The Job

Contribution by Archie Watts.

"The Job" is one of my favorite episodes from "The Office" and easily the best season finale the show has ever produced. The circumstances surrounding the episode involve a job being offered at corporate headquarters that Michael, Jim and Karen, among others, are vying for. The position offered (regional manager) is actually the one held by Michael's girlfriend, Jan, causing a commotion when Michael reveals this fact to her. This plot line wasn't as interesting as the two moments that resulted from it. The first being Jim rejecting both the job and breaking up with Karen in order to be with Pam who had been the object of his affection since the very beginning. I thought Jenna Fischer really did a good job acting out Pam's reacti! on to having Jim return to the branch and asking her out on a date. The second moment was more of the "Where did that come from?" variety when we found out that the temp, Ryan, somehow gets the job.

For me, the funniest parts of this episode is when Michael appoints Dwight his successor and he proceeds to reign over the branch with Pam as his secret assistant. I loved the part in the meeting where Dwight winks at her when Pam makes a suggestion that was really Dwight's idea. I've seen this episode at least five times on satellite TV from Cannonsatellite.com and it never gets old.