The Office
 

who loves this show??? my wife got me into in like season 5

The show is great. I don't watch it regularly when the new episodes air but I catch the reruns on TBS all the time... I crack up all the time, Michael is pretty funny but I laugh harder at the reactions of everyone else in the office and the things they say and do....

-ms

LOL, hell yeah.. Michael and Dwight are great, but i ike the other characters as well Especially Andy (Ed Helms)

This show is simply amazing. it's up there with Seinfeld for me. I started watching mid season 2 and have been hooked every since. This show is so easy to quote, too. It sucks there will be no more Michael Scott after this season.

Yeah, but i think thats why they kinda beefed up the cast. ALthough he will be missed i think its possible for the show to go on..Especially if they can get 1 or 2 cameo's throughout season 8..Dwight Jim,Pam,Andy can all hold their on but i guess time will tell..


The Outsources show seems to have promise as well

A poor man's remake of a classic. Do yourselves a favour and look up the original. Gervais is a genius, x.

YES! The original UK version is hilarious! It's why I won't watch the current series.

Did. Watched it and the US version still is better. Even a whole lot of UK people like the US version more. The US one only imitated the UK version for a few EARLY episodes. Plus the branch closing, but other shows have done it previously.

The US version has a GREAT sense of humour and it's sooo quotable. Me and a few friends can always quote this show and it's always funny.

Michael Scott: "Jim, the seats go all the way down. All. The way. Down". *while doing arm motion* :lol::lol::lol:

Plus the UK has no Nard Dawg. :D

Agreed 100% here. I watched the UK one and it pails in comparison to the US version. The UK one was too boring for me.

It's pretty bad. Everyone on the show is pretty talentless.

The UK version is terrible. I guess I just don't get British humor, nor can I stand their vocabulary.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

oh man, I actually LOL'd at that. It's hard, at times, to understand them, but it's still funny. Just NOT as funny as the US version.

Dwight is simply awesome. Simple as that. He taught me that bears can climb faster than they run :D

You are aware that Gervais works on the US show, right?

Simply. Love. This. Show!!!!

I think The Office and Twin Peaks might be my favorite shows ever.

I could go OOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNN about the many sparkling things The Office has going for it but I'll spare everyone. That show singlehandedly made Steve Carell and John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer some of my very favorite actors. EV-ER-Y-ONE is fantastic, especially considering how Creed and Kelly and Phyillis weren't even really actors when they started on the show. The writing staff is loaded and they've attracted some impressive directors over the years (J.J. Abrams, Joss Weedon, Jason Reitman, Harold Ramis etc.) and I really think the creative minds (Rickey Gervais being one of them, mind you) have done an amazing job sculpting such believable characters that still manage to give us that larger than life feel, at times, that attract so many of us to sitcoms. Plus they've handled the coming and going of various characters, as well as all the growth and relationships, masterfully.

The show truly is a gem. It's become a culturally phenomenon and there is a reason it is so quotable. Not because it just copied the British version. That's being entirely too unfair to both versions. From my knowledge, the only episodes that the US version "copied" are from Season 1 and, still, not all all of them. It'll forever be compared, sadly, but it should be judged on it's merits alone. As should the British one.

Speaking of, while I have not seen any of it (yet plan to!), I know that British humor can be very dry. Which is an understatement. I am sure we all know that. So it's not surprising some might find it to be "boring". They like their comedy as dry as Margaret Thatcher naked on a....well....uh, oops....

I simply adore that show. Here I am going on when I said I wouldn't, ha! I will be greatly saddened at Michael no longer being in the show and find it hard to see that show lasting much longer without him, unfortunately. He really is the centerpiece of the show despite the tremendous cast around him.

OH, and I got to meet the actor who plays Oscar (coincidentally named Oscar as well) at a gas station near my apartment building, haha! He was very nice!

Yay for The Office love!!!

The Office is soo funny. I've watched all 6 seasons and all of Season 7 so far and it's just so consistently funny.

I don't know who my fav. is or anything but i love the newer stuff a little more just because of of Erin and Andy.

Erin is so funny

I'm so glad to see this thread! I am also in love with the show.

Michael Scott is the most fleshed out and brilliant character I have ever seen on a cable comedy show. Dwight is also one hell of a classic character, as are many others on the show.
I can't help but roll my eyes when people act like it's merely a "crappy version of the UK office". I don't want to call everyone out at once, but I can't help but think a lot of people who say that, are just disgruntled purists, because they knew the show existed way before anyone else.
I'd like to see the show carry on, even without Steve Carell. It may not be up to par, but considering the show has been hilarious until now, I still think it has potential to carry on as the funniest show on television.

Also, it doesn't hurt that I am completely ****ing in love with Pam <3

I definantly agree , micheal and dwight are brilliant.

I love pams character too , I personally think she'd make a good April O Neal

It's sad that this season is more than half walf way through. :(

The passed episode where Michael and Erin are in his office with the "happy box"... Oh my God, I lost it. I don't know how this show just gets better and better, but it does :)

The UK versions theme song is so depressing sounding.. I can't stand it.

I just saw the " Ultimatum " episode

might be my fav. episode ever

Creed's new year resolution is to do a cartwheel then Erin does one and he's FLIPS Out LOL. soo funny & Micheal Force Feeds Kevin vegatables

i think this years christmas episode is my new favorite..Dwight pranked the hell outta Jim...Jim went fu***** balistic pardon my french but saying "jim went crazy" would'nt of givin it justice''


Kinda sucks that Kelly (Mindy Kaling) is also leaving the show this year :(