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On another viewing of The Office and...
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How do you know the OP is white? Because I'm not white and I found Michaels idiocy funny. Should I be banned too for it? You're trying so hard to be offended and it's laughable.
your post is so ridiculous it almost reads like a woke person parody and it doesn't really warrant a response but ok. At the time of the office did you know Ricky gervais was a pos? I don't think he was out as one yet.
And if you think the UK version isn't compassionate you obviously didn't watch it through the Xmas specials.
I skipped s1 US after watching a few episodes. This was perhaps three years after the show first aired though. Maybe it was OK for its time, but the first two episodes of s2 were definitely far better than the two s1 episodes I watched.
Friends is the mayonnaise-on-wonderbread of TV shows for sure.
Do you want people to get banned for liking Friends then? Is that where we're at?
I'm still pretty new here and not going to try to tell anyone what should or shouldn't be banned. That's not for me to decide.
I will say that I'm side-eyeing anyone who professes their love for that hateful garbage. We can either try to move forward as a culture and work to make things better for marginalized people or cling on to hurtful garbage from the past like so many idiots in the South do with their Confederate statues that they like to pretend are not blatant messages of hate towards black people.
So anything goes in order to frame the character as a bad person in the show? Like I wrote earlier, no one would be cool with this shit if he were instead doing blackface. The only reason people feel cool with "laughing at him, not with him" in this situation is because you think racism against Asians really ain't all that bad.
Yeah that part really makes me think he's a troll. Brand new and making posts like that? Ehhhhh.
Have you watched The Office? Michael has done a lot of questionable shit in regards to African Americans. It has nothing to do with Asians and thus making it acceptable. What the hell are you talking about. Racism isn't different or not as bad based on the ethnicity, racism is racism. Not everyone here is from America, it's not just black and white.
edit: you honestly sound like a troll.
Its superior in ever single way
Other the first season which is a remake of the british
From these inflammatory generalizations, I'm starting to get the feeling you've never even watched the show
I think the British one is superior, according to my opinion.
Alright, fuck it. I'm not gonna stick around getting called a troll by someone propping up and handwaving racist nonsense. I'll go back to gaming topics.
A writer can try just about anything that makes it passed ratings/certification, but it's not guaranteed to work, so no, not anything goes. Not if you want to make a successful show and have an audience.
I already told you, a core theme of the whole damn show is seeing how terrible a boss Michael is, but because he's the boss the rest of the employees have to find ways to put up with or manage him (except the others tend to have their flaws and are fucked up too - a dysfunctional "family"). He's oblivious to the fact everyone has problems with him and his behaviour, which is the key comedic element that makes the whole damn show work as well as it does.
Therefore, many of the viewers wait in anticipation to see the worst things Michael gets up to, to laugh at him. No, that doesn't mean everyone who watches the Office then becomes racist and hateful. The average decent viewer knows in advance whatever he does is either morally or socially wrong, or both.
I mean, jesus fucking christ, it's one of the most-watched comedy sitcoms in the world and I don't hear about hate crimes inspired by The Office.
I swear some people around here would watch something like Deadwood and then phone the police because of bad language and scenes of an adult nature. It's almost as if context is king when it comes to writing/production.
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The irony of OP's ban is that The Dundies isn't even a season 1 episode.
There's the one episode that starts the IT guy who I believe is Sikh walking into the office and Michael freaking out thinking he's a terrorist. Plus all the stuff with Stanley and Daryl, and Michael inquiring about them growing up on the streets. The show long made a point of making fun of Michael's racism, at least in the first few seasons.
Michael is consistently shown as an effective manager of the business which is often juxtaposed with the fact that he is a terrible manager of the people.
Yes, a very life-like scenario for MANY people who've had 9-5 office jobs. A terrible boss at being a human being, but in the position they are due to the financials. In fact, that's nearly every god damn job. Finding nice bosses is tough :(
The more times I run through the office the more I realize how much I dislike Jim as an individual, Pam as an individual, and the two of them as a couple. I also think that a majority of the "NPCs" in the show (the couple at Benihana, Cider Sconesy, the guy who throws food at Michael during the Dundies, the daycare guy, etc) are all ridiculously rude.
I wouldn't take a bad decision as an indication the entire place sucks.
To be fair, they hit that too.
I swear, the more and more I watch this show it feels like a parody of a real office!
I swear, the more and more I watch this show it feels like a parody of a real office!
That's probably why the creators went on to make Parks and Rec. They must've been sick of it.
Sorry mate, you're not allowed to like that one here.
You're the WORST kind of person.
Just ban comedy from ResetEra. It's easier that way.
I think OP missed the mark on season 1 Michael being the most 'unfiltered'. Michael (and many other characters) achieve maximum ignorance in the ep where Oscar comes out.
I am a bit confused because I think there is a series about spies that has "office" in its title. First time I seriously read about this series because I didn't hear much about it before. So it is a comedy abot a company producing paper...And the boss Michael is racist?
The British one? It's pretty good, but I'm a Brit who prefers the American Office.
Peep Show is still the king. Man, more folks in here need to watch it.
If you want to see terrible and dysfunctional people, you watch Peep Show.
I hope Disney buys the rights to The Office, locks it in The Vault™, and throws away the key.
Friends too.
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The issue with the first season is that Michael played by Steve Carrell doesn't work as an unrelenting depressing person - like the uk office - hes so tonally mean and vicious and that works for another actor
In season 2 they change him to being clueless and not vicious and it works better with the cast, writing and Steve Carrell
It,s a show about four friends who live in an apartment together in NYC
And the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together
Never seen but hear lots of good things. Will check it out.
This really shows a lack of media literacy and a fundamental misreading of the entire show.
Always Sunny in Philadelphia does blackface (and Asian and Hispanic) on multiple occasions but at no point is the joke anything other than "my god these people are terrible". The whole series is five people just being the absolute worst but still manages to be progressive in its overall message.
I think Michael Scott is portrayed kinda like that where you're supposed to think he's an awful human being and it's cringey as fuck.
I think Michael Scott is portrayed kinda like that where you're supposed to think he's an awful human being and it's cringey as fuck.
If I were Roy I'd be thankful. Would've never invested in gravel if he were still engaged to Pam.
hehe true. losing Pam was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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