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Fun fact: The restaurant was not TGIF's but it was based on them. As a result of this movie, they stopped requiring their servers to wear blings. Also, Swingline did not make red staplers. The props department painted it them selves, then Swingline got so many requests for red staplers they started offering them in that color.
@@Jeff_Lichtman lol. Nope. It was at a Social Service office where my cubicle was at a corner where there were a lot of people traffic passing through.
This movie came out the year I started my own career in software development. Although I didn't ( and still don't ) work on business software, there's still so much about how white collar business operates, how middle management works ( even though I'm middle management myself these days ) and the general stupidity of the day-to-day of corporate/office operations that rings true in this movie. I think everybody who works in an office environment can find something relate to. And I think that's the genius of this movie. It basically tells every depressed, disenfranchised, overworked and under appreciated office-drone "I see you." And every one of those poor souls who watches the move feels as if they are seen.
It’s crazy that this movie was a flop at the theatres and now it’s become a cult classic. It’s also very relatable because I have worked in an office before and that’s what it was like.
It was deliberately and intentionally quietly distributed by a major studio in order to avoid antagonizing (lawsuits, etc.) the corporate entities that were parodied. That’s Showbiz………self sabotage at it’s finest.
@@diarrheagondolano amount of marketing was going to save this at the box office. Way too many hits came out that year. It’s like every time someone says “mArKetiNg rUiNeD LaSt aCtiOn hErO” completely ignoring that it was released along with a dinosaur movie that cleaned up at the box office for a year. Sometimes good movies just have the bad luck of being made and released at the same time as monster hits.
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@@mblackwl Me as well, especially the episode where he imagined his life going down the tube, sitting on the window sill and he just falls out then he wakes up from a daydream, LOLOLOL
The guy that played Jennifer Aniston’s boss, the one that kept talking about her flair, is Mike Judge, who came up with Beavis & Butthead, this movie, ‘Idiocracy’, and ‘King of the Hill’. The character of Milton was in shorts back when Beavis & Butthead were super popular, and was a big inspiration for the film’s storyline. Also, I was working in an office when this movie came out in theaters, and while it’s an exaggeration of the office experience, it hit much closer to home than I expected.
I work in IT and it is universally accepted that EVERYONE hates printers. Hardware, software, drivers...printers are the worst. Also, just get older. The grunting and groaning occurs organically.
The thing about printers is that the printer itself - at the very least, in a home use sense - is a loss leader that drives ink sales. The cartridges contain a dismally small quantity of ink, and the method by which the printer does 'head cleaning' is designed to be wasteful. And - here's the real fun - HP is currently the defendent in a class-action lawsuit because they designed their "all in one" printer/scanner/fax/copiers so that those functions that would not require the use of ink - like scanning documents or sending faxes - are disabled when ink levels are low.
Possibly the worst enemy, many years ago, was the fax machine. Those evil devices were only created to infuriate and tempt otherwise normal people to destroy them. A mechanical test of willpower.
THe number one reason I love this movie: Lawrence I know that guy. I've drank with that guy, I've gotten stoned with that guy, I've hunted and fished with that guy . . . Hell, I probably helped him hang the drywall up at the new McDonalds
This movie has a personal connection for me. In January 1999 I saw this in the theater on a Saturday night with my wife. I had been in my first official office/cubicle job six months as an engineer. The Monday morning after seeing this movie I was downsized. I walked out of the back of the building, through the snow covered parking lot, with all my things in a box. The corporate helicopter took off next to the lot and flew right over me. It proceeded to kick up all the sand put down on the freshly packed snow so that I was pelted from every angle. At that moment I remembered Initech burning down on that screen and dreamed of having a stinger surface to air missile. Great memories.
In a former life as a junior at a media company, we were required - in the days of physical tape media - to make regular use of tape decks. One of those decks, in that particular office, was the most temperamental, devious PoS's that ever rolled off a production line. The spool controls were permanently 3-4 frames off, half the buttons worked 45% of the time, and it had a habit of chewing up DigiBetas at the worst possible moment. It was Satan's own tape deck. When the day came that we transitioned to fully digital workflows, and all the other decks were respectfully mothballed, that particular tape deck was rolled out to the car park and laid waste to in a pure, cathartic homage to the printer scene in this masterpiece. It felt great.
Poor Milton, he tolerated constantly being shifted about, but his last straw was having his beloved swingline stapler stolen. You can't blame him for snapping. 💔
The great Stephen Root (Milton) had to wear thick contact lenses to counteract the visual corrections of the huge (farsightedness) glasses he wore. He pretty much had a hard time with depth perception for all the filming of the movie.
When this came out people had ALMOST stopped giving me shit about my name. Eventually I embraced it as an icebreaker, but it was hard. This was the first movie I ever purchased on DVD. It was necessary. When this came out I was a few months into my first IT job and so many things about the office struck home. Too many bosses, possessed printers, shocks from every metal surface.
