The drama between Pam and Michael was put on hold this week as the office harped on Michael over his most recent gaffe.

The episode opened with the Dunder-Mifflin crew awaiting the arrival of a group of kids who were visiting to see the haunted house.

Kelly sported a “Fifth Element” costume. Meredith dressed as a hobo. Michael? Why … oh, just look at the picture.

The majority of the episode centered around Michael falling into a koi pond while at a business meeting with Jim — a trip he alone was going to make until corporate insisted Michael accompany him.

He stepped on and killed a fish in the process. With Jim holding a grudge because corporate felt he needed babysitting, he stood by as Michael continued making a big splash. Har har.

Laid-back Jim, the dude who doesn’t take work stuff too seriously, is slowly evolving into a stern businessman and the power struggle between him and Michael is becoming an issue.

Moreover, Michael, in an attempt to divert attention away from his gaffe by making fun of himself, revealed his insecurities in front of the staff. It was awkwardly hilarious.

DUNDER MIFFLIN FACES THE SHAREHOLDERS - Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) gets excited when he’s invited by David Wallace (Andy Buckley) to be honored on stage at the Dunder Mifflin shareholder meeting in New York, and he brings Andy (Ed Helms), Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Oscar (Oscar Nunez) along for the ride. Meanwhile, Jim (John Krasinski) has a hard time getting Ryan (B.J. Novak) to do work. Jenna Fischer, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Creed Bratton, Paul Lieberstein, and Ellie Kemper also star.

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Written by: Danny Chun
Directed by: Greg Daniels

Summary Michael’s world is rocked by troubling rumors about Dunder Mifflin. He forces the office into a day of strange diversions, upsetting Jim and leading others to wonder if Michael has gone insane. Meanwhile, Andy finds that his chief obstacle in courting Erin is his own awkwardness.

This episode airs November 12th.

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“Four years ago, I was just a guy who had a crush on a girl who had a boyfriend,” was how Jim started his toast at the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding. He narrated that for the longest time, he had to do the most painful and agonizing thing a man in love can do - wait. But he did, while slightly flirting, and said that even then he knew that it was his wife that he was waiting for.

Of course you cried. I did. How can you not? But that was just the tip of the iceberg. There’d be plenty of crying coming up for this Office episode.

Last night’s Office episode featured easily one of the more heavily anticipated wedding this year. And The Office did it to perfection. The comedy was back - it was on hiatus the first three episodes, I thought - but the highlight of the episode remained to be the thing we were all raring to see. The culmination of a years-long love story, and it was awesome! The thing went full-circle, and there was even a little shout-out to one of the first Jim-Pam moments early season 1 (”Diversity Day”) when after a long day, Pam laid her head on Jim’s shoulders. At the end of the episode, Jim told us, “Not a bad day.”

Points of interest on the episode include:
- the first sequence, where everyone was puking while Creed, ever so casually, go about his business of eating, of all things, noodles
- Dwight telling his story to a table-full of kids, and his fixation on twins, regardless of sex
- Meema somehow deducing from the hotel that had Bruno on the telly that Jim and Pam are bad people
- Kevin admiring Oscar’s “think, beautiful chicano hair” and his shoe situation - “safety issue”
- Andy’s dancing, and the resulting injuries in a certain part of his body during the “Bernard throw-down” which somehow ended with him lying on Pam’s bed with an icepack on top of his groin
- Stanley giving a toaster again, Michael’s gift, Dwight’s gift, and discussing the “etiquette” of getting the gifts when the wedding doesn’t push through
- The entrance (good thing they acknowledged its YouTube origins), because everyone was there, everyone was there, and they remind us why we love these people so much. And finally,
- The real wedding, and the happy couple being so solemn and laid-back in that boat, against a backdrop of craziness by the Dunder Mufflin people in the church

For good measure, I gathered my ten favorite Jim-Pam moments below. I’m sure I missed a lot, so feel free to add and arrange them whichever way you please. But for the mean time, toast to the happy couple, and a classic Office episode.

Being asked to join the cast of one of the hottest shows on television isn’t a new thing for Linda Purl. In fact, some could say that she’s had quite an evolution during the past thirty years of television. She started out playing ‘Richie Cunningham’s’ girlfriend turned ‘Fonzie’s’ fiancée on “Happy Days,” then moved to playing Andy Griffith’s daughter on “Matlock,” became Joe Mantegna’s wife on “First Monday,” and now Linda takes her place as mother-of-the-bride ‘Helene Beesly’ on NBC’s “The Office,” making the first of several appearances on the October 8th episode titled “Niagara.”

Being billed as “the most anticipated wedding in recent television history,” the Niagara Falls nuptials of ‘Jim Halpert’ and ‘Helene’s’ daughter ‘Pam Beesly’ is a virtually guaranteed ratings winner for the network, and a reason for Linda’s fans to celebrate her return to the small screen. Rumor has it that there’s a possible storyline in the works for a little romantic interlude with Steve Carell’s character ‘Michael Scott’ that could open the door for Linda to make several more guest appearances.

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