NBC to destroy "The Office"

Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:03 am

A guy from the Daily Show is in it it may be slightly funny!

Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:22 am

Angus Young wrote:A guy from the Daily Show is in it it may be slightly funny!

Yeah he plays the boss o.O;;

Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:23 am

The show was alright.
I think the guy who plays the boss is hilarious though. I loved him in Anchor Man (even though I hated the movie)... and that part in Bruce Almighty was hilarious.
Hard to judge the show on just one episode though... but it was just alright.

Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:54 am

I spent half of it with my hands over my eyes in horror, but occasionally peeked out.

Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:44 am

I have several differant things to say here as I'm English
1. WHAT? NOOOOOOO no-one can remake the office noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

o_0 wrote::P Where did you think we stole Wife Swap from?

2. What? Whan did that happen? DAMN YOU AMERICA!

Shadowfare wrote: I am just waiting for a "little Britain" rippoff. Imagine if they actually tried to do that...

3. NO I REFUSE TO LET THEM RUIN LITTLE BRITAIN!

Xil wrote:
coming2atvnearu wrote:Are the people that run FOX stupid.

Yes.
Family Guy and now Arrested Development.

4. When did Family Guy get pulled? *world falls apart*

Combusken BG wrote:Aleast 2DTV hasn't been Americanized.

5.

THAT'S UNTHINKABLE 2DTV IS TOO FUNNY TO BE AMARICANIZED!

¬.¬ I'm sick of america stealing our shows... :cry:

Anyway... sorry for all the quoting but I got a lot of information from this thread...

Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:06 am

We don't steal the shows.. we get SOLD the shows. Blame it on the people who are selling your shows to us

heh

Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:12 am

Americans can't do satire. *sigh*

Well. They can. But when they do it almost always ends up getting cancelled. If it doesn't get cancelled, it's because the execs are too stupid to realise it's satire.

Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:39 pm

I saw in since I have off school today. It was great. I liked when he did the minority thing at the end, also when he told the girl she was fired, and when he shot the fax into the trash can. The whole show was great.

Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:50 pm

Family Guy isn't cancelled on FOX. Aren't they bringing it back on May 1? I know Global is but I heard FOX was bringing it back too.

And isn't one of the actors in "The Office" played the mayor of Whoville in the movie, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"?

Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:54 pm

Chanel wrote:
Jim wrote:I just have this vision of the studio executives saying:

"What do you mean 'No canned laughter'?! When will people know when stuff is funny??!!!!11!11111!!!"

I can think of one American sitcom that does not rely on punchlines, and that's FOX's Arrested Development. Instead the show uses *GASP!* brilliant dialougue and sight gags.

And now the show is being discontinued. Why? Lack of viewership. *shakes angry fist at the boatloads of reality shows*

Good thing I snatched up the season 1 DVD

You're forgetting Scrubs, and ...

... it's on the same network as The Office!

Oh and I saw the premiere last night...it was just okay...little funny bits, but not as hillarious as Scrubs.

Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:29 pm

Ammer wrote:Family Guy isn't cancelled on FOX. Aren't they bringing it back on May 1? I know Global is but I heard FOX was bringing it back too.

*World remakes itself*
I'm happy now!

Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:08 pm

I never knew that about Family Guy!

And the best actor is the one who is on the daily show, was in anchorman, and bruce almighty.

Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:45 am

Shollia wrote:The show was alright.
I think the guy who plays the boss is hilarious though. I loved him in Anchor Man (even though I hated the movie)... and that part in Bruce Almighty was hilarious.
Hard to judge the show on just one episode though... but it was just alright.

I actually thought he was the weakest part of the show. Ricky Gervais (the original boss) was convincing as a boss whereas this guy simply felt like an actor doing a bit. Since the 1st episode was really just a scene-by-scene recreation of the first original British episode, the constrast was glaring.

I read in USA Today that further Office episodes will have original plots. Maybe then "that Daily Show guy" will get better as he won't try too hard to copy Gervais's character. That is, if the show isn't cancelled by then.

Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:39 am

Ammer wrote:Family Guy isn't cancelled on FOX. Aren't they bringing it back on May 1? I know Global is but I heard FOX was bringing it back too.

And isn't one of the actors in "The Office" played the mayor of Whoville in the movie, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"?

The mayor guy is in Arrsted Development I think :/ not sure

I saw teh show and I thought it was kinda boring at times :/

If only americans lived on an island where it rained all the time and all you had to do was chat maybe then we would be clever and witty.

Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:57 am

Chanel wrote:
Shollia wrote:The show was alright.
I think the guy who plays the boss is hilarious though. I loved him in Anchor Man (even though I hated the movie)... and that part in Bruce Almighty was hilarious.
Hard to judge the show on just one episode though... but it was just alright.

I actually thought he was the weakest part of the show. Ricky Gervais (the original boss) was convincing as a boss whereas this guy simply felt like an actor doing a bit. Since the 1st episode was really just a scene-by-scene recreation of the first original British episode, the constrast was glaring.

I read in USA Today that further Office episodes will have original plots. Maybe then "that Daily Show guy" will get better as he won't try too hard to copy Gervais's character. That is, if the show isn't cancelled by then.

I didn't say I liked him as the boss

I just said I liked him in the other things I've seen him in

The show looks like it could be funny, but I just didn't think the first episode was. There were chuckle moments.. but that's about it.