The Office (NBC) TV Show • Page 22

I think that worked out pretty well

 

Also, I like this sequence in Turf War:

Harry: "Who are Jim Halpert and Dwight Schrute?"
Erin: "Jim, Dwight, what are your last names?"

And when the whole office pretends Toby is Lloyd Gross and he just goes with it hahaha.

Turf War as a whole is an underrated episode imo

 

If I remember correctly, Jenna wasn't pregnant at the time and when she was pregnant IRL, they wrote in Pam and Jim having a second baby.

 

That makes more sense...the second baby was tiresome

 

yeah, the second kid storyline just made me shrug and sigh. granted, i felt that way for the first kid storyline and for every show that brings in a pregnancy / baby storyline. it's been done to death and doesn't really offer new territory. also i'm not a fan of kids so that spectrum of life doesn't connect with me at all.

 

good lord, i forgot what a freak they turn Erin into all of a sudden in "Secretary's Day".

yeah, we know she's an airhead and she sometimes says creepy things like cutting off Andy's face and what not. but the show usually kind of indicates that those are awkward "think on your toes" moments that don't work for her, much like they don't work for Michael, but man... that episode just turns her in so many ways. i felt like i was actually watching the actress have a breakdown, not a character on a comedy sitcom haha.

 

Part of the reason I can't stand Erin.

 

Same thing when she loses in the paper airplane contest

 

"Work Bus" is a gem.

 

Guess I'm gonna triple post in this thread... but has anyone else noticed the guy who talks to Pam about graphic design at the end of Job Fair is the same actor as Nick, the new IT guy when Sabre buys Dunder Mifflin? Is that on purpose or did they just get lazy?

 

i knew he was familiar! fuck, as soon as they showed him in that first episode when Sabre comes i knew he was familiar but couldn't place him. definitely the same guy and probably just liked him and asked him to come back since only diehard / repeat viewing fans would catch that stuff.

 

Yeah, it bugs me haha. Recycling actors is lame.

 

i agree. one of the things i really admire Larry David for is his obsession with continuity when working on Seinfeld. example: the first time Newman is in an episode is voice only and Larry did the voice. but years/seasons later when they hired Wayne Knight he had Knight read the lines and inserted them over his so now all showings of the episode have the proper voice. and that episode had like, 3 Newman lines. when they changed Jerry's dad i believe they recreated those scenes too and Larry was irate that they needed a new dad.

although they never did address why Kramer went from taking baths to showers and ultimately hating baths. (i.e. when Elaine asks how long it takes him to shower he says he takes baths, then later on he wants to cut down on his shower time and then also comments on bath being where you 'lay in a tepid pool of your own filth').

 

always found it odd that BJ Novak was always (or maybe almost always) in the opening credits when he was never a main character. also odd how they randomly add Ed Helms in the middle of season 6 and didn't update any of those scenes for the rest of the cast for the longest time haha

 

Speaking of recycling actors

 

Being a producer and writer probably had something to do with it, though Mindy was never in the credits so who knows

I could also arguably say he was a main character in the very early seasons too

 

holy shit. the opening of 6.25 "The Chump". Toby and his never ending Radon 'silent but deadly' topic that has been present since season 2. i love how they consistently bring up the smallest details.

 

I believe that's also the scene with the classic Hitler/Bin Laden/Toby discussion.

 

yep, that's the one.

one of my favorite things about Dwight is how sometimes he very plainly is a voice of reason against what Michael says or does. in that scene he talks about how Michael "went too far" after the "silent but deadly fart joke", which is hilarious coming from the man we know so many deranged things about and in the same episode annihilated his own crotch to try and destroy his sperm so he couldn't have a child with Angela.

ah, i really do love this show.

 

Not to be nitpicky, but Seinfeld is notorious for double-dipping on cast members. There are a ton of people who played two characters throughout the series. It doesn't bother me, just pointing it out :)

 

wow. and i thought i watched Seinfeld a lot... most of these i never noticed.

 

I've only actually seen a handful of episodes of Seinfeld. I have a lot to catch up on

 

Good Lord, how is this possible? It's the greatest show ever created and miles ahead of any other comedy.

 

Well it was kinda before my time