The unpopular opinions thread (Hawaiian pizza is great)

Because its impossible for a gusset to be moist, obviously.

Surely that depends on where said gusset is...?



I imagine that building or bridge gussets can easily become moistened. Although I can also imagine that this does not have the same allure the original poster was alluding to.

It also gives Home Alone a bit of a darker edge

Okay I'll do it. Will make for something different to talk about over dinner anyway.

Nah mate, it's just an emoji thing... Absolutely nothing else.

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Kooky. We should all buy their records and merchandise immediately. 

I'm American and I've never liked our version of The Office.

Parks & Recreation was the much better version of that show, IMO.

The first and last seasons of both shows are kind of shitty, but nearly everything in the middle is gold.

I can't stand the (UK) Office, mostly because Ricky Gervais makes me want to kill something (ideally, Ricky Gervais).

I haven't watched the US one.

I was out of the country for the year that The Office came out, and when I came back to the UK I felt like everyone at work was talking a different language. Every fucking thing generated a The Office quote or reference, which all went straight over my head and just sounded like they were morons.

So I hate the UK Office, whilst simultaneously having never watched it.

He absolutely is the character he played in the office.

I feel like they serve different purposes. The UK one is genuinely satirical and somewhat nasty/dark, and it's a very short-format thing with a short run. It was pretty accurate in a horrifying sort of way, maybe excessively accurate. It's certainly not particularly enjoyable.

S1 of the US Office took the same approach, before realizing that wouldn't work and retooling into a much more standard sitcom, just retaining the "documentary" conceit. As such it lost about 90% of the satire and replaced it with farce and absurdity. Which is INFINITELY more watchable. I mean, I happily watched the entire thing early in the pandemic whilst doing boring shit and working from home.

I think Michael Scott is too much, myself. They're both too cruel to him and way, way, way too kind to a man who is fundamentally, a self-centered little shit who should not have that job (and would have been punched in the face so many times IRL). He's both a vital part of the show, and kind of the worst thing about it a lot of the time, esp. when the writers are basically fellating his awful character (which thankfully only happens for a short while at a time, usually).

I watched much of Friends similarly during the Pandemic (shit maybe all of it?), and it's interesting that The Office, whilst having slightly less homophobia, is more sexist and honestly I'd say verges into misogyny fairly at least a couple of times a season (which Friends generally does not). I thought that was kind of weird given when it was made. (Though on the topic of Friends, holy shit Chandler is way more of just a prick than I remembered.)

That’s obviously not true across the board though. Scott’s Tots as a notable “this man is the worst human alive” point there.

I can think of a handful, but as you say it’s very varied episode to episode. Selling Michael Scott Paper Company back to DM, securing Hammermill as a client, he manages to recruit Danny Cordray even with an initial hostile reaction, and even smaller moments like supporting Pam’s art show. But yeah, for every example there, there’s one where he’s just a fucking idiot or lucks out in some way (like the Golden Ticket thing, or how badly he handles “Did I stutter?”)