The Office (US) — Season 6 thread

New "this show just doesn't do it for me anymore" answers.

PARKOUR PARKOUR

(I actually still love it, btw)

Me too :)

Wow, this is the most "acting" Stanley's done in the show's whole run.

Another man inside of Kevin working him with controls!! I lol'd.

Who's been saying that there's another person inside of me?

Damn no new post alert when posting by phone.

That new Jason Schwartzman HBO show looks amazing!

Shut up. I don't have hbo.

Andy's gay dilemma was probably the best part of this.

Jet Li, Julia Stiles, Alan Thicke.

I don't have HBO either. :/

There's always bittorrent!

parks and recreation was better, for once.

Yeah, tonight's shows

It's Always Sunny > Parks & Recreation > The Office > Community (but I liked them all, actually)

PARKOUR was greattttt

"I hate being left out, whether it's being not picked for a team...or being picked for a team and turning up and finding out that the team doesn't exist...or the sport doesn't exist"

"Don't vaccinate it!"

I knew almost exactly where the was going as soon as Oscar walked in the office, yet it was still hilarious.

"Hey Andy, let's go visit grandma and then get drunk together.. ha ha!"

That was absolutely one of the worst Office episodes ever. Just AWFUL.

Didn't see that post coming. No way.

xxp that was a great underplayed line

cheese cart thing was awful but mercifully short, the rest of was boilerplate (amusing enough) Office stuff. also typical: using an entire episode just to set up this whole Jim co-manager situation

this episode should've ended with creed bratton bashing jim and pam to death with michael's cheese cart

WTF. Our DVR just up and decided not to record this tonight, so not happy. Recorded Parks and Rec and Community, but not The Office. I don't get it.

When does this go up on NBC???? Anywhere else I can watch this???

Ugh seriously? I have to wait 24 hours for this to show up on NBC.com or Hulu? Come on internet, you are failing me here.

doesn't it go up on hulu in the AM?

Maybe, I thought it was 24 hours. Either way, doesn't matter, I won't be able to watch it until after I sit through 8 hours at work with people quoting the punchlines all day and completely ruining my enjoyment of the episode.

bittorrent it

su rfthechanne l.com

Anyway, this was high quality Office, assuming you are not a geek who wants Booze Cruise and Casino Night every episode.

really??? I am someone who enjoys almost every episode and I thought this was not great

There was nothing as good as PARKOUR PARKOUR this episode

otm

I didn't hate it over all, but my favorite parts were the opening bit with Oscar and the Dwight/Toby/Darryl subplot.

I thought it was fine. I don't really watch The Office as anything more than an enjoyable sitcom, though, these days. I don't expect it to be the apex of greatness, so I'm occasionally pleasantly surprised.

the Pam/Angela bit at the end was tops.

It drives me crazy that Michael's being so bitchy about this, because he brought it all upon himself and he 100% knows it.

wtf is jim's hair

I noticed that too. It looks greasy.

greasy and feathered

Michael's "I have so much work to do, I feel like I’m gonna blow my brains out." line o corporate guy from the second ep was pretty great

"what does a bean mean?"

Pam and Ryan at the end = my favorite scene so far this season.

i liked how it was dragged out just enough to make her sudden caving in more of a laugh

I'm trying to wrap my head around the new physical layout of the office since they bumped the accountants somewhere else to accommodate Jim's new office. I'm weird like that. I was at least hoping for a meta joke of "hey, where'd that come from" or something. But in all honesty, I think the ramp is being set up for the shark jumping on this show. The co-manager thing just sets up all sorts of things that won't end up cleanly and the wistful nostalgia commercials for the "very special" wedding episode are bad bad signs in my book.

Extended shark metaphors used in reference to television shows are a sign of profound idiocy.

The notion that promos for future episodes are indicators of creative direction seems flawed to me. I kind of doubt the people behind the show have any role in making those promos.

is this season 6 or 7? I liked 5 better than 6, and this is somewhere between those for me. I've really wanted to like this season, and certain episodes have been close to great with just a few really wrong notes that spoiled them.

its great that they took the focus off jim and pam, and gave more time to darryl/andy/erin/kelly, but character consistency has gone down the tubes. feels kind of like a sketch show now.

well said. my thoughts exactly

I liked s5 if only bcz of Holly & the Michael Scott Paper Co. But then again I'm the kind of guy who finds Dwight's fire drill & Jim in a tux as the height of hilarity. That said, s7 has good moments and maybe taken as a whole, on DVD, it will make more sense, but it's def. a diff't show now, more weird than funny usually, and if you already thought the show was on a downward slope, then this season won't change your mind...

I kinda feel like I would rank them:

3 > 2 > 4 > 5 > 7 > 1 > 6

This is also completely off the top of my head without looking at any episode lists or anything though.

i still say season one was pretty damn good despite the rip-off pilot.

Yeah, I realized my rankings kind of sell that season short, it got better as it went along but it was so short.

1>2>3>4>5+6

I liked s5 if only bcz of Holly & the Michael Scott Paper Co.

Holly was fire (as was Stringer) and Michael Scott Paper Co was an awesome setup, but they hit the reset button an episode or two later, instead of letting it play out and create some interesting change or conflict

Idris Elba was the worst of all the scrappy doos they've tried imo.

