A bad boss is what led me to watching the show. Someone quoted Michael's "don't ever do anything..." bit, explained him to me in reference to our boss. Started watching and never looked back, and I work for myself now.🤣
Really like this analysis. Yes, the hallmark of a bad boss is one who leads with fear, uncertainty, and pitting co-workers against each other. But to do this in the first episode without Carrell? Not smart. But not a series killer. DeAngelo is just one of many missteps The Office will make over the next few seasons.
I think it was interesting the way that they contrasted Deangelo's actual blatant sexism with Michael's more subtle sexism where he acts like he wants to be their best friend and he treasures them but in real life, belittles them and insults them.
If they wanted to do one more season with this cast, including michael (as boss) they could do it. Dunder Mifflin is in danger of closing it's doors, the world has moved forward without them as peoples use of paper is at an all time low, David Wallace has one last crack at revitalizing Dunder Mifflin by bringing back the person who gave them record breaking numbers, Michael Scott.
I’d say change the cast up a bit just due to the fact that it wouldn’t make sense for some characters to fully return. Stanley is retired and “happy” seemingly and I can only imagine Phyllis is retired as well, I can see Erin and the guy she was dating at the end returning in possibly new roles, I think Kelly and Ryan making a possible return with references made to Nellie somehow squeezing child support out of him, and obviously Dwight in a “corporate role” with Angela being a homemaker now. Obviously bringing back some of the original cast for cameos would need to happen with Jim and Pam obviously dropping in here and there as well as Creed possibly showing up in the background and just looking into the camera while in disguise!
The office didn’t sink over night but this episode poked a hole in the boat. It’s not bad but it’s where the realization of how much different the show was going to be from then on and not as many were interested
Don't you understand Sir? Michael Scott was only pretending to be a office manager, When his Real Job was shown to us right in our faces. They have hid it right in plain sight......Michael's True job was A TRUE SECRET AGENT JUST LIKE IN THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT! Right under our noses. Not to mention Michael was always married to his real estate agent, from the time he was hired by Ed Truck. Who's also an agent and did NOT die in a motorcycle accident, he's alive and well he works at Area 52 Near Nevada and California.
@@Rastamanjungle I feel like it functions as an episode but the substance is so vividly minimal at this point it just feels like the letting go point this show had been building towards since season 6
@@grandmaknarf but it was another take on Micheal Scott and it was fun. What we got was that english chick and she was horrible. Rober California was CEO so he could stay above Farell. And Andy didnt work as manager at all, he should have stayed in saeson 8 and 9. Would be a lot better and show would probably get final 10th season with him. The lack of big personality like his or Scott was very visible thru saeson 8 and 9
i mean, honestly. if they didn’t make him a sexiest he would have been a good replacement. now i doubt Will had the time but say he did. he really could have been fantastic. maybe im biased too Will Ferrell. but i didn’t dislike him too much. or Will Arnett.
I just watched the episode before your field guide, and I was certain that DiAngelo was juggling with just imaginary balls. Did you add animated juggling balls? Or did I miss something?
This episode speaks to the fact of work... You could have a boss that is cringe inducing and you might think it's bad. But right after that you can have a boss who's just plain awful.
I don’t know why people take TV ratings seriously. The last DeAngelo episode is amazing and most people I ask say they love it. Same goes for lots of low rated episodes.
The problem with modern entertainment trying to critique sexisim is that a lot of modern media tells and never rrally show people being sexist.we just have to take their word for it. They actually show sexism in the office.
I don't think this episode is disliked merely for being the first without Michael. To me, it's the start of that murky, oddly mean-spirited tone that persisted into season 8.
Ferrell’s a pretty unfunny guy, with practically nothing but junk in his resume. His character here was all over the place in his few episodes, so if there were any plans to keep him, who knows what might have been. A good episode though, and a good review
Chris, thank you for the great video. I’ve watched all of your field guides and have enjoyed them all very much. In this Field Guide, I get the vibe that you’re disinterested and merely reading from your script - I get you always have a script. But the pace of your speech pattern is so fast it is unusual. I believe it is due to the lousy episode and not you. Am I correct?
I am not sure why people, male or female, be insulted by this statements of sexism. This is a show. Deangelo is sexist, but he is a fictional character. Why would people be insulted by these deeper meaning? This is a deeper meaning of a show. It is not real life. Yes, sexist can exist both ways in real life. Doesn't matter here.
