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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After five seasons of adorably awkward courtship, TV’s cutest couple are finally making it official—and this week’s Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive preview of Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam’s (Jenna Fischer) long-awaited wedding on October 8. The special hour-long episode of NBC’s The Office is a happy occasion, but one that in TV terms is also fraught with risky finality, since marrying off The Office’s resident Ross and Rachel could damage the couple’s plot-generating will-they-won’t-they energy. “It’s about keeping this relationship as real as we can instead of making it a television romance,” explains Krasinski. “When you have two characters who are so perfect for each other, it’s a little weird for them to not get married. So you have to put that step in, whether it’s been done on television successfully before or not.” Adds exec producer Greg Daniels: “We didn’t want to do the soap opera-y thing and cheapen it. Besides, our ratings keep going up, so I don’t think anyone minds them being together.”

The duo’s first smooch in the season 2 finale set the budding lovebirds on a complicated and unconventional course of courtship, featuring love triangles, long-distance agony, and job stress. “I don’t think it’s the typical romance you see on TV,” says Steve Carell, who plays Jim and Pam’s extremely unself-aware boss Michael Scott. “It’s complicated and it comes out of a difficult place. That’s the way relationships are in real life.” Last season brought Jim’s surprise rest-stop proposal and the shocking revelation that Pam was pregnant in May’s finale. “That was thrilling,” Krasinski says. “To have these characters who are squeaky-clean facing this very real thing is exciting.”

Of course, the whole Dunder Mifflin gang tags along to the wedding, and that’s when the fun starts—including a rehearsal-dinner gaffe from Jim that will wreak some pre-ceremony havoc. “When I got married, people told us, You have no idea where it’s going to come from, the thing that will go horribly wrong,” says exec producer Paul Lieberstein (a.k.a. HR sad-sack Toby). “That’s exactly what happens: Jim ruins his own wedding.” Still, Jim and Pam’s big day left Carell all choked up. “I feel very emotional,” he says. “I’ve been with these people longer than anyone I went to high school with. These are the people who have shared the biggest ups and downs. There’s a lot of nostalgia and sentiment wrapped up in this.”

Meanwhile, Pam is only four months along, which means Fischer is facing a series of progressively larger prosthetic bellies. “When I sit down, it presses in on my bladder, so I actually feel like I have to pee all the time,” she says. “And it makes my lower back hurt because I sway form wearing it. All that’s missing from a real pregnancy is my ankles swelling.” Still, once Pam has the baby (the birth will fall conveniently sometime around February sweeps), “I don’t think the show will become The Office Baby,” says Carell. Lieberstein promises that “we’re certainly not going to ignore the kid. But one of the things that’s great about being an office comedy is kids don’t really come to work with you.”

Pam and Jim are getting their own wedding website at HalpertBeesly.com. The characters on “The Office” who will get married this season, put up their photos, welcome guest to drop in some comments and would soon reveal details about their wedding through the website.

“I would hope that if you’re looking at our wedding blog, you already know us,” the couple wrote in ‘About Us’ section. “So an explanation of who we are and what we do seems kind of pointless, but in case you accidentally stumbled on this site: He’s a paper salesman. She’s a paper salesman. Together, we’re easily the seventh most interesting couple in Northeastern Pennsylvania paper sales.”

Few characters from the show have also chipped in the ‘Guest Book‘. Michael Scott, who is their boss at Dunder Mifflin, said “Pam, you are like a daughter to me, and Jim is like a son. I’m so proud that my son and daughter are to be wed! Tis a thing of beauty! Glory be!!!” Not only people from the office, but members of their family have also written. “Wow, my big sis is getting married and I totally promise to cry at your wedding!” said Penny Beesly.

“The Office” has premiered its sixth season last week but the wedding scene will not occur until the fourth episode which is airing on October 8. Pam and Jim will get married in Niagara Falls on the account that none of the people from the office will be able to attend.

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“The Promotion“

10/01/2009 (09:00PM - 09:30PM) (Thursday) : THE RECESSION HITS DUNDER MIFFLIN — David Wallace (Andy Buckley) breaks the bad news that not everyone will get a raise this year. Dwight (Rainn Wilson) reaches his breaking point with Jim (John Krasinski) and looks to the rest of the office for allies. Pam (Jenna Fischer) would like cash instead of wedding gifts. Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Paul Lieberstein, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Oscar Nunez, Creed Bratton, Ellie Kemper also star.

Noticed anything different with Michael Scott (Steve Carell) on The Office? For one, he lost 25 lbs.

En route to the NBC comedy’s September 17 return for its sixth season, Carell revealed that he indeed lost a lot of weight back in 2005, right after he debuted on the Office’s six-episode first season.

“That sort of partially formed the look right there. I think that first year, the look was really scary. I don’t know if there was a memo from the hierarchy at NBC that he needed to be at least reasonably watchable. There wasn’t any big, conscious decision, though. The hair changed a little bit, and it got a little fluffy.”

And that is how we got to today’s Michael Scott: lean and just the right weight. But will he ever ran out of tricks now that The Office is on its sixth season?

“I just model it after my own shallow self,” Carell jokes, adding that he owes it to the writers to make his character “evolve” and give him a little more self-perspective.

