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fakeplastiktree · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Northeast Seoul

Does anyone else agree that The Office is starting to go downhill? Season 3 was great but I don't find it funny anymore this season.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

Season 3?

Everyone knows The Office only had two 6 episode seasons, plus the Christmas special.

I thought I once heard something about an American version, but I wasn't paying that close attention.

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

I have never watched the U.S. version.

I thought the U.K. version was some of the worst humour to come out of those isles for a long time. I generally like their humour.

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indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

pugwall · Joined: 22 Oct 2006

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

Gamecock · Joined: 26 Nov 2003

I think the last 2 episodes were very weak. Outside of the gag where they had Michael calling "Wendy" for a date, I hardly laughed. But the dinner party episode was a classic! Don't write off the whole season yet.

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

While not as funny as the first 3 seasons, season 4 is still good. I liked the first post-strike episode - classic Andy.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I've been enjoying them. I don't remember earlier in the season, but since they started up again I thought they've been solid.

The dinner party had unreal amounts of tension and was decent joke-wise. Tell me you didn't like the "I will take the fall" part...

The chair one was kind of mediocre, but made interesting by Jim's little revelation

In next episode you've gotta love the matter of fact, casual manner that Dwight delivers the "don't step on him" line with, and the unexpectedness of the Toby thing kinda got me.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

Tell them there's a Magic:TG tournament this weekend at the Yongsan base...

Wow, terrible and nerdy all at the same time.

Czarjorge · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

If I had known it was feasible to force my staff to get me a date I wouldn't be planning to come to Korea.

mrgiles · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Location: Seoul

i dunno, after the pommy version, the yank one is just terrible. i might've thought it were funnier if the british one never existed. the english one's funny, but the attraction there is more of the train crash kind. it's just so deliciously painful watching brent and gareth doing their thing.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I think it's just a classic example of British vs American humor. I'm from the states, and I much prefer the US version. I can't connect with the characters in the UK one.

Sure, the posted clip is funny, but I think it would have been funnier to me if it would have been Jim and Dwight. I feel like Garreth/Dwight have all the great lines, but Dwight seems to liven them up a lot more.

Maybe it's just the British style of acting. I feel like all most of the lines are flat and unbelievable in it. But obvious brits don't feel that way, so I figure it must be a style preference.

tombirner · Joined: 19 Dec 2007

I'm from the States, most of my favorite comedy has been American, and I think the British version is WAY funnier than the American version of The Office. No contest. Ricky Gervais is so brilliant as a writer and performer on that show... too bad he sold out after two only two seasons.

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