" Counseling " is the second episode of the seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office and 128 episodes in its entirety. It was originally aired on NBC on September 30, 2010. The episode was written by B. J. Novak and directed by Jeffrey Blitz. Eric Zuckerman's "Counseling" guest star as store clerk, Vincent Angelo as a vendor, and Michael Schur as Mose Schrute. Evan Peters also appeared as Luke Cooper in the archive recording of the previous episode.
The series depicts the daily lives of office employees in Scranton, the Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In the episode, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) was forced to have six hours of counseling with Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) after he physically admonished his nephew Luke (Peters), but Michael refused to make Toby's work easy. Meanwhile, Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) tries to market promotion to the office administrator and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) boycott Steamtown Mall after the shop owner refuses to serve him.
"Counseling" received most of the positive reviews from television critics. This episode was seen by 7.36 million viewers and received a rating of 3.7 among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, marking a significant drop in rank when compared to the previous week. Nevertheless, this episode is the NBC series with the highest rating on that night aired, as well as the highest-rated NBC non-sport broadcasts for the week aired.
Video Counseling (The Office)
Plot
Michael Scott (Steve Carell) was assigned six hours of counseling with Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) after he physically chided his nephew Luke (Evan Peters) in "Nepotism", but Michael refused to talk to Toby. One hour in their session, Toby tells Michael that he will not fill out the official appraisal form unless Michael talks to him, so Michael starts telling silly stories. Toby then tried common counseling methods to play games with clients to make them more open. The method worked, and Michael opened up to Toby about his personal history and his relationship with people (he mentioned seeing a baseball game with his stepfather where he was told that the team manager deserved respect and how he never forgot it), and Toby made an important discovery that Michael needs to be liked. Michael realized what had happened, got angry with Toby, and lowered his counseling ability. Toby gives up and gives Michael the official form, allowing him to fill it as he wishes. In haste, Michael accidentally checks on the form that he is very depressed and kills. Gabe contacted Toby, baffled by his extreme judgment of Michael. Although Michael initially blamed Toby for the accident, he changed his anger to Gabe Lewis (Zach Woods), even making Toby laugh. Michael openly offered to go back to the break with Toby and "ring it". At the end of the episode, they talk and draw.
Meanwhile, Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) realizes that even though she has her dream job as a salesman, she probably will not be fit for it anymore because she makes a little sales and little money. A chance visit from a vendor gives him the idea of ​​getting a promotion to an office administrator, hopefully for some extra income. He tells Gabe about his promotion "from a few months ago" and tells him that he has not been paid accordingly, where Gabe promises he'll get lost wages if he can get all the department heads to sign it. While he was busy convincing everyone that he had become a new administrator, Gabe caught that he might be lying, and confronted him about it. Using the strategy he learned from watching poker, he stood on the ground against Gabe and became office de facto administrator.
Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) has decided to boycott the Steamtown Mall after the shop owner refuses to serve him, going so far as to cancel an order for business there. Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and the rest of the office convince Dwight to get revenge on the shopkeeper by making Dwight look high-class, and then ask him to refuse to buy from the store, office reference scheme from the movie Beautiful Women . Using tips from the rest of the office to make himself appear more sophisticated, Dwight, with Jim and Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), returns to the store. To their surprise, the shop owner immediately recognizes Dwight even in his new clothes, and explains that they did not serve him before because they were intimidated by his bloody hands (actually beetroot juice). Dwight, somewhat confused by the truth of the situation revealed to him, tripped over his words before finally saying that he had come all the way to say, "You made a big mistake, great!", Waving his shopping bag.. The group went slightly embarrassed, but not before Dwight bought what he came for: a pewter witch sculpture holding a crystal ball.
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Production
"Counseling" was written by B. J. Novak, producer and screenwriter for the series who also portrayed Ryan Howard's character on the show. The entry was directed by Jeffrey Blitz, who also directed the previous episode of "Nepotism". "Counseling" featured Eric Zuckerman, Vincent Angelo and Michael Schur in guest appearances as store tellers, vendors, and Mose Schrute, respectively. Evan Peters also appeared as Luke Cooper in the archive recording of the previous episode. With the seventh season The Office being the last Carell, the authors decided to divide the season into two different sections; the first half will "celebrate Carell's last year and highlight the different actors on the show", while the second half will focus on his departure and find a new manager. Thus, "Counseling" was one of the first episodes of the season to specifically highlight other characters, in this case the character of Lieberstein, Toby.
The Seventh DVD contains a number of deleted scenes from this episode. Notable cutable scenes include Stanley discussing Kellogg's boycott, Dwight dressed in his fancy dress, Dwight getting his pipe from Creed, Kevin gives Dwight wipes, extended recording sessions of Michael counseling, Michael discusses dogs, and Dwight's long recording at the mall.
Cultural reference
In the Dwight daycare, posters for the American hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse hung on the wall; However, Dwight has crossed out the words "Crazy" and "Posse" to make it fit the daycare. In the episode, Dwight's subplot was inspired by the character of Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman. Dwight even tried to use Roberts's line, "Big Mistake", but instead translated it as "You made a big mistake. During Michael's counseling session, he sarcastically tells Toby that he's being investigated by ALF, a foreign star of the eponymous television series. Michael and Toby then spend time playing Connect Four. Darryl notes to Pam that she saw a TLC show about Kate Walsh's home office, and she wants something similar.
Reception
In the original American broadcast, "Counseling" was seen by approximately 7.36 million viewers with a 3.7 rating/10% share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49. This means that it is seen by 3.7 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds, and 10 percent of all people ages 18 to 49 watch television on broadcast. This marked the decline of one million viewers and a 14 percent drop in the 18-49 demographic of the previous episode. The episode became the highest rated non-sports NBC program rated for the first week of the show and also became the most watched show of twenty-one for broadcast weeks among adults aged 18-49.
Joel Keller of AOLTV called it a "great improvement" from the previous episode of "Nepotism", because he felt that "everyone in Scranton's Dunder-Mifflin [ sic] ] acts like their own." Keller called Toby and Michael's "great" counseling sessions and enjoyed Toby's way of cheating Michael. Kelly Gerlach from TV Same enjoyed the episode and noted that it "felt like the previous season" because "no humor is forced, nothing makes me cringe in my seat because of bad writing, and awkward situations written specifically to be awkward. "In the end, he calls the episode" worthy ".
Alan Sepinwall of HitFix felt that the main story used "one of the most reliable jokes of the show". Furthermore, he feels that Michael softening to Toby is an interesting element for this episode, and he wonders if "this is the only thing once, or if Michael's treatment of Toby will soften, even slightly." Sepinwall also felt that Pam's story was the stronger of the two subplots, and felt that the office he was controlling would be interesting. And Forcella from Fanatic TV was awarded the episode four of five stars and called it "fun". While she notes that each of the three stories "is not flat out funny", she writes that they are all "fun". Furthermore, he commented positively on the main plot, noting that Michael and Toby's rivalry was great.
Not all of the reviews are positive. Myles McNutt from The A.V. Club awarded episode with value "C". While he enjoys the main storyline that revolves around Michael and Toby and feels that it "came together both funny and dramatic at the end of the day," he felt the rest of the episode was "very uneven" with "silly" , like how Pam achieved her new job. McNutt's biggest complaint with the rest of the episode is that it does not end in a "logical place"; he feels the Dwight plot displays the disconnection of the characters, and that Pam's story is "lazy".
References
External links
- "Counseling" on NBC.com
- "Counseling" in IMDb
- "Counseling" on TV.com
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