Dunder Mifflin-related stories
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 1:03AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, The Office, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S06E07)
"You know, I really would have appreciated a heads up that you were into dating mothers. I would have introduced you to mine." - Dwight
Ahh, that's more like it. After last week's garbage episode, "Mafia," The Office seems to be back on track by exploring two of the best plots the show has had in quite some time. Jim and Pam's wedding is obviously still the high-water mark, and it will probably continue to be that way for quite some time, but "The Lover" was certainly a step in the right direction.
Continue reading Review: The Office - The Lover
Posted Dec 4th 2008 9:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Industry, The Office, Reality-Free
Finally after seasons of torment, humiliation and just plain squirmishness, the members of
The Office will have their revenge on the man they call their boss. Hot, stinky, nasty revenge. Who says it's best served cold? People who are too lazy to pre-heat, that's who.
NBC confirmed that
The Office's Michael Scott
will get the roast he deserves in a special hour-long episode following the Super Bowl, according to TVWeek.
But will this be the opportunity that the members of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin have been waiting for ever since they agreed to start working there, or will Michael's knee-jerk need to be anything but the butt of a joke ruin their chances?
Continue reading The Office to roast the boss after the Super Bowl
Posted Jul 8th 2008 3:40PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Web, Interviews, The Office, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Ah, summertime. The heat, the haze, the traffic, the lack of
The Office; what's not to hate? Luckily, the brilliant folks behind
The Office have been busy figuring out ways to tide us over until the fall. Starting Thursday, July 10,
NBC.com will be airing
Office webisodes. For those of you who like your Dunder Mifflin-ites live, Mindy Kaling (Kelly) will be hosting the
Office Games in Scranton on Saturday, July 19.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in a conference call with Mindy Kaling and Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) as they discussed the webisodes, Office Games, friendly competition and the status of a few MIA Dunder Mifflin employees.
Continue reading The Office's Mindy Kaling and Brian Baumgartner talk Office games, webisodes and sexiness
Posted Jul 1st 2008 11:39AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: The Office, Celebrities, Reality-Free
To some, the only games that matter this summer will be the Olympics in Beijing. To others, Scranton, Pennsylvania will be the place to be for the real games.
On Saturday, July 19,
The Office's number one on-screen enthusiast, spunky Kelly Kapoor -- played by actress/writer/co-executive producer
Mindy Kaling --
will host a series of games to promote the release of two new
The Office products. NBC and Pressman Toy have created
The Office DVD Board Game and
The Office Trivia Game.
Continue reading The Office games coming to Scranton
Posted May 9th 2008 2:22AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Office, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E13) Remember that movie
The Chase? Okay, you probably don't, but believe me,
it exists [link NSFW]. Anyway, Charlie Sheen takes Kristy Swanson hostage, and over the course of the movie some major league Stockholm Syndrome kicks in (like, really major league: they do it while he's leading the cops on a high speed chase). The lesson of the movie is obvious: if you kidnap the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she'll eventually fall in love with you.
I bring this up because I'm becoming scared that I might have lost perspective on
The Office. I've sincerely loved every episode that has aired since its return from the break. Now, here's the question: is this because the writers spent the entire strike doing brain push-ups? Or is it because
The Office is Charlie Sheen to my Kristy Swanson? My (glowing) review after the jump...
Continue reading The Office: Job Fair - VIDEO
Posted May 1st 2008 11:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Video, The Office, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E12) Jay Black couldn't be with us today because he was called away suddenly. Something about not leaving the table until he'd finished all his vegetables but he didn't like asparagus and yet that didn't matter he can sit there all night if he has to or until the asparagus evolves arms and legs and jumps off his plate and leaves on its own. So he figured since my name is the closest to his, maybe we could get away with this last minute pinch hit.
I got an episode that won't necessarily go down in the annals of time as an
Office classic, but does bring us back to the core of the show: the office. The episode takes place entirely in one day, entirely in the office, and virtually every cast member gets pulled into one storyline or the other. For me, this is when
The Office is at its best, when its presenting us barely controlled chaos. Offices are constantly bustling with activity productive or otherwise. Tonight's episode captured just that, and very well.
Continue reading The Office: Did I Stutter? - VIDEO
Posted Apr 25th 2008 12:19AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Office, Reviewcaps, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E11) Writing
Office reviews for TV Squad has certain perils. For instance, if I write a negative review of an episode that the vast majority of our readership enjoyed, I am treated to dozens of emails asking me which kind of poop is it, exactly, that has replaced my brain (for the record, it's lhasa apso poop). When I complain to my wife about these comments -- I handle criticism about as well as Steve Martin's son from
Parenthood -- she says I'd be better off just writing a positive review of every episode. For some reason, positive reviews don't seem to warrant the same vitriol as negative ones.
Now, while I might cheat on my taxes or steal from the elderly, I would never sell out my integrity when it comes to television blogging. If an episode is bad, I promise you I'll write a negative review. Unfortunately for my integrity, however, it doesn't seem like the producers of
The Office plan on airing a bad episode any time soon...
Continue reading The Office: Night Out - VIDEO
Posted Nov 23rd 2007 4:57PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: The Office, Celebrities
While I'm sure her Office alter-ego would find an unwed pregnancy extremely unprofessional, real-life Angela Kinsey and her husband are very excited to be expecting their first child in May, according to Zap2It.com. Assuming the pesky strike ends before the season does, one would assume writers will either have to work the pregnancy into the show or work around it with strategically placed filing cabinets and Angela walking around holding her clipboard constantly.
