
Season 3 episode 3. It’s Movie Monday! “The only cure for the Monday Blues…is Varsity Bluuuues!” After Michael gets chastized by Jan, Dwight, pushed by Angela, goes behind Michael’s back and initiates a hostile takeover of the Scranton branch. Jim, in Connecticut, plays games…Stamford-style.
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Starting off, we see that it’s Movie Monday. This might be the first time that we’ve seen the people at the office on a Monday. It seems like there are a lot of episodes that take place on a Friday. Personally, I’d enjoy a Movie Monday, but at the Scranton branch, only Michael and Kevin really like it. Dwight seems to only tolerate it and becomes upset when Kevin gets to do the weekly recap. On the opposite end, Angela doesn’t even go into the conference room. Then, in comes Jan. When Michael tries to justify his reasoning for Movie Monday, he says that people work faster…but only because they have to make up for the lost time from watching the movie (lal!).

Afterwards, Angela, fearing for her employment, makes Dwight go to Jan and make her give the branch to him instead of Michael. Much like Dwight’s physical performance right before he demands a raise in “Performance Review,” Dwight psychs himself up in the parking lot by running from end-to-end.

For some reason, Dwight meets Jan at a diner/pancake house (probably IHOP) to discuss his takeover. He also tells Jan that there’s a new Ann Taylor outlet store nearby for some reason.
“Call of Duty!!!” What started out as a team-building exercise in Stamford has become what seems to be a daily event–Call of Duty LAN games. I wish I could do this at my work. The only thing is that we are only equipped with those ATI RAGE XL video cards. Why they have gamer cards able to play CoD2 (I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t showcase CoD1), I have no idea.

So it’s Josh, Andy, and Jim against Karen and some other generic office workers. Of course, since Jim never plays any computer games he stinks and doesn’t know how to turn around and uses a sniper rifle in mp_carentan, much to his team’s dismay.

Back in Scranton, Dwight has returned to the office but Michael knows about his meeting with Jan because of a phone call from her. He tricks Dwight, who claimed to have gotten an emergency crown put in at the dentist (Dr. Crentist…lal), into eating some peanut M&M’s and quickly examines his teeth. I’m not sure why Michael would want to see chewed up M&M’s in Dwight’s mouth. Sounds disgusting. Disgusting*2 because it’s Dwight.

Once Dwight begins to take advantage of his fake promotion and insults Michael’s Chrysler Sebring convertible, Michael lays The Smackdownâ„¢ on Dwight. As a result, he cries and Michael makes him hug it out and do his laundry for a year.
I’d really like to see what happens when/if Dwight, the Scranton nerd, meets Andy, the Stamford nerd. It might end up something like a nuclear explosion…or hobbit trouble! And now some wise words from Dwight: “Reject a woman and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also, weak arms.”
“Entourageee…
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