tapehead wrote:They could spin-off 'Dwight and Mose's Beet Farm Bed and Breakfast' into it's own series.
Thats what I figured would be the case....
tapehead wrote:They could spin-off 'Dwight and Mose's Beet Farm Bed and Breakfast' into it's own series.
Fievel wrote:Felt bad for Toby... again. The guy tried his hardest to be there FOR Michael during lunch.... he tried to connect... and then Michael just shoved his food off.
LeFlambeur wrote:Fievel wrote:Felt bad for Toby... again. The guy tried his hardest to be there FOR Michael during lunch.... he tried to connect... and then Michael just shoved his food off.
Yeah, but wasn't Toby reading a copy of Michael's diary at the lunch table? I thought that was why Micheal pushed Toby's food and papers off of the table, because Toby didn't have a very good reason to be reading it.
Chilli wrote:The Office (US) - 2x01 'The Dundies
I've been catching various random repeats of The Office (US, won't watch the UK) all week on Paramount Comedy. It's a groovy show, for sure, even if it felt less like 'whoa, this is classic' than I like my shows to. It was funny, but nothing I was getting super psyched and pumped over.
Then I watch this ep.
Good TV is about character. To me, the plot is a bonus. All I really want is characters I can relate to. Like Peter Petrelli (figuring out what to do with your life), John Locke (trying to understand who you are), Xander (how to be awesome). This show took a while, but it finally has them.
When you watch Michael on stage, being bombarded with garabe by these cretins, and you see Pam stand up and bring everything full circle... God, it's good TV. Honest and true and genuine and heartwarming and endearing and everything that people complain about because it isn't true in real life, ignoring the fact that it SHOULD be true of real life.
The best TV hits us in a way we can't foresee. Like a shot of absinthe, you gulp and you soak it in and you come down from the adrenaline high and think... THAT is brilliant, this is inspiring and that is poetic. And the sad part is you watch it, and you see Jim have the night of his life and know Pam won't remember, and you recall nights like that where you are the sole witness, the sole memory, and that tomorrow is going to be another day... but you smile anyway, because it was all worth it for that one shining evening.
I often find, with the stuff I enjoy, a little confusion from people. With me... when I fall in love with a TV show, it hits me like a sledgehammer. It's hard to break. Heroes has that... South Park has that... Angel has that... and this episode is good enough to put The Office into that camp. It's hilarious, gentle, truthful, honest, a show that taps into your humanity and makes you realise that you may cringe, you may cover your eyes, you may squirm, but you will watch because it is good, and because it contains rare moments where life is bliss.
A+
Fievel wrote:If you liked the first season of the USA Office, check out the the UK version - lots of familiar things there.
bluebottle wrote:Chilli, i beg you to give it another shot. at least for one episode. "training day" would be the one i'd recommend.
Chilli wrote:I watched the first episode when it premiered in England... and I stared at my screen, horrified. Didn't laugh once. Thought it was some of the most mean-spirited bullshit that I ever had to sit through. Which they say is the point, but I just couldn't believe they were passing it off as a cutting-edge comedy program.
Chilli wrote:The Office (US) - 2x01 'The Dundies
I've been catching various random repeats of The Office (US, won't watch the UK) all week on Paramount Comedy. It's a groovy show, for sure, even if it felt less like 'whoa, this is classic' than I like my shows to. It was funny, but nothing I was getting super psyched and pumped over.
Then I watch this ep.
Good TV is about character. To me, the plot is a bonus. All I really want is characters I can relate to. Like Peter Petrelli (figuring out what to do with your life), John Locke (trying to understand who you are), Xander (how to be awesome). This show took a while, but it finally has them.
When you watch Michael on stage, being bombarded with garabe by these cretins, and you see Pam stand up and bring everything full circle... God, it's good TV. Honest and true and genuine and heartwarming and endearing and everything that people complain about because it isn't true in real life, ignoring the fact that it SHOULD be true of real life.
