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Gaze Into The Schrute Abyss!! Thursday Brings Last OFFICE Till The Twelfth Of Never!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
Last week I laughed pretty hard when Michael taped his pants back together. Also, Jim briefly became Michael!
And if I’m not mistaken tonight’s installment means the end for new installments of “The Office” until the strike is settled. At least it looks like a good one …
NBC says:
Nov. 15
“THE DEPOSITION”
SUE CRAZY IN THE OFFICE — Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) finds himself between a rock and a hard place when Jan (Melora Hardin) sues Dunder Mifflin and Michael is deposed as a witness. Meanwhile, Kelly (Mindy Kaling) trash-talks Pam (Jenna Fischer) after Darryl (Craig Robinson) beats Jim (John Krasinski) at ping-pong. Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak, Leslie David Baker, Ed Helms, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, Phyllis Smith, Paul Lieberstein, and Creed Bratton also star.
9 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
The first two seasons of “Veronica Mars,” an incredibly entertaining series about class struggle and tasers, were $42.99 last week; this week they’re $14.99 each! 
Pretend To Support The Rabid!!
“THE DEPOSITION”
SUE CRAZY IN THE OFFICE — Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) finds himself between a rock and a hard place when Jan (Melora Hardin) sues Dunder Mifflin and Michael is deposed as a witness. Meanwhile, Kelly (Mindy Kaling) trash-talks Pam (Jenna Fischer) after Darryl (Craig Robinson) beats Jim (John Krasinski) at ping-pong. Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak, Leslie David Baker, Ed Helms, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, Phyllis Smith, Paul Lieberstein, and Creed Bratton also star.
Pretend To Support The Rabid!!
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Am I second?
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as a court reporter, I'm going to find this episode hilarious.
I can't wait to see how they portray it. -
Story of my life.
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Last office for a while, 24 postponed, Lost season cut in half...what a shitty winter this going to be...When does Flight of the Conchord come back?
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forgot the S
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http://specialcomment.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/102-person-crew-of-the-office-fired/
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would have been the best of the season. so... yeah
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Nov 15, 2007 4:21:19 PM CST
And on the 13th day, Reality Shows spread across every network i
by heckles
With reality shows being ratings cash cows that they are, isn't this like if caddy's went on strike when golf carts were getting popular?
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completed scripts did the actors choose not to film?
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there is no way all of these monster hit tv shows are just going to "go away". so what if the strike goes 2,3, 6 months (which it won't), all of these shows will be back and so will their audiences. do you know how starved for good tv we are going to be after watching howie fucking mandel open suitcases for that long? the soprano's took way way long between seasons and was always a huge draw. the first week of new shows after the strike is over is going to be ginormous, and there will be enough re-cap shows so that my dead grandmother will know that it's not Penny's boat, or any of the other story lines. TV is not killing itself, it's giving us a nice break so we come rushing back more passionately than ever. its just too bad there aren't better options at the box office in the mean time.
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I think your link is in reference to crew being laid off; I can't tell, since it's not working even after copy and paste.
While it is true the crew have been laid off (and not fired), this is true of Leno and Conan's crews as well, and apparently some other NBC shows are probably on their way. This basically means that they're not paying the crew members since they're not needed, though they can (and likely will) be hired back at the end of the strike if they wish to return. -
"writers killed their own medium"? What, they're supposed to roll over and take this mistreatment by the networks? If no one knows how much money is coming in for internet and itunes, how about giving them a FAIR PERCENTAGE, then the beancounters will be damned sure to calculate how much money is coming in. then we'll all know.
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You do realize that laying someone off is just a nice way of saying that you're firing them, right?
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Nov 15, 2007 4:57:31 PM CST
Those hour-long eps don't sound like such a good idea in retrosp
by tonagan
They're probably still kicking themselves for not splitting them up.
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Nov 15, 2007 5:35:34 PM CST
"as a court reporter, I'm going to find this episode hilarious."
by alonzo mosely
That has TB catchphrase potential... "as a court reporter, I'm going to damn Michael Bay"...
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The people behind the show obviously don't give a shit about the audience. Fuck them. Fuck the strike. I'm not watching your shit anymore and I'm not about to continue to shell out $35 per season. Be sure to have fun when you come back in fall of 2008 and no one gives a shit anymore and you lose your jobs.
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You should only feel bad for the people that got fired.
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Boobalicious
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Nov 15, 2007 6:35:55 PM CST
Japanese police issue arrest warrant for Hayden Panettiere??!?!
by pennsy
http://tinyurl.com/3aljdn. Yep. Crazy shit.
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I'll bet NBC regrets burning off all those Office double features as hourlongs - they could have had another month of episodes if they hadn't done that.I support the writers and agree with Mark Evanier: if the networks say there's no money to be made from online streaming video, why not just settle the strike and give the writers the 8% of nothing they're asking for.I fill out surveys and still fall into the 45-54 age bracket for two more months, after which I enter the "no one cares what you have to say, old man" age range. My congratulations to all the people who vow to stop watching TV due to the strike, you'll be better off reading anyhow. but I suspect a lot of that bombast is from the same folks - or their children - who aware to quit smoking when cirarettes hit fifty cents a pack and stop driving once gas hit a dollar a gallon.I don't come to AICN to criticize shows I don't watch, but are you saying there's a show opposite Grey's Anatomy and CSI and that people are actually watching it? Seriously?
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Saw a rerun of That 70s Show with Fischer on it. She was packing the guns then, but not so great with the acting.
