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They were about to leave at any minute. Also, that chair was still gonna be there the next time they came to Monica's place. So why in gods name were they so obsessed with sitting in that one specific chair at that very moment? What was it about that specific chair that made them fight over it like children? Just sit on the couch for Christ sake.

This is the MAIN CHARACTER!! We're supposed to like this guy and root for him. So they should've made him a kind hearted, loveable, selfless, and sympathetic character. Not a sexist and racist pig who seemed to have this deep hatred towards women and people of color and took pleasure in stereotyping them as well treating all of his employees like garbage with zero remorse

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Seriously, Justin seemed like a really nice kid who was genuinely interested in being an intern at Dunder Mifflin. Yet, Michael was completely against hiring him and decided to insult him. Why? Considering that we later see how desperate he was to get interns, I would've thought that he'd be thrilled that they got at least one person interested in applying.

It was made pretty clear from the roasting session that they all despised Michael's mere existence and that he practically took a toll on their mental health's. We saw that their heart rates and stress levels increased just from standing next to him. So I don't get why they all still continued to work for him then. I mean, the opening lyrics of Andy's song were "You really suck as a boss." If Michael is such a terrible boss, why don't they all just quit and go work for someone else? Nobody is forcing them to be at Dunder Mifflin

When Phoebe tells Rachel that a person should never wake up a sleeping baby, Rachel simply responds by saying "I can do whatever I want. I made her."

They really couldn't have phrased that line to sound less cocky and selfish? Or was there a policy in the writers room that said that having Rachel be likable was just absolutely forbidden? Both the line itself and the way Jennifer Anniston delivered it made Rachel come off as if she viewed Emma as an object or something. After Phoebe tells her to never wake a sleeping baby, Rachel's response should've instead been something like "Oh, I'm sure that's just an urban myth" or "I'm sure it'll be fine". Literally, any phrasing of that line that didn't make Rachel sound so selfish and cocky would've worked for me.

I thought it was the idiots that the popular kids loved to bully and harass

This ending alone is all the evidence you need to know that the writers absolutely HATED Andy and that he was clearly their least favorite character to write for.

They really couldn't have picked a different character to be revealed as the person who leaked the story about the printers to the press? Why did it have to be Andy? They should've had it be someone like Dwight, Jim, Kevin, Darryl, etc. I feel like they chose Andy just so they could torment his character more.

There's a story going around that the writers were apparently very jealous of all the fame and recognition that Ed Helms had received after the success of The Hangover back in 2009 and this led to them deciding to make Andy the show's punching bag as a way to let out that anger and jealousy. This ending scene felt like the writers excuse to vent out everything to Ed without him knowing. Andy technically did the right thing by warning the public about the printers catching on fire. Yet, everyone treated him like he committed a terrorist act or something. They called him these cruel insults, hid his bag in the ceiling, etc. At one point, Kevin even tells him that he's the worst human being ever. That line alone felt like the writers own way of secretly saying "Fuck you Ed. Go to hell for being able to make a name for yourself without needing our help."

I don't get it. They spent the majority of Season 6 building up towards Andy and Erin getting together. Once they finally did though, they then break up like 2-3 episodes later for the dumbest and most forced reason ever. Like, what the hell happened? Did the writers have a last minute change of mind and decided that they didn't want Andy and Erin to be a couple anymore? Were they worried that their relationship was too similar to Andy and April's relationship on Parks and Recreation?

So far, I haven't found any sources with information on what made them to decide to break them up and/or why they decided to have Andy and Angela's engagement from the previous season be the reason. The Office Ladies Podcast for this episode gave zero information on this, which is weird because they do this for every other episode. Mindy Kailing (the credited writer of this episode) did an interview about this episode shortly after it aired and, again, no explanation given for these decision. It's almost like there's something that happened behind the scenes that they don't want the public to know about.

This is one of the most infamous scenes of the show. A lot of people hate it because of how Michael treated the Land Lady and I fully agree with them. But there's something else that really bothers me.

Season 4 is when I felt like the show finally started to humanize Michael a lot more. We saw that he was actually going through some struggles due to his toxic relationship with Jan. I was actually starting to feel sympathy for Michael because we got to see a different side to his character. But then this scene happens and every single bit of sympathy that I had for Michael was just thrown out the window and I went right back to hating him. Why did the writers decide to do this? Did they really think that retconning all the sympathy we had for Michael for a cheap and unfunny gag was worth it?

The way Michael treated Pam's land lady and his behavior felt out of place honestly. This feels more like something that Season 1 Michael would've done, not Season 4 Michael. Honestly, I wonder if this whole scene was an idea that got pitched back in Season 1, but never got used, and one of the writers just repurposed it for this episode without rewriting Michael's part to line up more with how he was for the rest of the season.