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The Office: season 6, episode 15
"Sabre"
February 4, 2010 - 09:02p.m.
For years, fans of The Office have pondered timeless questions like, “Why isn’t Michael Scott fired?” and “How has a tiny, customer service-driven company like Dunder-Mifflin stayed in business in our harsh, cruel, vicious, horrible, unfair, brutal economy?" We ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 14
"The Banker"
January 21, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
Oh, hi there, mockumentary lovers. Nathan Rabin is out campaigning for Team Carson Daly, leaving me to take on the first episode back since the holiday break (TRANSLATION FOR GLENN BECK SUPPORTERS: Christmas break). So hey. Sup?
I guess Nathan ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 13
"Secret Santa"
December 10, 2009 - 10:12p.m.
Tonight’s Mindy Kaling-penned episode of The Office pitted Kris Kringle against Kris Kringle in the Great Santa Claus Wars of ’09. Ah, but that wasn’t the end of it; a battle royale between conflicting Santas (thankfully, this is ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 12
"Scott's Tots"
December 3, 2009 - 09:12p.m.
One of the things that makes Michael Scott so likeable despite his never-ending parade of faux pas, buffoonery and bad ideas is that he often does the wrong things for the right reasons. Sort of. In tonight’s kick-ass episode ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 11
"Shareholder Meeting"
November 19, 2009 - 09:11p.m.
Hello, Officeianados! Nathan Rabin, well-selling author and man about town, is off leading the lifestyle of a jet-setting ne'er-do-well, so it again falls to me to recap this week's escapades at the possibly insolvent Dunder-Mifflin. This episode ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 10
"Murder"
November 12, 2009 - 09:11p.m.
Every once in a while the cold light of economic reality permeates the hermetic, insular world of Dunder-Mifflin and we wonder anew how exactly a medium-sized paper company that specializes in customer service and hands-on relationships with clients survives in ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 9
"Double Date"
November 5, 2009 - 09:11p.m.
First up, embarrassing confession time. I was once dumped on my birthday. Well, it wasn’t exactly on my birthday; it was about ten minutes before my twenty-first birthday. I could see it coming; it really wasn’t a matter ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 8
"Koi Pond"
October 30, 2009 - 01:10a.m.
"Koi Pond" was not a member of the all-time greatest episodes team for The Office (the plotting was a little too scattered), but it was another damn fine episode in what’s shaping up to be a damn fine season ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 7
"The Lover"
October 22, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
Many years ago, back when I worked at a thrift store, a singularly unpleasant co-worker I’d had a bitter falling-out with ambled up to me and awkwardly asked for the phone number of one of my sisters. I will ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 6
"Mafia"
October 15, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
Hello again, Office peeps! No, Nathan isn't socializing again. He's not that popular, or, if he is, I've asked him not to talk about it because if cry too much I look like Johnny LaRue. He's ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 4
"Niagara"
October 8, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
Hello, Office fans! Nathan Rabin is out enjoying the company of real-world human beings tonight, which leaves me to cover the biggest event in the history of our imaginary friends at Dunder-Mifflin: the wedding of the newly responsible Jim Halpert ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 2
"The Promotion"
October 1, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
Tonight’s episode represented both a return to The Office’s roots and a bold look at what the future holds for the Dunder-Mifflin gang. We witnessed the dawning of the Michael Scott/Jim Halpern era and are on the ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 2
"The Meeting"
September 24, 2009 - 09:09p.m.
The Office has a cast so deep and rich that it can keep things lively and fresh by simply pairing off unexpected members of its cast. Tonight’s episode, for example, featured what I believe is the first-ever pairing of ...
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The Office: season 6, episode 1
"Gossip"
September 17, 2009 - 08:09p.m.
The fifth season of The Office presented a master class in how a venerable sitcom can remain lively and relevant without resorting to wedding after wedding after wedding (though I have it on good authority that Meredith will marry the ...
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The Office: season 5, episode 26
"Company Picnic"
May 14, 2009 - 09:05p.m.
As I’ve mentioned earlier, whenever David Wallace appears on an episode of The Office it is an omen that, in the parlance of the Real World, people are about to stop being polite and get real. Wallace is a ...
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The Office: season 5, episode 25
"Cafe Disco"
May 7, 2009 - 09:05p.m.
I am a sucker for funny dancing. I’m a goddamned fool for it. So it was perhaps inevitable that tonight’s no singing, all dancing episode of The Office would make me borderline euphoric. Tonight The Office finally, definitively ...
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The Office: season 5, episode 24
"Casual Friday"
April 30, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
First off, I would like to apologize for the late nature of this post. I had the second part of a root canal performed today; I guess the part that involves the actual root canal. I have so much Novocaine ...
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The Office: season 5, episode 23
"Broke"
April 23, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
It was a testament to the artistry of tonight’s episode of The Office that it managed to generate a lot of drama and suspense out of what most viewers understood to be a foregone conclusion: that the episode, and ...
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The Office: season 5, episode 22
"Heavy Competition"
April 16, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
Since Idris Elba began his reign of terror as the vaguely android-like new Fuhrer of Dunder-Mifflin the stakes have raised considerably. It somehow doesn’t seem enough to generate the weekly quota of laughs, especially after the wrenching emotional roller ... -
The Office: season 5, episode 20 & 21
"The Dream Team" / "The Michael Scott Paper Company"
April 9, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
Hello. This is Keith Phipps subbing in for Nathan who’s off starting the Nathan Rabin Pop Culture Website. (Or attending Passover Seder, I forget.) Tonight we get two, count ‘em, episodes of The Office split up by the debut ...
