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Holden Pike

11-21-04, 09:33 PM

Yes, those of us in the U.S. who have seen "The Office" love it. For me there's only it and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as the absolute best sitcoms of the new millineum. Nothing else comes even close to their perfection.

"The Office" is broadcast on BBC America...but a relatively few number of cable systems here even have that channel as an option, much less have it rack up loads of loyal viewers.

Most of us in The States have discovered the show on DVD. Both seasons have been avaialble, and as of last week the Christmas special is on R1 too, and they have done well sales-wise. But having said that, The Office" will never sell as many units over here in the next ten years as "Seinfeld" will move its very first day on the shelves next week. That's just the way it is.

But yes, "The Office" is beyond brilliant; it's perfect. You know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people think she's just a big pair of ****.

Ezikiel

11-21-04, 10:11 PM

For me there's only it and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as the absolute best sitcoms of the new millineum. Nothing else comes even close to their perfection.
What do you think about "Arrested Development" and "Scrubs"? I think those two are as good, if not, even better than "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

On the subject of The Office, I have not seen the show yet but will be buying the DVD sometime soon.

OG-

11-21-04, 10:33 PM

For me there's only it and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as the absolute best sitcoms of the new millineum. Nothing else comes even close to their perfection.

I would have to disagree here. Arrested Development comes incredibly close to the title of best new sitcom of the millineum, being only narrowly nudged out by CurbYour Enthusiasm. I would actually mark it much higher than the Office, which looses its humor fairly prematurely.

Holden Pike

11-21-04, 10:37 PM

What do you think about "Arrested Development" and "Scrubs"? I think those two are as good, if not, even better than "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

I like "Arrested Development" more than "Scrubs". They are both great shows and far and away the best comedies on major network TV in many years, but HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and BBC's "The Office" are so far beyond them it isn't even a contest.

Pyro Tramp

11-22-04, 01:01 PM

I always thought The Office was fairly 'British' and a lot of appeal would be lost over the Atlantic

mrman_101

01-18-05, 08:36 AM

yeh i love the office and im from australia

nways i also love scrubs and arrested development

havent seen much of curb ur enthusiasm though

but if its the same guy as seinfeld then it must be good

Sinny McGuffins

01-18-05, 02:23 PM

I always thought The Office was fairly 'British' and a lot of appeal would be lost over the AtlanticWhy does everyone say that about all British comedies? It's just like saying that us Bristish might not get the jokes from "Freinds" or "Seinfeld".

Holden Pike

01-18-05, 06:28 PM

Why does everyone say that about all British comedies? It's just like saying that us Bristish might not get the jokes from "Freinds" or "Seinfeld".

Because people are stupid, that's why. :yup:

Mose

01-18-05, 08:23 PM

Neither the Mrs. nor I are big fans of British humour, though I did rent the first season of The Office on a whim. To my surprise we both loved it. In fact, I would go so far as to say it's probably the funniest television series I've ever seen. What really blew my mind was how they stopped after two seasons and how perfectly the special wrapped everything up. Mrs. Mose was actually crying at the end :)

Pyro Tramp

01-19-05, 11:17 AM

Why does everyone say that about all British comedies? It's just like saying that us Bristish might not get the jokes from "Freinds" or "Seinfeld".

Cuz Friends, the jokes are obvious whereas The Office they aren't slapstick and quite subtle. And the lack of a studio audience. Also The Office is firmly located in Britain and i assumes some jokes will be out of context for American audiences, it would appear not though.

projectMayhem

01-19-05, 11:32 AM

People making fools out of themselves is funny in any culture. Its universal.

The only thing that really would make The Office too "British" for Americans would probably be because of the accents, which I admit I had to adjust to be able to understand.

higgy

01-19-05, 02:01 PM

I love the show, it is absolute immense. gareth adn David are both hilarious, and when you get to grips with there personality they are even funnier.

