The Office - Recap & Review - "Golden Ticket"

The Office
Golden Ticket

Original Airdate: March 12, 2009

Shannon - Senior Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Opening: Dwight and Michael get into a girl fight. That’s all you need to know.

Michael comes to work dressed as Willy Wonka. My husband says he called it. Whatever. The title is “Golden Ticket”. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, pal.

Michael put Golden Tickets into random boxes of paper that offer the customer 10% off. Michael is very proud of himself, of course.

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House - Recap & Review - Social Contract

House
Social Contract

Original Airdate: March 9, 2009

Shannon - Senior Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Nick Greenwalt is a book editor and at his author’s book release party he tells the author that the book is going to tank. Uh oh, the editor starts roasting everyone at the table House-style and then his nose starts bleeding. Then he hits the floor. And then I get interested.

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The Office - Recap & Review - Blood Drive

The Office
Blood Drive

Original Airdate: March 5, 2009

Shannon - Senior Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

A phone salesman comes by to see Michael, but Pam doesn’t want them to get a new system that will basically replace her. She tells him that Michael isn’t in and when the salesman wants to make an appt, Jim cuts in and pretends to be Michael. Michael happens to walk up at this time. Jim calls Michael "Jimbo" and to get Michael to play along Jim and Pam give him meaningful looks. Surprisingly, Michael plays along and there is a lot of Fonzie Ayyy-ing going on. Salesman kinda gets freaked and leaves. Best cold opening I’ve seen this season.

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House - Recap & Review - "The Softer Side"

House
The Softer Side

Original Air date: 23 Feb 2009

Shannon - Senior Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Flashback shows a couple has a baby who has both boy and girl parts. A doctor assures them that the baby will lead a normal life. The parents have to choose whether their baby is a son or daughter. Judging by the boy’s basketball game they’re observing, I guess they chose a boy. The boy collapses after making the game winning shot.

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House - Recap & Review - Unfaithful

House
Unfaithful

Original Air date: Feb 16, 2009

Shannon - TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

A sullen looking priest cleans up after some kind of meeting in the church basement. A homeless guy comes looking for a winter coat. Priest goes in his apartment off the church and drinks what looks like whiskey and has a smoke. He looks like the saddest man on the planet. Someone bangs on the door and it’s Jesus, stigmata and all. Daniel the priest looks sufficiently freaked. Thank you, Lord, we have an interesting patient this week. Our prayers have been answered!

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Hugh Laurie Hosts Nascar

Like a little snark with your racing? The Emmy-nominated House star will serve as Grand Marshal for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway on February 22 on Fox.

His major job will be to give the order, “Gentlemen, Start Your Engines” in that lovely English lilt. Yum.

Read more HERE.

The Office - Recap & Review - Lecture Circuit Pt. 2

The Office
Lecture Circuit Part 2

Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2009

Shannon - TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Angela is extremely perky because she sold her engagement ring on ebay and bought a $7000 cat named Princess Lady. Angela has a nanny cam on her cats which just tells me all I need to know about Angela.

Jim gets Kelly a birthday cake, but Kelly hates it because her name isn’t on it and it has no theme. Kelly is way too freaking high-maintenance. If someone presented me with ice cream cake right now, I’d be all over that thing.

Pam and Michael go to the Nashua branch to see Holly, but Holly is on an HR retreat. The receptionist kindly directs them to speak to A.J., Holly’s boyfriend. Oh snap!

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The Office - Recap & Review - Lecture Circuit

The Office
Lecture Circuit

Original Air date: 5 Feb 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Michael learns the office has a p.a. system. It goes about as well as you can imagine until Jim discreetly cuts the cord.

Pam and Michael go on a lecture circuit to explain Michael’s secret for success. Pam is along as Michael’s assistant. Michael would prefer Pam dress as a magician’s assistant. Also, she gets to carry all Michael’s stuff by herself. She’s also not looking forward to seeing Karen.

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House - Recap & Review - "The Greater Good"

House
The Greater Good

Original Air date: 2 Feb 2009

Shannon - TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Culinary school student, Dana Miller, is a doctor who needs a doctor when she passes out chopping onions. She wasn’t happy being a cancer research doctor so she quit. Now she only does things that make her happy, she says. Seriously, chopping onions is a happier job than curing cancer? If you say so.