PC Load Letter: It's the copier asking you to load letter-size paper into the paper cassette. The poor machine was asking for help and they murdered it.
I worked as a welder, and I've known so many guys like the construction worker. Also, I agree. Saying "It looks like someone has a case of the Mondays." would get your ass kicked.
I once said to a guy I was working construction with that it looked like he had a case of the Tuesdays. He kicked my ass so evidently this applies to multiple days of the week.
Back around the time this movie came out, I was working in an office with a group of people and we actually would occasionally watch stuff together in the conference room at lunch. One of the things we’d watch was this movie- it became a staple of ours and it never got old. That same year, our company merged with another, and a consulting group was brought in to determine what would happen to us. Literally everything that happened here happened to us - from having to justify our jobs, to new bosses to getting canned, etc. We couldn’t help but laugh at the parallels lol. Keep up the good work - you rock 😊
For those of us who have ever worked in a cube farm, this movie is so incredibly relatable. I worked in an office job for a while with a really fun boss, who also loved this movie. I had bought a red Swingline stapler that I had at my desk (Swingline didn't make one, but the movie guys needed something that would stand out, so they painted one red. After the movie came out, people started calling Swingline and asking where to get the red stapler because it wasn't listed. For a bit they told people no, they don't make a red one. Then someone said maybe we should. So they did, and it's their best seller.) and every so often he'd wander by and pick it up, to which my response was always (in my best Milton mumble) "I believe you have my stapler". Not the most exciting or witty of interactions, but when you're in a cube farm anything even remotely humorous like that is a much needed relief. The guy who played Milton is really good. He was also in Dodgeball, as the obscure sports fan, which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it.
I had a friend who had a VCR that would not eject this movie. Hit the button and it would not do anything. This movie was in his VCR for a year. He bought another VCR and set the broken one next to his movie collection. Just called it a big tape case. When he wanted to watch the movie he hooked up the VCR.
Notice the complex he lives in, "Morningwood Apartments." That's Mike Judge humor through and through. BTW, everyone needs to see his show "Silicon Valley" through at least once. It's one of the funniest TV shows of all time and yet nobody talks about it.
Yours seems to be the only comment here that mentions Silicon Valley. Criminally underrated. I know Jen doesn't watch too many TV shows on the channel (maybe only Firefly?), but I think she would love that show.
@@RobbHollen I get the feeling it's being systematically silenced, for whatever reason. It's a six-season HBO show with a ton of critical acclaim and cameos, but somehow never shows up anywhere.
Before emigrating from the US, my wife worked in offices like the one ine the movie. She loved this movie, and got herself a red Swingline stapler which bears the quote "If they take my stapler, I'll set the building on fire".
I love this movie. It's not going to ever make the #1 spot on any list, but it is definitely one of my faves, having worked in IT since 1992. One totally unbelievable aspect of it though is that there is no way that a tech worker working on Y2K would have been fired in 1999. Businesses all waited until late 2000 for that.
Mike Judge, the creator, was also in this movie. He played Joanna's boss. Lumberg's "That'd be great" is one of my favorite classic memes, that used to be all over the internet.
A few items of interest here, Mike Judge who wrote and directed this is also the manager that tells Jennifer she needs to wear more flair, Mike is also the creator of Beavis and Butthead as well as King of the Hill. Mike is from Texas and this Movie was filmed in Austin Texas. T.G.I.Fridays, a restaurant chain in the U.S. consulted their employees about their feeling on "flair" after this movie came out and no longer required them to wear it. Peter (Ron Livingston) also played Lt Nix in The Band of Brothers.
I love this movie. I don't have an office job, I work in a bottling plant and I have management that takes two hours to do 20 minutes worth of paperwork because they barely read at high school level. Oh and they can barely do basic math which can lead to days of having an extra 10,000 gallons to bottle or come up short 15,000 gallons. Oh and I have a sanitation supervisor that got fired from his last job. Knows nothing about this job but tries to tell me how to do my job that I've been doing for 18 years.
fun fact: in the online spaceships game Eve Online there was a player named Michael Bolton III. He was a commentator during one of the game's big tournaments, and during that tournament one of the servers crashed and died during a match... so the game company and MB3 recreated the printer scene. I really wish they had left the clip on their youtube channel, it was hilarious to watch. he even physically punched the server with his bare fists, just like Mike.
I have probably watched this 20 times, and I laugh every time. His interviews with the two 'Bob' consultants is my favorite part. Second place is when they assassinate the Fax machine. Oh, I have copies of blank TPS reports (easy to find online) at the top of my in-boxes in my office. That has raised a few eyebrows.
Because of demand for red Swingline staplers after this film, Swingline started producing them which they didn't before. I ordered one on Ebay in the early 2000's for my desk at work.
I spent 10 years working IT for one of the biggest online travel company and when this movie was release. It hit the corporate world straight in the nose whilst we laugh/cried at this movie. It struck a very strong nerve with everyone that has ever worked an office job!! I love this movie!
