![]() (In Greene’s great Office oral history, Lee Eisenberg says, “Mindy would write the most gay version of Michael,” while Justin Spitzer says, “Mindy’s Michael was more feminine.”) My colleague Andy Greene suggests Kaling’s version of Michael was a bit more vulnerable and needy than that of some of her peers. (*) To be fair, The Office had this problem with Michael, who could behave wildly differently depending on who wrote that week’s episode. “I think fans of Jim and Pam’s romance really thought it was like a very pointed ‘fuck you’ to them and where the story was going.” “The Injury” was written by Mindy Kaling, who years later recalled that because of that scheduling choice, “On message boards, people were so angry” about an episode where Dwight vomits on camera, Michael falls off the toilet, and Jim and Pam barely interact. It was meant to air back-to-back with “The Secret,” where Jim frets that Michael is going to blurt out his secret to the world, but instead it was followed by this wholly comedic, standalone story where Michael just wants Pam to rub Country Crock on his injured sole. ![]() ![]() The previous week’s installment, “Booze Cruise,” ended with Michael finding out about Jim’s crush on Pam, and encouraging him to pursue her. It is easily the funniest episode of that show, and one of the most consistently laugh-out-loud half-hours of this century.Īt the time it debuted, though, “The Injury” was wildly unpopular with many Office fans, because NBC was running episodes out of order. It’s been nearly 15 years since The Office gave us “The Injury.” You remember “The Injury,” right? It’s the one where Michael cooks his foot on a George Foreman grill, Dwight gets concussed and starts acting nice to Pam, and the gas station in Carbondale does not have fresh yams.
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