feels like we're on another level
You guys. This was the perfect consummation of everything we've dreamed about for the last few years. I only started watching The Office about two years ago, when my sister and I went on a bender of a weekend and watched all of seasons 2 and 3 straight through. So the culmination of Jim's efforts to win Pam and Pam finally falling in love with him and everything that happened over the course of the years, ending with this wedding...it was almost too much to handle.
Although I still say they robbed from How I Met Your Mother in a major, major way. Except no acoustic guitar and Jim didn't make his skull into an inverted soul patch.
Things I loved about this episode that weren't Jim and Pam:
1. DWIGHT'S VOICEMAIL. DON'T BE SCARED OF YOUR NIGHT IN HEAVEN.
2. Kevin's tissue box shoes and the fact that he only owned one pair of dress shoes. Well, until the hotel was forced to destroy them out of health safety.
3. The fact that Jim and Pam were so adamant that nobody tell a soul about Pam's pregnancy, and it's Jim who tells everyone. And how horrified he is afterward.
4. Michael Scott just wanting to be supportive and helpful when he just needs to SHUT. UP. FOREVER. He did redeem himself at the end when he got the grandmother to come to the wedding. See? He IS a good guy. Although if they do what I think they're going to do (I.E., get him to hook up with Pam's mom) I will FREAK. THE. FUCK. OUT.
5. Angela being a horrible bitch.
6. ANDY. BREAKING. HIS. SCROTUM. "I can see balls." AHHHHHHHHHH.
7. People thinking Kevin and Oscar were a couple and Oscar being genuinely offended. "What is wrong with you? HIM? HIM?!"
8. The chain of puking was pretty great. I loved that Dwight was the only one who didn't get grossed out. He was more shocked at Pam's power to get everyone else in the office to vomit. And Pam's face was awesome. JUSTICE.
Jim: Wow. You look-
Pam: Terrible.
Jim: So beautiful. Hey..
Pam: My veil tore. I knew when we were getting married and I'm five months pregnant that I'm not gonna be able to wear the dress that I always wanted or high heels...
Jim: Hey. You look just as I imagined you. Pam you're so pretty.
Pam: Thank you.
Jim: And who cares? It's a stupid veil, right?
Pam: No! That's the one thing I supposed to be able to control was this veil-
Jim: There. Now we're even.
Pam: Everyone's driving me crazy. I know way too much about Andy's scrotum and my mom won't stop freaking out about my dad's new girlfriend. This was supposed to be our wedding day. Why did we invite all these people?
First of all, "Pam you're so pretty" completely ruined and devastated me. Second of all, HE CUT HIS TIE. Little things like that just remind me how much I love this show. Third of all, the way he looks at her. Just look at his face when he's saying "Pam you're so pretty." And I love it when guys cup your chin like that. And Jenna Fischer is fucking amazing.
Everything about this scene is perfect.
I'm so happy that Mindy Kaling and her cowriters gave them this idea, which is so much better than them getting to the wedding and getting totally shocked with the Chris Brown thing, which, while funny, is NOT Jim/Pam at all and more about the office being a hot tub of crazy. By having them run away and get married on the Maid of the Mist, which is such a beautiful and impulsive thing, rather than wait and go through the motions of a wedding that Michael and the gang will probably tamper with, was much more in their style. Then, when the song starts up, when Kevin falls into the pew and Dwight kicks the bridesmaid in the face and Oscar does his RIDICULOUS dance, they can just laugh. Because it isn't their wedding anymore. Their wedding was on the back of a ship, overlooking the falls.
Another thing I loved? You didn't hear their wedding vows. You didn't even see the wedding. I like to think that it didn't get filmed. And I did like Michael crying at the wedding. Despite being a massive toolbag sometimes, he genuinely does love Jim and Pam and want them to be happy.
The other night, Booze Cruise was on and I flipped it on right when Jim confesses to Michael that he's in love with Pam, and says "She's engaged." Michael's reaction? "BFD."
One quibble: How did Jim grab the wedding rings? BUT I DIGRESS BECAUSE THIS SCENE WAS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY SHUT UP ALLY.
Jim: I bought those tickets the day I saw that youtube video. I knew we needed a backup plan. Actually the boat was plan C. The church was plan B, and plan A was marrying her a long time ago. Probably the day I met her.
The look on his face. That's five years of undying love for this woman.
I hope this won't be a momentum killer. I also really, really hope they don't do what I think they're going to do with Pam's pregnancy. Things have been going so well for Jim and Pam, I don't want anything to wreck it. But I keep thinking there's going to be something wrong with the pregnancy, or wrong with the birth, or something. I hope I'm wrong.