The Roast: Michael decides to host one of these so the employees can express their frustrations with him and relieve their stress.My God, What Have I Done?: The staff are clearly feeling rather ashamed after they realise that the roast went too far and genuinely hurt Michael's feelings.At the same time, little else can be expected since he told them that not only could they go as hard as they liked, but also that anything about him was fair game. Hoist by His Own Petard: The things his employees say during the roast genuinely hurt Michael's self esteem.Michael even points out after Pam roasts him that that's what they're supposed to do, but everyone who goes after ignores him. Furthermore, what usually makes a roast work is that after all the cutting comments, each contributor then goes on to say something sincerely nice about the subject of the roast to take some of the sting out of the nastiness and reinforce that it's all in done a spirit of good fun in this case, everyone left out the nice things. Dumbass Has a Point: While Michael was a fool to set up a roast where his employees would have the opportunity to offer their unfiltered thoughts about him, he's certainly not wrong to feel upset and hurt by what a lot of them say, and everyone afterwards guiltily realises that they took things too far. Oscar told him to stop because not only the sock smelled, but the jokes weren’t funny anymore since it really hurt Michael’s feelings. Dude, Not Funny!: The next day at work Kevin keep making roast jokes with a sock puppet during break.until Michael makes it to Stanley, who bursts out laughing at his insult. Roasted." As everyone is simultaneously not thrilled to be insulted but also feeling guilty about hurting Michael's feelings with their own mean jokes and so are not exactly in a position to object to turnabout being fair play, the result is a lot of awkwardness. When Michael finally returns to the office after his roast, he takes revenge for all the mean things everyone said about him by going around to everyone one by one and coldly pointing out all their irritating quirks and personality flaws in turn: "Boom.The roast itself being one for the entire office(sans Toby) finally getting back at Michael for having to put up with his immature jokes and behavior for years.The Dog Bites Back: The episode can be seen as providing two examples:.Butt-Monkey: Toby, the one person Michael hates for no good reason, is the only one who is not allowed to say anything bad about him.It’s comedy gold."You give me an ulcer every time I wake up and I have to come to work. At times, it’s excruciating to watch, but you can’t look away. Jim sums things up perfectly when he says, “Michael and Jan seem to be playing their own separate game and it’s called ‘Let’s see how uncomfortable we can make our guests’ and they’re both winning.” The performances of Steve Carell and Melora Hardin (as Jan Levinson) are award-worthy in an episode whose twists and turns are fantastic. “Dinner Party” also pushes the boundaries of how “The Office” could make you feel uncomfortable, even when you can’t stop laughing. As you can imagine, it wasn’t an easy sell – removing the main characters from the office and excluding most of the supporting cast from the episode (save for the cold open) entirely. “Dinner Party” is unlike any other episode of “The Office,” so much in fact that it requires its own (amazing) oral history. The greatest episode of “The Office,” quite possibly the best episode of comedic television that’s ever existed and the peak of cringe comedy TV shows.
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