“I wish there was a way you knew you were in the good old days before you actually left them” I swear that’s the only time Andy felt like Andy this season…
This is the earliest I’ve caught a field guide release, Chris, thank you for these treasures! I’ve been tuning in since 2020 and never miss an upload. It gave the series a new life for me and something I looked forward to every week. It’s crazy to look back at the early season field guides to see how much you’ve honed the craft. Thank you!
@@BrendanPappas I think the wholesome part is more to do with the way the characters seem to understand each other in that scene and subsequently bond over that understanding. I didn’t think this finale was very strong. I really didn’t like the way they wrote Michael Scott into it as a glorified extra, but I did like Dwight‘s reaction after shooting that weapon and how he seemed, if I remember right, to immediately turn towards Jim when expressing his excitement knowing Jim would accept him and expect his reaction. Anyway, I think that’s the wholesome part.
@@andrewdorie I understated what he actually meant by it. I did from the start. It’s just funny to me that “wholesome” is the word he uses right after showing a scene of someone using a bazooka to blow something up. My comment wasn’t really meant to be taken seriously.
The level of commitment you have to make this whole series is incredible!!! It’s been a real journey. Thanks for so much entertainment and a lot of new fun facts too.
00:36 to answer your question: you don’t. I’m probably on my 1,456th run of the show. The office will forever be in my DNA. Thanks for all your hard work my man. Your recaps have been a delight, your hard work is appreciated! Good luck on your future endeavors❤️
14:31 I don't inherently hate the idea of Toby getting a bad ending, but it is just strange to see the juxtaposition of the almost children's show-esque, everyone wins, style ending The Office went for, and the gloomy, sad ending Toby got.
I agree. It's deeply unnecessary; even Jerry and Ann Veal got endings with more decency. But no, the usuperers, criminals and cheaters deserve better endings because....Human Resources is the worst??? It shouldn't bug me as much as it does but it does.
Goodbye The Office, its been nice~. Hope you find your paradise~! No, but really thank you for all the work guiding us through this wonderful series. it really showed the depth and inner workings of The Office and I'm looking forward to the Community field guide
Finally getting round to this. I started watching these during the last year of Uni. In that time, I aced my course, I moved back home, moved in with my gf, proposed and bought a house, in a couple of months we marry. These field guides have been a constant for all that, I look forward to watching what you do next.
Great work on this series and looking forward to following you into Community! This was a great series finale. Andy's final line kills me every time. And while I can nitpick that Michael was used in a weird way, I can also see how him saying few words and then leaving means he's finally learned not everything has to be about him.
End of an era. Never thought I'd see the day you'd cover this. I hope your channel continues to thrive on further ventures cus you're one of the best deep dive channels on TH-cam.
The reception phone scene always takes me out of the moment because: Client: hi, can I speak to Jim? Pam: I'm sorry, Jim doesn't work here anymore. Client: oh, really? That's odd. I just talked to him yesterday... Pam: ... Client: could I speak to whomever is taking over my order, then? Pam: ... Client: hello? Pam: *hangs up*
Thank you for doing this series, Chris. I've enjoyed every minute of it. I'm still not sure if you're even seeing any of my comments (I think TH-cam has hidden me or something, because I write long thoughtful paragraphs and nothing I write ever gets a reply or even a thumbs up) but hopefully you see this one: You are awesome, and I appreciate the depth you brought to the discussion of a remake of a British Comedy that could have gone the disappointing route of The IT Crowd and Red Dwarf but somehow found a way to make it its own thing.
About the Phyllis mini statue, the joke is Stanley never saw her legs because he was sitting directly across from her. Obviously he saw her legs at some point but he did not see them all the time. For Kevin, while definitely unrealistic, it is not impossible. Technically the bar either owes him $16,000 worth of drinks or owes the customers who bought him a drink $16,000. And while likely unenforceable, there are plenty of bars that are worth less than $100,000. So it is conceivable that making Kevin a partner, making him work part time and having a local celebrity as an employee and owner, made more sense financially than paying out $16,000 in drinks to one guy.
How do I say good bye to The Office? I never do🤣🤣 It’s helpful knowing that if I ever suffer from severe dementia, all my nurse will have to do is put on ANY. SINGLE. EPISODE. of The Office, and I’ll quite right down.
The end of an era :( So sad I had money issues and couldn't keep it up on Patreon, wanted my name on the end credits. Congratulations!! Best of lucks with the next series, I'll stay around for whatever Office content comes around !
