http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2931785&postcount=12
Um, I think sepuku’s supposed to take place around the middle, isn’t it?
Whew, that took me a while to get… but isn’t the US version of Office Space funny? I haven’t watched TV in years, I wouldn’t know.
That is absolutely disgusting!
Oh! Wait a minute! I thought you said “bukake.” Never mind.
There’s only one version of Office Space that I’m aware of…
Not Office Space - The Office.
The British version of The Office is good for a few laughs, and the US version is awful. NBC did an even worse muck-up job on a domestic version of Coupling, which is the funniest thing to come out of the UK since Monty Python.
Remaking TV series like that annoys me far more than it should, but there are some things that just shouldn’t ever be done. Red Dwarf, for example - there were a couple of attempts to remake this for American audiences - apparently, and thankfully, they both flopped at the pilot stage.
What happened to Red Dwarf? Come to think of it, what happened to my public television? No longer do we have Red Dwarf, Monty Python, and Doctor Who. The Last of the Summer Wine is not an adequate replacement.
The first few episodes of the US version of The Office were a pale imitation of the British version. Once they started doing their own stuff it got a lot better.
I cringed at the first US episodes, thinking that they were a perfect enditement of everything wrong with American culture and its failure to understand humor without a laughtrack. I now cringe because it is so awfull funny, like its predecessor.
The knife broke.
Another case for Ginsu.
Er…I don’t watch the Office…have I missed a crucial joke?
Thanks for your kind advice!
Red Dwarf is currently enjoying a series of repeats on one of the UK digital freeview channels. Channel Dave, I think.
The Office was a show in the UK first. In the post from 2003 referenced by the OP, **jjimm **promised to commit seppuku if the US ever made a version of it, which has now been done.
Netflix has all of the series available now for online viewing, which is how I’ve been watching them lately. Well worth the $6 a month, and you don’t even have to wait for the disk to arrive in the mail.
Drat, we are still currently at the large antenna and LP collection technology level at home, although with my new laptop brain and freebie wireless I hope to adapt to at least the 20th century. Imagine returning to late night Red Dwarf viewing…