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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few things in The Office (U.S. version).

I’ll take a stab at it since it attempts to be historically and geographically accurate.

The visible palm trees, for one. Someone (I forget who) taking a train to Philly; there is no train IRL to there or to NYC. Also, it takes at least 2.5 hours to drive from there to NYC, not including parking. That would be a PITA to do a few times a month like Michael did. It would be impossible to drive into Lake Scranton, which is a man-made reservoir. People do boat on Lake Wallenpaupack, and I think it even does “lake tours” via boat. It would be a tad far at about 50 minutes for a company event. There is no Chilis or Hooters near where DM would be located.

Flaws aside, I enjoyed the show![/quote]

I liked the show too, but yes so much was unrealistic. The supposed PBS documentary crew is using way too many cameras, to capture every conversation of too many staffers, not just at the office, but in their cars, at restaurants and stores, weddings, hospitals even! And they continue this for 9 years![/quote]

NP. I'm not even that big a fan of The Office and I get that it's a comedy so of course it's unrealistic. Naturally they kept the format that worked for their particular comedy, like the documentary crew being everywhere all the time--in fact, after a certain point, did anyone viewing really care any more that the show was supposedly a "documentary"? No one cared that it didn't adhere to realistic documentary rules as long as it was funny to them. It's like how on Friends everyone is impossibly living in great places in NYC on what seem to be airy-nothing salaries; it's unrealistic and it's also a sitcom, and sitcoms do whatever works, however unrealistic it is to locals watching it. If a drama purporting to be set in Scranton, PA, got local details wrong and had weird filming? That would bug me. But comedies can get away with more. (Full disclosure, I can't make it through even a single episode of Friends, so maybe it's highly realistic and I don't know it  :D )[/quote]

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