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The British version is untouchable,,

it's DEADLY classic with David & his very important assistant.

Good GOD @ the episode where that guy comes in to do a seminar for them at the office

he was THIS [] close 2 punching David in the face (not 2 mention the super corny 80's video tape he was showing)

Classic episode

PricelessHo said:

"get the guitar"

PricelessHo said:

even though Ricky Gervais has become an egotistical swiiiiine.

When he put out his own single, cringeworthy.



http://www.youtube.com/wa...vlo2nwC6JI

see, i'm seriously thinking about buying the dvd set of the british version of the show, i keep hearing rave reviews about how much more hilarious it is than the U.S. version....

How the f%&k can you people consider these "US versions" good? Once you've seen the originals you should realize what awful garbage the remakes are compared to the British ones.

novabrkr said:

Remakes are almost always bad unless you've never seen the originals. That would explain why so many damn remakes of movies coming out of Hollywood are making so much money when they're shit compared to the originals.

XxAxX said:

Isn't it on at 8pm est?

BlackAdder7 said:

8:30pm...after 'My Name Is Earl'..another excellent comedy!

peace

novabrkr said:

That's what's so odd. The US Office is basically just as good, only slightly different.

I didn't understand why they did it at first, either, but there were very few of the original UK episodes. The US version has probably already had a longer run, and they're not copying specific episodes anymore, just the basic format.

Once I got over the fact that it was a remake I realized how good it was. I think it's worth watching both.

I've only ever seen season one of the U.S. Office... and it sucked as far as I was concerned. I've heard people of the same mind praise the later seasons, though, so I'd like to give the rest a chance eventually.

This might sound crazy, but I always thought Reno 911! felt enough like an Americanized version of The Office to me.
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HobbesLeCute said:

I didn't like The Office at first, because I just couldn't stop comparing it to the original.

must try and catch the american reworking sometime. the original brit show is one of the all time great comedy classics now.

NDRU said:

I don't know that I could ever not compare it to the original, no matter how good it was. The U.K. version might be my all time favorite comedy. It works on so many levels.

HobbesLeCute said:

yeah, and it seems like an obvious disaster to mess with something that works so well. Why not just show the original, right? But somehow they made it work twice.

But I'm American, that may help me appreciate it's take on the idea.

The US version really is good & worthy of the attention it gets We can surely fuck up some shit (Couplings, anyone??) but this one they got right - I love it...