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Traveler Recap: Episode 8, "The Exchange"

BuzzSugar — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:52:50 -0700

Wow, that would have been a great episode of "Traveler" - if it hadn't also been the series finale. Instead of leaving us with a neatly wrapped-up story, we got even more questions. Pretty much everything else I could say is a spoiler, so I think we'd better just read more

First of all, I know I said early on that I wanted more Will in the show - but seriously, Jay and Tyler were barely even in this finale. Come on, now. We've spent seven weeks getting to know these guys, and then in the final hour it's all about Will and the FBI?

Will gets shot during the confrontation with the FBI, and while he nurses his wounds, the guys ask him if anything he'd told them about himself was true. Dead dad? Nope. Last name Traveler? Probably not. He works for Jack Freed, who started a domestic espionage program after Sept. 11; Jay and Tyler are patsies who were easy to blame for the bombing because their fathers hated the government.
Did anybody else notice all the excessive shaky-camera shots of the New York City skyline?
Chambers orders Marlow back to the office. She starts piecing together names and eventually finds Joseph, whoever he is. He gets a mysterious phone call a few seconds after she gets to his house, and they end up having a shootout, with Joseph dying before he can tell Marlow who was on the phone.
I'm sorry, but even though it was a major plot point last night, I still don't understand the significance of the painting Will took from the Drexler. Can anyone enlighten me? It becomes clear that Will is less interested in freeing Jay and Tyler than he is in getting revenge on Freed for killing Maya, and Tyler - he of all the worst ideas in this series - actually comes up with a decent one, saying they need to expose Freed so the truth gets out.
Carlton's arrest seemed a little unnecessary to me, but I guess they had to find a way to bring back scary bleached-blond Otis Whaley to shoot him. Borjes attempts to arrest him; Chambers arrives and shoots Borjes. Well, that pretty much explains who the evil one in the FBI is.
So, silly me, I actually thought Will was going to end up offering Jay and Tyler up as a sacrifice - but can you blame me? It's not like we'd been given any reason to trust the guy. Instead, the three launch an elaborate plot to get Jack talking about the bombings on tape. They then drive Jack to a newspaper office, and Jack protests that they're not going to listen to three known terrorists instead of the director of homeland security. Which is probably true, and was exactly my problem with that storyline.
Marlow gets the number of the last incoming call from Joseph's cell phone and dials. Chambers picks up. Dun-dun. Meanwhile, we see a shot of Kim being taken somewhere - I would assume to be killed or held hostage.
Meanwhile, the guys tell the newspaper that they have the explanation for the Drexler bombing sitting in the limo outside the office. Before anything can happen with that, though, the limo blows up, and the guys are on the run again.

Which would have been a great cliffhanger between seasons, but as a finale, there really wasn't anything satisfying about it. We did get a couple of questions answered - we know Chambers is the bad guy in the FBI, and we know Jack Freed is the guy running things from Homeland Security - but there are so many things we don't know. Why was the Drexler the target of the bombing? What was with the hotel guy, and who did he work for? Does Chambers realize what Marlow knows about him? What's with Marlow's bad record and Chambers' gunshot scars? What's happening to Kim? What else did Jack Freed's network have planned? Who blew up Freed's limo? I could go on.

In the end, though, "Traveler" was an enjoyable series, and I have to wonder what would have happened if ABC had put it on the fall schedule instead of, say, "The Nine." Would it have been a serial that actually took off? The flip side, though, is that maybe it would have been canceled even earlier, without a chance to get what little resolution we got from these eight episodes. How would you have liked to see it end?

"Traveler" Recap: Episode 7, "The Reunion"

BuzzSugar — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:29:25 -0700

Only one more episode of "Traveler" to go, and I'm beginning to accept that I'm not ever going to understand everything that happens in this show. But "The Reunion" was yet another fun ride with yet another major twist at the end, so let's get to it.

