Few sitcoms that I've watched have ever been able to pull off openings that have been so consistently hysterical. In that respect, it's like Cheers. Those first two or three minutes almost never let you down.

And this was another perfect example. In this case it was Michael asking Oscar about getting a colonoscopy. "Is there anything I can do to make it more pleasurable ..." Just simply hilarious.

But it really didn't end there. The Michael/Jim/David Wallace stuff was good, and the wedding stuff with Pam wasn't bad, either. But the Toby/Dwight/Darryl angle had me near tears. Especially when Toby yelled out the window at who he thought was Darryl, "Hey, a**hole, are you gonna eat all that dog food?!?" and Dwight plowed his car into Darryl's garbage cans.

There wasn't much Andy in this episode, but I loved his "flirting" email from his cousin, "Hey, Andy, let's go visit Grandma and then get drunk together. Ha ha."

Oh, and it'll be interesting to see how Dwight handles Jim's promotion.

Sorry it's taken waaaay too long to post my thoughts on the season premiere. Things have just been crazy at work. Ironically, most days are filled with rumors -- just like last week's Office episode. But the rumors at work typically involve the paper being sold and layoffs. Heck, I'd kill for a rumor that someone at the N-J is the voice of the Taco Bell dog.

Anyway, I thought the episode was great. The parkour opening was hysterical. Obviously I love this show (duh, I'm doing an Office blog), but the openings are just phenomenal. From Jim's line about "point A being delusion and point B being the hospital" to Dwight riding on Andy's back to Andy jumping straight through the cardboard box -- good stuff. PARKOUR!!

Just some more random Office thoughts:

* Loved how Michael came up with nicknames for all of the interns. Especially using Alan Thicke for the kid who looked like Matt Damon.

* Andy's confusion was priceless, especially his Brad Pitt scenario. I bet he likes tea. Ha! 

* 30 Rock is a funny show. At least the couple of times I've watched it. But there's just part of me that's almost bitter that it ALWAYS beats out The Office in the Emmy Awards.

* Creed's lines are always so unexpected. And always amazing. His line about scuba was good, but how about when he asked, "Who's the OBGYN?" when Pam and Jim announced that Pam was pregnant?

* "A baby conceived out of wedlock is still a bastard." 

* "She's an anorexitec."

* I was really surprised at how good "Community" was. No, that's not about The Office, but it's on right after The Office. Close enough.

* Oh, and it was nice to see Stanley take out years of frustration on Michael's car.

This was my favorite deleted scene from the season premiere:

Overall, I thought this episode pretty much rocked. Although there were a couple of things that made me say "huh"?

First off, I really wish the episode could've been an hour. "Celebrity Apprentice" and "The Biggest Loser" had season finales that ran THREE hours. There's so much that gets left on the cutting room floor (or heads to the deleted scenes area on the Web site), that it would've been nice if they had made this one an hour.

Sorry about the delay in getting this review posted -- I've been absolutely slammed. On Saturday, I was race director for a charity 5K, and I've had nonstop stuff going on for what seems like months. And you have no idea how badly I wanted to have one of my friends scarf down some fettucini right before the race. I swear, some of the people who were in the 5K also stopped off at a garage sale to buy a lamp, too.

Anyway, I was kinda mixed about the last episode. Maybe it just seemed so off the wall to me. The whole concept of a cafe disco was just so bizarre. And I don't know about the whole angle with Bob Vance possibly cheating on Phyllis. Having said all of that, I did think the Andy-Kelly dance-off was pretty funny. Andy is just hilarious in any scene he's in.

Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the season finale, which is also the 100th episode of the series. All of the finales have been so strong -- I'm really excited to see what they come up with Thursday.

I didn't think this episode was as good as last week's, but I still thought it was pretty strong.

The opening, again, was funny. I could totally see Kevin being the kind of guy to make a huge thing of chili like that -- and spilling it all over the floor.

While last week was focused pretty much on just one thing, and it worked so well, this episode was really kinda scattered. But it worked. The casual Friday stuff was hilarious -- especially the stuff with Meredith and Kelly. The rift between the old sales crew and the new sales crew was pretty good, too. How about Dwight's secret ink?! Ha!

And you gotta love Michael pretending to fire Pam. And then Erin.

This season is ending on a really strong note. Let's hope they can keep it up for the last few episodes.

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted (yeah, I'm talking to you, TV Junkie! She called me out!). Usually, when it takes a day or two to get the blog updated, it typically means that the episode was kinda so-so and I'm not overly excited to post. Or I'm insanely busy. In this case, it was definitely the latter. This was one of the best episodes of the season -- if not THE best.

I'm going to get straight to "the rundown" of Thursday's shows -- TWO new episodes of "The Office" and the premier of "Parks and Recreation".

It's almost been a week since this episode aired, and I'm still bitter that there was no Andy. At all. And Creed may as well have not been there, either.

It wasn't the best episode, but it wasn't the worst. I thought Dwight really carried the episode. His disgust at the end of the singles party was awesome. The blood drive stuff was OK, with some decent lines.

But I'm ready for an episode that's a half-hour long, but takes about 45 minutes to watch because I spend so much time laughing out loud and rewinding to make sure I didn't miss anything. This one wasn't bad, but didn't fall into that category.

Oh, and Andy better be in the next episode. That's all I'm sayin!

First, I apologize for the slight delay in getting this posted -- and the lack of entries over the last week. The races have made things extremely hectic in the Sports Dept.

On to my thoughts on part 2 of "Lecture Circuit"...

I thought this episode was OK. Not great, not terrible. Was anyone else really surprised it was a two-parter? I hadn't looked ahead at the episode list to realize that, and that caught me off guard. So is Holly coming back? Remember, I had posted something about that not long ago. Anyway, here's the recap...

(Actually, a quick aside: my wife and I are headed to "Casino Night," the big annual fund-raiser for my son's school. It's the first year we're going, and I'm really excited -- and keep replaying the Casino Night episode in my head. So I'm either gonna bust out on the first hand, or I'm gonna end up stealing some chips! I'll try and post and let you know how it went, and how it compared to the show. OK, back to the recap...)

There's three different story lines working in this one. I thought two worked pretty well, but one was just kinda average: