Watching The Office

With Microsoft’s gaming console partnership with Netflix and NBC Universal, shows like Heroes and The Office will be available for streaming via the Xbox 360 real soon.

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Here’s the very first installment for this year’s webisodes, with Kevin’s Bank Loan. Only this is for US viewers only, too bad.

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I haven’t watched this one yet, but thanks to NBC for putting it up!

Did the gang win it?

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Mindy Kaling is off to Scranton, Dunder Mifflin’s home site, to officiate The Office Games on July 19th.

The Office Games isn’t a pre-Olympic event (hah! I suddenly have images of Michael struggling at the tracks!), rather, this is a promotional stunt marking the launch of two Office Board Games I’ve posted about the other day.

Details of The Office Game in Scranton below:

• 9:00 a.m. – 2K Fun Run
  Wear your favorite office attire! Prizes for best dressed, best character look-a-likes and fastest.
• 10:30 a.m. – “The Office” Trivia Challenge
  Are you an “Assistant to the Regional Manager” or the “Regional Manager” when it comes to “The Office” trivia? The Challenge will feature questions from “The Office” Trivia Game.
• 12:00 p.m. – Beet Eating Contest
  Straight from Dwight’s farm…well, after being canned.
• 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. – Autograph Session with priorities to the first 125 customers who have bought the board games at Boscov’s (Scranton)

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For release on the 2nd of September, The Office Season 4 DVD is once again packed with Office goodness.

The four disc set will be presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and will carry an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. Disc extras include the following:

• commentary on "Money", "Local Ad", "The Desposition", and "Did I Stutter?" with cast and crew
• deleted scenes
• outtakes,
• Did I Stutter? Read-Through
• The Office Convention Invitation
• The Office Convention: Writer’s Block Panel
• Goodbye, Toby Music Video

Here’s what the menu will look like:

Souce: DVDActive

Well, someone’s bound to do this eventually, isn’t it? Here’s a compiled video of every, “That’s what she said!” moment uttered from The Office, in the last four seasons.

If you’re a fan of the show, you essentially know what the phrase means. But if this is your first time getting acquainted with the show, here’s an explanation to why that phrase is relevant and why it makes this show even funnier.

The video compilation is from a site called Today’s Big Thing.

Fans of The Office living outside the US are always shortchanged when it comes to those Deleted Scenes posted on the NBC website since it isn’t available!

Thanks to this, the clips are now viewable for you. Watch them all here, before they are taken down.

If not, well….you can always see it on the DVD when it is out.

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My week is going to start really rough, I’ve got tons to do. I’d get to them though once I’ve made my round-ups. So, here I go…

The Office, Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, Paul Leiberstein, Melora Hardin

Tonight’s episode is Job Fair, which was written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky.

Episode Synopsis: Jim hits the links with Andy and Kevin to try and land his biggest client ever. Meanwhile, Michael sets up a booth at a local job fair, which happens to be at Pam’s alma mater, to find “the best and the brightest�? for Dunder Mifflin’s summer internship.

Are you starting to feel a bit blue the show is only down to its final two episodes, when they just got back from the strike? I’m gonna miss this Office family over the summer. But I’m pretty sure NBC will be running reruns, which sometimes carry scenes previously not shown in the original telecast.

Anyway, the promo clips of Job Fair below:

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You’ve got until May 8th to place your bid on Andy’s Xterra which is currently up for bid (for real!) on E-bay. It’s not Andy’s car per se. The real owner is a hairstylist who is working on the set. But it is the exact car used in the show, and more importantly, an important aspect of last week’s episode, Did I Stutter? where Dwight actually puts the car up for auction on E-bay.

As of this writing, there is a totat of 16 bids with the current amount at $15,300. The auction picked up over the weekend but I imagine that it will still rise as fans get wind up of this.

If you win this, you’re not only getting a car but a TV memorabilia. The winner will also receive a signed script (whole cast) of Did I Stutter? as well as other props from the show. If you live in Van Nuys area (California) then you would have a lesser problem transporting this SUV to your house, the original owner is from the area.

Anyway, while we’re on the subject of Andy, the actor playing him, Ed Helms, was guest on Leno last Thursday, May 1st. He talks about his stint on The Daily Show, which he was part of for five years, and claims to know everything about politics. He has met some of the candidates in person, from the last election in 2004.

He also talked about cutting his penis open as an eight year old and as a result of a freak accident while playing in a friend’s tree house. Yeeoouch!

