Dwight Schrute here with a much belated addition to my ‘blog’.
‘Where the “F-“ have you been!?’, scream my (literally) hundreds of
readers.
Well, I’ll tell you. There have been some big changes at Dunder-
Mifflin and I have been busy as a beaver.
[Note: I know full well that that phrase makes no sense whatsoever.
Beavers are not busy unless their dams are continually knocked down
and destroyed by pesky neighborhood kids and/or storms]
Plus with the beet harvesting and my laser tag team (the Gandalfs!)
making it to regionals, my time has been quite limited.
There is a question that has been eating away at me like a flesh
eating bacteria or a wolverine.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE CAST OF BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CRASH LANDED ON THE ‘LOST’ ISLAND???!!!
First of all, they would have lasers. Adama would quickly secure the
hatch for his crew. The survivors of the Oceanic flight 815 would be
herded up like little children and inspected like cattle.
“Could these people actually be Cylons!†Starbuck would be thinking
to herself. Then she would think, “That one who calls himself Sawyer
is pretty hot. I wonder what he would look like swimming in just his
jeans.â€
Starbuck would take Sawyer on a reconnoiter of the island and they
would visit the swimming hole and start necking. And then Kate and
Apollo would stumble upon them and they would all be getting it on
when a huge crashing would come through the jungle and one of those
huge unseen monsters would tower above them (the monsters that
disappeared after episode 8 of season 1) and they would be
screaming.
AHHHHH!!!!
Cut to commercial.
Meanwhile back at the hatch, Adama would want to imprison the “Lostâ€
cast in the old cave with the creek in it, but president “Roslinâ€
would want to reason with them and have both casts mate in order to
create more surviving humans.
Meanwhile the Cylons would have contacted the Others and they would
form an “alliance†to destroy all the good humans and especially that
annoying French woman who lives on the other side of the island.
Starbuck would shoot the unseen monster and Sawyer would say
something witty and sexy, like “Nice shot, blondie. Where’d you
learn to shoot a laser like that? From watching princess Leia?â€
She would say, “Put a sock in it Sawyer†but the attraction would be
too much for them and they would have to start making out again.
MORE NEXT WEEK on THE CONTINUING SAGA OF ‘LOST BATTLESTAR™’!!!
HEY THAT WAS MY IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!! I sware to god, I posted a few places about that!!!!!!!!!!! _________________
"You are just an encyclopedia of weirdness." ~ Supernatural
'Vulgar, bigoted, cynical': France warms to Le Bureau
Smelly cheese replaces jelly jokes as David Brent sets up office across the Channel
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Saturday May 27, 2006
The Guardian
The gags include pranks with pungent cheese, racist comments and a grim office block in a riot-hit Paris suburb where the boss likes to say "zat's life".
Le Bureau, a French version of the hit BBC comedy The Office, has been greeted with rave reviews by television critics, who have fallen in love with the bigoted, chauvinistic boss from **** who they feel is the perfect portrait of modern France. Ricky Gervais's David Brent has mutated into 50-something Gilles Triquet, "le boss trop cool" of the Cogirep paper company. He wears lemon-coloured shirts, sticks retro postcards of donkeys on his wall and has novelty facial hair - a tiny vertical strip of beard from his mouth to his chin.
Desperate to slice a few years off his age, the unmarried practical joker brags about nights out at Paris's Buddha bar, litters his speech with verlan, the back-to-front slang of French youth, and tries out bits of English such as "Wassup?" and "okey-dokey". He nicknames his area manager Bernadette Chirac, after the president's fearsome wife, and happily stereotypes his Arab employees - referring to Laetitia, the French receptionist of north African origin, as "the warmth of the Orient, the spice route, the snake charmer".
French newspapers have eagerly embraced this "spineless, misogynistic, racist, irritating cynic" declaring him the perfect embodiment of a French beauf - a vulgar, chauvinistic Mr Average who tries too hard. The monotony of modern life in France was already a theme of the nation's cultural commentators, with the novelist Michel Houellebecq depicting bored single men who go home alone to eat supermarket ready-meals. But Le Bureau's coupling of a man in a midlife crisis with France's preoccupation with workplace rights has delighted critics.
