A Michael Scott Joint: "Gay Witch Hunt"

Weekly recaps of first-run episodes of “The Office” will be called “A Michael Scott Joint” after one of my favorite subtle jokes from Season Two’s “Valentine’s Day” episode.

(SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen and don’t want any of this week’s episode of “The Office” spoiled for you, do NOT scroll past the picture of Oscar Martinez)



The Third Season Premiere centered around Oscar from Accounting who was revealed to be gay last season but wasn't ready to come out. So of course Michael in apologizing for calling him "Faggy" outed him to the rest of the office. Michael sent Dwight on a mission to find out who else in the office was gay and through the course of his research was caught looking up gay porn on the Internet. Emotions were about to come to a boil when Michael chose to publically embrace Oscar and his homosexuality with a hug and then in the funniest single moment of the show's history an awkward lip-biting kiss.

Jim and Pam did not end up together. Apparently NBC has learned through Sam and Rebecca and Ross and Rachel what happens to shows once you deflate ballooning sexual tension between two main characters. In this case you would lose probably half your audience. This doesn't mean Pam married Roy. They broke up shortly before the wedding (not in time for Stanley to return their wedding gift) causing Roy to bottom out, gain weight and get a DWI and the funniest mug shot East of Mel Gibson. Roy does vow to attempt to win Pam back. His attempts should be humorous.

Jim did take the transfer to the Stamford branch, assumingly because he thought Pam was going to marry Roy, which will allow the influx of new characters including a Cornell graduate who makes Dwight looked relaxed in relevance to Jim's pranks.

The copious amount of gay jokes made this one of the funniest Office episodes ever.

Next Week is another destination episode with Michael, Dwight, and Jan going to Philadelphia for a convention. See you next week...