“It’s been fun, over the course of doing five seasons, to figure out what makes this guy tick, and how he might change and grow.”

He also revealed that there was some pretty massive change in his character from the pilot season, from an antagonist to a “sympathetic” character.

Which, on all accounts, is easy to see. Over the five seasons, despite his wacky and sometimes off-putting antics, it has somehow become easier to relate to Michael Scott’s character, from his being temporarily sacked to his hapless love life.

Anna Camp will travel from Bon Temps to Scranton for a wedding. The actress who plays anti-vampire Sarah Newlin on “True Blood” has been billed to fill in a guest spot at “The Office” as Pam’s sister named Penny.

A rep from the show has told E! Online that Camp’s Penny will be at the wedding of Pam and Jim which is held at Niagara Falls. No word yet whether Penny will discover Pam’s secret of carrying Jim’s baby. The episode is scheduled to be held in the fourth episode airing October 8.

To go along with the family affair storyline, an actress has been hired to be Pam’s mom earlier this month. Linda Purl, who was relatively unknown, nabbed the role because an average actress would suit the show’s chemistry.

Premiering September 17, the new season will pick up a few months after the fifth season finale when Pam and Jim discovered that they are going to be parents. In the episode called “Gossip”, words are flying that at least one employee is pregnant, one is cheating on his or her partner, and one is questioning his or her sexuality.

TV.com chatted with The Office’s Oscar Nunez about his character, working with Steve Carell, and what fans can expect from Season Six.

Season Six of The Office is fast approaching, and while fans are getting excited about Jim and Pam’s pregnancy and upcoming nuptials, we here at TV.com wanted to catch up with some other Office notables. So we sat down with Oscar Nunez, who plays Oscar Martinez on the show, to chat about the upcoming season. A couple story lines are revealed, but there are NO SPOILERS in here! (Even the stars don’t know what’s scripted for the future.) To find out more about the making of the show, read on.

TV.com: Other than Jim and Pam’s engagement and baby news, how does Season Six start?

Oscar: Andy has a lot of funny stuff coming up, and, of course, Dwight, as usual. They kind of team up in a couple of episodes together as buddies, and it’s actually quite funny. I think we’re shooting that one right now.

Michael has a relationship that he gets into that is absolutely sick and hilarious. And it’s not long-lived. It’s a short-lived fling, but it is absolutely hysterical and we just finished shooting that one.

Michael is trying to do something good, and it comes out horrible, and then he backtracks and tries to fix it by making the hole even deeper and worse. There’s gossip flying around the office about everyone, little things about everyone.

TV.com: According to a preview video released last week, there will be an episode about office gossip this fall. Why hasn’t office gossip come up on the show before?

Oscar: Bear in mind it’s a 20 minute show. What comes out on TV always surprises me because it’s only 20 minutes. So it’s never the way I picture it.

TV.com: What was it like last year when Michael Scott was replaced as the boss?

Oscar: Oh dear God, he was still there. He was still there, even when he’s kicked out, he’s still there. He won’t leave. He can’t leave that place. There’s an umbilical cord. And poor Idris Elba’s character tried to not lose his cool, but Michael was always there. And then had like a stupid office down on the first floor or whatever. He never goes away really.

TV.com: What role does the accounting corner play on the show?

Oscar: It’s like we’re on a really really good basketball team, like the Lakers. We win championships and we get rings, but we’re on the bench, and if they need us we come in and we do our thing, and we try to get some rebounds and score some — that was a bad analogy — and score some points. But we’re on the bench and we’re happy to be there. But we’re not the starters.

TV.com: What was it like auditioning for The Office?

Oscar: Well, I just hoped we wouldn’t mess it up, because I was a big fan of the British one, which was genius — I watched all the episodes. And then I heard they’re making an American version, and I auditioned for it, and luckily I got picked, and then I thought, well okay, it’s a pilot. We’ll shoot the pilot, and that’ll be it. It won’t get picked up. I’ll make a little money, and go back to whatever it is I was doing.

And then I found out Steve Carell was cast as the lead, and then I kind of thought, you know what, we have a shot at this because that’s perfect casting. Other than Ricky Gervais, I think only Steve could do that part.

TV.com: What’s it like working with Steve Carell? What, if anything, have you learned from him?

Oscar: It’s nice to see him, like, learn huge amounts of monologue in five minutes, and that’s inspiring and it lets you think you could do it. And then you find yourself doing it. Everyone’s nervous when you first get there and then you get used to it, and you’re like “Wow. This is kind of really cool.”

He’s funny. Everyone has their own funny thing. Everyone [on the cast] pretty much has chops, but what I’ve learned from Steve is not how to be an actor, but how to be a person. He’s very very responsible. Loves to be with his family. Works his butt off. And is pretty damn normal, and that’s a cool thing.

TV.com: How are you different from your character on The Office?

Oscar: I’m not that anal. Not at all.

TV.com: Who (or what) inspires you as an actor?

Oscar: I always liked Tony Randall on The Odd Couple.

TV.com: How have the characters developed over the past seasons?

Oscar: You know who we are, but in the end it’s a workplace, and so we come into work and just kind of do our jobs. I always think: I’m at work, and I’m being filmed by a film crew that I don’t want to be here. And I don’t want to be filmed. I just want to do my accounting work.