Jim and Pam Get married, Office Style

Well the moment many have been waiting for, for about five years now, has finally come.   The Jim and Pam wedding celebration came in the form of an hour long episode of The Office.   The strange thing was it all felt very low key to me.   They didn’t go as outrageous as I almost felt they should’ve with such a monumental event.   Of course you had Michael screwing things up left in right with his speeches and his usual failure to impress the opposite sex.   I’m not exactly sure why any woman would sleep with Dwight, the man looks like the spitting image of a child predator, but I guess it’s a true testament to how low a woman’s standards will go when they see another woman getting married off.

Probably my favorite bit was when Andy tried to impress the new secretary with his dance moves and tore a very unfortunate part of himself requiring Pam to take him to the hospital the night before her wedding.  I will say though that they don’t really use any of Pam and Jim’s parents to any real funny use and maybe that’s what they were going for since they didn’t get any real big stars for the parts.   Pam’s dad ended up bringing a far much younger than him date and they really only briefly touched on that when they could’ve milked that for some decent awkward comedy.   I did like the brief exchange Michael had with Pam’s mom right before the ceremony about old women carrying food in their purse.   All in all a good wedding episode that didn’t do anything too over the top and now we just have to wait for Pam to pluck out that baby which I’m sure will be done in the shows usual painfully awkward fashion.

Now for the big surprise of the night, I actually found myself enjoying the night’s episode of Community.   Mostly because it did what I’ve been saying they needed to do all along and that’s incorporate every character into the episode and give them all pretty much the same screen time.   My whole problem with the show so far has been they’ve left it up to McHale to take the whole brunt of the episodes but with everybody doing their equal share, the show flows a lot better.   Though I will say there are those few characters I find annoying and useless still.   Such as Troy who was still not overly used well here and the Arab kid who I still find the slightest bit annoying.   Also they need to axe off Ken Jeong’s Asian Spanish teacher character because all he does is expect to get laughs from yelling.   I did find myself though like McHale’s interactions with Shirley as they found the only thing they really have in common is talking dirt about everyone else.   Also I think the episode was saved by the return of John Oliver from The Daily Show who I really liked from the first episode who returns here with a pretty decent bit about scientific research and testing.

And let’s not forget about Parks and Recreation people.   I’ve seen the numbers for this show and they are down significantly.   I have actually grown a pretty big fondness for this show, which is probably not good because when I do that the show usually ends up getting axed, I miss you Reaper!   But even this episode was great as the people of the Parks Department all tried to find dirt on each other and we learn some dark secrets about Ron the boss and the lothario Tom whose marriage is not all what it seems.   Also we get probably the best date preparation I’ve ever seen as Leslie is so nervous about her date that she goes on a practice run with Anne and it becomes such a befuddled mess.   So lets keep all the good comedy coming and I hope everybody is psyched for the return of 30 Rock next week!