Actually Seinfeld did a clip show for their 100th episode The Highlights of 100 - Wikipedia.
Still, last night’s Office sucked.
I really enjoyed the show. I haven’t always been a regular watcher and I don’t ever watch reruns so some of it was new to me. Other clips brought back memories from when the show was fresh.
if they had used it to showcase the web-only scenes it would have been worthwile… otherwise… kind of lame. The Computron parts were neat. Seeing Lazy Scranton again was also nice.
I like Michel’s last voice over, it sounds like they’re confident the show still has legs. I also thought it was funny that Computron was scared his plug was going to be plugged.
Spontaneous dental hydroplosion?
Government created nano-robot infection?
(Kinda sad, I knew these without looking 'em up.)
The clip show was reaching out for moderate viewers, but it seems that in doing so, the show has angered its base.
I’m willing to spot them a clip show at this point, and I confess that I thought the clips were funny.
I didn’t mind too much. I like the show still, but I’m not as emotionally vested in it, so it wasn’t a great disappointment.
But was it just me that some of those clips looked unfamiliar? I recognized almost all of them, but there were a few jokes or looks or takes that I don’t remember.
Karen and Jim didn’t live together. That was kind of a big plot point – Karen wanted to move a few blocks away from Jim, and even that was cutting things a bit too close for Jim’s comfort. Then Pam told him to get over it and he “allowed” Karen to move out of her hotel into a place ten minutes away from him.
Count me in as someone who was disappointed to see a clip show. Oh well. Long live Dunder-Mifflin!
I wonder if Jim will remain as co-manager now that Michael is in charge of the entire company. God help Dunder-Mifflin.
I think some clips did come from deleted scenes.
Michael is not in charge of the company, hes the highest ranking person left from before. Whoever bought Dundler-Mifflin is now in charge of the company. I liked the clip show, i thought i had seen every episode ever but there were some i could not place. I bet whether you liked this episode or not had a lot to do with whether you watch the show in syndication or don’t.
One reason I disliked the clip-show is because it completley defies this being a ‘documentary.’ It doesn’t make sense at all within the context of the show for this episode to exist. But then again, the show stopped taking itself seriously several seasons ago, so eh.
Documentary shows can’t show clips of previous episodes? I don’t really get your point
Not that the documentary thing stands up to scrutiny very well, but I don’t see how having a clip show does anything more to invalidate it.
Have you ever seen a documentary/clip-show tied into a narrative? It felt horribly contrived, undermining the show’s premise.
Hah! I wondered where I knew that guy from. Then it hit me: Doug from Flight of the Conchords. I just watched season 5 of the Wire 3 weeks ago and didn’t realize that was the same guy.
What’s wrong with a clip show? Did someone tinkle in everyone’s corn flakes or something? Geez.
It was funny. I’m willing to let a show that’s been on for a few years to have a clip show or two to recap what’s been going on in the show up until then and to remind us of the funny things that have happened. In theory, a clip show give everyone a bit of a break because they’ve been working so much on the show.
I don’t see the problem with a documentary recycling old footage. If this were really a documentary, whoever was editing it (and The Office is obviously edited, not raw footage in real-time) could have gone back and pulled examples of for instance sexual harassment incidents and put them in when the subject of sexual harassment came up. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen reality TV shows do this kind of thing, so there’s no reason why The Office shouldn’t.
If it had been one of those “Hey, remember when that thing happened?” clip shows then that would have strained the documentary framework a bit more, but it still wouldn’t be impossible for a documentary editor to replace footage of people telling a story with previously filmed footage of the actual incident.
But this was pretty much what that was–horribly contrived and seemingly lazy. I’ve never seen a documentary show have a clip-show framed within the context of an actual episode–‘reality shows’ (the contest kind), sure. But ones that purport to show an actual process–no.
It bothered me, but the show as a whole has been for a while at any rate. Just another week of that, I suppose.
The characters were not actually sitting around and saying “Hey, remember when…” I have seen clip shows that did that, but this wasn’t one of them. The clips were obviously not meant to be Toby’s memories either, as they depicted events that Toby did not witness.
*I’m pretty sure I remember MTV’s The Real World doing things like showing Person A complain about how Person B was a jerk, and then show clips of Person B being a jerk. If The Office were actually being filmed at a real paper company it would be a lot closer to something like The Real World than a documentary “show[ing] an actual process” – it’s obviously not meant to be educational.
Yes, I know. My point was this seemed almost as contrived.
I’ve never watched the real world, but from what I understand, that’s pretty much a misnomer. The people were brought together because of the show, more similar (imo) to the ‘contest reality’ shows I referenced earlier, instead of the job-based documentaries I’ve seen, such as American Casino or World’s Deadliest Catch, or American Choppers. Plus that situation you describe is a bit different–it sounds like those clips were being used in isolated moments for context, not having an entire episode based around them.