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Might as well start one.

Too lazy to look, when does it start up again?

It finished on 27 December 2003. There are no more episodes of The Office, except the special version being made for the humour-impaired.

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Yeah, in all seriousness, the American Office destroys the British Office, and I liked the British Office.

I try not to compare the two, because they really are two completely different shows. The evolution of the characters in the American version has been so strong, and would not have been with different actors playing those roles. And there's nothing saying you can't like both, because they are both good.

Never saw the original (Ricky Gervais) series… …1st few episodes of 4th season were rather weak and unfunny, but they picked it up once the season got going and ended on a good note, though it got just as ridiculous as the 3rd season end… 

The play between Michael and Dwight is so good it's funny without them even saying a word… …the Jim/Pam stuff is ah eh, and I don't think they can do that much with some of the other characters but we'll see… …this is right around the time a TV series starts to go stale…

We popped in 1st season DVD and were struck at how much the actors have aged, or appearances so different due to other reasons (movie bits for the actors, etc.…)…

That's crazy talk.  I knew to watch the American version because I enjoyed the British one so much and once they stopped trying to do exact copies of the British episodes the American show became superior.

I agree with everyone else, I mean I've fucked Ricky Gervais and I like the American one better.

Seriously though, when was the last time you watched it?

What about German Office? I don't speak Deutsche, so I have no idea how funny it is.

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Some favourite clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxD49qBDvs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGlcRQaOEkM

Meh

The fact that at the start they pretended it was an original idea even when they recycled the exact same premise with minor chances (Insurance company and the two branches are divided alphabetically) put me in a bad mood already when I watched it once.

The German Jim (Ulf) is a complete tool instead of somebody you sympathize with. Kinda assholeish to Pam, which you could say is an important change. But I'm not sure a smart one...


Edit: Because chance and change aren't the same.

I've never seen the original, and I don't watch the American version.

The only reason I came here to to express my seething hatred of Rickey Gervais.

Wait, there are Germans that are not assholes?  In Germany?

How am I supposed to know that?

To be fair, I wouldn't watch them on my TV, regardless of their assholishness. Real people are boring  :drill:

Probably our favorite show to watch together. Especially since we both work in the same office together and are basically Jim and Pam since we started as an office romance. They just replayed the dinner party last night, such an awesome episode. Love the new direction they took with Michael and Jan.

And the recent episode where they told that chick that Kevin was slow and he thought she was coming onto him, comedy gold. Now I can't watch Kevin without thinking about that plotline.

Angela might have the most talented eyebrow in hollywood.

I've re-read this post several times and I still can't figure out WTF means.

Ookii was the power bottom.

Damn skippy.

Last night's season premiere was amusing, but it felt really off, like the writers and cast members forgot how the characters act. I love Ed, but Andy is getting on my last nerve.

I agree with this.  All the scenes with the new HR person felt herky-jerky.  Its like they haven't decided whether she's going to view Michael like everyone else, or closer to Dwight.  And

I disagree. In fact, Amy Ryan is the best thing on that show right now.

I thought the first couple shows in season 4 were kind of lame and this season 5 premiere, while not as bad as season 4 premiere, was a tad askew… 

Like the HR gal / Michael play…

The Angela / Dwight deal got old before the end of the episode… 

I like the Andy character, but don't like where they're going with him… …rather would see the dorkus Andy from a few seasons back…

How many of the original writers are left? I seem to recall hearing that many shows got mixed-around after the strike as writers went off to do other things or had found different jobs in the meantime. (ob not in the TV/ Movie industry)

"Business Ethics"-

Meh.  The only part where I cracked a smile was Ryan's little speech during the seminar about Survivor.  I still feel they don't know where they are going with Holly (i.e., buying into Michael's insanity or being like pretty much everyone in the office except Dwight). 

Not seen the American Office, but I used to find the British Office really hard to watch. The humour was always so raw, so close to truth and so centered on the pain of the characters that I never found it funny.

Plus, I'm pretty sure that over the years I've worked with at least one of each character in it. It's just too accurate. Similar to the Royle Family actually, although I manage to laugh (lots) at that sometimes, but it was still too real to be truly funny for me.