Ezikiel

01-19-05, 06:40 PM

"The Office" is definately one of the best television shows from the past few years, perhaps even my favorite. Ricky Gervais is absolutely brilliant as Brent. My favorite quotes from the show:

"If you have lost both legs and both arms just go 'at least I'm not dead'. Though I'd rather be dead in that situation to be honest- I'm not saying people like that should be put down. I'm saying that in my life I'd rather not live without arms and legs 'cos you know... I'm just getting into yoga." - David Brent

"My dad, for example, he's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrasing you know. He doesn't understand all the new trendy words - like he'll say "poofs" instead of "gays", "birds" instead of "women", "darkies" instead of "coloureds." - Gareth

"No I don't talk about my love life for a very good reason, and that reason is I don't have one. Which is very good news for the ladies-I am still available. I'm a heck of a catch, cos, er well look at it. I live in Slough, in a lovely house, with my parents. I have my own room, which I've had since yep, since I was born. That's seen a lot of action I tell you. Mainly dusting. I went to university for a year as well, before I dropped out, so I'm a quitter. So, er, form an orderly queue ladies." - Tim

"I can read women. You've got to know their wants and their needs. And that can be anything from making sure she's got enough money to buy groceries each week to making sure she's gratified sexually after intercourse. - Gareth

"Tim's put my stapler inside a jelly again. That's the third time he's done it. It wasn't even funny the first time." - Gareth

"Well, that's not for us to say. But I can type in, say, 'sex... fetish'. It takes a little while. There. two thousand, two hundred and thirty matches. Just click on one, at random. Aaaagh, there. 'Dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs'. Now, you don't punish anyone, Dutch or otherwise, for having big boobs." - David Brent

"That's one reason why gays shouldn't be allowed into the army. Because if we're in battle, is he going to be looking at the enemy, or is he going to be looking at me and going "Ooh. He looks tasty in his uniform". And I'm not homophobic, alright? Come round, look at my CDs. You'll see Queen, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys. They're all bummers." - Gareth

"Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great." - David Brent

"It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who said: "Life is what happens when you're making other plans.", and that's how I feel. Although he also said: "I am the Walrus I am the eggman" so I don't know what to believe." - Tim

"People look at me, they say he's tough, he was in the army he's gonna be hard, by the book. But I am caring, and sensitive. Isn't Schindler's list a brilliant film?" - Gareth

"He proposed on a Valentine's day, although he didn't do it face to face, he did it in one of the little Valentine bits in the paper. I think he had to pay for it by the word, because it just said 'Lee love Dawn, marriage?' which you know, I like, because it's not often you get to something that's both romantic and thrifty." - Dawn

"If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain - do you know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of ****." - David Brent

projectMayhem

01-19-05, 11:32 PM

"Tim's put my stapler inside a jelly again. That's the third time he's done it. It wasn't even funny the first time." - Gareth

That's one of my favorite gags from the first season. The fact that Gareth has a phobia of jelly. :rotfl:

Creed

01-19-05, 11:45 PM

'The Office' was cool. But I liked 'The Goodies' better, shame they ended that one.

Holden Pike

01-20-05, 03:22 AM

That's one of my favorite gags from the first season. The fact that Gareth has a phobia of jelly.

Well, he doesn't trust the way it moves.

Sinny McGuffins

01-20-05, 07:24 AM

Have they started filming the American version of "The Office" yet?

Tacitus

01-20-05, 08:14 AM

'The Office' was cool. But I liked 'The Goodies' better, shame they ended that one.

You funky gibbon, you. :D

Sinny McGuffins

03-25-05, 02:38 PM

I saw on IMDb that the US version of "The Office" aired last night.

So how was it?

Yoda

03-25-05, 02:44 PM

Pretty good. Not hysterical, but I laughed out loud a couple of times. Not sure whether or not there's enough there for an entire series, but it's a decent start. I'll definitely watch next week.

Holden Pike

03-25-05, 03:52 PM

Pretty good. Not hysterical, but I laughed out loud a couple of times. Not sure whether or not there's enough there for an entire series, but it's a decent start. I'll definitely watch next week.

I think most Yanks who have not seen the original would probably give the first episode of the U.S. version a passing grade, but for fans of the BBC show I think we'd have to be much more critical and more disappointed.

http://www.nbc.com/photos/Primetime/The_Office/1OFFarN04.jpg

There are some plusses with the NBC version, primarily that they did not force them to put a blasted laugh-track on the show and that the same basic premise is in tact. However, they just plain messed up a lot of it in the translation. First of all, the initial episode was extremely distracting because 90% of it was from the first episode of the BBC show. And frankly, the timing is all off. The intent is mostly good, but the execution is off. Slightly, but off. However, all the subsequent scripts have just about entirely new material, which is the only chance the U.S. version has to excell.

