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The show definitely goes off a cliff towards the end, but there's still some good stuff in those last few seasons. I really love the episode when you finally see Michaels' movie and everyone's appearances vary wildly from scene to scene based on when they were supposedly filmed. And then Toby's head explodes with incredible special effects, a slow motion camera, and multiple angles.
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they should make a new office but insterad of working in the office they all work from hom e lol could you imnagine that?
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Jun 1, 2023 15:04
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A Fancy Hat posted:She wasn't even that dumb when she showed up, but those last 2-3 seasons of the show turned everybody into cartoon characters. Every sitcom does that eventually. 
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Jun 1, 2023 15:14
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Erin was a moron from the first second she was in the show. The basis of her character is that she's a naďve, kind hearted idiot with little agency.
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Jun 1, 2023 15:25
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agency deez nuts
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Jun 1, 2023 15:27
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A Fancy Hat posted:The show definitely goes off a cliff towards the end, but there's still some good stuff in those last few seasons. I really love the episode when you finally see Michaels' movie and everyone's appearances vary wildly from scene to scene based on when they were supposedly filmed. And then Toby's head explodes with incredible special effects, a slow motion camera, and multiple angles. I like when the camera crew catches up with Jan in a parking lot to tell her the movie got finished and she starts frantically clawing at her car door trying to get it open so she can flee
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:She has a wholesome girl next door quality that I like and she’s funny. Yeah she’s kinda basic white girl but for the most part she means well. To be fair, I’m talking early seasons Pam. She definitely gets worse as the show goes on, but so does everyone else. you the viewer are meant to strongly identify with Jim as The Protagonist©️™️ and Pam is that one girl at work your age that you wonder, would she date me? I bet she’d date me, she’s so plain and normal like me©️™️, we’re kind of friends©️™️©️™️ is sue almost my girlfriend!!™️©️™️©️™️©️™️©️ the early seasons play on that awkward silence office workspaces have and the Jim/Pam sneaky buddy flirting thing is a kind of universal experience
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Jim is kind of a dirtbag though
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A Fancy Hat posted:The show definitely goes off a cliff towards the end, but there's still some good stuff in those last few seasons. I really love the episode when you finally see Michaels' movie and everyone's appearances vary wildly from scene to scene based on when they were supposedly filmed. And then Toby's head explodes with incredible special effects, a slow motion camera, and multiple angles. Threat Level Midnight owns haljordan posted:Jim is kind of a dirtbag though One of the many reasons that I enjoy his portrayal in the prank thread as an unhinged obsessive (edit: self-centered) lunatic who makes everyone around him unhappy YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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I think the best analogue to Jim is how Mulder was portrayed in the X-Files. Surface level he seems handsome and cool and funny, but super hosed up when you dig below the surface. Mulder had that episode that ends with him jerking off to Bigfoot footage, Jim dumped Amy Adams on a booze cruise without an ounce of emotion in his voice or face while he did it.
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Or when he goes to Utica with Michael and Dwight and Karen (rightfully) calls him out for being a selfish immature prick and he just kinda slinks out of the room without a response.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:08
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Erin was a moron from the first second she was in the show. The basis of her character is that she's a naďve, kind hearted idiot with little agency. Her first appearance she has basically 0 personality and is an object for 2 men to fight over. Dunno why they took like multiple appearences to start building her actual character
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My hot take is the show has a really weak supporting cast outside of Carrell, Krasinski, Wilson and Fischer, and it was way better when it knew to use them in tiny doses. After Steve Carrell left they spotlighted all these ancillary characters and it really showed up how bad their acting was. The Stanley dude is the case in point — he existed in the good seasons only as an occasional punchline because he’s a god awful actor, then Carrell left and they built actual stories around him, which obviously failed in every way.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:18
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ryan lying about going to thailand when he actually just goes to fort lauderdale is pretty funny
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Ryan is the most realistic character in the office. That said, if the show had happened a decade later Ryan would have failed upwards into another techbro position in Silicon Valley.
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It is fun to see Rainn Wilson pop up in the news now and then pleading for attention. Let’s see he’s calling for spiritual revolution, wrote an autobiography, seems very available for interviews, and has changed his name on social media to call attention to climate change. Wonder if Carell & Krasinski still take his calls.
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Later seasons have Mark Proksch, so they're not all bad. Also, Darryl's delivery of "the coconut is... subtle" almost pays off the very dumb plot line of the warehouse guys winning the lottery.
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Slugworth posted:Later seasons have Mark Proksch, so they're not all bad. Would you quit your job if you were one of the warehouse guys? What's 1/6 of $950k after taxes?
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haljordan posted:Would you quit your job if you were one of the warehouse guys? What's 1/6 of $950k after taxes? Assuming the $950k was the lump sum payout, it would be around $590k in winnings after federal and state taxes. So about $98k. I guess if you had a low paying blue collar job a decade ago you could live on that for a couple of years.
