Bass
Nexus of the World
Re: The strike is on. The S is O!!
Baloney made of pure truth-telling.
I've tried to watch the US version of THE OFFICE many times, and every episode has left me wanting to watch the original again as a form of cleansing. I can't stand it. Not because it's "not like the original" but because it's just crappy. It's a very crappy type of US humour I don't like; the "naturalistic" humour because it seems to me, many Americans can't do it because they are so used to hype they can't help but put in gags and situations that have no place in their show, and the laughs it gets are ones generated from the disharmony of those gags. CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is very much like this, but can be very funny as well. THE OFFICE, I've seen maybe 3 or 4 episodes and I've got to say, I've really, really tried to like it, but it strikes me that the only reason it's set in an office and has any played-down elements is because the original was, when the writers and actors would rather be doing SCRUBS. :|
Baloney made of pure truth-telling.
I've tried to watch the US version of THE OFFICE many times, and every episode has left me wanting to watch the original again as a form of cleansing. I can't stand it. Not because it's "not like the original" but because it's just crappy. It's a very crappy type of US humour I don't like; the "naturalistic" humour because it seems to me, many Americans can't do it because they are so used to hype they can't help but put in gags and situations that have no place in their show, and the laughs it gets are ones generated from the disharmony of those gags. CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is very much like this, but can be very funny as well. THE OFFICE, I've seen maybe 3 or 4 episodes and I've got to say, I've really, really tried to like it, but it strikes me that the only reason it's set in an office and has any played-down elements is because the original was, when the writers and actors would rather be doing SCRUBS. :|