Joanna's boss is played by Mike Judge, who among other things, voiced Hank Hill in "King of the Hill." I always liked how he doesn't sound exactly like Hank, but you get little hints of Hank when you listen to him.
The satire in this movie is SO spot on. Mike Judge at his best imo. There's also so many little moments in this that I think are so small but hilarious like the tongue wag you noticed at 19:11. I also love that the answering machine shakes when she says she's cheating on him. Cuz obviously its not going to actually do that so you know that specifically rigged that to shake just to emphasize the nastiness of his ex and it makes me laugh every time. And maybe my favorite is 13:49 when Milton is watching Lumburgh talk and you get that close up of his lips voicing "stapler". Cracks me up every time.
They don't know it, but they based this movie on me. That montage scene is filled with things I literally did when I stopped caring at my corporate job (except for the cleaning fish part). When I saw this movie, I loved it, but I was also freaked out by how similar that scene was to my shenanigans.
This movie is just so much better to anyone who has ever worked in an office. lots of stuff is lost on others even if they find it funny, but this is just how offices work and it was brilliant
Back in the 90s all they had was black staplers. When people watched this movie and seen the red stapler, everyone wanted a red stapler. No one had red staplers at that time. After this movie years later they came out with different color staplers. I was lucky to see this in the theaters. In 2006 I got to meet Jennifer Aniston. She was a really nice person
This movie is hilarious for workers but I think more bosses should watch it. Employers should really understand that if you don’t appreciate your workers, they will work just hard enough to not get fired. Rockin it Jen. You can relate so well.
When I was on a military deployment, this was our favorite movie. My captain even had a red Swingline stapler. This sort of thing in the movie happens in every big structure of an operation, military or civilian.
omg, i had an existential crisis at the early age of 12 when i was asked, ‘what would you do with millions dollars?’ now i’m 40, and i would want rescue and comfortably house all the senior animals that were not adopted… if i had millions of dollars.
32:45 - everybody always misses that Lumbergh's door was unlocked. Peter could have just opened it and get the envelope back if he hadn't assumed the door was locked...
Fun fact: Swingline started selling red staplers after they had so many inquiries from customers after seeing this movie. In the movie, the stapler had to be red because Milton's (Stephen Root) glasses were so thick he couldn't differentiate the stapler from other items on his desk.
14:09 the iconic red stapler - a prop made for the movie, not a product you could buy - became such a symbol that Swingline actually started making them! (They apparently got so many requests for it that they decided “why not?”.)
😂 Love this movie. I still quote this a lot with my friends. Whenever we can't pronounce something it's "Ny.. Nyeen - not gonna work here any more" and, of course, "That'd be greaaat"
I worked in the building used for the exterior shots of Initech and then later worked next door to the restaurant used for the interior shots of Chotchkie's.
I also grew up in the 90s and worked as a server. We have so much in common. The Chotchkie's manager was played by Mike Judge, the writer/director. I love that guy.
Writer /Director Mike Judge was Jennifer's boss(hair) she flipped off AND the nodding office worker(no hair) during the Bob's introduction scene -- He also wrote/directed King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead cartoon. So talented!
Fun movie, Not suprising Milton snapped and burned down the building. He atleat did it without anyone getting hurt. However I hope Milton never takes vengeance too far one day. 😅 After all he did mumble to himself the possibly of poisoning people with strychnine in the guacamole for simply getting bad drink service on the beach ⛱️
My wife used to work for a pretty good speakers bureau. They had movie days every Friday. My wife brought this one in, and everyone fell in love with it. They watched it once a month. The owners decided to retire and sold the company to the top two sales pigs. One was tall and thin, the other was short and stocky. From that point on they were known as The Bobs 🤣😂🤣
My friend and I duplicated the scene with the beating up the printer with an old vcr that ate tapes, we had a wooden baseball bat and everything, played the song in the background, and when I hit the bat to the device my hand would wring, LOL some part of the vcr was made of hard steel or something, great reaction, laughed my a off throughout! Good Job!
There was a time when a Swingline stapler was one of my prized desk accessories. One only has to use some crumby brand of stapler a few times to unironically covet a quality item like a Swingline.
The restaurant manager, Stan, is played by Mike Judge (the writer/director of this movie). He is also the creator and voices behind Beavis And Butthead, and King Of The Hill.
The manager from the Chotchkie's restaurant where Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) worked is the voice of Bevis and Butthead, Hanks from King of the Hill and also was the director of this movie, Mike Judge.
Missed this when it first came out, but then worked in an office where a co-worker insisted I watch it, but I suspect that's how a lot of people came across it.
