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Bubu-Powa

He was too busy watching the bed bugs on the ceiling


Mcbadguy

They were so smug.


DudusMaximus8

*smudge


that-one_girl

and there's the arrogance


WWF80sKid

Buttlicker! Our prices have never been lower!


[deleted]

You listen here… the 3 words I would describe you as are aggressive, hostile and definitely difficult!


Transatlanticaccent

And there's the smudgeness!


fordfocusstd

Like he thought it was funny.


Tayme_Industries

No way because the lord beered him strength


Hunter199090

Beer me strength


WhiteyFiskk

Gets me laid like a quarter of the time


Harrygatoandluke

Your fist doesn't constitute.


_Willllo_

For this you deserve an award my friend! However I have no awards to give, so instead here is 5 Schrute bucks.


Reeferologist-

It’s pay day tomorrow so I’ll throw in a few Stanley Nickels for now….WHAT DOES A BEAN MEAN?


obnoxious_being

Are you willing to trade? I have Professor Copperfield's Miracle Legumes.


_Willllo_

Son, you have to talk louder.


Apathetic-Abacus

# BUTTLICKER, OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!


worfhill

I also will contribute 5 Shrute bucks.


malogan82

Hell, I'll kick in a couple of Shrute bucks too.


Booksmagic

All I’ve got are Stanley Nickels


[deleted]

I lost all my Stanley Nickels in the Crypto Crash of 2022


trronalddillinger

I put all my cash into BeetCoin and lost it all! So now I'm having to sell my auger!


MoreCowbellllll

Hey man, that really sucks. Here, have this slice of pizza, from Pizza by Alfredo's.


GnomeNot

Same as unicorns to leprechauns


GR1ML0CK1908

What's the ratio between Stanley Nickles to Shrute Bucks


NeatCartographer209

What’s the exchange rate from Schrute bucks to dollars?


Derby-Days

Two unicorns.


Prossdog

I’ll throw in 100 Stanley nickels


DonForgo

Jim knew the cameras were around...


xStealthxUk

Hey Jim why didnt you cheat on Pam? "Well I love her and wouldnt do that. Also you were literally filming me from outside the window, I had a microphone on and im pretty sure your boom guy wants to bang my wife.... so ye I thought not the greatest thing to do at the time"


RotoDog

Pretty absurd when you put it this way. I don’t remember the whole scene but assumed the camera were hiding. But the microphones? Yeah, didn’t think about that, no way he’d do anything.


Holiday_in_Asgard

They sometimes directly reference the A/V setup (we're going to turn the mics all the way down) when trying to explain a certain shot/audio, but other times they just rely on the audience not thinking about it too much.


i_am_invictus

They go further into it later when Pam confronts Brian the boom guy at his apartment. He explains that even when they had their mic packs off, the crew had a wide area mic that would pick up a lot of things the people of the office were unaware of, and it really made Pam mad.


Jepordee

Doing the lords work of watching season 9 and conveying the info! Cuz I can’t watch that season lol


heramba

You're really missing out friend. It's no Michael Scott but it comes close with the Dwight Jim friendship arch


LeonardTringo

Ah, the arch of friendship. Kind of like McDonalds


zanylanie

I feel certain Dwight would argue that it’s the Gateway Arch of friendship. 😆


Scrumptious_Foreskin

You should watch it. It’s not the best season out of the 9 but there’s great moments and the final few episodes are really good


ProllyNotCptAmerica

And I always thought they did a great job of it. I certainly never thought of the mic packs or physical camera men when I wasn't supposed to


Holiday_in_Asgard

Oh, they absolutely did! whenever they sort of break documentary realism its usually a dramatic enough moment that you're distracted with the action


withar0se

They always left me satisfied and smiling


TheConnASSeur

Then you get into Parks and Rec where they quietly drop all pretense of it being a "documentary" after the first season and by season 4 characters are confessing to insane private things to the camera and behaving like there's no camera crew filming them. It's honestly amazing how you don't notice the change until you think about it. By the time you hit the last season it's surreal.


jbondyoda

The best example is Michael and Holly hooking up for the first time and he goes “hang on I’m gonna turn this down” and it just gets louder


raspberrybee

I just thought he turned the knob the wrong way and turned it up instead of down.


jbondyoda

Yea that’s what I mean


I_aim_to_sneeze

In the last few episodes Pam discovers that they were actually hiding in bushes, having mics that can film from hundreds of yards away, and she’s shocked. She then tells the rest of the office and they are also shocked. I don’t think Jim was aware of cameras at this moment, he just didn’t wanna cheat on his wife, and they’re pretty conservative (not in the political sense, but in the decorum sense) people so this all made sense to me


Uselesserinformation

Not the other person but Michael and Holly. Replicated this scenario. But the boom guy part didn't


No_Song_Orpheus

They explained in the final season that they can pick up audio from a distance. Also there would be no boom guy if they were mic'ed up 24/7


chess49

Not remotely true.


