This week's episode of "The Office" featured cameos-a-poppin'. Not the necklace cameos, though I like those in case you're aiming for a mid-Winter present exchange. I mean celebrity cameos! This week brought our sore eyes the sight of Kathy Bates, Christian Slater, and UCB wunderkind Zach Woods, who's also in the fantastic "In The Loop," which was nominated this week for the "Best Screenplay" Academy Award. Hi Zach! Keep soaring as high as your height, you magnificent beanstalk.

So, the main course of the episode, if we're treating things like meals (which I feel we should start doing), centers around Dunder-Mifflin's acquisition by a company called "Sabre." And pronounced like the Tooth Tiger, unbeknownst to Michael, who calls it "Saab-bray" until he has to knock it off. The aforementioned and afore-appreciated Zach Woods plays a good-natured, kind of passive-aggressive Sabre rep, who shows the D-M staff a very important video hosted by Christian Slater as himself, explaining in vague corporate jabber just how great Sabre is.

After the dazzle of the A.V. presentation, Zach Woods takes the floor, and talks slowly and calmly to the staff about some changes to the Dunder-Mifflin way of doing things. For example, Michael will have to start using one of those aluminum water bottles instead of going through a long stack of plastic cups every day. Which doesn't go over so gangbusters, nor does it go over Ghostbusters. Or is it "Ghostbustersly"?

He expresses himself to an iChat version of Kathy Bates, who plays the CEO of Sabre and is also just generally a gift to men and women alike, so let's all take a moment for that realization. Bates, even via webcam, asserts her dominance over Michael with such grace you would think her roommate was a gay dude played by Eric McCormack. She is the alpha wolf! Bless and keep her always.

Meanwhile, Jim and Pam go preschool-shopping while preggo, which is like grocery shopping while you're not hungry; a state I've never experienced. Jim accidentally walks in on the school director on the toilet, which jinxes their interview but gives us a chance to see Joey Slotnik be funny.

And finally, Michael goes to visit a former Dunder-Mifflin employee, David Wallace, who is loser'ing around at home, brainstorming terrible get-rich-quick schemes and being generally sad and not looky-up-to-ey. So Michael decides to go back to work and stick it out from underneath Bates's Alpha Wolf paw. And good thing, because she is a delight and nobody in the world wouldn't want to see more of her constantly.