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I loved the premise. A few things could have made this funnier...

1. less michael in the woods. the fact that he was doing it was funny. watching him talk to the camera was not.
2. a different office conflict than the stupid birthday cake thing.
3. some good old michael ripping on toby about how lame/gay the camping trip was. needed to really embarrass toby like he usually does.
4. less creed. creed is incredible for one or two lines an ep, but had too big of a role in this imo.
5. a quick michael phone call to ryan.
6. let us know SOMETHING about how pam/jim's relationship is going.

again i liked the premise, just thought the writing was unusually weak.

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These are almost all horrible ideas:
The nature of the conflict has to be as stupid as possible to get the point across, esp with Michael having tried to do the same thing.
There's probably nothing that could kill the show faster than weekly updates on the state of the Jim/Pam relationship.

I wasn't crazy about this ep, I also feel like NBC's week of green is kind of stupid and is partially to blame for weighing down the ep (not that I have anything against environmentalism or shows addressing real world issues, but when it's an organized network-wide effort it becomes distracting and I can only imagine was cumbersome to work with for the people making the shows).

I felt like the scene during the credits, although lacking in subtlety, was vintage office, Michael needs to act like that more often for us to stay on his side.

Other than that, as mentioned a miss, except for the visual gags, the weapon montage, the duct taped pants, Michael in the Battlestar sweater, ... .