The Office Season 4 Premiere 9/27

[NeedsMoreNuts]

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creed's is absolutely incredible

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"Some kid I used to sell weed to got a job at corporate."

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I love the office just as anyone else, but does anyone feel last season's episodes starting turning into more of a soap opera and less of a sitcom?

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http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/#mea=156293

Andy is back on track.

[Dilznoofus]

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I love the office just as anyone else, but does anyone feel last season's episodes starting turning into more of a soap opera and less of a sitcom?

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It got a little heavy, for sure. But I'm betting things will lighten up a lot this season.

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I just ripped through the S3 DVDs, watching a few episodes, all the deleted scenes, and some other bonus materials, so I'm excited for the S4 premiere.

No spoilers here, although I'm included the first episode preview below in white text. Again, NO SPOILERS, but S4 speculation encouraged. Here are some ideas I have:

We find out David Wallace offered Jim the job but he turned it down, due to Pam of course. No idea where else the Jim & Pam thing is going. We all want to see them together, but is the show as entertaining if they are? Not sure.

I think the Michael and Jan thing has run it's course. I'd be okay with her being gone. And Michael should definitely be on hard times financially or with his living situation, after taking on Jan for some period of time and after "selling" his condo. Maybe he could live in the barn on the beet farm!

Ryan as Michael's boss--quite a bit of potential for funny in that.

Time for a Stanley episode. We had Kelly's celebration and Phyllis' wedding. In fact, we could use a Toby episode as well. Get him a love interest so we can see another side of him.

I have more but I already sound like a crazed fanatic.


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Since you watched all three seasons in a short period of time, you'd probably be best to ask this question. Did you notice a big change in Michael's characher from seasons 1&2 to season 3?

[kevin017]

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We find out David Wallace offered Jim the job but he turned it down, due to Pam of course. No idea where else the Jim & Pam thing is going. We all want to see them together, but is the show as entertaining if they are? Not sure.

I think the Michael and Jan thing has run it's course. I'd be okay with her being gone. And Michael should definitely be on hard times financially or with his living situation, after taking on Jan for some period of time and after "selling" his condo. Maybe he could live in the barn on the beet farm!

Ryan as Michael's boss--quite a bit of potential for funny in that.

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its pretty easy to speculate that jim got offered the job and turned it down because of pam. i think the "is the show as entertaining if they're together" thing is most definitely yes. The best part of the show was jim and pam's funny interactions in season 1 and season 2 which were lost in season 3, and I definitely think 3 was only weaker for it.

It might be too simple and too much if it just ends up being "well jim and pam are now dating, jim turned down the job to be with pam". i'm kind of expecting and hoping for something more complicated than this. The Jim + Pam relationship is the foundation of the show and I think they will have a hard time screwing that up for at least 2-3 seasons, unless they let the relationship die off too much, which i think they were in danger of doing in season 3.

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anybody who thinks season 3 wasn't 5x better than seasons 1 and 2 is out of their damn mind imo

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You're crazy. S2 was way better in every way.

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I think Season 2 was consistently better than Season 3, although Season 3 had a couple of episodes that were just off the charts (Big Gay Witch Hunt being my favorite of the series).

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You're crazy. S2 was way better in every way.

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meh, I think it's close. First 5 episodes of S3 are such a sick run.