So this episode begins literally where the last one left off, with Tyler running from the FBI agents. Did anyone else think, at least for a moment, that he might go running straight into Jay's outstretched arms, all romantic-comedy style?
Jay, meanwhile, has other things to do - like track down his girlfriend for a little romp beneath the sheets in his sketchy hotel. Of course, when you're a fugitive on the run, and your girlfriend is being interviewed by the FBI, such a proposition is fairly complicated. Marlow tells Kim she knows Will exists and can protect Jay; Jay later sends word to Kim via courier, and she literally hurdles a fence to sneak to Jay's hotel.
While they're, er, reuniting, Will is seeking violent revenge for Maya's death. He very nearly hangs Jimmy - barely letting his toes touch the hood of Will's car - before Jimmy coughs up some morsels of information.

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Conveniently, Kim's camera takes the same media card the guys found in Will's lockbox. There are no photos on the card, but there is an audio file of the moment when Joseph told Will his roommates would have to die in the bombing - and that it was all part of a bigger plan.
I'm honestly not sure what all was going on with Will and the tattoo parlor, but in the end, he figures out that Jimmy killed Maya. Jimmy says he was just following orders, and Will's content to let that go - until Jimmy calls Maya "Mary." At that perceived insult, Will turns around and shoots.

Tyler flashes back to his dad telling him he's not strong enough to lead the family forward, then slips into a bar and orders a whole bunch of whiskey. He essentially begs the bartender to recognize him - she even uses "does anyone ever tell you you look like that bomber guy?" as a pickup line - but she doesn't bite, and they drunkenly stumble down the street together in full view of everyone including the FBI surveillance equipment.
When Tyler wakes up with the girl, he immediately hops on her computer. Are we really supposed to believe this is the first time he has ever Googled his father? If my dad were Carlton Fog, I think I'd do that long before he implicated me in a terrorist plot and then tried to kill me. Anyway, Tyler ultimately finds the name of Jack Freed, a former FBI director whom Carlton's been known to associate with. And not only that - he's also on the list of people who sold stock right before the bombing.
Speaking of the FBI, we learned a few more interesting things about the agents this time around. Borjes was in the military and has a clean record, while Marlow apparently does not.
Tyler makes his realization that the FBI could be involved in the plot at the same time Jay and Kim decide to take Will's passports and the audio file to the FBI. Tyler frantically calls Kim, who says it's too late and Jay is talking to Marlow right now at a bar; meanwhile, Marlow - who I actually thought was on Jay's side - pulls a gun on him and attempts to handcuff him.
Realizing the situation is out of hand, Kim manages to plunge the bar into darkness, and Tyler arrives soon after, taking a cop hostage at gunpoint to show that he's not messing around. Marlow acts skeptical, saying "C'mon, Tyler, you're not gonna shoot anyone."
A voice says: "No, but I will." And it's Will with a gun! Hi Will! Reunion complete.

Soooo ... a whole lot of questions leading in to next week's finale (not even including the ones that I don't think will be answered, like what was with the hotel guy from early in the series, and why does Will seem to have the ability to travel from state to state in mere seconds?). First of all, I think one of the FBI agents has to be working with Freed (and, theoretically, with Joseph and the rest of Will's crew), but I'm not sure if it's Marlow, Chambers or Borjes. Will is going to have to explain himself to a lot of people, including Tyler and Jay. And we've got to learn something about the "larger plan" the Drexler bombing was theoretically a part of. The promo for next week promises that "questions will be answered," so tell me: What do you most want to know?