Here is the video of the interview:

The Office, Xterra on Ebay, Ed Helms

It’s Toby in Costa Rica! He’s been so embarrassed by this incident…

…so he bolts out of Scranton and does his own show in Costa Rica. Bwaha!

Of course I’m kidding. But I could be right about it, too… since NBC is putting up a live blog for Toby on the show’s season finale on May 15. The title of the entry? “Goodbye, Toby”.

Goodbye, Toby - Live Blog with Paul Lieberstein
It’s the season finale, so we’re going to wrap things up with a live blog with Paul Lieberstein aka Toby! Be sure to join us on Thursday, May 15 at 10pm EST/7pm PST.

Is Paul Leiberstein going to be working on the spin-off?

But back to Toby in Costa Rica — wouldn’t it make a good concept though? And even better if he’s new character shifts from the weakling human resources guy he once was. Would you watch a show with Toby in the lead?

Anyway, how did The Office do last week, against Grey’s Anatomy (which returned from their strike-imposed hiatus)? Here was last Thursday’s standing:

1. “CSI�? (CBS) 16.74m
2. “Grey’s Anatomy�? (ABC) 16.02m
3. “Without a Trace�? (CBS) 13.50m
4. “Survivor: Micronesia�? (CBS) 12.98m
5. “Lost�? (ABC) 12.33m
6. “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?�? (8-10) (FOX) 8.64m
7. “Ugly Betty�? (ABC) 8.52m
8. “The Office�? (NBC) 7.56m
9. “ER�? (NBC) 7.35m
10. “My Name is Earl�? (NBC) 6.06m
11. “30 Rock�? (NBC) 5.54m
12. “Scrubs�? (NBC) 5.30m
13. “Smallville�? (CW) 3.56m
14. “Supernatural�? (CW) 2.27m

If you’ve been following the ratings from the beginning, it seems like every show that night went down, especially top-rated ones like CSI and Grey’s Anatomy. The Office drops, too. But I was expecting that one and based on the results I still think it remains solid compared to 30 Rock.

Still from last week’s episode, Night Out, OfficeTally held a chat session with Mindy Kaling, the writer (who plays Kelly). She gamely answered viewer questions (such a funny woman!)and provided behind the scenes tidbits.

Remote Access has an interview with Carrie Fliegel, the actress playing the woman Dwight Schrute made-out with in last week’s episode. She relates not knowing about the kissing scene when she got to the set, ready to shoot for two days. But she also say this was the “most significant thing I have ever done.” Carrie is a Harvard graduate who has appeared in reality shows before this.

Lastly, Night Out deleted scenes are up. Check it out!

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Oh, are the boys gonna get lucky tonight?

Michael Scott needs to get in to the action so badly, he actually hugged Ryan? “Best night ever!” Michael says… Now, that should be something to look forward to.

Episode Synopsis: Michael (Steve Carell) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) decide to surprise Ryan (B.J. Novak) in New York for a night of clubbing and meet his friends. Meanwhile, the Scranton branch is upset when they find out they have to come in on a Saturday for Ryan’s website project. Jim’s plan to save them has unexpected results. Brian Baumgartner, Ed Helms, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Paul Lieberstein, Oscar Nunez, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Leslie David Baker, Kate Flannery, Craig Robinson and Creed Bratton also star.

Here are the promo videos to tonight’s episode:

The Office, The Office Night Out

The Office, The Office deleted scenes

Tonight’s episode of The Office was initially entitled Parking but was now changed to Chair Model. This episode is written b B.J. Novak (who plays Ryan on the show).

Episode Summary: Michael’s fascination with a woman modeling a chair in an office supply catalog makes him feel things he hasn’t felt in a while. With Michael distracted, Kevin and Andy team up to win back Dunder-Mifflin’s stolen parking spaces, forcing them into a showdown with the bosses of the five businesses of the office park.

Here’s the promo video:

This April 17 episode is one to definitely watch for, since according to TV Guide, this will set as a “staging ground” for what is about to happen on the following Thursday. It’s supposedly a “big stuff” between Jim and Pam.

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You took me by the hand
Made me a man
That one night
You made everything alright
That one night
You made everything alright
So wrong, so right, all night alright
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
So wrong, so right, all night alright

Everyone is speculating Hunter is dedicating this song to Jan, his former boss at Dunder Mifflin. And the song is reportedly written by Todd Fancy of the New Pornographers.

If you’re playing Dunder Mifflin Infinity, you’ve got a new task in relation to this CD because the company is asking you to create a music video. Are you up for the challenge?

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