Two Ladies & Their TVs

We love our shows so much we created a blog for it.

SVU: "911", The Office: "Office Olympics"

First off, on the SVU front: I didn't watch but the first and last five minutes!  Sorry, fellow lady!  We were installing a homeschooling program on YD's puter, and... I just didn't care. 

So, all I really have to comment on is this: Olivia, learn CPR again.  Because the way you do it wouldn't save a cat.  I'm a weird stickler for doing CPR right; maybe because I failed it three times before getting "certified" in school (I kept forgetting to check the pulse after starting CPR).  I know this is t.v. land, but you could at least TRY to make it look kosher.

Anyway, onto The Office!

The ep was partly about Jim leading the office drones in a game of Office Olympics, and the other subplot was Michael and Dwight leaving the office so Michael could finalize the purchase of his condo.  I'm going to swiftly recap Michael's part: meh.  I kept getting distracted by how Nancy Walls, Steve Carell's wife, was the realtor.  She was so MEH on The Daily Show, so I don't appreciate the nepotism (she was also in a cameo in The Forty-Year-Old Virgin).

The best part was of course the Olympics.  Jim organized them after 'dying of boredom' from doing expense reports.  First, it was that little football game that you play with the triangle of paper?  Then Pam made medals out of old yogurt lids (just who'd been storing them and why, I don't know), and they began a game of "Flonkerton", originally out of Iceland, in which you race with your feet on top of boxes of paper.  Phyllis won.  The last game was two workers racing around with full coffee cups, trying not to spill them.

Angela, the woman with the icy blonde hair and the immense love for her cats (she even threw a party for them), wouldn't join in.  When Pam asked her again, she said she liked to play a game called "Pampong", in which she counted every time Jim got up from his desk and went to Reception.  The realization dawning on Pam's face was sad and very telling; I think she realized just then just HOW much Jim likes her.  But Angela's become the Office Bitch.  It was a really pissy, mean thing to do, and she deserves every bit of the Tightass Award she got at the Dundies.

I think the ep served to show that Jim, if he's having fun and actually liking what he's doing, would be a good manager/boss.  He did very well at rallying the "troops".

Next week, the office kitchen catches fire, and they spend the entire ep in the parking lot.  They end up learning a lot more about each other than they really want to.  Although it sounds too Survivoresque, I'm looking forward to what comes out. 

Posted by: athenawj at 03:12 | link | comments (2)
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#1  05 October 2005 - 07:31

 

I don't think you missed much with the first 5 minutes. The last 5 were probably the best part of SVU, with the team finding the girl having been buried alive and Olivia hitting the perp. I was doing homework myself, but wanting to find out if they'd ever find the girl made me stay on. Olivia's CPR technique looked like it was only fit for a cat!

What is up with SVU splitting up Olivia and Elliot and focusing on each per episode? This past episode was very much a one-woman show...just as the next one will be a one-man show as they promise a showdown in deStablerization. Bah. I'll keep watching but there are definitely other shows that get me more excited.

merserene

#2  05 October 2005 - 15:15

 

I'm with you-- I'm really friggin' tired of the one-woman/one-man episodes. The best ones are when there's no Stabler angst, Olivia isn't always right/the crime isn't all about her, and they're working together like the good partners they usually are.

athenawj

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