The Office
The Office

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M. Giant: C | 971 USERS: B-
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Scranton Horror Story

Robert rolls up to a discussion Jim's having with Kevin, Oscar, and Meredith about ghosts. Kevin says he's only afraid of real things, like "serial killers and kidnappers, not things that don't exist like ghosts or mummies." Oscar quietly points out that mummies are real, which Kevin doesn't believe until Robert backs him up. "Why on Earth would a museum put a mummy in it?!" Kevin THs in panic.

The party seems to be on, with slightly scarier décor in the conference room. Erin boasting-heads, "I grew this party up real fast. Get out of here, little-kid party. Nobody loves you!" Ouch.

Jim tries to chase Bert off his computer and into the party, but Bert's about to use it play Starcraft with Dwight, so no joy. Inside the party, Angela tweaks Pam about how she's still so much smaller than Pam even when they're both pregnant, again. Pam looks like she's as bored with this schtick as I am. Oscar explains his costume: his nametag reads "Former Rep. Weiner" and a cell phone hanging in front of his crotch, which makes him an "Oscar Liar Weiner." At least Ryan (dressed as Jesse from Breaking Bad, according to the helpful TWoP Twitter feed) is as disgusted as I am. Remember when the bad jokes on this show were somehow still funny? Darryl compliments Erin on the party, and Andy agrees that she did a good job. "So we don't have to have that talk?" Erin chirps. Andy says they still should, and invites her to his office at 4:45. Uh-oh.

So Erin goes to the front of the room and turns on the DVD that must have been Gabe's contribution. It turns out to be some creepy black-and-white film that's little more than a series of disturbing images. Apparently it's part of what Gabe calls "cinema of the unsettling," an underground movement of which this is an example. And the auteur appears to be none other than Gabe, who, along with shots of bleeding birthday cakes, melting dolls, and a rat crawling across a photograph of a screaming woman, also got footage of Oscar's grandmother, and Stanley getting into his car, shot from Stanley's back seat. Everyone demands Erin turn it off. Andy apologizes to Robert, who doesn't seem offended at all, and Erin says she got confused, thinking the goal was to make the party more adult. So she busts out a game of "Pecker Poker," which causes the editors to bust out the pixilation for the third time this episode.

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