‘The Office’ Wedding: What Did You Think?
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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.
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