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Trailer for the Australian remake of "The Office" w/ gender swapped the Michael and Dwight. TW: it's worse than you think (twitter.com)
posted 10 months ago by YesMovement 10 months ago by YesMovement +55 / -1
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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 38 points 10 months ago +38 / -0

the laziness is off the charts. The Office's format is probably one of the easiest to do with an original cast and characters. Parks and rec copied them and were wildly successful (and also just better).

they are recycling character names from characters that were essentially invented by the actors' improv, then DEI swapping those characters.

lazy.

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– fauxgnaws 31 points 10 months ago +31 / -0

It's a cargo cult. The natives build dirt runways and airplane shapes out of wood because they don't know what an airplane is or how it works.

They don't know what funny means so they try to copy the structure and shape, when what they should take from The Office is that talent can turn even the most boring uninteresting setting into comedy.

The writers and a few of the actors on The Office could make like dentistry or say entomology funny. It had nothing to do with being in an office.

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– SoctaticMethod1 15 points 10 months ago +15 / -0

Pretty much, the fact that they couldn't come up with their own characters for the format shows how devoid of talent they much be at every level.

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– Vivs3rdSock 12 points 10 months ago +12 / -0

The Office's format is probably one of the easiest to do with an original cast and characters

Keep in mind "The Office" was originally on in the UK, vastly different from what the US version ended up being, but was similar in the first season which is why many didn't like it at the time.

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– Benevolentdictator 4 points 10 months ago +4 / -0

The US version adopted the same format and characters from the UK original, but also comparatively turned it into Zombie Simpsons.

The Ricky Gervais OG ran for 2 seasons of 14 episodes total.

The Steve Carrell remake ran for 9 seasons and 201.

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– Kalamander85 5 points 10 months ago +5 / -0

they are recycling character names from characters that were essentially invented by the actors' improv, then DEI swapping those characters.

I mean, when's the last time you've seen an original idea from these people that was good? Of course they're going to try and latch on to whatever is popular, put a chick in it, and make it lame and gay (literally, in this instance).

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