- #Boom roasted the office script movie#
- #Boom roasted the office script skin#
- #Boom roasted the office script series#
- #Boom roasted the office script tv#
Smart move.Īngela: One of the Stamford people is a criminal? Jan: Okay, that’s when the branches merged, so Josh must have been taking advantage of this program. Jan: We get that money for hiring an ex-convict. I don’t know.Īngela: Jan, this is Angela Martin from accounting.Īngela: Look, we have a rebate from… the Federal Work Opportunity Program and no one knows what that means. (He is, of course, even less perceptive than he thinks, which only makes it funnier.Michael: Yeah, Jan, it um… looks like a check, piece of paper of some sort.
#Boom roasted the office script movie#
Pam's speech about how the kids she has with Jim will really have soulmates for parents was a lovely moment, but what made it feel like more than blatant heartstring-tugging was Andy's presence in the background, mistaking Pam's confession for more commentary about the movie and again growing frustrated that he isn't that perceptive. The bootleg movie they were watching with Andy wasn't really necessary - except so NBC could have an excuse to promote the episode as featuring guest appearances by Jessica Alba (who was in it for all of 30 seconds) and Jack Black - and I don't really want to see that much of Cloris Leachman again, but it was useful in that it provided a running gag to underscore the pathos of Pam's fear about her parents.
#Boom roasted the office script skin#
In addition to Michael's story, and all the bits of physical comedy (including Dwight turning the CPR dummy's face into a skin mask, which led into the brilliant immediate cut to him and Michael back in David's office for another scolding), "Stress Relief" also provided yet another Jim and Pam moment that managed to be heartwarming without becoming overly saccharine.
#Boom roasted the office script series#
I'm sure he'll be back to annoying the hell out of them within two minutes of the next episode, but Michael does have his moments where the employees can stand him, maybe even like him a tiny bit, and those moments make the rest of the series work as well as it does. This could have been another unbearable moment for Michael (and the audience), but Stanley's uncontrollable laughter at "You crush your wife during sex and your heart sucks" - less at the quality of the joke, I think, then at Stanley's amazement that this was the best Michael could do - proved contagious, and gave Michael enough confidence to throw in an improvised "and you're gayer than Oscar" to Andy, which fully gets the crowd on his side (someone else even calls out "Boom, roasted!") and allows him to make peace with the staff. It was so meticulously set up, and so well paid-off, repeatedly (Andy thinking the fire was shooting at them, Kevin looting the vending machine), that I would have applauded it if I wasn't laughing so damn hard.īut the roast, and Michael's inevitable reaction to it, also showed the human side of Michael - the unfortunate soul who never advanced past the kid in elementary school with no friends - which led to the marvelous, simultaneously funny, awkward and heart-warming sequence where he returned to the office and insisted on "roasting" everyone.
#Boom roasted the office script tv#
I know there's a tendency for instant hagiography or demonization in the blogosphere - to immediately put things in Comic Book Guy terms as the best or worst thing ever - but I can easily see these five minutes going into a time capsule with the "Taxi" yellow light discussion, or Lucy doing a TV commercial, or the honkies shooting Jack Donaghy, or any of the other usual suspects. That was just a dazzling comic set piece, marvelously set up by writer Paul Lieberstein, fiendishly orchestrated by director Jeff Blitz, and played with the right mix of realism (from Jim and Pam and Phyllis) and over-the-top antics (from Andy and Kevin and, of course, Michael) to make it not only the best "Office" pre-credits sequence ever, but an all-time sitcom classic. By the way, time for the inevitable rant about NBC putting all of the best jokes into the ads, which featured both Bandit's brief flight and "Barack is president!" Everyone says they were funny in the promos, but I can't imagine them being as hilarious as they were in context, in the midst of that ever-escalating chaos of Dwight's fire drill.
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