really? a work bus?

Funniest episode in awhile

Like most of you, I don't think its funny anymore...but I'm going to stick it out until the end. The Nellie character is pointless. I think they've simply run out of ideas.

I think Parks N Rec is much funnier.

Oh i agree. Parks and Rec is much funnier and has been for a long time

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I've got seven years invested in this and I'm gonna ride it out till the end. I was hoping, with the all the talk before the season started, that the show would get back to its roots a bit for the final season, but no. It still keeps dragging on with the story lines about Jim and Pam and Andy and Erin. This show has run about two seasons too long.

is it wrong that i wish jim and pam would have a huge screaming fight?

she didn't even get mad about his secret...but maybe they will develop that later.

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Funny considering a lot of people I know didn't watch it because they thought it was a ripoff of The Office

That's how I felt watching the first couple of episodes of Parks and Rec when it premiered; I stopped watching after that. Thank god I figured it out the next season and quickly got caught back up and never missed another episode.

It's been okay. I actually like Andy as the manager, and have since last season, so that's continuing to be okay. I thought the Jim-switch prank was maybe the best one ever.

What I'm really looking forward to in this season is getting glimpses of the camera crews/interviewers. They have said that this will be part of it.

Oh, and in no way do I believe that Michael won't make an appearance this season.

I am hoping for a couple of laugh out loud moments when I tune in each week. That's it.

It's past time to put this series to bed.

alright I'll get the haterade flowing...WTF did I just watch? Because I KNOW it wasn't The Office.

What a complete embarrassment. Even though the episode had a sense of flow...there was nothing...NOTHING good about it. ****in a this will be a long year.

Not even fun to hate at this point.

I just sat there shaking my head for the whole 30 minutes. Don't think I even cracked a smile the whole time. Its almost like they are purposely trying to make it suck as much as possible. That's the only explanation I can think of.

I enjoyed the Dwight Jack-o-lantern bit at the open.

I wished it stayed like that for the entire show.

The Andy storyline wasn't funny in the least, though Colbert wasn't bad for his part.

There were definitely a few laughs here and there. Toby had a funny moment when he first saw himself in the Halloween costume, and peanut butter on Dwight's face wasn't bad.

But the whole sports marketing thing was very confusing. Wasn't Jim one of two in on the ground floor? Now all of a sudden he's on the outside looking in from not having initially kicked in some money? Did we miss something? Seems like they're forcing it with that storyline and it shouldn't be so hard.

They had a good opportunity to do something with Oscar and the state senator/Angela's husband but didn't do anything.

I don't know if he said it and I know he said later on he was George Michael, but I thought Andy's costume was Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Hey how about that Parks and Recreation? What a great show

/drunk

/heading to food&spirits board beer thread

Couple funny parts. Mostly Kevin and Dwight with some funny moments.


The Andy thing felt forced and so now I guess Erin is gonna move on intern.


And this Jim/Pam stuff is forced. I thought they were going to move on from that, but I guess now its time to drag out this drama with the business.

The sight of Dwight with the pumpkin on his head was great, but the premise sucks. One or two guys could get that off with a little effort. It's a fricking pumpkin, not steel.

I laughed harder during that episode than any of the others this season. Dwight's pumpkin head, Kevin's assertion that Pam really, really hates the song Monster Mash (tho I thought they drug Kevin's scene out a little too long), Dwight's peanut butter on the face, and Creed's bloody shirt. The rest of the episode was a drag.

Colbert was totally wasted in that part. He should have been brought in to interact with the characters in person. It seemed half assed and thrown together at the last second.

I thought the Hot Tub time machine kid pretending he was into Treble was pretty funny.

toby trying to kiss himself was fantastic.

Creeds that's what she said was really the only laugh I got out of it

Some of ya'll are hating just to hate. This episode was funny, much better than the work bus episode. I literally laughed out loud multiple times in this episode...I was a little drunk when watching it so that may have helped.

I thought it was hilarious when the young guy was acting like he loved treble so much, acting like he was amazed they didn't use instruments and doing his crazy little dance during their performance.

It was also really funny when Toby tried to kiss "himself." And am I making this up, or did he seem totally uninterested later on in the episode after she put her hair down and was trying to look nice...hahaha.

Dwight with the peanut butter was also funny, as was the monster mash bit.

Creed's line wasn't believable but still got a little laugh out of me.

If you watched this episode and couldn't find anything remotely funny about it then I think you are just going in with such a bad mindset that you are never going to like the show. That can have a big effect. I definitely don't like every episode of the office and certainly think it has been bad this season, but this episode was not bad...at least not in my opinion.

But I hated the work bus episode and alot of people liked it, so obviously everyone has different opinions.

It was good episode. Lots of little funny bits. Current episodes don't have the cohesiveness of earlier episodes. Stephen Colbert was okay, but wasted a good opportunity.

Do you not understand the pumpkin gag? Of course Jim could remove it. He pretended it was stuck so Dwight looked ridiculous.

Great episode....i always enjoy the halloween episodes.

The creed line about lucky it was halloween and kevin on monster mash were funny, but the rest was meh.

I thought Erin spelling out boner was funny. Maybe I'm 12.

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Guilty as charged here. I have actually stopped much of my hate and moved on to feeling sorry for the writers. After the decision was made to bring back the show, the writers were given an old, tired, beaten horse of a show to write for.

Dwight is now just a cartoon. Early in the show, Dwight's odd and crazy actions were rooted in and consistent with his character. Now he's putting a pumpkin on his head or trying to ride a bike on a wire over the parking lot? Hey what crazy thing can we have Dwight do this week? Because crazy = funny for sure! We have the possibility of Dwight on drugs now...and hilarity will ensue. I know I shouldn't be surprised. It happens to every show eventually. I felt the same way about Kramer, George and Elaine for the last 2 or 3 seasons of Seinfeld. They all became cartoon characters.

I'm also afraid the drama with Jim and Pam will get worse. By worse, I mean more serious. I see Pam eventually wondering if their marriage will survive. Next on a very special Office, Jim and Pam face their biggest test ever...

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this was greatness. Toby is one of the few characters who is still just as funny to me now as he was all the way back in the early seasons.

i liked this episode more than most of this season's eps

Best character is Creed.

Dwight's spin off show, The Farm, was not picked up, but the pilot episode that was filmed will be used as an episode of The Office.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/10/29/nbc-not-moving-ahead-with-the-office-spin-off-the-farm/155214/

Just wait, now that they passed on it, it will end up being the best episode of the season.

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Wow, worst episode in the entire series.

There's really something to be said for a show like 30 Rock going out when it's on top of its game.