The Delivery - Deleted Scenes

Now that the recap is up, there are 3 deleted scenes to enjoy. I think the third one is the best.

Enjoy,

Suri (aka HDF)

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Caleb Boone
March 10th, 2010 22:45
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Gentlemen:

The Office is an awful show.

It is sarcastic.

It is sadistic.

All of its humor is at the expense of others.

Its fans apparently think sarcasm, sadism and deprecatory humor are sophisticated.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is an embarrassment to realize that there are those in the television audience who are enamoured of such unworthy humor.

There are many talented actors and actresses on this show who would do well elsewhere.

All fans of The Office should quit watching it and other television shows and movies which make fun of those less fortunate and less intelligent than they.
Sincerely yours,
Caleb Boone.
bob
March 11th, 2010 09:49
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Hey, Caleb! While I disagree with just about everything you said here, I’m really glad you took the time to voice your opinion. “The Office” IS one of those shows that is somewhat “polarizing.”I happen to be FROM Scranton, Pa, AND I think the show is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen on TV. On the other hand, my brother, who lives in Scranton, does NOT think it it worth watching.

I would really like it if you would point out specific instances where “The Office” is overly sarcastic, sadistic, or those offensive moments where the humor is at the expense of others. There are a FEW times that I thought the show crossed the line over to “cruel,” and a FEW times that I thought it was just plain “stupid.” But that’s gonna happen with ANY human interaction. I happen to dislike a LOT of the hit comedy movies that been released lately. I thought that “The Hangover” was WILDLY overrated. It had a few laughs, but overall it was poorly written and presented.

It’s good to hear from someone with an opposing opinion, expressed in a civil manner. It makes for a spirited debate, which can be entertaining and enlightening. I hope you post something here again, so we can “bang it out.” Like, for instance, an example of a “sadistic” scene. How did I miss that?

So, get back to us, Caleb. And when you do, please use the greeting “LADIES and gentlemen.” The “Life In The Office” website has a slight majority of females who are regular contributors.
Suri
March 11th, 2010 10:16
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Bob - you’re being too polite. If Caleb has such disdain for a television show, then why is he watching it? And if he’s not watching it, what is he basing his opinions on?

Furthermore, why is he taking the time to search for fan sites to post his negative comments on? Does he really think that he’s going to get us to change our minds about the show and stop watching it?

I have news for you Caleb; The Office is so popular because of it’s relatability. People like it because it gives them a chance to laugh at their own lives. And guess what, in real life people can be sarcastic and sadistic and that’s just the way the world is.

So while I sit here in the bathroom at my own wacky office typing out this comment on my blackberry, I’ll just take the time to flush Caleb’s opinions down the toilet before returning to my desk with my Dwight bobblehead and Office themed ball point pens with Michael Scott’s face on them. The kind with Michael quotes on the barrel that change when you click the pen. That’s right, I’m a fangirl and I’m proud of it!
Caleb Boone
March 11th, 2010 21:41
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Dear Suri and Bob:

I thank both of you for taking the time to read my letter and reply.

Suri, you are right. I have never watched more than a few seconds or a minute or two of the office here and there, whilst changing channels.

I agree with you: it would be ironic and contradictory for me to watch, in full, a show which I deplore.

That is precisely why I have never watched it. I do not want to be hoisted on my own petard.

However, Suri, I will now watch it for you. I will dissect the episode which will next be shown on my cable system, which should occur in about thirty minutes.

Suri, I note that you admit The Office is sarcastic and sadistic.

Bob, mark well Suri’s words in the third paragraph of her last letter. In that paragraph she admits the truth of my criticism.

A few preliminary comments before the next Office re-run begins.

Bob, in my experience, sarcasm and sadistic humour at others’ expense began in late Twentieth Century America with such publications as “Mad” magazine and “National Lampoon” magazine in the 1960s.

More recently, movies such as “Wayne’s World” have displayed the same humour. The newspaper cartoons Calvin and Hobbs and Garfield are of the same stripe.

These express not only sarcasm and sadism but also superiority over others. These pernicious sentiments go hand-in-hand.

The prevalence of these themes de-sensitizes us to them. Bob, I suggest that your senses may have been dulled to sarcasm, sadism and superiority by long and continuous exposure.

Suri, despite her zeal, had to admit I was right. Perhaps after further reflection she will agree with me fully and quit exposing her spirit over and over again to the barrage of sadism, sarcasm and superiority of The Office.

Now my analysis of the the episode.

The opening scene with the visitor in the topcoat was sadistic.