Yeah, I know, I'm too sensitive :p

Sorry man, but that episode was awesome. The number of reaction shots to the camera was epic. Olivia Newton John's "Let's get Ethical!" Dumbledor Calrissian. Outback sirloin as a "tip". The "spiky" chastity belt where you put "the thing." I mean, come on, what more do you want?  Great deleted scenes this week (http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/clips/business-ethics-part-one/741401/)

I have a mega-crush on Amy Ryan and want to have her man-babies so I am in no way objective, but her character and Michael's bumbling attempts to be both her "friend" and build a relationship with her are a riot.

Are they still not there… …most of them star in the series — B.J. Novak (Ryan), Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapur), Paul Lieberstein (Toby). Steve Carell has written a few episodes too…

Episode 1 of new season was so-so, OK, still not as bad as episodes 1-2 of season 4…

Last episode (thursday - ethics) I like… …I like the HR character…

I don't think I've seen an episode of either the Brit or the US series that I haven't enjoyed.  I pretty much laugh at anything though, even global tragedies, so maybe I'm just easy to please.

"Must have looked like the tide at Omaha Beach."

God I love Creed (the character and the guy, not the band).

This season has been terrible, but the Super Bowl episode was pure  :heart:

Also, was I the only one trying to figure out which Jack Black movie they were showing clips from, before slowly realizing it wasn't real?  :awesome_for_real:

Pretty much. Of course they advertised that Jack Black was guesting in the episode over here, which clued the rest of us idiots in.

In my defense, its not so different than the movies he actually makes.

My takeaway from that episode was the fact that NBC sanctioned downloading movies.

Only the first scene had us wondering, and my theory was that it was a fake, quickly realized :)

Of course, my fiancee has long believed that Black and I are secretly twins separated at birth, and given my attraction to older women, that fake movie didn't help much!

I also scored points with her because I set up the DVR to record the news, figuring that most NFL games run long. But of course I didn't mention that, and the recorded episode abruptly cut off. Unfortunately, my ball-busting was brief because she had noticed the nightly news on the DVR earlier. Dammit.

"What is a two-way petting zoo?"

Idris Elba is awesome. I just wish they would have let him use his real accent.

Saw the UK Office on Cartoon Network.  I was expecting something more "different" since people say they like the UK one better.  But it seemed pretty much the same.

I bought the premise better in the UK version. You believed it could really be a documentary gone horribly wrong, with a boss and coworkers that could really be that way. You saw the self destruction of a person in front of cameras due to him being the way he is.

The US version is more over the top and more sitcom. Some of the characters aren't believable as real characters anymore, they devolved into caricatures. And the "documentary filmcrew" has access to places and scenes they wouldn't have in real life.

Holy shit, I just made the connection between this show and "our" take on it.

I think our version (called Stromberg) to be incredibly funny, but sadly I can't watch it. The main character is such an unbelievable asshole, socially akward and at the same time cringeworthy pitifull that actually watching more than a few minutes of the show causes me pain. :heartbreak:

Also we got this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GQTkNX-8Yc&feature=related)
(probably not so funny for people who don't understand German  :grin: )

And now I have to watch "your" versions, maybe I can watch them.  :awesome_for_real:

Heh, that's my fiancee's reaction to the US version as well, so you might be out of luck.  She can't watch Seinfeld either because George makes her cringe so much.

Stromberg has other problems  as well.

First, the claimed they never saw the original, even when recycling the exact same plots. Thats cheap and spitting the makers of the original idea in the face. They since admitted that claim was bullshit, though. Stromberg is equally pitiful and cringeworthy to the British original. Carell makes the US version more likeable. Thats the core difference.

Also, German Jim is an Asshole to German Pam. The fact that he is the exact opposite to her, at total sweetheart, in both other version, humanized him. It is the core dynamic of the fucking series. You don't have anybody to root for in the German version.

Since I know Germans that aren't complete assholes to their girlfriends I must respectfully disagree here. Thats not even one of the prevalent prejudices against them, so where does that come from? Watched too many Nazi movies in your childhood?

Dealing with Germans in Germany and seeing how they treat their wives.

EDIT:  And holy shit, you have never heard that Germans are considered rude?

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The way you phrased this makes it sound like the exception.   :why_so_serious:

We Austrians have many choice prejudices against Germans, rude isn't even in the top ten. Thats why I am surprised about this.

