Comments on: The Office: Season 4, Episode 4 http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/ BE Creative, BE Productive, BE Original, BE Innovative... Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How Do I Become A Financial Planner http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/comment-page-1/#comment-6133 How Do I Become A Financial Planner Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:17:45 +0000 http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/#comment-6133 <strong>What a Financial Planner Should Do For You...</strong> When you are ready to get serious about your finances, it is time to get a financial planner. That is great and all, but what should a financial planner do for you?... What a Financial Planner Should Do For You…

When you are ready to get serious about your finances, it is time to get a financial planner. That is great and all, but what should a financial planner do for you?…

]]> By: The Office: Season 4, Episode 5 » BE Something http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/comment-page-1/#comment-3457 The Office: Season 4, Episode 5 » BE Something Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:16:17 +0000 http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/#comment-3457 [...] a great, down-to-earth episode. I wrote last week that the best thing for the show right now would be for the writers to just stop trying so damn [...] [...] a great, down-to-earth episode. I wrote last week that the best thing for the show right now would be for the writers to just stop trying so damn [...]

]]> By: Jack http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 Jack Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:38:58 +0000 http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/#comment-3304 Also: I'm really surprised how low-key and strangely-realistic the whole Michael-works-as-a-telemarketer played out. That is, I'm not an insider into the barely-licensed telemarketing world, but I imagine Michael's co-workers (Vikrim, the stoner guy, and the have-to-touch-each-other-all-the-time couple) are the kind of people who would work there, and that the boss is the kind of non-inspirational guy who would run it. Methinks the overtly-cinema shot of the freight train - Jan and Michael's feet dangling from the car that went on for like thirty seconds - was because they decided to rewrite the scene during editing, and instead of reshooting, they just put in that shot and re-recorded some dialogue. I think Dwight has used the stairwell twice: once in season two episode "Performance Review," in which Dwight pumps himself up with Motley Crue and air guitar while rehearsing a speech in favor of giving him a raise; and the second time in season two episode "Drug Testing," when Dwight, in full volunteer sheriff uniform, agonizes over whether or not to give Michael a urine sample. And it appears that Andy has become my favorite character. Maybe it's because Dwight, after four years of antics, is fairly predictable. It's also nice to have Dwight's fascist nerdiness play off against Andy's J. Crew prepiness. Also: I’m really surprised how low-key and strangely-realistic the whole Michael-works-as-a-telemarketer played out. That is, I’m not an insider into the barely-licensed telemarketing world, but I imagine Michael’s co-workers (Vikrim, the stoner guy, and the have-to-touch-each-other-all-the-time couple) are the kind of people who would work there, and that the boss is the kind of non-inspirational guy who would run it.

Methinks the overtly-cinema shot of the freight train – Jan and Michael’s feet dangling from the car that went on for like thirty seconds – was because they decided to rewrite the scene during editing, and instead of reshooting, they just put in that shot and re-recorded some dialogue.

I think Dwight has used the stairwell twice: once in season two episode “Performance Review,” in which Dwight pumps himself up with Motley Crue and air guitar while rehearsing a speech in favor of giving him a raise; and the second time in season two episode “Drug Testing,” when Dwight, in full volunteer sheriff uniform, agonizes over whether or not to give Michael a urine sample.

And it appears that Andy has become my favorite character. Maybe it’s because Dwight, after four years of antics, is fairly predictable. It’s also nice to have Dwight’s fascist nerdiness play off against Andy’s J. Crew prepiness.

]]> By: Jack http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/comment-page-1/#comment-3303 Jack Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:10:59 +0000 http://www.be-something.com/2007/10/21/the-office-season-4-episode-4/#comment-3303 Agreed that it's frustrating when the best parts of an episode are isolated moments. Example: I'm growing on the humor of the Michael-is-tired conference room scene, in which he began his PowerPoint presentation with actual "power points" at various employees. I can see the Jim-Pam attraction, and I think the scene where they were listening to Dwight read Harry Potter was the most intimate we've ever seen their characters. I think it worked, and I much prefer a brief visual reminder of their new relationship than the more overbearing elements that season 4 has brought, such as their rooftop scene in "Launch Party." Agreed that it’s frustrating when the best parts of an episode are isolated moments. Example: I’m growing on the humor of the Michael-is-tired conference room scene, in which he began his PowerPoint presentation with actual “power points” at various employees.

I can see the Jim-Pam attraction, and I think the scene where they were listening to Dwight read Harry Potter was the most intimate we’ve ever seen their characters. I think it worked, and I much prefer a brief visual reminder of their new relationship than the more overbearing elements that season 4 has brought, such as their rooftop scene in “Launch Party.”

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