The main thing the've gotten wrong thus far, and I don't see how they'll be able to correct it, is Steve Carrell isn't right for the role. I like Steve a lot. Loved him on "The Daily Show" and he steals Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy, but his character is simply obnoxious without being terribly offensive or bringing that painful soicial awkwardness that Ricky Gervias embodied so magnificently. Carrell's boss is just a noisy idiot, but he's not the kind of guy who says things that make you cringe in embarassment for the people around him. Not so far anyway. The only time I really all-out laughed during last night's premiere was at a clip for the second episode, the bit with the ethnic sterotypes on post-it notes on all the worker's forheads, winding up with an Indian woman slapping him in the face. THAT is the direction the show needs to head, and in a hurry. Then it needs to stay there.

The other aspect of Carrell's boss that was off was that he was not a lecherous scumbag. Ricky Gervais' David Brent was inappropriate on just about every level imaginable, including a highlighted perversion and total lack of instinct for how to deal with women - in a professional or personal setting. In the U.S. pilot there's only one minor crack at the beginning, when he introduces the "Dawn" character (now called Pam here) and he says, "If you think she's hot now, you should have seen her a couple years ago". Brent would have said much worse than that. Then later when his boss is in the office in her skirt, one of the few moments from the BBC show they didn't replicate is having his rude friend on the phone reference her sexuality and have him being caught staring up her skirt. I think it's pretty clear the creators of the show and/or the network have decreed that kind of stuff is off limits. And that's too bad.

As for the rest of the cast, they didn't have too much to do this first time out. From what I've seen I liked receptionist Pam Beesley (Jenna Fischer) the best of the other three principals. The fella they have as the Tim equivalent is passable, but doesn't seem to have the layer of real intelligence underneath that Martin Freeman nailed so perfectly. The Gareth equivalent simply isn't bizarre enough, and the two of them have zero chemistry together. Watching him fret over his stapler in the Jello, there was no spark to it. And likewise and perhaps most fatally, no chemistry between the Tim and Dawn counterparts. This element was really one of the things that made "The Office" so special, that after all the uncomfortablity with Gervais, their unrequited love affair was the soul driving that show, and the workplace romance we've all experienced on one level or another. Oh well. Maybe that will get better too? It has to, or the show is toast.

But as I say, the brief clip for the next episode was the funniest bit of the night, so perhaps there's still hope. I'll certainly be watching, especially as it is on after "Scrubs", which along with FOX's "Arrested Development" is far and away the best sitcom on the networks right now. Lots of problems with this new "Office", but maybe they'll fix 'em and salvage something of their own from the pretty botched reworking of the pilot?

OG-

03-25-05, 04:41 PM

And again Holden's response leaves no further room for input because it's all already been perfectly stated.

Cue Applause.

Holden Pike

03-29-05, 06:40 PM

Second episode is on tonight, we'll see if they right the ship once they get into their own waters.

Ezikiel

03-29-05, 07:08 PM

I doubt this show will ever enter it's own ground, and as for tonight's episode, my expectations are so very low. This remake is just a total waste of time.

Sinny McGuffins

04-05-05, 05:09 PM

So what's the verdict on the second episode, guys?

Yoda

04-05-05, 05:22 PM

So what's the verdict on the second episode, guys?:up:

"But if you go, we'll only have two lef...okay, go ahead."

blibblobblib

04-05-05, 05:39 PM

David Brent in a meeting in a Pub with the new Swindon employees:

"Welcome to Alcoholics Anonymous!"
(Silence)
"No - purely social. I know someone who is an alchoholic and it is no laughing matter - particularly for his wife. And she's got alopecia. So... not a happy homelife."
(more silence)

LordSlaytan

04-17-05, 11:27 PM

I haven’t seen the American version, nor do I really want to, even though I like Steve Carell as much as I do. I rarely watch regular television (not because I feel I am above it…just that I could care less) so I haven’t even seen a commercial for it yet.

However, I love the original Britcom a whole bunch.

I can’t imagine how it could be improved on, or even emulated well.

BTW: I’m in love with Dawn. Maybe if Tim turns out to be a turd, I’ll have a shot.

susan

04-18-05, 12:11 AM

i hear that the american version is really funny and have been told to watch it although the same guy (my supervisor at MY office) explained that the british one was hilarious...

