Does Anyone Else Love

22 Comments

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   grannyhelen on March 21, 2005 at 2:45 pm

   And the Christmas special was hilarious.

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     Dean Pajevic on March 21, 2005 at 3:32 pm

     I would but I don’t understand English very well.  I need subtitles.  I know it’s funny!  But I can’t tell for myself!  I’m looking forward, sigh, to the American version.

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       grannyhelen on March 21, 2005 at 3:39 pm

       if you have close caption, that might resolve it.

       The Office is literally one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen. It just takes painful office humor and drags. it. out. until. there’s. nothing. else. to. laugh. at. and. people. don’t. know. how. to. just. leave. gracefully.

       Seriously, it’s great.

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         Dean Pajevic on March 21, 2005 at 3:46 pm

         I do have closed caption but it mutes the sound… but that’s a great idea.  I can read the show! :):)

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       pyrrho on March 21, 2005 at 8:54 pm

       loves it… is an American english speaker and still watches it with CC because she can’t understand it… she is just a kid though…

       I love The Office, it’s brilliant in the sort of “how pathetic that I know how apt this is” sort of way…

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         Dean Pajevic on March 22, 2005 at 9:39 am

         me too.  I’m just a kid.  When I get old like you, I’ll be able to just listen without reading!

         (I have noticed a phenom though … certain shows, such as MI-5 (shown on A&E, and which got kind of stupid this season), are very easy to understand.  Some of the darker crime dramas on BBCAmerica are not so easy, altho I could always get the gist of Prime Suspect even if I missed a few lines now and then.)

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           pyrrho on March 23, 2005 at 2:49 pm

           but you’re so smart.

           I’m ancient… I’m like… 40,000 years old or something.

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     TX Expat on March 21, 2005 at 7:25 pm

     I absolutely adore The Office, but what is this, how do you say, Christmas Special you speak of?

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       grannyhelen on March 22, 2005 at 5:53 am

       The Office Christmas special is the movie-length wrap up they made after the series ended.

       If you haven’t seen it – you MUST. It has David Bent making his living as a door-to-door office cleaning supplies salesmen, while he tries to break into the entertainment business using his noteriaty from being in “The Office”.

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         BooMan on March 22, 2005 at 9:19 am

         he finally scores!

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   sjct on March 21, 2005 at 2:53 pm

   So how does one get to see this great show? My cable co. does not offer the BBC.

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     BooMan on March 21, 2005 at 2:55 pm

     Try this

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     grannyhelen on March 21, 2005 at 3:03 pm
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     Dean Pajevic on March 21, 2005 at 3:35 pm

     GO DISH.  F–k cable.  DISH never goes down.  Costs less.  Has more channels.  Lets me watch subversive television too, on Free Speech TV and LINKTV.

     P.S.  if you ever order DISH, and say my love sent you, I can get a credit or something.  (Sorry, but all I’ve been doin’ today is whorin’ for BoomanChronicles and for the PFOA cookbook, so what’s wrong with a bit for myself?)

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   ides on March 21, 2005 at 3:14 pm

   Indeed.  Ricky Gervais is hysterical.

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   MKS on March 21, 2005 at 5:38 pm

   Is that your photo, Booman?

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     MKS on March 21, 2005 at 5:40 pm

     Dumb-ass question to begin with….

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   TX Expat on March 21, 2005 at 7:41 pm

   As I said upthread, I ADORE this show – David, Gareth, Tim, Dawn…LOL!

   But when I was going on about this brilliant comedy at the office where I work, one of my colleagues, who is British, got this “I just smelled something utterly hideous, but I’m too polite to comment on it” look on her face.  I asked her if she liked the show and she said, in her great Cambridge accent, “No.  That’s exactly what it’s like to work over there and I’ve worked with too many David’s in my time to find that show anything but rubbish.”  

   Apparently it’s the same kind of feeling that I get anytime someone brings up The Dukes of Hazzard or NASCAR (although I really like Smokey and the Bandit movies and outlaw country – go figure).

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     BooMan on March 21, 2005 at 7:44 pm

     the show is two spot-on to be amusing?

     Since when does parody benefit from missing the mark?

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       TX Expat on March 21, 2005 at 8:29 pm

       Yeah, I didn’t really get her reaction either.  Apparently she had some pretty horrible experiences in U.K. offices that were blinding her to the brilliant satire.
              

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   sjct on March 22, 2005 at 6:30 am

   So what do I see last night on MSNBC? A promo for “The Office” starting on NBC… I forget when but now I’ll be looking for it.

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   mentaldebris on March 22, 2005 at 1:12 pm

   Steve Carell, formerly of The Daily Show and so great in “Bruce Almighty” (especially outtakes) will be taking on Ricky’s role. I think NBC might be making the same mistake they made by Americanizing  “Coupling” (tanked big time). “The Office” has an even bigger following. We’ll see.

   articles here:

   http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2005/03/22/making_office_humor_his_own/

   http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Office/

   Yay!! Dynamic threaded works!