"Traveler" Recap: Episode 6, "The Trader"

BuzzSugar — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:11:03 -0700

As "Traveler" hurtles toward its season finale, the episodes are starting to be more closely balanced between Jay and Tyler's story and Will's, leading me to believe that there's going to be a massive smackdown between the three of them. So I'd just like to go on record now as saying that if they just hug and make up, it will be the lamest series ending ever.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. This week's episode starts with Jay and Tyler heading back to New York, where Jay ever-so-helpfully reminds us it's dangerous to be because people haven't forgotten about the Drexler bombing. Well, maybe they shouldn't be talking about it in public, then, huh? There was lots more wacky logic in this week's episode, so read more

Back at FBI headquarters, we get a long, lingering shot of old bullet scars in Agent Chambers' back. Why? Well, that's another thing we just don't know yet. The agents get a report that Jay and Tyler were in Boston, and Marlow heads that way while Borjes stays behind to figure out the identity of the scary bleached-blond escapee.
Will, meanwhile, surfaces in Deer Harbor to observe the wrecked, gutted Good Ship Maya and discover his key missing from the hiding space in her basement. I was expecting someone to be waiting for him when he got back upstairs, but I jumped a few feet in the air anyway. Will quickly dispatched the intruder with a spin-kick through a plate-glass window.
Jay and Tyler arrive at the office of Three Continents Investing, which is conveniently unlocked. Inside: a computer with nothing on the hard drive, a disconnected phone, bags of shredded documents. Tyler recognizes the paper scraps as some kind of stock document and matches the ticker symbol to Holloway Insurance, the company Carlton had told them sold off a bunch of stock just before the Drexler bombing. They nearly get discovered but manage to run (and pant heavily) down a nearby alley.
Will apparently has super time-travel abilities, as he makes it to Boston from Maine in what appears to be a few seconds and discovers his locker empty. He then pickpockets two people - including one of the FBI agents searching for Jay and Tyler - in the space of about 45 seconds. He's a slick one, that Will. The FBI later reviews the security footage for the library, and Marlow realizes that Will exists. But ... wouldn't the FBI have just reviewed the tapes for several days prior to find out who emptied out the locker?

Tyler coerces his grad-school friend Eddie, an employee of Tyler's dad's, to look up who sold Holloway shares before the bombing. One of the big sellers turns out to be a company Tyler's dad has a stake in, but Tyler refuses to believe his father could be involved, punches Jay in the nose, and leaves. Jay, meanwhile, goes back to Eddie's apartment, where he binds him to a chair and tells him not to tell the police anything - unless it's the truth about Carlton.
Tyler confronts Carlton with the Holloway evidence, and Carlton simply responds that his involvement was all about protecting the family's long-term longevity. Wow, nothing like finding out your father intended to have you killed because you were too weak to lead, huh?
Will meets some dude named Jimmy and trades his new ID stash for a rather large arsenal of guns and knives. He then meets up with another "soldier" in a park and tries to find out who killed Maya, but instead, she tries to kill Will, saying the word came down that he'd "gone rogue." The only interesting part of the sequence to me was that Will said he never signed up to kill civilians; so, who did he sign up to kill?
Borjes discovers that the escapee is actually an undercover government agent named Otis. Heh, he didn't look like an Otis.
Finally, Tyler goes back to hang out and watch the police proceedings outside Eddie's apartment. Sure, that makes sense - go where the cops are. Not to be all Carlton Fogg, but Tyler's really not the smartest, is he? Chambers and Marlow spot him and take off running, and that's where this episode ends.

Will the guys reconcile? Are Otis and the NSA guy rogue government operatives, or is everyone up through the president in on this plan? And will the FBI ever believe that Jay and Tyler were framed? Stay tuned.

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"Traveler" Recap: Episode 5, "The Tells"

BuzzSugar — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:17:53 -0700

This week's episode of "Traveler" was the most action-packed hour yet, and for the first time, I'm actually a little sad that this show will (presumably) be ending for good in just a few weeks. I've grown attached to Jay and Tyler, but this week also featured a heavy dose of Will, the reason I liked this show in the first place.

