Branch Closing

This episode had a lot of humorous moments. The opening sequence between Jim, the fax machine, Dwight, and "Future Dwight" was among the best opening sequences yet. Michael's comments about "Bowling for Columbine"---"I thought it was gonna be more like Kingpin"---were hilarious. The Stanley and Ryan/Kelly stuff was also great. My one problem is the plot itself. I feel that the show is selling out with Jim moving back. They had a great thing going in Stamford, now they give that up to bring this stupid love triangle crap to Scranton. I was very disappointed in the writers. I do hope the Ed Helms character follows Jim and the girl to Scranton. The dichotomy between he and Dwight could be gold. I felt that the episode could have been split into 2 parts. I felt that it was rushed. One moment Jan was at one branch, the next moment the other branch. Everything seemed to get resolved much too quickly. The episode as a whole was good, but there were more funny moments than a completely humorous episode.

It is such a nice change of pace when a show that usually never takes plot as a priority gives an episode like this. In a way, season 3 so far has been leading up to this as we got to know the other branch when Jim moved. Seeing everyone's different reaction to the news jan tells michael at the beginning of the episode was genius and brilliant. Seeing michael and dwight go on a basically pointless mission but bonding over it was great to see and very funny at times.

Not the funniest episode, but the most plot driven and emotional at times. I am very intrigued to see where the show goes from here

One of few episodes that has twisted plot, which is nice considered that it was launched at 2006. It wasn't maybe the funniest episode but it made a lot of sense and some key points what's this season going to be about.