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The Office: Doomsday (2011)
Simply Ridiculous Plot
Most episodes of The Office can manage to push past plot holes and feasibility issues, or even embrace them, with a few exceptions. (I'm looking at you, Fire Drill.) But this episode simply makes me want to scream.
The entire plot revolves around a device that will literally get everyone fired if it goes off at 5 PM, including Dwight, who created it. This device is apparently on the server in the office, which as far as I can tell, is in the closet/Ryan's office, but is definitely in the building somewhere. They set the device off, everyone panics, and the entire episode is about trying to deal with a Dwight that feels like he was written as a heavily unstable and illogical psychopath, and not his strange, rigid, but ultimately human self.
The plot holes in this are cannonballs shot through a barn roof.
1. Unplug the server. It's right there. Pull the plug at 4:59, no more problems. UNPLUG IT! This is literally a time bomb plugged into a wall circuit, and the writers just made everyone laughably stupid enough to not consider unplugging the godforsaken thing. This alone utterly breaks the episode.
2. Dwight is killing any chance he has for advancement at the company, which he's spent the entire 8-season running frothing over trying to get. From the devotion and intense loyalty towards the company he's shown since S1E1, this is literally the equivalent of Dwight shooting himself in the foot. Utterly illogical behavior. Really consistent mindset there, writers.
3. Andy is the manager, ranks above Dwight, and has authority. Dwight has to give up the code. There's not a single company in the world who would let a subordinate hijack the computer system and refuse to give up control when asked by a superior. Andy folds like he's powerless, for NO REASON AT ALL. He literally never even tries to use his power to persuade him, because at that point most viewers would go "Oh hey, that doesn't make any sense," and the entire plot would fall apart even more than it already has. I know Andy's not a bastion of confidence, but come on! Everyone is going to be fired! He's not a sentient noodle!
The side plots of this episode are rather buried, but not poorly-written or unreasonable, so this doesn't get a 1, but wow. There's only a few episodes of this show I dislike at all, but this one takes the cake. 3/10