Double 'fficed

Not as good as last year's Christmas episode, but still really funny - all the stuff with the waitresses was weird, as it stretches the loseriffic credibility of Michael Scott that he'd be delusional enough to think they were into him, and it was a little more dark than this show's tone usually is (hitting on possibly underaged women, subtle racism, stealing bikes), but it didn't detract too much.

I love Michael and Andy's fist explosion.

It seems that they're already telegraphing the Jim/Karen break-up, which is annoying, since we haven't even really gotten a chance at all to see them as a couple (other than seeing them exchange "Bridget Jones and the Edge of Reason." that really IS a bad movie, I saw it in the theater for some reason). There's star-crossed lovers and then there's a point where you can't really root for characters who clearly could have acted a little more adult with their feelings for each other and now can't move past it when they have compelling reasons to do so. The apparent determination of turning Jim/Pam into the Rosschel of the 21st century is getting old. I just don't want to see Karen go the way of the purse girl, darn it.

Dwangela continues to be the real sweetest couple on TV; who her "Little Drummer Boy" rivaled Kevin's "You Oughta Know." It helps that she was on "Conan" about a week ago and seemed really charming in her real life persona (also named Angela, which is somewhat confusing). Angela...double fudge.

"Too soon."

I really liked the water balloon bit on "Scrubs." "30 Rock" really does seem to get better each episode, and I hope this isn't it for Dean Winters, since he's always a treat, and he got shot to death on his other show.

Toby really wanted that robe.