Ezikiel

04-18-05, 12:59 AM

BTW: I’m in love with Dawn.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/images/400/dawn01.jpg

"I'd say, at one time or another, every bloke in the office has woken up at the crack of Dawn!"

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 02:10 AM

I was just poking around and noticed that Ricky will be in Mission: Impossible III. Interesting. I wonder if he will be comedic relief.

Too bad Tim and Dawn turned into zombies, too. They would have made a great couple. :(

blibblobblib

04-18-05, 07:39 AM

Too bad Tim and Dawn turned into zombies, too. They would have made a great couple. :(
What what what?

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 12:11 PM

They both were in Shaun of the Dead. We watched Dawn bite it, and Tim's was inferred. Remember when Shaun's good friend Yvonne walked by with her own enteroge of survivors that mimicked Shaun's band of survivors? Tim was Shaun's equivelant...at least he sure looks like Tim.

http://www.moviecitynews.com/Interviews/images/2004/shawn1.jpghttp://www.totalleagueofgentlemen.co.uk/ShaunExclusive.jpg

Tacitus

04-18-05, 12:21 PM

Yup, it was Martin Freeman - along with Matt 'Little Britain' Lucas, Tamsin 'Black Books' Greig and That 'Guy Who's Name I Can't Remember From The League Of' Gentlemen. ;)

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 12:28 PM

That's what I had thought, but it appears that he wasn't listed because IMDb doesn't have Shaun of the Dead as one of Martin's credited films.

EDIT: Whoops...it looks like I skipped right over the listing when I was looking last night. Thanks Tacitus. ;)

blibblobblib

04-18-05, 04:25 PM

They both were in Shaun of the Dead. We watched Dawn bite it, and Tim's was inferred.
Ahh this be true. But if you have a look at the extra's on the dvd, theyve wonderfully included short films in comic book form of what happened to each character during their time off screen, and as it turns out Dianne aka Dawn managed to avoid the hunger of the zombies, and hid up a tree for a few days eating her dead boyfriends leg until she got rescued...something like that anyway. As for Tim, we shall never know. When you said they were turned into Zombies i thought you had seen something i hadnt :p
Yup, it was Martin Freeman - along with Matt 'Little Britain' Lucas, Tamsin 'Black Books' Greig and That 'Guy Who's Name I Can't Remember From The League Of' Gentlemen. ;)
'That guy' is the superb Reece Shearsmith AKA Pappa Lazarou. "Hello Dave?"

I loved that bit in Shaun of the Dead when the alternative gang walk past. All those Brit-Com geniuses on the screen at once...a little overwhelming.

LordSlaytan

04-18-05, 05:51 PM

...as it turns out Dianne aka Dawn managed to avoid the hunger of the zombies, and hid up a tree for a few days eating her dead boyfriends leg until she got rescued...My baby's got balls. Yay! Thanks for the info, I didn't get around to watching the extra's.

blibblobblib

04-18-05, 06:03 PM

My baby's got balls. Yay! Thanks for the info, I didn't get around to watching the extra's.
You should. They are supOYB. With a captiol OYB.

Pyro Tramp

11-09-05, 08:31 PM

*AHEM* .......Strums

Strummer521

11-09-05, 08:53 PM

The Office
http://www.nrk.no/img/313236.jpeg
This was going to be in a new thread, but now that I was informed of this one I've moved it here.

