Just my opinion, but I think the show has been pretty bad this year, and I think the last two episodes with Will Ferrell have been about as bad as television gets.
I think it has been a good season. The Will Ferrell episodes are bittersweet cause Steve is leaving, so they are not as enjoyable as usual, but Jeff you need to get a satalite or something if you think thats as bad as tv gets. Haha.
OMG HYPERBOLE Last night's episode was not that bad. If that's as bad as TV gets, all that shit CBS regularly defecates may be more your style.
There's bad and then there's bad. Obviously there is worse stuff out there but its much more jarring when you see something truly awful on a show you've enjoyed rather than just some random garbage that you're not sure how anyone could enjoy. As far as the worst Office episode ever I think I'd have to go with the movie clip one from earlier this season or the very first episode of the series where they basically copied an entire episode of the British show with all the humor removed. The song at the end of last nights episode was definitely douche chilling though.
Last week's was much worse than last night's. I think a lot of people ate thrown off because Will Ferrell played Will Ferrell to start last week and has been some bizarre out of type character ever since.
Wow, did you really need to dissect an obvious off-the-cuff remark about a crappy episode of what used to be a good show? Very impressive. And if you really think that the hot garbage "The Office" has been shoveling all season is even remotely as good as something like "Big Bang Theory" or "NCIS," you'll certainly be the last person I'll turn to for supposed expertise. I do, agree, however, that yesterday's episode was better than last week's was, but the term for that is "damning with faint praise."
Your response was about three times as long as my "dissection". Very impressive. As was your defense of CBS. You and my grandfather should hang sometime.
I thought it was great. Maybe my tastes are unrefined or whatever, but I enjoyed Erin breaking up with Gabe in public, Toby accepting the repulsiveness award, Stanley laughing uproariously at Michael's Phyllis impression (twice), and so on.
I haven't seen much of this season due to my hours at work, but the show should have ended two seasons ago for two reasons. And...before I get destroyed for my reasoning realize these are just opinions. 1) Considering this show is based off the BBC version, the show should have ended when Pam and Jim got married. The whole premise of the original show was that the salesman and the receptionist obviously were into each other and that (despite the fact that Steve Carell's "Michael Scott" is the "main character") was always the main purpose of the show. You can talk about Scott's never ending display of awkward humor and neediness to be liked being the main premise, or even the whole dynamics that go into running a small company or the way people work together as being the main focus.... but the main focus was Pam and Jim's path to each other, which to be fair, including dating and marrying was 6 seasons long. The other things I listed kind of just go along for the ride. 2) And I've stated this a couple of pages ago, this is supposed to be a show within a show. A documentary crew following around a small paper distributing company and its day-to-day operation. They've been following this company for how long now? Common sense, and I know this is TV so throw that out the window,says that's just too long. I know this is still a franchise that makes money for NBC and brings in viewers and even adds to the amount of episodes for syndication, but it's time to pull the plug on a once great show. Even now, it's a watered down show, what's it gonna be like now that Michael Scott has not only found love, but that he's gone. It was always the "little people," like Creed, like Kevin, like Darryl (when he was in the warehouse), like Packer, who made this show really work around the whole Jim and Pam thing. Bringing in the big names won't work and even if it is David Brent, that's not the right move neither. The right move is ending the show and enjoying what is out there already. Sorry about the long-winded response.
In a perfect world, I think the show would have ended after the last scene of season 3 with Jim asking Pam on a date. It's a much different show now, not nearly as good as it was, but I've learned to live with the show as is. It still has its moments.
Like Harvey Dent would say, you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. Maybe I'm biased because some of the shows I've enjoyed the most have only lasted a couple of seasons: Firefly Wonderfalls Pushing daisies Arrested Development Life on Mars (uk) The Middleman
