A story on the TV Guide site details some of the upcoming episodes for Steve Carell’s last season, which may be shaping up to be a good one. Justified’s Timothy Olyphant (and if you’ve never watched Justified, you should - he’s excellent in it) will be appearing in a couple of episodes as a rival salesman. And it sounds like it could be funny. Read the story here.

-Kevin

Steve, I love you, man. You are hilarious. Michael Scott is, in my opinion, one of the greatest television characters of all time. You’re a good soldier and no doubt a great guy to work with…. but stop. Come on, now. Don’t even try to make us believe this.

I bet you even believe it. You seem to have minimal ego and refuse to believe that this show centers around you. Steve. One thing I should point out. THE SHOW CENTERS AROUND YOU. Other than All In The Family, I can’t think of another T.V. show where every character on it either functions around, with, in spite of or in direct conflict with the main character. All of those characters were created to deal with you. Think about it. Michael Scott drives every plot of every episode. I love Jim and Pam. I love Dwight. I love all those guys. But the day to day nonsense that occurs in the fictional office of Dunder-Mifflin is because of Michael Scott. Who will generate the nonsense now? The cringe-tastic moments? The only way it can continue is if they DON’T try to replace that driving force. Just make it a true ensemble where the conflict and office tedium is evenly distributed. But there will still be no Michael Scott and the show is about the nonsense that Michael Scott creates! I just can’t see it. Steve, you are a loyalist, no doubt. You could’ve left 2 seasons ago, probably. But NBC should just end The Office after you leave. Don’t give them any other ideas than that one.

-Kevin

Ain’t it Cool News has a quick, but very informative article about Amy Ryan’s return as Michael’s true love, Holly Flax. Jump over a take a peek

This is actually old news, but what the heck, until The Office tosses the fans something, some kind of bone, over the summer break, it’ll have to do. Brian Baumgartner was in Scranton over the Memorial Day weekend. He was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for the Albright Memorial Library. You can read all about the planned festivities here.

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Well, my fearless prediction for “The Whistleblower” was incorrect; All through Season Six, The Office had a running gag going about the “Scranton Strangler.” I had a hunch that the elusive evil-doer was going to be undone in the season finale, and I even had the perpetrator identified! I was sure the culprit was Hidetoshi Hasagawa, the mysterious Japanese doctor with the “steady hands,” who got hired to work in the warehouse.  And I even had the plot twist figured out: As the northeastern Pennsylvania news crews swarmed on Dunder-Mifflin, to get the story on the exploding printers, the police would be surrounding the Scranton Business Park to take Hide into custody. I thought the set-up was perfect. The spectacular SWAT-team takedown in the warehouse would totally distract the news jackals, who would promptly forget about covering the suddenly tame story of defective technology. The arresting development of the “Scranton Strangler” caper would be a screaming front page headline in the Times-Tribune, knocking the printer fire story into a little blip at the bottom of the business section… Solving Sabre’s embarrassing predicament, as the press hounds sprinted after the sexier story. Win-win-win! Uh… except none of that happened. The Office writers just up and left the “Scranton Strangler” storyline dangling, like the proverbial participle. (which is a writing error that I am probably guilty of, but since I don’t even know what it is, I remain blissfully unaware.) Oh well, blissfully unaware, and on to “The Whistleblower.”

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Can you believe we’ve arrived at the season finale already?  It seems like only yesterday we were anxiously awaiting the season premier; wondering how the news of Pam’s pregnancy would be revealed to the office.  A lot has happened during this season including the JAM relationship coming full circle, as well as major changes to Dunder Mifflin as a company.  Which leads us to wonder what story there may be left to tell of our friends in The Office?  Sadly, the season finale left me underwhelmed.  The episode itself was just ok, not stellar, but not a complete dud either.  It just kind of ended with no major cliff hanger or twist that we’ve come to expect from a season finale.  This worries me because rumors have been circulating about this coming season becoming the last for the American version of The Office.  As a fan, I hate to see that happen; however I’d rather remember the show for the quality that we’ve come to know then have it continue at a sub-par level.

I will now step off my soap box and begin the recap:

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The latest Office episode, “The Chump” has provided the Scranton Chamber Of Commerce with a memorable slogan that just might catch on: “The Paris of northeastern Pennysylvania.” I can see how this will grow in popularity, finally reaching a point where the city of Paris begins to refer to itself as… the “Scranton of north central France.” Now that’s catchy. This will probably lead to an increase in tourism in both cities, as tourists flock to scintillating Steamtown and the extra-awesome Anthracite Coal Museum in Scranton, and then they just might be inspired to visit “sister city” Paris. There’s a pretty big tower there, and some other old stuff, too. (yawn) But au revoir to all that for now. We’re here to talk about Scranton.

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Well, this is my 6th and final recap for the 6th season. The episodes I had previously (”The Promotion”, “Koi Pond”, “Scott’s Tots”, “Manager and Salesman” and “Happy Hour”) were not classics but had some good moments interspersed in them. Kind of uneven, you could say. I guess they were setting the stage for “The Chump’ which is, in my opinion, the most uneven episode of the season.

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Our Office peeps are popping up everywhere these days. I don’t know if anyone has gotten into this new show, spearheaded by the great Jerry Seinfeld, but it’s shaping up to be one of the funniest ‘reality’ shows on TV; touting along some serious star power. Last night our favorite Warehouse Manager joins OCD Game Show Host, Howie Mandel and the Divine Ms. M, Bette Midler to try and sway The Marriage Ref. See the full show here. Craig has some very interesting points of view.

Enjoy!

Suri (aka HDF)

What would The Office be if our quirky receptionist had gone with her initial career choice? Last night Ellie tells Jay Leno her alternate choice. I’m glad she decided to go into show business instead. I can’t imagine a better replacement for Pam. Turns out she’s just as quirky in real life and says ‘um’ a lot. I guess she hasn’t mastered the art of interviews yet, but she’ll get there. See the full interview below.

Enjoy!

Suri (aka HDF)