I have an observation/hypothesis on Ferrel's participation in the series as Deangelo, and this episode gives me the opportunity to point it. First, personally, as long as it's not too prominent and doesn't affect objectively the panorama for anyone (and fortunately most of the time it really doesn't), I couldn't care less about what we are used to call nowadays "sexism" or any "ism". They can say what they want, but we all have bias. And most of them are stupid. It's not the subject the turn off here. This episode is hard to like because the subject of sexism and it's potential negative density are not adequately deflated through efficient jokes at all, but through a sort of undercooked absurd humour, rushed. Will Ferrell is a funny man when left sufficient space to create characters, improvise actions, dialogues and reactions, as we can see in his interviews with Conan, Letterman, etc. But when corseted into a "fully written character", like in his movies or right here with Deangelo Vickers, he seems to lost an important part of his ability for comedy. In this episode this fully formed character creates a tension bubble with this plot about sexism that never really explodes in it's totality, but when Ferrel returns as a mumbling and completely incoherent mess from the hospital he makes 2 actors break their characters ON camera. The show he puts as a front to hide his "nothingess" is itself nothing, in a bad way. Just when Ferrel stops being completely Deangelo he becomes a show, someone who draws the attention of the staff. While this may make sense plot-wise for the writers, we are left with an episode lead mostly by a very bland character, whose actor only can let his authentic comedic qualities shine in the last 20 seconds or so, never to be seen again. Because of that I think Ferrel was the wrong actor for this role. Someone like Jim Carrey would have been excellent.
To me Diangelo means: "you were lucky for having Michael. It could be much worse."
Sad to see the "I understand nothing" transition being the only mention of Michael now
I think the real decline wasn’t until the start of next season. It seems like the writers had a few ideas of a Michaeless office to start with.
I think that decline started with Florida trip.
A bad boss is what led me to watching the show. Someone quoted Michael's "don't ever do anything..." bit, explained him to me in reference to our boss. Started watching and never looked back, and I work for myself now.🤣
I like when you can tell actors have colds, feels real to me
Really like this analysis. Yes, the hallmark of a bad boss is one who leads with fear, uncertainty, and pitting co-workers against each other. But to do this in the first episode without Carrell? Not smart. But not a series killer. DeAngelo is just one of many missteps The Office will make over the next few seasons.
I just found your videos a week or two ago and I can’t believe I already caught up!😭 great videos 👍🏽
I think it was interesting the way that they contrasted Deangelo's actual blatant sexism with Michael's more subtle sexism where he acts like he wants to be their best friend and he treasures them but in real life, belittles them and insults them.
Michael belittles everyone except the warehouse men who he is scared of.
@@mehtaverse6942 And even them, he pushes them off ladders, racially stereotypes and insults them....
when you keep saying the Inners and the Outers it sounds like a video on the Expanse :)
Hope you enjoyed your Christmas. Great video
Finally you are back. Welcome back
I didnt realize how damaging a hoop could be!
Love your videos man!
Thanks for making this
Am I one of the few who really enjoys season 8&9? Sure they’re weird but I love them.
I enjoyed the office until the end. Michael was great, but the show was funny after him as well
This is the only episode what I literally sleep watching lol
Omfg you people
If they wanted to do one more season with this cast, including michael (as boss) they could do it. Dunder Mifflin is in danger of closing it's doors, the world has moved forward without them as peoples use of paper is at an all time low, David Wallace has one last crack at revitalizing Dunder Mifflin by bringing back the person who gave them record breaking numbers, Michael Scott.
It doesn't make sense for a lot of other characters to come back. Particularly Jim and Pam.
I’d say change the cast up a bit just due to the fact that it wouldn’t make sense for some characters to fully return. Stanley is retired and “happy” seemingly and I can only imagine Phyllis is retired as well, I can see Erin and the guy she was dating at the end returning in possibly new roles, I think Kelly and Ryan making a possible return with references made to Nellie somehow squeezing child support out of him, and obviously Dwight in a “corporate role” with Angela being a homemaker now. Obviously bringing back some of the original cast for cameos would need to happen with Jim and Pam obviously dropping in here and there as well as Creed possibly showing up in the background and just looking into the camera while in disguise!
The office didn’t sink over night but this episode poked a hole in the boat. It’s not bad but it’s where the realization of how much different the show was going to be from then on and not as many were interested
I liked will ferrell and enjoyed the office till season 8. I find it hard to go thru season 9.
Don't you understand Sir? Michael Scott was only pretending to be a office manager, When his Real Job was shown to us right in our faces. They have hid it right in plain sight......Michael's True job was A TRUE SECRET AGENT JUST LIKE IN THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT! Right under our noses. Not to mention Michael was always married to his real estate agent, from the time he was hired by Ed Truck. Who's also an agent and did NOT die in a motorcycle accident, he's alive and well he works at Area 52 Near Nevada and California.
Yes! New video!
This was one of my least favorite episodes. D'Angelo is too weird and I'm not sure why the writers wrote him in - what was the point?
Episodes like this make me wish Goodbye Michael was the series finale.
WTF IT is one of my fav episodes
@@Rastamanjungle I feel like it functions as an episode but the substance is so vividly minimal at this point it just feels like the letting go point this show had been building towards since season 6
@@grandmaknarf but it was another take on Micheal Scott and it was fun.