After watching Series One I have decided it is probably the best season of any show I've ever seen on television. Almost every joke is a keeper and the main cast is just amazing. First off, there's David Brent: the boss. He's basically an egomaniac and sees himself from a viewpoint so different from his co-workers that it's really quite pathetic. That's where most of his humor comes from though. It's a long series of verbal misteps and incorrect judgements of just about everything. For all his faults he seems to have a good heart deep down and you love as well as pity him. Then there's Tim. He's a bit more of a straight man. He gets less jokes but still has a good sense of humor. He's the everyman of the program and between his suppressed yet always developing relationship with Dawn, his self doubts and his self-consiously low self-esteem, he is a truly relatable character who provides the show with the bulk of its drama. Last but not certainly not least in the line of what I would consider the primary characters is Gareth. He is the perpetually scene stealing dead-pan funnyman who never even realizes that spends most of his time being utterly ridiculous. Between his naivity and his misunderstanding of the way the rest of the world veiws him, the man is life a David Brent in training, except that without even trying, he is a lot more of "a laugh" then Brent himself.
This happily controlled chaos is shattered in Series Two though. The uncomfortable humor is intensified, while the deadpan absurdity, is pushed to the backburner. The show's brilliance really lied in its perfectly equal balance between the sad and nearly paniful, and the hilarious. Now that balance has been lost. David's new enviroment is much less accomodating to his personality. He has a boss now, a change that bruises his ego like a sledgehammer. When he tries to compensate for this loss of power it backfires. Now that someone can chastise him, they are more than willing to. While his old staff had grown accostomed to him and excepted his boorish behavior, this new batch of co-workers is completely unaccostomed to such an eviromnt and many are not all too shy about voicing it. Plus the addition of a black staff member and one who is handicapped provide new fuel to the fire of his poor etiquette and problematic social skills. Tim's relationship with Dawn has been sidetracked and further complicated by the arrival of a new love interest that is much more availible and willing. Luckily Gareth hasn't changed. However just about everything else has. It is like a whole new show. The balance has shifted. It is now more realistic, and therefore more sad and often painful to watch. The episodes often end abruptly and jarringly. While it is more dramatic, it has lost a lot of subtlety and is less enjoyable to watch. But then again, I've got to give a lot of credit to show that can sucessfully switch from hilarious comedy with a strong undercurrent of drama, to (oh so) heartwrenching drama with a strong undercurrent of comedy. Whatever the show's creators set out to do, they suceed to such a great degree, that their work is sure to go down in history. This show needed it's own thread badly, so here it is. Let's Discuss.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/sjkrob/bio/gareth.jpg
"Step away from the cookie jar!"

Strummer521

11-09-05, 09:10 PM

*AHEM* .......Strums

Huh?

Sinny McGuffins

11-09-05, 09:10 PM

Pyro Tramp

11-09-05, 09:22 PM

Huh?

I was trying to politely draw your attention to this thread

SpoOkY

11-09-05, 10:21 PM

oo I love the office (british version), I've seen one of the American versions and it doesn't have the same charm. I wish they would have kept going....anyway here is some of my favourite quotes:

“This is the accounts department, the number bods. Do not be fooled by their job descriptions, they are absolutely mad, all of ‘em. Especially that one, he’s mental. Not literally of course, that wouldn’t work.”

David (Series 1 Episode 1)

“I don’t know where we’re going tonight. Obviously Finchy’s a sophisticated guy, and Gareth’s a culture vulture, so will it be opera, ballet, I don’t know. I think the RSCs in town, so er... having said that at Chasers it's hooch for a pound and wonderbras get in free night.”

Tim (Series 1 Episode 5)

“There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I’ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It’s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ‘ooh, look at him, he’s not able-bodied. I am, I’m prejudiced.’ Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he’s not, it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.”

David (Series 1 Episode 3)

“In this room, I have special-”
“Needs?”
“No, I am a special-”
“Needs child?”
“No. And that’s not even funny.”

Tim and Gareth (Series 1 Episode 2)

Brent talking about Donna:
“Her dad’s not only a copper, but he’s a bloody big bugger isn’t he? So hands off.”
“I’ve got something she could take down in evidence!”
“Oh, don’t worry about this lot.”
“Do you wanna receive some swollen goods?”
“I wouldn’t mind escaping up her tunnel!”
“Get out. Get out, I mean it.”

David and some employees (Series 1 Episode 2) :laugh:

Strummer521

11-09-05, 10:26 PM

I disagree with you about Series Two, I'd say it's as equally good as the first. I like the fact that David has a new boss, and the scenes were he tries to win over the Swindon staff are just flat-out hilarious ("Is it a black man's... Hi!").

http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice/gallery2/thneilbrentsamejacket.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice/gallery2/thtimsimongarethstare.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice/gallery2/thdawnkeithcloseup.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice/gallery2/thbrentsackedclifton.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice/gallery2/thbrentpose3.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice/gallery2/thbrentfreeze.jpg

I see. Well keep in mind, I haven't seen all of Series Two yet. I'll post here again once I finish it. I guess part of the problem is, that despite all of his faults, I really wanted to like David Brent and this series makes that so much harder to do.

I was trying to politely draw your attention to this thread
Ah. I suspected as much. Thanks.

