Original air date and time: March 11, 2010 9PM
Written by: Jonathan Hughes
Directed by: Randall Einhorn
NBC Summary: Michael struggles to please the new boss. Michael thinks he impressed Jo only to discover someone else in the office caught her eye. Meanwhile, Dwight makes trouble on Jim’s first day back from paternity leave. Andy and Erin have an interesting first date.
LINKS:
-Deleted scenes
-Photo of baby Halpert dressed in green: Halpert Baby Blog
-Find out about Sabre’s new diversity initiative: Print in all colors
-Re-watch “St. Patrick’s Day” episode, go here.
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NEW! THE OFFICE: “ST. PATRICK’S DAY” QUOTES:
Michael Scott: Green M&M’s! Nature’s Viagara!
Meredith: Stop fighting! Just on St. Patrick’s Day ok? Just one, perfect day a year. No hassles. No problems. No kids.
Ryan: Why no kids?
Kelly: Yeah where are your kids?
Meredith: Nope. Uh uh. Not today!
Michael Scott: It is St. Patrick’s Day. And here in Scranton, that is a huge deal. It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.
Dwight Shrute: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumbass have been away on maternity leave. But now Tweedle Dumbass is back and we have a problem. Yes, getting hooked on Mega-desk was my own damn fault. But, I don’t care about assigning blame. All I care about, is Mega-desk. That is all I care about. Getting. More. Mega-desk.
Michael Scott: When you work for Sabre only one thing matters. And I don’t care if you’re a loser, or you practice bestiality. If Joe likes you, you are in. And I am in.
Andy: Erin and I have our first date tonight. And it has to be perfect. Why? Because according to How I Met Your Mother, that’s the date that your kids are going to wait patiently to hear about and you’d better have a good story to tell them.
Dwight Shrute: They say, that no man is an island. False. I am an island. And this island, is volcanic. And it is about to erupt, with the molten hot lava… of strategy.
Dwight Shrute: Ah, that baby is just discovering the whole wide world right now.
Jim Halpert: It’s pretty amazing.
Dwight Shrute: What up is, what down is, who mom is. Who dad is. It must be tough being here with all that going on.
Jim Halpert: Oh it’s tough being here for a lot of reasons.
Dwight Shrute: I mean, you’re here at work, the baby thinks that the refrigerator is its father.
Jim Halpert: Is that what happened to you?
Dwight Shrute: I’ll tell you what happened to me. I didn’t see my father for the first two years of my life. I thought my mother was my father, and my wet nurse was my mother.
Jim Halpert: Well that’s a common mistake.
Dwight Shrute: Turned out fine for me. But Mose. Same story… Different. Ending.
Angela: Hey! Are you sick?
Erin: Oh, no, I just have a little indigestion.
Angela: In your nose.
Erin: Yes.
Erin: I’m a little sick but I don’t want to miss my date with Andy. I’ll get better. Whenever I get sick it goes away within a few hours. Except once when I was in the hospital, from age three to six.
Oscar: I have a question.
Michael Scott: Oscar, homosexual accountant.
Andy: She should go home. It’s not the end of the world. We’ll go on a date next week. She’s still gonna like me in a week. Right…?
Michael Scott: Very nice!
Darryl: Not bad, huh?
Michael Scott: A real hoop dream story you got there.
Michael Scott: Oh man, you seem to have caught Jo’s eye. How’d you make that happen?
Darryl: I impressed her with my good ideas.
Michael Scott: Hmmm! Seriously. How’d you do it.
Darryl: I made a suggestion at the meeting that was good. You were there…
Michael Scott: How do I put this delicately… Does her family owe your family something? In terms of a past injustice.
Darryl: Now Mike I’m gonna have to ask you to leave. So I can learn about this tiny, television.
Kevin: Just because Jo, has no life, does not mean that the rest of us don’t have lives. Oscar, has a life. I think Ryan has a life. This is outrageous.
Erin: Oh! Andy.
Andy: Hi.
Erin: Oh I’m in my jammy-jams.
Andy: That’s ok I’m in my worky-works. You look amazing!
Erin: Thank come in!
Angela: Yes, I am anxious to get out of work. But let me be clear, it’s not to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It’s so I can protest St. Patrick’s Day.
Michael Scott: How late are we gonna work tonight?
Gabe: You never know with Jo. Sometimes we’re here to midnight, sometimes she doesn’t show up for three days.
Michael Scott: Why does she do that. Why doesn’t she just tell you what your schedule is.
Gabe: Yeah, that’d be awesome. I could get a girlfriend! I wouldn’t have to go to Amsterdam seven times a year. But, uh, I’m young. Right? “I will date when I’m dead!”
Michael Scott: Do I really wanna turn out like Gabe? 26. Single. Tied to my desk. No life no family. I want to have been married by the time I would’ve turned thirty. That’s just… that’s just depressing.
Michael Scott: Did I mess up my career today? My future prospects at Sabre, I dunno, there is a chance, yes. I’ll tell you what I love my job. But Jo, wants me to put on a show for her and pretend to work late? I spent all day trying to make her like me that I forgot to ask myself something, do I even like her! As the Irish poet Bobby McFerrin said, don’t worry be happy.
Dwight Shrute: What the hell is this? This is not Mega-desk.
Jim Halpert: Oh! No, it’s not. They call it Quad-desk.
Dwight Shrute: That’s ridiculous, this is made up of three desks.
Jim Halpert: Oh my God. We’re gonna have to rename it then aren’t we.
Dwight Shrute: Hello Dwight Schrute?
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Very happy with the ep. It had pranks, Michael’s awkwardness, followed by his end of the ep redemption, with Jo (Just proving he is not completely inept), Todd Packer and Kevin’s Green suit! I want that suit! All that plus we got to see Darryl move on up to the Office, Jim once again out wit Dwight and Erin and Andy’s first date (sorta). Groovy times!
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Great episode! Subtle, and back to the normal tone of the show.
Todd F. Packer was also good and Jo Bennett is better than I thought she would be.