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Title: The Office
Post by: Matt on March 24, 2005, 09:57:27 PM

I'm currently watching The Office, which is premiring after The Apprentice.  The concept of the show can basicaly be summed up thusly:

"Let's make this show.  We can make it like office space, only instead of having it be a witty and comedic satire on office life, it can instead be totally fake and not funny at all.  People will love that."

Yup. Don't waste your time watching.

Title: The Office
Post by: Steve on March 25, 2005, 08:24:14 AM

It is an american remake of a good british show.

Title: The Office
Post by: Matt on March 25, 2005, 08:37:00 AM

Ah.

It was horrible. I laughed once.  The rest was just mind-numbing torture.  It didn't even resemble funny.  THe part I laughed at was the intern/temp guy cracking a joke about the jello mould with the stapler in it (Okay, so the mould was amusing).

Title: The Office
Post by: Steve on March 25, 2005, 08:28:00 PM

Apparently the british version is quite good, the dvd set of it has been popular here. Making americans butcher it.

Title: The Office
Post by: Matt on March 25, 2005, 11:21:06 PM

Ah. Apparently critics are hailing the american show as uhm.. a bunch of good things.  But I think those are fabricated critics.  They're made in Michigan.

Title: The Office
Post by: Steve on March 26, 2005, 08:15:39 AM

Duh. Everyone knows Michigan is fictitious.

Title: The Office
Post by: Lindsay on March 28, 2005, 10:29:37 PM

Man... does that mean the people in Michigan are fictitious as well?

Katherine's going to be upset...

Title: The Office
Post by: Dasha on March 28, 2005, 10:54:54 PM

Quote from: "Steve"

Duh. Everyone knows Michigan is fictitious.

Yes, my two-week trip there was merely a result of psychotropic drugs administered by a shady character in a Denny's in Minneapolis. *nods*