What we got was that english chick and she was horrible. Rober California was CEO so he could stay above Farell.
And Andy didnt work as manager at all, he should have stayed in saeson 8 and 9. Would be a lot better and show would probably get final 10th season with him.
The lack of big personality like his or Scott was very visible thru saeson 8 and 9
I'm so lucky I'm a complete noob when it comes to basketball hahah
i mean, honestly. if they didn’t make him a sexiest he would have been a good replacement. now i doubt Will had the time but say he did. he really could have been fantastic. maybe im biased too Will Ferrell. but i didn’t dislike him too much. or Will Arnett.
I just watched the episode before your field guide, and I was certain that DiAngelo was juggling with just imaginary balls. Did you add animated juggling balls? Or did I miss something?
This episode speaks to the fact of work... You could have a boss that is cringe inducing and you might think it's bad. But right after that you can have a boss who's just plain awful.
The only thing I liked about Nellie was the TexasPoonTappa troll bit on Andy. Hilarious...
Thank you
It's been two days and no one has told Mulverine how swole he is? FFS.
Why does UA-cam have you as “Milverine”
everything's coming up Milhouse
I will never understand how Will Ferrell was so huge in America. His comedy was: be loud.
Where is that Pam Beagsley scene from?
I don’t know why people take TV ratings seriously. The last DeAngelo episode is amazing and most people I ask say they love it. Same goes for lots of low rated episodes.
The problem with modern entertainment trying to critique sexisim is that a lot of modern media tells and never rrally show people being sexist.we just have to take their word for it.
They actually show sexism in the office.
I don't think this episode is disliked merely for being the first without Michael. To me, it's the start of that murky, oddly mean-spirited tone that persisted into season 8.
Solidify everybody’s fears…?
Ferrell’s a pretty unfunny guy, with practically nothing but junk in his resume. His character here was all over the place in his few episodes, so if there were any plans to keep him, who knows what might have been. A good episode though, and a good review
It’s out of character for Jim to be so reluctant in defending the women of the office
Chris, thank you for the great video. I’ve watched all of your field guides and have enjoyed them all very much. In this Field Guide, I get the vibe that you’re disinterested and merely reading from your script - I get you always have a script. But the pace of your speech pattern is so fast it is unusual. I believe it is due to the lousy episode and not you. Am I correct?
Naw I was actually sick when I went to record this one.
I never really cared for Ferrell And when He was shoe-horned into the office I Totally lost my enthusiasm for Will Ferrell, He was Doggy poo
I am not sure why people, male or female, be insulted by this statements of sexism.
This is a show. Deangelo is sexist, but he is a fictional character. Why would people be insulted by these deeper meaning? This is a deeper meaning of a show. It is not real life. Yes, sexist can exist both ways in real life. Doesn't matter here.
Lower the mic lol
When Jim said that he liked Dangelo because he was good at his job, I knew that could never trust Jim again
You do not really help against the Pam hate when you put stuff like "Thanks Mom" after a valid point of hers.
I'm jewish I don't believe in Ascended Lady Master Nada
For me the Office fell apart when Davis Wallace was fired. When the lady with the dogs and the tall guy (Gabe) came in… I did loose interest
I have an observation/hypothesis on Ferrel's participation in the series as Deangelo, and this episode gives me the opportunity to point it. First, personally, as long as it's not too prominent and doesn't affect objectively the panorama for anyone (and fortunately most of the time it really doesn't), I couldn't care less about what we are used to call nowadays "sexism" or any "ism". They can say what they want, but we all have bias. And most of them are stupid. It's not the subject the turn off here.
This episode is hard to like because the subject of sexism and it's potential negative density are not adequately deflated through efficient jokes at all, but through a sort of undercooked absurd humour, rushed. Will Ferrell is a funny man when left sufficient space to create characters, improvise actions, dialogues and reactions, as we can see in his interviews with Conan, Letterman, etc. But when corseted into a "fully written character", like in his movies or right here with Deangelo Vickers, he seems to lost an important part of his ability for comedy. In this episode this fully formed character creates a tension bubble with this plot about sexism that never really explodes in it's totality, but when Ferrel returns as a mumbling and completely incoherent mess from the hospital he makes 2 actors break their characters ON camera.
The show he puts as a front to hide his "nothingess" is itself nothing, in a bad way. Just when Ferrel stops being completely Deangelo he becomes a show, someone who draws the attention of the staff.
While this may make sense plot-wise for the writers, we are left with an episode lead mostly by a very bland character, whose actor only can let his authentic comedic qualities shine in the last 20 seconds or so, never to be seen again.
Because of that I think Ferrel was the wrong actor for this role. Someone like Jim Carrey would have been excellent.
Nerd
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Farrell was great and only Hope to keep the show going without Michael Scott.
this whole yt video is just whining