The Office: Season 9, Episode 20 “Paper Airplane” (C-)
It certainly doesn’t feel like the finale is approaching anytime soon with episodes that waste time like this with a paper airplane competition and Andy’s horrific career, only moving forward developments with the show’s most prominent couples. Nellie forgetting to tell everyone that there was a cash prize wasn’t all that exciting, mainly because everyone was already competing fiercely, and the only real highlight of that storyline was Angela telling Dwight not to lose on purpose to take pity on her. Esther showing up to encourage Dwight and pity Angela was poorly-timed, and Angela’s response was formidable. Erin’s adoption history is something we’ve already heard about, and her couple status with Pete has barely been touched upon for a while now. Everything involving Andy’s acting job was embarrassing, and that’s the kind of thing I’ve never really liked about this show. It seems to me that Darryl and Jim have the best, most unlikely deals in the world, where they’re able to spend full days in Scranton doing nothing while at work and prioritize their Philly jobs if anything related to them comes up. At least Jim was sitting at his desk for most of the day, while Darryl just went on a field trip with Andy while he could have been busy appeasing clients in Philly. I’m still not taken in by the drama of Jim and Pam’s relationship and their excessive complimenting in this episode, since it’s clear that they’re going to make it in the end, and all this back and forth is pointless.
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