If you follow “The Office,” chances are, you’ve been waiting impatiently for Angela and Dwight to get back together. Being engaged to someone else has never been an obstacle to romance before on this show, so her impending marriage to Andy really shouldn’t have any bearing on things. Should it? Surely, it will end. And end badly.

The first seeds were sown in this latest episode, “Business Trip.” But I’m getting ahead of myself.

David Wallace from corporate decides to send Michael on a business trip to Canada; partly because it’s hard to find anyone who wants to go to Winnipeg in October, and partly to take his mind off of Holly’s transfer. Michael is thrilled, and he takes Oscar along to run numbers and Andy along as a “translator.” (He speaks pidgin French.)

At their hotel, Michael immediately falls for a beautiful concierge (a position he believes his tantamount to geisha) and becomes determined to run into her later that night. He is successful; meanwhile, Andy tries to set up Oscar with two handsome businessmen also at the same bar. When he fails miserably, he and Oscar drink the Long Island iced teas that he had intended for the businessmen, and Oscar questions what Andy sees in Angela.

Andy has trouble explaining it, and eventually spills that he and Angela haven’t had sex. Oscar encourages Andy to call her up and ask her “what is wrong with her.” Andy, completely plastered, does exactly that. After he demands to know why she’s not putting out, she hangs up on him.

Michael, meanwhile, goes home with the pretty concierge, who unceremoniously kicks him out in the morning. The aftermath of the Andy/Angela situation is pretty underwhelming: she tells him they are back to “first base,” which to her means kisses on the forehead.

Back at the office, Jim anxiously waits for Pam to return from New York when he gets an upsetting phone call: she failed one of her classes. She has to re-take it, which will mean another twelve weeks apart. Jim, though obviously crushed, says she should stay.

(She doesn’t stay.)

(The distraction doesn’t work, and Michael calls up David and tells him off for sending Holly away.)

(Who knows what will happen to Angela and Andy, but I hope it’s not good.)

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