This week jumped back and forth between Jay and Tyler's story and Will's interrogation, so there was a lot going on. Here's my take on what happened:

So Hotel Guy shot Will with a tracking device (which his bosses later cut out of his leg, ew), and he's also been following Jay and Tyler thanks to a tracking device in the watch he gave them. He seemed most interested to know if Maya gave them anything; Jay refused to admit they had the mysterious key. I'm still not sure whose side Hotel Guy is on, but I'd be nervous about messing with him.
Hotel Guy also finally informed the guys that Will is not their friend. Gee, you think?

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The FBI's medical examiner finally figured out that the guy who died in the bombing wasn't Will. I was wondering what was taking them so long, but it's only actually been 54 hours since the bombing, which is a pretty good turn-around time.

Everybody hates Will: Jay and Tyler, Hotel Guy, and even the organization he apparently works (worked?) for. A woman named Kate interrogates him about what really happened the morning of the bombing, and we learn that the plan was for Will to activate the bomb and Jay and Tyler to die in the museum. But when he got there, someone else had already activated the bomb. Will strangled that guy with his sweatshirt, then pulled the fire alarm.
In the flashback, the other guy says they only needed Will "to get your friends here." Were Jay and Tyler just supposed to be framed for the bombing because there had to be someone to blame, or was there some specific reason they were picked to be the fall guys? Also, did Will really think he was being a better friend by letting them live as terrorist suspects rather than letting them die in the bombing?

Jay and Tyler go to Boston - they sure have gotten bold about going out in public - and learn that the key opens a locker at a historic research library. Tyler opens the drawer and discovers a stash of passports from different countries with Will's picture and various fake names (all more convincing than Will Traveler, by the way), along with a bunch of currency and a gun. Tyler bags it all up and puts it in the car.
Why can't I place the creepy bleached-blonde guy we see in the apartment? I'm almost positive he's been in the show before, but in what context? Was he the guy who stole the photos from Kim's bag? That actor, by the way, has to be one of the creepiest men working in Hollywood today; his blank stare gave me chills.
Kate is quite interested in the painting Will stole, for some reason, because it makes them vulnerable. I guess I understand that, but it's not like the FBI knows the painting is missing. Ultimately he tells her it's in the long-term parking lot at LaGuardia.
To get answers, Kate plays Will a recording of Maya being tortured; once he gives up the info, Kate tells Will that Maya was dead hours ago. Will somehow frees himself and stabs Kate to death with part of the chair.
Here's when I start to be confused: Will leaves the hotel - but it looks like the hotel was really just a sound stage? Meanwhile, the creepy bleached-blonde guy manages to escape. Then, we see a flashback of Will getting his instructions from Joseph - and is that the National Security official we've seen in previous weeks? Finally, one of the henchmen shows up at LaGuardia and opens up the trunk of the car, finding only a bomb.

Wow. What do you make of the ending? Who are all these people? And can they possibly wrap up this story in three more episodes?

"Traveler" Recap: Episode 4, "The Out"

BuzzSugar — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:28:44 -0700

I realized last night that I no longer have a clue what's happening on "Traveler." I don't know who's good, who's bad and who's just creepy; I don't know who's telling the truth and who's lying. And in that way, I guess the show has managed to put me in the shoes of Jay and Tyler, as their lives start to feel even more unhinged.

But what I love most about "Traveler" at this point is the final two minutes of every episode. In the first episode, Tyler's dad reveals that he's been on the phone with someone mysterious. In the second, the scary Homeland Security guy appears. In the third, we learn that Will's alive. And in the fourth ... well, I'll get to that in a second. First, here are a few of my thoughts on "The Out":

I like that every episode has been set somewhere different so far, each with a new cast of characters to navigate. If this show were going to be a full-out, multi-season series, it would probably annoy me to have to keep track of so many people, but since I'm assuming "Traveler" will be done after its eighth episode, I'm more than happy to meet and then discard new characters every week. This week, Jay and Tyler take off for Deer Harbor, Maine, home of the possibly fictional Will.
Jay and Tyler bribe a guy and learn that someone named Daniel Taft made the reservation they found the code for on the train schedule. They speculate that Will must have been using the name Daniel Taft. Or maybe Daniel Taft was using the name Will Traveler, you idiots.

