SilverspoonGaming | 332 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Situation: Youre stranded in a log cabin far from anyone with no lines of communication available. You have electricity, a tv, and a streaming service only offering one show to pass the weekend before Monday hits and you can go back to civilization. Which show do you choose to spend your next two days binging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverspoonGaming | 332 Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 I have given Parks and Rec a few chances, but have never sat thru an entire episode because its just not good. The Office on the other hand, my wife and I have watched thru the entire series from beginning to end 4 times, and I still stop on it from time to time on the shitty off-shoot channels like COZI because it never gets old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,102 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Parks and Rec is good but the Office is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,545 Editorials Team · Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Parks and Rec. Does The Office have Jeremy Jam and Jean Ralphio Saperstein? Or Adam Scott and Rob Lowe? Or Larry/Jerry/Gary/Terry? Or frickin' Tom and Andy? Or Ron? Or the Tammys? The Office is great, but beyond Michael and Dwight the characters are much less interesting. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aguy | 773 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The Office = Goldeneye 007 Parks and Rec = Perfect Dark 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Parks and Rec easily 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doner24 | 1,196 Moderator · Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I know it’s the hipster thing to say Parks and Rec, but The Office is perfect. Michael Scott alone beats the rest of the cast from Parks and Rec. Add in some of the best background characters in history like Creed (highest laugh to scene ratio in history of TV), Jan, Toby, and Ryan and it’s one of the best TV comedies of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,790 Administrator · Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I've never seen P&R, but I enjoyed The Office well enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,991 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Easily parks and rec. basically for the exact same things as Reed said. Let’s just forget the last season though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstralSoul | 502 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Love em both but The Office. One of my top 3 favorite shows of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 964 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I got more laughs out of The Office. Parks and Rec is over rated. It's funny, but it's not that funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,545 Editorials Team · Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 8 hours ago, Shmup said: Easily parks and rec. basically for the exact same things as Reed said. Let’s just forget the last season though. As long as we can forget that last 3-4 years of The Office 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 964 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Just now, Reed Rothchild said: As long as we can forget that last 3-4 years of The Office The Office should have ended when Michael Scott left. I don't know why Parks and Rec had that last season. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The Office simply because of Michael. Once he left the show it's all downhill minus a few parts with the intern bosses. The last season of both shows were absolutely terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted52405 | 178 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Super interested in the feedback here. I binged Office in 2019/2020 timeframe and absolutely loved every minute of it. My friends were adamant "if you liked Office then P&R is a must watch!!!!". I watched the first episode of P&R and it felt like nothing but a distasteful Office ripoff (especially the whole look into the camera reaction bits). Did not make it to a 2nd episode. Friends claim I failed myself by attempting to watch them back to back. Is that really fair you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aguy | 773 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 15 minutes ago, Boosted52405 said: Super interested in the feedback here. I binged Office in 2019/2020 timeframe and absolutely loved every minute of it. My friends were adamant "if you liked Office then P&R is a must watch!!!!". I watched the first episode of P&R and it felt like nothing but a distasteful Office ripoff (especially the whole look into the camera reaction bits). Did not make it to a 2nd episode. Friends claim I failed myself by attempting to watch them back to back. Is that really fair you guys think? It's is a general consensus that season one is the worst of all the seasons. Leslie Knope is not Michael Scott and it took a little time for the writers to differentiate and iron out her character. I'd start with season two and only come back to season one later if you really like the show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted52405 | 178 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 5 minutes ago, Aguy said: It's is a general consensus that season one is the worst of all the seasons. Leslie Knope is not Michael Scott and it took a little time for the writers to differentiate and iron out her character. I'd start with season two and only come back to season one later if you really like the show. Oh boy messing with my OCD about watching shows and playing games in chronological order :). Appreciate the feedback will consider for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,545 Editorials Team · Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 30 minutes ago, Boosted52405 said: Super interested in the feedback here. I binged Office in 2019/2020 timeframe and absolutely loved every minute of it. My friends were adamant "if you liked Office then P&R is a must watch!!!!". I watched the first episode of P&R and it felt like nothing but a distasteful Office ripoff (especially the whole look into the camera reaction bits). Did not make it to a 2nd episode. Friends claim I failed myself by attempting to watch them back to back. Is that really fair you guys think? Yeah, like @Aguy said, in the beginning they made Leslie a Michael clone, and had some boring Jim clone playing the straight man. They quickly wisened up and made Leslie her own fully realized character, wrote out the pointless dude, and replaced him with Robe Lowe and Adam Scott. An exponential upgrade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacepup | 2,405 Administrator · Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 I prefer Parks and Rec about 10 times over The Office. I enjoyed both shows but I just liked the overall range of characters much better on Parks & Rec. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,571 Editorials Team · Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Both are great. That poor last couple seasons of the Office though. The red-headed lady in the later seasons of Office made me want to stick a pencil in my eye. And I don't know why they tried to turn Jim into a bad guy. I agree it's better to start P&R on season 2 and then go to 1. I somehow did that on accident. And the last season felt like it was written by an aspiring adolescent-fiction author who was still in middle school. Everything worked out perfectly for everyone and it was really boring. I voted Office because P&R was gold for maybe 3-4 seasons while the Office was gold until Michael left. 7 seasons? The marriage of Leslie and Ben was the beginning of the end for me. That was when I started thinking "eehhh, they're trying too hard." Also, the more developed April Ludgate got, the more insufferable she became. I was straight sick of her by the end. Fite me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted52405 | 178 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 So I feel the need to bring this back up. I reported previously how I could not watch P&R directly after finishing the Office series. With a year or two in between now, I'm finally giving P&R a fair go and have to say I am loving it. On season 4 now. At first it threw me off with Rashida Jones being in both shows, but her character is much more in depth/involved on P&R - she comes off similar to Jim from the office, for some reason to me I cannot explain. Nick Offerman is the f***ing man, well at least Ron Swanson is lol. It's genius how uninvolved he is in the main story of each episode, yet he kills it every time he appears. Leslie is 1000x more relatable, yet close to as funny, as Michael Scott. I still loved him in the office tho. Tom is quite the enjoyable character as well, but for some reason I cannot get enough of April's f***-it attitude. Mid-S4 it's still weird seeing Chris Pratt as...well Andy. In re-reading the comments here, now I'm left wondering who the "boring Jim clone playing the straight man" is from season 1 @Reed Rothchild Very solid show. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,545 Editorials Team · Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I don't remember his name. They write him out pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aguy | 773 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said: I don't remember his name. They write him out pretty quickly. Mark. The only context I had to your post was the thread title and I knew exactly who you were talking about. Edit: Mark Brendanawicz as played by Paul Schneider. Good actor, bad role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,742 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 This is a pretty difficult pick. I kind of wish you had included 30 Rock as well since all three shows were on at the same time and on the same evening all in a row for a while. Of course that would make the decision even more difficult. I've honestly gone back and forth on which series I prefer, and usually it's based on which one I've watched most recently. But gun to my head, if I have to pick, I'm probably going with Parks and Rec simply because it's more consistent over the course of the entire show. If I'm only rating The Office from season 2 until Michael leaves, then it might be number one, but I don't think it's fair to ignore such a large number of episodes. So Parks and Rec wins it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,991 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Fuckin' LOL!!! This scene is one of my favourites. I only wish Ben Schwartz's character was in it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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