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I'm no expert on Sorkin's writing having not watched his other shows, but is it just me or there a lot of "tough guy" lines in this show?

Oh did I set the bar too high? Clear it

Get me a damn audience.

Etc.

Besides that very overlookable offense, I really like this show.

Seeing her in Igby Goes Down completely ruined her for me. She is frighteningly hideous in that movie.

I hate school and I hate all of you.

Quote from: forkserker on September 22, 2006, 12:22:32 PM

Quote from: The Slak on September 22, 2006, 10:58:52 AM

Quote from: KD on September 22, 2006, 10:58:09 AM
The women who made the comment about Jim mugging for the camera is the daughter of Quincy Jones.  I was about to type "the daughter of someone famous who I can't remember," but then I remembered that the women who made the comment about Jim mugging for the camera is the daughter of Quincy Jones.

She was in Stella.  My girlfriend told me the name of some other show she was in, a more popular show, but I've forgotten it and haven't remembered the name during the course of writing this sentence.

She's been on Chappelle's Show too. She's very recognizable.

She was on Boston Public...her mom's Peggy Lipton from "Mod Squad".

THATS what I really remember her from...thank you. It was killing me.

Quote from: KD on September 22, 2006, 10:58:09 AM
The women who made the comment about Jim mugging for the camera is the daughter of Quincy Jones.  I was about to type "the daughter of someone famous who I can't remember," but then I remembered that the women who made the comment about Jim mugging for the camera is the daughter of Quincy Jones.

She was in Stella.  My girlfriend told me the name of some other show she was in, a more popular show, but I've forgotten it and haven't remembered the name during the course of writing this sentence.

She's been on Chappelle's Show too. She's very recognizable.

Quote from: Andy on September 22, 2006, 10:34:54 AM
"Well, sir, I cannot promise that Dunder Mifflin paper is less flammable than other paper, but I can assure you that it's not more flammable."

Stanley's rant about the toaster was classic.

The look on Dwight's face when Michael asked if he could imagine Angela with another woman was great.

I made the mistake of going to www.officetally.com this morning to see how people liked the episode.  There are always a few who have to be contrarian and said it was "awful" or "terrible."  But honestly, last night's was one of the best, ever.

It seems obvious that the chaos in Scranton was supposed to show how without Jim there to act as some sort of voice of reason (never directly to Michael, always to other employees but with Michael watching) that there's nothing to save Michael from himself.  It's also entirely possible that Jim has no idea Pam's not married.  He would have transferred to Stamford before the wedding and she said she called it off just days before it was supposed to happen.  The other Scranton employees could just assume Jim knows so nobody's e-mailed or called to tell him that.  Apparently next week there's a paper convention and Michael, Dwight, Jim and Ed Helms all meet up at the convention.  The description of the episode makes it seem like that's when Jim finds out about Pam.

Ed Helms is great.  "Hey Big Tuna, you're single, right?  What do you think of her?  Pretty hot, yeah?  She's cuh-razy!"

I liked the girl who sits behind Jim in Stamford with her, "What's with the new guy?  He's always making these weird faces to the camera?  What's that about?"

Excellent start to the season.

People on message boards are always so bitter. Fuck them.

The Gay Pride Parade?! I mean come on, they have that. It's not called the Gay Shame Festival...

Quote from: KD on September 21, 2006, 08:42:11 PM
Wow.  Tear-inducing funny, with heaps of excuses to lay off the great-but-potentially-series-killing Pam/Jim thing.

They did a nice job on this in the first episode. Basically almost nothing. Perfect.

And I was howling at the TV tonight. Dogs were woken up in my hood.

I watched it, thought it was pretty good. I'll be watching it more.

Anyone think they pumped enough money into this thing? I mean imagine how much! No, no wait. Don't do that. Just trust me, it's a lot.

Quote from: JD on September 16, 2006, 12:02:42 PM

Quote from: The Slak on September 14, 2006, 09:33:32 AM
This pisses me off. I guess I'd watch, but I'd feel dirty. Maybe not. You guys like both Offices...so I guess it could work.

Bah. I just hope season 2 of the UK version makes it back to BBCA soon and I can keep up with that one.

Someone on imdb says they'll probably make 20 f@#$ing episodes of the show for season one and it will make for 14 mediocre to boring shows and 5 or 6 good ones. Sad.

HAAAAAAAA...you read the comments on IMDB.

Fag.

Why the gay bashing JD? God, that's just so easy. Why? Why do that? What is wrong with you? You suck dick or somethin'?

This pisses me off. I guess I'd watch, but I'd feel dirty. Maybe not. You guys like both Offices...so I guess it could work.

Bah. I just hope season 2 of the UK version makes it back to BBCA soon and I can keep up with that one.

Someone on imdb says they'll probably make 20 fucking episodes of the show for season one and it will make for 14 mediocre to boring shows and 5 or 6 good ones. Sad.