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Luckily, they figure out the Will Traveler pseudonym thing soon enough when they happen upon a Deer Harbor bookstore called "Have Books - Will Travel." I'm glad that's finally cleared up, though I think it's hilarious that these Yale-educated kids never realized their friend was using a name derived from a commonly used phrase.
How creepy is the video that got leaked to the media with Tyler talking about hating the president? Just goes to show how anyone's random remarks can be spliced together to make you look like a terrorist. The one good thing to come from that, though, was the FBI agent starting to believe - just a little - that maybe Jay and Tyler aren't the bad guys; she's right that they wouldn't destroy evidence if they'd already put it on YouTube.

You'd think Jay and Tyler would be a little smarter about believing people by now, but they sure didn't question the guy who said he was Daniel Taft. That's how you end up locked in a boat with a bomb on it, guys. It was great shooting by Jay to break the lock without hitting the bomb, though.
I don't know why the hotel bellhop guy seems so willing to help Jay and Tyler, but he's certainly happy to kill for them. This week's body count included faux-Daniel Taft and the guy who was eavesdropping on Maya's store.
Any theories on why Jay's dad matters to the story? They keep bringing him up, but I'm still not sure how he ties in.
So the Department of Homeland Security apparently has hitmen? Conspiracy theorists everywhere are salivating right now.
I'm still not sure bookstore Maya is trustworthy. Jay tells Maya that Will died in the bombing, and Maya responds "I wouldn't be talking to you otherwise." So either she (a) really thinks Will died or (b) knows Will isn't dead and is leading the guys into a trap. I vote for (b). Meanwhile, the ancient-looking key she gives the guys looks like it would open a treasure chest or wind up a grandfather clock, not give them a path to freedom.
As for those final minutes: As Jay makes a phone call from the train station to the still-awesome Kim, Tyler sees his car pull up. Jay says they both must be hallucinating, which maybe explains why they're fairly nonchalant when they see Will climb out. Jay and Tyler don't see what happens next because the train cuts off their view, but on the other side of the tracks, a white van comes careening toward Will, and he takes off running. Hotel guy is there, and he shoots at Will, but Will gets up and keeps running. Then, the guys from the van punch Will and throw him into the van. When the train finishes passing, all that's left is hotel guy, staring at Jay and Tyler from across the tracks.

"Traveler" Recap: Episode 3, "New Haven"

Molly — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:35:50 -0700

Last night's episode of "Traveler" left me with one big question (and a few smaller ones, but more on those later) --- how the heck are they going to keep this show going? I mean, beyond one season sounds impossible, but even just after three episodes I'm confused as to how the writers are going to keep the story going. Anyway, here are some notes on the episode:

At the beginning of the episode Jay looks to be at a farmer's market buying clothes. This is random for many reasons, seems ill-planned as he was almost immediately recognized. This was followed by a completely unnecessary debate on hair dying, thanks to Tyler.
The man Jay & Tyler left bound and gagged in the airport hangar is found dead, shot using an insurgency torture tactic, immediately making the FBI think it was something Jay's dad taught him. Thanks, dad!
The boys decide to return to New Haven (in easiest car to steal ever) in order to find proof Will existed. And hit on some freshmen girls? I mean, they're totally famous!

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It turns out that Jay and Will stored some boxes at Tyler's exes place -- the mysterious Nell. Obviously, upon getting to Nell's the boxes are missing and in their place are documents meant to frame Jay & Tyler for the Drexler bombing.
The always awesome Kim is losing it a bit. She is maybe-fired from her job, but, ah-HA, remembers that she has an undeveloped roll of film with a picture of Will on it. It does exist! Unfortunately, she was pickpocketed by a bad guy on the way to the cops, and just comes off looking crazy.
I'm still not sure whether or not Tyler's dad is totally evil or not? Am I an idiot?

