The Office: Scott's Tots

Wow. Where to begin? So many amazing moments in this episode. Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg wrote the excellent "The Lover", and they carried their good form here. Everything, from the cold open where Michael (finally!) calls out Andy's baby talk, to the tag where Ryan joins in Dwight's Diabolical Plan to take Jim down, was perfect. The main plot's best moment was, of course, Michael's heartfelt but painful admission to the high school kids that he could not pay for their college tuition as he had earlier promised. Another golden moment was in the car with Erin, where she pointed out that, despite everything, Michael's promise actually provided the motivation for the kids to graduate. Michael's in-kind words of encouragement to Erin are both affecting and funny at the same time, when upon Erin saying she had wanted to be an accountant, Michael told her that he actually offered Kevin the accountancy job when he had actually applied for the warehouse (ha!). The subplot of the Employee-of-the-Month award, aka Dwight's Diabolical Plan to take down Jim Halpert, yielded tons of laughs, the best of which was Dwight impersonating everyone in the office in calling David Wallace to complain that Jim had given the award to himself (by Dwight's design, of course). Excellent, excellent installment. The next episode can't come soon enough!