The Office
Sorry about the delay in postings, folks. It's been a while since I've been to the movies, and I've been busy.
Rather than critique a movie today, I'm going to post my critique on the new American comedy "The Office", based on the British comedy of the same name.
I watched the US version of it last week and will definitely be tuning in this week to see it. I love that it's on after one of the funniest shows on television (Scrubs), and that both shows are satirical with no laugh tracks.
Very funny- and very very much like the British version. The receptionist with a fiancee and the guy who likes her, the suck-up, the obnoxious boss of course....
Last week's episode was "Diversity Training" where a diversity trainer (a Black guy named Mr Brown) shows up to give a mandatory class because the boss did an imitation of Chris Rock's famed "There's blacks and there's niggers...." routine at the last company meeting. (The boss actually DOES this imitation during the show- Mr Brown asks an employee to reenact the episode and the employee gets up and says the words with no attitude or enthusiasm. The boss says "You're RUINING it!! It's like THIS!! E'rey tyme black folks wanna have a pahr-ty, iggnint ass ni*bleep!*ers f*bleep!* it up! Ya wanna cookie??")
Mr Brown gives a one hour class and makes everyone sign a paper saying that they learned something. The boss refuses to, and Mr Brown lets it slip that he was called in specifically because of the boss, so the boss signs it and Mr Brown leaves. Later we find out that he signed it "Daffy Duck."
Did I forget to mention that the boss doesn't believe that Mr Brown is his name? He thinks he made it up for diversity purposes.
The boss decides to do his own diversity training because he is unhappy with the outcome, so he starts it out asking "Let's go around the room and name 2 nationalities that we are sexually attracted to." The nerd in the group, Dwight, who is sitting between an Indian girl and an Asian girl, shouts out "OOH!! Indian and Asian!!"
Then the boss writes different nationalities on 3x5 cards and makes the employees take them, not look at them, tape them to their heads, and go around trying to figure out which nationality they picked. The one black guy in the office gets the card that says "BLACK"; some little blonde gets the card that says "JAMAICAN" and people walk around saying "Ja Mon" and asking her if she wants to get high. Her only response is to get angry and tell them to stop. And the boss's nationality is "Martin Luther King Jr." One of the guys is Asian and he's trying to figure it out, so the receptionist says "You would not be a good driver" and he says, disappointedly, "Oh MAN!! Am I a woman?????!"
The best part- the boss says he should have brought food and the big guy in the back says "Maybe some spaghetti!!" and the boss says "Okay, you can take that off now." It cuts to the big guy who is the only one with his 3x5 card still on his forehead. It says "Italian." Then he starts talking about ethnic food and mentions "Colored" greens. The black guy says "It's COLLARD greens" and the boss says "No, it's not. You don't call them COLLARD people... that's just rude."
It was GREAT!!
Rather than critique a movie today, I'm going to post my critique on the new American comedy "The Office", based on the British comedy of the same name.
I watched the US version of it last week and will definitely be tuning in this week to see it. I love that it's on after one of the funniest shows on television (Scrubs), and that both shows are satirical with no laugh tracks.
Very funny- and very very much like the British version. The receptionist with a fiancee and the guy who likes her, the suck-up, the obnoxious boss of course....
Last week's episode was "Diversity Training" where a diversity trainer (a Black guy named Mr Brown) shows up to give a mandatory class because the boss did an imitation of Chris Rock's famed "There's blacks and there's niggers...." routine at the last company meeting. (The boss actually DOES this imitation during the show- Mr Brown asks an employee to reenact the episode and the employee gets up and says the words with no attitude or enthusiasm. The boss says "You're RUINING it!! It's like THIS!! E'rey tyme black folks wanna have a pahr-ty, iggnint ass ni*bleep!*ers f*bleep!* it up! Ya wanna cookie??")
Mr Brown gives a one hour class and makes everyone sign a paper saying that they learned something. The boss refuses to, and Mr Brown lets it slip that he was called in specifically because of the boss, so the boss signs it and Mr Brown leaves. Later we find out that he signed it "Daffy Duck."
Did I forget to mention that the boss doesn't believe that Mr Brown is his name? He thinks he made it up for diversity purposes.
The boss decides to do his own diversity training because he is unhappy with the outcome, so he starts it out asking "Let's go around the room and name 2 nationalities that we are sexually attracted to." The nerd in the group, Dwight, who is sitting between an Indian girl and an Asian girl, shouts out "OOH!! Indian and Asian!!"
Then the boss writes different nationalities on 3x5 cards and makes the employees take them, not look at them, tape them to their heads, and go around trying to figure out which nationality they picked. The one black guy in the office gets the card that says "BLACK"; some little blonde gets the card that says "JAMAICAN" and people walk around saying "Ja Mon" and asking her if she wants to get high. Her only response is to get angry and tell them to stop. And the boss's nationality is "Martin Luther King Jr." One of the guys is Asian and he's trying to figure it out, so the receptionist says "You would not be a good driver" and he says, disappointedly, "Oh MAN!! Am I a woman?????!"
The best part- the boss says he should have brought food and the big guy in the back says "Maybe some spaghetti!!" and the boss says "Okay, you can take that off now." It cuts to the big guy who is the only one with his 3x5 card still on his forehead. It says "Italian." Then he starts talking about ethnic food and mentions "Colored" greens. The black guy says "It's COLLARD greens" and the boss says "No, it's not. You don't call them COLLARD people... that's just rude."
It was GREAT!!
posted by Susan at
4/05/2005
2 Comments:
I've just barely caught an episode of The Office in the past couple of weeks. I've always heard great things of the original british version. Though when I heard they were making an american version I had to roll my eyes.
I mean, do you remember the Coupling fiasco just a year or so prior. That was just....beyond lame. And I happened to really enjoy the original version.
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..., at 11:12 PM
...forgot to add that, I actually enjoyed The Office (american version). : )
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