Katie Rewatches The Office from the Beginning - Season 1, Episode 1, - "Pilot"

• Michael Scott's hair is terrible.
• This is so deadpan, it's absurd.
• "You're a gentleman and a scholar. Oh, sorry. My mistake. That was a woman I was talking to."
• I love how little personality Pam has in the beginning. It's so believable.
• Dwight singing "Little Drummer Boy" - some continuity later on
• "WAZZZUP" - so awkward after they wear it out.
• The special filing cabinet for things from corporate...
• Todd Packer on speakerphone - "I have one question. Does the carpet match the drapes?"
• "I'm sort of a student of comedy" - cue Hitler impression.
• Dwight moving all of Jim's stuff back on his desk. One word, two syllables - demarcation.
• Jim lining the desk border with pencils - "I could fall and pierce and organ." And when Dwight proceeds to whack all the pencils with his phone, whac-a-mole style? BRILLIANT. Never not funny.
• "I have been reccomending downsizing since I got here. Even brought it up in my interview."
• Six Million Dollar Man impression. And how badly it bombs. And when Michael looks back to see if Pam is laughing.
• Heroes - Bob Hope, Abraham Lincoln, Bono, and probably God would be the fourth one.
• Dwight wanting Michael to tell him the news first. Love seeing the power struggle, or lack there of.

• I feel like the production quality of this season was so low budget.
• "You ain't gonna be messin' wit my chillun.
• The stapler in jello, of course.
• And Pam's little giggle at the jello.
• And the fact that Jim is eating jello.
• "I've always been your biggest flan." "You should have put him in custardy."
• How we're basically lead to believe that Jim and Pam may be together, and then Roy walks in. Ugh.
• Fake firing Pam. What a dick. "Theft. And stealing. Post-it Notes."
• "My proudest moment here was not when I increased profits by 17% or when I cut expenses without losing a single employee. Nuh nuh nuh no. It was a young Guatemalan guy. First job in the country, barely spoke English. Came to me and said "Mr. Scott, would you be the godfather of my child?" Wow, wow. Wow. Didn't work out in the end, we had to let him go, he sucked."
• Jim not going out for drinks because Pam wasn't.

Overall rating: 7/10. It's so different than the following seasons, but it was trying to be like the UK Office. Viciously deadpan. Low production quality. But also hilarious.