The Office appreciation thread

It's my favorite current TV show and second in history only to Seinfeld.

From Jan 5 - Feb 5 I watched seasons 1-4 completely...twice, including deleted scenes.

I'm addicted.

Any other fans please post here.

I love the show as well, although Michael has been getting on my nerves lately. They've made him dumber than Homer Simpson.

That show sucks balls. The UK version does, too.

Eyesore wrote:

That show sucks balls. The UK version does, too.

It's official. You have no taste.

No kidding!

If you touch one hair on Spec's head, we'll burn Brockton to the ground.


Micheal is the great paradox. On one hand he's an insecure child-man. On the other hand, he's the guy who will unexpectedly show love or insight when you least expect it. In some ways he is a kind of Homer Simpson.

I was watching The Office in the car today while I waited for Jen who was at an audition. I watched the episode where Michael decided to go to the warehouse and see how things ran there and ended up wrecking the whole place. There's some great lines in that one.

Eyesore wrote:

I sucks balls.

Fixed.

xyz wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I sucks balls.

Fixed.

I sucks balls?

I just don't get this show. I love stupid comedy, off-the-wall comedy, but this show was just dry and not funny at all to me.

I think this show tries a lil too hard to be funny. I like natural comedy, where they're not trying to be funny but it's hilarious.

I prefer the British version, but I do watch the U.S. one from time to time and get a kick out of it. (I almost never watch T.V.)

But I'm also a huge fan of dry humor, the drier the better actually.

This is an appreciation thread, you naysayers need to go play a which album is better game or something.

SpectreFate wrote:

This is an appreciation thread, you naysayers need to go play a which album is better game or something.

naysayer?

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but I do watch the U.S. one from time to time and get a kick out of it

I think the writing is fantastic and it's the awkward pauses and sincere if clueless way many of the characters carry on that make the show brilliant.

I love the fact that Creed Bratton plays a fictionalized version of himself.

Yeah, Spec, Michael and Dwight just trash the werehouse and then leave the mess for the werehouse guys to clean up. Great!

I've never seen the show but a guy in my cube row at work had a pic and one day I stopped by his cube and said, "Hey, that's Fish-Boy from House Of A Thousand Corpses!".

He looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

As a cube worker I wonder if you wouldn't love this show.

I worked a cube for 8-9 months in 1998-99 selling cars and, man, The Office seems to nail parts of that world. The endless drudgery punctuated by moments of brilliance or insanity. The real world truly has people just as bizarre if not more so.

The show hit a dry spell for awhile, imo. I didn't find anything funny there for a while until the last few episodes. Micheal causes WAY too many awkward moments.

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Micheal causes WAY too many awkward moments

Ahh!!! That's pretty much the whole point!

Micheal = awkward

Jim & Dwight = shenanigans

Jim & Pam = romantic interest

The rest add their little ever evolving stories/snap shots in glorious fashion.

Mos, of course, is an incredible occassional treat.

SpectreFate wrote:

This is an appreciation thread, you naysayers need to go play a which album is better game or something.

Don't make me call you a HIPPOcrite.

Eyesore wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

This is an appreciation thread, you naysayers need to go play a which album is better game or something.

Don't make me call you a HIPPOcrite.

That's low.

Never understood the appeal, and I absolutly HATE all the copycat shows that came after it!

Used to hate this show but, I am now seeing the funny side of it. very, very, very dry humor. I like that.

kmorg wrote:

Never understood the appeal

Niether do I. My dad and I saw an episode last week and neither of us found anything funny about it, but one man's trash is another's treasure.

I like the show, but this last season was a little hit-or-miss. I think the writers are running out of steam and just making Michael more of a doofus. When he was fired from Dunder Mifflin and refused to leave, I didn't find it funny as much as I did pathetic. I hope next season rebunds, but I also wouldn't be upset if they decided to end the show altogether and go out on a high note. But that's pretty freakin unlikely. I suppose I'll keep watching till it "jumps the shark".

DB, it helps if you work in an office enviroment. The show has tons of 'OMG, that happened in my work too' kind of moments. Not saying you have to work in an office to appreciate it, but it helps.

I've watched "The Office" from time to time but I'm not a hardcore fan by any means. It seems kinda like a live-action version of "Dilbert" to me.

Steve Carell was hilarious when he was a correspondent on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart though.