The Office - May 3, 2006 (Conflict Resolution)

This was a great episode as we got to see the inner thoughts of the
characters. Why didn't the HR guy do something about the complaints

Jim Heckman...

It was one of the best half hours I can recall on television ever.

fruitbat...

Hilarious, but what a downer! The list of pranks was amazing (the
weighted phone gag especially cracked me up). Though they did seem kind

Jim Heckman...

The look on Michael's face when Dwight's complaint about Jim
started with "I hit myself in the head with my phone..." :-)

of cruel when strung together like that...

Jim Heckman...

Bah. Dwight's righteous indignation thrives on abuse.

Slayah...

Dwight's meltdown was a riot. I thought the list of practical jokes Jim
has played on him was also a riot.

that had been filed?

karl...

It isn't a real office. It's a sitcom.

Default User...

I liked the bit at the end, with Toby filing the box of complaints in
the room full of identical boxes, kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

karl...

They really cast the HR guy well. He looks so much like an HR weenie.

seapig...

They didn't put a lot of effort into it; he's played by one of the
show's writers.

bob smith...

Really? The 'Temp' guy is also one of the writers....

seapig...

Yes, and so is Mindy Kaling, who plays Kelly.

Jim Heckman...

As he told Michael in the beginning, most conflicts blow over and
resolve themselves. People use him to vent.

Who played the photographer?

Who is the tall guy in the gray suit who is in most episodes? It was
kind of scary for Pam, what he had written, how he wanted to sit near
her.

seapig...

The character's name is "Creed" - named after the guy who plays him,
not the band.

Jim Heckman...

That's Creed.

Next week's will start at 9:20 instead of 9:30.

Jim Heckman...

Yeah, "super-sized".

I don't suppose anyone can tell me exactly where Kelly sits in the
back room, relative to the break room and Toby's desk? I've pretty
much sussed out the floor plan except for that.

fruitbat...

Which was the episode where Jim (IIRC) spent a lot of time with Kelly?
I seem to remember her being shown at her desk a lot in that one... By

Jim Heckman...

Yeah, see my reply to Rob Jensen.

the way, you wouldn't happen to have this floor plan online, would you?

Jim Heckman...

Sorry, it's all in my head. I forget exactly when I started trying
to pin it down, and it's been slow building up. It was only
recently that I became completely sure of where the break room is,
when the camera followed someone all the way there from the hall.

AFAICT we have yet to see what's beyond the EXIT door between
Meredith and Accounting...

Rob Jensen...

IIRC, if you're looking straight at Toby's desk/cubicle, Kelly's
cubicle is on the right. It's a corner cubicle (I think.)

Jim Heckman...

OK, now that you mention it, I do STR from the episode where Jim
spent some time sharing Kelly's cubicle that it was indeed in a
corner, with Kelly facing one wall and the other wall to her left.
Hmm..., but that would still leave open the possibility that she's
either directly to Toby's right, or behind him and to his right.
Which do you mean?

Rob Jensen...

Let me put it this way -- Kelly's cubicle is in the corner and Toby's
is directly to the left of it. You enter Kelly's cubicle by coming at
it from the left, which means you pass by Toby's cubicle to go
straight into it.

Hopefully, one of the DVD sets will eventually have one of those
360-degree tours of the entire office.

seapig...

...or at least a floor plan; the season 2 set of the British original
came with one. It showed where everybody sat, even though the
supporting cast played less prominent roles on that version.

-- Rob

I wonder if we'll ever meet the brown-haired woman who sits at the
desk in the center of the back room.

Slayah...

How come?

Default User...

Supersizing! They're running three shows in two hours, so all three get
an extra 10 minutes tacked on.

Stan Brown...

Ten extra minutes of commercials in each of Will & Grace, My Name is
Earl, and The Office, thus putting them in 40-minute time blocks.

Slayah...

Oh, man!

NBC calls this "supersizing", but I've noticed in the past that when
I fast-forward through commercials a "supersized" episode takes only
marginally longer to watch than a regular episode.

Slayah...

They treat us like the dumbasses we are. For example, I would have
fallen for it if you hadn't pointed it out. Sad!