*moment of silence*
No longer will we get to feel as awkward as we did when watching him push a morbidly obese man onto a table. Nor will we be given any more heartfelt moments like when he proposed to Holly. Never again will we wonder when he'll realize that Jan's baby isn't actually his. However, tonight will be a true night at the theatre. There will be laughs. There will be tears. But most importantly, there will be a tub full of awkwardness just gushing over the edges. In true Office fashion, this bitter-sweet event will go down in probably a little bit of infamy.
Won't lie, I cried like a baby for the last half hour of the show. Hell, it gets me all teary-eyed thinking about it now.
Thank God it wasn't just an hour-long sob fest though. By far one of the funniest moments was Michael Scott giving Oscar some weird doll he made and then the cut-scene to M. Scott just laughing his ass off because he knows he just pulled a huge prank on Oscar. Even in good-bye's humor isn't lost on this man.
Of course, the best goodbyes were Dwight, Jim, and Pam, even if you didn't get to hear exactly what they said to each other.
Now it is time to look to the future of the show though. How is it going to handle not having the crazy glue to hold everything together?
It won't be easy, and it most likely won't work, but I'm glad they're trying. The show, while it may focus around Michael Scott, was largely not about him. Obviously you have Jim and Pam who dominated seasons 3-6 with their relationship/engagement/wedding, and now we have another relationship in the works with Erin and Andy. They've used pretty much the same formula too with Erin dating someone and being unavailable while she clearly is in love with Andy.
Overall though, the show needs to make us REALLY care about the rest of the characters giving them more dimensions than what we've seen so far with the caricatures that they've created so perfectly. I actually think the one thing that is going to ruin the show is trying to bring another Michael Scott type character, unless they don't focus too much on that character's development for a while, or ever really. Let's be honest, the show only had about one more year in it anyway (it probably should have just said it would be done this season, but NBC's track record of trying to find new comedies has been atrocious from Outsourced to Perfect Couples and then the Paul Reiser show which was cancelled after only 2 episodes, thankfully).
I'd love to see at least one season with the rest of the cast in it, but I also don't want it continuing down the Scrubs path it appears to be on where Scrubs got rid of Zach Braff and tried to reinvent the show, but then it cancelled (for like, the 5th time during its run). Hopefully they don't technically 'cancel' The Office and instead just let it play out for one more year while they try probably another 10 sitcoms before they finally find one good enough to get some legitimate ratings.
While it was hard to see Steve Carrell leave the show, he definitely made the smart choice of abandoning ship before it sinks.
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