The outburst at the beach soliloquy was very sarcastic.

The transmission of the successorship appointment to the second banana was sarcastic.

The discussion of girls being pretty by the bald character was sadistic.

The discussion of going to New York to be with Jan and selling the condo was sarcastic.

The second banana’s discussion of a tryst with a blonde girl and her response was sarcastic.

All these characters are “Dilberts” of one kind or another: sarcasm and sadism by the bucketful.

Which reminds me: Dilbert and the Far Side are extremely sadistic and sarcastic cartoon strips. They are thought of as superior and intellectual. Of course they are not.

The discussion about hell with the hand exerciser and the Jack Bauer scene afterward were extremely sarcastic.

The scene with Janet at the counter was terrifically sarcastic. Also sadistic.

The discussion in the office with Janet was sarcastic and sadistic about those whom the main character symbolizes.

The second banana’s persona and that of the main character are Dilberts-to-the-tenth-power, if you will, which makes every word spoken by them bitterly sarcastic and sadistic toward/about the types of office workers they symbolize.

This indirect sarcastic approach to humour is thought of as subtle and therefore intellectual. Nothing could be more wrong.

The pep-talk by the second banana was sarcastic and sadistic.

The intelligence/dexterity interview was sarcastic and sadistic toward graduates from the lesser Ivy League Universities.

The Post-Jan-Kiss soliloquy was sarcastic.

The goodbye tape scene was very sarcastic.

The city-street-scene was sarcastic.

Thank you for your replies again, Suri and Bob.

Have a Dovely.

Sincerely yours,
Caleb Boone.
becky boone
March 12th, 2010 11:36
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I am Caleb’s sister and I think he’s wrong. I watch the office every night as a “bedtime story” I love everyone on the show.
I AM michael Scott.
I teach french and think my students are my friends, I love to joke around especially when they are taking a test, so I get him completely.
I only have one question.
If it’s based on the British show. why is Pam in labor at work? In England, you are not allowed to work after seven months of pregnancy. You go home with compensation.

Is it based loosley on the British version or has it continued on in popularity, and now they are just making stuff up?
bob
March 12th, 2010 12:27
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Becky, the very first episode of the American Office closely resembled the British original version. After that, it quickly became completely “American-ized,” which is why Pam would be in labor at work. “That’s what she said,” is the USA’s way of saying “Said the actress to the bishop.” (The UK double-entendre catchphrase)

There IS a French version of “The Office.” If you’re familiar with it, it would be fun to hear how the show is different from ours. (”Viva ALL la differences!” as Michael Scott would say.)

I wonder how they say “That’s what she said” in French?
suri
March 12th, 2010 12:34
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Becky - I just love you. This site gets better by the day. I watch The Office every night before I go to bed as well. Go hit your brother over the head with a bobblehead and tell him to lighten up. Better yet, lets throw him in the bailer. (Just kidding, I would never condone inflicting bodily harm on anyone just to get them to see my point of view.)

To answer your quetions, the first season had the most similarities to the British version of the show. Actually, I think the similarities ended after the first epidsode when the creators realized that if the show was going to make in the United States, they’d have to Yanky it up a bit.

In America, women work up until the last minute before giving birth and often return to work too soon afterwards. Myself, as well as many co-workers I’ve known over the years have been at work one day and then went into labor over night or early the next morning and gave birth the next day. My water broke on a Saturday morning, so at least I got to finish out a week.

I know other countries have better laws when it comes to pregnant women, but in a free enterprise like the USA; it’s every man for himslf.
suri
March 12th, 2010 12:35
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Bob beat me to it.
Robert
March 12th, 2010 13:58
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Suri, I might have “beat you to it,” but YOU had the much better answer about pregnancy in the workplace.

Ricky Gervais is paid $50,000 per episode as a “consultant.” He probably mentioned to the writers about the British system for maternity leave.

Also of interest is this: The Office has two female writers, Jen Celotta and Mindy Kaling. Neither of them have any children, so it was up to the GUYS to write from experience!
suri
March 12th, 2010 14:16
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I didn’t want to mention that “other” website, but Office Tally snagged an amazing Q & A session with the writers of The Delivery, Danny Chun and Charli Grandy. It actually answers some of the questions we had on the forums like: Who were those other guys demolishing the kitchen with Dwight. The answer is revealed to be his friend Rolph and Rolph’s new girlfriend. Lots of other interesting tidbits are revealed as well. Here’s the link:
http://www.officetally.com/the-office-the-delivery-qa
Caleb Boone
March 13th, 2010 09:59
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Dear Suri, Bob and Robert:

Apparently my comments have been ignored, in the wake of my sister Becky’s letter.