This movie (and Apollo 13) kinda mean a lot to me…. Office Space wasn’t so well known when it first came out, but I watched it over and over and showed it to all my office coworkers. Everybody loved it. It really hit home. ‘No talent ass clown’ became a favorite insult. All through school growing up I got straight ‘A’s in all AP classes, with an eye towards becoming an astronaut, a childhood dream ever since my Grandma gave me the second volume of the ‘Peanuts SuperBook Of Questions And Answers’ on Space. I was all set to go into the Naval Academy, they had my spot reserved, when I decided I didn’t want to give up that much control of my life. Fast forward 7 years and I started working in an Office at Paramount Pictures, which I’ve talked about in other reaction comments. This movie is EXACTLY like my 13 years working in offices. Right down to the cheating gf. In the cubicles, we all always talked about what we would do if we had a million dollars. I always said I’d only need $500,000 to retire. Fast forward to 2016, I sold my house and moved to Oregon with $250,000 in my pocket. Bought two houses. Today I’m worth $500k, and don’t do anything I don’t want to. Don’t get me wrong, I probably work harder today than I ever did in an office, gardening and raising animals, but to people outside my life who don’t know me, it looks like I don’t do anything. And I love every minute of it. Loved your reaction. Enjoy watching your channel. Your reactions are the best. You’re just so smart and aware. 🙂
Fun fact: before this movie, Swingline didn’t make a red stapler. The props department made it bright red to make it stand out. After this movie, Swingline made that stapler model available in bright red.
Just so everyone knows, Jennifer Annistons boss at the restraunt who yelled at her for not wearing enough flair is actually Mike Judge himself the voice of "Dale Gribble" in "King of the hill" and the creator of this movie.
Jennifer Anistons boss is played by Mike Judge. Swingline didn’t make a red stapler when the movie came out but after it came out there was a huge demand for one so they started making it.
Jen, idk if you happened to notice that this movie is made from same guy as Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and Idiocracy... I absolutely love everything he does
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Would you have taken the money at the end like Milton?!
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If I were treated like him, well..., let me not confirm or deny 😉
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@@e.d.2096 I like the salt on my glass with Tequila though.
Fun fact: The restaurant was not TGIF's but it was based on them. As a result of this movie, they stopped requiring their servers to wear blings.
Also, Swingline did not make red staplers. The props department painted it them selves, then Swingline got so many requests for red staplers they started offering them in that color.
I had one about 15 years ago, but someone stole it at my job.
@@rubensalvador9422 Did you set the building on fire?
@@Jeff_Lichtman lol. Nope. It was at a Social Service office where my cubicle was at a corner where there were a lot of people traffic passing through.
@@rubensalvador9422bastard from a basket!! 😅
Nobody likes "fun facts."
“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.” This has become my motto.
Is that related to ur name being Logan?
@@_BangDroid_ just everything.
You and me both. I'll even give that piece of advice to others when it fits.
This movie came out the year I started my own career in software development. Although I didn't ( and still don't ) work on business software, there's still so much about how white collar business operates, how middle management works ( even though I'm middle management myself these days ) and the general stupidity of the day-to-day of corporate/office operations that rings true in this movie. I think everybody who works in an office environment can find something relate to.
And I think that's the genius of this movie. It basically tells every depressed, disenfranchised, overworked and under appreciated office-drone "I see you." And every one of those poor souls who watches the move feels as if they are seen.
I think Mike Judge is one of America’s finest satirists. This movie & Idiocracy are brilliant.
I agree, and I'd like to add King of the Hill. Even though King of the Hill is a tv show.
And he cameo'd in this movie of course, as the manager of Chotchkies....
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Idiocracy is a true gem!
don;'t forget about beavis and butthead.
It’s crazy that this movie was a flop at the theatres and now it’s become a cult classic. It’s also very relatable because I have worked in an office before and that’s what it was like.
It was poorly marketed. I'd never even heard of it until well after it was on DVD.
Princess Bride flopped too.
It was deliberately and intentionally quietly distributed by a major studio in order to avoid antagonizing (lawsuits, etc.) the corporate entities that were parodied. That’s Showbiz………self sabotage at it’s finest.
Look at some of the other movies that came out in 99 as good as this is it didn't stand a chance against fight club and the matrix
@@diarrheagondolano amount of marketing was going to save this at the box office. Way too many hits came out that year. It’s like every time someone says “mArKetiNg rUiNeD LaSt aCtiOn hErO” completely ignoring that it was released along with a dinosaur movie that cleaned up at the box office for a year. Sometimes good movies just have the bad luck of being made and released at the same time as monster hits.
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Not quite right. Gary Cole manages to say "what's happening" so that it can't be mistaken for a question.
The meeting with the Bobs is one of the most satisfying scenes from any movie.
Milton is played by Stephen Root. Amazing and prolific character actor. Once you start looking into his filmography you realise he is everywhere!
He's even animated, King of the Hill.
He'll always be Jimmy James to me.
@@mblackwl Me as well, especially the episode where he imagined his life going down the tube, sitting on the window sill and he just falls out then he wakes up from a daydream, LOLOLOL
@@mblackwl God, I loved that charaacter so much. The man so nice they named him twice
I accidentally insulted Steven Root when I was working on ************ (NDA), and didn't recognize him. He was a little miffed.
