The Office (US) S4 E14 - 'Chair Model' Even-Smaller-Review


Behold Our Bachelorette.

 BEST MOMENTS
  • Kevin complaining about the walk
  • Michael is single now! Thank God he left Jan, that was one crazy toxic relationship
  • "Every day, I get a little more desperate"
  • Creed - "Then I'll have two chairs... only one to go"
  • "I left my cell phone in my car" "Call us when you get there so we know you're okay"
  • Awww Stacy dumped Kevin :(
  • "You don't deserve her" [Kevin nods in misunderstood agreement]
  • Michael interrogating Phyllis over whether her friend is fat or not
  • "I need to get laid... and before that happens, I need to be in love"
  • "What part of shorn't don't you understand Kevin?"
  • "There's nobody I hate enough to write a name on this card"
  • "I'm setting Michael up with my fat friend anyway, he can just deal with it"
  • Michael calling Wendy's
  • Pam shaking her head at Jim
  • "No question about it, I'm ready to be hurt again"
  • The Five Families!
  • Michael trying to palm off his date in the coffee shop
  • YES KEVIN!! "It's just nice to win one"
  • "How am I going to pay my kid's orphanage bills?"
  • "She was so innocent" "She was stoned apparently"
  • [Jim gets down on one knee] "Hey Pam... will you wait for me one second whilst I tie my shoe?"
  • Dwight and Michael singing an awful version of American Pie
DID YOU KNOW?!*
  • The telephone number of W.B. Jones Heating and Air, one of the "Five Families" mentioned by Kevin, is (800) 984-3672. If you had called the number you would get a prerecorded message encouraging you to keep your thermostat set at 67 degrees in the wintertime and 76 degrees in the summer to stay comfortable and decrease your carbon footprint. The message concluded with an invitation to wait for the next available customer service representative, but disconnected after about 30 seconds of elevator music. The number no longer works
  • Although B.J. Novak wrote the majority of the episode, Jennifer Celotta and Paul Lieberstein were actually the ones who came up with the graveyard scene in the end
  • In the scene with the "Five Families", one of the actors, Paul Faust was the only first-time actor. Faust is the cousin of writer Paul Lieberstein, and had been on a tour of the set and talked to many of the writers. He made a good impression and so the character of "Cool Guy Paul" was based on him. The day before they were scheduled to shoot, the show still had not cast anyone for the role, so they called Paul in New York City and had him read the lines into a camera and e-mail to them. In less than an hour, Faust had landed the part and was flown out to Los Angeles
  • At the end of the Five Families meeting, Paul Faust remarks, "Could have been handed over an email." As just mentioned, he auditioned with an email
  • According to the gravestone, Michael's dream model died in 2003. This episode was released in 2008 so the annual catalogue Michael was using must have been about 5 years old
RATING: 7.9/10















*Trivia from IMDB

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