Yesterday, I posted about Jenna’s blog post that gave us an inside scoop on how the writers attack the show storylines. Part of that was:
The group of writers, we have about 10, sit around a table and pitch story ideas. An assistant takes notes. They spend days just yelling out ideas like “Michael has to pick a new health care plan”, “Pam gets drunk”, “Jim cant talk for the day”.
Well, Mark offered a great idea in the comments. He wrote, “Have your readers post their ideas for story ideas. The ideas have to be, say, 15 words or less.”
I think that’s a great idea. Throw out your ideas for the show. You can do as many as you want, but only one per comment and under 15 words. Maybe the writers will visit the blog and like our ideas.
Kelly’s parents come visit at the office.
“The Interviews”
Michael and Dwight conduct interviews to replace Jims Sales Position.
Imagine the Questions they would ask.
Jim has no Thanksgiving plans, Oscar invites him to his Thanksgiving dinner, other Office-people invite themselves, hilarity ensues.
Watching Michael try to deal with a “Bartleby the Scrivener” would be great…
“Blood Drive”
The whole office complex hosts a blood drive. Dwight, “the man”, faints.
Have a family day carnival in the parking lot, include table with Dwight’s beets
Phyllis marries Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration.
All the computers get attacked by viruses, the IT guy comes back and the office has to find ways to entertain themselves
Jim, Dwight, and Michael go to a Paper Sales convention and meetup with Brent, Gareth, and Tim.
Bizarro Office!
Michael has a birthday, and asks for a presents from iPod/dell/ford/sony/clorox/.
Money all around
I forgot to mention that it would be an International Paper Convention (hence the Slough boys are there) and it would be great if afterwards they all went to a local pub and just chatted. Find about their similarities and differences…
um duh… Pam and Jim get married.
Ryan and Kelly get married. Ryan and Kelly get divorced. Ryan and Kelly begin dating again. (might have to supersize that one)
Potluck lunch at the office; Michael brings family secret recipe; Toby has allergic reaction to it. Bring on the laughs!!
Dwight finds pregnancy test in the girls bathroom but can’t say a word because he’s supposedly banned from there.
Pam applies for, and is accepted to, the art program in NYC.
“Garage Sale”
Company garage sale in the parking lot. The Junk that some people own really tells about the character.
Clean out the company fridge and find Meredith’s alcohol in the back.
Michael accidentally forwards and email about Jan to Jan or to the whole office.
The office goes out to lunch to celebrate a birthday. Dwight’s bill is wrong and he argues with the restaurant manager.
(This happened in my office and it was hilarious!!)
“Role Reversal”
Everyone switches positions with someone else for a week, i.e. Michael is the receptionist, Dwight in H.R., Toby is Regional Manager, etc.
Since people seem to always bring fresh squash to me at my office, how about Dwight bringing in beets for everyone with a little note in Angela’s bag that says “How ’bout some ‘borscht’ later tonight?”
Only he gives Meredith Angela’s bag.
Angela tries to be a good Christian and volunteers at the soup kitchen that Creed frequents.
There are a lot of opportunities for hilarity/vomiting when Dwangela’s relationship comes out!
Rumors of the office closing are floating. They must renew a big contract or it’s a sure thing. Everyone’s nervous, except Jim and Pam, of course. Meredith gets drunk. Roy asks Jim what’s been wrong with Pam lately. Michael calls Jan to find out what’s up and talk her out of it. But in the end, Michael somehow (unknowingly?) saves the day!
Michaels car is stolen from the parking lot.
Angela is pregnant from Dwight, revealing their relationship together. (remember she is not on birth control)
“Angela is pregnant from Dwight, revealing their relationship together. (remember she is not on birth control)”
Three words: Jumping the Shark
after angela is pregnant, michael is jealous, turns to any means necessary to get a wife to have kids
Michael’s mom visits
I just saw the “15 words or less” rule. Can I take my idea back?!
Michael gets in car accident; tries to convince everyone it wasn’t his fault. It was.
The dunder Mifflin crew tours another office for some reason or another. Michael is…. well, Michael.
Power goes out.
Camera guys show Pam a compilation of clips which make it obvious who she loves.
“Camera guys show Pam a compilation of clips which make it obvious who she loves. ”
(This will be longer then 15 words, sorry)
Along those lines, many of the good documentary style shows often do a special episode showing how the documentarys are filmed. I think it would be neat to see season 3 start this way, and tell the story of what happened during the summer (Jim/Pam) from the camera men.
