Oscar From The Office Comes Out
Added 2022-03-17 06:23:12 +0000 UTC“Gay Witch Hunt” (September 21, 2006)
Whelp, you asked enough so we finally did it: we covered The Office, despite the fact that its entire series run came and went during the age of online recaps and extensive online coverage. This is one of the most requested episodes we've gotten since we began this podcast. It’s up to you to decide what we can add to discourse about this mid-2000s phenomenon — which, BTW, was not as big of a hit as you might remember — but we can at least point out that the epidemic of arrested development glimpsed on The Office the show was not limited to Michael Scott.
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Comments
I haaaate Ricky Gervais, so I cheered when that came up; revulsion is a great word for it.
Quinn Rollins
2022-03-31 15:57:16 +0000 UTCI appreciated your covering this, but also appreciated the "ugh do we have to?" take on it. Working in offices in the late 1990s/early 00s cemented my decision to be a teacher, and I'm very glad I did.
Quinn Rollins
2022-03-31 15:56:38 +0000 UTCIt was in my notes but there was a lot to cover in this episode. We've talked about Peggy Lipton before and it just seemed like discussion of white people's ideas about racial performance were more interesting.
Drew Mackie
2022-03-23 18:34:25 +0000 UTCShocked that the parentage of Rashida Jones was talked about and Twin Peaks didn't come up at all. Also, Dirty Dancing 2 was written by Peter Sagal of NPR's "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me...."
Robyn Pavlakovich
2022-03-21 23:16:25 +0000 UTCHonestly, I am so happy that somebody else has the same revulsion towards Ricky Gervais! Also. I watched all of the office (except that last season I was real over it by then) and blocked this episode out of my memory. When I heard the clip with Michael using the slurs I audibly gasped.
Lee Martz
2022-03-21 20:27:14 +0000 UTCI read a thread the other day about how the problem with printers is its the only tech where we haven't solved the problem of needing a million moving pieces, I'll see if I can dig it up.
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2022-03-20 22:34:36 +0000 UTCYeah, laughing at Brent felt fine because he was the way he was by his own decisions. To me, Michael always felt like some kind of mentally underdeveloped child, which I have no desire to laugh at.
Robyn Pavlakovich
2022-03-20 18:18:33 +0000 UTCI feel that I dislike the Office to an equal degree but for almost opposite reasons as Drew; as the series became lighter it became clearer that I, in the audience, was expected to find Michael Scott more sympathetic and likeable as opposed to main adversary and THAT was a major turn-off. The Americanization of the Office was the rehabilitation of "the boss" from the source of your everyday miseries to a lovablely sweet, but blameless, doofus.
Matt LS
2022-03-18 00:09:57 +0000 UTCOh and just wanted to point out, the watercolour painting does not get ruined -- it was filmed getting ruined but they didn't use that storyline. They did include it in the DVDs in the deleted scenes section, and Office Ladies just covered that ep and posted a clip of said deleted scene a few weeks ago. It was cut because Jenna Fischer fought hard against it, saying the painting is the heart of the show. And the writers must have agreed eventually, because the painting is the final shot of the series.
nina matsumoto
2022-03-17 21:36:29 +0000 UTCReally glad you did this despite your hesitation! It's a big topic for sure but you covered it very well and your insight on this famous episode is valuable.
nina matsumoto
2022-03-17 21:34:14 +0000 UTCwait what?
Drew Mackie
2022-03-17 20:52:28 +0000 UTCY'all know the *other* Josh Trujillo? Cool. Cool. (hides in corner)
Benjamin Rippel
2022-03-17 18:56:00 +0000 UTCScranton sadly is a real place. I used to live there and my husband was born there (we did meet at work, in an office) and it is the meanest, whitest, saddest place I have ever lived. So much so that when we moved to Los Angeles, it really was like the end of "Radioactive Man" like "Wow! Folks really care about each other here! Everyone is so nice!" Anyway, Stanford is also a real place, in Connecticut, and it's maybe a 3ish hour drive from Scranton I think.
Kat Heagberg
2022-03-17 16:43:53 +0000 UTC