The guy that played Jennifer Aniston’s boss, the one that kept talking about her flair, is Mike Judge, who came up with Beavis & Butthead, this movie, ‘Idiocracy’, and ‘King of the Hill’. The character of Milton was in shorts back when Beavis & Butthead were super popular, and was a big inspiration for the film’s storyline.
Also, I was working in an office when this movie came out in theaters, and while it’s an exaggeration of the office experience, it hit much closer to home than I expected.
I love that the real Michael Bolton good naturedly parodied this movie as his namesake in a Funny or Die sketch.
Yeah, he, he’s, he’s pretty, he’s pretty good, I guess.
I work in IT and it is universally accepted that EVERYONE hates printers. Hardware, software, drivers...printers are the worst. Also, just get older. The grunting and groaning occurs organically.
The thing about printers is that the printer itself - at the very least, in a home use sense - is a loss leader that drives ink sales. The cartridges contain a dismally small quantity of ink, and the method by which the printer does 'head cleaning' is designed to be wasteful.
And - here's the real fun - HP is currently the defendent in a class-action lawsuit because they designed their "all in one" printer/scanner/fax/copiers so that those functions that would not require the use of ink - like scanning documents or sending faxes - are disabled when ink levels are low.
Possibly the worst enemy, many years ago, was the fax machine. Those evil devices were only created to infuriate and tempt otherwise normal people to destroy them. A mechanical test of willpower.
Jen knowing "damn it feels good to be a gangsta" made my day. This movie's soundtrack is legendary.
I thought it was from the Deadpool movie.
THe number one reason I love this movie: Lawrence
I know that guy. I've drank with that guy, I've gotten stoned with that guy, I've hunted and fished with that guy . . . Hell, I probably helped him hang the drywall up at the new McDonalds
Humble and self aware. Just a great guy to be around.
Fun Fact: Mike Judge himself plays Joanna's manager at Chotski's
Oh nice, didn't know that was him!
This movie has a personal connection for me. In January 1999 I saw this in the theater on a Saturday night with my wife. I had been in my first official office/cubicle job six months as an engineer.
The Monday morning after seeing this movie I was downsized. I walked out of the back of the building, through the snow covered parking lot, with all my things in a box. The corporate helicopter took off next to the lot and flew right over me. It proceeded to kick up all the sand put down on the freshly packed snow so that I was pelted from every angle.
At that moment I remembered Initech burning down on that screen and dreamed of having a stinger surface to air missile.
Great memories.
In a former life as a junior at a media company, we were required - in the days of physical tape media - to make regular use of tape decks. One of those decks, in that particular office, was the most temperamental, devious PoS's that ever rolled off a production line. The spool controls were permanently 3-4 frames off, half the buttons worked 45% of the time, and it had a habit of chewing up DigiBetas at the worst possible moment. It was Satan's own tape deck.
When the day came that we transitioned to fully digital workflows, and all the other decks were respectfully mothballed, that particular tape deck was rolled out to the car park and laid waste to in a pure, cathartic homage to the printer scene in this masterpiece.
It felt great.
'Superman III' is a comedy starring Richard Pryor. Lots of 🤣🤣🤣.
Poor Milton, he tolerated constantly being shifted about, but his last straw was having his beloved swingline stapler stolen. You can't blame him for snapping. 💔
The great Stephen Root (Milton) had to wear thick contact lenses to counteract the visual corrections of the huge (farsightedness) glasses he wore. He pretty much had a hard time with depth perception for all the filming of the movie.
@@jameshenner5831Stephen Root is awesome. Very underrated actor IMO. Loved him as Jimmy James on Newsradio.
I feel like Milton would benefit from watching some Japanese movies or something, he really needs to understand the power of Zen
He seems to be the only one who is actually hard at work in the entire office.
When this came out people had ALMOST stopped giving me shit about my name. Eventually I embraced it as an icebreaker, but it was hard.
This was the first movie I ever purchased on DVD. It was necessary. When this came out I was a few months into my first IT job and so many things about the office struck home. Too many bosses, possessed printers, shocks from every metal surface.
When it comes to laughs, this film will be your sole provider. ♥👍
PC Load Letter: It's the copier asking you to load letter-size paper into the paper cassette. The poor machine was asking for help and they murdered it.
I worked as a welder, and I've known so many guys like the construction worker. Also, I agree. Saying "It looks like someone has a case of the Mondays." would get your ass kicked.
I once said to a guy I was working construction with that it looked like he had a case of the Tuesdays. He kicked my ass so evidently this applies to multiple days of the week.
You can't truly hate printers until you've worked in IT.
Back around the time this movie came out, I was working in an office with a group of people and we actually would occasionally watch stuff together in the conference room at lunch. One of the things we’d watch was this movie- it became a staple of ours and it never got old.
