Saturday, January 13, 2007

The attack could come from anywhere

Are you watching The Office? You should be watching The Office. The British one was hilarious. The American one is its own brand of funny. It's not just comedy, though. It's about something.

Minor spoilers for the last episode!

What was interesting about this week's episode is that you were rooting for the people who normally are the most annoying in the office by throwing in an even more annoying character.

Dwight Schroot is annoying. His secret girlfriend Angela is annoying. But they love the hell out of each other and this week you couldn't help but smile and feel so happy for them. Michael Scott is annoying, but this week he played the straight man while Andy embraced his inner asshole. Michael Scott, Dwight Schroot and Angela may be irritating, but they don't ever intentionally hurt people. Okay that's not true. Angela does. But this week you just felt so happy for her because she's so in love.

The concept of stepping outside of yourself and seeing the world from a new perspective was echoed in the sales calls the team went on. Everybody had a different method of seducing clients to Dunder-Mifflin in ways you didn't expect. That's one thing The Office does well.

In fact, I think you can pretty much sum that up as the overall theme of the series. We all have our own views on things and when it comes down to it, you should probably cut everybody some slack because they're trying to get through this crazy world the same way you are.

Plus, it's funny.

YouTube was forced to remove the scene I originally posted, even though it was the same scene they showed during commercials, but whatever.

Jim slaps Dwight in the middle of Dwight's diatribe about how awesome he is about blocking attacks from all sides. That's all you need to know.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this Emily:-)
    Krasinksi is in that new Mandy Moore movie "License to Wed" which looks like a promising Rom-Com.
    Scribe

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  2. Anonymous9:25 AM

    I love The Office. I'm mildly obsessed with it. This past week's episode was amazing as usual. I wish I had more to add, but that's about it.

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  3. I have only seen the Brit version of The Office...it's a loyalty thing. But I'm going to check out this new version, just because of this post!

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