The season followed the lives of the office in its post-Michael Scott era. Novak previously renewed his contract with Universal Media Studios through the eighth season.
The series was renewed for an eighth season on March 17, 2011. Why? Because I’m awesome, it’s awesome, and who doesn’t want more awesome in their lives? YOU’RE WELCOME AMERICA.The eighth season of The Office premiered on Septemon NBC, It concluded on and consisted of 24 episodes.
Remote-controlled roof helicopter flying! Suicide-cult knowledge! Seeing people that weren’t there! Yahoo!Īnd on a scale of one to ten Creeds, this episode gets:ĬREED DRESSED AS THE JOKER FROM THE DARK KNIGHT. This was a very good episode, Creed-wise. California,” on the Creed Scale, gets:ĬREED DRESSED AS A MUMMY. Overall, if you ignored the fact that it was Robert California-heavy (and it WAS, it totally WAS, ugh, ANNOYING), it wasn’t a bad episode, all-told. And there was a decent amount of Creed, comparatively! And since Pam’s on maternity leave, we don’t have to deal with that whole “I’m in FAKE LABOR!” nonsense, and that was nice. And the whole Dwight Schrute’s Gym for Muscles was awesome and hysterical. But I really, really have a lady-crush on Maura Tierney. The whole “Andy! Is incapable! Of making! An adult decision!” thing? Totally annoying. This wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
Erin planning on how to scare Susan away by giving her the bad stapler.Robert trying to make a fake call to Andy by pretending he was his grandmother and Andy incapable of even that tiny amount of deception.Andy trying to scare Susan off by getting Dwight talking about his “ranking of animals”.Dwight saying that being a mom was the easiest job in the world.Dwight telling Darryl he would make him buff for Val Kilmer (with only a moment’s hesitation).“Dwight Schrute’s Gym for Muscles” and the gym equipment therein (Darryl calling it a scene out of Saw V was awesome.Times I laughed out loud in this episode: 8
If someone reading this wants to pass along that I’m obviously the best in the whole world at writing recaps and should be paid major coinage for doing so, that’d be great. Seriously, the woman just battled cancer and won and she STILL glows like a star on high. Like it would EVER be an accident anyone would accept a date with Maura Tierney. California asks Andy out, and he accidentally accepts. Also, Dwight starts a gym with the funniest equipment ever (DEDICATED PHONE BOOK RIPPING STATION!) and Jim, to escape the insanity, climbs to the roof, where he finds Creed, randomly flying a tiny remote-control helicopter. Then he brings her in and tells Andy, in front of her, “Here’s my wife! Hire her!” So Andy, completely torn between insane lunatic Daddy and super-smoking-hot and also very, very nice Mommy, hires her, then Robert tells him he has to find a way to fire her, so there are confrontations and treating her poorly and it’s all very, very embarrassing and slapsticky and I wanted to punch people in the faces multiple times. So he tells Andy UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES HIRE MY WIFE. In brief: Robert California has promised his wife (played by the utterly scrumtilescent Maura Tierney) a job at the office. I don’t go out with just ANYONE, you know. Probably we should have drinks or something to celebrate. Are we really on our third Office recap? That is FANCY.