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_____Cait
05/04/24 12:30:51 AM
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These are the moments off the top of my head

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_____Cait
05/04/24 12:43:54 AM
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LonelyStoner
05/04/24 12:45:32 AM
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Definitely the boom guy where Pam was pretty much repeating her past mistakes.

Scotts Tots was fucking hilarious.

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pegusus123456
05/04/24 12:48:49 AM
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I didn't vote for any of these but a secret other option: the Secret Santa that Michael turns into a White Elephant.

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_____Cait
05/04/24 12:49:40 AM
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LonelyStoner posted...
Definitely the boom guy where Pam was pretty much repeating her past mistakes.

Scotts Tots was fucking hilarious.

what did Pam repeat? She didnt even do anything

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pegusus123456
05/04/24 12:53:44 AM
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_____Cait posted...
what did Pam repeat? She didnt even do anything
A lot of people think Pam was flirting back with him when really she was just being his friend and he was reading too much into it.

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nekrodev
05/04/24 12:55:11 AM
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all of them, if you're talking about American The Office

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Ryven
05/04/24 1:01:07 AM
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Camera guy/Pam storyline. That was awful. Show hit a low at that point.

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_____Cait
05/04/24 1:22:00 AM
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nekrodev posted...
all of them, if you're talking about American The Office

Why do people even bring up the original? Not only was it even more cringe inducing, but it hardly had any episodes

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StealThisSheen
05/04/24 1:24:08 AM
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Scott's Tots, definitely. It's the only one that, legitimately, causes you to cringe, by design. The others only cause "cringe" based on how you react to the actual scenario, whereas Scott's Tots is legitimately designed that way, and to a damn good effect.

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pazzy
05/04/24 1:26:42 AM
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_____Cait posted...
Why do people even bring up the original? Not only was it even more cringe inducing, but it hardly had any episodes
It was a mini series. It definitely couldn't have lasted more than one season, but it's good for what it is.
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nekrodev
05/04/24 1:29:03 AM
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_____Cait posted...
Why do people even bring up the original? Not only was it even more cringe inducing, but it hardly had any episodes
American The Office is cringe af and literally just the most normie shit on the planet.

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pazzy
05/04/24 1:29:17 AM
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Ryven posted...
Camera guy/Pam storyline. That was awful. Show hit a low at that point.
Yeah, it really did. And Pam already wasn't looking too great with her and Jim's drama either.
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Joelypoely
05/04/24 1:29:37 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psu9eE8ualg

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pegusus123456
05/04/24 1:32:37 AM
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pazzy posted...
Yeah, it really did. And Pam already wasn't looking too great with her and Jim's drama either.
Bro, he took ten grand out of their savings and took a job in another state without consulting her

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MC_BatCommander
05/04/24 1:34:34 AM
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Definitely boom mic guy

Dinner party is my favorite episode

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StealThisSheen
05/04/24 1:36:57 AM
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Right, but in a funny way. Scott's Tots is just supposed to be cringey in general. You're never really meant to laugh. It's two different styles of cringe.

EDIT: Now, to be fair, dinner party does kinda straddle the two. There are moments you're supposed to legitimately just cringe, but it's interspersed with moments where you're supposed to laugh, such as when Michael is showing off his TV. Scott's Tots is pretty much... You're meant to cringe the entire time.

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pazzy
05/04/24 1:38:26 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
Bro, he took ten grand out of their savings and took a job in another state without consulting her
It's more that there was already constant bickering between the two of them. Having Pam have yet another thing to be annoying was just a drag.
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_____Cait
05/04/24 1:39:07 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
Bro, he took ten grand out of their savings and took a job in another state without consulting her

You forget that there is a whole group of people that think Pam is evil for leaving her abusive, manipulative, and violent boyfriend Roy.

Season 8 and 9 are hardly similar to the earlier seasons and i dont think the real Jim and Pam would act how they did in that story arc.

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pazzy
05/04/24 1:44:21 AM
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_____Cait posted...
You forget that there is a whole group of people that think Pam is evil for leaving her abusive, manipulative, and violent boyfriend Roy.