Elba's deflation was ultimately worth it tho.

his sole talking head was more than worth it

there's been some great stuff in this season. the last two, PDA + Threat Level Midnight, and the Xmas episode stand out for me.

1st season's underrated for sure.

PDA was a remarkably good episode, as good as anything they've done on the show since S4.

that last ep was kinda weird

the pam/andy thing was like this bizarre throwback to... actual almost plausible office-type shit

did beadie do an ott boston accent in 'gone baby gone'?

haha, yes she did. i had to wonder if that was a tongue-in-cheek reference to it

finally caught up with this year's episodes, and what i can say, i am generally enjoying the Michael Scott farewell tour. Threat Level Midnight was good stuff. Part of that is just having more a sense of something happening than the last year of boring stuff like the Erin/Andy thing. Also I love Holly FOREVER, and the pairing with Michael is just amazingly right imo

That was 10x the episode that Jim/Pam wedding episode was.

Also, Kevin ftw.

I LOVE YOU AMERICA

14:22: *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*

Good job, Office writers! What a great exit for Michael Scott!

"Dallas, indeed."

very sweet

easily the best ep of the season if not the past couple of seasons. Genuinely funny and well played.

idk if this thread is all like "no spoilers!!!!!!" but there is some out-of-the-blue casting stuff going on w/this show.

Holy wow! James Spader could be excellent if he channels his character from Boston Legal.

have never found Will Ferrell as good as this before

fuck the wheel-spinning though, get Michael out and let's see some of the other characters have stories again

i love what they did with Farrell, it reminded me of some of his quieter SNL stuff

http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/james-spader-picking-out-an-office-chair/#more-143147

James Spader is working on a deal to return to NBC's The Office this season -- but he might have loftier ambitions than Michael Scott's desk. According to Entertainment Weekly, Spader is in talks to return as Robert California, who appeared last season interviewing for Scott's office-manager job (thanks to Steve Carell's pending departure from the series). But the twist is that Robert might actually be in the running for Dunder Mifflin CEO, currently played by Kathy Bates, whose Harry's Law was renewed for next season.

Spader In

Though last season was an improvement I don't think I can do another season of this show

I think they set up Jim being replacement-Michael maybe? so smirk-lovers rejoice, I guess

xp as long as its on the same evening as parks + rec, community + 30 rock, i'll watch it

New season's pretty meh

Thought their might be a creative rebirth with the supporting characters free to take center stage, but it wasn't very funny or engaging. Spader is good.

Just to let you all know:

The Office Season 8: It Kinda Seems Like the Left Side is the Side to Be On

Ok last night's show was awesome. Loved Stanley in this, and Creed's writing 12 plays. I think this show is still quality and these actors still have a chemistry together. As long as it's funny who cares about bad plotting?

The Tallahassee "Stop looking at my breasts and start looking at my penis" lady was LOL and had some great absurdist lines. She went and bought 13 pianos?

Catherine Tate went hard in this.

Also ive never seen Weekend At Bernies but i think Dwight was funny in a Weekend at Bernies way.

Yeah OTM. I hope she's on more eps.

I would just like to take this opportunity to say how hot Erin the receptionist is.

No jumping jacks gif?

Was rereading this thread as I watched season six —or was trying to— and man the constant complaining about how “the show sucks now” basically makes it unreadable. Spoiler: the show did not suck

yeah, I might say exactly the same upthread, but: while the Mike Schur years are way above the rest, and the Lieberstein years take a variety of major and lesser missteps, this stayed a good and funny sitcom until the end. the biggest mistake was not working to divest from Michael Scott early, instead of making a massive deal about how important Carell was - it could have rolled on stronger by leaning on the ensemble and letting more characters have A-plots. changing up the cast more organically than parachuting various stars (and later, nobodies) into a status quo they were otherwise desperately trying to hold wld have helped this too.

if you rewatch this show, for the first half of the series Michael Scott basically was a love-able Donald Trump: a racist sexist idiotic failson who's right hand man Dwight even has a Nazi connection

Weirdly, my older daughter (now 13) and all her friends are suddenly into this show. I watched a few later episodes with her - I want to say I originally stopped even before Carell left - and oof, they were exhausting and unfunny. To me, at least.

Share your mystification, Josh. Actually just got home and my 15 year old daughter was rewatching an episode. She and her friends were obsessed with the show a couple years ago, to the point of buying each other Office merch for birthday presents. Not sure what the appeal of a workplace comedy is for young teens (girls in particular?), but all good because I enjoy watching it with her (and she's gone on to become a full-on film junkie who's willing to watch slow art films with her dad).

she's gone on to become a full-on film junkie who's willing to watch slow art films with her dad)

Man, fingers crossed, because this is exactly what I've been complaining about not happening for months.

i think its hilarious you guys are confused by why young teenagers might like what is essentially a romantic comedy for the first three seasons

there's the occasional unfunny ep throughout--and season 4?? i think? whenever its immediately after pam & jim finally get together--has a drop-off before they regain footing ... but mostly i think its good til michael leaves, and maybe a couple episodes after

So in 2019, Jim and Pam are divorced and Jim's totally a Trump dude, right?