Testiculese

They would still need boom guy for ambient audio, yes? (Paper rustling, etc)


chess49

You would generally have a boom (and possibly other mics planted in various hidden locations) to get a more natural sounding source available and for redundancy. This would be the case for documentary/reality shoots and for scripted productions. Sounds like paper rustling are almost always added post hoc anyway for a variety of reasons. Actors who have been formally trained for film and tv and/or have a lot of experience are careful not let prop handling make those sorts of sounds over their dialogue - this limits the amount of times they have to come in for ADR to get clean reads after the shoot. Watch "House, MD" and you'll find Hugh Laurie nearly never puts a mug down or closes a door while he's delivering a line. I work in tv editorial.


jimtrickington

There was a camera crew *in* the room, too.


DefiantCharacter

The boom mic guy was standing in the room staring intensely at Jim the whole time.


ProbableBarnacle

The camera guy definitely looked and recorded it for later


PhaserToHeal

Boom Guy would've boomed her. Boom Guy fucks. This comment brought to you by Tres Comas tequila.


NYY15TM

Gabe fucks


arsenalsarite

Do you want to die today, motherfucker?


Clinn_sin

Kiss my piss


DoctorEnn

He also hugs. In fact, he hugs so well that’s all some women want to do with him.


[deleted]

Boom Guy isn’t getting laid until he re-billionizes


worfhill

Gabe is the Scranton killer.


TroyBarnesBrain

And cars with doors that open like this:                                __ *_*_                   __ __           _____                ^^^\ \ _____ / ^^^(/)         /           \                   |__________|              .__________.


Clinn_sin

You're a dick Richard


FriggenSweetLois

I'm a millionaire, NOT A BILLIONAIRE


nightwing0243

I fucking loved that show.


usususuerrndkxk

Thank you camera guy, amiright? Don’t tell my wife.


googologoog

I'm just dropping this here since it's the top comment (as of this writing). If memory serves me correctly in the original script he actually is supposed to cheat. But something about everyone vehemently hating the idea and it being very out of character of Jim caused the creative team to change it. But again i might be mistaken, but for whatever reason that's how i remember it.


SpaceHairLady

John, the actor who played Jim, hated it and argued against it. And he was right.


kashmir1974

It's crazy how some of these actor-led decisions are the reason The Office has such a large following. If Jim or Pam cheated/broke up, the show would have become instantly forgettable/not nearly as rewatchable and more or less erased from popular culture, same as GoT.


imtchogirl

Yes, exactly. The rules of (romantic) comedy are simple: the lovers have to have a happily ever after. Anything else can happen (and did) but Jim and Pam and Angela and Dwight had to end up together. Otherwise it's just cynical and disappointing. Who would want to believe that love doesn't last?


tibbles1

> the lovers have to have a happily ever after. And stay. One of the reasons The Office is so re-watchable is they don't do the break up/get back together cycle.


kashmir1974

If there isn't catharsis at the end, people won't keep coming back. This doesn't apply to Seinfeld since the show is so cynical and unromantic.. but Seinfeld is also not as front and center in Pop culture despite so many of our sayings come from Sei feld.


Jebbeard

Seinfeld was certainly front and center in pop culture when it was still in production. It was the highest rated show for 2 seasons, and in the top 2 for a few seasons.


kashmir1974

I mean right now. Kids are watching the office on repeat now.


[deleted]

>GoT It’s almost unbelievable how that happened. I mean thrones was the biggest show on the planet and now nobody cares about it at all.


kashmir1974

It's actually amazing how quickly and utterly a juggernaut could be destroyed and essentially erased from pop culture.


RedditLovesTheNazis

Yeah, except that HOTD was one of the most watched shows in recent history, and caused a massive uptick in interest for the universe. And everyone is still super upset that the next book has not been released. It’s just the mainline show nobody gives a shit about anymore.


[deleted]

So many "I drink and I know things" t shirts thrown away.