Bob, initially, you indicated the most interest in replying to what I might say about a specific episode.

So, Bob, what do you think?

I see Suri and Becky dancing off together into the sunset, oblivious to my comments.

Have a Dovely.

Sincerely yours,
Caleb Boone.
Donna
March 13th, 2010 10:25
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Suri, third one’s definitely the best! I was a bit intrigued by Ryan’s odd wardrobe this season, but now I am finding the whole scenario weird & boring. Hopefully, the writers will find a way to work Ryan/Kelly back into the series in an interesting way.
becky
March 13th, 2010 11:46
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All right, I need help I want to send you guys a picture of me and a student, we all love the office and I’m always cting out Michael Scott like when he “descends” to get pam a cup of coffee with cream…I try to keep the students awake. Even I sometimes, say yes, That is what she said.! My boyfriend gave me a shirt with that phrase, and I would never wear a shirt with words on it, unless it’s obama or something. But, I have a picture of me and one of my students in the t-shirt you might like. by the way, we are thinking of making a shirt that says, c’est quoi elle a dit. we all know what that means.
becky
March 13th, 2010 11:48
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one more thing, you can tell no one has had a baby from that episode. I had both of mine at home, one in Liverpool the other in Denton, and I didn’t like the episode, as it wasn’t believable. I really love the Dwight and Angela thing though. That is so Believable!!
Robert
March 13th, 2010 14:56
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Caleb, give us an idea of what YOU think is funny. Are there any TV shows, current or otherwise, that you laugh at? How ’bout movies, or magazines?

Rather than “sarcastic,” or “sadistic,” I would characterize The Office’s humor as “awkward.” Which is pretty much true-to-life.

I think it is our natural sense-of-humor that gets us through life’s awkward moments, of which there is no shortage!
Robert
March 13th, 2010 15:02
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Becky, you could post a link here at “Life In The Office” to Photobucket, or one of the other picture-storing websites. That way we could see you and your student in your Office attire. By the way, you SHOULD make a T-shirt that says “C’est quoi elle a dit.” That would be TRES funny!
becky boone
March 13th, 2010 17:03
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http://s989.photobucket.com/albums/af17/srebekah/?action=view&current=P2160097.jpg
Caleb Boone
March 13th, 2010 17:55
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Dear Robert:

My favourite television shows for entertainment and educational purposes) are:

The Dick Van Dyke Show (Starring Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam and Carl Reiner)

Car 54, Where Are You? (Starring Joe E. Ross, Fred Gwynne and for a time Al Lewis, and many other very funny people)

Leave It To Beaver (Starring Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow and many others)

The Andy Griffith Show (The early 1960s black and white episodes when Opie was seven and under, Starring Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Francis Bavier and many others)

The George Burns Show (Starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Harry Von Zell, Bea Benaderet, Hal March and many others)

The Jack Benny Show (Starring Jack Benny, Eddie Anderson, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson, Sheldon Leonard, James Stewart and many others)

The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis (Starring Dwayne Hickman, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Bob Denver, Tuesday Weld, Warren Beatty, Sheila James Kuehl, Steven Franken, Doris Packer and others)

Seinfeld (Starring Jerry Seinfeld)

Frazier (Starring Kelsey Grammer)

Prime Minister’s Question Time (Sunday evening on C-SPAN)

Q & A (Formerly “Booknotes” Sunday evening on C-SPAN)

Supreme Court Report (Saturday evenings on C-SPAN)

Good Eats (Starring Alton Brown on The Food Channel)

Various Morning Exercise Programs (On Fit TV)

My favourite movies are:

Mary Poppins (Starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Arthur Treacher, Ed Wynne and Jane Darwell, among many others)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Starring Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams and Henry Jones, among others)

The Fortune Cookie (Starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich and Judy West, among many others)

How Green Was My Valley (Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy MacDowall, Morton Lowry, Arthur Shields and Sara Allgood, among many others). In my opinion, this is the best movie ever made.

