The Office
The Office

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Can't Please Everyone

Robert California arrives, looking less "Connecticut Casual" than just plain casual, and he's announced by Dwight rolling both R's in his name. Robert has no sooner met Andy's parents than he's back to messing with Andy's head over the gift he brought. Kevin and Ryan are trying out the seesaw, with predictable results, and Erin's trying to shake her hat loose from a tree. Before Andy's parents can make their escape, Andy makes a toast to his staff. Which a TH reveals he thinks is going to come right back to him, but instead Darryl toasts Robert California. Then Angela toasts her unborn child by name. Which of course forces Pam to stand up and toast her own unborn Philip: "May he be a good namesake to my grandfather, who I promised as a child, long before tonight, that I would name my son after." Advantage: Halpert. "It's the Ford Taurus situation all over again," Angela raging-heads.

Ryan makes a shit-stirring toast to the troops. "All troops. Both sides." Meredith is the only one who drinks to that. And whatever Erin was going to toast (and we all know it was Andy) gets interrupted by Dwight interrupting with a live reenactment of da Vinci's The Last Supper. I hope Jim is having fun thinking he's fucking with Dwight when he's actually fucking with Andy. Kevin and Gabe also toast Robert, and when Andy protests the triple toast before everyone's had a turn, Robert stands up and defers the praise, but on behalf of both himself and Andy. He gets a laugh from everyone by saying that the difference between a crying baby and a manager is that one day the baby will grow up. His point is that he thanks everyone for making his job easy. Gabe's in the middle of toasting Robert again when Andy interrupts, strapping on his guitar and calling his reluctant dad to the front of the tent. He starts to play "More than Words," which is an odd choice for a father-son duet, given how it's a romantic ballad about a guy trying to guilt his girl into bed. So it's not entirely surprising when his dad ends up not only changing the key and totally hijacking the performance. Andy's trying to keep up when his dad suddenly stops and calls his brother up to join them -- like he didn't with Andy last week. Then the two Walters sing "Forever Young" together, completely shutting Andy out. That is, until he says, "Cheers," grabs the instrument from his dad, and storms out saying, "Get your own guitar." Don't forget to knock something over on your way ou-- theeere you go.

Mose is about to jump his Vespa over the parked cars, but thinks better of it and runs across the roofs instead. At the party, Kelly complains to Ryan about the cold. "It's cause you didn't bring a jacket," he smugly says from inside his.

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