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haljordan posted:Would you quit your job if you were one of the warehouse guys? What's 1/6 of $950k after taxes?  so about $100k each for six people lump sum
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They go steady downhill from around I want to say season 4 when they decide: - Michael is fundamentally a nice person who loves everyone - Dwight is fundamentally a nice person and not an incel fascist - Jim is a marketing agency hotshot and not the beleaguered straight man having his soul destroyed Or really, it's that they decided that The Office isn't a living hell where we can only pray Jim and Pam escape, but is actually a loving dysfunctional family.
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Strategic Tea posted:They go steady downhill from around I want to say season 4 when they decide: woah woah woah Dwight was never an incel lol.
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Jun 1, 2023 19:29
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I like how Jim made all those huge life decisions without consulting Pam
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they literally cloned Jim, Dwight and Pam probably in case they lost anyone else after steve carell left  the last couple seasons were a cosplay of The Office
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Jun 1, 2023 19:32
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I hate both those characters so much. (not Erin).
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YeahTubaMike posted:One of the many reasons that I enjoy his portrayal in the prank thread as an unhinged obsessive (edit: self-centered) lunatic who makes everyone around him unhappy Even though the show usually glorifies his hilarious pranks, it's nice the few times when they show how dumb they really are, like when Jim realizes he spends most of his days wasting his life on overly elaborate pranks, or when he gets viciously owned by Dwight in a prank war.
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Clark Duke: When Josh Gad Asks for too Much Money
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Mega64 posted:Even though the show usually glorifies his hilarious pranks, it's nice the few times when they show how dumb they really are, like when Jim realizes he spends most of his days wasting his life on overly elaborate pranks, or when he gets viciously owned by Dwight in a prank war. Jim throws a snowball directly at Dwight's face in the middle of the office like a loving psycho and then refuses to be even slightly apologetic about it. He should have been put on unpaid leave and made to attend some kind of counseling.
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Has someone made cs_theoffice?
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I like that they just gave Fake Dwight over to Jan because the writers decided to make her horny for underaged dudes. Increasingly Unhinged Jan was kinda fun but I think retconning things to "Actually the assistant she slept with was only 17 at the time" wasn't the best idea.
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Mega64 posted:I like that they just gave Fake Dwight over to Jan because the writers decided to make her horny for underaged dudes. "Where's the Quizno's? " does get a legit laugh out of me every time. He sounds so bummed lol haljordan fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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naem posted:they literally cloned Jim, Dwight and Pam probably in case they lost anyone else after steve carell left ew
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hey now, they are nonthreatening caucasian males wearing carefully neutral colored shirts and they are visibly inside of the set of The©️Office™️ they interact with the other The Office©️™️ characters, look at the camera, and do those interview one one one bits one of them has relationship issues and talks about it! That’s what people like right? The other The Office©️™️©️ characters sit there and walk by you can see them, with a subscription to PEACOCK™️©️™️©️™️©️™️
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Pete was great in White Lotus.
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You wouldn’t mind if John Krazinski left right? You wouldn’t mind, that would be ok. He married Emily Blunt, he’s in movies now. Look! That guy has a blue shirt! Just like Jim! haha I wonder what wacky hijinks [CHARACTER] will get up to in this week’s episode I bet [HE/SHE/THEY] will say [CATCHPHRASE]
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will they? won’t they? you bet they will! everyone is dating Erin! Everyone. Is that what you want? Theme song! Look at the shirts! Look at em! [CATCHPHRASE] *jingles keys*
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naem posted:they literally cloned Jim, Dwight and Pam probably in case they lost anyone else after steve carell left This stretch was the lowest part of the show for me because they just totally ran out of ideas so they decided to try re-doing stuff they'd already done. And Ed Helms basically had one foot out the door so they decided to utterly destroy his character, making him into an even dumber version of Michael who was also super socially awkward and weird.
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The other thing that weirded me out was how insanely involved everyone was in their co-worker's lives. Every single person in the office got invited to Jim & Pam's wedding? I can barely tolerate my co-workers during working hours when I'm paid to be there.A Fancy Hat posted:This stretch was the lowest part of the show for me because they just totally ran out of ideas so they decided to try re-doing stuff they'd already done. "Hey guys I have to go film the Hangover Part III for a few months, can you write me off the show?" "Ah yeah sure we'll have you go on a big long boat trip but everyone will think you're still working at the company and you won't get in any trouble when you get busted." "Great! See ya!"
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Private Cumshoe posted:Seinfeld is available on Netflix and it's a show about narcissistic idiots too OP it is a sitcom from a slightly earlier time (the jokes might be a little "racy") Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
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I totally forgot the episode where Dwight uses a friggin tranquillizer gun on Stanley, the writers must've been drunk as hell for that last season.
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