Quote from: KD on September 11, 2006, 11:09:00 PM

Quote from: The Slak on September 11, 2006, 04:07:45 PM

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Quote from: Huey on September 11, 2006, 03:51:33 PM
It's not that I'm dyslexic, but seeing the "Q" in there threw me off, and in my mind's eye, I reversed it with the "B" and thought this was a thread about Peter King's "Monday Morning Barbecue" (MMBQ) which, were it true, would be one of the longest articles ever written.

Oh, and Peter King's a douche.

I believe that it's Peter King's Monday Morning BBBQ.

I'd love to read a Slaky reaction to Simmons picks.  Or to just about anything he writes. 

I know I ran across some blogger via Deadspin who writes reviews of Simmons' articles. It was as weak as...well, as weak as Simmons probably is. He actually tried to objectively review them and actually praised some of them. How lame.

Oh, and Kelly kicks Simmons in the dick tip when it comes to writing on the NBA.

Cheers.  I'm a top notch dick tip kicker. 

Simmons knows his stuff when it comes to the NBA, I have to give him credit for that -- but he gets stuck in these "it sounds good in my head" ruts that he refuses to crawl out of, sort of the NBA version of the Curly Haired Boyfriend's curse-heavy style.  If he'd approach the game with the idea that, shock horror, he could learn something new from each game he watches or stat sheet he trawls through, then he might be better. 

What continually gets me about Simmons is, and even among a-hole sportswriters he sticks out ... is there a bigger misogynist out there?  Can't some copy editor at espen change all those "girls" to "women" in his next missive?  I can Champ Kind it up with the best of them, but dayum ...

He's pretty bad in that regard too. But he does it to get a cheap laugh out of his big demographic...you know...misogynists. We can all be that way from time to time. Sometimes when we do a thread on different names for vagina or words women hate, some people can think that these are things I actually call women and some people can think it's all for the sake of a cheap laugh on a message board full of guys. As you like it.

Quote from: CPT on September 11, 2006, 03:54:12 PM

Quote from: Huey on September 11, 2006, 03:51:33 PM
It's not that I'm dyslexic, but seeing the "Q" in there threw me off, and in my mind's eye, I reversed it with the "B" and thought this was a thread about Peter King's "Monday Morning Barbecue" (MMBQ) which, were it true, would be one of the longest articles ever written.

Oh, and Peter King's a douche.

I believe that it's Peter King's Monday Morning BBBQ.

I'd love to read a Slaky reaction to Simmons picks.  Or to just about anything he writes. 

I know I ran across some blogger via Deadspin who writes reviews of Simmons' articles. It was as weak as...well, as weak as Simmons probably is. He actually tried to objectively review them and actually praised some of them. How lame.

Oh, and Kelly kicks Simmons in the dick tip when it comes to writing on the NBA.

Quote from: Indolent Reader on September 11, 2006, 03:34:07 PM

Quote from: The Slak on September 11, 2006, 03:27:58 PM
So who is more infuriating to read? Simmons or King? Probably King because Simmons only dedicates 80% of his articles of making assinine predictions like the Packers will cover the spread vs. the Bears because he just visited Lambeau...uh, what? I hope he wasn't actually gambling with those picks.

I gotta say, Simmons makes my blood boil sometimes. Not to mention a few weeks ago in his thumbs up/thumbs down column he told everyone to read David Foster Wallace, further sending me over the edge. That's MY author you prick. Lucky most of his audience couldn't make it through 10 pages of Wallace.

Last year, Simmons picked the Bears as his surprise team.  He usually mentions it every other paragraph of so, and at least once every time he discusses the Bears.  He's the sole reason why the Patriots are becoming my most despised AFC team.

Yeah so now he's riding the Rams, and it was evident in his first week's picks he's going to keep harping on it. Not only do I hate the Rams, and hated them before I read this, now I hate them even more. And even more still that they actually fucking won.

Also, his reasons for picking KC to cover vs. the Bengals was because teams always struggle when they have legal issues with a bunch of their players. Great, that's logical. Forget that the Chiefs blow and the Bengals are loaded.

Of course, I'm saying all this in hindsight. Maybe I should write an article every week on Tuesday ripping Simmons' picks that turned out wrong.

So who is more infuriating to read? Simmons or King? Probably King because Simmons only dedicates 80% of his articles of making assinine predictions like the Packers will cover the spread vs. the Bears because he just visited Lambeau...uh, what? I hope he wasn't actually gambling with those picks.

I gotta say, Simmons makes my blood boil sometimes. Not to mention a few weeks ago in his thumbs up/thumbs down column he told everyone to read David Foster Wallace, further sending me over the edge. That's MY author you prick. Lucky most of his audience couldn't make it through 10 pages of Wallace.