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/heavyd52001]

Having the writers doing a re-watch podcast would be so much better.

[u/SuperbDonut2112 → u/heavyd52001]

It’s why the Always Sunny podcast is so good. The guys in the show also made and write it. Actors (no offense to Jenna, Angela or actors in general) aren’t very interesting. Writers are.

[u/RoderickThe13 → u/SuperbDonut2112]

I liked the Always Sunny podcast, but that one was the worst case of "Let's talk about the show for 5 minutes, and about completely unrelated stuff for an hour". They even had episodes in which they didn't talk about the show at all, just because they got off-track. Still enjoyable, because the guys are funny, but as a rewatch podcast it was very inconsistent.

[u/Swampfoxxxxx → u/RoderickThe13]

I loved the ep where they all got drunk in Rob's cabin-den room.

And he wasnt terrible insightful but having Lin-Manuel on the musical ep was a pretty cool flex.

I stopped watching when they started doing in-podcast ads. They already seemed to be diverting from talking about the eps relatively quickly at that point.

[u/jacobartillery → u/Swampfoxxxxx]

"The gang browns out" is one of my favorite podcast episodes of all time. Give Charlie an instrument and let the man cook.