That same year, our company merged with another, and a consulting group was brought in to determine what would happen to us. Literally everything that happened here happened to us - from having to justify our jobs, to new bosses to getting canned, etc. We couldn’t help but laugh at the parallels lol.
Keep up the good work - you rock 😊
For those of us who have ever worked in a cube farm, this movie is so incredibly relatable.
I worked in an office job for a while with a really fun boss, who also loved this movie. I had bought a red Swingline stapler that I had at my desk (Swingline didn't make one, but the movie guys needed something that would stand out, so they painted one red. After the movie came out, people started calling Swingline and asking where to get the red stapler because it wasn't listed. For a bit they told people no, they don't make a red one. Then someone said maybe we should. So they did, and it's their best seller.) and every so often he'd wander by and pick it up, to which my response was always (in my best Milton mumble) "I believe you have my stapler". Not the most exciting or witty of interactions, but when you're in a cube farm anything even remotely humorous like that is a much needed relief.
The guy who played Milton is really good. He was also in Dodgeball, as the obscure sports fan, which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it.
I had a friend who had a VCR that would not eject this movie. Hit the button and it would not do anything. This movie was in his VCR for a year. He bought another VCR and set the broken one next to his movie collection. Just called it a big tape case. When he wanted to watch the movie he hooked up the VCR.
A shocker, all of them are over 50 now, the future they talked about is now. Also, PC Load Letter means Paper Cassette, load letter sized paper.
My favorite little joke about this movie is that Peter's apartment complex is named "Morningwood". Mike Judge is cool.
23:49 I love how the door is just unlocked. Likely Peter never even thought to try when he wanted to retrieve the envelope. 🤣
Right?! 😂
It's funny because it's relatable to most in some way
"Hey, Peter...watch out for the cornhole, bud."
LAWRENCE IS A LEGEND!
Notice the complex he lives in, "Morningwood Apartments." That's Mike Judge humor through and through. BTW, everyone needs to see his show "Silicon Valley" through at least once. It's one of the funniest TV shows of all time and yet nobody talks about it.
Yours seems to be the only comment here that mentions Silicon Valley. Criminally underrated. I know Jen doesn't watch too many TV shows on the channel (maybe only Firefly?), but I think she would love that show.
@@RobbHollen I get the feeling it's being systematically silenced, for whatever reason. It's a six-season HBO show with a ton of critical acclaim and cameos, but somehow never shows up anywhere.
Where's your flair, Jen?! My friends and I still quote this movie regularly. "I did nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be."
Before emigrating from the US, my wife worked in offices like the one ine the movie. She loved this movie, and got herself a red Swingline stapler which bears the quote "If they take my stapler, I'll set the building on fire".
I love this movie. It's not going to ever make the #1 spot on any list, but it is definitely one of my faves, having worked in IT since 1992. One totally unbelievable aspect of it though is that there is no way that a tech worker working on Y2K would have been fired in 1999. Businesses all waited until late 2000 for that.
In case you did not know, the creator, writer and director of this movie, Mike Judge, played the part of Aniston's boss that she flipped off.
You are smashing it right now Jen, banger after banger. Best thing about this movie is HOW HARD the gangsta rap goes.
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A Ghetto Boys fan no less.
Mike Judge, the creator, was also in this movie. He played Joanna's boss.
Lumberg's "That'd be great" is one of my favorite classic memes, that used to be all over the internet.
A few items of interest here, Mike Judge who wrote and directed this is also the manager that tells Jennifer she needs to wear more flair, Mike is also the creator of Beavis and Butthead as well as King of the Hill. Mike is from Texas and this Movie was filmed in Austin Texas. T.G.I.Fridays, a restaurant chain in the U.S. consulted their employees about their feeling on "flair" after this movie came out and no longer required them to wear it. Peter (Ron Livingston) also played Lt Nix in The Band of Brothers.
I love this movie. I don't have an office job, I work in a bottling plant and I have management that takes two hours to do 20 minutes worth of paperwork because they barely read at high school level. Oh and they can barely do basic math which can lead to days of having an extra 10,000 gallons to bottle or come up short 15,000 gallons. Oh and I have a sanitation supervisor that got fired from his last job. Knows nothing about this job but tries to tell me how to do my job that I've been doing for 18 years.
fun fact: in the online spaceships game Eve Online there was a player named Michael Bolton III. He was a commentator during one of the game's big tournaments, and during that tournament one of the servers crashed and died during a match... so the game company and MB3 recreated the printer scene. I really wish they had left the clip on their youtube channel, it was hilarious to watch. he even physically punched the server with his bare fists, just like Mike.
I have probably watched this 20 times, and I laugh every time. His interviews with the two 'Bob' consultants is my favorite part. Second place is when they assassinate the Fax machine.
Oh, I have copies of blank TPS reports (easy to find online) at the top of my in-boxes in my office. That has raised a few eyebrows.
