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karen and rachel (not stacey)
January 29th, 2007 under tim, jim, karen, rachel. [ Comments: 9 ]

Karen, Jim’s current girlfriend, showed up in the third season, would be Tim’s Stacey Rachel. it’s interesting that both actively pursued their boys, and got them… but for how long?

Stacey Rachel lasted 6 episodes, and Karen’s got 12 episodes to this post date. Stacey Rachel could dance, and Jim seemed pretty impressed that Karen could speak French.

Karen confronted Jim straight up about his feelings for Pam, and was pretty calm about it. We saw Stacey Rachel crying, but it’s unclear what Tim said exactly to her. Karen was suckered into moving into Scranton though, but since Stacey Rachel was repeatedly hit on by Gareth, I think Karen’s still better off.

[EDIT: i confused the actress Stacey Roca’s name with the character who is actually named RACHEL. all changed!]

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Stacey Rachel, UK Office
Karen, US Office

jell-o-y maniacs
January 23rd, 2007 under people, tim, jim, language. [ Comments: 452 ]

in the first episode we see tim and jim both innocently eating a gelatin snack:

Tim with Jelly Jim with Jell-O
it’s cute to see them eat their respective sugary snacks. i’ve never seen gelatin come in a box though, so that’s pretty cool. looks more solid.
fun fact: Americans would call “Jell-O” (by the popular brand name), and the British call it “jelly”.
tim and jim video
July 11th, 2006 under people, tim, jim, video. [ Comments: none ]

Watch this really great video user absnow54 has posted on YouTube dedicated to Jim and Tim (I couldn’t have done it any better!) and visit the Jim/Tim page.
tim/jim
February 5th, 2006 under people, tim, jim. [ Comments: 3 ]

Similarities [updated per US Season 1]

Name Analysis:

  • Tim rhymes with Jim! Jim rhymes with Tim! What a concept! I bet the writers had a hard time with that one.*
  • Both their last names have some kind of famous reference, as their managers have previously brought up - to the Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” (UK) and television’s “Fat Albert” (US).
  • Both seem to bring in a decent amount of revenue into their respective paper-distributing companies.

Tim and Jim are both pretty cool, average guys. They’re nice. They’re funny. They can be mean, but rarely are (except to Gareth and Dwight). But if we had to tally up the score (as is the purpose of this site), this is how it would go:

Tim indicated an interest in returning to university to study Psychology 0 he had studied for a year previously. As of US episode 216 of the US version, we have no idea if Jim ever attended college (but still seems to be a pretty sharp guy). Tim likes ballet, loves the novels of Proust, the works of Alan Delon; so far we we know Jim likes… Pam. Jim, coming in at 6′3″ (1.91m) beats out Tim’s 1.73m (5′8″) height. He’s also shown to be quite the basketball player and stands eye-to-eye with Roy.

*[UPDATE] it’s be revealed that Jim Halpert is actually named after James Halpert, a childhood friend of exec producer Greg Daniels.