THE OFFICE RECAP: Whatchu Gonna Do To Make Our Dreams Come True? Well, About That…

final night’s episode, Scott’s Tots, was, impartial by The Office’s lofty standards, reasonable about the most awkward awkward that always awkwarded. The baby-talk intro was purposes the funniest cold-open of the pep up (Thank you…thank you a end), and after that, well, the part was a big ol’ punch to the crotch. humorous, but very, very painful.
It goes without saying that The bit has always prided itself on a exalted tradition of awkward circumstances, from David Brent’s anything else “She has left him, forgot with respect to that…” to anything involving Michael Scott being in or close to being the conference room. Still, Scott’s Tots, may bear set a new bar for awkwardness in the franchise’s account, with Michael forced to confront a alliance of underprivileged high school kids to publish them that he will not as a matter of fact be paying for their college training as he had triumphantly and greatly publicly promised them more than a decade earlier.
commonly, Office awkward situations involve some manner of over-the-line comment that offends a yourself or two, or the leaking of compromising report, or at worst, something that makes Michael and the persons around him uncomfortable for a in summary period. Last night, though, Michael’s bizarre tuition promise — clearly borne out of his developing need to have people like him, as well enough as his once overly-optimistic insight of his own success — directly crushed the survival dreams of 15 innocent kids. Sure, it’s a teeny-weeny on the exaggerated side for a believable corporation dilemma, but we’re six seasons in — our allowance for awkward is too high at this spur for offhand comments about Stanley playing basketball to circulate us Office-high.
After the reprimand, a silver lining (not laptop batteries):
The followers scenes definitely walked the line between witty/awkward and just straight-up lamentably awkward, leaning more towards the latter at times, but the kids’ choreographed ball number and succession of tearful speeches kept making me snicker (loved the dude flipping), and the case wasn’t helped by Erin being noticeably touched via the stories, completely ignorant of the inescapable bombshell that was coming. In the tip, Michael’s escape was actually more than I was expecting — his laptop battery consolation aim nonwithstanding — and Erin’s comment on the ram home about Scott’s Tots having a higher graduation dress down did legitimately salvage some positivity extinguished of an otherwise apocalyptic situation.
The sole question now is, after wiping away the dreams of more than a dozen off guard children, where could Michael’s awkwardness God willing go next? Is he just gonna be napalming babies not later than Season 8?
In the sideplot, Dwight launched another diabolical stratagem to get Jim fired by convincing him to initiate an Employee of the Month program and tricking him into unknowingly giving himself (and later, Pam) the confer. This leads to one of the other funniest parts of the adventure, Dwight’s series of Doubtfire-esque impressions of his officemates:

I’m de facto enjoying the ongoing plot of Jim struggling as a co-forewoman. For five seasons, Jim (and the house viewing audience) sat there witnessing Michael muck up office situation after office situation, wondering why the cast wouldn’t just throw someone remotely fit in the position and instantly reveal everything. Now Jim has this licence, and he’s finding out again and again how uncontrollable the responsibility is and how tough Michael’s appointment is, and he’s starting to aware that Michael’s “all play and no directorate” philosophy isn’t so much unmitigated incompetence as it is just the way to not have a gleaning of bored, jaded paper company employees hating him all the beat.
Can we expect a Tales From The vault-style season finale twist where Jim looks in the picture and realizes he’s turned into Michael and wickedness versa? Eh…maybe in Season 7.
incident thoughts? How’d you handle the awkwardness? Favorite parts / lines? retell away in the comments.

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