Dear The Office, please stop sucking.

[Right] Because I don't want to indulge the current edition of The Office with a picture, please instead take this picture of a hot Angela Kinsey and Rachael Harris with Jim. The picture is from this site.

I'm not one to really slag on The Office, as I think reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, Pam and Jim might have a sappy romance with almost no problems, but I kind of like that. Every other relationship on television is kind of dysfunctional, so it is good to have a sort of "model" couple that finally got together and stayed together after seasons of agony. It's like the polar opposite of LOST, where the status of Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Juliet changes every week.

However, the two newest episodes of the show have really left something to be desire. Two weeks ago was the clip show that I rightly slagged - Why bother coming back from a break if you're just going to show a clip show? And if you're not going to have every character in it? Just go with a new episode, NBC. This is why you stink now.

This week, the gang found out that some company had bought them out. The whole episode was so forgettable though that I have no idea what their name is. The only thing I remember clearly is that the head of the company is some Southern lady who looks and sounds suspiciously like Paula Dean, the horrible lady on Food Network who cooks everything in butter. "Y'all can't have some ice cream without butter on it!"

Yawn. I chuckled a few times during the episode, but at this point, every other show in NBC's Thursday night lineup is keeping my attention more.