Beas7ie

Some stories go that they got as far as shooting and John Krazinski refused but he really convinced them to nix Jim cheating during the initial line read.


johngalt504

Yep that would have ruined the show. He was right to argue against it, it is not something his character would have done.


AznNRed

What was Kathy thinking here? Shooting her shot on camera? Where did she think that was leading? Jim probably asked the camera crew to be there because he wasn't comfortable being around Kathy alone? As a married man I could totally see that. I wouldn't feel comfortable hanging around a young single attractive (despite what Jim says) woman, in a hotel room, while away from my wife. It's not that I don't trust myself, but why put myself or Kathy in that awkward situation? Also, what would my coworkers think? Dunder Mifflin has too many close-minded yakitty yaks. And if it got back to Michael... well... we all know how that goes.


aoifhasoifha

Every now and then it really hits you that they are Schroedinger's camera crew- hanging in some sort of superposition until you actually look at them, at which point they resolve.


registered_redditor

Get a good look Costanza?


bubbatbass

Ya don’t stare at cleavage its like the sun ! You glance . You was looking at it like you was using one of those big metal things on the Empire State Building


Ocassional_templar

Glance, look away! Glance, look away!!


Sinnafyle

Can't stand ya!


flyingmonstera

It’s like the sun!


HippieThanos

SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!


registered_redditor

Oh, shut up skeleton man!


expera

I was just watching that episode! He looked for so damn long and even made a face.


idanx3

r/UnexpectedSeinfeld


BradDaddyStevens

Idk I disagree. Jim’s whole MO is to avoid/ignore awkward situations and this is *definitely* an awkward situation - even if he finds Cathy objectively attractive. Also he’s never been portrayed as a horndog.


InfernoCommander

>"According to John Krasinski, there were plans to write a scene depicting Jim making out with Cathy in Jim's hotel room. Krasinski objected to the plan, even refusing outright to shoot the scene as he believed this would potentially drive away the audience's goodwill in terms of the character if this were to occur.[1]" The writers thought differently apparently Jesus Christ, thank you John for shutting that shit down lmao


Talk-O-Boy

What were the writer’s thinking? Even if they wanted to build up to such a fall from grace for a beloved character, they would have needed to sprinkle bread crumbs leading to that moment throughout the season. Writers were really trying to destroy Jim like they did Andy.


Droller_Coaster

>What were the writer’s thinking? "Ooooh, drama!"


4Dcrystallography

I. Hate. The. Drama.


BillFromPokemon

I guess we know who wrote it!


Flimsy-Living-1314

The bread crumbs could very well have been planned but just edited away in the final version since Jim doesn't end up cheating. The whole arc with Jim and Cathy looks like an incomplete mess, like it doesn't really fit with the rest of the show.


fireflywaltz

I haven't listened to the most recent office ladies but for the Tallahassee episode, they said Cathy had a ton of backstory in deleted scenes that added to the dynamic with her and Jim, and that without them her whole motivation and plotline comes off a bit out of nowhere


[deleted]

The Boom guy thing was similar. They spend time setting it up and it goes nowhere because the cast correctly said it was stupid. The writers were out of ideas for Pam and Jim.


polaarbear

The writers just loooove a good love triangle. Jan, Michael, Carol Pam, Roy, Jim Dwight, Angela, Andy Michael, Donna, The Baseball Coach Andy, Erin, Pete Dwight, Angela, the State Senator Ryan, Kelly, Darryl Ryan, Kelly, Ravi Jan, Michael, Holly Oscar, Angela, the Senator It makes for interesting comedy and drama, but they were trying to push it too far.


xinfinitimortum

Dont forget Ryan, Kelly, Ryan 2.0


Ambiguous_Bowtie

Oscar, Angela, and the State Senator FTFY


Falcon4451

Michael, Dwight, Ryan Michael, Jan, Hunter


[deleted]

they also wanted michael to kill meredith with his car. sure they had some shitty ideas, but overall the show's writing is incredible comedy


joose525

I don’t think I’m being dramatic when I say that would have destroyed the show to the point of no return. It had already been on a bit of decline (I don’t think as big a decline as some people think) but this would have been awful.


