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Three fun deleted scenes from last week’s Christmas episode:
Be careful what you wish for (Ryan, this means you!)
Hey, you can’t do that on television, or maybe you can. Anyone else think that Cathy looks like Christine from that old Nickelodeon show getting green slimed?
Meredith gives it the old college try. But Robert doesn’t think that she looks much like a college student anymore.
I didn’t think they could improve much on this episode, but these scenes made me want to watch it again.
~Suri
Tomorrow night, for the first time ever, Andrew Banes Bernard will don the Santa suit for The Office holiday party. It used to always be Michael (as part of his Regional Manager’s duties), except for the one year that Jim let Phyllis be Santa. So I think we’ll see a different spin for the party this year. Can Andy live up to legend? We shall see, but apparently he has a surprise guest to wow everyone with. Also, Robert has to deal with some issues of his own after last week’s episode. An Office Christmas party might be just what he needs to help him with his woes.
For those who don’t want to be spoiled, clips are after the jump:
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Since Bob made mention of the fantastic deleted scene involving Vance Refrigeration, I thought it would be fun to post it here as well as the other deleted scene regarding Dwight’s Gym; equally as funny. These scenes should definitely have made the final cut, but at least we get to enjoy them after the show airs:
Jim plays hide and seek on Stanley’s birthday. I personally prefer duck, duck, goose; but it wasn’t my party.
Join Dwight’s Gym, but don’t expect a shower. I belong to Lucille Roberts, they don’t have a shower either.
Is it just me, or do you think that Dwight really meant to say the BO of it all at the end of that scene?
~Suri (aka HDF)
Which, incidentally, is the name of tonight’s new episode. For anyone who’d like a quick taste of what’s in store for tonight and doesn’t mind being a bit spoiled, two sneak peaks are after the jump.
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Who knew our serious, often grumpy, crossword puzzle obsessed Stanley had mad singing skills? Check out his new song 2 Be Simple featuring NUM; it’s certainly a side of Stanley we’ve never seen before. Kudos to Leslie David Baker for this fun party song. The video is pretty entertaining too.
Enjoy,
~Suri (aka HDF)
I had a great idea for this holiday post; I was going to put up a collage of all the LITO members, and photoshop “pilgrim” outfits on all of us; the hats with the buckles on them, the bonnets, the wide collars, the aprons… and it was gonna be a bad photoshop job, the kind that Michael Scott used to do. It was gonna be classic. But then we ate Thanksgiving dinner here at home, and the trytophan got me feeling sleepy (like that old Seinfeld episode), and I got to thinking “What the heck… who cares?” So, you’re just gonna have to use your imagination here; picture a group photograph with poorly matched pilgrim gear pasted on, and an out-of-scale live turkey, and stuff like that. That’ll have to do. Happy Thanksgiving!
I don’t read synopsis of upcoming episodes anymore so I have no idea what the next Office episode will be about. So when I saw another one of NBC’s misleading commercials where Pam appears to be going into labor I was like “Oh yeah! I’m gonna recap the baby episode! Cool!” But, no. Instead I get Gettysburg, oragami and cookies. Bummer. Read on »
Anytime the Dunder-Mifflin gang takes an out-of-town field trip, it presents a special challenge for “Scrantonicity.” This episode was looming as the next biggest challenge after “Niagara Falls,” from way back in 2009. And to make matters worse, even though I grew up in northeastern Pa, and I was kinda-sorta somewhat of a Civil War buff as a kid, I never visited Gettysburg. It never even occurred to me to want to travel three hours to south central Pennsylvania. In fact, the only battlefield I have ever visited was the Little Bighorn National Monument in Montana, the site of Custer’s Last Stand. That was very educational and thought-provoking; and also very haunting and evocative, as a lot of heavy history had gone down on that hallowed ground. I had these deep thoughts as we were standing there on the lonely prairie with the eerie wind moaning and the tall grass hypnotically undulating; honestly though, the main reason we stopped there was because the visitor center had a bathroom, and you tend to pay attention to stuff like that on those long drives through the sparsely populated western states, when you’re drinking a lot of coffee from a thermos. 
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I’d like to start out by wishing Jenna Fischer and her RL husband, Lee Kirk, congratulations on the birth of their son, Weston Lee, born on September 24, 2011. I haven’t been able to find a picture of the little angel just yet, but all the articles say that mother and baby are doing just great! Information about the birth was not released until October 3rd (a day before my twin’s birthday) and I have to say that in watching the first few episodes, I had my suspicions that Jenna might actually be carrying twins; since she was so huge. Oh well, she may just have to wait until her next pregnancy to experience the joys of having twins, like myself, and so many other celebrities before her. That’s right, I’m up there in the ranks of Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez and Rebecca Romaine O’Connell (although they’ve never had the prestige and notoriety that comes from writing for LITO; just sayin’. )
I just have to say that I’m really pleased that I got the opportunity to recap this particular episode, because I can totally relate to the feelings of paranoia, insecurity, and general overall irrationalism and insanity that go along with pregnancy hormones. In that respect, I felt the episode was written very realistically. I mean, in what universe would Pam actually be crazy enough to completely trust Dwight above Jim and genuinely subject him to Dwight’s eccentric antics? Only in a pregnant Pam universe, that’s where. The subplot, however, not so in touch with reality; but we’ll get into that later. Read on »