Park & Rec's ratings are not as good because (a) it's newer and (b) it takes more effort to get into. sales != quality
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 May 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
JAMES SPADER.
awesome.
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
he's not the new boss though, just the CEO. They really punted on replacing Michael Scott.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
u can't ask me to not be excited about james spader
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
how many threads do we need on this?
Spader as CEO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Spader as Michael tho
― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
what other thread is it on?
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
The Office (US) — Season 6 thread last updated two hours before this one
― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh -- i think this one gets more use. i unsubscribed from that one awhile ago for the reason you mention -- how many office threads do we need?
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
so awkward
― Mordy, Friday, 24 February 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
what's awkward is that every week, another thread gets revived.
The Office Season 8: It Kinda Seems Like the Left Side is the Side to Be On
― Three Word Username, Friday, 24 February 2012 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
Rewatching the complete series of this, loving James Spader so much.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
"I had a one man saturnalia last night to celebrate the finalization of my divorce."
― Treeship, Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
http://38.media.tumblr.com/981d3964c092b684cfc20c7270b049f5/tumblr_mvw2uuSwXh1s6xigeo1_500.jpg
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
So yeah this show started out ok then got really good til Michael Scott left. I love the episodes immediately following it, the guest star managers and weird Lynchian James Spader stuff. But it's pretty clear that they decided to end the show when Michael left. Maybe they were thinking Ed Helms could save the show but his character is really detestable for that final season. Erin is easily the best part of post-Michael Office. New Jim and New Dwight were cool. Jim's sports thing in Philadelphia is a lame subplot, and the Boom Mic Guy subplot is some Twin Peaks season 2 James Biker-level blah blah blah.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 July 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtFy1kGaHc
Craig Robinson rules
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 July 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
Creed Bratton: Hey, coz. Heard you're having money problems.Michael Scott: No, you didn't.Creed Bratton: Listen, I got the answer. You declare bankruptcy, all your problems go away.Creed Bratton: [in confessional] Creed Bratton has never declared bankruptcy. When Creed Bratton gets in trouble, he transfers his debt to[holds up a fake passport]Creed Bratton: William Charles Schneider.Michael Scott: How would that help, Creed? In Monopoly, you go bankrupt, you lose.Creed Bratton: You don't go by Monopoly, man. That game is *nuts*. Nobody just pick up Get Out of Jail Free cards. Those things cost thousands.Michael Scott: That is a good point.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 July 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
Slowly watching the post-Michael seasons now, Erin is the best thing about them by far.
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Friday, 11 July 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
i've gone back to rewatch this series from the start. right now i'm halfway through season 5. imo season 2 is the best. the Michael-Jan stuff is very interesting, the weird power struggles they deal with, and it's funny to watch him fail at both being a competent manager and a lover often at the same time. Jan was a really good character it is a shame what happened, they basically turned her into a crazy ex. the show works best when it just sits back and lets Michael fail and Jan was the best foil for him, the Margaret Dumont to his Groucho.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 July 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiI4lvRbLkU
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 22 July 2017 06:17 (six years ago) link
when it starts the "Jim's sports company" subplot this show becomes a struggle to get through
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 24 July 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
James Spader is cool. Catherine Tate is cool but they quickly ran out of things for her character to do. Ed Helms is funny but a mostly absent boss. Ellie Kemper is the funniest part of the last couple of seasons.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 24 July 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
Finished up a few days ago, all nine seasons. I should have posted a few times as I went along--hard to sum up after you've finished. (I might do a character rundown in a couple of days.) Briefly: erratic, as you'd expect, but at its best I loved it. Especially Pam and Jim the first two or three seasons--as crazy as this sounds, I think that was about as romantic as any film I've ever seen. And so out of the blue when you don't know anything in advance, and you've decided you have a pretty good idea of what you're about to see.
― clemenza, Sunday, 28 January 2024 21:41 (three months ago) link
I never made it past episode one of the British show. It made my skin crawl.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 January 2024 15:28 (three months ago) link
I'm amazed at how much negativity there is towards Pam early in this thread. Thought she was pretty great right from the start.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:53 (three months ago) link
Apparently this show has become a touchstone for Gen Z, which is really odd, given how little actual office experience any of them have had. It'd be like them really getting into a show about people using rotary phones. (And yeah, obviously the office setting of The Office is all but incidental, but still.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:26 (three months ago) link
I think at least once a day for the rest of my life I will randomly blurt out "WUPHF.com!" at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfokPqeSNcw
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link
lol
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
"This is how you make it in this country..."
I bet I've watched that clip 25 times the past month.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 21:02 (two months ago) link
Second-last one of the these--you can feel the magic in the air. Not really about pop music in The Office, which was used sparsely over nine seasons--just 20 minutes on the "Nobody But Me" lib-dub, posted just above.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4NtPbFQd-s&t
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 01:16 (one week ago) link