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Writers: 'The Office' Fans Much?

ToddDToddD
edited October 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Celebrations to toast to:

Diwali (an office episode)
Bring Your Daughter to Work Day (another episode)

Punishment

100 Demerits (a threat Dwight uses on Jim)


any I'm missing?

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  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited September 2009
    ToddD wrote: »
    Celebrations to toast to:

    Diwali (an office episode)
    Bring Your Daughter to Work Day (another episode)

    Punishment

    100 Demerits (a threat Dwight uses on Jim)


    any I'm missing?

    i do indeed enjoy the office, but diwali was offered up by joe and i just ran with the rest of the these without trying to make any references (although i do like to hand out demerits around the office from time to time)
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited September 2009
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    Wait, that's the wrong office-related visual media. Nevermind.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited September 2009
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
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    Wait, that's the wrong office-related visual media. Nevermind.

    Office Space > The Office

    By an infinite amount.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited September 2009
    Pale Man wrote: »
    Office Space > The Office

    By an infinite amount.

    British The Office > US The Office
  • SurplusGamerSurplusGamer
    edited September 2009
    I thought Bring Your Daughter To Work Day was a Portal reference. So there ya go.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited September 2009
    JedExodus wrote: »
    British The Office > US The Office

    Anything British > Anything US > Either version of The Office
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited September 2009
    Pale Man wrote: »
    Anything British > Anything US > Either version of The Office

    Not necessarily, there was a British version of Married With Children that somehow was worse than the original, though this was an anomaly and the exception to the rule and we don't speak of it round these parts
  • doodinthemooddoodinthemood
    edited September 2009
    Oh by the way.
    DIWALI is pronounced DIVALI.
    That got to me a bit. Dunno why though ¬_¬
  • DeLucaDeLuca
    edited September 2009
    I personally like both versions of the Office...
  • Epic KiwiEpic Kiwi
    edited September 2009
    Uh. Bring Your Daughter To Work Day has been around much longer than The Office or Portal.
  • SurplusGamerSurplusGamer
    edited September 2009
    Jade Zealot wrote: »
    Uh. Bring Your Daughter To Work Day has been around much longer than The Office or Portal.

    That doesn't mean it isn't allowed to be a reference to either.
  • Epic KiwiEpic Kiwi
    edited September 2009
    SurplusGamer wrote: »
    That doesn't mean it isn't allowed to be a reference to either.
    But that's kind of like saying a character on The Office making an ugly face and saying "ARRRR!" is a reference to Monkey Island because they do it in that game. :S
  • doggansdoggans
    edited October 2009
    I don't think any one of those things on its own would have been seen as an Office reference, but when there are three or more separate jokes reminiscent of Office episodes, it makes sense that the OP would start thinking in that direction.
  • The CommissionerThe Commissioner
    edited October 2009
    I just thought that you put Diwali in there because it happens this month! I thought that was the beauty of episodic releases... you can put current events in there.
  • SurplusGamerSurplusGamer
    edited October 2009
    Jade Zealot wrote: »
    But that's kind of like saying a character on The Office making an ugly face and saying "ARRRR!" is a reference to Monkey Island because they do it in that game. :S

    Not quite. People are speculating that something might be a reference. In the same way, your hypothetical example of a character in The Office 'The Office making an ugly face and saying "ARRRR!"' indeed -might- be a Monkey Island reference. Then again, it might not. But just because pulling a face and going ARRRR! was invented long before Monkey Island, that doesn't mean that whoever wrote it in wasn't making a reference.

    For example, if I put the words 'bring your daughter to work day' into a thing I made... say, a song or something, I'd definitely be doing it as a Portal reference because I associate that phrase with Portal more than anything else. Maybe the person who put it into MI did it as a Portal reference. Maybe they did it as an Office reference. Maybe they did it as neither. We don't know, but it's fun to speculate.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited October 2009
    ToddD wrote: »
    Celebrations to toast to:

    Diwali (an office episode)
    Bring Your Daughter to Work Day (another episode)

    Punishment

    100 Demerits (a threat Dwight uses on Jim)


    any I'm missing?

    Hahaha! I just realized that!
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