However, he covertly witnesses Robert being a gentleman and sending Erin off to her apartment with a hug and words of encouragement, and drives away with a smile on his face. When Andy has to drive a drunken Meredith home, he sees Erin getting into Robert's car and he follows them with a look of panic on his face. Andy becomes concerned about Erin's behavior, not least because Robert has revealed that his marriage is ending and spends a good deal of the party hanging out with Erin. Kelly does her part as a friend of Erin's by being mean to Jessica. In a drunken stupor, she tells Andy that her Christmas wish is for Jessica to die. An emotionally confused Erin tries to be nice to Jessica, but ends up drinking too much at the party. At a conference meeting, he vows to keep his promise to make wishes and asks the office members to also be nice to his new girlfriend Jessica. It was a great feel-good scene and a great way to end a great episode.Andy attempts to make everyone's Christmas wishes come true.
That was followed with Dwight singing karaoke to “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and everyone opening their gifts. And lastly, this episode wrapped up with the good news that the employees at the Scranton branch would not lose their jobs after being bought out.
Andy’s “12 Days of Christmas” gift to Erin was funny, especially because he thought it was such a great idea and she was becoming tormented by it. Kevin sitting on Michael’s lap and Michael claiming Toby the anti-Christ were great scenes. In this one, he gets upset because Jim has allowed Phyllis to be Santa at the office Christmas party instead of him, tries to be a second Santa, then decides to be Jesus before letting his pouty attitude get the best of him where he makes some hilarious jokes. A vast majority of the time, an immature Michael Scott equals a hilarious episode. It’s a very good one that contains a lot of laughs, mostly because of an immature Michael Scott. I rate this episode as the third best overall Christmas episode from The Office, out of its seven. And I love the scene where Michael is extremely nervous about the company’s situation and he’s inside his office with the door closed, blaring Shawn Mullin’s “Lullaby.” It’s a pretty memorable episode that not only keeps the Dunder-Mifflin employees in limbo, but The Office viewers as well. There’s something between Andy and Erin brewing, but the two can’t get on the same page to set up a date. The murder mystery game gives us a lot of funny scenes with Oscar’s southern accent, Creed’s getaway, and the classic finger-gun standoff. It’s one of the few episodes where I don’t really like Jim’s character and is also one that depicts how good of a boss Michael Scott is for his unusual tactics. This was much to Jim’s dismay, as he just wanted everyone to carry on working as usual. In what is a very anxious and nervous day at the office after they learn the company might go under, Michael decides to turn everyone’s attention to a murder mystery game.
There are many good episodes after this one, but it steers away from “vintage” The Office here. And now that I think about it, I think this episode marks the point where the show was just never the same again. Overall, it’s just a dull episode that if I watched when it was first shown on television, I would be concerned about the show’s future. The best parts were the opening when Michael aggressively unboxed and distributed all of Gabe’s stuff, and when Andy and Erin sang the welcome song to Gabe pronouncing “Sabre” wrong. Jim and Pam interviewing at the local daycare wasn’t entertaining at all and just didn’t feel important or entertaining enough to put on the episode. This storyline was pretty bland, along with Michael driving up to David Wallace’s house to ask for advice. Sabre introduces new company policies to save time and resources, none of which Michael liked at all. We meet Gabe (whose character I always liked) and company CEO Jo Bennett (whose character I never really did like).
This episode starts a new chapter in The Office series, as we are introduced to Sabre, the company who bought out Dunder-Mifflin.
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