The long awaited season finale of the office is finally here and I find myself, let’s see what would the correct adjective be……..underwhelmed. I was expecting more out of a season finale filled with such comical geniuses as Ricky Gervais, Will Arnett, Ray Romano and Jim Carrey. Not to say that the episode didn’t have its moments, it definitely did, I was just expecting less over-the-top comedy and more down home funny.
Let’s get to the recap, shall we? The cold open starts with a snazzy looking Porsche being driven at a high speed into the Dunder Mifflin parking lot. It comes to a screeching halt at an angle in front of the doors to the building. Who is in the driver’s seat of such and expensive sports car you might ask? None other than the new “acting” manager himself; Creed Bratton. The car is sporting vanity plates that say, NEW MGR. As Creed get’s out, he tosses the keys to an imaginary attendant and calls Dunder Mifflin, Great Bratton. Do you think being manager has slightly gone to his head? Maybe just a little. He goes on to spew gibberish to the camera, tries to have Jordan identify a made-up language, give a meeting to a near-empty conference room because he forgot to actually call the meeting and tries to come up with acronyms for a nonsensical word for which the first letter is “B”. When Kevin suggests that “B” stands for business, we find out that not only can’t Creed be a manager, he can’t spell either. Pam succinctly states that they need a new manager. I actually thought the cold opening was a pretty good one and I got a kick out of Creed’s antics. You gotta love the bizarreness that is Creed.
(We sure could use a “jazz hands” emoticon here.)
Deangelo Vickers is in the house ladies and gentlemen! The new boss is making changes and ruffling feathers in this episode and it’s wreaking havoc on the staff at Sabre Scranton.