"Eyewitnessing" the media part 3

On my last day of my media encounters I watched another episode of the television program "The Office" and rented the movie "Knocked Up." The episode of "The Office" I watched was titled "Product Recall." Someone from an educational organization called the office complaining of a vulgar watermark on the paper featuring "a cartoon duck and a cartoon mouse." This happened because of an employee, Creed Bratton (Creed Bratton), who skipped a quality assurance meeting and failed to catch the mistake in the watermark. Michael Scott (Steve Carell) holds a press conference to give the lady who complained of the watermark free paper, but she refuses and wants Michael to resign. Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kailing) trains the accounting staff in customer service. Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey), the head accountant, is more prideful than the rest of her accounting colleagues and thinks she does not have to apologize because the Dunder-Mifflin company has already apologized. Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) are sent to the school to calm the school principal who used the paper to send invitations to the prom. Andy discovers his "frozen yogurt chef girlfriend" is a high school student and goes crazy. Michael makes an apology video explaining that the watermark incident was not his fault and that he was being made an "escape goat." As I watched this episode I realized some of the craziness that can happen in the workplace thanks to a variety of different (and sometimes dumb) personalities. There are many politics involved between people and the people from whom they buy things.

"Knocked Up" is a movie about a stoner/slacker guy named Ben (Seth Rogen) and career-oriented girl Alison (Katherine Heigl) who wind up meeting in a nightclub and going home drunk to wind up sleeping with each other. As a result of their good night's sleep, Alison winds up pregnant by Ben. Ben and Alison go through many stages in their newfound relationship such as like, love, anger, frustration, confusion, and committed love. Ben also has his stoner/slacker friends (played by Jason Segel, Martin Starr, Jay Baruchel, and Jonah Hill) with whom he runs a Web site. Alison has a job working for E! Entertainment Television, where she starts out doing behind-the-scenes camera work and then is promoted to on-camera personality. Alison and Ben also spend a lot of time with this other couple, Alison's sister Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete (Paul Rudd). Ben and Pete, as well as Alison and Debbie, have a lot of separate bonding moments in these movies and learn a lot about each other, about themselves, and about how they each handle their respective relationships. This movie taught me more about what it takes to be in a committed relationship, what it is like to go through parenthood, why some people may or may not be right for each other, about trust and honesty, about the value of solitary time away from responsibilities, and about the value of friendships, family, and relationships. It was also a mixture of witty and some physical comedy which made for a few good laughs and, more importantly, a recognition of ourselves and our lives through these characters and their individual situations.

This is the conclusion of "Eyewitnessing" the media. That does not mean, however, that I am finished blogging on here. Have a great weekend!