The office season 2 christmas party
Over at Chez Higgins, where expectations for the dinner are modest, the most interesting thing happens: one Sam Obisanya arrives a little early. Sam (Toheeb Jimoh, center) is the first to arrive at the Christmas party. Young Bernard, seemingly truly sorry, apologizes, and Phoebe beams.Īnd as this little family wanders off, you get the playing of "Fairytale Of New York" to which you are contractually entitled.
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Roy and Keeley take Phoebe over to the home of Bernard (the mean boy), where she shows him a series of Love Actually-style signs that explain that he hurt Phoebe's feelings, and if he doesn't make "amends," he'll face the wrath of Roy and Keeley. Hmm, poster board, some markers, where are we going with this in a Christmas episode? Well, to Love, Actually, of course. What does he need? Poster board and markers. But Roy being Roy, he's not quite done yet.
So Phoebe gets a prescription for some medication, and that should be that. The dentist suggests getting rid of the cat, but the very protective Keeley is having none of it. She confirms that this is some terrible breath, and she soon susses out that Phoebe has dry mouth from the antihistamines she's been taking to deal with her cat allergies, and dry mouth leads to bad breath. Eventually, they are successful in locating a pleasant woman who recognizes Roy and is happy to help out. Roy can only think of one solution, since there's no star that shines in the night sky that will lead you to a dentist: knocking on doors until he finds one.
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(All hail Brett Goldstein and Juno Temple for their creative silent communication of just how bad this breath is when they first get a face full of it.) But of course, it's Christmas Eve, so there's nowhere to take her. Roy and Keeley are appalled, right up until they smell her breath and realize that something is indeed very much amiss - as Keeley puts it, her breath is medically bad. Ted has promised his son that they can all open presents together over FaceTime, since this is the first Christmas since the divorce.Įventually, Phoebe does explain why she's down: A boy in her class gave her a Christmas card that mocked her terrible breath. Somewhat sheepishly, Higgins says they typically get maybe two players, and it honestly seems like maybe he's exaggerating. Plans for Christmas vary and create the structure of the episode: Keeley is plotting "sexy Christmas" with Roy, Nate is seeing his family, Beard is still entangled with Jane to the point where they're going to see Stonehenge "as friends," Rebecca is going to Elton John's holiday party, and Higgins and his wife will be holding their annual Christmas dinner, to which they always invite the players who don't have families locally. And, of course, 14 draws - or Ds, to which entry someone has helpfully added "(NUTZ)." We've skipped ahead a bit in the timeline, because while the team broke the streak of draws with its first loss last season, we see that the white board in the Diamond Dogs lounge (Ted's office) now shows that they have four wins and four losses. Jamie's response: "God bless me, every one." Never change, beautiful goober. Jamie, of course, has forgotten to buy a gift for Secret Santa (he may have changed, but he's still himself), so Ted and the rest of the coaches help him put together an emergency present. But in fairness, it's a really nice scarf - handmade! Isaac sits in the center of the room in his Santa outfit directing the action, because Isaac is the captain of the team and if you haven't heard, Santa is the captain of Team North Pole. Colin has gotten a scarf, and everybody else has gotten booze. We first find the team in the middle of a gift exchange, where "Christmas In Hollis" is playing, because that's the law.
In this particular Christmas episode, even though Ted is feeling blue, the team finds joy in bonding over dinner, while Roy and Keeley try out door-to-door dentistry.
The Christmas episode is a standard of television - and especially of British television, which Ted Lasso is not, but which it sometimes, for brief moments, feels like it is. Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is ready for Christmas.