The Office

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So tonight is the final episode of The Office and say what you want about the show not being as good since Steve Carell left, at it's worst, the show was still better than most everything else in it's genre on TV during it's 9 year run. It's not often that a sitcom actually changes television but the show did just that with it's now so often copied and now inescapable mocumentary style. Very few TV shows have actually been laugh out loud funny but more often than not I found a 22 minute episode of The Office to be funnier than most 90 minute comedies. It's sad to see the show go and I think tonight's send off episode is as pop-cultrary significant as Seinfeld, MASH, and Cheers.
In the meantime, here's some of the best quotes from the shows run....

"I'm an early bird and I'm a night owl, so I'm wise and have worms."
- Michael Scott

"I'm not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many many women. Often outdoors in the mud and the rain and it's possible that a man slipped in. There would be no way of knowing."
- Creed

Why tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can and do cut my own hair. I did, however, tip my urologist because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.
- Dwight

Ryan: Did this happen on company property?
Michael Scott: It was on company property with company property. So, double jeopardy, we're fine.
Ryan: I don't think you understand how jeopardy works.
Michael Scott: Oh, I'm sorry. What is, We're fine?

Women can not resist a man singing show tunes. It's so powerful even a lot of men can't resist a man singing show tunes.
- Andy

Jim: Wow that is really hard. You really think you can go all day long? Well, you always left me satisfied and smiling.
Michael Scott: That's what she said!

Guess what, I have flaws. What are they? Oh I dunno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me. No, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.
- Michael Scott

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.
- Creed

Pam: Guys, my mom is coming in today and ...
Kevin: MILF.
Pam: Thanks, Kevin.

I talk a lot, so I've learned to just tune myself out.
- Kelly

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.
- Michael Scott

Yes, I put Michael in my wedding, it was the only way I could think to get six weeks off for my honeymoon. No one else has ever gotten six weeks before.
- Phyllis

I hate the idea that someone out there hates me. I even hate that Al-Qaeda hates me. I think if they got to know me they wouldn't hate me. But Karen knows me and she still hates me, so.
- Pam

Dwight: I can raise and lower my cholestorol at will!
Jim: Why would u want to raise your cholestorol?
Dwight: So i can lower it.

Besides having sex with men, I would say the Finer Things Club is the gayest thing about me.
- Oscar

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive. Like I did, when I was a homeless man.
- Creed

You know, when I tore my scrote, I was seeing this really hot urologist about it and I thought she was into me. But now I think she was just doing a bunch of stuff to bill my HMO. You know. She's touching around down there it's easy to get confused.
- Andy

Yes. I am taking Andy hunting after work. Not long ago we were sexual competitors. I used to hate him hate him hate him, hate him. I studied him, to figure out why I hated him so much. But that blossomed into a very real friendship, as these things often do.
- Dwight

I have a nice comforter and a few cozy pillows. I usually read a chapter of a book and it's lights out by 8:30. That's how I sleep at night.
- Angela

Look, I really need this new chair. I mean, seriously, how is it possible that in five years I've had two engagement rings and only one chair?
- Pam

Andy: I left my cellphone in my car.
Phyllis: Call us when you get there so we know you're ok.

Oscar: Hey, I just wanted you to know that you can't just say bankruptcy and expect anything to happen.

Michael Scott: I didn't say it, I declared it.

What is wrong with this woman? She's asking about stuff that's nobody's business. "What do I do?" (Looks confused) What do I do here? I should have written it down. Qua something. Quaaa. Quarr. Quab. Quall. Qwer. Quobbity! Quobbity assurance!
- Creed

I hope you brought your pipes. We're about to smoke the opium in the masses.
- Ryan

Erin and I have our first date tonight. And it has to be perfect. Why? Because according to How I Met Your Mother, that's the date that your kids are going to wait patiently to hear about and you'd better have a good story to tell them.
- Andy

Jan is about to have a baby with a sperm donor and Michael is preparing for the birth of a watermelon with Dwight. Now this baby will be related to Michael through delusion.
-Jim

Kevin: Hello Oscar, how was your gay-cation?
Oscar: That's very funny.
Kevin: Yeah? I thought of that like two seconds after you left.

It appears that the website has become alive. This happens to computers and robots sometimes. Am I scared of a stupid computer? Please. The computer should be scared of me. I have been salesman of the month for 13 of the last 12 months. You heard me right. I did so well last February that Corporate gave me two plaques in lieu of a pay raise.
- Dwight

Creed: Baby, you want to play with this?
Karen: You can't give paper clips to a baby. He could swallow it.
Creed: Oh, it's okay. I've got tons of them.

Toby: [Looking at a flyer for Pam's art show] Oh this looks great. I'd love to be there but my daughter's play is tonight. Damn It! You know, one of the other parents will probably videotape it.
Pam Beesly: Oh, no, you should go.
Toby: Well, it's important to support local art, you know? What they do is not art.

I wonder what people like about me. Probably my jugs.
- Phyllis

Now that I think about it, Angela and Andy might actually make a good couple but I couldn't do that to Dwight. Or Angela. Or Andy.
- Pam

Angela: [To Erin after she sneezes] Hey! Are you sick?
Erin: Oh, no, I just have a little indigestion.
Angela: In your nose?
Erin: Yes.

