It is never a good thing when one of the most anticipated fictional weddings of our time is also the most boring. Tonight, after six seasons of Jim and Pam's humdrum courtship, Dunder Mifflin's golden boy and golden girl make it official during The Office's hour-long matrimonial event. As Jim and Pam (a.k.a Jam) fans spent the engagement perusing the couple's fictional wedding website (complete with fake registry), wallpapering their bedrooms in Entertainment Weekly photo spreads and posting messages on Facebook's Jim and Pam group page ("I will cry at the wedding." "I live vicariously through jim and pam."), Movieline assembled a photo chronology of the couple's boremance.
Jim And Pam Subtly Flirt When Pam's Undeserving Fiancé Is Not Around (Season 1)
Remember back in the first season when Jim and Pam had to minimize their already below-the-radar teasing because Pam was unhappily engaged to Roy in the warehouse. And there were no stakes since Pam was obviously going to break it off with Roy because she was jealous whenever Jim unenthusiastically dated that purse saleswoman played by Amy Adams.
Jim And Pam Bond Over Everyone's Favorite Movies (Season 2)
Pam proves her universal likeability by stating her Top 5 Desert Island Movies: Fargo, Edward Scissorhands, Dazed and Confused, The Breakfast Club, and The Princess Bride. Twenty to thirty year old men and women feel emboldened about finding their own tousle-haired, small town PA love connection because they also love The Breakfast Club.
Jim and Pam Play a Prank On Dwight (Season 3)
Watching Jim and Pam smirk and stare into the camera makes me wistful for the white hot passion of Niles and Daphne. Of all the "Will They Or Won't They" couples in television history, Jim and Pam are hands down the least exciting, especially when they flirt from their desks. Just get it over with so we can see what perverted thing Creed is doing.
Jim and Pam Walk a 5K Race, Jim Fake Proposes (Season 4)
On the continuum of wedding proposals, the only thing that might be worse than the stadium jumbotron proposal is the fake proposal. Not only did that event spawn a slew of imitations from non-famous guys to their non-famous girlfriends, but by delaying the inevitable it just reiterated why the word "inevitable" usually has a connotation of lockstep determinism.
Jim Really Proposes (Season 5)
A production decision was made to shoot the proposal with a long lense from across the highway to hopefully dilute the overwhelming tweeness of the event, but in actuality, the effectiveness of the moment was already washed out by the deluge of rain. We get it. They have overcome things and are in love and a gas station is such an unlikely place for a proposal, and a rain storm such an unlikely moment, just like their love was so unlikely in the first place and they aren't like a conventional couple. If they wanted to make it actually artful, you would have cut the sound because the image was heavyhanded enough.
Jim and Pam Finally Get Married (Season 6)
Who didn't see this coming six seasons ago? And while the American version of The Office has at least equaled the British version in the quantity of laughs, it has never come close to creating the type of heart-wrenching romantic moments that befell Tim and Dawn in the original. At least it's all over tonight as the Dunder Mifflin sweethearts finally tie the knot.
For those of you who will be spending tonight watching anything but NBC, rest assured that there is at least one Facebook Group that feels your pain. I'll leave by quoting the words of one anti-Jammer from Australia: "I had to search for this group for 20 minutes but I knew deep down there were others like me that hated Pam [and Jim together] as much as I did. Thank you."