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The Office: Best Pranks
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Darth_Luinel_Kun
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May '05
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Date Posted:
6/12/05 8:42am
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The Office: Best Pranks
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Does anyone still watch that show if they do i it still on?
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Darth-Seldon
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Date Posted:
6/12/05 8:52am
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RE: The Office
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It is off for the summer, but I believe it will be back on NBC for the fall. Well the American version anyway. I have watched it, and hope to see it next season.
-Seldon
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Ender_Sai
Title: Manager Emeritus
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Date Posted:
6/12/05 9:16am
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RE: The Office
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I accidently saw some US episodes, and it was painful. Guys, you don't do subtle humour; so the Office was never going to work with a local cast!!!
Watch the UK one, burn the US one. It's really that much of a difference.
E_S
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Date Posted:
6/12/05 10:57am
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I saw some episodes- Steve Carell is hilarious in most things and the supporting cast is likable- looking forward to seeing more episodes.
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6/12/05 11:52am
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I missed two of the episodes but the ones I saw were hilarious, especially the premiere and the basketball one.
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Darth_Luinel_Kun
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6/12/05 1:24pm
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I like the british one better.
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6/12/05 1:38pm
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I'm not familiar with the British version, but I thought the American version was hysterical. The basketball episode and diversity day were my two favorites. Plus the show really does remind me of the office I work in sometime. In fact, we just had to go a seminar on diversity and treating people fairly. That epsiode immeidately kicked in.
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Darth-Seldon
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Date Posted:
6/12/05 2:26pm
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I loved Diversity Day, also the one where they form alliances for the merger. Very amusing.
The boss is great.
-Seldon
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Cobranaconda
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6/12/05 2:31pm
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The British version pwns the American one. Sorry, but it really does.
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Darth_Luinel_Kun
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6/12/05 3:04pm
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Everyone knows that the British one was first.
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Ender_Sai
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6/12/05 6:23pm
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RE: The Office
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It was not only first, it remains funnier and infintely better.
E_S
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Rogue1-and-a-half
Title: Manager: Amphitheatre
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Date Posted:
6/13/05 7:28pm
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I caught most of the first season of the American version. I think I only missed the final episode.
I've seen the first four episodes of the British version and plan to see them all.
The British version is better, both in terms of the subtler way they treat Tim and Dawn and in the department of humor. Plus Ricky Gervaise's boss is a much more despicable man than Steve Carell's.
But the American version is pretty good too. It's head and shoulders above all the other comedies on American television right now, to be frank. Steve Carell is one of the great underrated comic geniuses of the day. He played a supporting role to, of all people, Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty and absolutely stole the show and, even more stunning, had the single funniest scene in the entire movie. Now that's talent.
And the two shows are different enough that I think any grousing about which is better is mostly sour grapes. The American version is different . . . no quiz programs . . . instead we get basketball.
Both shows have their moments of profound genius:
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The cast is better in the British version, I think, and, on the whole, it's more consistently funny and better in general.
But both versions have merit.
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Loopster
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Date Posted:
6/13/05 7:53pm
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I love the original British show, Gervais is brilliant and the support cast is just as good. Though, I didn't really like the last Christmas special as much.
I haven't seen anything of the American version, except for a few preview commercials on TV and I have to say they made me cringe at how poor an immitation it seems to be. I can't really tell until I've seen a couple of episodes though.
One thing I do know about British comedy - not only is it more subtle when needed or more unpredictably insane also, but they know when to stop. Two series of The Office, two of Faulty Towers, two of The Young Ones etc.
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Ender_Sai
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6/13/05 8:29pm
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the Christmas Special wasn't that great, Loopster. It was almost nasty in parts, and it was as if Gervais was trying evoke sympathy for David Brent.
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Loopster
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Date Posted:
6/13/05 9:01pm
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Yeah, I got that feeling too. I have a love/hate thing going on with Brent, that's the secret of the success of the show, really. When he tried to be too sympathetic to him in the Christmas special it left me a bit cold. I'd rather have left it the way the series finished up, with him being fired.
I also found it a bit hectic. Not up to the usual low key standard if you know what I mean.
So, how many series do you think the American show will pump out? 6? 8? It'll go until people are sick to death of it and it becomes a parody of itself, Friends style.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Date Posted:
6/14/05 7:32pm
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I doubt it. It was a shock that it was renewed for a second season. It's ratings were uniformly bad.
As I said, it is better than 99% of the other comedies on television right now (at least American ones) and it is different (it's not about an uptight mom, a wacky dad and two precocious kids with an optional goofy uncle). Being both of those things (quality and different) I don't see it lasting. Originality is the kiss of death on television, you know.
If it gets past three seasons, I'll be shocked. I doubt it'll be renewed past its second one really.
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