# The \[i\]Office Space\[/i\] Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261 "2001-11-26T09:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SolomonGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SolomonGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolomonGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/61 "2001-11-28T02:59:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*Isn’t something like this the premise of the big heist in that Zeta-Jones/Connery film I can’t remember the name of? \*\* I’m very embarrassed to know this, but no. Theirs was steeped in Y2K backup intrigue. The idea, as I remember it, was that the bank was going to be backing up its systems globally at midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999/2000, so they had like an hour to get inside the building and siphon some money from/add some money to an account while the backup was in place before it got transmitted to some other location. Or something like that. I was more interested in following Catherine Zeta Jones than following the “plot”, so I didn’t commit a lot of brainpower into retaining any of it and am embarrassed to remember as much as I do. (I don’t even the remember the name of the movie, either…) Err, sorry – back to your originally scheduled _Office Space_ discussion. Uh… yeah, okay. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/62 "2001-11-28T03:00:13Z")
She’s Seven of Nine, so am I the only one who always wonders where the other Eight are hiding? ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/63 "2001-11-28T03:10:47Z")
_Damn_ it feels good to be a gangster. Doesn’t it, though? ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/64 "2001-11-28T03:58:04Z")
“You’re just some penny-stealing, wanna-be, criminal … guy!” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/65 "2001-11-28T06:32:40Z")
Damn good film. I’ve seen it a few times, I own the video, and I’ve loved it every time. I guess all the good quotes have been taken. I’ll put poison in the guacamole. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ScottyK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ScottyK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottyK)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/66 "2001-11-28T11:00:53Z")
Again I will ask… What is on the DVD that the video is missing? Is there extra footage, blooper scenes, alternative endings \ ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/67 "2001-11-28T14:01:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scribble \* > \*_Pucette, I thought it was "I could watch the squirrels, and they were married_, and then they weren’t anymore." > > \*Whether or not they were merry, I have absolutely no idea. \*\* AAAH! I can’t find a script online, but I coulda sworn he said “they were merry.” Makes a little more sense, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![LMacG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@LMacG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LMacG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/68 "2001-11-28T14:15:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ScottyK \* > \*\*Again I will ask… What is on the DVD that the video is missing? Is there extra footage, blooper scenes, alternative endings \ \*\* Not much at this point – trailers and such. Somebody upthread mentioned that there’s a special edition DVD coming out next year though. Favorite quote, severely mangled and/or paraphrased---- One of the Bobs: And this fellow - Samir Naga, Nagan, Not gonna work here anymore, so what difference does it make. ---
**Author:** ![ScottyK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ScottyK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottyK)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/69 "2001-11-28T22:19:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scribble \* > \*\* > > \*Whether or not they were merry, I have absolutely no idea. \*\* AAAH! I can’t find a script online, but I coulda sworn he said “they were merry.” Makes a little more sense, doesn’t it? \*\* [/QUOTE] Yes it does, that’s definitly what he said. WTF would he care of they were married? ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/70 "2001-11-28T22:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dangergene \* > \*\*I’d love to post to this thread, but I REALLY gotta get these TPS Reports finished. \*\* For, for the love of God, please remember to use the NEW cover sheets this time! You did get that memo, right? ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/71 "2001-11-29T00:22:27Z")
oh… thanks, DDG! you know, i never really watched Voyager, but that thought did flitter through my mind at least once. heh. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/72 "2001-11-29T01:42:15Z")
The other eight Borg were killed when Seven’s ship crashed before Voyager rescued her. [sub]Yes, I’m a dork. But _Office Space_ still rocks.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Palmyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@Palmyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palmyra)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/73 "2001-11-29T01:51:33Z")
I can say with absolute certainty that the opening shots of traffic before we see Peter are of west-bound 635, just west of the tollway, and that you can _almost_ see the Galleria. [I used to live right near there.] **DDG** … I think the other eight Borg are Peter’s eight bosses. ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/74 "2001-11-29T03:46:29Z")
Awesome movie… Am I the only one who absolutely cannot take Ron Livingston seriously on the Practice? They’re trying to set him up as this relentless hardass, and he just amuses me! I feel bad about that… The DVD is pretty mediocre–no commentary, no extra scenes, nothing. Just the movie and maybe some trailers. Maybe we’ll see a special edition someday. The movie didn’t do well because IMHO it was poorly marketed. The trailers and commercials cast it as a Zany Comedy, when it isn’t really like that. Luckily it’s become pretty popular in the years since. True story: I started recommending Office Space to everyone I worked with. One guy didn’t care for it. Quote: “Yeah, hmmm, it just didn’t ‘crackle’ for me.” I laughed a bit before I realized he wasn’t joking. Cool little things I found in an early script: Milton never mentions the squirrels, so it was probably adlibbed. Lumbergh DIES in the fire. At the end of the movie, you’ll see a guy in a white hat approaching Peter. In the script, he walks up and starts in with “Yeah, if you guys could just go ahead and sort of pick up the pace here that would be great…” There was originally supposed to be a sinister musical sting that transitioned to Milton on the beach. It seems to have been shot that way, so I guess they changed it to give it a happier ending. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/75 "2001-11-29T12:54:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Yes it does, that’s definitly what he said. WTF would he care of > they were married? I thought that, since Milton had no real social life of his own, he had taken to ardently watching the social- and sex lives of the squirrels. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/76 "2001-11-29T14:42:33Z")
[/QUOTE] For, for the love of God, please remember to use the NEW cover sheets this time! You did get that memo, right? [/QUOTE] s’been said before, but i’ll say it again… it’s not that i’m lazy, it’s just that I don’t really care! mmmm’kay? ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/77 "2001-11-29T14:49:21Z")
[/QUOTE] For, for the love of God, please remember to use the NEW cover sheets this time! You did get that memo, right? [/QUOTE] s’been said before, but i’ll say it again… it’s not that i’m lazy, it’s just that I don’t really care! mmmm’kay? ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/78 "2001-11-29T14:52:24Z")
oops… ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Beaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Grim\_Beaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Beaker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/79 "2001-11-29T18:44:16Z")
Peter: Do you ever come in on a Monday and you’ve had a bad night and some says “Looks like someone has a case of the Monday’s”? Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit no. You say something like that you’re liable to get your ass kicked. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261/80 "2001-11-29T20:40:42Z")
This is the best movie EVER. I used to work at Friday’s & now am a cube-slave, so it just speaks to me on so many levels. But _I_ had thirty-seven pieces of flair. And [Smykowski voice] I have PEOPLE skills, dammit!!! Engineers do not have people skills!! [/Smykowski voice] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-office-space-i-appreciation-thread/95261.md?page=5)