We're gonna need those TPS's filed properly, asap. ☕
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@@mr.a8315 Yes Sir, I will submit them through the porcelain receptacle.
@@PE4Doers 😅👍
Because of demand for red Swingline staplers after this film, Swingline started producing them which they didn't before. I ordered one on Ebay in the early 2000's for my desk at work.
I spent 10 years working IT for one of the biggest online travel company and when this movie was release. It hit the corporate world straight in the nose whilst we laugh/cried at this movie. It struck a very strong nerve with everyone that has ever worked an office job!! I love this movie!
Joanna's boss is played by Mike Judge, who among other things, voiced Hank Hill in "King of the Hill." I always liked how he doesn't sound exactly like Hank, but you get little hints of Hank when you listen to him.
The satire in this movie is SO spot on. Mike Judge at his best imo. There's also so many little moments in this that I think are so small but hilarious like the tongue wag you noticed at 19:11. I also love that the answering machine shakes when she says she's cheating on him. Cuz obviously its not going to actually do that so you know that specifically rigged that to shake just to emphasize the nastiness of his ex and it makes me laugh every time. And maybe my favorite is 13:49 when Milton is watching Lumburgh talk and you get that close up of his lips voicing "stapler". Cracks me up every time.
A cheap one could shake and move from a loud noise
They don't know it, but they based this movie on me. That montage scene is filled with things I literally did when I stopped caring at my corporate job (except for the cleaning fish part). When I saw this movie, I loved it, but I was also freaked out by how similar that scene was to my shenanigans.
The soundtrack was The Geto Boys from Houston. They were big in the south in the 90's.
'Still'
The writer/director Mike Judge cameo is the best! He really is a funny guy, Beavis.
This movie is just so much better to anyone who has ever worked in an office. lots of stuff is lost on others even if they find it funny, but this is just how offices work and it was brilliant
Back in the 90s all they had was black staplers. When people watched this movie and seen the red stapler, everyone wanted a red stapler. No one had red staplers at that time. After this movie years later they came out with different color staplers. I was lucky to see this in the theaters. In 2006 I got to meet Jennifer Aniston. She was a really nice person
This movie is hilarious for workers but I think more bosses should watch it. Employers should really understand that if you don’t appreciate your workers, they will work just hard enough to not get fired. Rockin it Jen. You can relate so well.
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When Jen called him a straight shooter, those of us who know every line of dialog:
🥹 She said the thing!
Yes! But that line wasn't included for Jen to react to, so disappointing.
I worked in an office like that from the mid 90's to the mid 2000's and unfortunately it's extremely relatable.
I think you now understand why everyone around my age (40s) basically knows every line of this movie by heart!
When I was on a military deployment, this was our favorite movie. My captain even had a red Swingline stapler. This sort of thing in the movie happens in every big structure of an operation, military or civilian.
omg, i had an existential crisis at the early age of 12 when i was asked, ‘what would you do with millions dollars?’
now i’m 40, and i would want rescue and comfortably house all the senior animals that were not adopted… if i had millions of dollars.
"This is a f**k!"
One of my most favorite movie lines ever. And so useful for many occasions.
"I haven't seen that yet but I want to."
Narrator: Jen would later come to regret that decision.
So happy for this reaction. JEN WITH THE CLUTCH SHOT FROM HALF COURT!!! Nothing but net Jen.
Love the premise of him getting hypnotized for a short period to relax but then shrink dies and he stays hypnotized forever!! Way to live!!
32:45 - everybody always misses that Lumbergh's door was unlocked. Peter could have just opened it and get the envelope back if he hadn't assumed the door was locked...
This movie is over 20 years old and it's still riotously funny, which sadly means that workplaces haven't changed at all
They are early 30's or late 20's because he said you gave them your best years of your life (your mid-20's gone)
Fun fact: Swingline started selling red staplers after they had so many inquiries from customers after seeing this movie. In the movie, the stapler had to be red because Milton's (Stephen Root) glasses were so thick he couldn't differentiate the stapler from other items on his desk.
14:09 the iconic red stapler - a prop made for the movie, not a product you could buy - became such a symbol that Swingline actually started making them! (They apparently got so many requests for it that they decided “why not?”.)
This movie is a straight up classic! I never get tired of watching it. It's funny because it's so relatable.
I like how his boss asks how everything is going but never actually pauses long enough for him to answer.
The editing on the printer destruction scene cracks me up every fucking time, it’s just so good. They had a vision, and they executed it perfectly.
😂 Love this movie. I still quote this a lot with my friends. Whenever we can't pronounce something it's "Ny.. Nyeen - not gonna work here any more" and, of course, "That'd be greaaat"
I worked in the building used for the exterior shots of Initech and then later worked next door to the restaurant used for the interior shots of Chotchkie's.
I also grew up in the 90s and worked as a server. We have so much in common.
The Chotchkie's manager was played by Mike Judge, the writer/director. I love that guy.
