How The Office Managed To Make Will Ferrell Not Funny
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Published 2024-02-09
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All Comments (21)
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This was the whole point. People loved Michael Scott. So they gave them someone horrible. Then when they installed Andy as the boss it was a relief.
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His invisible juggling bit was pretty good. Plus the line "that baby could be the star of a show called 'Babies I don't care about'."
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Don't forget it took them an entire season to get Michael right, so this kind of tracks.
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I do like that we got Creed as the manager.
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I wish you didn’t point this out. I had already forgiven them.
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Bob Odenkirk was the best choice but I will assume it was too late when they figured this out
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Man, that mime juggling scene, and then Pam’s parody of it directly after has me rolling every time.
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They should have made Will Ferrell a slightly toned down version of Ron Burgendy!
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I remember being really intrigued seeing Ferrell potentially being Carell’s replacement and being sorely disappointed by his character.
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I was really disappointed when this character manifested. Not only did I thoroughly dislike him {even more than Robert California), but it put an anti-climactic tonal damper on Michael's final episodes.
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I can name at least 5 other characters/actors that the show relied on way more than Mindy Kaling.
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5:15 ok but “they say he’s gonna be my right hand man. Ad-lib masturbation joke” was perfectly delivered
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The bit where he comes back braindamaged trying to give a speech in a hospital gown will always be funny to me
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I love how the office has so much content, nerdstalgic has done a million videos on it and i find each one interesting as heck. Truly one of the all time greatest television shows.
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This era of the office really resonated with me because shortly before this aired i worked a job that had recently cleared a bad boss, had another bad replacement, a period of bossless chaos, a boss that we thought was going to be great but was a liar. Mix in a handful of shifting boss' bosses and the office was really real. Deangelo, David Wallace, Robert California, Jo, Idris Elba's character, Michael... one of the most real parts of the show to me.
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There weren't many characters that were fully built out. It was really just Michael, Pam, Jim, and Dwight (and maybe Angela). They didn't really develop too many other characters and leaned into the size of the ensemble cast. Erin was woefully underused and constantly changing, Andy was a whiplash of a character, Gabe was inconsistent, etc.
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I really liked what Will Ferrel did with Deangelo Vickers. He had Michael’s bumbling idiocy but NONE of his heart. Michael is a child who’s trying to make everyone be his friend, Deangelo is an alien who’s trying to learn how to behave around people. I found Deangelo’s chemistry with the rest of the cast interesting to watch through that lens. It’s fair enough if people just didn’t find him funny, but we were never supposed to like him more than Michael.
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"his attempts at drama" -- he was incredible in Stranger than Fiction
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Jim: “hey, you have a sec?” Vickers: “yeah I got all the time, this job a joke”
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The way you're describing Deangelo is how I feel about Will Ferrel in every role I've seen him in, I've never found him funny.
