Afternoon Baseball

Eight p.m. It's a little earlier than its time slot as it ends it fabulous third season in an hour-long show. As I said a year ago and again more recently, the continual theme running through "The Office," or at least the JAM sessions, is that you can't kiss the engaged girl without repercussions. Pam's honestly therapy last week was just one more example of those shock waves. Tonight, I think, will bring more.
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Also, the finale is right before "Scrubs" ends its disastrous sixth season (and I'm not putting that lightly -- it's gone from most underrated to overrated in a year, and on Thursdays, slipped behind the slow-starting, somewhat one-dimensional but hilarious "30 Rock"). Maybe I'm too hard on "Scrubs," but the Zach Braff movement that used to only infect so-called comedic movies seems to have taken ahold of this show. Still, by terrible, I mean it's still an above-average show.

Anyways...

"The Office" started off a little slow, honestly, this year. They didn't seem to know quite how to divvy up the Stamford/Scranton time, and luckily, brought Jim back and ditched the boring Stamford characters quickly,although the Stamford branch head, Josh Porter, was a great counterpoint to Michael.
But it's really settled in, and even when fans don't like some plot point or "believability" factor (a ludicrous point considering if you find Michael, Dwight or Creed truly believable, you live in a different universe), at least they are talking about it. A lot. And watching, even if it's mostly on iTunes or DVR.

The sad news? Jenna Fischer broke her back in four places (fractured, they now say). That sounds terrible, but it's not like she's paralyzed. But I have no idea how long that takes to heal. She also missed "Conan," although we did get to see John Stamos' mutant belly button look like a Mr. Potato Head nose with the fake Tom Selleck mustache on it. Sound weird, right? Look here. Thankfully, they were out of time, because none of the three could stop laughing.

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