Tyler making out with Nell reminds him of making out with her four months earlier in the basement of the library and seeing Will being all shady down there. The cops arrive at Nells just as the boys escape, but Nell won't talk without her lawyer, buying our fugitives some time.
The boys go to the library (really? The security isn't tighter at Yale when very recent alums bomb a building?) as stupidly convenient things fall into place for them to find money, a train schedule, and a gun, presumably for Will to come get if he had survived the bombing! The cops are right on their tail, but the boys escape through a steam tunnel Jay used to use to break into the library to study. Also, the Yale library is probably open 24 hours in real life.
Shady pickpocket guy hands Kim's pictures of Will off to shady limo guy saying "seems Traveler has left us quite a mess." Hmmm...
The episode ends as we see a hand slide a painting across a pool table. A voice asks where it came from, as it is from the presidential exhibit at the Drexler. The camera pans up and...OMG!! It's Will! He's alive and says "I just want to know what I've got." What does that even mean??

I was pretty meh on the episode until the very end, and now I'm excited for next week. What did you all think? Still loving Kim? Am I an idiot about Tyler's father? Can anyone else not look at Tyler without wondering why Trey can't stop getting into trouble??

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"Traveler" Recap: Episode 2, "The Retreat"

BuzzSugar — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:39:16 -0700

One thing I noticed watching last night's second episode of "Traveler": That show moves fast! So much happens that I could hardly believe every time it was time for another commercial break. The downside of that is that too much seemed to happen on this week's episode, and it was hard to keep track of all the twists and turns. Still, "Traveler" is a mystery that I'm having fun trying to solve.

In case you missed the first episode, here's a quick rundown: Jay, Tyler and Will were grad school friends and roommates who decide to take a road trip before starting their professional lives. At an art museum in New York, Will encourages the guys to pull a prank by rollerblading through the museum. He says he'll be behind them filming, but instead, he tells Jay he's "sorry I had to do this" just before the museum blows up. The two end up as suspects in a terrorist plot, and nobody can find any trace of Will, not even a photograph. Jay wants to reason with the FBI while Tyler wants to run; in the end, thanks to help from several mysterious characters and following the death of a few FBI agents, the two set off for Tyler's rich dad's house somewhere in the country.

That's where the second episode picks up, so to talk about it, read more

On the way to Carlton's, Jay has a flashback to the moment he found out that Carlton had cut Tyler off, and that's why Tyler was at school, paying his own bills.
Nothing Tyler does seems to be too smart. He was the one who wanted to run in the first place, and then, when they get caught in a road block after a traffic accident, he decides to turn the car around and drive away, drawing more attention from the police than they might have gotten otherwise.
Some interesting tidbits from the FBI: Jay's dad is the son of a soldier who died, and Jay had two years of ROTC in college; Tyler traveled in the Middle East and audited chemical engineering classes at Yale. Also, the president was apparently involved in Carlton's federal indictment, which the FBI considers a reason for the guys to want to attack the presidential collection at the museum.

Speaking of which, did we know it was the presidential collection that was targeted? If so, I think I missed that.
Will Traveler still apparently doesn't exist in any records. Jay and Tyler seem shocked by this, but seriously, guys. You went to Yale and you didn't know Will Traveler sounded like a fake name?
The big question I had throughout the episode: What is Carlton trying to do? Who are all the guys milling around - Carlton's security or undercover FBI agents? Is he actually trying to save the guys, or does he want to have them arrested or killed? I'm not sure if he thought he was hiring a lawyer or a hit man. My instinct says he wanted to get them killed (especially with the evil, conniving way he convinced Jay to go with Tyler), but if so, why?
The guy Carlton hired to help the guys - the lawyer/hitman - gives them a polygraph test before taking them off somewhere to be killed. So what was the point of the polygraph test? Just plot advancement for us so we could learn that Jay blames the government for his dad's death and Tyler once handled explosives with Will?