How To Steal A Million (Starring Peter O’Toole, Audrey Hepburn, Hugh Griffith, Eli Wallach and Charles Boyer, among others)

State Fair (Starring Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine and Charles Winninger, among others)

The Late George Apley (Starring Ronald Colman, Vanessa Broan, Richard Haydn, Richard Ney and Percy Warram, among others)

Mr. Belvedere Rings The Bell (Starring Clifton Webb, Zero Mostel, Joanne Dru and Hugh Marlowe, among others)

Cluny Brown (Starring Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner and Richard Haydn, among others)

Pride and Prejudice (Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfayden, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland and Simon Woods, among many others)

Breaker Morant (Starring Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Terence Donovan and others)

Chariots of Fire (Starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers and Sir John Gielgud, among many others)

Uncle Buck (Starring John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffman and Amy Madigan, among others)

You’ve Got Mail (Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton and Dabney Coleman, among others)

Enchanted (Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon and Julie Andrews, among others)

Beverly Hills Ninja (Starring Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Soon Tex Oh and Chris Rock, among others)

Muppet Treasure Island (Starring Kevin Bishop, Tim Curry, Steve Whitmire and Frank Oz, among others)

and

Bridget Jones’ Diary (Starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, among many others).

Robert, I disagree with you, all in lighthearted good fun of course, about your characterization of the humour of “The Office” as true-to-life. The characters are dead-pan. Constant dead-pan delivery of every word spoken in real life would require mental health treatment. The characters are dead-pan because their every line is infused with sarcasm. Of course, as good actors and actresses, they are compelled to play their roles in dead-pan fashion, so as to properly convey the sarcastic irony with which every line is written. But of course real people, in real life, are not dead-pan. Some people try to act that way to be “in style.” We call them adolescents.

I tire of such dead-pan sarcasm and the air of superiority it carries with it. I wearied of it in Wayne’s World, the Lampoon movies, and I cannot abide it in such other television shows as ER, Gray’s Anatomy, The House, and a whole host of others which are in the same vein (pun intended). I don’t watch any of those shows. There are many other movies which fall into this category, but there is not time to list them all.

I realize this dead-pan, sarcastic humour is in fashion.

As you can see, I like straightforward humour.

And, in that spirit, let me invoke to my aid the names of Mel Blanc, Carl Reiner, George Burns and Jack Benny.

Long may they wave.

Have a Dovely.

Sincerely yours,
CALEB (Bugs Bunny Boy) BOONE.

P.S.: Let me tell you three jokes I have written:

The first is very apropos of our television-discussion. It is entitled:

I’ll Take Paul Lynde To Block!

Kelly Ripa is not Elizabeth Montgomery.

Alec Baldwin is not Robert Morley.

But Jerry Seinfeld is Charles Nelson Riley.

Here is my second joke:

President George Bush (The Younger — let us pretend he is still on the throne) awakens in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. He calls Senator Harry Reid and says: “Harry, we’ve got to cancel the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. We must reconvene the Senate and start the process all over again.” Senator Harry Reid replies: “But, Mr. President, why would you want to do that? Chief Justice John Roberts was confirmed by a large historic vote. Why do you want to undo such a great victory for the Republican Party?” President Bush answers: “Harry, you don’t understand. I didn’t mean to nominate John Roberts. I meant to nominate Oral Roberts.”

And now my third joke:

Hillary Clinton is not the Golda Meir of our time.

Barak Obama is not Albert Schweitzer.

Al Franken is not Hubert Humphrey.

But Joe Biden is John Nance Garner.

Let me add one fourth, bonus joke, which can be told in only three words:

Paula Abdul Jabbar.
Caleb Boone
March 13th, 2010 20:53
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Dear Bob:

Whither your reply to the letter in which I dissected an entire episode of “The Office”?

Have a Dovely.

Sincerely yours,
Caleb Boone.
Caleb Boone
March 13th, 2010 23:28
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Dear Bob:

I just realized that you are “Bob” as well as “Robert.”

One is your informal self (Bob) and the other your formal self (Robert).

Have a Dovely.

Sincerely yours,
Caleb (Jalapeno Popcorn Boy) Boone.

P.S.: Whoops.
Robert (or Bob, depending on mood)
March 15th, 2010 07:32
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Hey, Becky! Thanks for posting the picture of you and your young “Office” protégé. (Do you like the French word?)

Now I wish you would get brother Caleb an “Office” T-shirt, and make HIM a fan of the show. Draw “brother Caleb” into the fold, like “Cousin Mose.”

Caleb, thanks again for sharing your opinions of what’s funny and such. Take the time to watch an Office episode with your sister, and maybe it will grow on you.
Caleb Boone
March 15th, 2010 20:21
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Dear Bob:

Thank you for your letter.

You really do want me to watch “The Office.”

I would rather not, but thank you for your good-natured responses to my letters and your good humour.

I wish you and Suri a Blessed Easter.

Sincerely yours,
CALEB BOONE.

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