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To think nothing will ever be as funny as The Office

223 replies

MinnieMous3 · 29/03/2021 21:49

I feel like itโ€™s ruined me for all other box sets ๐Ÿ˜ž

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SwedishEdith · 31/03/2021 14:32

I've had this as an earworm for the last 24 hours because of this thread.

zukiecat · 31/03/2021 14:35

Nah

Still Game is the funniest programme ever.

DD and me probably know the scripts backwards, watched it so many times, never gets old.

JackieTheFart · 31/03/2021 20:27

@JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows

Why are people saying "it wasn't funny" like it's not a subjective view?
For the same reason that others are saying it is?
WomenAreBornNotWorn · 31/03/2021 21:47

SwedishEdith Great link, classic Grin

Timeforatincture · 31/03/2021 22:14

I absolutely cannot tolerate cringey things so The Office is a big no from me. As is Fawlty Towers.

Adore the utterly daft though. Father Ted. Friday Night Dinner. Blackadder.

redpurplebuttons · 31/03/2021 22:27

I do love it but I actually think the US version is even better.

Superstore on Netflix is quite good and has a similar sort of vibe.

nanbread · 31/03/2021 22:30

@SachaStark

For more recent sitcoms, I found Ghosts to be an absolute gem! Like, unexpectedly good.
Yes!
nanbread · 31/03/2021 22:31

@redpurplebuttons

I do love it but I actually think the US version is even better.

Superstore on Netflix is quite good and has a similar sort of vibe.

Agree x 2
P0gM0Th0in · 31/03/2021 22:32

I love both versions of The Office. I second another poster who said the US one finds its feet after series 1. Itโ€™s much warmer. I just binge watched them all with my husband over the most recent lockdown. Give them a go!

TheNinny · 31/03/2021 22:35

Never thought it was funny ๐Ÿ˜จ

poppyzbrite4 · 31/03/2021 22:42

I think The Office is very, very well observed and very clever writing. As far as my fav comedies, Seinfeld, Peepshow, Greenwing, Frasier.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 31/03/2021 22:48

I couldn't watch The Office - it was excruciating. I didn't find it funny at all. I did enjoy Car Share - that is funny!

mumof5cn · 31/03/2021 23:12

Loved the office

Onestep2021 · 31/03/2021 23:25

I loved It and put off watching the US version.
Have you seen it? It is BRILLIANT.

Have you seen Parks and Recs? Also very very good

bumbleymummy · 01/04/2021 10:50

Loved Parks and Rec too ๐Ÿ˜Š

Mugginyouleftrightandcentre · 01/04/2021 10:59

The IT guy in The Office is absolutely spot on, I used to work with a guy just like him, including the totally ignoring you and staring at the screen when you go over to ask something and then making out like you are interrupting his vair important work!

Everything about The Office is spot on really!

the80sweregreat · 01/04/2021 11:28

Car share was good. That was a few hours of escapism!

nursejekyll · 01/04/2021 16:43

I loved Mum. Thereโ€™s an episode in season 2 which is just perfect and has every emotion. Hope there will be more.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 01/04/2021 18:41

I can't understand the love for Motherland, I really can't stand the main character, everything about her is just awful. I want to tell her to get a grip!

GivenchyDahhling · 01/04/2021 19:14

Most of my favourites mentioned - I loved the Office when I was younger (got amazing memories of crying with laughter whilst watching with my cousins, particularly as we were younger and the humour was very risquรฉ for us as impressionable tweenagers).

I would say the Thick of It is possibly funnier but owes a lot to the Office. Also love Blackadder, Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Black Books, Gavin and Stacey, Motherland

I like the US version of the Office too, and Parks and Rec, Brooklyn 99 - all of the same ilk with some of the same writers involved. But my favourite which nobody has mentioned is 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin steals every scene. You need a decent knowledge of US TV, stuff like the talk shows and SNL, and I think the references were too obscure for the UK audiences which is why it never took off here. But I could watch it again and again, itโ€™s definitely edgier in its humour that the other US ones Iโ€™ve mentioned.

On the whole I think people on this thread who have listed similar shows probably have the same kind of humour. I also think the intersection of the Venn Diagram connecting these kind of shows and Mrs Brownโ€™s Boys is empty!!

HelpfulBelle · 01/04/2021 19:56

@Mugginyouleftrightandcentre

DH and I watched a BBC โ€˜From The Archivesโ€™ programme the other evening, and the IT guy from The Office was on it in an earlier pre-Office incarnation. It was exactly the same character (you might recognise some others in here, too! Grin)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=02a723LsoFA

Mugginyouleftrightandcentre · 01/04/2021 20:38

Oh my god, so many familiar faces in that clip, brilliant!

ChickenNugget86 · 04/04/2021 00:54

Spaced
The It crowd
Phoenix Nights
Early Doors
Gavin & Stacey

I could easily watch these shows over and over. My all time favourite is The Royle Family however I wish it ended after Nanna passed away. I found the specials afterwards not as good and I was gutted! Series 1-3 though top quality

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