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Did anyone watch the new episode tonight? That was painfully funny! I was laughing out loud, stomping my foot on the floor. Great stuff.

Yes, loved it.

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I have never seen a bad episode of The Office. Steve is the end-all, be-all of comedy for me. Except in 40 Yr Old Virgin, that was 99% stupid. I loved his character in Anchor Man though.

I love lamp.

I heard that the Season 2 DVD of The Office is fantastic - with lots of great extras.

I have not seen the American version but I did watch the original English series and they were hilarious!(i'd recommend you guys check out the British series if you can get hold of them, you'll wet yourselves!)[:D][:p]

Devolution is real

No, but I watched "My Name Is Earl" and then changed the channel after it ended.

P.S. Is kimiiii really back, or does Andy have a new screenname?

I Love the Office! I'm also watching Season 2 on DVD, most of the deleted scenes are very good!

I've been holding off on the Britsh version, to be honest I've never liked Britsh TV. I've known people who rave on how much better foreign TV and movies are (mostly British an French), to the point they don't consider watching anything American. They always suggest something, I watch it, and it sucks. The last straw was "Amelie".

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P.S. Is kimiiii really back, or does Andy have a new screenname?
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We should be so lucky to have it just be Andy. [xx(][V]

I loved the british version and when they aired the last episode, it ended for me. Therefore i do not watch the american version. I'm not saying it's not funny. It just seems like a rip off. They played a lot of 80's music in the british one and always made references to new order the clash and the likes.....

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<br>I Love the Office! I'm also watching Season 2 on DVD, most of the deleted scenes are very good!

I've been holding off on the Britsh version, to be honest I've never liked Britsh TV. I've known people who rave on how much better foreign TV and movies are (mostly British an French), to the point they don't consider watching anything American. They always suggest something, I watch it, and it sucks. The last straw was "Amelie".

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What about Benny Hill and keeping up appearances and are you served yet and don't forget footballers wives and "Sean of the Dead" The best Zombie Movie ever" except for the one in that mall.

[quote][i]Originally posted by ben_at_work[/i]
<br>I loved the british version and when they aired the last episode, it ended for me. Therefore i do not watch the american version. I'm not saying it's not funny. It just seems like a rip off. They played a lot of 80's music in the british one and always made references to new order the clash and the likes.....
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I need to see the British version. I have heard over and over how good it is. Hopefully it will be as funny as the US version, which I already love.

SwampThing, the DVD reviewer said that there's 2 hours of deleted scenes/bloopers with Season 2. What about Season 1? Have you seen that DVD? Is it worth getting?

<p align="justify">This shit pales in comparison to the original. Since this is aimed at a North American audience, everything boils down to yet another NBC sitcom. Pretty much anything that's comedy, in order to make it big in the States, has to be in the form of a sitcom. This is why NBC canned the perfectly-written [i]Freaks And Geeks[/i] - it wasn't a sitcom! It had the same wit and biting sarcasm that [i]The Office[/i] (UK) has. I saw parts of a couple of episodes from the American re-make and all the comedic flavour had been watered-down to the lowest common denominator. It doesn't look like a mockumentary anymore, but just an extension for hack-writers who couldn't get a gig on [i]Friends[/i] years before. In short, it is not funny.

[quote][i]Originally posted by SwampThing[/i]
<br>I Love the Office! I'm also watching Season 2 on DVD, most of the deleted scenes are very good!

I've been holding off on the Britsh version, to be honest I've never liked Britsh TV. I've known people who rave on how much better foreign TV and movies are (mostly British an French), to the point they don't consider watching anything American. They always suggest something, I watch it, and it sucks. The last straw was "Amelie".

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<p align="justify">My condolences on sitting through that pile of rubbish, known as [i]Amelie[/i]. If I wanna watch a good movie, I'll take anything from Italy over France, the UK, and the US. Television in the US is pretty damn good, though. US is king of sitcoms and police and detective dramas. No other country can match the US in those areas. Soaps are sorely lacking. North American soap operas lag big time. For that, Brasil and Venezuela got the market cornered. Gameshows are also better in Spanish ([i]Sabado Gigante[/i], for example). Cartoons look better when the Japanese produce them, for the most part. And so on and so forth. The original [i]The Office[/i] is many times better than the American re-make. It's not a case of [i]Three's Company[/i], which completely overshadowed the original [i]Man About The House[/i]. This is case of trying to gain the same level of comedic wit using the standard sitcom style, which, obviously, does not work when you wanna make a mockumentary.

Stuff like The Office and Amelie bore me. I'm kind of partial to those cautionary tale Lifetime-style movies. I'm currently writing a screenplay for one with the working title of "Caught In The Net". It's about an adulterous housewife with an internet addiction. I can't give away the ending quite yet but trust me, it's tragic.

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<br>Stuff like The Office and Amelie bore me. I'm kind of partial to those cautionary tale Lifetime-style movies. I'm currently writing a screenplay for one with the working title of "Caught In The Net". It's about an adulterous housewife with an internet addiction. I can't give away the ending quite yet but trust me, it's tragic.
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Oh man... that's a stinger. Any thoughts on a possible cast yet Motors?

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I'm thinking maybe Britney Spears as the lead. She was so good in Crossroads. We would of course have to go pretty heavy with the aging make-up.