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Caesar Saladin posted:The part of The Office where the dude hits the warehouse guy with the mic boom is the worst thing in the show easily, and one of the worst moments from a decent tv show I can think of. Also that tiny little dude would have his head exploded by that giant warehouse worker after going "Ow" for a second. you could tell at a certain point the story arch was going to be JIM AND PAM and thats not a bad thing but it means that scenes like that kinda fall flat it was way more interesting to see how dwight was going to wrangle angela
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Caesar Saladin posted:The part of The Office where the dude hits the warehouse guy with the mic boom is the worst thing in the show easily, and one of the worst moments from a decent tv show I can think of. Also that tiny little dude would have his head exploded by that giant warehouse worker after going "Ow" for a second. That whole arc where they try to set up a dramatic love triangle is honestly embarrassing, and I hope the writers are ashamed of their work.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:all of J.D.'s love interests in Scrubs look the same except for the black girl he dated for 2 episodes and that's honestly my biggest problem with the show the Scrubs era was peak hot girl it’s been downhill since
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china bot posted:Parks and Rec broke all the mockumentary rules and I'll not stand for it Both shows wanted to utilize soliloquy and asides, but they wanted to hide that they were doing it, possibly because they thought they'd be called nerds by the public, imo.
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naem posted:the Scrubs era was peak hot girl it’s been downhill since so many babes in that show for JD to date and Sarah Chalke was unbelievable back then
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mysterious frankie posted:Both shows wanted to utilize soliloquy and asides, but they wanted to hide that they were doing it, possibly because they thought they'd be called nerds by the public, imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izj2xo97D9k
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Parks and Rec got to the point where they'd have like one talking head per episode. and it was otherwise shot like a standard single cam sitcom. Aside from requiring the camera crew to be present in weird or impossible locations, the mockumentary conceit also forced every character's major life events and relationships to involve the office in some way. By the end, the show is basically positing a hellworld where nothing happens in anyone's life that isn't related to work.
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Apr 2, 2021 11:03
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Why, that sounds just like real life
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Communist Walrus posted:Aside from requiring the camera crew to be present in weird or impossible locations, the mockumentary conceit also forced every character's major life events and relationships to involve the office in some way. By the end, the show is basically positing a hellworld where nothing happens in anyone's life that isn't related to work. The Office is an SCP in-universe
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why, that sounds just like real life What's objectionable is that the show treats it as a good and heartwarming thing.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I think the deep metanarrative of the series is that Jim and Pam are crushingly average nothing people I agree but also I really like the way Pam bounces off Jim and vice versa, and they are the only heterosexual relationship I've ever condoned
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Apr 2, 2021 23:35
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alexandriao posted:I agree but also I really like the way Pam bounces off Jim and vice versa, and they are the only heterosexual relationship I've ever condoned Better that they suck the life out of one another than an innocent
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Apr 2, 2021 23:50
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I really want Toby to show up on an episode of What We Do In The Shadows at like an energy vampire convention or something
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Apr 2, 2021 23:57
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Jim and Pam are a celebration of the average which, mathematically, most of us are
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Remember when Pam thought it was a good idea to quit her job and go work for Michael?
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Zugzwang posted:Remember when Pam thought it was a good idea to quit her job and go work for Michael? Ok but I gel with this for two reasons: - One, would you rather gently caress around and find out for 6 months, versus continue to work as a perfectly boring receptionist - Two, Scott was doing better with sales than Mifflin, so it's not a *long* stretch that if he actually applied himself and stopped being an rear end for 2m, he could go somewhere
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Code Jockey posted:I really want Toby to show up on an episode of What We Do In The Shadows at like an energy vampire convention or something Toby is unironically my favorite character on the show. It's hard to play a boring loser while still being oddly likeable.
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alexandriao posted:if he actually applied himself and stopped being an rear end for 2m, he could go somewhere He was excellent at sales though, it's true. He's an example of why your best person in sales/engineering/whatever shouldn't necessarily be promoted to manager. I don't think they ever really explained how the Scranton branch managed to do so well given how bad Michael was at his non-sales job. Maybe because they had the company's best salesperson (Dwight) and because the other people like Stanley were really good at just keeping their heads down and working hard regardless of how dumb their boss was?
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Zugzwang posted:Yes but, Michael. I remember it being heavily implied that while Scott was heavily inappropriate and disruptive, he also managed to keep people on their toes and made people engaged in the job, in his way. He kept morale up, if only by people being comrades in arms against his incoherent management style.
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Son of Rodney posted:I remember it being heavily implied that while Scott was heavily inappropriate and disruptive, he also managed to keep people on their toes and made people engaged in the job, in his way. He kept morale up, if only by people being comrades in arms against his incoherent management style. all the visits to the new york main office made it clear this was a failing business run by disinterested executives, M showed up every day full of excitement and enthusiasm he was an asset by comparison
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I'd rather want an insane manager than one who's leering over my back every waking second.
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A regional business that specializes in office supply to small businesses in mid-sized Northeastern cities should absolutely not have its corporate offices be located in a manhattan skyscraper. Just not doing that may have been enough to avoid bankruptcy imo
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It was a money laundering scheme.
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Who What Now posted:It was a money laundering scheme. It could be that, but a few friends of mine did artwork for a small startup a few decades back and uhhhh. They were a small startup and could barely afford artists but they could definitely all afford porsches and rolexes and the like. They went bust a few months later. What I'm saying is there are absolutely people who think running a company is all suns and roses and behave like they've Made It Big before they actually have, and that's absolutely what the Mifflin execs were doing, that's what that one episode was demonstrating alexandriao fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Cosmik Slop posted:Toby is unironically my favorite character on the show. It's hard to play a boring loser while still being oddly likeable. the part where he puts his hand on Pam's leg and its so awkward that he has to run away and hop the fence and jog home is just so great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psu9eE8ualg&t=183s The guy was also a producer on King of the Hill, a way better show.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHP2Ep73Fk4&t=23s What's this exchange? It sounds like saying something about a hospital and then steve says something to make them break
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Caesar Saladin posted:the part where he puts his hand on Pam's leg and its so awkward that he has to run away and hop the fence and jog home is just so great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiodEiIRiE8
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I think Toby was supposed to be a one off character but the writers/directors liked him so much they kept him
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Toby (Paul Lieberstein), Ryan (BJ Novak), and Kelly (Mindy Kaling) were all writers for the show.
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I love the moment during the christening episode where Toby finally works up the nerve to enter church and ask god why he's so mean. I simultaneously felt bad for him, related, and wanted to punch him in the arm. Really encapsulates the whole Toby experience.
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Toby is the one character on the show not to have anywhere near a happy ending.
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I mean he was the Scranton strangler
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PizzaProwler posted:Toby (Paul Lieberstein), Ryan (BJ Novak), and Kelly (Mindy Kaling) were all writers for the show. Oops. Yeah he wasn't "some guy" as I thought but his character wasn't supposed to be a regular.
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did michael ever have a genuine not lovely moment with toby? The closest I can think of is when he convinces them to let them out of the conference room in the convict
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my wife has been rewatching this and it's made me think of the ending and how bizarre it was that they leaned hard into the documentary after basically handwaving/ignoring it for nine years like i can't help but ask what the pitch those filmmakers must have put together was like. "so we're going to find a boring small branch of a dying industry and film them until they inevitably go bankrupt." "and if they don't?" "lol they definitely will but we'll cut it off at like a decade or something at most"
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