― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
jeremy's right - the focus group response to the original pilot was so terrible that nbc had to have a long hard think about whether it was worth saving. in the end they retooled both the cast and the writing team pretty dramatically and (i think?) gave gervais and merchant even more input than they already had.
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Big Brother, surely? Or am I missing something in TV history?
― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
WTF!!?? Is that really him?
It's really disheartening when someone rattles off a list of 20 British shows that are supposed to be good and only 2 or 3 of them have ever been shown in the US. I can't understand why with a billion satellite stations they can't just beam the British channels over here instead of giving us BBC America.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
What I don't get is, if they're following the original exactly and it gets pick up for more than one season, what happens when they get past the Christmas Specials in the story line? They better have some damn good writers lined up or they're screwed...not to mention the fact that the BBC series ends at exactly the right time for those characters.
― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
It just bothers me that the media/entertainment complex assume Americans won't be interested in a show full of British accents. Could this type of coddling be why so many Americans have such an insulated view of the world?
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
None of this forgives the idea of making an Americanized Father Ted, though. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
So why isn't Larry David giving me money?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
True, but the concept of the workplace sitcom long predates Faulty Towers.
In the meantime, weren't Three's Company, Sanford and Son, and All in the Family all Americanized versions of Britcoms?
― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
This new version will probably suck, though.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Saturday, 12 March 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
we'll see....
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 March 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
That said, I'll probably watch it tonight just so's I can definitively tell people "Just got rent the original, it's like a billion times better."
― sugarpants: the luscious ingenue (sugarpants), Thursday, 24 March 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
You know, Australian TV rarely feels the need to remake overseas shows. We get original BBC stuff like Coupling, Sketch Show, the Office, LoG, QAF etc... we sometimes get the US versions too; we also get plenty of US shows un-changed.
The few times they've tried to translate an overseas show to australian it has bombed! Queer Eye is the latest hilarious example. It took them a very long time to find a cast they thoght'd work, and I think maybe 2 or 3 eps aired and it was canned... and now they're back to "the original" US version, haw.
Reality and pop-contest shows seem to be the only ones they'll remake here (Idol and the like) - and even THEN we still get the US versions of all that shoved down our gobs AS WELL.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Our Big Brother blows. All BB blows. And that cute feisty big woman who did the bum slap dance? She's now stick thin and black haired and looks weird.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen 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