The Office - 04/05/05
 

"Health Care"



Cast: Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak.
Producer(s): Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein .

Original Airdate: April 5, 2005.

The Office

Sounds like it could be promising. :)

Sounds like it could be funny. :up:

Big episode for me. If it is like the last episode, I'll keep it high on my watch list. If it is like the pilot, it gets moved down.

Sounds like it could be... not as good as the BBC version. :)

sorry, just had to get it out of the way.

i liked the last episode (and the pilot, too, although not as much). Hopefully tuesday will shore up as a great night of comedy, with this and scrubs.

Funniest episode yet; this show is really growing on me. There were so many cringe-worthy moments this time!! I couldn't stop laughing at "Count Choculilitis" and "Anal Fissures" rotfl

Okay - if people are taking the time to tune into the OTA HD station, do you think they really want their HD experience interrupted every five minutes so they can know the results of the county board election in bum-fuck Missouri? :mad:

I loved the first two episodes but I thought this one really sucked :(

I like the show alot, but there is just something about it that irks me.. I can;t figure it out... Maybe it is a art-type thing like lack of color... Not sure, but something is wrong

I thought this one was the best yet.

When Dwight was reading the diseases I lost it.

"Government funded nano-robot assassin." :lol:

"I still have a vagina."

I couldn't stop laughing at that. If it weren't for Franklin on Sunday's AD, that would have been the funniest thing I'd seen on TV in weeks.

First time I've watched this version, and I enjoyed the jokes, etc., but I am not so sure I like the actors who play each character. They don't "fit" well for me.

I concur.

I loved this episode. This is def one of my favorite shows.

"inverted penis" :)

This show has the funny...

This one actually showed that it has some promise, thought the first 2 were not good at all just putting together some good jokes here and there. However this week I was definitely entertained with only a brief bad feeling that the first 2 had given me pretty much the whole time.

The whole vagina/uterus thing was a riot. Anal fissures lame. Workspace/office scene, that whole bit between those 2 and then the girl calling was great.

I really think the US version is coming together. I liked that they ended the episode on a sad, pathetic note.

I also loved the exchange about anal fissures:
"No people here have that."
"Some people here have that."

This was the best one yet in my opinion. :up:

"So when you get down there, what, do you have laser tag or something?"

I think they're slowly starting to differentiate this show from the BBC show, though I'm sure for many people it'll never be different enough, or the same enough. The boss doesn't have as much of a desire to be "the funny guy" as Ricky Gervais', it's more of a desire to appear in control, and the office workers are more confrontational with him then they were in the UK version, which kind of fits the stereotypes of the two countries if you think about it.

This episode culled bits from the BBC version (like Dwight fighting for an office, even if it's really just a workspace).

I only laughed about 22 minutes into the episode, when the 'inverted penis' was mentioned as an ailment. Otherwise, I'm still not really feeling it for this show.

I thought it was good, not as good as last weeks though.

Dwight wasn't as annoying this episode which was good.

Dwight's reading of the diseases was my favorite part of the show this week. The nano robots line made me laugh out loud.

Okay,that was damn funny! I loved the mine shaft conversation and the ice cream bar scene (especially when they were throwing them around). Like the BBC series, the characters are starting to grow on me after a few episodes...let's just hope it doesn't get cancelled before we see them all.

It's just so refreshing to see a comedy in prime time that is both well-written and doesn't have a stupid laugh track.

There's a two hour block of them on Fox Sundays.

I'm still not sold. Is the boss in the British version as buffoonish?

It's a different kind of buffoonery. Carell just seems off to me in the way he plays to the camera, it's just not as 'smooth' or subtle as Gervais's performance. Carell's Michael Scott barely appears to be able to rise above being the village idiot at times. Again, Michael feels more like a caricature than a character.

What the hell do you think comes on before The Office?

Not funny.

Count goes to 1 ball 2 strikes.

what happens when you have 2 balls?

Still at-bat.

I thought this was the best one yet. The Jim/Dwight interaction was great.

"I thought you said it was a workspace"

and the whole, calling Jim on the phone while he was locked in there and Jim clicking over to talk to Pam who is sitting 5 feet away. :lol:

Launching the ice cream bar at the window was classic as well.

"Can I fire Jim?"
"Who is this?"
"Dwight, Mr. Scott put me in charge today"

classic.

I agree. It's too sitcom-y for me (caricatures instead of characters) and lacks the subtlety of the original. Last week's episode was hilarious, but it was because it was its own thing. The pilot and the basic premise of this episode, however, were trying to copy the UK version, and it just doesn't work. I'll watch Carrell in any show, and he's certainly enjoyable, but the way this thing is going, they should have just built a new sitcom around him as an obnoxious boss instead of trying to copy <i>The Office</i>, because I don't think it's working.

das

"He'll have to come out sometime, to use the bathroom."

"That's not appropriate, Kevin."

That got a laugh from me, because I work with someone who is overly sensitive of stupid comments just like that one.

That one got a big laugh out of me too. The comment was so stupid and she got so offended :lol:.

Coincidentally, I think I'm developing a thing for Angela (the character who got offended).

Crap - I forgot to DVR this last night. Hope NBC re-airs it sometime...

That was my favorite part. It perfectly captures the sheer absurdity of office culture, and how impossible it is sometimes to have any normal conversation, as there will always be something that ends up being perceived as "offensive" to someone.

Oh, and I also cracked up at "Count Choculitis", demonstrating that I have zero consistency in the type of humor I enjoy.

this show looks like it is going to be canceled.... yet another show that is getting better by the episode but fails to catch people

Aren't they running it on around 6 channels? Surely you can catch it this week. MSNBC, Bravo are two I think.