"I joined a show in the final season and everyone was so clickish" Dakota, you have the name of a state and of course it was clickish, they were like nine years into being a click 😂
This is honestly still a mixed bag for me. Love everything with Creed, the deleted Cold Open is terrific, I like some of the payoffs, and its a sweet ending set of interviews but there are just too many issues for me. Tobys payoff sucks. It makes no sense since they established he was corporate and not under regional management's jurisdiction and while everyone else gets a happy ending despite their crimes and crappy actions, his payoff is....Nelly still being a douche and getting invited to the party?? I hate Ryan and Kelly still and the payoff isn't funny even as cringe. At what point were we ever rooting for Nellie? And the fact that Nellie,Pete and David Wallace were at the reunion but Micheal wasn't made me angrier than it should have. And the idea that everyone besides Creed isn't in jail or at least under indictment after all their crimes and offenses always takes me out of anything funny or emotional in the episode. But man I love Andy's last line and the last shot. After a long stretch of mixed bag tv, this ain't the worse. I've absolutely loved your series more than I ever liked the show and I can't wait for Community Field Guide!
I just can't track with the love people have for Michael Scott's reveal. There was zero set up in the episode or, frankly, the last two seasons of the office. He's mentioned like once or twice since he left the show and other than that, the show has completely forgotten about him and all of a sudden he's just there. The excuse that the episode needed to not focus on Michael too much doesn't mean that there needed to be no focus on Michael.
It's only a small thing, but the whole thing about Dwight firing Jim and Pam so they get severance is really dumb. David Wallace has a long-standing relationship with Jim. And Dunder-Mifflin is a relative small company at this point. He's going to want to know why Dwight would fire probably the best salesman in the office (now that Dwight is manager not full-time salesman).
I don’t know why you’d have to encapsulate 9 years of characters (I don’t remember your phrasing) into one finale. You just have to conclude their narratives. Right?
The painting would not get vandalized. It was ridiculous that someone from your own company would climb up on a cherry picker and take such an action even in universe the first time. The challenge was interesting. They story of someone vandalizing Pam's mural. I just don't buy that story. No one touching Pammy's prettiest art.
I know if you’re a diehard fan of the office, maybe you don’t see the show critically (realistically). Because this is a horribly-horribly written episode of television. Why would Pam paint a mural of the office workers in the warehouse without including the warehouse workers? It’s no wonder someone defaced it. And in order to make Pam seem like the innocent, good girl in that dynamic with the warehouse guy, they had to make the warehouse guy physically attack her in the parking lot. Otherwise, she would’ve come off looking horrible, especially when it’s revealed that she was painting a picture of the office workers only. It’s pretty condescending to go down to the warehouse and paint that horrible (horrible) mural on such a huge part of their workspace. Look at Jim. He’s barely recognizable aside from where he’s sitting. Why would she paint herself with her paint set and brush? It’s so cringe and self-involved. That’s one example of why people don’t like Pam, everything I’ve just mentioned and plenty more examples like them. BTW, Jim is just as unlikable to me. They are both so lazy, entitled, dishonest, even to each other, and disruptive to other working class, people in their workspace. I mean, how many times did Jim lie to Pam‘s face without giving it a second thought or ever second-guessing himself in the future? Sometimes he seem to do it because he thought it was protecting her from something but often it was just him being a pretty horrible person. And now Pam can just secretly sell their house and assume Jim will be able to Jim-it back (return) to his stupid company, a company that didn’t have to struggle one bit in order to start working with some of the best athletes of all time? Remember when Jim tried to participate in a conference call at his desk at a different job and while walking around the office of that different job? How does that person casually sleepwalk into better and better things? Why would that company be so desperate to retain Jim as an employee? How does he not know to find a quiet place to take that call? So Pam won’t let him go to Philly? Is that why he was taking the meeting over the phone? That doesn’t explain why he couldn’t have gone home on his lunch break and taken the call in silence or even found an empty office in that huge building that seems to only have two businesses and taken the call there. That reminds me of the time Daryl decided to shoot a hoop at the end of an interview that he had already horribly bombed. Who in his right mind would shoot a basketball at a hoop that looks fake and is mounted over a fish tank in a conference room after a job interview? Even if he hadn’t messed up the fish tank, what if he just missed the shot? Who is hiring these people? How are they climbing ladders? Why would Darrell ask Val to be part of a family picture with him and his daughter, when she still dating her ex-boyfriend and his daughter doesn’t know who she is? Who is riding the show? Why would the writers ever think the audience would relate with that decision? Also, why would Michael Scott come to the wedding without Holly? It’s the wedding of his best friend. What reason could she possibly have for not being there? I could list examples like these examples all day, but for some reason, it’s absolutely impossible to make a comment as longer than one sentence in this TH-cam app. Remember that time Jim wrote a book about garden parties and Dwight somehow found it on Amazon and followed it to a T just a couple weeks later? Who comes up with these ideas? He could’ve just sent Dwight a fake email from an account that looked like it belonged to Robert California asking for very specific things to happen during the party? It would’ve taken him 20 minutes. Remember that time Pam stood up in the office and asked everyone to stop eating certain foods because of her pregnancy? Jesus Christ.
Why would Pam say Jim doesn’t work at the office anymore? He just quit and didn’t tell his clients? That’s nice of him to make sure they’ll never work with Dunder Mifflin/any of Dwight’s sales team again. And Dwight? We’re supposed to believe that he fired two long-term employees who just were in his wedding that day even though those employees probably had no ongoing documentation that would lead to that sort of immediate termination without cause? The first issue is that it makes Dwight look like an idiot when his character is supposed to be highly intelligent. The second issue is that the three of them can be sued for fraud. The third issue is that he would definitely get fired for doing that. It’s so much worse than anything. Michael Scott did.
