"Basketball"



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 19, 2005.

The Office

the previews for this look good...

"Stanley. Of course"

"what do you mean, of course?"

"did I say that?"

preview looks hilarious!

"Same team, Dwight." Funny episode.

I knew that I recognized Roy from somewhere and then it hit me that he was in Big Fish.

"Not gay in the homosexual way...............gay in the.......bad at sports way"

What the hell, next week is the 'season finale'. What was this, like 6 episodes? Did they just not order additional episodes after the initial order?

Huh, you're right. Guess he has a penchant for playing jerks or something.

Great episode, I'm really taking a liking to this show and I think I may have stopped subconsciously comparing it to the original. Loved Dwight in the anime shirt and with the Laimbeer facemask. Especially when he was trying to drink the water.

He was also the deaf tight end in The Replacements.

Even my wife was laughing her ass off during the basketball scenes. And then everytime Michael spoke to his employees she just stared at the tv in shock.

Dwight was pretty damn funny.

What was it Michael said to Dwight about Lord of the Rings?

I hope this show gets renewed, there really isn't much on tv that makes me laugh out loud like this.

Damn, Pam looks so good when she has a smile on her face - what torture to have her smiling at you as you embarass her boyfriend and then she goes home with him to share a bath.

They should have had Jim swat the hell out of one of Roy's shots, maybe pin the ball on the backboard when he went for a layup.

"You people would follow me to the ends of the earth, just like that Dwarf in Lord of the Rings"

"Gimli"

"Nerd, that's why you're not on the team"

I liked how after he picked the team and they show all the people he wouldn't let play hitting shots with things in the garbage can. Then telling the one guy he'll pick if they play baseball or box

"ugh yuck, that's worse then you playing"

His reaction to Stanley not being able to play basketball was great too.

Thanks.

I loved how they deliberately showed Stanley dribbling - twice.

Hmm, I didn't see that. Is this current run only going to be six episodes?

Great show, but only 6 episodes? That's also a season in the UK, so maybe NBC didn't want to push their luck or more likely NBC didn't want to make a bigger commitment.

I will freely admit, I have been highly unsupportive of this show since it's beginning. It just never clicked with me, and the humor was always shaky and bland.

Tonight's episode, however, had me laughing like crazy. Every joke seemed to fire, and every "gag" just worked beautifully.

If only they'd all been this good.

Dammit, they better get working on a second season ASAP. 6 episodes isn't enough of this great show!

They should've made this the 2nd episode. I liked the previous ones for the most part, but this beat all of them handily. Everything they had Michael and Dwight doing was just perfect

Funny episode. This show is very uneven - some episodes are quite funny (like this one and the diversity day one) and then some aren't funny at all.

Call me a convert.

After the last two episodes, this show has officially grown on me.

A strange episode for me.

For one, it was the funniest thus far. But at the same time it crystallized Michael's character as being an offensive asshole. There is little of Gervais' humanity of embarrassment in Carrell's character. This episode was like a whirlwind tour of how undisguised his racism, sexism, and homophobia is. This resulted in him being funnier than ever, but also emphasizing how thin and unthought-through the characters are in this American remake. The show seems to be less about the strange office humor of the original which was linked to Gervais' type of character and instead places more emphasis on simply laughing at how awful Dwight and Michael are as human beings.

Kind of like many office workers, not to mention bosses.

I've worked with plenty of professionals that, when they get comfortable with their co-workers, become some of the biggest bigots/sexists/racists ever. I see many of these people in Michael, which makes it truly relatable and funny to see the reactions from others. We've all been there (well, at least I have).

Awesome stuff.... great show.

I like the show but every episode makes me want to punch Michael in the face. This one especially.

Great episode last night. Too bad there is only one more left.

"I'll talk to YOU when we play baseball...or if we box."

SOOOOO !*@#&!@)* hilarious. Funniest new show in YEARS... (and I was plenty skeptical as a big fan of the original).

My thoughts exactly. I almost didn't watch, but I figured I'd give it one more try. I'm glad I did.