I’ve heard this suggested before, and it works well enough as an explanation. Aside from British and Spanish-language shows, and Japanese cartoons, foreign TV shows are rarely seen on American television – especially not on the major networks or basic cable. Heck, The Office has been adapted for several other countries, but I’ve never seen anything but the original British and of course the American version on TV. So if The Office is, within the context of the show, a documentary series being broadcast in Japan, South America, or even somewhere in Europe aside from the UK/Ireland, it would probably never be seen on TV in the US and never be released here on DVD. There’d always be a chance that clips would wind up on YouTube, but the characters could be fairly confident that other Scrantonians would never see the show.
It’s also not necessarily the case that the show we’re seeing is the same thing as the show being produced within the “Officeverse”. It’s clear that within the show there really is a film crew present, sometimes even shooting on the sly, but their final product may not include all the footage about the personal lives of the characters that we’ve been seeing. The show being broadcast in Japan or wherever may focus a lot more on American customs and not include all the romantic drama.
He’s the rep from the owning company, but other than that…I don’t think he knows. Which is why he’s so desperate to get involved in just about anything and everything.
I think that he’s supposed to make sure that the transition goes smoothly and answer any questions about Sabre. The transition did go smoothly and no one really cares about any Sabre shit for the most part so, yeah, he has nothing to do.
That is what bugs me about this show now. Jo is a driven business woman who would not pay that guys salary to stay there and do nothing. I know it is just a tv show , but the writers (and 355 producers) don’t seem able to write a semi-realistic script.
The Corporate guy is funny, but why is he still there? Why is Darryl up there in his dress shirt, with no tie in a private office doing god knows what?
And I still can’t believe they thought that mothers brought “snacks” for the players to HIGH SCHOOL baseball games in last week’s show so that Michael could throw an orange at Oscar.
There are some VERY funny bits, but also VERY lame lead ups to the funny bits.
But there is also a catastrophic oil “spill” in the Gulf so…no wait, I’m not letting them off the hook just because the world is crumbling around us.
I want top-notch entertainment until my last breath and “the Office” is not getting it done anymore.
I don’t know why you’re so hung up on this. I see nothing particularly implausible about it, especially not in the era of “helicopter parents”, and it was only a few seconds of screen time anyway. And the point wasn’t to have food thrown at Oscar, it was to show that Michael had gone so far with his “I take what I want” philosophy that he had stooped to stealing snacks from kids.
Maybe it doesn’t happen with high school baseball, I wouldn’t know my school didn’t have a team, but it did happen with high school soccer (late 80’s early 90’s, so not even really into full on helicopter parenting era yet) so it’s not really THAT implausible. Certainly not so much so it should spill over into this week’s discussion! :dubious:
My cousin is a successful tv and movie writer and we were discussing this the other day. He’s in his early 40’s and has been making his living as a writer for twenty years. He’s never had a “real” job so has never worked in an office. He said that a lot of writers are just like him and that’s why office scenes can seem so unrealistic.
It was only at Nick’s going away scene where I realized that he and Gabe were different people. I was a little confused when Gabe was getting involved in the Kevin cookie monster thing, since none of that made any sense for him being an IT guy.
I listen to Miller every morning and he was joking about running into him and what he would do.
My friend and I were hiking last week and we took a ride to the address that he found somewhere (paper or online) up on Mountain Drive. Of course, the gates to the place were VERY large and we think they took the number off of the outside. Anyway, we found the area, not sure of the exact house.
And it is in one of the few areas that hasn’t burned yet. I hope Big Al and Tipper are aware of that.
I’ve only ever worked in offices, and The Office often strikes me as almost chillingly realistic. Several times I’ve seen things happen on The Office that are almost exactly the same as things that have happened to me at work.
Perhaps the weirdest was when one day at work I was discussing plans for an office party with a couple of coworkers when one of them, a late-20s guy named Ryan, suddenly dropped to the floor and started doing push-ups. He was kind of an off-beat fellow so I just ignored this. THAT VERY NIGHT there was a new episode of The Office where the character Ryan suddenly started doing push-ups in an attempt to impress Kelly.
“I jut told you my name is NICK! DID YOU FORGET ALREADY?!”
Jim: …
I thought it was supposed to be any or all of them:
Andy told the press
Daryl, Pam and Kelly each told someone
David told pretty much all of his former clients
And I’m pretty sure Gabe was acting very nervous about the whole thing.
