The scariest thing about this video is seeing Chris without glasses. It's just not right

I agree that Robert is messing with people but I think the point of the punchline is that fear itself means nothing. This mother is freaking out about what happens to her child when at the end of the day, the baby is fine. At the end of the day, fear is irrational. There are things that should worry us but they should not scare us.

I think the meaning of his story was to show them that fear can be irrational and limiting, and that they should not let it control their lives. He also wanted to make a point about his own fear of losing his wife, who he had an argument with and who would come to the office looking for a job.

Another show to look at in the future is maybe community? It had an inane production through its seasons and there’s so many things to pick apart from each episode.

I've always kind of liked this one tbh. And I like how Robert basically finds out how what scares everyone and then tells a story that hits them all.

Seeing this reminded me how Erin and Andy's love plot was crappy. It started well, but the idea of putting her with Gabe in the first place was just pretty dumb. They never really knew what to do with the two characters after that

I always thought the end of Robert's story shows his own fear. He starts the story with a tale of someone possessed by the devil - and at the end of the story, the baby appears to be possessed by the devil. The whole point of the story could be Robert wielding power over his subordinates just for the hell of it. But it could also be his weird attempt to bond with them, be one of the group, by sharing his own fear with them. He's a weirdo with no apparent friends and is looking to belong. Consider how genuinely happy he is in "Pool Party", when he sees his employees having fun and tries to treat them as his friends. No wonder his son's insane.

I love Dwight as Kerrigan because I'm both a huge Starcraft fan and a huge Office fan, and I never thought those two universes would come together in any way. This might not be interesting to anyone, but in Starcraft II they have a tavern on the Terrans' ship with a jukebox, and one of the songs is called "Jem's Song" and the artist is Big Tuna. I searched and searched to find out if this was a reference to the Office, but with no luck. It just seems like a really weird coincidence.

I like the call back to Wendy's in this episode. 😅

There’s no KZfaqr that I follow or have even come across that has as high production value, intelligent analysis, and enjoyable content as you. It blows my mind that you only have 35k subs right now. I’m gonna feel so cool when you have 1 million + and I was there from the early days haha. It’s absolutely going to happen. Totally inevitable with your quality. Great video as always!

I actually really like this episode myself

At first I found Jim's reaction to Pam's story really odd. He seemed almost obsessed with the fact that she believed she had a ghost encounter. But I think it foreshadows their upcoming marital challenges. Pam says she told him this story on their first date, but I would guess he didn't remember it because he was on cloud nine. I think the storyline is meant to convey that even when we've been married for a while we still don't know all of our spouse's quirks and intricacies.

As Brazilian, never really whatch any show in "real time" and even with that i can feel we lost so many halloween episodes in this last years

While roberts story might just be him messing around to entertain himself, I think there’s a deeper strategy of his at play, that being the fear of the employees that he knows what scares them. The story might not really scare them, but the fact they know that he could go further with it makes Robert much more scary than he would be otherwise

Poor Rob Zombie catching some strays here haha

The ghost of Michel Scott was in the whole episode.

Not sure if I believe in ghosts or not. But sometimes my apartment is weird. I’ve heard a little boy running around and giggling late at night; my boy was dead asleep and snoring next to me, and my only neighbor I share a wall with doesn’t have a kid. And sometimes my pictures have moved and it couldn’t have been my kids, because you have to climb on a tall ladder to move them. Also my keys have changed spots when I had just put them down minutes ago, and each time I was home alone. Again, not sure what I believe or not, but I will say that it is all very weird. And the people who lived in my unit before us, were two childless college aged adults, who had a cat.

I get more of a fear response from riding an escalator or seeing centipedes than things that I should be afraid of, like a snake. And because we're sharing, the scariest supernatural thing that's happened to me personally was that something tried to drag me off of my bed once. I was actually sleeping on a sofa at the time, fully centered and secure on the inner part of the sofa. It wasn't like I was half-awake and just slowly falling off the edge. It was pitch black, I had just woken up and was fully alert. I felt my right leg slowly getting pulled. The rest of my body didn't move. I waited and held myself still, but it wouldn't stop. I said a prayer, and then it stopped. Scared the crap out of me. 😂

Oh my, Im glad its 07:30am when im watching this.

I love this episode and this season is not that bad. Oh my god you just started talking halfway through me typing this and you have no glasses on go Chris

Best episode yet. Thanks

Really cool ghost stories. The one about your daughter scared my girlfriend and I had to turn it off and finish watching later in the day by myself

To me the most entertaining part of this episode is Robert's story.

The most surreal thing about this episode is that I cannot for the life of me ever remember seeing it nor even realized it ever existed

New set up. Dig it.

To me "I'm fine, b*tch. I'm fine." meant that, if you take control over your own story, you'd conquer your fears. Which he sensed was what's holding back the other employees in their pursuits of happiness. Since he was the master of the baby story, and it's fearful elements, he controlled it's ending. edit: Now that I think about it, Robert California controlled his own story through his appearance in the Office. Even after David Wallace buys back Dunder Mifflin, Robert makes up a whole new fake story about himself, and gets Wallace to give him 1 million bucks. This dude is like a force of nature or something.

There are a lot of Meth Heads in Leadville

Human thought is influenced by chemicals just like dogs. (Cortisol, dopamine, etc.)

I sometimes forget about this episode somehow.

You left out when Meredith said Jim after California said slim

It's 'Cold OPEN' YW!

It's more like a 8/10

Season 8 is better than both Season 6 and 7. Turf War is Top 10 for me.

I have never seen the video made by Gabe. I just kknew it would be horrible :P

I have always thought "I'm fine bitch" was just to make his son laugh. It's a dad saying a curse word in an odd moment, and little dude probably just thinks it's funny.

The kid's laugh is so fake it always annoys me.

I don’t get Robert California’s punchline either.

One of my least fave episodes. Weirdly, the cold opening is my favourite part lmao. I understood what Robert was doing? I didnt think that was really opaque. Erin focused episodes always fall flat for me James Spader is always on point though

I would get Jim's reaction about Pam's believes, but man, you got married in a church and got your child baptised, so you should buy into supernatural 😅

Looking kinda hunkalicious there. I know, I know, you love your wife. 😊

The kid (like almost every child ever) is annoying and the Toby jab was unnecessary. Otherwise, fine episode. Better than nothing but just watch Epidemiology instead.