Halloween is upon the office this week, but only for the intro. Stanley is sleeping inside a mask. Andy is a kitty. Jim is Dave. Pam is Charlie Chaplin in an office where no one else dressed up. But the real prize goes to Kevin, Creed, and Dwight for all dressing up as one of two cliches this year – The Joker. The other cliche being Sarah Palin, who was strangely not represented by any females in the office.

Well, Holly and Michael have been ousted. Their relationship has lead to Holly being transferred seven hours away. So, Michael is taking a personal day to help her move up. Darryl is also helping, because it’s his truck and he’s driving.

Jim heads to New York to have lunch with his big brothers and Pam, so they can celebrate their engagement. I personally didn’t know that he had brothers to begin with. For some reason, I see everyone (except Dwight) as having no siblings.

Since Angela has chosen to go through with her marriage to Andy, Dwight has decided he’s going to feed off of Andy’s weakness – anger. He’s decided the easiest way to get Andy angry is to prey upon Andy’s pride – Cornell. Instead of ragging on the school, he starts off by showing up with a Cornell sweater and proclaims that he’s applying to the school. It gets to Andy immediately. So, Dwight keeps it up.

Darryl, Michael, and Holly are on their way. It’s established that they are going to try to make their relationship work by taking turns driving up and down and sometimes meeting in the middle. Then, Michael and Holly start singing to Tom Cochrane’s Life is a Highway like a couple of dorks. Darryl hilariously joins in.

Pam decides to pull a prank on Jim, so she meets up with his brothers, Tom and Pete, to work it out. She has a pretty good one about losing her engagement ring, but the brothers decide to go completely different direction. They think it’ll be hilarious to rag on Pam’s art career choice. She nervously agrees.

At the halfway mark of the road trip, Michael wants to pull over to find a bed and breakfast. Problem is, there’s nothing but trees there. He useless expresses what he imagined it would be like. They head back on the road and almost instantaneously Holly breaks down in tears. She is worried it’s not going to work, because they’ve only been dating a few weeks. Michael is encouraging and refuses to give up so easily.

Dwight continues his shenanigans by hanging a Cornell banner from the ceiling. Andy can’t take it anymore. He tells Dwight to take it down. A couple other employees chime in about their ideas of Cornell. Then Dwight busts out a Cornell bobblehead. Andy is at his boiling point and steps outside.

In the truck, Holly is trying to go through the timeframe they have to spend with each other during the weekends. It’s about less than 24 hours. Michael says that he can talk to her on the phone the entire drive up. Is a dumb plan, but one he thinks can work for years. Michael eventually starts to break down, while Darryl is trying anxiously to talk to anyone on the phone as it’s possibly the most awkward situation a third wheel could be in. Then the tears come again, but this time from Michael. He’s so afraid of breaking up and more afraid that he’s weak enough to go back to Jan.

Andy returns to Dwight and reveals he’s going to be conducting the University interview. So, it begins when the hourglass strikes three, then in the room whence employees confer.

“If I were to put Dwights chances into a percentage, I would say he has NONE percent… chance.”

At the New York dinner, Jim’s brothers had been ragging on Pam for a while. Jim is pretty defensive the entire time, while Pam is fairly quiet. Then, Pam eventually has to defend herself, at which point, the “jig” is up and the brothers bust up laughing. It’s got to be the worst “prank” pulled on the show.

Back at the conference room, the interview starts getting hairy. Andy asks some trick questions and takes note of Dwight’s subpar abilities. Dwight responds with some notes of his own. Turns out he’s taken it upon himself to evaluate Cornell’s interviews for the University. The situation becomes a back and forth of them reading aloud what they are writing about each other. Eventually, it degrades into a tug of war with a desk with Andy repeating Dwight’s words and losing the tug battle, pretty badly.

Michael, Holly, and Darryl finally make it to their destination. They silently get everything moved into her new place. When it’s ready for Darryl to leave, he offers Michael his overnight bag. Michael isn’t staying. He has Darryl return to the truck while he does the inevitable. Inside the house, Michael tells Holly that he’s not staying with a choked throat. This is the end. They hug and kiss each other goodbye and Michael leaves. Just like that, his perfect mate is gone. On the drive back, Darryl comforts Michael through the blues. Michael is in pain, more than he’s been in the entire show. Steve Carrell is amazing at conveying it, and I couldn’t help but get choked up myself.

Ending the show, we see Andy coming in with a farmer’s outfit and a box of beets. He tries to mock Dwight, but it doesn’t even come close to affecting him the way Dwight got to Andy.

Even though Michael and Holly’s breakup was very powerful, while Dwight and Andy were absolutely hilarious, I would have loved to see a bit more substance with the whole Jim’s brothers ordeal. I guess we did get to see where Jim get’s his pranking from, even if the source is totally horrible at it.

4 and a half Dwight foreheads out of 5.