Summer Viewing Club: “The Coup”

This is the 2nd installment of my “viewing club” series. Each week, whatever rerun NBC airs, I will suggest 2 or 3 episodes with the same “theme” and post some discussion questions.
This week’s rerun: The Coup
The theme: Dwight’s Power Trips
Jim once marveled at how the tiniest bit of power goes immediately to Dwight’s head, but [...]

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Fanart Wednesday: “I’m sort of an expert at Photoshop”

It’s Fanart Wednesday, already? Yes it is, and here is this week’s fantastic “Pamcasso.”
Livejournal and deviantART user psmonkey has used his Photoshop skills to created some really fun caricatures of our favorite office employees. Here are the Stamford folks.

You can see the full-size here.
He’s also made fun animated drawings of Pam & Michael, as well [...]

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Random Poll: The Money Beets

This is the “Random Poll Question of the Week” series where I post a relatively pointless question and poll just for fun, and to keep us busy until late September.
This weeks topic: The “Money Beets” at Dunder Mifflin
According to Dwight, a “money beet” is an attractive beet that you put on top of other beets [...]

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Jim Halpert, Time Traveler?

Ha, lame post title, I know, not feeling creative right now.
Anyway, I’ll be honest, I generally don’t get very excited when I see John Krasinski in a magazine. I guess it’s because I find his personality to be the most attractive thing about him, and am not terribly satisfied just looking at a picture, even [...]

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Additions to Flonkerton Playlist

Last week I announced the forming of the “Flonkerton Video Playlist” where I’m going to gather my favorite Office vids using VodPod. I’m kind of meticulous about it, I have a spreadsheet and everything, and the plan is to add about 5 videos every weekend. So here are this weeks additions:
The Merger by andemarg (a.k.a. [...]

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Pam Pong Round 8: Sexual Harassment

Previous Round, The Dundies: The early departure of Roy and more than a few margaritas helped Pam release some inhibitions at the Dundies, resulting in her drunkenly kissing Jim. Though she chickened out of asking Jim a question at the end, it was still the best Dundies ever, and resulted in a final score of [...]

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Sexual Harassment: Episode 2.02

“Sexual Harassment”
Season 2 Episode 2
Air Date: September 27, 2005
Summary: Explicit emails, lewd jokes, and Todd Packer run a muck at Dunder-Mifflin, forcing corporate in intervene. Pam (and Jim) eagerly awaits a visit from her mother.

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Summer Viewing Club: “The Convention”

Since we won’t have a new episode of The Office for another, oh, 4 months or so, I thought it would be fun to have a “viewing club.” Basically, based on what episode is repeating on NBC each week, I recommend another 2 or 3 episodes with the same “theme” and post some discussion questions.
This [...]

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Fanart Wednesday: “These could be tracings!”

So far I’ve featured only illustrations, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think people can’t make awesome fan art out of pictures from the show. Jamie Harris at resonatedesign.com took some screens from the show and create these beautiful wallpapers from them.

 

See all of them and download the full size here: Office Wallpaper
Have you [...]

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Random Poll: Jim’s Hair

This is the first installment of the “Random Poll Question of the Week” feature. Each week I’ll post a relatively pointless question and poll, just for fun, and to keep us busy until late September.
This Weeks topic: The evolution of Jim’s hair.
Floppy hair is the keystone of Jim Halpert’s “look,” but some may go so [...]

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