When I was younger I always wanted to be an actor in commercials. Then I realized I had a brain.
- Oscar

I just wanna lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.
- Kevin

I'm a little worried that I may have asked out Naughty Nellie instead of Erin. Which would be a whole lot less appealing because Naughty Nellie says yes to everyone. And she might be a murderer.
- Andy

Meredith: [Referring to Jan's breast implants] I would never do that. Waste of money. In my experience, guys are way more attracted to the back of you than to the front.

Kevin: I love fake boobs. Often times you find them on strippers.

Creed: I find it offensive. Au naturelle, baby. That's how I like them. Swing low, sweet chariots.

I guess in most romantic comedies, the guy you're supposed to be with is the one that you've never really thought of in that way. You might have even thought he was annoying, or possibly homosexual.
- Kelly

[Bill]

I just wanna lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.
- Kevin


Amen!

[noelani72]

wow, i might have to watch tonite.
all those quotes made me laugh

[palitoy]

didn't see that coming, well played Office producers....

[EMCE Hammer]

Pretty good, watched it with the wife. I asked how she would rate it vs. Barney Miller, and she just looked at me.

[Operation:Mego]

"Bears, beets, Battle Galactica."
-Jim

[megomania]

I think it's really difficult to put The Office in the same category as MASH and Seinfeld for cultural significance. MASH finale was the most watched show in US history until the 2010 Super Bowl - 27 years. And Seinfeld changed the sitcom category and pop culture for all time. The Office was a good show no doubt but just my opinion not even close to being mentioned with Seinfeld, MASH, Cheers, All in the Family. My list is pretty long the office isn't in the top 20.

-Chris

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I dunno about that. Look at two of the smartest shows on TV today, Parks & Rec and Modern Family. They're direct decedents of The Office. There's a bunch of others that follow this format too but those two shows have got it down. The Office definitely defined the mocumentary sit-com and breaking the 4th wall with the audience which really hadn't been done since Spinal Tap and Moonlighting respectively. So in that regard the show is an innovator and it delivered consistently for nine years. It also wasn't afraid to be dark or serious at times without becoming tasteless. It wasn't above making fun of itself either and most importantly it was funny. It coined a phrase that will live on far longer than anyone will remember where it came from (That's what she said) and it was poignant and relatable. I mean the show was about working in an office. That's pretty much what a lot of people do five days a week and many of them have the same feelings the characters in the show expressed about it. It had several story arcs, character changes, and relationships develop over time too. Pam & Jim went through a relationship that mirrors many peoples and they nailed it. I'd say it's the most significant sitcom of the 21st century so far. The Office is to the 00's what Seinfeld was to the 90's.

[Bionicfanboy66]

Actually, the phrase "that's what she said" has been around since the late 80's/early 90's. Still prefer the British version of 'The Office' over the US version.

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Actually, the phrase "that's what she said" has been around since the late 80's/early 90's. Still prefer the British version of 'The Office' over the US version.

Well yes but it didn't catch fire till Steve Carrel took it over and made it his own.

Here on the East Coast we have a Sports Radio show called Boomer & Carton in the morning. Every time a caller phones into the show they greet him with "HELLLLOOOOO! La, La, La" Im sure most of the under 30 audience has zero idea where that came from and why they do it. That's What She said is going to be around forever and one day twenty years from now, someone will say it and hear it and have no idea The Office put it in the mainstream.

[Bionicfanboy66]

Breaking the fourth wall had been used in sitcoms since the 50's. George Burns was the master of that. All NBC did was Americanize the British version of The Office. Nothing really groundbreaking there.

[The Toyroom]

It was an ok, odd little show, but not a sitcom classic by no means. I think proof is its inability to really make any ground in the syndicated markets. A show that's 9 years old and it's really not even a blip on the radar. Compare that with "Seinfeld", "Friends", "Two And a Half Men", "Big Bang Theory" and others. Heck, even "Roseanne" still gets more air play now than reruns of "The Office".

[Earth 2 Chris]

I think Butt-Head popularized "Is that what she said?", at least to my generation.

I haven't watched The Office in years. I liked it fine, but it was one of the rare instances where my wife's and my sense of humor didn't jibe. See also "Caddyshack".

Chris

[palitoy]

I think it'll be remembered as a true classic, it's smarter than a lot of the pablum that the masses enjoy, so it'll never be as broad a hit, who cares? The masses enjoy "Honey Boo Boo", so their opinion doesn't have much weight with me.

The ending hit a lot of the right notes, this past season has been rough. The sight of Michael Scott was welcome as was Carrel's decision to make it a glorified cameo. It's one of the best send offs I've ever seen, which is ironic considering it played on the same day as one of the worst in television history.

[4NDR01D]

I've only ever watched the original UK version. I've just never wanted to see anybody else do those characters. By the sounds of things though, I've really missed out.

just for the record, who hasn't seen the original? and if you watched both which one did you see first, which one did you like the best?