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re: Best part of the Office is when James Bond figures out Jim is a lazy shite slacker in 5 min
Posted on 9/16/21 at 12:00 pm to 3nOut
Posted on 9/16/21 at 12:00 pm to 3nOut
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avoided cheating with a naked woman in his room
ALLEGEDLY
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in a group of people where they, Oscar, and Toby are the only normal ones
I acknowledge this is off-topic and I’m hijacking this thread (there should be a larger Office Theory 101 thread), but this is a huge gripe of mine. If you watch the earlier seasons, everyone was relatively normal save for Michael and Dwight. It made the whole environment that much more realistic and the litany of straight men worked as a more vivid foil to Michael and Dwight’s characters. I think it wasn’t the initial intention of the writers that once they continued on from the end of the British Office, they were to Flanderize all of the secondary characters. I do understand that the show wouldn’t have run as long without adding in the zany quirks to Kevin, Kelly, Angela, etc, but maybe that would’ve been ok...
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Posted on 9/16/21 at 1:34 pm to Mufassa
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this is a huge gripe of mine. If you watch the earlier seasons, everyone was relatively normal save for Michael and Dwight. It made the whole environment that much more realistic and the litany of straight men worked as a more vivid foil to Michael and Dwight’s characters. I think it wasn’t the initial intention of the writers that once they continued on from the end of the British Office, they were to Flanderize all of the secondary characters. I do understand that the show wouldn’t have run as long without adding in the zany quirks to Kevin, Kelly, Angela, etc, but maybe that would’ve been ok...
But I think this is what actually made the show work because it mirrors a real-life office experience. When you start to work in an office, everyone seems normal and straight-laced; however, as you get to know them you realize everyone has zany quirks. I have never once worked in an office where anyone is "normal," once gotten to know with enough time.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 1:53 pm to Mufassa
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If you watch the earlier seasons, everyone was relatively normal save for Michael and Dwight. It made the whole environment that much more realistic and the litany of straight men worked as a more vivid foil to Michael and Dwight’s characters. I think it wasn’t the initial intention of the writers that once they continued on from the end of the British Office, they were to Flanderize all of the secondary characters. I do understand that the show wouldn’t have run as long without adding in the zany quirks to Kevin, Kelly, Angela, etc, but maybe that would’ve been ok...
maybe it's the recency bias of having watched some of the later seasons more recently, but while it's painfully obvious that the supporting staff is supposed to be caricatures of certain personalities, everybody in that cast would have been fired by season 3 in a real world situation except Toby, Phyllis, and Oscar.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 5:39 pm to Mufassa
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If you watch the earlier seasons, everyone was relatively normal save for Michael and Dwight.
In season 1, Kevin is just a boring accountant who can unexpectedly sink 3’s. By the end of the show they have an entire episode about how, if you just met him, you would think he’s actually retarded.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:47 am to Mufassa
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I acknowledge this is off-topic and I’m hijacking this thread (there should be a larger Office Theory 101 thread), but this is a huge gripe of mine. If you watch the earlier seasons, everyone was relatively normal save for Michael and Dwight.
There is a fan theory that everyone got Radon poisoning in the office over time and developed brain cancer, which led to their changing personalities. Michael blocks Toby from testing for it in an episode.
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