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- MalaysianMafia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48If only they could have done the same thing with Arrested Development
- Henry, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44The Office is hilarious. That's what keeps the show alive.
- adodaro, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45Tell that to Arrested Development :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40Pirating it off torrents didn't prove it was popular and worth keeping?
That turns my whole world topsy turvy. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Thank you Captain Obvious.
Sarcasm 101 should be a prereq for a digg account :'( - redfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I'm convinced that Nielsen boxes are solely places in the homes of 70-year-old people who wouldn't know fresh, edgy humor if it smacked them upside the head. Thank goodness for kids and their technology. Alas it was too late to save shows like Arrested Development, but at least senility didn't strike down The Office.
- chrisrs6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I hope you meant uncomfortable
- cheeze_ballz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18not only is it hilarious -- but it's SO familiar for so many of us stuck in the corporate world.
- dan0368, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16No other show makes me laugh (or at all) like The Office. I missed the premiere and just saw it last night. The kiss was one of the funniest/most comfortable scenes ever.
- 98acura, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18DVD sales brought back family guy... Thank god for dvd's!
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@bjowoods:
Same reason Seinfeld isn't still on TV. The writers didn't want to drag the show along until the quality started suffering. They chose to end it on a high note, unlike most other shows which keep going till the ratings fall. - bjowoods, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19If the British Office is better, why isn't it still on TV?
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Cartoon Network also helped bring back family guy...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Heaven forbid a show be "kept alive" simply because it's funny and brilliant.
- BobTGoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Thank you iTunes
- othersomethings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The show isn't about Steve Carell. That's probably where you went wrong.
- bjowoods, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14According to IMDB there were just 14 episodes of the british Office. They can't be funny for more than 14 episodes?!!
And yes, Seinfeld went on for 9 years and was consistently funny. The american Office has a chance to do the same. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Now if only they could do the same for Firefly =[
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The original British version is better, but the American one isn't terrible. It's a different style that takes advantages of the strengths of the different cast. Plus, Pam is way hotter than Dawn!
- bluechips23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That's why, you can download it from iTunes now and watch it whenever you can ;)
- nocode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11and Futurama
- clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I saw the Brittish version first and thought it was great. I saw the American version and thought it was ok at best, at first at least. I then started catching some episodes of the American version consistently. Once I got used to the Americanized version, got comfortable with the characters and the storylines fell in to place, I fell in love with it. Now I like the American one better.
I think they're both fantastic, but the feel of each show is very different. You can't really make a fair comparison of one to the other.
Did anybody see Ricky Gervais on the Autism fund raiser on Comedy Central talking about Steve Carrell? - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The Office & My Name is Earl are the only 2 NBC shows that won't be a reality or game show before 9 oclock...
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8that kiss was indeed hard to watch.
As wierd as it gets on The Office, the original Brit version was The Office X 10^900 more uncomfortable.
Ricky Gervais made me look away from the TV sometimes. - RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Damnation! here we go again with the firefly fanboys, its over let sleeping dogs lie... beating a dead horse etcetera cetera....
I expect this to be dugg down becuase after all the only firefly fan base I haver ever heard of or come across are in the digg comment sections. - dwrunyon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7My family started watching The Office because it came on after Earl, which I watched because I loved everything Jason Lee had done for Kevin Smith's movies... it instantly swapped to watching Earl because it comes on before the office.
The difference is that considering our family schedule, we need to pick our TV nights in blocks, we cannot spare multiple single show units... so we either watch a two 30 minute show night such as Earl/Office or a one hour long show night like Lost.
Were there to be nothing on before or after The Office we would still watch The Office but if nothing else really good came on before or after Earl I would not be able to salvage it a place in our schedule as we have to make the most of our TV time... which we have to reserve some breakaway nights for Star Trek TNG on G4, sometimes to the point of watching two back to back one hour episodes, though sadly our time for that has grown more and more slim.
But The Office... wouldn't miss it. If we had to take one of our evenings to drive 20 miles to the nearest town that has some things we need (like a better recycling center and many types of merchandise) I would make sure we got back home in time for The Office. - LordofShadows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think the reason it was semi-canceled was because the nbc execs are morons more than anything.
Didnt it come back right around the time the 40 year old virgin came out as well? - slurpeyatari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The office is so funny. The awkwardness that is represented. However I'm not going to pay to download a show. I'm sorry I already pay for tv(cable and electricity). Why is everyone getting their panties in a wad over using bittorrent for the tv shows. Whats the difference between using a vcr or a tivo. It is the same thing.
- PsypherX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@Ramble:
You're damn right we don't! We do H-U-M-O-R, thankyouverymuch. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"According to the people at NBC, the iTunes Store and the success that The Office has experienced from it are responsible for keeping the show alive"
That is complete *****.
