Hello there, Dunner-Mifflinites, and welcome back to the opposite of Samar, a podcast

to enjoy while you fall asleep.

Tonight we are on season 5, episode 16.

This is a lecture circuit, and this is part 1.

So this is an interesting split of episodes, and they could be done together, but because

we just had a supersized episode last week in the Stress Relief episode.

Tonight we are going to do part 1 of lecture circuit, and then part 2.

Tonight's episode aired February 5, 2009.

Both episodes in this two-part group were directed by Ken Klovis, who you'll remember

from my mini-review of Dunstin Chikthin, is a office of veteran, and one of the directors

that's usually brought in for pretty major scenes due to his deep understanding of the

show, the character, the dynamics, and he was really critical in sitting the tone for

the whole show as a director early on, and lecture circuit written by our girl Minda

Galing, or you know, Kelly Kapoor, Minda Galing, a brilliant writer, so tonight we'll get

into the episode.

This one, a pretty pivotal episode, because we do get a lot of character development, not

just between Pam and Michael, but their characters move forward quite a bit, and it's one

of those, you know, out of the office episodes that usually has some great hijinks or, you

know, just a memorable grouping of episodes here.

We start off, oh, and a pretty memorable quote open to, we have the voiceover coming out

of the phones, because the IT guy showed Michael that there's a PA function, and he just

left, and you're Michael speaking into his phone, and echoing through the whole office.

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