Michael ends up asking out the waitress to the party, she says yes and they go. Dwight and Jim come along to Benihanna and Dwight tries to impress the chef with his knowledge of Japanese knives. Highlight: Pam and Karen plot together against Angela.Ĭarol breaks up with Michael in the beginning of the episode, and Andy takes Michael out to attempt to cheer him up. Season 3, Episode 10: “A Benihana Christmas, Part 1” & Season 3, Episode 11: “A Benihana Christmas, Part 2”.Andy later calls the whole thing off and only tells Jim, but then Jim neglects to tell Dwight, so Dwight keeps pulling pranks on himself, trying to get Jim’s bonus.
Andy tells Jim and Dwight that if they keep pulling pranks, whoever does one will lose their Christmas bonus, and the victim will get the whole thing. Highlight: Erin gets too drunk and exclaims to Andy her wish is that Andy’s new girlfriend, Jessica, was dead.Īndy decides this year for Christmas, he would complete a Christmas wish from everyone in the office. Season 8, Episode 10: “Christmas Wishes”.Everyone fights over all of the gifts until the game has to end. The fighting brings morale to an all time low. Michael suggests a poorly planned out game called ‘Yankee Swap.’ He gets Ryan an iPod, despite the limit of twenty dollars on the gift. “Christmas Party” was the first ever ‘The Office’ Christmas episode. Highlight: Jim’s gift to Pam, a teapot filled with some mementos and a personal letter from him to her. Season 2, Episode 10: “Christmas Party”."We must understand as Asian Americans, we need to reach out our hand to our sisters and brothers and say, 'Help me' and 'I'm here.' I'm proud to be Asian," Oh told a crowd over the weekend at a "Stop Asian Hate" protest in Pittsburgh. "I want to hear you say, 'I am proud to be Asian. Other celebrities including Sandra Oh, Chrissy Teigen and Trevor Noah have joined Jeong in speaking out and calling for allies to stand up and for leadership to take action. 'I'm proud to be Asian': Sandra Oh makes surprise appearance at 'Stop Asian Hate' protest 'Enough is enough': Megan Thee Stallion donates $50,000 after Atlanta spa shootings "There's debate whether this crime was racially motivated, Asian American women are two times as likely to be assaulted in America," Jeong said. Jeong appeared on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on March 22 and spoke out against racism and pushed back against claims denying that the shootings were racially motivated. Long told authorities his actions were motivated by sex addiction and not by race. Last week, comedian Ken Jeong took action following the March 16 Atlanta-area spa shootings – which killed eight people, six of them of Asian descent – by donating a total of $50,000 to the families of some of the victims. And it's really important that people see that like you have to measure up to the moment that you're in."įrom 'Friends' to 'Gilmore Girls': Shows we love that make us cringe in 2021Īhn's comments come amid a reckoning in Hollywood and beyond in the wake of a rise in anti-Asian racism and attacks. The show resonates because Michael reminds people of their bosses and people they work with and maybe a little bit of themselves. … I think it's good to have things that read really badly now and didn't read badly at the time, because it is a mark of our progress.
"What works about Michael is this delicate balance between full cringe and well-intentioned, lovable, bad boss," she said. "And to watch it now in the current climate like that balance feels different. "Sometimes you take a racist role because you need to pay your rent, want to join the union, or don't want your agent to fire you," she said, noting that the 2006 episode aired prior to "wokeness." USA TODAY has reached out to NBC and Ahn for further comment.Īhn previously touched on how her experience on the episode taught her "why BIPOC actors play racist roles" in a TikTok video posted in January.
“Actors have no power until they become a star.” “You’re told to shut up and be grateful,” she said. She was disenchanted upon realizing she had been cast on the popular show "just… to be the joke," she told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday. The two women, both Asian, whom Michael and Andy (Ed Helms) speak to at the restaurant are not the same as the two women who later attend the Christmas party, though this is never addressed.Ī running gag throughout the episode is that Michael can't tell the women apart, which Ahn, who played a waitress at the party named Amy, has noted is a "problematic" stereotype. In the episode, Michael Scott ( Steve Carell) and a few co-workers go to Benihana, a Japanese steakhouse, and invite a couple of waitresses to attend Dunder Mifflin's office Christmas party. Kat Ahn, a guest actress on the "Benihana Christmas" episode of "The Office" in 2006, is speaking out about playing a "problematic" role on the NBC sitcom.