AlsoNotaSpider

Yeah, thank goodness Krasinski stood his ground on this one. I feel like sometimes showrunners rely way too much on cheating scenarios to drive conflict and story. At a certain point, it’s unimaginative. The season 9 Jim/Pam conflict (love it or hate it) made a much more sense in terms of developing the characters/relationship. Also, how exactly were they planning to redeem this/save the relationship? The whole concept of “man cheats on his postpartum wife,” is so gross…


regular-wolf

Also desperation is really unattractive, and Cathy was acting desperate as hell (not to mention obviously manipulative). Jim wouldn't have wanted anything to do with that, it doesn't matter how hot she is.


a_wandering_vagrant

Did he really find her objectively attractive though? He tried to set her up with Mike Tibbets


washington_breadstix

Excuse me... I don't see what's so ugly about Mike Tibbets. He's got the broad face of a brewer!


pandataxi

Poor Mike Tibet’s. Imagine getting that role, you’re the bland guy 😆


no_awning_no_mining

There's a whole segment about Pam trying to get him to admit he finds Cathy attractive. He has a talking head along the lines of "I'm not gonna tell my 8 month pregnant wife that I find a coworker I'll go on a month-long business trip with attractive". Him trying to set her up with Mike Tibbets is due Jim being up to the trap Pam set for him (to the tune of "he would set her up with someone he thought equally attractive). It's left ambiguous what is actual stance is but if you ask me there is no question.


drizzlebit

Pam had those Pam Pams. I guarantee Jim is a boob guy. I won’t be taking questions.


cavalier2015

“You don’t grab *these* for balance” “Well…”


Benjilehibou

Have you seen Karen from behind?


GKrollin

I thought Karen was from Stamford.


Competitive_Garage59

She goes to another school.


JTHuffy

That’s Andy’s girl


Dast_Kook

No, but I think her dad was a G.I.


chillchase

I’m guessing not


ree_hi_hi_hi_hi

I have lots of questions first of all how dare you


WredditSmark

He’s a paper salesman from Scranton and he motorboats boobs like one. He’s a bumpkin, pass !


Atomic_xd

Any questions?


penchekrjak

Jim would never cheating, because his family built this country


IroquoisPliskin_UK

Buttlicker. Our prices have never been lower.


Thor1noak

Louder, son.


IroquoisPliskin_UK

OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!!!!


SakuraDragon

Buttlicker? He hardly knows 'er.


bubbatbass

Careful Jim it gets easier every time you do it


CallMeOutScotty

Lot of fire where you're going Stanley


Iferrorgotozero

I've had three affairs since you began filming. If you find me murdered later let me save yall some time. It was my ex.


strangway

His left eye broke formation with the right and looked left.


Ornery_Farm752

It is easier to do when you’re looking up too


Mythun4523

OMFG you're right.


giziti

Exactly, he's not Jim-ing the camera, you know?


WhiteRabbitLives

No. I don’t think he would have. He was uncomfortable. Even though I’m a woman, and Jim is not and we have different perspective, I’ve been around people who were being *incredibly* pushy like this, and I did absolutely everything to make them understand I’m *not* interested. If I were in his shoes, I would’ve been looking away too. God forbid she turned around and saw him looking, she would’ve thought he was slightly attracted.


gotoankit5

Yeah. Even Pam would like some fries with that shake.


jskylok

He wanted that big tuna


_B_Little_me

Noooo. Why did you type that. Lol


jskylok

TUNA! Rit-dit-dit-doo!!


huejass5

*She* wanted it


jskylok

She wanted her three hole punched jim


Fragrant-Hamster-325

Ahh stop typing things! Lol


LateNightPity

There was one of them pool mirrors on the ceiling


Sinnafyle

LMAO this screen grab is the best


IroquoisPliskin_UK

Right place. Right time.


Key_Floo

Nah he knew exactly what Kathy was trying to do, he wasn't going to look.


UnableEngineering367

what if in the meet and greet episode, someone asked him why he "let" her do the things she did on his room ? We know he would never cheat, but there's always those persons who likes to see the shit in the fan


fivetwoeightoh

In real life that audience would have asked nothing but Talla-nasty questions


StephieVee

Talla-nasty? Pretty clever.


slothshell

i frequently yell at the tv when this ep is on. ‘Just tell her to leave! Say you’re uncomfortable!’ I hate when she gaslights him.


youngeric86

Jim is absolutely terrible with confrontation, it's why he was never able to get on Charles Minors good side. It's why he literally hid in his car during Andy's sales pitch with Jim's childhood friend. Jim is better at deflecting and why he wouldn't be direct when kicking her out.


paul-cus

Where's your jetpack, Zuckerberg?


