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"The Office - US Version"

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Watch the clips. Oh dear oh dear.
Brent has gone from being an agonisingly unaware person into a sqwauking, zany comedian.
Except he's not called Brent. He's Michael Scott. And Tim is Jim and Dawn is Pam. Oh, and Gareth is Dwight.
It's just typical YEAH!WOW!COOL! American overacting instead of being a window into your life and my life.

Americans just cannot do comedy.

well, perhaps Bush who just makes me laugh with his too close together monkey eyes

ok, I'm going to get slated for that comment.

The simpsons were funny about 4 years ago, futurama just couldn't compete. Scrubs was good.

Friends just suck so much ass

Kawada wrote:
> that horrible memory of the American Red Dwarf is
> still painfully etched in my memory.

i never saw any of that. was it really THAT bad??

That loks rubbish. The boss is far too vocal for a start. He looks confident etc. The reason the UK version was funny was because Brent looked like he didnt know what he was doing. He looked nervous. His voice was monotone and quite. He was trying to be expressive but was scared to be fully.
This new guy is your normal, American, happy clappy, cheerful type of guy. Its just not the same type of humour.

*dies*

Very_Metal wrote:
> i never saw any of that. was it really THAT bad??


Oh it was, i'm ashamed of my countrymen who came up with that version. You really don't want to ever see it.

Geffdof wrote:
> That loks rubbish. The boss is far too vocal for a start. He looks
> confident etc. The reason the UK version was funny was because Brent
> looked like he didnt know what he was doing. He looked nervous. His
> voice was monotone and quite. He was trying to be expressive but was
> scared to be fully.
> This new guy is your normal, American, happy clappy, cheerful type of
> guy. Its just not the same type of humour.

Exactly. They've made the yank be the person Brent wanted to be.
But the whole point of the show was that he'd never be like that.

Kawada wrote:
> Very_Metal wrote:
> i never saw any of that. was it really THAT bad??
>
> Oh it was, i'm ashamed of my countrymen who came up with that
> version. You really don't want to ever see it.

i really like red dwarf so i think i'll follow your advice on this one.
same resaon i didn't buy seasons 7 or 8, they'd swapped good writing for more CG. bah!

Very_Metal wrote:

> i really like red dwarf so i think i'll follow your advice on this
> one.
> same resaon i didn't buy seasons 7 or 8, they'd swapped good writing
> for more CG. bah!


yea i didn't like the last couple of series.

I think the American version only got as far as the pilot. Such inspired decisions as casting Cat as a woman and Lister as a white guy didn't exactly help :-D

You just don't get any sense that they hate him at all. There's no awkwardness there, it's just him blatantly lying and messing about.


I thought the US version had been canned, anyway?