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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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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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.