Sinny McGuffins

12-05-05, 08:34 PM

Well, Strummer, have you finished watching the second series yet?

Memnon

01-14-08, 02:49 PM

OK... reviving an old thread here...

I just started a NetFlix thing that lets me watch however much I want online, which works well for me as I have no issues with watching stuff on my PC (at least until I'm insane enough to spend the big $$ to buy a cool plasma TV).
I decided to start watching the US version of The Office from the beginning.

I hate to say it, because I think Steve Carell is a really amazing actor, but his character is about the only one on the whole show I actually dislike. I get the idea that he is supposed to be "off", but I don't know if its the writing of his character, or his portrayal (I'm thinking its mostly the writing), but most of the things he does in the show aren't laughable at all. They are cruel, painful, deceitful, and well... lots of other words that basically mean this is a guy that just doesn't give a damn about anyone other than himself... and the way it is written and acted, its not done in any way that is funny. There are times though that what I think are the true intentions of how the character is supposed to be do come out, and those times, he is funny, or sad sometimes, and even pathetic in his disillusionment.

Other than that though, I consider it to be a very good show. There are very well defined types of people being shown, and then kicked up a few notches on the silly absurdest level, and that is where the humor comes from. It doesn't hurt that many of us can probably relate to specific characters in some way, which draws you in even more.

I have not seen the original British version of this. I was thinking of saving that for after I make my way through all the US episodes. I have heard so many good things about the original that to watch it first might actually spoil my fun watching the US version.

thebest

01-14-08, 05:11 PM

For me, Michael Scott is just someone who desperately hungers for friends.Because of this he alienates people,but he always comes from a good place and in later episodes he may do and say things that change your opinion of him.

But I like Dwight.Especially when he's concussed. ;D

Swedish Chef

01-15-08, 04:10 PM

For the U.S., The Office is no more. The series has come to an end.

Really? Do you mean until the strike ends or is it for keeps?

meatwadsprite

01-15-08, 04:20 PM

Really? Do you mean until the strike ends or is it for keeps?

lol - it's not , just no new episodes currently

blibblobblib

01-15-08, 08:09 PM

Um...you guys very seriously need to watch the original UK version of The Office. Don't get me wrong, i love the US version, but the UK version is genius. It should be watched first...

Swedish Chef

01-15-08, 09:31 PM

Um...you guys very seriously need to watch the original UK version of The Office. Don't get me wrong, i love the US version, but the UK version is genius. It should be watched first...

Oh yeah, I love the UK Office. Free Love on the Free Love Freeway is the second most frequently played song on my ipod. And David Brent telling Finchy to **** off in the Christmas special has gotta be the single greatest moment in the history of television. But I think (and you obviously disagree) that the last few seasons of the US version have been just as good as, if not better than, its English counterpart.

meatwadsprite

01-15-08, 10:17 PM

I doubt the UK can top the US one - but im sure it will be great.

Holden Pike

01-15-08, 11:53 PM

Steve Carrell and the rest of The Office gang aren't crossing that picket line, and looking at how this strike is now......the show just reappear out of thin air anytime soonl. Besides, they have more going for them (especially Carell) up on the big screen.

You're a moron.

So because the WGA strike is continuing and Carell and some of the others in the cast have movie careers you just inferred that the show is going off the air and never, ever coming back (which is what your initial post said, though now you've backpeddled to "anytime [soon]"). So to be clear this time, you aren't basing this on anything that anybody like Greg Daniels, Ken Kwapis, B.J. Novak, Carell, Krasinski or anybody else involved with the show has actually said or written, you've just decided to proclaim the entire series done and over with because...because you and the voices in your head figured this out? Congrats.

"The series has come to an end". Really. You are apparently the only person on the planet who "knows" this. Whether or not this particular season ever resumes, and not just for "The Office" but most any of the network shows on indefinite hiatus right now because of the strike, to say the "series has come to an end" because Steve Carell makes movies, too...that's just nonsense.

You're a moron, jrs. Even TMZ.com and The National Equirer don't make such leaps of "logic". As I said to you in a PM, first of all don't make a B.S. post like that with no information, no links, no nothing - that's just bush league crap. More importantly, don't make such declarative statements based on your own suppositions unless you're going to identify them as such (and even then, please don't).

Man, I expect more from you, jrs. Though right now I can't think of why.

