The Office (TV Series) A Benihana Christmas (2006) User Reviews

A Benihana Christmas (#3.10)

[ComedyFan2010 · 9/10 · 30 December 2018]

It is Christmas party in the office. Two parties compete with each other. And Michael gets dumped.

A wonderful Christmas episode. I don't know how Carol was handling Michael until now but now she broke up with him. His move was indeed, like Jim said, bold. This brought us this hilarious story of his "new girlfriend" whom he had to mark so he could remember which one it is.

The party battle was also fun, and it was nice to see Pam and Karen work together. The moment when everybody gets up and needs to choose which party to go to was gold.

Dwight made one laugh again with his goose issues and the prank Pam gave Jim as a gift.

And I can't say how happy I was when Pam gave Toby a bathrobe he liked so much. I almost cried when Dwight took it away from him. Toby deserves all the god things that he wants.

Extended runtime

[evansjoshyr · 10/10 · 12 January 2021]

42 mins of office goodness. Comedy gold christmas special What more could you ask for

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[Edvis-1997 · 8/10 · 27 October 2021]

I'm always here for funny jokes(racist, dark or other it doesn't really matter) and I got what I came for. Tho, this episode was too long so it lost main idea. It was a little bit too messy and all over the place.

It has to be believable for the joke to land

[treborbasset · 6/10 · 20 June 2021]

It's not a terrible episode, but for me Michael getting the two Asian women confused just doesn't stand up since they look nothing alike. I don't know if it's meant to be a joke in bad taste, but these are two women with different face shapes, eyes, teeth, mouths, bodies, etc... They look nothing alike and I simply do not believe that someone would ever get them confused.

For this reason, the joke doesn't land and a large part of the episode falls flat for me. The rest of the episode is decent enough for a season 3 episode.

Christmas Breakup, Asian Girls, Christmas Parties

[vivianla · 28 October 2020]

Dwight brings in a dead goose he hit along the way. Later Michael comes riding in with a used red bike for the Christmas donation.

Carol comes over and asks Michael about the photoshopped Christmas card he sent out of a past ski trip she took with her ex and kids. He simply put his photo over her ex's and she says it is weird. Michael shows his Sandals packages he bought for Jamaica for the two of them and tells Carol to go find the skimpiest bikini. Carol breaks up with him.

Michael becomes depressed and stays in his office playing a James Blunt song that sounds really good - (note to self: search this song up). The new employee who has a silent competition with Dwight comes in and suggests they go out to eat at Benihana's, a Japanese restaurant.

At the Japanese restaurant a lovely asian waitress serves them named Cindy. The new employee talks her up with her other waitress colleague and they take them back as girlfriends to the office.

Angela has planned a Nutcracker Christmas Party. Pam and the other new girl that Jim has interest in decide to stand up to Angela and make their own committee and party. Their party is seen as more fun because there is alcohol and karaoke. Angela's party has a cute song on.

Angela gives in and joins in on the karaoke singing Christmas songs.

Dwight waits for a helicopter sent to him from the fake CIA that Pam and Jim made.