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‘I Will Fight You!!’ Thursday Brings The First New OFFICE In More Than A Month!!
I am – Hercules!!
The crazy wacky increasingly useless print edition of TV Guide tells us tonight’s “The Office” is not new. TV Guide lies to you. NBC announced 10 days ago that we’re getting new episodes tonight and next week:
TONIGHT:
THE DUEL
Written by Jennifer Celotta.
The office is on eggshells because Andy (Ed Helms) still hasn’t found out about fiancee Angela’s (Angela Kinsey) affair with Dwight (Rainn Wilson). When Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) spills the beans, Dwight and Andy take matters into their own hands. Meanwhile, Michael is nervous about being called down to corporate for a meeting with Wallace (Andy Buckley).
NEXT WEEK:
PRINCE FAMILY PAPER
Written by B.J. Novak.
Michael (Steve Carell) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) go undercover to do a bit of industrial espionage on a paper company competitor. Meanwhile, the rest of the office holds a debate to settle the question: is Hilary Swank hot?
Four installments are expected to follow during sweeps, on Feb. 1 (Super Bowl Sunday), Feb. 5, Feb. 12 and Feb. 19.
* Corporate’s news for Michael tonight is good.
* Jack Black, Jessica Alba and a naked Cloris Leachman will star in a bootlegged movie-within-the-TV-show for the Super Bowl episode.
* In the Super Bowl episode “Pam gets some news that’s pretty shocking, and it’s something she and Jim have to deal with together,” Jenna Fischer told Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello at Sunday’s Golden Globes.
* Michael apparently will at some point visit Holly’s office in Nashua.
* Britisher Idris Elba (drug kingpin Stringer Bell on “The Wire”) will portray in six upcoming episodes a new Dunder Miflin exec paying close attention to the Scranton branch.
Scenes deleted from Dec. 12’s “Moroccan Christmas,” in which everybody but Andy learned about Dwight and Angela:
"I love love love DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG as much or more than just about anything I’ve seen this year." -- Harry Knowles
Season Eight: Volume Four!!
THE DUEL
Written by Jennifer Celotta.
The office is on eggshells because Andy (Ed Helms) still hasn’t found out about fiancee Angela’s (Angela Kinsey) affair with Dwight (Rainn Wilson). When Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) spills the beans, Dwight and Andy take matters into their own hands. Meanwhile, Michael is nervous about being called down to corporate for a meeting with Wallace (Andy Buckley).
PRINCE FAMILY PAPER
Written by B.J. Novak.
Michael (Steve Carell) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) go undercover to do a bit of industrial espionage on a paper company competitor. Meanwhile, the rest of the office holds a debate to settle the question: is Hilary Swank hot?
"I love love love DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG as much or more than just about anything I’ve seen this year." -- Harry Knowles
Season Eight: Volume Four!!
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ive been waitng for this.
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first?...and i had a typo, that sucks. Altough a new years resolution came through.
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Yes, I have a sad existence.
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When Oscar mentions the Brazilian supermodel that died, Kevin does a *cough* thing. What does he say?
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Nice to see him writting an episode.
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Everything but her face i think.
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We have been eagerly awaiting tonight's episode. This season, especially the most recent episodes, have been back on a near-season two level.
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He coughs "gay".
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Also, I hope Jenna Fischer is wearing something tight in tonight's episode.
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I tried looking up something on TV Guide on-line and their grid doesn't reflect multiple changes made by my cable provider months ago. They're all fucked up.
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Seriously. It was just poorly directed, written, put together... it lacked comedic timing and when it tried, it felt forced. Only Andy's complete naivete saved the episode.
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Holly comes back. Cause the show sucks now without Amy Ryan. =(
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Jan 15, 2009 4:05:44 PM CST
Hope this ends the Dwight/Angela drama, I'm sick of it.
by flim springfield
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Michael emotionally adopting Jan's baby is sad. . . Michael emotionally adopting Pam's baby is pretty funny.
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Damn.
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the NBC press conference at the TV Critics Association winter press tour which is going on RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW as I type this. The Biggest Loser got an early renewal; Heroes is safe - for now, and The Philanthropist might air in the spring. James Purefoy had a hamstring injury that curtailed filming, but is recovering.
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of the TCA festivities: http://www.thrfeed.com/
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"Fat people running up hills" has been renewed. Huzzah! Oh and the bit about Office and 30 Rock is cool too.
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You know, since it's funnier than The Office? I like The Office, just saying...
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scythes meet, won't they cause a mass explosion and destroy the Universe in a horrible wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey way?
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Jan 15, 2009 10:03:27 PM CST
US Office really bears no resemblance to the UK version anymore
by chimpjnr
Ultimately a negative, but to be fair, the UK version would have got to the same place long, long ago, given the short series spans in the UK. Very few UK comedy shows last more than 4 or 5 seasons, tops, which really is little more than 1.5 seasons over here.
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but at this point it's it's own awesome show. Plenty of great moments to night the improv-sation had me LOL for a good 5 minutes. Looked like they shot carrel on green screen for the end. Guess they figured no where in LA looks like New york this time of year.
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The "sasquatch" debate alone was worth the TiVo.
