Happy Halloween LITO-ites! I feel very lucky to be reviewing The Office Halloween episode. It’s one of my annual favorites. So fun to see the office crew all dressed up in their Halloween finery! Read on »
Archive for October 2011
To quote the creepy Robert California: “Fear plays an interesting role in our lives.” For instance, I’m afraid that any given episode of “The Office,” no matter how good it is, will have absolutely no Scranton references. That will leave me with not a shred of material for “Scrantonicity,” and I’ll just have to give up and not write anything. (Did I hear somebody just say that’s not such a bad idea?) Well, anyway… as usual, I found just enough obscure stuff to cobble something together… so there was no reason for me to be “Spooked…” yet. Next week… who knows? (Imagine eerie Halloween-y music playing here.) Read on »
When: October 28th at 9PM EST
Where: www.TheOfficeChat.com
Winner will be mailed the HUGE Office Kit! 
(see photo to the right)
Trivia will consist of questions from the Oct 27th episode, “Spooked”.
Trivia is open to ALL fans of The Office.
Stop by to have lots of fun and meet new fans of The Office!
Come out and support great LITO friend, Nette @ The Office Chat. Click HERE to check it out & join in the fun.
- Donna
Sorry for being so late with the recap. It’s been a very busy weekend; so many thing going on. I guess you could say “Garden Party” was a lot like my weekend. A slow start, some awkward moments, things that worked well, things that didn’t and some laughs. My weekend was a LOT longer, though. Read on »
Anytime an Office episode is primarily set outdoors, I feel an overbearing sense of dread. The show has occasionally used stock news footage of northeastern Pennsylvania, but mostly they just try to fake it with judicious camera angles and editing room special effects. Sometimes they go all out to get it right, like spending a fortune to “recreate” Jim’s truck stop proposal to Pam in Season Five’s “Weight Loss.” Other times, they attempt (and spectacularly fail) to substitute southern California for the Pennsylvania wilderness, like in Season Four’s “Survivor Man.” So how did they do with “Garden Party?” Well, the Schrute Farm didn’t come off too badly; Instead of an overbearing sense of dread, I was left with a quite underbearing sense. It could have been worse. Read on »
OK, this week’s Scrantonicity is off to an awkward start: Nowhere on the web page for the Pennsylvania State Lottery does the word “lotto” appear. My state, Washington, has a “Lotto.” Florida and New York feature “Lottos.” There are a lotta “lottos.” Pa has “Quinto,” “MegaMillions,” “Powerball”… but alas, no “lotto.” Ah… the state of California features the word “Lotto.” Hmm… Read on »
For my first recap of the season, I think I actually drew a golden episode. The idea of the warehouse staff winning a lottery pool and quitting all at the same time, I thought, was a very novel concept and a great idea for an office episode. I really enjoyed this episode, starting from the Cold Opening, where Oscar really takes command, and then backs down at the very end. Unlike last weeks cold opening, where Bob mentioned that they portrayed Kevin as a bumbling idiot; his inferior intelligence is much more understated in this week’s Cold Opening – Jim, Dwight, Darryl and Andy are walking into the parking lot after lunch and find Oscar and Erin standing by an unfamiliar car. Oscar is appalled that the owner left a dog in the car under the sweltering sun. Kelly, Meredith and Kevin show up and they all argue about whether or not to save the dog from it’s automobile inferno. Dwight then pours some of his drink into the car through the sunroof to give the dog something to cool him down. Which begs the question, “If the sunroof is down, then air is getting into the car, so why is everyone making such a big deal over this?” Kevin decides that he will get into his car as well and when he starts dying, he’ll honk the horn three times which means, “SAVE THE DOG!!”. Oscar has had enough and comes over with a crow bar. He declares that the owner has been gone long enough and has lost his right to a window and promptly breaks it to give the dog some much needed air. Everyone is shocked at Oscar’s display but then cheers him on. He breaks one of the car’s tail lights for good measure. Then Jim brings up the obvious question that no one has thought of, “Who’s going to take the dog?” When Oscar wonders why they would take the dog Jim replies, again with the obvious answer, “What if he jumps out and runs away?” Which the dog then attempts to do. Dwight commands the dog in German, “Naiyn! Sitz!” Which means, “No! Sit!” and the dog is intimidated enough to listen (either that or it understands German). Then Jim asks Oscar if he wants a dog to which Oscar responds by taping a piece of cardboard over the window and punching four holes in it to allow for air flow. Satisfied, everyone heads into the building just as Kevin begins to honk. He makes it to the second honk before he passes out with his head leaning on the horn and we fade into the opening credits listing to the constant blast of Kevin’s car horn.
Read on »