“the shot of pam and jim in their bedroom, the door goes open just enough to see that they pushed the twin beds together”

Yes! I saw that too and was certain that that entire shot was just to highlight that Jim and Pam are lovers…not just casually dating.

About this episode, I’ll just point out how I love that Pam gleefully pokes Jim in the ribs about the silly things he gets involved in. Interjecting “conference room, 5 minutes” with a smile on her face, coming over to Jim and saying, “you’re really going for it,” then giving the camera a knowing glance, and, last week, the deleted scene where she grills him about how much he loves his girlfriend, Karen. Great stuff!

Lastly, nothing makes me laugh more than the “Michael sings only the high harmony” gag. Remember “Beach Day” on the bus? And when he walked in singing I lost it.

***and I was watching “Money” today and did anybody else notice that in the montage toward the end (jim and pam’s review of schrute farms is played over it) the shot of pam and jim in their bedroom, the door goes open just enough to see that they pushed the twin beds together. I just thought that was cute.

I personally didn’t mind the error at all. Didn’t affect my view of the episode one little bit.

I’m not going to cover anymore of the episode because you all pretty much covered it all. I’m just going to say I hope the office writers don’t become a slave to the real calender if this strike is lengthy. Give us a Christmas episode in May or whatever conflicts that this strike might create, we don’t care. Just continue on the plan and story arcs you had before the season started Mr Daniels. I see this season building into something really special and I would hate to see that changed because the stupid real world.

One thing I always love is when they show us that, even though Michael always treats him like an idiot, Dwight is actually better than him with a lot of stuff, like with his survival skills, with Ryan’s business questions in The fire or with the condo in the Client.

Of course, the highlight was the tag for me too, I just love those Michael-Jim moments and Jim’s TWSS was pure gold. It is so sad that we are going to miss out on Jim’s story arc because of the strike and I agree that watching the show while knowing we only have one left made me really sad.

I don’t think Jim was being mean by putting all the birthdays together, I think he thought everyone was annoyed by Michael’s birthday antics and thought why not limit them to one day. A rookie mistake as Michael pointed out.

My office does the “only 1 party per month for everyone” kind of thing too. I remember when they changed it that people omplained…the same people who complained were the same people complaining about how lame it was to go to so many parties per month. You just can’t win!

I *loved* Jim’s interaction with Toby and his impersonation too. LOL! Jim’s interaction with Michael at the end was also so well done. I like the direction the writers are going with Jim and I hope the strike ends soon so we can see it come to fruition.

Has anyone ever seen the movie ‘Office Space’? Remember when they were talking about all the birthdays and how they were kind of a pain? I think that was what Jim was thinking of. I think Jim is bored by the parties and figured everyone else was too. I think he figured one big party was more fun but his mistake was that he didn’t ask. Had he asked at the beginning and people said they preferred their own parties, I think he would just as well done that.

And the final scene was a favorite too!! The moment on Jim’s face when he realized he was/is a Dunder Mifflin lifer…. you almost feel sorry for him.