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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.
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.
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I thought so too but apparently not.
Somebody summed it up below - The English, original Brent was a sad, lonely man with no self-confidence or self-belief who could only justify himself by other people thinking he was funny. A desperate, needy individual that sought friendship and somebody to just like him.
Which is why, in the xmas special, he grew up when that blind-date liked him for who he was and not of rubbish jokes.
He found the validation he sought, hence telling Finchy to %&*# off and not acting stupidly when she went off in the cab.
The US version is a snappy, "Hey yeah wow!" type of guy. There's no sense of that loneliness and melancholy, those fleeting looks at camera where he bears his teeth and looks pained.
[URL]http://www.british-sitcom.co.uk/the_office/graphics/char_brent.jpg[/URL]
There are none of those faces, when he realises he's lept over the line and just thinks "..."
Just American Boss being wacky and witty.
Totally missed the point
Somebody summed it up below - The English, original Brent was a sad, lonely man with no self-confidence or self-belief who could only justify himself by other people thinking he was funny. A desperate, needy individual that sought friendship and somebody to just like him.
Which is why, in the xmas special, he grew up when that blind-date liked him for who he was and not of rubbish jokes.
He found the validation he sought, hence telling Finchy to %&*# off and not acting stupidly when she went off in the cab.
The US version is a snappy, "Hey yeah wow!" type of guy. There's no sense of that loneliness and melancholy, those fleeting looks at camera where he bears his teeth and looks pained.
[URL]http://www.british-sitcom.co.uk/the_office/graphics/char_brent.jpg[/URL]
There are none of those faces, when he realises he's lept over the line and just thinks "..."
Just American Boss being wacky and witty.
Totally missed the point
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