The Office – Recap & Review – WUPHF.com

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The Office
WUPHF.com

Original Air Date: Nov 18, 2010

Shannon – Associate Editor
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Cold open: Michael accidentally trips the breaker and that knocks the server out and no one knows the password to bring it back up. Kevin suggests trying “big boobs”, Dwight helpfully suggests spelling it with a z. And that’s the password. “Big Boobz”. Yeah.

Ryan has set up a business that will notify you on every format (email, fax, text, landline, etc.) when you have a new WUPHF message. Also, WUPHF is pronounced “wuff”. Just so you know.

Anyway, Ryan has a buyer for the company but he doesn’t want to sell until the offer is in the billions. He’s opening another round of investments. The previous investors (Pam, Andy, Stanley, Erin, Darryl, and Michael) want their money back because the company is going to tank in 9 days. Apparently Washington University Public Health Fund is the buyer and obviously they only want the domain name. The investors want to sell. Michael is backing Ryan all the way and Pam sits Michael down and tells him that his blind devotion to Ryan isn’t reciprocal and Ryan’s taking advantage of Michael. The investors ambush Ryan and force him to tell Michael to sell but Michael won’t do it because he says he believes in Ryan. Ryan decides to sell the company anyway.

So apparently, everyone in the office has their own side business. Dwight is running “Hay World” out in the parking lot. It’s a bunch of hay bales. In the parking lot. He’s charging everyone out the nose for playing in hay and stands Angela up for a little, uh, “roll in the hay”. She’s obviously irritated with Dwight, but a guy (Jack Coleman) and his son sit down next to her and appreciate her puns like “Pay Place”. Angela and Jack hit it off and Angela tacks the voided reproduction contract with Dwight up on the door of their hidey hole.

Jim has a hot sales lead but he has hit his commission cap for the year so his commission for the rest of the year will be zero. It’s new company policy and Jim says it gives him no incentive to work. Jim takes it to Gabe who likens the policy to a naked old man at his gym.

Jim is not working and wasting time all around the office. Gabe chastises him and Jim gets a copy of Jo Bennet’s audio book and starts taking sound bites. The episode ends with Jim playing his sound bites pver the phone, ordering Gabe (he thinks it’s actually Jo on the phone) to listen to Jo’s entire audiobook.

There were a few funny lines in this episode, a slight few. It was kind of nice to see Jim pranking again. I will also never turn down a cameo from Jack Coleman. He’s awesome. So, not a total loss of an episode. What did you like about it? Do you want to live in a rocket lighthouse like Stanley too? Leave me a comment!