re: Best part of the Office is when James Bond figures out Jim is a lazy shite slacker in 5 min

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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...

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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.