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Despite all the wackiness, I think there's some real heart in The Office. And 30 Rock was very good too (lots of SNL players in that one, including Kristin Wiig).
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I liked this episode a lot. Except for the court reporter leaving her stenograph machine in the room after the deposition ended, which was unrealistic, it was pretty much what a real deposition is like.
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Hey, does anybody on these boards think that NBC is regretting not splitting up the hour long episodes?
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Yeah, the people who mentioned the hour longs, let's see, there were four of them, so if not for those, we could have had another months worth of new episodes leftover. Of course those were probably filmed at an excelerated rate, so maybe we wouldn't have all 4, but there'd probably be at least two more eps in the can. I guess we'll know when Earl and the Office drop off.
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I am not a court reporter. Anyway, this episode was similar in tone to the episode where Michael "declares" bankruptcy. I found it hard to laugh a few times in this episode. Michael was not Homer Simpson this episode, which was good. He sometimes acts like a human being (putting his diary up for grabs at the corporate office?! That sounds horrendous...). I'm still not sure what I think of this season.
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... episode, episode, episode. I'm looking into picking up some pronouns on Black Friday.
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that is all. Oh, and fuck the writers. All this little strike is going to do is guarantee a future of 90% reality programming. Oh wait - that's already where we are heading.
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Yeah
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NBC purposely fast tracked The Office production BECAUSE of the looming strike. The Office can be shot & edited much quicker than its single camera Thursday Night counterparts Earl, 30 Rock and Scrubs. NBC ordered MORE episodes and started Office production a month earlier than those other shows...which afforded them the luxury of filling time slots with hour long episodes while the other 3 shows caught up. Now, with the strike here...those hour longs will be chopped up into half hour repeats...which NBC hopes will last them through the duration of the strike. Loved tonight's episode...Who DIDN'T think Michael was gonna side with Dunder Mifflin in the end? Guess we've seen the last of Jan and "the twins"...which is ok by me. I wanna see Michael desperately single again. Loved the cattiness of Kelly!! But alas...no Creed!!! Well...anyone see where this season finale is heading? Last year it was Jim leaving Scranton...This year...it's Pam's turn. Just watch...(well...after the strike).
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I will miss you while you are gone. It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears.
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loved the small little dramatic moments that made you feel for Michael.
And since there was no 30 Rock episode I will give it mad props in here. Hilarious episode that had me laughing out loud throughout. -
My least favorite, ever.
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but Ali Larter has a great ass.
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don't sell well in syndication, and they don't sell DVDs. Doubling up on the more popular reality shows, as well as putting out more knock-offs, will only further dilute their popularity. If they go on for too long, it will give leverage to the people that WRITE stuff for those shows, since the networks like to pretend those shows don't have writers. Then the only thing left to show on TV will be Ellen.
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WAHH!! I'm too stupid to read my contract and now I want my DVD residuals! WAHHHH!!! Fuck the writer strike, goddamn you people get paid to do jack shit but write crappy tv shows. Oh god lets feel so sorry for the poor poor writers in Hollywood. WAHHH!!!
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So far, probably because the rest of the shows sucked, where the rest of the season Office has been lacking and 30 rock earl and scrubs have been funny. This season proves that every show always has its best season in its second season. The only show I can think of that had a better season then its second season would be South Park, thats probably because its still done by the original writers.
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It amuses me. You being so wrong.r
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the show just keeps getting better. I'll have to catch the Office on my DVR tonight. My wife just refuses to watch it. Too much awkward humor!
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That scene with Toby talking about his parents divorce was a good representation of the overall humor of the series.
So, for as cliche as it may be, as a court reporter, I declare this show brilliant.
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They took the DVD increase off the table to get a percentage of the internet. The court reporter will now read back the transcript:
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that this episode was brilliant. I loved it. And I almost wanted to cry when Michael started to well up... and the Toby bit was heartfelt and then just classic. I approve. Especially as a court reporter.
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I cheated on my wife and had a beer. But Kurt Russell was laughing so I guess it was okay, brother. Jenna's boobs gotta eat!
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30 Rock was still far, far better.
"I thought you made love like an ugly girl... so present... so grateful..." -
I nearly choked I was laughing so hard at Baldwin's "ugly girl" line.
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Support the studios!
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For those non-New Yorkers, this did actually happen, I smelled it once about 2 years ago, and its happened a couple of more times since then.
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Toby's laughter after hearing Michael's comment about Ryan in his diary...Meredith's walk of shame after losing at ping-pong (maybe she would have played better if it was beer pong)...Kelly being sexyhot...Pam's sweater. Pam;s sweater always gets a 10+.
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It was all over the damn place, which made it both fun and scary. I live in Brooklyn, and was standing in my kitchen saying to my gf "Am I nuts, or do I smell pancakes?!" People were smelling it uptown around 96th Street, in Queens, and downtown in the village. Read up on it here: http://gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php
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I like maple syrup.
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it's...NORTHRAX!!!
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Nov 16, 2007 1:42:12 PM CST
"I want to kiss you to make you stop saying such ridiculous thin
by drewlicious
Baldwin rules. Also love the T-shirt "Not polluting our rivers since 1997". The Office was pretty good, too. Not surprising that Dwight is a master ping-pong player. It is surprsing that Kelly is so good at talking smack.
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http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Sony/TV_on_High-Def/Disc_Announcements/Sony_Plans_Damages_For_Blu-ray_This_January/1179
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gotta eat, brother.
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I still think Andy is very underused. He's the funniest character by far.
Please let this series continue.
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