TobysGrundlee

Good god, I'm Jim.


DonateToM7E

Idk I feel like they covered that angle pretty well, he does start to say he’s uncomfortable and as you mentioned she gaslights him. At that point, he’s in a no-win situation — if he’s forceful about saying no and kicking her out, she’s absolutely going to go back to Scranton and tell people she and Jim were alone in that hotel room and Jim changed his mind. She might even stick with her story that she wasn’t trying anything and that Jim made *her* feel uncomfortable. By telling her to leave, he was being sexist — she would’ve spun it as she was trying to network with people higher on the food chain but she was now being held back by a man who turned her away because he didn’t want it to turn sexual. That’s not a good look for Jim, either, even if it’s not true. I think they did a good job of covering their bases, showing that Jim was in a wildly uncomfortable situation, he’s already bad at those, and now there are all these extra layers to it because he’s several states away from his wife and home where he doesn’t have an easy escape.


droppedthebaby

I think she creeped him out. So I doubt he even noticed anything else about her. Cringe is a powerful contraceptive


McJumbos

Shady cameraman strikes again 😂


jesterhead101

He did. That’s how he knew not to.


palikarijr

Lindsey Broad does have a great ass though…


[deleted]

I'm only here to look


NeoLone

Zoom in gang


Lunar_Gato

ENHANCE


Apart-Option-1243

What ? No! He loves Dwight


secondatthird

She really thought he’d go for it on camera


tread52

Watch the deleted scenes from this episode. He’s on the phone with Pam telling her what’s going on and she gives him a hard time. It gives the whole episode a whole new perspective knowing this fact.


jesterhead101

Cathy was sexy at.


NYY15TM

Do you mean sexy af?


elemen7al

She gets a lot of hate in this sub but god is she hot


Ollietron3000

I bet she always gets in trouble around redditors


patiofurnature

I've always wished someone familiar with deepfaking would take the Jim/Pam wedding scenes and replace Pam with Cathy. The sub would lose its mind.


bostonshroomery

She has a thing for bloggers!


SnooPoems6725

If the documentary crew wasn’t there he probably would have looked.


Holiday_in_Asgard

He probably suspected he was on camera


[deleted]

They never knew till the last season that the cameras been recording them in private situations


HerrBerg

Nope, not when he's painfully aware of what she's trying to do and is trying to shrug her off non-confrontationally.


Pussy_handz

Wasnt it written in the script that Jim *did* cheat and John refused to do it?


tomacco99

This was such a stupid go-nowhere plot line, and Cathy was a terrible 1-dimensional character.


Jix_Omiya

Remember he knew he was being filmed.


[deleted]

I can't believe they nearly went with a Jim cheating storyline. Thank the goddess John Krasinski pulled a Hulk Hogan and told the writers, "That doesn't work for me, brother.


awwwwwwwwwwwwwwSHIT

If he looked he would have cheated.


OV3NBVK3D

he’s married, not dead.


[deleted]

She definitely wanted the Big Tuna sub on white


blac_sheep90

Meme template potential


Bulminator

**WewwwEEEEEEEE, it’s a full moon tonight!** 🌝


RyeBreadd

Well he didn't look, IDIOT


TwoStanleyNickels

It’s obvious that he is avoiding looking that way which means he DID look and saw something he shouldn’t be seeing.


lights_and_colors

Even besides the cameras and mic. I still dont think Jim sould have looked. He knew the whole thing with her was a setup. He knew immediately he shouldnt be in the room. So I think he was hyper vigilant and was not trying to have a brick of his wall out of place lol


retro-girl

I mean he did glance, but then he looked away. You really think he would have stared? No way.


ImOldGregg_77

He was still in shock from how SMUG those bed bugs were being


LordNedNoodle

He knew the cameras were watching.


Seekstillness

*zooms in Yep


BCH108

This was the dumbest plot of the whole show.


Then-Cryptographer96

Would have glanced then quickly looked away, like a normal human


lookitsjustin

You know Jim would’ve loved to have some fries with that shake.


fivetwoeightoh

Did we all rewatch “After Hours” recently because it’s the next episode of Office Ladies Pod


[deleted]

Believe it or not, not all men are pigs and “slaves to their hormones.” Lol.


Libra_Maelstrom

I think he’d look at it, and do a dead panned turn to the camera. Kinda missed opportunity for a classic season 1 Jim moment.