Season 4, Episode 10 - Night Out

After last week’s amazing episode, it was highly likely that this episode would be a disappointment, but fortunately it wasn’t. Although, it wasn’t quite up to par with the quality of the previous episode, it was pretty good.

Ryan has plans for the Scranton branch to come in on Saturday to input their own sales as if they were sales from the Dunder Mifflin Infinity website, which does not appear have turned into the success that Ryan thought it would be. After giving the gang a pep talk, Ryan mentions to Michael that he “should see” the women that Ryan meets in clubs in New York, which Michael takes as an invitation to join him for a night of club hopping.

So, shortly after Ryan leaves the office, Michael and Dwight are on their way to New York to party down.

Meanwhile, Jim has come up with the brilliant idea to have people work a few hours later on Friday, and not come in on Saturday at all - which sounds great, in theory, but nothing ever seems to quite go right when Jim exerts his managerial role.

In New York Michael and Dwight meet up with Ryan, who is abnormally happy to see him (and hanging out with a man that Dwight is convinced is a hobbit). As you can imagine, a night of hilarity ensues.

Back at the branch the work is complete, and the gang is leaving for the evening…except that Jim forgot to tell the security guard they were staying late, and he locked them all in. The team quickly turns on Jim and Pam. Tobey makes several attempts to impress Pam, including being very proud of having the security guard’s home phone number, and finding a football to throw around (which Pam then accidentally throws into Meredith’s face).

That comes to a head as Tobey accidentally puts his hand on Pam’s knee…and keeps it there just long enough for everyone to notice…utterly embarrassed, he announces that he’s decided to move away and jump the fence to run home…which he proceeds to do.

Jim and Co are finally free when the cleaning ladies show up, and Oscar talks to them to get everyone out of the parking lot.

Back in New York, it has become clear that Ryan has a drug problem, and he eventually collapses on the dance floor and Michael and Dwight take him home. It looks like Ryan’s life is going to fall apart this season - who know’s where he’ll be next year?

All in all, it was a good episode. If you want to check it out right now, for free, you can do so a Hulu.com.