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I laughed and I cried, what more could I want? After 9 seasons I'm glad they went out in a good way, closure and all that.
Michael's "That's what she said!" killed me, and learning that Creed had stolen "industrial grade LSD" made a lot of sense.
I think The Office actually worked well on two levels - as a funny comedy with fantastic, well developed characters, and on a more emotional level, as there were many relationships across the 9 seasons that you really cared about.
My wife always feels so sad for Toby, myself I love that he was the much-disliked loser dude who never actually caught a break.
Random Dude in Audience: "Do you find your life pointless now, now that no one is filming you?"
Watched this from start to finish earlier this year. I never gave it a shot after being completely disappointed by the first few eps of the first season, but the middle seasons are all excellent. Some random thoughts:
1. Jim and Pam are increasingly awful as the show progresses. 2. While everyone seems to single out seasons 2-4 as the best, season 5 has by far the best episode (Stress Relief). 3. I don't usually take the time to write out long essays on television shows, but I recently started work on one entitled "Fuck Season 9 of The Office." Because seriously, fuck that season. 4. "My maid died" is probably my favorite bit of the whole series.
Huge swaths of season 9 are a bad soap opera with occasional limp attempts at slapstick comedy thrown in. They fucked up Andy's character even worse than post-Sorkin West Wing fucked up Leo, which is saying something. Darryl spends all of season 8 going after Val, and then immediately wants to dump her. Which could be funny if they tried even a little bit to come up with some motivation for this, but they don't. It's just "Whoops, this is inconvenient for where we've now decided the plot will go, so out she goes!" The failed Dwight spinoff pilot episode is hokey and awkward enough to almost feel like a charming callback to old school sitcom spinoff eps, but mainly it just reminds you of how bad those episodes always were.
The failed Dwight spinoff pilot episode is hokey and awkward enough to almost feel like a charming callback to old school sitcom spinoff eps, but mainly it just reminds you of how bad those episodes always were.
Yeah, the backdoor pilot was strange. I liked it better on repeated views. But I fucking LOVE Dwight's Christmas in S9. Easily my favorite Christmas episode of the series.
The real question here is where does The Office (US version) rank on the greatest TV shows of all time list?
Below the UK version.
<runs and hides>
I haven't watched the UK version. Well, I saw the first episode. Which is identical to the first episode of the US version.
Except for the release date.
Fair dinkum.
I just mean that I saw the US version first, so the UK version wasn't as interesting. But I still very much intend to watch the entire UK series. I goddamn adore Ricky Gervais, and fully expect to fall head over heal in love with the UK version, too.
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