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...

Indiana's No. 1?!?!?!?!

After three weeks, the first "Pizza Parlor Index" is up and posted. Who is the Number One Team in the Country? Ohio State? USC? Auburn? Michigan? Florida?. None of the above it's Indiana. Yes, Indiana. While some of you may be quick to attribute this to an aggregious error in one of the 4 Day Excel Project's formulas, I have double and triple taked this an attributed this to two reasons.

1) Games against Division I-AA opponents are not included as these games are usually cupcake victories for major programs. Indiana actually lost their game against Division 1-AA Southern Illinois (yes the Salukis) #7 Northwestern lost to New Hampshire. Since these games are not included Indiana and Northwestern are undefeated according to the PPI as are...

2) Six other Big Ten Schools, by far the most out of any conference. Since these teams are on each other's schedule their wins count towards strength of schedule points. This actually hurts Ohio State and Michigan as of course Ohio State doesn't play Ohio State and Michigan doesn't play Michigan but Iowa, Indiana, and Northwestern all benefit from having seven undefeated teams at this point on their schedule.

Look at this as the main reason these polls and the BCS numbers aren't revealed until after Columbus Day. Expect market corrections every week and of course Indiana won't be the number one team in the country for long. Alumni and students don't have to feel any worse about not supporting their program.

FYI Syracuse is 68th.

1 Indiana 87.519
2 Iowa 87.299
3 Ohio State 86.848
4 Michigan 86.794
5 Wisconsin 86.379
6 Michigan State 85.561
7 Northwestern 85.375
8 USC 85.372
9 Purdue 84.538
10 Florida 84.305
11 Oklahoma State 84.282
12 Auburn 84.032
13 Oregon 83.647
14 Missouri 83.630
15 Arizona State 83.339
16 UCLA 83.178
17 Kansas State 82.789
18 Louisville 82.596
19 Rutgers 82.539
20 Texas A&M 82.245
21 Georgia 81.755
22 West Virginia 81.666
23 Wake Forest 80.723
24 Virginia Tech 80.542
25 South Florida 79.992
26 Boston College 79.799
27 Alabama 79.554
28 TCU 76.356
29 Navy 76.183
30 Houston 74.460
31 Boise State 74.362
32 Minnesota 68.492
33 Texas 65.073
34 Oklahoma 64.202
35 LSU 63.738
36 Washington State 63.567
37 Texas Tech 63.461
38 Notre Dame 63.350
39 Washington 63.335
40 Pittsburgh 63.251
41 Iowa State 62.696
42 Tennessee 61.369
43 Maryland 60.759
44 Clemson 60.301
45 Florida State 59.953
46 Arkansas 59.333
47 Penn State 55.821
48 Western Michigan 55.512
49 California 55.491
50 Bowling Green 55.274
51 Nebraska 54.851
52 Arizona 52.896
53 Kansas 52.002
54 Kentucky 51.414
55 South Carolina 50.879
56 Georgia Tech 48.505
57 Southern Miss 48.068
58 Utah 47.768
59 Hawaii 47.468
60 Ohio 47.386
61 Tulsa 46.814
62 New Mexico 46.755
63 Tulane 46.527
64 Middle Tennessee State 45.320
65 UTEP 45.096
66 Colorado State 44.412
67 San Jose State 44.044
68 Syracuse 43.558
69 Arkansas State 43.073
70 Mississippi 42.592
71 North Texas 40.976
72 Army 38.933
73 Fresno State 38.873
74 Ball State 38.793
75 Buffalo 38.453
76 Central Michigan 38.250
77 Brigham Young 37.655
78 Toledo 37.606
79 Virginia 37.405
80 Northern Illinois 36.821
81 Nevada 36.779
82 Wyoming 36.573
83 Akron 35.510
84 Kent State 34.937
85 East Carolina 34.367
86 UAB 32.491
87 Illinois 26.364
88 Connecticut 25.881
89 Stanford 25.316
90 Baylor 24.218
91 Colorado 23.851
92 Cincinnati 23.535
93 Mississippi State 23.161
94 Oregon State 22.905
95 Vanderbilt 22.816
96 North Carolina 21.482
97 Duke 21.020
98 Miami, FL 20.836
99 North Carolina State 19.782
100 Eastern Michigan 19.012
101 Air Force 18.785
102 Rice 18.387
103 Miami, OH 18.279
104 Temple 17.994
105 UCF 17.834
106 San Diego State 17.813
107 Idaho 17.247
108 Memphis 17.228
109 Florida International 16.973
110 UNLV 16.623
111 Marshall 16.275
112 Louisiana Tech 16.078
113 Southern Methodist 15.422
114 New Mexico State 15.253
115 Louisiana-Monroe 15.086
116 Florida Atlantic 14.938
117 Utah State 14.508
118 Louisiana-Lafayette 13.691
119 Troy 13.505