NBC's "The Office" with Steve Carell is a Thursday TV pick

"The Office"

In tonight's episode Michael (the wonderful Steve Carell, pictured) comes up with an idea to put "golden tickets" into their packets of paper for clients to discover. And Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) gets romantic advice from his co-workers. What could possibly go wrong? 9 tonight, NBC (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

Also on today

"Grease" (1978), 7:30 p.m. (Family): Nice Sandy and greaser Danny try to be like each other in their 1950s high school.

"Bones," 8 p.m. (Fox): While bungee jumping, a couple discover a corpse at the bottom of a gorge; the lab is thrown into lockdown when an unknown substance begins oozing from the corpse.

"Ugly Betty," 8 p.m. (ABC): Things don't go well when Betty (America Ferrera) meets the mother (Christine Baranski) of Matt (Daniel Eric Gold).

"Smallville," 8 p.m. (The CW): The reporter Linda Lake (Tori Spelling) tries to blackmail Clark (Tom Welling) for information on the Red-Blue Blur in the hope of making herself famous.

"Grey's Anatomy," 9 p.m. (ABC): Derek (Patrick Dempsey) decides to quit Seattle Grace after learning that more of his patients died than survived, but Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) refuses to give up on him.

"30 Rock," 9:30 p.m. (NBC): Tracy (Tracy Morgan) and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) act up when Liz (Tina Fey) is called away for jury duty.

"ER," 10 p.m. (NBC): Susan Sarandon and Julianna Margulies guest star.

"Ace of Cakes," 10 p.m. (Food): Haunted chapel cake with a zombie bride and groom; "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" cake; replica of a Hershey's bar.

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