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Don't forget the boom mic guy!

 

Let’s.

 

Season 8 of Seinfeld is okay, like it definitely wasn’t as good without Larry David but it was still pretty enjoyable. Season 9 is pretty bad.

 

This is why I will die on the "Parks and Rec >>> The Office" hill

I am emotionally invested in every single one of those characters by the end of the show, in the Office i really only actually cared about like, 3-4 characters, everyone else was side support.

 

That gif is cursed.

 

I really didn't like the bit they did when Dwight makes Holly think Kevin is mentally challenged, feel like that's around when they just decided to go that route with Kevin, like make him as dumb as humanly possible.

Ryan is an unbearable, borderline unwatchable character once he takes the NY job.

 

I'll take any character on The Office over Nellie.

 

I'm glad Boom Mic Guy finally got a great role with "Silicon Valley." That year, he was stuck with the bad "Office" and terrible roles in "Community" and "Arrested Development."

 

His character on AD was sooooooo bad.

 

Easily one of my favorite minor characters on the show.

 

Agreed to both. Ryan was actually one of my favorite characters in the first couple seasons because he just played the exasperated normal guy so well. The NY storyline ruined him forever.

 

I think he intended to play an unlikable character. He was a producer on the show and I feel like he'd be able to have a say in the direction they take his character.

 

With all that said, "Threat Level Midnight" was the best use of "The Office" in its most cartoonish form. There's absolutely no way the characters from the first three seasons would agree to take time out of their day get together to shoot a film for Michael Scott, but it still ended up pretty hilarious.

 

He and Zach woods went from having horrible roles on The Office to having career defining roles on Silicon Valley

 

Season 8 Nellie is unbearable.
Season 9 Nellie is likable and funny.

 

Erin meets her biological parents in the series finale though

 

I still think the idea of introducing problems into Jim and Pam’s relationship was a good idea, the boom mic guy storyline was just a bad way to go about it.

The plot of Jim and his career change and lying about it was compelling and very well done.

 

Yeah, but that always felt like they were going to make Phyllis as Erin's real mom until the pushback from fans when it became obvious was too much, so they turned it into a throwaway gag. It was the same thing with them being gunshy about another guy being interested in Pam when she went to art school. They were afraid to piss off fans so it was immediately dropped.

 

Haha yeah I dunno, Erin having been an orphan was a pretty big part of her character. It makes sense to me that they’d play with that a little bit, keep fans guessing even if it seemed unrealistic. But yeah again considering that they definitively determined that Phyllis was not her mom, “loose end” feels inaccurate. Agreed that there were a lot of half hearted plot shake ups though

 

They had good comedic characters like Stanley and The Fucking Lizard King, but I cant say I actually was interested or invested in them. Pretty much just Jim, Pam, and Doug Juedy. Oscar in a vacuum, I just hate watching all of the homophobic stuff.