Jay's girlfriend, Kim, is tough as nails and might be my favorite character on the show. She still fiercely believes in Jay, and her sketch of Will is the only thing making the FBI trust that he might have existed. It still seems like Will died in the explosion, but I'm not sure I believe it.
So Will knew Tyler's dad. Not sure what to make of that yet.
I cracked up when one of the planes in the hangar was named "Nervous Energy." Also, wouldn't they have known as soon as they walked in that those tiny planes weren't going to be able to get them to Europe?
At the end, someone calls a Department of Homeland Services official to say Tyler and Jay had been killed. Who made that call? And are we supposed to believe that the government intended to murder them all along?

The Office, "Shareholder Meeting": Best Lines of the Night

BuzzSugar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:00 -0800

Looks like The Office is trying for a little economic relevance. While it sort of knocks you over the head this week - e.g. showing the Dow Jones sign - you can't blame the writers for making the story timely. Michael travels to New York for a shareholders meeting with Dwight, Andy, and Oscar in tow, but instead of being honored for his work at the branch, he steps into what's essentially a sounding board for grievances.

Lots of great quotes in this episode, so let's recap some of my favorites, shall we? (Don't worry, I've included Michael's big speech.)

"Recyclops will drown you in your over-watered lawns."-Dwight
Obviously the writers had to plug NBC's Green Week like the rest of the network, but The Office's is one of the most creative. I especially enjoyed Jim's side story about how Recyclops's fictional planet was attacked and he "vowed to destroy the planet he once loved." Oh, and his nemesis Polluticorn, which is actually a Power Rangers reference. They could've made the entire episode about Recyclops, and I would've been happy - if for nothing else, just to see Dwight rock that weird eye headband.

For more quips from the evening, including a deleted limo scene, read more.

Dwight: "Oh, I'm sorry were you raised in a household with no consequences?"
Woman in line: "It'll just be a second."
Dwight: "Oh, if onlys and justs were candies and nuts, then every day would be Erntedankfest."
Dwight lays into the woman in the microphone line when she wants to use the bathroom, but his special comeback phrase really made me laugh. I plan on reciting it myself at least once this week. (By the way, I googled "Erntedankfest" and it's Germany's Thanksgiving. Dwight taught me something!)

Pam: "Well, I can't really imagine you yelling at anyone."
Jim: "Oh, I yell, you've heard me yell."
Pam: "Oh, okay. I've heard you exclaim, like the time you said, Hey look, we parked over here."
Jim: "Well that was apple picking day. There's no need to yell that day. You know, I was just excited to find the car. Perfect end to a perfect day."
Aw, Jim. You try so hard to be tough. But you've got to admit that putting Ryan in the closet is genius. Not only does it teach the guy a lesson, but I'm considering it payback for all of those weird getups that Ryan's been wearing recently. (Remember the fedora?!)

"We're gonna come back with a plan for you, it's a 45-day plan, 45 days to get us back on track, 45 points. It's a 45-day, 45 point, one point per day, we get the 45 points. We are back in business. And you can take that to the bank. And limo lady, we are going completely carbon neutral! I love you New York!"-Michael
Best. Speech. Ever. God forbid anyone ever give Michael Scott a mic - serves them right. Oh, and speaking of limos, check out this funny deleted scene of the boys in their ride.

"I just want to say that I believe that there are options out there. A take-a-number option like they have in a deli. What about line varieties? Like an express line for quick comments of ten words or less that could move much more efficiently. What about ropes along the lines that you can hold on to?"-Dwight
I was always welcome a ridiculous Dwight rant, and this was one of his better ones.

Alright, so your turn! What'd you think of the episode? The whole situation has me questioning what's going to happen to Michael in next week's episode. The guy destroys the shareholders meeting, his CEO is annoyed, and then he runs off with the limo - are there going to be repercussions?

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