This fall I’ve grown more and more angry at the current crop of snowballing turds that are paraded around as THE BEST SHOWS EVER. Why are they THE BEST SHOWS EVER? Because they’ve been on for such a long time, dummy! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the formula, which is why it’s basically the same twenty minutes of shit shoveling week in and week out. People LOVE shit shoveling! Give the people what they want!
My main annoyance is The Office and all of the blind praise it gets. I haven’t watched a full episode since the season five premiere, but from the snippets I’ve seen lately it’s only gotten worse. I tried to watch this past week’s episode, “Niagra”, but could only stomach it in small thirty second doses. It’s cringeworthy to watch, but not in the intended cringeworthy way. The Office has gone from an awkward everyday social situation comedy to a dime store, bargain bin, cheap lazy laughs parody of itself.
As far as I can tell, The Office is THE BEST SHOW EVER because:
- Jim and Pam!
- It references YouTube videos!
- Dwight talks about nerdy things that I like!
- Jim and Pam!
- Dwight wears ironic nerdy shirts!
- There’s always a great new catchphrase!
- Jim and Pam!
- Wacky things happen!
- Creed does something unexpected, but it’s soooooo Creed!
- Jim and Pam!
- It references a popular internet meme that I know about!
- There’s no laugh track, so that automatically equals SMART COMEDY.
Another reason this show irritates me is because it used to be good. Really good, in fact. And consistently funny. But around the end of the forth season it started to wear thin, and now it’s completely overstayed its welcome.
But there is hope! NBC is looking at these potential pilots for next year: “Civic Center”, “School Board”, and another British sitcom that’ll be sodomized into a glorified MadTV. Clear out your DVRs!











