NBC promos of ‘A Benihana Christmas’

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  • Promo 1: Shown last Thursday night after ‘My Name is Earl’ on NBC. Ouch. That one hit me where I live. ;)
  • Promo 2: This one focuses on Karen/Pam and Dwight.
    Tipster: carmensandeeago at the LiveJournal Office community.
  • Promo 3: Aired during Sunday night football, and includes quick shots of Angela by herself, and Michael/Jim. They go by pretty fast, so click the Pause button to catch them!

Preview clips of ‘A Benihana Christmas’

Yahoo TV has posted three preview clips from next week’s episode, A Benihana Christmas.

Michael video | Dwight video | Karen video

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Tipster: Claudia

Here’s the transcripts, courtesy of a comment posted by Cousin Mose:

For those who can’t get the clips to play (like myself earlier today), here’s a synopsis of each scene:

#1: The ladies are planning the office party in the conference room. Every suggestion made is shot down by Angela. Karen suggests a couple of things to help the Stamford folk feel more at home, like a raffle or drinking contest (Meredith LOVES that one), but Angela shoots each one down in turn. She says they do not fit with the theme of a Nutcracker Christmas. Angela then kicks Karen out of the room. Pam looks uncomfortable.

#2: Michael rides into the office on a bicycle with a bow on the handlebars. He puts it in with donated toys for a toy drive. Jim and the others comment on how old and beat up the bike looks. Pam gives Michael a gift bag, which he thinks is from her at first. She tells him it’s from corporate, and that everyone gets one. Next, Michael is wearing a Dunder0Mifflin bathrobe in his office and talking about how he’s “got two tickets to paradise”–a trip for he and Carol to Jamaica.

#3: Dwight walks in the office holding a dead Canadian goose by the neck. Pam freaks out when he sets it on her desk. He says he hit it on the way to work, and it’s a Christmas miracle. Dwight says he’ll cook it for everyone. People gather around and Toby walks in and says “Dwight…we talked about this…”

Cut to Dwight’s talking head, where he says that he brought a duck in once for lunch, but that people “got attached to it…I guess they didn’t want to see it killed.”

Anyway, Dwight tells the staff that the Schrutes use all parts of the goose, including boiling down the goose grease, thus saving everyone from going to the store and getting their own goose grease. Jim says that this is a win/win situation.

Hope that helps. If someone else wants to go to the trouble of transcribing each clip, go ahead. I’m not that motivated! :)

The Office honored as an AFI top TV show

The Office has been honored by the AFI (American Film Institute) as one of the top TV shows of 2006.

Here is the complete list of AFI TV Programs of the Year:

  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Dexter
  • Elizabeth I
  • Friday Night Lights
  • Heroes
  • The Office
  • South Park
  • 24
  • The West Wing
  • The Wire

Read more here. The awards luncheon will be held on January 12 in Los Angeles.

It’s awards season, folks, and I think The Office is going to do quite well. :)

Tipster: OfficeChick

The Weekend Tally

It’s a relatively slow week for Office tidbits …

New blogs this week

Articles

This week’s events

  • Tue Dec 12:
    Ricky Gervais on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’.
  • Wed Dec 13:
    Ricky Gervais on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’.
  • Thu Dec 14 5:00am – 5:30am:
    Golden Globe Award nominations announced.
  • Thu Dec 14 8:00pm – 9:00pm:
    The Office: A Benihana Christmas (one hour).

See a complete list of events in the OfficeTally Calendar.

Rashida Jones on Conan

Just a reminder that Rashida Jones (“Karen”) will appear on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ tonight.

Watch the video here. Thanks Denise! (Sorry, the video’s since been removed.)

Holy frak …

Are we back up?

Looks like my web host’s main hard drive had a complete failure yesterday morning and OfficeTally was down for most of the day. OT is now restored, but only from a backup from Sunday. Which means we lost posts and comments from the past two days (mainly Monday).

If you were tearing your hair out yesterday, imagine how I was feeling. :)

I will attempt to manually restore what we lost, but please be patient. Thanks!

I missed you guys … it’s good to be back.

P.S. In the future, remember to check my MySpace page for updates about OfficeTally. (Not that we’ll ever have problems again, right?)