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Jim was relegated to reaction shots, and those are only funny when they don't seem staged...every single one of them looked staged here. This show works when it still has some boundaries of credibility and stays at least somewhat true to its characters...there was very little tonight that felt genuine. No timing, no sense that anybody took any of this nonsense seriously. Michael was the only one who came off mildly reasonable because they kept him off-site. Very mediocre episode.
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Stringer motherfucking Bell(Idris Elba) is joining the cast as Micheal's new corporate nemises. 6 episodes. Herc, this seems like something you woulda been all over. Looks like Greg Daniels is a big wire fan.
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You have to highlight the invisotext.
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my last post will stand as a beacon of my shame.
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Being in the UK. lot of shows are shown months after they air, shown on expensive pay channels, shown on unknown obscure channels or not shown at all. I have to get my TV shows by other methods and my ISP doesn't like the extra bandwidth usage. I have to constantly juggle what I can watch and it is a weekly struggle against 'The Man' (ISP). I used to laugh out loud at the office regularly and look forward to seeing it. But somehow it has fallen of my list of must see TV this year.
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it's been months since I've checked in and guess what ? She's still smoking hot.
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Fail. Oh, by the way, Spaced sucked. The only thing good about that fanboy shitfest was the use of the Stauton Lick in the last episode.
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I think that the only entertaining bit was Oscar's comments on the Prius. If that was the only funny thing in the entire episode, I think that it is a bit soon to be getting more seasons.
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It was way too broad, slapsticky and over the top, almost resembling a Benny Hill escapade. One of the original delights of the show, though exaggerated, was that it resembled and had a truth to the real life travails of working in a corporate office environment.
I'm actually a late-comer to The Office. I recently became a fan, when during a bout of flu, I went a rented Seasons 1-4 and watched it over a week's time. Last night was a low point. Furthermore, for me, the show series finale was really this season's first episode where Jim proposes to Pam and Michael goes out with Holly. All the story lines were tied up and that was the real end of the show. -
I just started watching The Office this season, so to get caught up I just watched all 4 seasons in 2 days on my Xbox from Netflix. BEST WEEKEND EVER!
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The first part of this season was awful. It has slowly been improving but I'm not holding my breath for a return to form. But I give them credit for making Pam completely unlikable, intentional or not.
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...are really different, including an increasingly (surprisingly!) annoying Pam. Dwight and Michael are now a combination Fonze character, and I hate to say this, but they both vertical leaped over a great white. The only characters worth watching now are Andy, Creed and Holly (Amy Ryan), if they bring her back.
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"I think you already know where."
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Jan 16, 2009 5:07:12 PM CST
Michael's interview should have been hilarious, but fizzled.
by flim springfield
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I do think that all the jokes that were actually funny in this episode involved Oscar. The "Where?!" joke as well as the Ninja Prius joke.
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Sheeeeeeeeeit. How did I miss that? I just got into The Wire, which has somehow lived up to the astronomical hype. They should get Michael K. Williams to guest appear next.
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Oscar gave some good laughs this episode.
Sure, the series isn't as interesting as it was in season 2, but I think I still would've become a fan if it had been released as it is now to begin with.
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The real narrative driver the first three seasons was the Jim and Pam story. Once they got together, a lot of the tension went out of the show. The other characters (with the exception of Michael, whose own season arc ended once Amy left the show) can't really sustain the show. They're absolutely great as background, but that's it. As I've said before, I think the best thing to do would be to introduce a new romantic interest for Pam. Maybe it's the UPS guy, maybe it's a new temp. Then Jim finds himself in the same position Pam's first fiancé was in. You could go a whole season with that. The creators have toyed with that, and with the idea of Jim perhaps not being all that likeable underneath, but they don’t seem willing to commit to that risk. Another episode-spanning arc: Why not introduce a second gay character to the office, and play off how Oscar (and his co-workers) react to that? Someone else suggested Pam get pregnant—another great idea. The only arc we've got right now is the Dwight-Andy-Angela triangle, and it's been done well, but I don’t really care as much about those characters (especially Andy), as I do Jim, Pam, Michael. And I agree with everyone else that the humor has gotten too broad. There are still great bits (like Jim pretending to be a client on the phone with Dwight, while Michael coaches), but the really broad comedy just comes across as jarring. The thing is, it's easier to write broad comedy than it is to write character-specific humor. I think the writers are getting a little lazy, or bored, or uninspired.
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Yes, most of the good jokes did center around Oscar, but the "did you do it?" dialogue between Andy and Angela was also good stuff. I understand everybody's expectations with the show are pretty high, and when a mediocre stretch airs it is kind of of jarring and sometimes a little bit disappointing, but, lets face it, not every episode can be brilliant. There are little nuggets of gold that can be found in even the weakest of episodes. Every single one of these characters on this show has made me laugh out loud at one time or another, and every one of them adds something to the mix. And the introduction of a new character is always guranteed to start out with a "normal" person, but always eventually leads to the revelationthat, just as in real life, everybody has stuff going on, that makes them maybe not-so-normal. Maybe the writing one can't connect with every episode, but at least I , for one, can connect with characters.
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