Holden Pike

01-16-08, 01:51 AM

Uh, wrong. When I say they have more going for them on the big screen, that means more work for them now that the show is not filming. With the way the show ended, the strike going on as far as it is, and them so into doing movies that might the way for them to go on......NOT the reason why I stated the show is done.

Can you go back in time and say whatever it is you originally meant to say, unsubstantiated or not?

Because you still aren't really saying anything, other than still more than hinting that you know some reason why the show is not ever coming back on the air for any more episodes...but you either can't or won't say what you know. And if you can't or won't say then it goes back to my original PM: why bother making such a post in the first place? It's childish. And boring. The only reason to make a post like that first one is so that everyone will come into the thread and say, 'Oh, jrs, tell us more, tell us more!' Are you this needy? Really?

Put up or shut up. In clear English, please.

Thanks. :indifferent:

blibblobblib

01-16-08, 08:33 AM

I doubt the UK can top the US one - but im sure it will be great.
Well considering it finished in 2003 and the US one is still going i don't think it's going to 'top' anything. In terms of goodness, the UK version is genius. VIEW IT before making an assumption.

Holden Pike

02-15-08, 02:09 AM

With the way the show ended, the strike going on as far as it is, and them so into doing movies that might the way for them to go on......NOT the reason why I stated the show is done.

Well apparently jrs has gone back and removed all of the posts where he implied "The Office" was going off the air, but in case anybody remembers that, now that the WGA strike is over the series has gone back into production. Of course. Starting April 10th the first of six new episodes to wrap up this abbreviated season will begin. That will give the fourth season fourteen episodes, about two-thirds of a regular season.

Perhaps jrs will be back to tell us why those will be the last six ever?

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"Dunder Mifflin, this is Pam."

April 10th, 2008

jrs

06-28-10, 08:02 PM

Steve Carell Leaving 'The Office': CONFIRMED

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Steve Carell is leaving 'The Office' next May, E! confirms (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b187949_steve_carell_confirms_hes_leaving.html#ixzz0sAyvhqSa).

Carell told BBC (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/steve-carell-and-office-d_n_557010.html) in April that his contract expires at the end of this season and he did not plan to renew it. Now he has made it clear he wasn't just holding out for a better salary.

"I just think it's time," Carell told E! "I want to fulfill my contract. When I first signed on I had a contract for seven seasons, and this coming year is my seventh. I just thought it was time for my character to go."

Somehow he sees the show going on without Michael Scott.

"The show is great, and the ensemble is so strong, and the writers are great, so it's just one part of that ensemble drifting off," he said. "They've incorporated so many new characters and so many new, great storylines that I have no doubt it'll continue as strong if not stronger than ever."

Source: Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/steve-carell-leaving-office-_n_628190.html)

Luumu

06-30-10, 01:07 AM

This is bad news, I'm afraid.

earlsmoviepicks

06-30-10, 01:15 PM

It sucks Carrell is leaving-- this show (IMO) has not jumped the shark yet; due to the amazing writers and actors.

justinkemp

11-19-10, 03:38 AM

The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by NBC. An adaptation of the BBC series The Office, it depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track.

Holden Pike

11-19-10, 11:31 AM

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Paris18

04-25-11, 09:17 PM

I had to bring this back. Anyone been watching Carell's final days? What do you all think? I can't believe he's really leaving- I feel like I'm losing a friend. :(

Fiscal

04-25-11, 10:12 PM

I really enjoyed the song at the end of last weeks episode. I like when everyone in the office gets emotional.

Paris18

04-25-11, 10:27 PM

I did too, I actually had tears in my eyes.

TheUsualSuspect

05-01-11, 02:37 AM

Caught the last ep where he left. It was nice.

Holden Pike

05-01-11, 02:48 AM

"That's what she said."

voneil7

05-05-11, 05:54 PM

Yeah, the last episode was great, I thought they ended it perfectly! I'm a little concerned about the future of the show though, not really liking the thought of Michael being replaced, especially with the cast they have lined up to be guest stars next season. Haven't decided which one of them i would rather see end up permanently on the show, assuming that's the route they go.

Paris18

05-06-11, 11:01 AM

His last episode had me in tears. I thought they did it perfectly. I didn't watch last night but I'm not sure I'm going to watch it anymore- I felt like that could've ended the show. I'm still undecided. However, I WILL watch Jim Carrey whenever he's on.

