The Office: "Grief Counseling"
October 13th 2006 18:22
The Office
“Grief Counseling “
“Grief Counseling “
There are some days in a person’s life that they will always remember,
I had one of these days two summers ago. I was sitting in my basement channel surfing when I came by MSNBC, but it wasn’t playing news. Steve Carell was sticking sticky notes to people’s foreheads with different races written on them. MSNBC was running a marathon of the first season of a new show called ‘The Office.’ To use an old cliché, ‘The Office’ truly is the funniest show on television right now. Not only is it funny, it’s CONSISTENTLY HILARIOUS.
Now that you know a little background of how ‘The Office’ and I came to be, lets have a little chat about last night’s episode.
I love the opening scenes to every episode, they set the tone. Michael is stacking up boxes and then does that age old trick of pretending to walk downstairs. Like usual Dwight thinks it’s the funniest thing he’s ever seen and Michael thinks he’s making everyone laugh when inside they’re really cringing for him, knowing for a fact that he has NO idea how much he’s embarrassing himself. Something that makes this show great is the sheer awkwardness of human contact. The awkward pauses, sometimes even make me cringe, but that’s the crux of the show.
Soon Michael finds out that his old boss Ed Truck is dead. If you remember from the second season Michael hated Ed Truck because “he didn’t know how to have fun.” But, now Michael is acting like he cares, why? Well, because he’s worried that if he dies will anyone care about him. The title of the episode is “Grief Counseling.” Which is quite ironic because the entire episode Michael does nothing but spread grief around.
He is determined to make everyone feel bad for what has happened to his fallen comrade who he learns, from Creed (the office weirdo) that Ed Truck was actually stinking drunk and drove his car under a semi dislodging his head from the rest of his body.
The best part of the episode came when Michael gathered everyone together to confront the grief in their lives. He gets a ball to pass around and whoever has the ball, gets to tell a story of a person close to them that has passed on. The ball gets passed to Pam who tells the story of “Million Dollar Baby.” Then passed to Ryan-the-Temp who tells the story of Mufasa in the “Lion King.” Then it ends up with Kevin telling everyone about his Uncle Bernie and how he died during the weekend and they had to pretend he was still alive. That was classic!
The crowning moment of this episode though was Dwight explaining to everyone that when his Mom was pregnant with him they told her she was going to have twins. But, later she went back and the other one was gone.
Dwight: “I absorbed the other fetus. Now I feel that I have the strength of a grown man and a small baby.”
Other great quotes:
Michael: WHAM! His capa is detated from his head!
Michael: I lost Ed Truck. And it feels like somebody took my heart, and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears. And, at the same time, somebody else is hitting my soul in the crotch with a frozen sledgehammer. And then, a third guy walks in and starts punching me in the grief bone. And I’m crying, and nobody can hear me. Because I am terribly, terribly, terribly alone.
Michael: There are five stages to grief, which are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. And right now, out there, they’re all denying the fact that they’re sad. And that’s … hard. And it’s making them all angry. And it is my job to try to get them all the way through to acceptance. And if not acceptance, then just depression. If I can get them depressed, then I’ll have done my job.
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Comment by The Daily Sonnet
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In that office, I don't think that it's possibly to deem anyone the "office weirdo ". There are just so many strange characters, which is part of what makes it great. Creed, to me, is the old guy.
Comment by Sue (Mominator)
Hope school is going well with you and how about the newspaper? Will you continue giving the links?
Comment by Aaron
I guess the humor is dry in as much as it does require thinking on the audience's part to get the jokes.
Thanks for your comment.
Daily Sonnet: I think Creed is one of the funniest ones. He has one or two lines in each show, and their always priceless.
Thanks for stopping by, please keep coming back.
Sue: it's great to see you here. Thanks for taking the time to set up a name and leave a comment, it means a lot. And yes I'll still be giving the links to my articles in the school newspaper.
Please tell everyone you know on MSN about this new site. If you linked it too, that'd help quite a bit.
Thanks for your concern and comment.
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Comment by Aaron
Pam: Do you have your recorder?
Dwight: ALWAYS!
Thanks for stopping by. It's great to have the other TV person stopping by. Where are you from Emily?
Comment by Emily
No problem! Great to see another TV blog reviewing so many shows I love. I'm in Melbourne currently, though I actually come from Bendigo. How about you?
Comment by Aaron
Aaron.
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Comment by Aaron
So, how do you feel about the next episode of Lost that's coming up? With Locke, Desmond, and Eko? My 3 most favorite characters on there. I can't wait!
Aaron.
Comment by Emily
I haven't seen the promo yet, so I didn't really know who it was going to be about. Innnteresting! I actually forgot we still don't know what happened after the hatch exploded - all of this business with The Others was very distracting! Very excited.
Comment by Aaron
So, I'm interested, what other shows do you watch?
Aaron.
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Aaron.
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Comment by Diabetic Sammy
Also, "Toby killed that bird."
Comment by Aaron
I don't know. I think the last episode was one of the funniest yet. There were so many things that went on it was just hilarious. I love Andy though (Ed Helms, The Daily Show) he kills me.
"Well...did you look in your butt?"
Sammy it's great to see you here. Thanks for coming and commenting! I really really appreciate it.
Great name too! I'm glad you've come to grips with your diabetes and you're able to share it with everyone.
Aaron.