Let's Get Ethical!

[lily_handmaiden]

By... someone

This was another great episode. My main disappointment was that I won't be able to use any of it the next time I have to teach my class about business ethics. Could no one have plagiarized something?

As it was, because I am lame, what I kept thinking was, "Didn't they just get the deal with Hammermill two years ago?" Or was that some other company, in "The Convention?" Continuity issues really bug me.

The episode moved so well and Amy Ryan made up so much of the adorableness/likability quotient that I actually hardly missed Pam at all. Holly Flax is just a wonderful character. She has all of Michael's goofiness and some of the naivete which is the redeeming factor or his character, but she is so much more self-aware and... what's the word I'm looking for?... moral. She really cares about her job the way Michael really cares about his, too. I wonder if that is what will end up coming between them. It was ten kinds of sweet when Holly called Michael her best friend in the office and was so sad he wouldn't talk to her, but it's so hard to really enjoy the Michael/Holly ship knowing that Amy Ryan is only around for four more episodes. Why must you be so Oscar-nominated, Amy Ryan?

The office's lackluster response to the Jim/Pam engagement was amusing, but surprising nonetheless. I mean, when the relationship went public in "Dunder Mifflin Infinity," they were all about it. I guess public support really went down when Jim and Pam got everyone locked inside the building this year. Except for Michael. You can (almost) always count on Michael. That was a beautiful flying tackle, and I think I would have liked to do the same thing. It's so great when Michael shows how much he cares (and that, in this episode, includes the lengths he went to to save Meredith's job). It was especially good followed up by Pam's chagrined, "...I'm sorry." Yeah, Pam. You really should have known. You haven't been away that long.

The Jim prank on Dwight this episode was classic stuff, especially the Battlestar Galactica bit. Ah, that instant classic about Dumbledore Calrissian returning the Ring to Mordor. I especially like pranks that show off how dorky both Dwight and Jim actually are. Though, come on, Halpert, pranks do not a wedding pay for. I thought for sure this was going to lead up to Jim finding out about Dwight and Angela, but no. Just 19 unaccounted-for minutes of stolen time and a smirk at the camera. I love how cocky (TWSS) Dwight is being about this. It's like, after, last season, he's kind of earned his position back on top (T is also WSS).