Season 8 and 9 are hardly similar to the earlier seasons and i dont think the real Jim and Pam would act how they did in that story arc.
What does that have to do with what happened with the boom mic dude? A lot of the characters do shitty things at moments. What makes it annoying was that Pam and Jim were at their best when they were bouncing off of each other. The bickering, while it can be realistic, can make slog of a season even worse. Especially when they are for all intents and purposes, the leads. Having a "cheating" subplot was just dumb.

Probably not. Like, season 8 is just awful and while season 9 ends decently, I'd hardly say that it was good.
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_____Cait
05/04/24 1:51:12 AM
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pazzy posted...
What does that have to do with what happened with the boom mic dude? A lot of the characters do shitty things at moments. What makes it annoying was that Pam and Jim were at their best when they were bouncing off of each other. The bickering, while it can be realistic, can make slog of a season even worse. Especially when they are for all intents and purposes, the leads. Having a "cheating" subplot was just dumb.

Probably not. Like, season 8 is just awful and while season 9 ends decently, I'd hardly say that it was good.

Im saying the boommike plot and Jims new job were really dumb stories. For all the reasons you listed, as well as it being absolutely out of character for both of them. They were almost always flexible people who would quit their dreams and try new things just to be together.

Only thing i can think of is that Pam would be upset because she gave up her art school (also debatable, because she also said she ran out kf money), went to sales, which she wasnt great at, and. Well, she chose all of it.

Maybe she was worried that Jim would uproot them? But she was always fine as long as they were together. Jim was not going to leave Pam either, and he never showed any sign of doing so.

The whole thing was contrived and felt like a teens fanfic. The plot could have been suitable for Andy and Erin, but not too of the most established characters on the show

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pazzy
05/04/24 1:57:23 AM
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_____Cait posted...
The whole thing was contrived and felt like a teens fanfic. The plot could have been suitable for Andy and Erin, but not too of the most established characters on the show
This. I feel like they did it because they needed ratings with their most popular characters do they did something stupid with them and it flopped.

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pegusus123456
05/04/24 2:03:09 AM
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_____Cait posted...
They were almost always flexible people who would quit their dreams and try new things just to be together.

Only thing i can think of is that Pam would be upset because she gave up her art school (also debatable, because she also said she ran out kf money), went to sales, which she wasnt great at, and. Well, she chose all of it.

Maybe she was worried that Jim would uproot them? But she was always fine as long as they were together. Jim was not going to leave Pam either, and he never showed any sign of doing so.
There was a timeskip. Quitting your job and trying to live your dream is one thing when you're dating or engaged, it's quite another when you have two kids under five. And again, he did a lot of it without consulting her. If you ask a hundred people if using ten grand of your savings without even asking your wife about it is grounds for divorce, I think you'll be winning that Family Feud game.

I don't disagree that it wasn't that great of a plotline, but Pam was not at all at fault in it.

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_____Cait
05/04/24 2:05:53 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
There was a timeskip. Quitting your job and trying to live your dream is one thing when you're dating or engaged, it's quite another when you have two kids under five. And again, he did a lot of it without consulting her. If you ask a hundred people if using ten grand of your savings without even asking your wife about it is grounds for divorce, I think you'll be winning that Family Feud game.

I don't disagree that it wasn't that great of a plotline, but Pam was not at all at fault in it.

I dont think Pam was a villain or anything, i just think the plot was stupid, and i dont believe Jim would have ever done that without telling Pam. The ONLY time we see Jim surprising Pam is when he buys her a house, and that was because it was a surprise gift. Jim never did anything selfish like that towards her in any other episode. He actually turned over a few promotions and other things just for her.

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_____Cait
05/04/24 2:14:43 AM
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Exactly. It didnt fit them. Maybe a plot about Pam getting fired, Jims parents getting sick and needing help, anything other than hey jim and pam suddenly dont communicate properly when they were the best at it happened

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StealThisSheen
05/04/24 5:04:54 PM
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_____Cait posted...
Exactly. It didnt fit them. Maybe a plot about Pam getting fired, Jims parents getting sick and needing help, anything other than hey jim and pam suddenly dont communicate properly when they were the best at it happened

This is the takeaway.

