Two Notes from "The Office"
As you probably know, NBC will re-run the 1-hour long very special Christmas episode of The Office: A Benihana Christmas, on Thursday, December 21, 2006. Check your local listings for times/channels.
If you are already a fan, this episode is Must See! If you haven't yet become a fan, A Benihana Christmas is a great place to start. It's long enough to give you a real feel for the characters, who are just so very richly layered. One second, you'll decide a character deserves whatever s/he ends up getting, and the next second, his or her soft underbelly is made so plain, you'll want to jump in and help him/her make everything right, yet amidst all the angst, it is still incredibly funny.
We are extremely grateful for this second chance at A Benihana Christmas! It's like Christmas for us, four days early. One of the cable providers in the metro-Boston area had a big outage that began at about 8:10pm, last Thursday. We were recording the show on TiVo (to watch after the kids went to bed) and only learned about the cable outage in time to work around it, thanks to our daughter [ who She may have snapped at, unfairly assuming the child disturbed the TiVo, when the child totally did not; and don't worry princess, Santa will make up for the mean Mommy --Daddy ].
We have an old TiVo hooked up to a little TV in our bedroom. We don't have cable on that TV. We just transfer shows from the living room TV, when we want to watch in bed. It does get watchable (if a little snowy) reception on its own though (PBS and the major networks). Knowing this, He flew up the stairs, and set it to record the remainder of A Benihana Christmas.
Good thing. She waits all week long for The Office. While the theme song plays, she pretends she's riding the rails to Scranton, for her mini-retreat. [ No, they haven't found medication for that yet, and yes, if they did, She would just spit it out, anyhow, because She is incorrigible. --He ] If she were to miss an hour long special episode, she would be inconsolable.
Speaking of A Benihana Christmas...who do you think Michael called on the phone, anyhow? Thanks to the good people at Life In the Office, we now know. They have posted the promo for the January 4, 2007 episode, Back from Vacation, on YouTube, and on the Life In the Office website, too. We're embedding it here, as well, because we can.
SPOILER WARNING: This promo for Back from Vacation will spoil you with the answer to the burning question, "Just who did Michael call, anyhow?"
Enjoy!
Comments
Ha!
[The person who it is] was my first guess, too. But then I read a lot of speculation around the internet, and decided I must be dreaming. We now may do the dance of vindication!
I'm so glad the show is coming back January 4th. A lot of my shows won't be back for a few weeks after that. I need my weekly dose of "The Office" -- it's my happy place.