The best TV hits us in a way we can't foresee. Like a shot of absinthe, you gulp and you soak it in and you come down from the adrenaline high and think... THAT is brilliant, this is inspiring and that is poetic. And the sad part is you watch it, and you see Jim have the night of his life and know Pam won't remember, and you recall nights like that where you are the sole witness, the sole memory, and that tomorrow is going to be another day... but you smile anyway, because it was all worth it for that one shining evening.
I often find, with the stuff I enjoy, a little confusion from people. With me... when I fall in love with a TV show, it hits me like a sledgehammer. It's hard to break. Heroes has that... South Park has that... Angel has that... and this episode is good enough to put The Office into that camp. It's hilarious, gentle, truthful, honest, a show that taps into your humanity and makes you realise that you may cringe, you may cover your eyes, you may squirm, but you will watch because it is good, and because it contains rare moments where life is bliss.
A+
JpPrewitt789 wrote:Ok so here's the BIG QUESTION: Who's hotter-Pam or Karen?
DaleTremont wrote:Karen is pretty foxy. But then I saw Jenna Fisher in Walk Hard and well...[insert obvious title innuendo here.]
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:DaleTremont wrote:Karen is pretty foxy. But then I saw Jenna Fisher in Walk Hard and well...[insert obvious title innuendo here.]
Karen is pretty foxy. But then I saw Jenna Fisher in Walk Hard and well...[I walked hard out that theater, let me tell ya']
DaleTremont wrote:Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:DaleTremont wrote:Karen is pretty foxy. But then I saw Jenna Fisher in Walk Hard and well...[insert obvious title innuendo here.]
Karen is pretty foxy. But then I saw Jenna Fisher in Walk Hard and well...[I walked hard out that theater, let me tell ya']
Doesn't quite work in the strictest anatomical sense in my case...
...if the movie were called "Walk Wet" on the other hand....
What? Someone has to make inappropriate jokes around here!
tangerine wrote:It's so weird hearing all this appraisal for the US Office... To me that's just a lame copy. The Office was based on Gervais and without him (and Mackenzie Crook!) it's just another sit-com. It probably depends on what you saw first, and perhaps the UK one is based on a lot of internal British humour, but it is still the one and only original. The UK one is a lot more subtle and awkward, which certainly is my cuppa.
tangerine wrote:What? Atrocious actor? He can take most subtle, mundane joke, and deliver it in such a way that I have to rewind and watch it over and over to try and figure out how I can direct my actors to act that way. I think he is brilliant, and David Brent as a character is a masterpiece. Again I need to mention Krook as Gareth here, as his acting still is twice the quality of Gervais's.
"I was thinking... will there every be a boy... who can swim faster than a shark?"
tangerine wrote:It's so weird hearing all this appraisal for the US Office... To me that's just a lame copy. The Office was based on Gervais and without him (and Mackenzie Crook!) it's just another sit-com. It probably depends on what you saw first, and perhaps the UK one is based on a lot of internal British humour, but it is still the one and only original. The UK one is a lot more subtle and awkward, which certainly is my cuppa.
RogueScribner wrote: David Brent often came across as an ass where Michael Scott comes across as well meaning, but ignorant. So Michael is certainly more likable, IMO.
tangerine wrote:I'll give you that, towards the end of the second UK series it got painfully awkward at times. But the Christmas Specials showed a new side to Brent and a character development which had been completely lacking before. So yeah, 2 series + specials was ideal.
(I still think UK is better though - compressed quality rather than mediocre quantity.)
tangerine wrote:Heh, well, I'm not English (and I don't really watch TV) so I have no idea what you're talking about.
tangerine wrote:Fair enough - but do you prefer American sit-coms to the Brit-sits? Because I've never seen such comedy brilliance before - Peep Show, The Office, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Spaced...... on and on it goes. Imo could never beat the American in-your-face comedies.
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