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The Office - Recap & Review "Stress Relief"

The Office
Stress Relief

Original Air date: 1 Feb 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Dwight sets the building on fire because no one paid any attention to his Power Point presentation of fire safety. Dwight ends up trapping them in the office and chaos ensues. Stanley has a heart attack from all the stress.

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House - Recap & Review - "Big Baby"

House
Big Baby

Original Air date: 26 Jan 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com


Sarah is a super nice special needs teacher throws up blood on a little girl and then collapses. House is going to hate her guts. Cuddy isn’t feeling this mommy job and Cameron is serving her first day as Mini-Cuddy. This doesn’t look good. House calls out Hadley and Foreman for dating. Like anyone cares.

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The Office - Recap & Review - "Prince Family Paper"

The Office
Prince Family Paper
Original Air Date: Jan 22, 2009

Shannon - TwoCents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

David Wallace asks Michael to do some field work usually given to supervisors. Michael’s job is to spy on Prince Paper with Dwight. This is not going to end well. The rest of the office debates whether or not Hilary Swank is hot.

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House - Recap & Review - "Painless"

House
Painless

Original Air date: 19 Jan 2009

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Unfortunately, my DVR was unaware of the schedule change with this show so I missed the first five minutes, but from what I gathered, Jeff lives with chronic pain and is suicidal. Man lives with chronic pain. House lives with chronic pain. Hmmm…anyone else sensing a parallel?

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House - Up To Date

Let's remember what happened on House!

-Cuddy is hopefully getting to adopt a baby.
-House and Cuddy are playing cat and mouse with each other and it's kind of annoying.
-Hadley and Foreman had a liplock.
-The show is moving to Monday night.

Monday night! January 19 at 8/7 central! Be there or House will beat you with his cane!

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The Office - Recap & Review "Moroccan Christmas"

The Office
"Moroccan Christmas"

Original Air Date: 11 Dec 2008

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

This year’s Christmas party is a bust, of course. Phyllis oversteps her boundaries with Angela, Meredith gets drunk and sets her hair on fire, and Dwight corners the market on this year’s hottest toy. Just another Christmas at the office!

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House - Recap & Review - "Joy To The World"

House
Joy To The World

Original Air date: 9 Dec 2008

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s a Christmas miracle! We’ve got teenage angst, House being nice for a change, Hadley and Foreman find some invisible mistletoe and Cuddy gets the mother of all Christmas gifts!

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Hugh Laurie To Host SNL

Hugh Laurie of "House" is set to host Saturday Night Live for their last live show of the year on December 13. The musical guest is Kanye West.

Set your Tivos, House fans! Read more HERE.

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The Office - Recap & Review -The Surplus

The Office
"The Surplus"

Original Air Date: 4 Dec 2008

Shannon - Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

Oscar tells Michael there’s a $4300 surplus in the office budget that has to be used before the end of the year or they’ll lose it. Michael needs him to break it down into lemonade stand terms, of course. Oscar suggests that they use the money to buy a new copier for the office, but when Michael suggests that to the rest of the crew, Pam says she wants new chairs. Jim and Pam have their first public fight when Jim votes for the copier. Pam passively aggressively threatens Jim to reconsider changing his vote from new copier to new chairs. Looks like a little hubba-hubba to me, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

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House - Recap & Review - Let Them Eat Cake

House
Let Them Eat Cake

Original Airdate: 2 Dec 2008

Shannon – Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

A really annoying fitness trainer is filming a crappy infomercial when she passes out and falls down about 5 sets of bleachers. Cuddy and House dance around each other again this week with no real conclusion when Cuddy moves into House’s office. Hadley participates in the Huntington’s trial but doesn’t like hanging around with all those people who have the disease.

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House - Recap & Review - Last Resort

House
Last Resort

Original Air Date: Nov 25, 2008

Shannon – Two Cents Staff Writer
shannon@thetwocentscorp.com

A very sick man with a gun gets tired of getting no diagnosis for his illness so he takes House, Hadley, and a bunch of clinic patients as hostages and demands that the best doctor in the hospital diagnose him. House says, “What seems to be the problem?”

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