It would be funny to see Michael make some comment like: “The camera men and women are very professional, they make every effort to protect our privacy.” That comment would be followed up by a montage of all the times they didn’t protect privacy…
Jim buys a new house in Stamford. He has a party where he invites people from his new office. Pam comes and sees that he has a terrace off of his bedroom.
Michael brings his surprisingly normal younger sister to the office but oh no she starts crushing on Toby
Michael signs up for a softball league with neighboring offices but promptly gets banned for unsportsmanlike behavior.
Staff volunteers for charity telethon-Michael talks to donors too much–Dwight performs on air.
Halloween 2006
Michael insists there are ghosts in the office, and calls ghost investigators to check it out.
Boss for a Day Contest. Michael wants Ryan to win, but Dwight is the winner.
A new cute intern comes in and catches Jim’s eye.
Everyone gets snowed in after a huge blizzard.
Someone breaks into the office and steals something from Michael’s office.
Commercial for Dunder-Mifflin, contest between employees for best one, Michael likes his one, they vote.
have the reality show air and the office’s reactions are shown.
someone else brought up interns, but mine’s a little dif.
a group of interns come in and micheal assigns one to almost everyone in the office.
hilarity ensues…
(Episode after Casino Night) Jim’s older sister moves to Scranton, prompting him to stay. Michael hits on her and she asks him to dinner. Jim brings Pam along to keep the peace. Seeing that even Michael can be right for someone, Jim and Pam decide to make a go of it.
An episode delves into the hero worship relationship that Michael has with the mysterious Todd “hey ya big queen” Packer
The Ladies (and Oscar) salivate over the vending machine man, and Michael’s babbling comes off as hitting on the man.
Angela secretly brings her sick cat to work, Dwight has to cover for her.
Michael enters the office in a hot dog eating contest. He gets pissed when his “Ringer,” Kevin, reveals he is Jewish and refuses to eat the non-Kosher hot dogs.
Michael sends Dwight on secret mission to buy Kosher-dogs and somehow replace them with the contest dogs.
Meredith wins with her technique of dipping the dogs and buns in beer.
Dwight has a grade school class visit his beet farm for a field trip.
Phyliss and Bob Vance, Vance refridgeration, break up. Bob takes back all the office fridges. Michael and Dwight get food poisoning when they eat all the food that is being thrown out–”because there are starving people in this world, which I hate.”
It is finally discovered that Ryan the Temp is actually running the company without Michael’s knowledge.
Michael finds out that Ryan and Toby hung out after work.
Michael speaks at his girlfriend’s kid’s class for career day.
Michael’s online dating service randomly searches for his soulmate and it turns out to be Toby’s ex-wife, who is also on the same dating service.
Here’s the real me!! I’m a SUPERHERO!
http://antiprotester.blogspot.com/2006/08/mark-spittle-leftist-superhero.html
On a Saturday, what happens when only Michael, Dwight, Creed, and Toby are there?
Michael is forced to take a trip with Dwight and Ryan. Love triangle!
jim and pam break up then micheal and pam start dating but jim stops it and jim and pam start dating again
creed dies
office scaveger hunt!!
Since his break up with Angela, Andy has been selling like crazy, putting Dwight’s sales record in sight
A snow blizzard traps everybody over night where Michael decides it’s time to play the grown up version of hide & go seek
When Kelly is asked to train the new “hunky” corporate customer service rep, all the ladies in the office are smitten with him, who is in fact smitten with Oscar
Michael Scott gets recruited by local Mafia ties to run for Mayor (Blagojevich type). He runs around the City nieve and clueless.
Michael purposefully sabotages his employees’ work. They catch on, one by one, but don’t really believe he would do something like that in the beginning. Then they all try to get him fired.
Michael hires his nephew as an employee – despite HR telling him no. Michael then gives all of his nephew’s work to everyone else while praising his nephew for all of the great work he does. Everyone else tries to turn Michael’s nephew against him.
An outside firm is hired by the company to do company-wide audits. Michael races to cover up his embezzeling before the auditors get to his portion of the company. Michael forces his employees to help him.
Harry Chapin wrote a song about a truck accident involving 30,000 pounds of bananas in scranton. Please recreate it.