Podcasts Sarah on 19 May 2008 06:57 pm
Episode #67 - Goodbye, Proposal
With your hosts Kimberly, Melody, and Sarah.
Performance Review (1:17) - “Goodbye, Toby” - Someone normal likes Michael, Ryan was found out, Phyllis is a rock star, the cameramen can have fall-back careers as HR reps, Andy’s in love with being in love, Jim and Pam are now a cauldron full of angst, and Kimberly tries to convince us she’s over the writer’s strike.
Email Surveillance (56:25) - Our listeners come down on two sides of season finale fence - some loved it, some hated it.
Scranton Scoop (73:49)
- Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart on American Library Association poster
- B.J. Novak on NPR
- Dwight Schrute accepts John McCain’s offer
- The “Original” Office sketch on SNL
Fandomnicity (75:06)
Melody and Sarah were guests on The Trivia War Podcast this week, where we went mic to mic with hosts Sue and Robin in an “Office” trivia battle. Find out who came out the victor by downloading the show here.
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Running Time: 77:42
on 19 May 2008 at 9:06 pm 1.Kelly said …
Are you guys going to do a review of all of fourth season like you did last season?
on 20 May 2008 at 6:23 am 2.Craig said …
I look at the proposal debacle in this simple way: What possible motivation would Greg Daniels and Co. have for misleading us about a proposal only to have it happen off-screen over the summer? It is really difficult for me to see them sitting around in the writers room saying “We know we have millions of fans invested in this proposal plot. So let’s do this. Let’s NOT have Jim propose in the finale. We can call the writers of Friends for roadblock ideas. Then we will just get them engaged over the summer so we can cause the fans a good amount of angst with ultimately no payoff.”
I think the simple explanation is that the writers chose to not have Jim propose to start a new angst-filled storyline for us to wade through in S5. Otherwise there would have been no real reason not to have Jim and Pam together at the end going into the fall.
on 20 May 2008 at 3:17 pm 3.Daniel said …
I think that the writers knew we were all expecting a proposal.
Instead, they made Andy propose so that we would see how “lame” and ordinary it would have been for Jim to do it. So not a Jim and Pam moment!
Also, they used the finale to move forward Michael and Dwight. Michael did change during this episode. He was being very cautious with what he said, in front of Holly anyway. And they set up a very nice cliffhanger with the Angela and Dwight storyline.
I guess that Holly is going to make Michael behave more like a grown man, which would be interesting to watch.
And Dwight, well, I have no ideas there…
Finally, the way I imagine, Jim is going to propose very casually, and when we are not expecting at all. Jim and Pam are eating in the break room and when Pam is holding the fork in mid air, with her mouth open, Jim is going to hold the ring in front of her and not say anything. And only they would be there, so that no one else in the office knows about it. Jim and Pam is going to happen, don’t worry about it.
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PS: my favourite moments were all non spoken moments. Like the look Michael gives the camera when he is sitting on the floor and Toby says they have to do the exit interview.
on 21 May 2008 at 8:34 am 4.Cool Guy Ryan said …
I’m glad Jim didn’t propose. He told Pam “it will knock you on your ass, Beesley.” Would a proposal in a lawn chair at a DM party really have been a knocked ass moment? NO.
This was a kick ass podcast this week. And I listened to the Trivia War and was very impressed. I’ve seen every episode 2-5 times and I didn’t do half as well playing along. You girls rock!
on 26 May 2008 at 6:31 pm 5.Kelly said …
so I was wondering if you guys might consider to do is have mini performance reviews for the webisodes?
on 30 May 2008 at 12:26 pm 6.Josphine said …
I wanted to let you ladies know straight from Jen Celotta interview on officetally.com when ever you guys bring up the Dwanglea reveal in Email Surveillance you wonder what they were making out in turns out it was a tree house.
on 30 May 2008 at 6:52 pm 7.Sarah said …
Ooh, that’s good to know, Josphine! The mystery is finally solved!
on 02 Jun 2008 at 1:30 pm 8.Mike from Woodstock said …
Anyone else see the picture of Rainn Wilson and Megan Fox at the MTV Movie Awards?
I, for one, know I will NEVER look at Dwight Schrute the same way again.
-Mike
on 02 Jun 2008 at 2:24 pm 9.Josphine said …
well not much less from the finalie
on 24 Jun 2008 at 10:10 am 10.Grace said …
so 5th season what if they run with the whole dwight for president thing. like dwight tells micheal that he should be regional manager because he was considered for “assitant president”. and it basically pisses everyone off except for angela who is very interseted and agrees with it.
McCain/Schrute 08′ !!
on 19 Sep 2008 at 11:47 am 11.acsenray said …
Here’s the thing … at this point, showing the proposal will not be funny. It’s best if they handle it off screen.