He's the only one who could fill Michael's shoes but he'd cost the show wayyy too much money.

meatwadsprite

06-11-11, 03:27 AM

James Spader for new boss.

TheUsualSuspect

08-21-12, 03:38 PM

The next season of the Office will be the last. I have to say, it's about two seasons too late.

Watch_Tower

08-21-12, 04:04 PM

Personally I believe The Office should have ended after season 4. From that point on the show started a downward spiral. The gags just weren't funny enough and the whole "reality" aspect of the show lost meaning, with ever more ridiculous stories and scenes entering the fold. The British version still stands heads and shoulders above the American BUT the first 4 seasons more than held their own, which is no mean feat. With Carrel leaving, the show just became funny for all the wrong reasons.

Watch_Tower

05-22-13, 10:19 AM

Wow, reading my last post...I thought there'd be more people who watch the show or saw the season finale. Well, the show sort of fell apart in it's last 3 seasons or so and when Michael left it all became a sad imitation of a once great comedy series...then came the season finale.

This is what I thought after watching the final ever episode of The Office: An American Workplace

"This final season seemed to get worse as it dragged on and had me wishing that the show had just died after Micheal's departure...but then the miraculous happened, it got better. Rarely does a show get better halfway into it's final season, a season which was utterly irredeemable at first.

Greg Daniels, the crew, the cast and everyone else involved upped their game, all of a sudden and for the briefest stint of maybe 4 episodes, The Office was the best show on. I'm not sure how the transformation occurred, I don't know if it was just the nostalgia, what I do know is that it was magical. Call me pretentious or "gay" (as Kevin would think :D) for feeling this way but The Office ended the way it had begun, with heart."

And that is the best thing that can be said for a show that was as heavily criticised in it's final years as this. No Carrel, a group of writers who didn't know where to go with their characters, a poor run of celebrity guest bosses...but in the end it was forgiven, like you would forgive a family member for making a million stupid mistakes because that's what great TV shows become, they are part of the family.

seanc

05-22-13, 10:43 AM

I mostly agree with everything your saying. They did have a good five episode run after Carrel left but quickly went off the rails after that. Some of the Dwight story lines the past couple of years have been some of the worst tv I have ever seen. I soldiered through and while I didnt like the past couple of episodes as much as some, I did think they tied things up nicely. The retrospective was very enjoyable. I will always think of The Office as Carrel's show and will continue to watch the first four seasons as it is the funniest tv, this side of Seinfeld, ever.

seanc

05-29-13, 07:46 PM

In honor of the last episode of The Office I wanted to do a compilation of my five favorite episodes ever. It's easy to forget that this was one of the funniest shows ever for the first few seasons it was on. It is a shame it crawled out the way it did. Lucky for us in this day and age we have syndication so it will live forever.

Favorite Office Episode #5-Stress Relief:

The only episode in my top 5 not in the first four seasons. When this aired may have been the perfect storm of happiness for me. My favorite show returning after the Super Bowl my favorite day of the year, and it was my birthday to boot. I have never laughed as hard as I did the first 20-30 minutes if this episode. From Dwight slicing a face off the CPR dummy to Angela trying to throw her cat to Oscar on the ceiling. Complete chaos and laughter. Great episode.

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Stanley! Stanley! You will not die! Stanley! Stanley!
Barack is President! You are black, Stanley!
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Jim, you're 6'11", and you weigh 90 pounds. Gumby has a better body than you. Boom. Roasted. Dwight, you're a kiss-ass. Boom. Roasted. Pam, you failed art school. Boom. Roasted. Meredith, you've slept with so many guys you're starting to look like one. Boom. Roasted. Kevin, I can't decide between a fat joke and a dumb joke. Boom. Roasted. Creed, your teeth called, your breath stinks. Boom. Roasted. Angela, where's Angela? Well, there you are. I didn't see you behind that grain of rice. Boom. Roasted. Stanley, you crush your wife during sex and your heart sucks. Boom. Roasted.

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It's very unusual for Michael not to show up to work. My guess, he's either deeply depressed or an icicle has snapped off his roof and impaled his brain. He has this terrible habit of standing directly underneath them and staring up at them. And I always say, "Michael, take two steps back and stare at the icicle from the side." And he's like, "No, I like the way they look from standing directly underneath them." It was only a matter of time.

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