Ha! I actually wish I'd be home tonight to catch this.

So NBC executives deserve credit for preserving the original's unflinching black humor - the show's tone could so easily have been ruined by just one wrong cut-away shot or punch line. Michael's faux pas are met with blank stares and excruciatingly long, bewildered silences. Particularly when Michael says things like, "As Abe Lincoln once said: If you are a racist we will attack you from the north."