CreepyGif disagrees with your hotlink.

What the fuck is the point of providing BBCode to hotlink your image if you disallow hotlinking?  I ask you.

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Fuck you.

I don't think one can make generalizations about being rude and Germans. Sure, I met a bunch of total twats in my time in Berlin, but met complete sweethearts there too, not to mention incredible hospitality when travelling to smaller towns like Dresden.

Same goes for France. Paris, ass-hat city. 50 minute drive from Paris, milk of human kindness.

Well, Berlin is the second largest city in Europe. Among 3 million people you are bound to find some twats, statistically speaking.  :awesome_for_real:

Unlike Germany, it's actually hard to find nice people in Paris outside of REALLY nice hotels, in which case their only job is to be nice. Waiters though? Pfah. The entire service industry outside of hotels in Paris is a bunch of jackoffs.

I will never regret not getting back to Paris. I have no desire to go there ever again.

Aparently some part of this "misunderstanding" about Germans being rude is language relatet. German is pretty straigt forward and several (lets call the "social") phrases commonly used in English are simply not present in German. That makes it difficult for us to adapt to foreing levels of "Niceness", especially if we just translate literarly from German to English (happens a lot to Germans who are not exposed to a lot of English during their daily lives)

I'd like to think I do much better in this regard.  :awesome_for_real:

I do not agree with most of the points made here (http://www.true-germany.com/common-prejudices/germans-are-rude-and-%E2%80%9Eoberlehrerhaft%E2%80%9C), but the German English used there is  :awesome_for_real: :heartbreak: :ye_gods:

Thats what I heard as well. The example I heard is being invited by somebody in Germany and the US. "You should visit us" is something only said by Germans if they mean it. In the US it is a phrase and people would likely be shocked if somebody took them by their word and stood at their doorstep. It is only true if said repeatedly.

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Sorry, could not resist.   :heart:

Isn't the rude German rap something to do with towels?  Anyway, the only thing that keeps me from spending some time living in Germany are the infinite number of awesome record shops.  I'd never see my husband again!

Not to ruin the German riff... but other than what I can only assume is a network first vomit daisy chain, as well as finding sufficient context to justify the lead female saying "he's in my room icing his balls," I'm going to have to lodge a formal complaint for lifting a bad internet joke straight in to their wedding pay-off without any apparent irony.

There was plenty of irony, mainy Jim knowing immediately upon seeing the video that the Pavlovian meme followers (Michael and his brothers) would try to copy it and ruin the wedding so he pre-bought the wedding-before-the-wedding tickets (not to mention the kick to the face).

One of my favorite parts of the ep was Dwight wearing the 3 wolves shirt and turning into a hot- bridesmaid-scoring playa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYSpIz2FjU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYSpIz2FjU)

Best TV wedding ever!

The writers are really outdoing themselves.

 :oh_i_see: ... will need a ruling on whether cartoon characters trump real people vomiting.

Still not sold on the wedding as a good piece of writing...there were moments during the episode, sure... but the final wedding dance?  Nope, not seeing it as anything other than a lame cast montage in lieu of something clever.

You be the judge: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/the-office-wedding-video_n_314916.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/the-office-wedding-video_n_314916.html)

I think the fact that they managed to have the crazy hyjinx that everyone expected without it ruining the wedding was a pretty good bit of writing. 

Well i just watched the "booze cruize" episode, when Roy tells Pam he's finally ready to set a date the boat captain pipes up that he can marry them right there.  Pams answer? "i don't want to get married in a boat, i want a real wedding with DANCING!".  That sirs is genius writing.

Yes. That episode was worth the wait. If the series had ended on that episode, I'd have been entirely fine with it. "I know entirely too much about Andy's balls!" was just a killer line.

Sadly, I think that most of the great record shops in Germany have gone out of business in the last decade, just like they have in every other part of the western world. Fortunately the ones that haven't are online and ship internationally, so there's no need to go to Germany now.

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I'm just now catching up on the last season of The Office on Netflix and wanted to say it's far surpassed my expectations.  The A.A.R.M. episode almost killed me.  Would recommend to others who tuned out after Steve Carrell bailed that it's worth picking up again.