Jim/Pam drama, itself, is not a bad idea. But they picked drama that just... Didn't make sense, and that was the problem.

I feel like they could have easily just done without all of that, because the Jim/Daryl stuff alone was enough to sell that storyline. They could have just as easily had Jim/Pam be as happy as Jim/Pam ever were, and it still would have been a fun storyline that set up for good jokes.

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DKBananaSlamma
05/04/24 9:05:50 PM
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Other: Michael going up to the Maine office and crying in front of Holly's new boyfriend lol

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rexcrk
05/04/24 9:08:06 PM
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The entirety of Hot Girl.

I hate how much of a meme it became for people to find Scotts Tots tOo CriNgEy To WatCh. Its a hilarious episode and its totally unrealistic which is part of what makes it funny.

But Hot Girl, as funny as it is, is almost painfully awkward. Michael is almost as bad as a GameFAQs poster in that one lol

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DKBananaSlamma
05/04/24 9:09:45 PM
#33:


Is Hot Girl the one where everyone is arguing over Hillary Swank?

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tripleh213
05/04/24 9:10:11 PM
#34:


Scott's Tots for sure

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BlueBoy675
05/04/24 9:10:27 PM
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Michael having a meltdown at Phylliss wedding is up there

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Trumble
05/04/24 9:11:28 PM
#36:


The scene with Michael kissing a dude to "prove" he's not homophobic.

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Dakimakura
05/04/24 9:11:56 PM
#37:


Cringe doesn't mean bad

Scott's Tots was good cringe while Boom guy was just bad TV.

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Euripides
05/04/24 9:12:06 PM
#38:


Trumble posted...
The scene with Michael kissing a dude to "prove" he's not homophobic.

The kiss was improvised

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StealThisSheen
05/04/24 9:12:53 PM
#39:


rexcrk posted...
I hate how much of a meme it became for people to find Scotts Tots tOo CriNgEy To WatCh. Its a hilarious episode and its totally unrealistic which is part of what makes it funny.

See, to me, what makes Scott's Tots so cringey is that it's NOT unrealistic.

A younger Michael being so incredibly idealistic that he made an actual money pledge that, when the time came, he actually couldn't follow up on, feels incredibly realistic, and the cringe part comes in where you can just literally see him breaking down, as a character, since he has no idea how to explain that he failed and didn't live up to his own ideals.

And, like somebody said, it's not necessarily a bad cringe. You're, basically, cringing right along with Michael, as he cringes at himself by realizing he never met his life goal.

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Unsuprised_Pika
05/04/24 9:13:41 PM
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Didn't even look at the others.

Scott's tots wins instantly. Everytime you watch it becomes exponentially worse.


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BucketCat
05/04/24 9:18:09 PM
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anything involving andy after he returned from anger management and punching the hole in the wall

he wasn't a good character to begin with and they somehow made him worse.

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StealThisSheen
05/04/24 9:21:52 PM
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I support this, too. The entire reason Scott's Tots, for example, is so cringey, is because... Beyond S1, you just basically fall in love with the characters, and you WANT them to succeed, for the most part. You don't really get that from season 1, because it took time for them to find their groove. Similarly, Parks and Rec is a great show, but its first season is also kinda tough to get through, and it doesn't become great until Rob Lowe and Adam Scott join in season 2.

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cjsdowg
05/04/24 9:21:57 PM
#44:


How can it be anything but Scott's Tots, I know that it is a show, but I can't watch it is so bad. I hate Micheal so much for that.

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k1zzl3_82
05/05/24 12:59:25 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff92721c.jpg

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OmegaM
05/06/24 10:17:56 PM
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My first thought was when Michael tried to kiss Pam when they were both down on their luck, and Pam had to tell him "I'm rejecting your kiss."
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lilORANG
05/06/24 10:20:40 PM
#47:


Andy's character assassination in the final season

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