Pam on the office did serve a purpose though.

Woman with little to no flaws and man with little to no flaws slowly getting together and then getting married is not a very good storyline.

Not to get all "You suck feminists!" but it's also one of the few times on television where the female was the one who married up.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

seasons 2 and 3 were the best of the show. pam should've probably been left in the dust after karen. from what i remember in season 4, jim is kind of a jackass.

the biggest problem, from the getgo, was that this show never established credibility in enough of the characters to sustain its run. michael & crew were too cartoonish, and jim was stuck in all of it. pam and jim began as the rock of the show, and their tension was the glue. then, it crumbled because when the show tried to expand its narrative, the writers forgot that they didn't set these characters up well to begin with. it is one of TV's biggest shames, along with "lost" as an unfinished product that had way too much airtime.

The show was great through season 4 and then started losing it in 5. Season 6 was clearly too long.

VERY few shows can handle much past 4 seasons...they all jump the shark and get bad after 4 seasons.

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And the talent of a pre-schooler.

It's one of those things that happens in TV and movies where some is a "talented artist" but they don't actually have any talented artists working on the show so you end up with something that belongs on a parents fridge not in an art gallery. Pam's mural? Hot gah-bage

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