Continue reading The Office's Angela is pregnant, which is highly inappropriate
Posted Sep 14th 2007 2:42PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, Web, The Office
The new millennium promotion train just keeps running over at NBC. The latest is a strange
online job posting from the folks at Dunder Mifflin. It seems that the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company is looking for highly motivated, self starters, to join the Dunder Mifflin Infinity program. You'll need an Elementary or equivalent education level, and your commission based salary is payable in SchruteBucks.
If that all sounds good, you can head over to the
Infinity program to fill out an application for a regular employee position, or if you are a real go-getter, put in your app for a Regional Manager position. And, bonus, if you have the Season Three DVD set, you already have a code for some bonus SchruteBucks. As you work your way through the whole process you'll end up at the DMI portal, which isn't quite complete yet. As of this writing there are still some sections cordoned off by the all too familiar 'Coming Soon' label. If you are a fan of
The Office though, it might be worth a sign up just to see what they do with it.
[via
popcandy]
Posted Dec 29th 2006 4:06PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Gilmore Girls, House, Saturday Night Live, Veronica Mars, Web, Festivus, The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Project Runway, Dexter
Combine the modern miracles of the silk screen, the Hanes Beefy-T and Cafe Press, and you get more fans than ever emblazoning their TV-related affections across their chests, backs and sleeves. There are literally hundreds of tees that you could be spending your holiday booty on. What better way to tell the world that
"Hiro is your hero" or that you're voting
Stewart/Colbert in '08?
See ten of the best TV tees the world of online sales has to offer after the jump.
Continue reading Holiday loot spending guide: TV Tees
Posted Oct 27th 2006 12:06PM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, The Office
(NOTE: The below post regarding security at the set of The Office and our "sneaking" onto the set is simply a joke. We were invited onto the set like good little doobees and were escorted around the set proper like. Just so you don't go thinking you can sneak onto this set or anything.)TV Squad snuck into Dunder Mifflin recently to try and unearth some dirt on the employees and their offices. Security was very lax, as we coughed something about "paper salesmen" at the front gate and were let into the building easily. Our strategy was to blindly wander around and try and discover anything that would give us some insight into the lives and workspaces. What we encountered was equal parts fascinating and disturbing.
Check out our recon photos after the jump, and let us know what part of the television landscape you'd like us to sneak into next.
Continue reading TV Squad Visits the Set of: The Office
Posted Oct 9th 2006 10:35AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Watercooler Talk, The Office
Jim put himself on the line with Pam last year. That didn't work out; he transferred from Scranton. (Who knew that the Stamford office would also be full of loonies? But that only makes it more credible that either branch might be the one forced to close.)
Kudos to the writers for finding a way to put off the number one killer of sitcoms -- the hooking-up of long-unconsummated lovers. Jim appears to be the guy in the office who can't get through the tedium of a day without a little sexual tension. Who can blame him, when the other choices are pushing paper products or team-building exercises gone wild?
Continue reading The Office: Jim should go for it with Karen
Posted Sep 10th 2006 10:10AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Cable, Programming, Video, The Office
Sheesh. You'd think that winning an Emmy would buy a cast some time off. Not so for the crew over at Dunder Mifflin. Michael has
been covering the webisode mystery since July. But that isn't all that NBC had the cast up to this summer. While clicking around Comcast's On Demand service today I came across the NBC fall preview. Between promos for their various shows, there were eight little scenes from The Office. Everyone gets to play, but the focus is mostly on Dwight, Pam, and Jim. If you are a fan of the show, you will enjoy it. I'll not spoil it for you by quoting, but there are some classic Dwight lines. And thanks to the power of the internet, you won't even need Comcast to see it. Watch the video, sans previews, after the jump.
Continue reading The Office - Hardest working cast in show biz - VIDEO
Posted May 12th 2006 2:18PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, OpEd, The Office
I would have to say "yes."
Now, there are differences, of course, between the two shows, but I think in terms of the writing, the cast (the entire cast), and the watercooler buzz factor that has been building, I would say that
The Office is the closest thing to
Seinfeld that we have on the air right now.
As Verne Gay at Newsday
says, it's not nearly Seinfeld in terms of ratings. In fact, there's a danger that it will become what another critically-acclaimed comedy became:
"In even blunter terms, is The Office the next Seinfeld or the next Arrested Development, yet another joyous, original, brilliant, and yes, ignored TV comedy? This may be one of the most important questions in TV entertainment at the moment ..."
I think it's safer than
AD, if only because NBC isn't FOX, and they understand buzz and have stronger shows to surround it to keep it afloat.
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Jan 12th 2006 9:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Talent, Web, The Office
Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam on NBC's
The Office, has taken over weekly blogging duties at TV Guide. She
replaces
B.J. Novak, a very witty writer who
probably didn't have the time to write the blog, write the show, and play the role of Ryan each week. Obviously,
Jenna's writing style is different from B.J.'s, but it still provides interesting behind-the-scenes information about
the show. For example,
she writes a bit
about how she and the other gals from the cast go to lunch, where they usually see paparazzi but never have their
pictures taken. And, the guys on the show have an on-going video game tournament during down-time. She says that John
Krasinski, who plays the lovable Jim on the show, is the best at video games. Hopefully Jenna provides more tidbits
about John because there are some of us who have a crush on him.
[Thanks for the tip,
Doc!]
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