Comments on: The Office – The Best Show You’re Not Watching http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/ What Goes On In Your Ed? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:14:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sean http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-439 Sean Sat, 20 May 2006 00:37:39 +0000 http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-439 I think the point of the boss is to not like him. Well, maybe that's just the American version, but it's funnier to think Michael is pure jackass and see what stupidity he comes up with next. Jim makes the show. The romance with Pam is good and all, but it is the harassment of Dwight that makes him great. That and the looks and expressions he gives the documentary crew. I thought it was great how they played up the jinx game he and Pam play and he couldn't speak for most of the episode. I watched all the episodes last year and enjoyed it. I thought the first few this year started off slow, so I gave up on it even though it was following Earl. Ed encouraged me to pick it back up again, so I think I missed two episodes, but I did catch one in re-run. I have to agree with Ed, it's a weekly must-see. Consistent laugh-out-loud moments every week. I think the point of the boss is to not like him. Well, maybe that’s just the American version, but it’s funnier to think Michael is pure jackass and see what stupidity he comes up with next.

Jim makes the show. The romance with Pam is good and all, but it is the harassment of Dwight that makes him great. That and the looks and expressions he gives the documentary crew. I thought it was great how they played up the jinx game he and Pam play and he couldn’t speak for most of the episode.

I watched all the episodes last year and enjoyed it. I thought the first few this year started off slow, so I gave up on it even though it was following Earl. Ed encouraged me to pick it back up again, so I think I missed two episodes, but I did catch one in re-run. I have to agree with Ed, it’s a weekly must-see. Consistent laugh-out-loud moments every week.

]]> By: Ed http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-437 Ed Thu, 18 May 2006 17:35:16 +0000 http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-437 And did the British version give us that stellar Photoshopped office portrait? That's a classic!!! And did the British version give us that stellar Photoshopped office portrait?

That’s a classic!!!

]]> By: Ed http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-436 Ed Thu, 18 May 2006 17:34:11 +0000 http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-436 Jen - spare us your Anglo-centric bias. I'd like to toss it in the drink alongside the tea we liberated off ye' olde bloody bastards so many glorious years ago. I'd like to agree with you but I sat through one episode of the original BBC version and I couldn't make out one word they said. Geez - is it too much to ask that they speak English? Jen – spare us your Anglo-centric bias. I’d like to toss it in the drink alongside the tea we liberated off ye’ olde bloody bastards so many glorious years ago.

I’d like to agree with you but I sat through one episode of the original BBC version and I couldn’t make out one word they said. Geez – is it too much to ask that they speak English?

]]> By: Jen http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-435 Jen Thu, 18 May 2006 16:07:19 +0000 http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-435 It's definitely one of the better shows on TV, but it pales in comparison to the BBC version with Ricky Gervais. Steve Carell is good, but Ricky Gervais' boss comes across as more likeable in his own painfully awkward, boorish way. Plus, he gave us "Free love on the free love freeway". A classic. It’s definitely one of the better shows on TV, but it pales in comparison to the BBC version with Ricky Gervais. Steve Carell is good, but Ricky Gervais’ boss comes across as more likeable in his own painfully awkward, boorish way.

Plus, he gave us “Free love on the free love freeway”. A classic.

]]> By: Ed http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-434 Ed Thu, 18 May 2006 00:24:49 +0000 http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-434 What's scary is the parallels between me and Michael Scott. First we had the ep where the employees find his 'screenplay' in his desk and stage a dramatic reading of it - then we have the ID photo episode where everyone is so pissed at the end of the episode, that Michael resorts to PhotoShop to complete the company photo. Anyone who knows me has seen my screenplays and been subjected to my mad Photoshop skillz. Could be worse. Could be Dwight. What’s scary is the parallels between me and Michael Scott. First we had the ep where the employees find his ‘screenplay’ in his desk and stage a dramatic reading of it – then we have the ID photo episode where everyone is so pissed at the end of the episode, that Michael resorts to PhotoShop to complete the company photo. Anyone who knows me has seen my screenplays and been subjected to my mad Photoshop skillz. Could be worse. Could be Dwight.

]]> By: Joe http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-433 Joe Thu, 18 May 2006 00:15:26 +0000 http://www.edhumphries.com/2006/05/the-office-the-best-show-youre-not-watching/#comment-433 FINALLY - you can buy it: <a href="http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/detail.php?p=8368&pa=ang&gtse=goog&gtkw=dwight+bobblehead&CMP=KNC-paidkeywords&HBX_PK=dwight+bobblehead&HBX_OU=50">The Dwight Bobblehead</a>. FINALLY – you can buy it: The Dwight Bobblehead.

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