The Office

[William Bloke]

I laughed and I cried, what more could I want? After 9 seasons I'm glad they went out in a good way, closure and all that.

Michael's "That's what she said!" killed me, and learning that Creed had stolen "industrial grade LSD" made a lot of sense.

I think The Office actually worked well on two levels - as a funny comedy with fantastic, well developed characters, and on a more emotional level, as there were many relationships across the 9 seasons that you really cared about.

My wife always feels so sad for Toby, myself I love that he was the much-disliked loser dude who never actually caught a break.

Random Dude in Audience: "Do you find your life pointless now, now that no one is filming you?"

Toby: (immediately) "Yes."

Well done indeed.

[epilogue]

[bart]

Watched this from start to finish earlier this year. I never gave it a shot after being completely disappointed by the first few eps of the first season, but the middle seasons are all excellent. Some random thoughts:

1. Jim and Pam are increasingly awful as the show progresses.
2. While everyone seems to single out seasons 2-4 as the best, season 5 has by far the best episode (Stress Relief).
3. I don't usually take the time to write out long essays on television shows, but I recently started work on one entitled "Fuck Season 9 of The Office." Because seriously, fuck that season.
4. "My maid died" is probably my favorite bit of the whole series.

[epilogue]

Season 9 is okay. That finale and the couple leading up to it are outstanding.

[bart]

Huge swaths of season 9 are a bad soap opera with occasional limp attempts at slapstick comedy thrown in. They fucked up Andy's character even worse than post-Sorkin West Wing fucked up Leo, which is saying something. Darryl spends all of season 8 going after Val, and then immediately wants to dump her. Which could be funny if they tried even a little bit to come up with some motivation for this, but they don't. It's just "Whoops, this is inconvenient for where we've now decided the plot will go, so out she goes!" The failed Dwight spinoff pilot episode is hokey and awkward enough to almost feel like a charming callback to old school sitcom spinoff eps, but mainly it just reminds you of how bad those episodes always were.

[bart]

But the worst episode of the series is probably the Scott's Tots ep.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

But the worst episode of the series is probably the Scott's Tots ep.

Absolutely. It's the only episode I've only watched once. I've seen every other episode of the series at least 4 times.

[epilogue]

The failed Dwight spinoff pilot episode is hokey and awkward enough to almost feel like a charming callback to old school sitcom spinoff eps, but mainly it just reminds you of how bad those episodes always were.

Yeah, the backdoor pilot was strange. I liked it better on repeated views. But I fucking LOVE Dwight's Christmas in S9. Easily my favorite Christmas episode of the series.

[wease]

I would leave my wife on Christmas morning for Jenna Fischer. James Gunn is an idiot.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[wease]

You're a lucky, lucky man then, Trag.

[Jorge]

Me too, except for the fact that Mrs. Trag already looks just like her.

PROVE IT

[epilogue]

oh boy...

[epilogue]

The real question here is where does The Office (US version) rank on the greatest TV shows of all time list?

[LetMeSleep]

The real question here is where does The Office (US version) rank on the greatest TV shows of all time list?

Below the UK version.

<runs and hides>

[epilogue]

The real question here is where does The Office (US version) rank on the greatest TV shows of all time list?

Below the UK version.

<runs and hides>

I haven't watched the UK version. Well, I saw the first episode. Which is identical to the first episode of the US version.

[LetMeSleep]

The real question here is where does The Office (US version) rank on the greatest TV shows of all time list?

Below the UK version.

<runs and hides>

I haven't watched the UK version. Well, I saw the first episode. Which is identical to the first episode of the US version.

Except for the release date.

[epilogue]

The real question here is where does The Office (US version) rank on the greatest TV shows of all time list?

Below the UK version.

<runs and hides>

I haven't watched the UK version. Well, I saw the first episode. Which is identical to the first episode of the US version.

Except for the release date.

Fair dinkum.

I just mean that I saw the US version first, so the UK version wasn't as interesting. But I still very much intend to watch the entire UK series. I goddamn adore Ricky Gervais, and fully expect to fall head over heal in love with the UK version, too.

[bart]

The US version is way better.