Just listened to some Office Ladies podcast episodes and thought…

[u/Temporary_Ad9362]

Please don’t jump me. The general commentary is that it’s bland with irrelevant deep dives, but what also puts me off of it is the fact that it seems like sometimes they… don’t get why the office is funny? Like of course they know it’s a funny show, but at times I don’t even feel like they “get” the humor and the core appeal of the show.

Like, when Jenna talks about the healthcare episode, and how at the end when Michael just stands there after claiming he had a surprise for them, that she thinks the scene was just awkward and long for television and might not make the cut to the final episode. For ppl who like the office’s humor, that scene is simply hilarious—the show at its MOST hilarious, actually. One of the first few scenes that truly hooked me on the show. She didn’t say anything about it being funny, just that it was weird. Suggesting not having that scene is sort of like not understanding what makes this show funny, idk.

And also, skipping over the “offensive” humor or ignorant jokes & basically acting like they don’t exist, also gives me that impression as well that they don’t “get” them and the ironic style of them in the way I would’ve thought they would, seeing as they played their characters amazingly. Does anyone have any similar thoughts? No attacking pls

[u/chillaban]

I think the podcast from Brian is more what you’re looking for.

For me, Office Ladies is mostly hearing Jenna and Angela chat about random stuff for an hour and a half while working in like a half hour worth of talking about the plot and tidbits. I get that isn’t for everyone. For me I like it for my long drives because hearing their voices kinda reminds me of rewatching The Office and they really haven’t been in much recently.

[u/Temporary_Ad9362 → u/chillaban]

Yeah, I listened to four episodes on a long drive and it kept my ears busy at least. I like feeling the sentiment of hearing their voices and laughter. But I probably def will check out the other podcast if it’s more in tune with the audience of the office.

[u/ghubert3192 → u/Temporary_Ad9362]

The Brian one isn't a beat-by-beat recap podcast, it's a long-form interview podcast and I agree that it's much more interesting. He actually gets guests to sound pretty real as opposed to like asking the guy who played Martin "what was it like on set that day?" and him responding "I remember everyone being so nice".

[u/Acminvan → u/ghubert3192]

Brian Baumgartner's podcast consisted of a 1-hour chat with cast members and senior crew, people he knows well and is good friends with, so of course the discussion is going to be more in depth and "real" than Jenna and Angela giving a few minutes of time to a short term guest star they don't know very well, in order to give them a chance to share their experience of being on the show.

The two podcasts are completely different, it's apples and oranges. Personally, I prefer The Office Ladies but each to his own.

[u/ghubert3192 → u/Acminvan]

I meannnnnn. I get your point and what I said was probably a little bit too mean but the Office Ladies podcast has done fairly long interviews with several cast members and Brian Baumgartner's podcast has interviewed several of those same people and the difference in the conversations is hard to miss. That's fine, they weren't aiming for the same exact outcome, but the conversation Brian had with Greg Daniels was a lot more interesting to me than the one the Office Ladies had with him because it didn't feel like Brian was just looking to reminisce about "the good times" or whatever. He was asking questions *about* Greg Daniels.

I've heard Mike Schur be really fascinating to listen to in podcast interviews and it wasn't on Office Ladies. That's all I'm saying.

[u/Acminvan → u/ghubert3192]

Fair enough. And great if that’s what you prefer, those kind of podcasts are very interesting. I just don’t think that’s ever been the theme, point or mood of this particular podcast so feels like people (not just you) are judging it for not being something that it never intended to be in the first place.

Until recently they haven’t really done that many long interviews, but I actually found the one with Michael Schur, as well as Rainn Wilson, as two of the few that did go deeper and beyond just The Office itself.