There’s still time to sign up for the Subtle Sexuality giveaway
Folks, I’m a bit surprised at you. Here we are giving away free swag, courtesy of NBC Universal and The Office, and you’re just not responding. Couldn’t you all have waited to shed the materialistic shackles of your life until after the giveaway was over?
For those of you who haven’t given up all your worldly possessions, you still have two days to sign up for the Subtle Sexuality giveaway. For those of you unfamiliar with the previous statement, Subtle Sexuality is the singing duo of Dunder Mifflin’s Kelly Kapoor and Erin Hannon. It’s also the newest Office webseries. And, to celebrate its release, as well as Subtle Sexuality’s new song “Male Prima Donna,” we’re giving away a “Subtle Sexuality World Tour” T-shirt and a CD of the song.
All you need to do is go to the original Webisode Clack post and tell us what your favorite Kelly, Ryan, or Andy moments are. Submit your entries to this giveaway by Friday, November 20th, at 5 PM ET. We will pick one person at random to receive the package, and alert the commenter after the giveaway ends. Only one entry per person, and you must have a valid U.S.-based mailing address. Not following these guidelines voids your entry.
Webisode Clack giveaway – The new Office webisodes
Today we’re going to offer you, the tried-and-true CliqueClack reader, a two-for-one special. Not only will we be reviewing the latest set of webisodes from The Office, but we’ll also be giving away a sweet package, courtesy of NBC Universal Comcast (sorry, got ahead of myself there).
For the latest round of Office webisodes, the creators have taken a page from the continuing surge in everything musical, and whipped up a small story — a behind-the-scenes look, shall we say — about a music video produced at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin. Not a video by one of the hottest bands of today, like Bon Jovi or Ace of Base. Rather, this video was directed, written, and produced by two members of the D.M. staff.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Kelly Kapoor and Erin Hannon; otherwise known as the duet Subtle Sexuality.
The Office – In which Michael displays his competence
Michael Scott is many things. Childish, stubborn, moody, flighty, and cringingly embarrassing are just a few of them. However, one thing that that Michael is not is stupid when it comes to business. Fleetingly seen many times before, those moments of clarity have been superseded by an embarrassing moment that made us turn away from the TV. This week, though, we got a taste of how business smart Michael could be.
Actually, we’ve seen this over the last few weeks as Michael’s life has gone ass-over-elbow while he tried to start his own paper company. While viewers have seen flashes of the Michael that we have grown to cringe at, more of the time has been spent growing as an independent business person as well as a human being. It’s been refreshing to see him in this light (which will probably fade as early as next week’s episode) because its displayed what he can do on his own.
The Office – In which Michael reaches a new low
Since the beginning, the character of Michael Scott has fluctuated from being endearingly awful and truly awful. He’s created a lot of uncomfortable moments throughout, and we all know he’s a man of low character. So I’m not exactly sure why his actions in this episode bothered me so much. I certainly didn’t find any of it particularly out of character, it was just so incredibly selfish.
It’s one thing to do whatever it takes to make yourself look better, but the earnestness in which he tried to force someone to take the fall for his own blunder was heinous. That things turned out differently in the end only exacerbated his horrible behavior. For most of this season, Michael hasn’t really been that bad. He’s been odd and annoying, yes, but he hasn’t been a despicable person. He was in this episode.
Boy, Dunder Mifflin has some very poor IT security!
If you are familiar with my work you’ll know that I dabble in many facets of the computer industry. One of these dabblings is within the world of Information Security. Seeing that a breach of that security can cost me my job and my company many billions of dollars, I’m pretty anal about it all. So, when I see a blatant violation of IS protocol on television it really gets my pocket protector in an uproar.
Case in point: the last new episode of The Office. You know, the one where Angela ended up licking her cat (sorry, just threw up in my mouth a bit while writing that). While there was plenty of cat porn and cat porn references there was one unrelated scene that wanted me to raise a Security Incident Response Ticket.
The Office – Angela Martin needs psychological help
Angela has become one of my favorite characters on The Office, but I think she might be getting worse and worse as time progresses. Every time we get a glimpse of her personal life, I worry more and more. Not only was her behavior with Andy and Dwight deplorable, there’s the matter of her cats. Everybody knows the cliche of the lonely old lady who lives alone at home with her millions of cats. But how did she become that way?
Apparently it was by working for years at a paper company. The level of her disturbing relationship with her cats has been touched on over the run of the series, but it reached a new high (low?) tonight. I think she was cheating on both Dwight and Andy with at least one of her harem. And if there was any doubt that it was a harem, I think that was pretty well clarified tonight.
The Office – The great debates: hot or not & heart or brain
(Season 5, Episode 12 – “Prince Family Paper”)
What a fantastic blend of the emotional heart of this show with the unique humor that makes it so special. There’s nothing like The Office for taking something completely mundane and making it entertaining. Tonight, while the major story featured Michael and Dwight’s infiltration of a rival smaller paper company, the rest of the cast participated in that age-old debate. Is a chick hot … or not? Tonight’s candidate: Hilary Swank. I actually remember getting into this exact same debate about her shortly after her gender-bending performance in Boys Don’t Cry back in 1999.
And here we are ten years later still having the debate? And yet, Hilary Swank is one of those actresses where you can see why there would be some uncertainty. But the show did a great job of breaking it all down. Isn’t it interesting how it was Jim who tried to curb the entire debate early into it to get everybody to go back to work. Not that it worked, but Jim is certainly stepping up in the world of office responsibility. No longer the prankster playboy. Maybe he’s finally taking his potential career seriously.
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