Jim

How many episodes of The Office this season have advanced the idea that Jim is turning into Michael? Several, I think. In the episode where he screwed up and trapped everybody in the parking lot, and his co-workers turned against him, it was clear that he was surprised to realize that he, not Michael, had become the guy who ruined everything for everybody. And in last night’s episode, as he tried for the first time in his life to actually expend some real effort on his job (for Pam’s sake), we got a glimpse of how a Michael Scott is created: if you want to succeed at this job, you have to be obnoxious, persistent and always “on,” the way Jim became by the end of the golf match.