The show is a hell of a lot more successful on TV than iTunes. - G_Raph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5defiently. This season it is getting Excellent ratings. That means that there is tons of people watching it live.
- EternalNY1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, and that's why DVRs were invented.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Quick, someone get Arrested Development up on iTunes! Long live the Bluths!!!!
- zeeeej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@cjackson27: Exactly. I watched the original on BBC America and loved it. The first few episodes of the American version used the original British scripts and were pretty unfunny. Luckily a friend persuaded me to give it another shot when Season 2 started, and I've been grateful ever since.
- bjowoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4gamesector: This has absolutely NOTHING to do with being patriotic.I never said the british one wasn't funny. I just like the american version better. Maybe it's because I saw the american one first..i don't know.
Also, I didn't know people's "opinions" were regarded as facts now. - szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I pirate all of the episodes once they come out, then buy the DVD later. iTunes is weak because it won't let me put the images on a DVD-r to play in my stand-alone dvd player.
- zeeeej, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@Ramble: Don't be an ass. The British version was hilarious, and so is the American.
Ricky Gervais on the American version of The Office: "... I think they've done a brilliant job."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FFejgnepkVM
Of course, Gervais helped *create* the American version:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/ - BrickSprickly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Office (US) is awesome. I like the British version, too, but I can relate to the humor in the US version a lot more easily...the style, the references, etc., each reflect a slightly different sensibility. There is plenty of brilliant Brit comedy, but I don't think I always appreciate it as much as I would if I was from the UK.
Those who are saying the US show is a lesser version are just clinging to that view that since the British version was the original it must be superior. I was skeptical at first myself, and rolled my eyes a bit when I heard they were making an American version, but it's its own show now, with different sensibilities and a unique storyline. - snowwrestler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've purchased several episodes of The Office from iTunes when I missed them. The show is brilliant and it's worth the $2 to me to be able to catch a show I missed. A VCR could do the same thing but I don't always know in advance that I'm going to miss the show. A PVR could catch every episode but those cost a couple hundred bucks, so it would take multiple seasons of missed episodes for the cost to come out better than buying from iTunes as needed (I don't watch many shows, with or without time-shifting).
@ahhell - I think this article refers to the first season of The Office, before it achieved ratings success. It's a hit now, but for the first few episodes of the first season, it got crappy ratings and was looking like maybe another brilliant but doomed show a la Arrested Development. - BobTGoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why, it sounds like you single-handedly saved the show! Bravo!
- tehnico, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Bah, both are funny, Arrested Development was just hysterically more funny. AD was the funniest sitcom I've ever seen.
- mtownand1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Let me describe the perfect date: I take her out to a nice dinner. She looks amazing. Some guy tries to hit on her... now he wants to fight- so I grab him- I throw him into the jukebox! Then the other ninja’s got a knife, he comes at me, we grapple, I turn his knife on him. Blood on the dance floor. She’s scared now. I take her home. I’m holding her in my arms. I reach in for a kiss... I hear something in the leaves, I flip her around, she gets a poison arrow right in her back. She was in on it the whole time... but I knew."-Dwight
quotes like that are what kept the office on the air, itunes certainly helped though. - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@skyshock21
This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outa here. - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I know a ton of 14 year old girls who pirate the office.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ migitalwarfare
You aren't watching it for free on cable television. You're paying for cable television and then you've got ads in and around the show that actually cover the costs of broadcasting the show.
Depending on how much cable tv you watch you might even be paying more. - mickrussom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If The Office needed any other reason that simply existing to stay alive then NBC is a bunch of complete idiot/jerks. The Office is one of the funniest things on TV at the moment, and if NBC cancelled it it would be such an idiot move. You got folks like Jay Leno making fun of NBC's lineup on NBC late night and even leno thinks The Office is funny. Everyone does. Its very well written.
Why is it all the good shows get the shaft and crap like Dharma and Greg and "Friends" stay around forever. - thezanman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am glad that the internet and technology on the whole is starting to allow entertainment that might not succeed in traditional mediums to be appreciated. It brings together the collective amount of 1% that would enjoy it, and makes it so both the people producing and the people enjoying the show benefit.
Call me corny, but this is the real value of the internet.*
*note: the internet has tons of other values, but that line just kinda came, so go with it, k? - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@guytoronto
Why did you write that down? Is it because you know I love Count Chocula? - dpierce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://tvlinks.50webs.com/The%20Office%20(US)_links.html
It's been taken down though, so just use Google Cache. - anillop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I completely agree about Firefly, give it up people it was a good show and I enjoyed watching it but it is NOT as good as you all seemed to believe it was. It got canceled and you got a movie out of it but its over so its time to move on.
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