A Super 'The Office'

I think we all can admit the sub-plot involving Jim and Pam's issues with Pam's parents, and Andy watching the pirated movie starring Jack Black, Cloris Leachmen, and Jessica Alba was a bust. I mean a downer of a B Plot with no point other than to extend a 40 minute 'The Office' into a 60 minute version. It was a like a microcosm of season 2 of '24' when the whole 'B' plot was the misadventures of Kim Bauer.

Anyway, let us focus on the good 40 minutes....

Opening scene with the 'real fire drill' was epic, I mean brilliant. The cat going through the celing, Oscar exiting through the celing, the chair bouncing off the window, the overhead projector going through the window, the copier breaking against the door, the overall panic....just incredible stuff. Finally Stanley has a heart-attack and Michael tries to revive him with a reminder that he is black and Obama is finally President.

Dwight and Michael's visits to corporate were very funny as was the scences involving CPR class culmiating with Dwight's organ harvesting. Call me crazy, but this is just brilliant comedy writing.

I loved the Roast too. Even though it ended a bit sadly, the roast itself was top notch, and the episode ended on a happy note, so there ya go...and of course, maybe the line of the decade was uttered by Michael in preparation for the roast..I am paraphrasing until I can get it right:

"I am going to have to remember to call YouTube and have them come down here and film this."

By the way -- the Super Bowl was fantastic, Springsteen was fantastic, the comeback was fantastic, and the winning touchdown was amazing -- everything you'd ask for in the 'big game'. Nice job NFL.