"Without doubt the funniest series of the year," said Le Journal du Dimanche of Thursday's first episode, on the pay-TV channel Canal Plus. Le Figaro hailed a "dark and hilarious" success, calling Triquet, played by the well-known French actor Fran?ois Berl?and, a "tour de force". The characters around him were "equally perfect", including a military-obsessed jobsworth who makes models of the battle of Austerlitz.
Lib?ration hailed it as a portrait of "the daily hypocrisy and spinelessness" that pervades office life, while L'Express said it was "the classic example of a successful adaptation" - respectful of the original but adding its own touches. Only Le Monde wondered if "this type of humour" would work over a series but gave it the benefit of the doubt.
In France, where documentaries are a revered art form, viewers of Ricky Gervais's original Slough saga were not initially taken by the "mockumentary". Dubbed into French and shown on a cable channel in 2004, The Office was a damp squib. But its potential was spotted by the writing duo Nicolas and Bruno, famous for dubbing American workplace videos into irreverent French.
The Office, the most successful BBC comedy export ever, has been sold in 80 countries and remade in the United States, but Le Bureau is the first foreign-language version. L'Express reported this week that a Qu?b?cois version, La Job, could be made next year.
While true to almost every scene of the original, Le Bureau has some French quirks. The cleaning lady is west African; cheese gags replace a joke about jelly and French workers don't go out together for a pint after work, so Brent's pub talk was cut. Instead, Triquet bursts into the open-plan area on Friday afternoon, shouting: "It's 6pm; you, you, you and you in my office for champagne", while the rest look on silently.
The writers are already working on a second series in which they tackle a very French theme: strikes. But however bleak the plotlines of job losses, nothing can match real-life French workplace sagas. In the last two months, millions took to the street to protest against a new youth employment law; an MP went on a 40-day hunger strike after a factory in his constituency threatened closure, and a teacher who had lost his job took a class hostage with a fake gun.
"In France at the moment, there is a very strong mood of distrust of the boss class," said one French journalist who writes on employment issues. "So Le Bureau has great potential ... Plus the French love satire and black humour."
Good day at the office
Sold by BBC Worldwide to 33 national broadcasters, shown in more than 80 countries. France's Canal Plus and the US NBC have made their own versions.
At least the US just re-made one episode. I hope this'll come out on DVD in the US or somewhere online with subtitles.
Dwight: I miss Jim so much!!!!!!!!!! False. I do not miss him.
LMAO! _________________ "Jack is the guy she should be with.
She does genuinely love him.
And she knows that he would take excellent care of her." - Damon Lindelof
LOL! I dont know, the premiere seemed to be more of a "mid season filler' than a premiere...like LAST WEEK'S "the convention" shouldve been the opener, in my opinion. Oscar coming out...so? And? Why was that the premiere? _________________
"You are just an encyclopedia of weirdness." ~ Supernatural
NO SHIT! HA! Never picked JJ for a funny guy though. But then again, he did love the UK Office and didnt he ask Gervais to appear in an episode of Alias? _________________ "Jack is the guy she should be with.
She does genuinely love him.
And she knows that he would take excellent care of her." - Damon Lindelof
Jim: Maybe its in the ceiling.
Andy: You're in the ceiling.
That was so funny _________________ "Jack is the guy she should be with.
She does genuinely love him.
And she knows that he would take excellent care of her." - Damon Lindelof
So last night, Joss Whedon directed the episode. I thought it was so funny with the whole vampire bat thing and Jim. God, who doesn't love Jim? If only Pam would finally say something. _________________ The verdict falls like bachelors for bad luck girls. ('You're Crashing, but You're No Wave' - Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High)
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How freakin’ hilarious was Thursday night's eppy!!! OMG Michael and Jan are insane. lol I love this show!! _________________ Morgan
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Officer: Maybe you can stay with one of your friends here?
Michael: Jim? Pam?
Jim: Oh, my apartments on fire-
Pam: --Flooded..
Jim: Flooded.
xD _________________ "Jack is the guy she should be with.
She does genuinely love him.
And she knows that he would take excellent care of her." - Damon Lindelof
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Guess who is gonna direct an upcoming episode?
