the office: 39 weeks. holy god.

It’s one week to go before Jim and Pam’s baby is born on The Office, and I couldn’t possibly be more excited.  Between the prospect of Jim holding the baby, the baby getting a name (and a confirmed gender), and Kelly and I having a squee-off, I’ve basically got a monumental evening in the works.  After the jump, spoilers.

I’d say we now have a pretty good guess as to the color onesies to start buying the Halperts–

Unless something goes horribly wrong, it’s a girl.

TV Guide Magazine–which, lately, has been spilling spoilers like it’s their job–has a big spread on the birth in the latest print edition which includes the sentence, “Next to Pam stands a 7-foot-tall array of congratulatory balloons, announcing the baby’s gender (which we can’t reveal, but you have a fifty-fifty chance of guessing it correctly).”  Well, apparently, nobody communicated with the photo department, who, along with this very article, slapped up a picture of Michael Scott lugging a 7-foot-tall array of pink balloons.

I, for one, am super-pleased about this arrangement.  Giving birth to a daughter basically seals a TV couple’s fate as one for the history books.  Think about all the babies who’ve mattered on television (romantically) in the past fifteen years–they’ve almost all been girls.  Now think about all the babies who are, as I like to say, “filling quotas”–they’ve almost all been boys.  (It’s the difference between Friends‘s Ben Geller and Friends‘s Emma Geller Green.  Or between Lost‘s Ji Yeon and Lost‘s Aaron.  Lost‘s David Shephard and Lost‘s Future Daughter of Jack and Kate to Be Seen Climbing Trees and Makin’ Mischief in Series Finale Flashforward. You get the idea. Also, that was not a spoiler.)  It’s not an exact science, but it’s pretty damn close.

Plus, John Krasinski has to hold this baby, so it clearly has to be a girl, because, come on. It’s just CUTER THAT WAY.

I’ve also already offered up the right to share “Allie” with me, so there’s that.