Comedy is job one (Office Space Thread)

Newsday ^ | 10/31/05 | Gene Seymour

[Millee]

'Office Space" opened in theaters in February 1999 and pulled in roughly $4.2 million in its first weekend. By May of that year, its total theatrical gross had crawled to about $10.8 million. For perspective's sake, consider that two weekends ago, "The Fog" opened - opened, do you hear - with $14.2 million.

Of course, any movie tempts lackluster receipts when it opens in the dead of winter with no big-name stars except Jennifer Aniston - regarded back then as a small-screen fixture, with no Brad Pitt in her immediate vicinity.But I, at least, expected better initial results. When reviewing "Office Space" for this newspaper, I figured that there were so many people disgusted with their jobs (or, at least, who weren't too far removed from jobs they hated) that a big, quick, box-office score was inevitable.

I was wrong. But in the long term, I wasn't.

[PaulaB]

[dfwgator]

I thought that New Kids on the Block guy was actually pretty good in it. And the guy that played "Wild Bill" Guarnere had him down perfectly.

[Snardius]

"We're going to Federal "pound me in the a** prison..."

[dfwgator]

"Samir Naga....naga....Not-Gonna-Work-Here-No-More."

[dfwgator]

Is that Jane Seymour? Damn, I knew she was hot back in the day, but not that hot.

[PaulaB]

"Ya uhhh we're goin to need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday"

[jw777]

"You steal from the crippled kids?"

[smith288]

"Hey Peter man turn on channel 9, it's the breast exam!"

[pikachu]

Have your FAXed you TPS report with the correct cover sheet?

[ThinkDifferent]

"PC Load Letter? What the **** does that mean?!?"

(I hate printers).

[smith288]

(I hate printers).

It was a fax machine... PROOF you arent a REAL Office Spacer... ;)

[RockinRight]

I've been told I resemble a lighter-skinned version of Samir.

[Woman on Caroline Street]

I may have mentioned this before, but an absolutely hilarious "office comedy" is a little sleeper called Haiku Tunnel. It's a parody of the "temp worker", to a t.

Favorite scene from movie:

JOSH (after being offered a "perm" position on his first day at a law firm): "Oh well. I've worked for worse. Young litigators on crack".
(Cut to head shot of very cracked up lawyer talking very quickly: "Joshhe'stalkingtometildawnI'llpayyoudouble")

[PaulaB]

[Senator Bedfellow]

Actually, "PC Load Letter" is an error message from old HP Laserjet printers - I remember it quite well ;)

[YouPosting2Me]

Show her my O-face!

[MotleyGirl70]

Lol! Milton petting his Swingline.

I still crack up everytime I watch Office Space. I know it by heart.

[YouPosting2Me]

"PC Load Letter"

(P)aper (C)assette...

[Terpfen]

Guarnere was good. So was Bull Randleman. But the rest were just... well, let me put it like this: they had CHANDLER as a company commander?!

[Millee]

PaulaB, you be the QUEEN of the gifs!!!