One of my all time favorite movies. Everyone can identify with this. Great reaction.
I love this one!
Another Mike Judge classic is "Idiocracy", I highly recommend it!
Idiocracy is depressing at this point, we're literally living that right now, fricken Trumpomania. Next RNC will definitely have wrestling or UFC
Writer /Director Mike Judge was Jennifer's boss(hair) she flipped off AND the nodding office worker(no hair) during the Bob's introduction scene -- He also wrote/directed King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead cartoon. So talented!
Fun movie, Not suprising Milton snapped and burned down the building. He atleat did it without anyone getting hurt. However I hope Milton never takes vengeance too far one day. 😅 After all he did mumble to himself the possibly of poisoning people with strychnine in the guacamole for simply getting bad drink service on the beach ⛱️
15:45 Guess what? Stan is played by Mike Judge, the genius behind the movie😀 And Idiocracy, Beavis and Butthead, and more!
I worked in an office in the 90s. It was actually theraputic watching them beat the crap out of that printer. LOL
My wife used to work for a pretty good speakers bureau. They had movie days every Friday. My wife brought this one in, and everyone fell in love with it. They watched it once a month. The owners decided to retire and sold the company to the top two sales pigs. One was tall and thin, the other was short and stocky. From that point on they were known as The Bobs 🤣😂🤣
One of the most underrated comedies ever. One of my favorites
My friend and I duplicated the scene with the beating up the printer with an old vcr that ate tapes, we had a wooden baseball bat and everything, played the song in the background, and when I hit the bat to the device my hand would wring, LOL some part of the vcr was made of hard steel or something, great reaction, laughed my a off throughout! Good Job!
There was a time when a Swingline stapler was one of my prized desk accessories. One only has to use some crumby brand of stapler a few times to unironically covet a quality item like a Swingline.
The restaurant manager, Stan, is played by Mike Judge (the writer/director of this movie). He is also the creator and voices behind Beavis And Butthead, and King Of The Hill.
somewhat of a sleeper hit that has become a classic. Great reaction Jen.
The manager from the Chotchkie's restaurant where Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) worked is the voice of Bevis and Butthead, Hanks from King of the Hill and also was the director of this movie, Mike Judge.
Missed this when it first came out, but then worked in an office where a co-worker insisted I watch it, but I suspect that's how a lot of people came across it.
OFFICE SPACE is the super bowl of Hollywood's best character actors
This movie (and Apollo 13) kinda mean a lot to me…. Office Space wasn’t so well known when it first came out, but I watched it over and over and showed it to all my office coworkers. Everybody loved it. It really hit home. ‘No talent ass clown’ became a favorite insult.
All through school growing up I got straight ‘A’s in all AP classes, with an eye towards becoming an astronaut, a childhood dream ever since my Grandma gave me the second volume of the ‘Peanuts SuperBook Of Questions And Answers’ on Space. I was all set to go into the Naval Academy, they had my spot reserved, when I decided I didn’t want to give up that much control of my life. Fast forward 7 years and I started working in an Office at Paramount Pictures, which I’ve talked about in other reaction comments. This movie is EXACTLY like my 13 years working in offices. Right down to the cheating gf. In the cubicles, we all always talked about what we would do if we had a million dollars. I always said I’d only need $500,000 to retire. Fast forward to 2016, I sold my house and moved to Oregon with $250,000 in my pocket. Bought two houses. Today I’m worth $500k, and don’t do anything I don’t want to. Don’t get me wrong, I probably work harder today than I ever did in an office, gardening and raising animals, but to people outside my life who don’t know me, it looks like I don’t do anything. And I love every minute of it.
Loved your reaction. Enjoy watching your channel. Your reactions are the best. You’re just so smart and aware. 🙂
For this time period it’s this movie and The Big Lebowski that really set the bar for the kind of humor that resonates with me. Love it. ✌️
This is my favorite documentary ever. Still quote it on a daily basis.
Fun fact: before this movie, Swingline didn’t make a red stapler. The props department made it bright red to make it stand out. After this movie, Swingline made that stapler model available in bright red.
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Just so everyone knows, Jennifer Annistons boss at the restraunt who yelled at her for not wearing enough flair is actually Mike Judge himself the voice of "Dale Gribble" in "King of the hill" and the creator of this movie.
Greatest workplace movie ever. Great reaction Jen.
Jennifer Anistons boss is played by Mike Judge.
Swingline didn’t make a red stapler when the movie came out but after it came out there was a huge demand for one so they started making it.
the director (Mike Judge) is also the creator of "Beavis & Butthead" ..... "Milton" is also one of his creations
"Take this job & shove it" was a song from along time ago, before you were born, along with a movie with the same name.
Jen, idk if you happened to notice that this movie is made from same guy as Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and Idiocracy... I absolutely love everything he does
The opening was shot at 635 in North Dallas. I used to make that commute. It was hell.
its incredible how timeless this movie is. to this day its so relevant