During the week I'm too tired from phone droning to blog, so this weekend I'm having a blogathon.

Something awful has come to my attention. Not enough people are watching The Office on NBC. In fact, I know of exactly no one who is watching it besides me. Maybe that's because I know few people who aren't me, but even during the act of phone droning I'll ask a customer if they've been watching, hoping I might be able to float a standout line and chuckle at it anew with a kindred spirit. Unfortunately the answer to my query is universally "no." So I tell them Thursday nights at 9 p.m. on NBC, and hope the next time they have a dropped call we can share a laugh at Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute.

Well if you haven't been watching, the show is just damn great. This is thankfully not the kind of show where canned laughter plays after strained jokes from a dopey father and his patient-but-beleagured wife and kids, or where uber-hip office employees share snarky sexual innuendos around a water cooler. No, this show is on par with the best All in the Family or The Simpsons ever had to offer. It's somewhere between a bright perspective on the totems and taboos of the current diversity and sensitivity-trained office environment and just plain odd humor like the old Late Night with David Letterman offered.

If any of you have ever tuned this show in, let's now reflect and smile on some of my favorite lines. Can you remember the circumstances of each?

"Shalom! I would like to take out a loan!"

"Now I know Phyllis may look matronly now, but in high school her nickname was 'Easy Rider!'"

(About anal fissures.) "Somebody here has them."

"You don't call retarded people retards. You call your friends retards after they do retarded things."

"That was an overreaction."

"Did you break wind? That's okay. You're nervous and it's your wedding day. No? Hmm...sorry, I lost my train of thought. Mmm -- that's pungent."

Thursday nights on NBC at 9 p.m.

1 Comments:

 nulabs71 said...

I've watched several episodes on the recommendation of Poppy. Funny stuff indeed. Unfortunately I don't have a whole lot of time for the tele these days so I don't watch anything with any real regularity. However, we have recently acquired a DVR and this may be one of the shows I can record and watch at my leisure.

3:03 PM, August 12, 2007  

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