mr. Ash really likes Princess Lady. Mr. Ash, if I recall correctly, was the dominant male in his litter and the very cat that Angela once offered to Pam after the two bonded a few seasons ago. Don’t ask me why I remember that. Ash is giving Princess Lady the royal treatment, turning Angela’s nanny-cam site into a cat-porn site. Angela rushes home to yell at Ash and then proceeds to talk to her cats and even clean one of them using her tongue. Oscar and Kevin watch all of this happen on Angela’s computer because she forgot to log off the nanny cam thing. When Angela comes back, they pretend they didn’t see what happened and Angela coughs up a hairball. Crazy. Cat. Lady.
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