I personally cannot wait until Ryan gets taken down a notch and sent back to Scranton. The power tripping makes him even more of a d-bag than he was before. He was much better as the "What the hell am I doing here when I have my whole life ahead of me" d-bag.
I like the fact that they are involving the office more than in "Dinner Party". I like the irony of how "Night Out" means THAT for Michael and Dwight, but the complete opposite for the rest of the characters locked in the premises. I also wish they'd reduce the amount of SEX, DRUGS, and OBSCENITIES in the show (see: Hank's and the episode's last line). I want to be able to show these episodes to my girls... I guess I'll wait. "[to the cleaning crew] Nosotros trabajamos aquí. Nos atrancamos. [to Jim] They happened to speak Spanish." Oscar's Spanish accent is NOT MEXICAN, and I guess he may have hung out with either Caribeños or Centroamericanos... I wished they would correct that or explain it later.
OMG. And I heard somewhere that the actor is NOT REALLY GAY. Dude, I hope the producers get him porking some twink in the ass soon or I just won't be able to take this show seriously anymore. WTF.
I was expecting probably moes or royals to answer like that, but... eh, I guess I asked for it. For the gay tirade you threw: They've shown him with his "companion" a few times. Oscar is CUBAN in real life, and speaks in a CUBAN accent in the show, even though he's MEXICAN? I don't have any beef with that and won't make me stop watching the show... but it just DOESN'T go with the character. I guess you don't know that there are different ACCENTS in different Spanish-speaking countries? You know dang well they could have changed that.
I also know that you are probably the only person I would ever meet or read online that would really give a ****. Sorry, it's just such a silly thing to wish a TV show would explain, it struck me as something you posted just to point out to everyone on the BBS that you can tell the difference between a Mexican accent and a Cuban one.
When Toby put his hand on Pam's leg and started caressing it and both Pam and Jim had that wtf?! look on their face, and Toby said he was moving to Costa Rica, ran out of the office and hopped the barbed wire fence...THAT was vintage Office. When Ryan told Jim to watch his back, but then backpedaled and said he was kidding, and Jim had that look of fear..another great moment. When he got there at the end to let the gang out of the building but they were gone....when Dwight poured the drink out, Michael calling his mom on his cell...Ryan acting like the s*** when came back to Scranton to discuss the site...all excellent moments. I probably haven't laughed much this season, but then The Office, to me, was never a show that had laugh out loud moments...it is possible for something to be quite funny and engaging, but doesn't necessarily make you laugh.
"what connotations are those, Michael?" What's your line of work, Raven...? Or, better yet, where EXACTLY do you live? Would you mind answering both questions?
Last night had some good moments...However, the week prior was classic Office and it reminded me why I love this show...
Television shows routinely cast actors who aren't exactly like the people they are portraying. The Oscar character is from Mexico, they hired a Cuban actor to portray the character. Normally, this wouldn't make any difference at all, but in this one episode four years into the run of the show, they decided to make a Spanish-speaking joke and instead of sending Oscar Nunez off to speech lessons until he could fake a proper Mexican accent, they decided that the suspension of disbelief would hold for all but three or four people out of the small percentage of viewers who could tell the difference.
Antonio Banderas as Pancho Villa... wtf, HBO? EXACTLY! 'Cuz no MEXICANS watch this show! I can see it clearly now. They don't give a *****. Oh, well, it's still a funny show.