“I wish there was a way you knew you were in the good old days before you actually left them” I swear that’s the only time Andy felt like Andy this season…
This is the earliest I’ve caught a field guide release, Chris, thank you for these treasures! I’ve been tuning in since 2020 and never miss an upload. It gave the series a new life for me and something I looked forward to every week. It’s crazy to look back at the early season field guides to see how much you’ve honed the craft. Thank you!
Dwight: shoots a stack of barrels with a bazooka
Mulverine: “There’s something so wholesome about these scenes”
I can't speak on your behalf, but to me, getting to do that would be cool as hell.
@@TotoDG I would also enjoy it. It’s just funny to me that he referred to it as “wholesome.” 😂
@@BrendanPappas I think the wholesome part is more to do with the way the characters seem to understand each other in that scene and subsequently bond over that understanding. I didn’t think this finale was very strong. I really didn’t like the way they wrote Michael Scott into it as a glorified extra, but I did like Dwight‘s reaction after shooting that weapon and how he seemed, if I remember right, to immediately turn towards Jim when expressing his excitement knowing Jim would accept him and expect his reaction. Anyway, I think that’s the wholesome part.
Though I don’t know if that’s what the narrator meant when he used the term wholesome.
@@andrewdorie I understated what he actually meant by it. I did from the start. It’s just funny to me that “wholesome” is the word he uses right after showing a scene of someone using a bazooka to blow something up. My comment wasn’t really meant to be taken seriously.
The level of commitment you have to make this whole series is incredible!!! It’s been a real journey. Thanks for so much entertainment and a lot of new fun facts too.
00:36 to answer your question: you don’t. I’m probably on my 1,456th run of the show. The office will forever be in my DNA. Thanks for all your hard work my man. Your recaps have been a delight, your hard work is appreciated! Good luck on your future endeavors❤️
Amazing series Chris, thanks for having us for the ride, cant wait for the Community recap!!
CAN'T BELIEVE WE MADE IT
The Office Ladies just recently finished their re-watch too. There is some good behind the scenes info -- including Michael & Holly's kids' names.
Thanks my guy.
Wow, thanks!
14:31 I don't inherently hate the idea of Toby getting a bad ending, but it is just strange to see the juxtaposition of the almost children's show-esque, everyone wins, style ending The Office went for, and the gloomy, sad ending Toby got.
I agree. It's deeply unnecessary; even Jerry and Ann Veal got endings with more decency. But no, the usuperers, criminals and cheaters deserve better endings because....Human Resources is the worst??? It shouldn't bug me as much as it does but it does.
Goodbye The Office, its been nice~. Hope you find your paradise~! No, but really thank you for all the work guiding us through this wonderful series. it really showed the depth and inner workings of The Office and I'm looking forward to the Community field guide
Congrats on this release! It's been a journey to follow and an accomplishment to finish!
Finally getting round to this. I started watching these during the last year of Uni.
In that time, I aced my course, I moved back home, moved in with my gf, proposed and bought a house, in a couple of months we marry.
These field guides have been a constant for all that, I look forward to watching what you do next.
Incredible to be here, I watch and rewatch all your field guides! I vote for Brooklyn 99 for the next guide! Or The Good Place!
We love you Chris, thanks so much for the whole series, I used to listen to the earlier ones in the shower before school 🙏🙏
Great work on this series and looking forward to following you into Community!
This was a great series finale. Andy's final line kills me every time. And while I can nitpick that Michael was used in a weird way, I can also see how him saying few words and then leaving means he's finally learned not everything has to be about him.
End of an era. Never thought I'd see the day you'd cover this. I hope your channel continues to thrive on further ventures cus you're one of the best deep dive channels on TH-cam.
The best TH-cam series ever
2:55 - Challenger, I believe!
been watching since season 4! thank you for all your videos!
Pretty crazy that we’re already here on the field guide! Even though it’s been years, can’t believe you’ve already made it though! Congrats to you
The reception phone scene always takes me out of the moment because:
Client: hi, can I speak to Jim?
Pam: I'm sorry, Jim doesn't work here anymore.
Client: oh, really? That's odd. I just talked to him yesterday...
Pam: ...
Client: could I speak to whomever is taking over my order, then?
Pam: ...
Client: hello?
Pam: *hangs up*
Its amazing that the office was one of the first series ive watched and the last episode actually made me cry
Thank you so much for making these field guides, it’s been a crazy ride and I can’t wait to see what you do next
Thank you for everything, I look forward to to watching the whole thing over again in conjunction with the office
Thank you Mulverine. Can't wait for the community field guide. Both of them are my favourite shows.
Still to this day, every time All The Faces pops up in my iPhone playlist, I get little bit choked up...
Thank you for doing this series, Chris. I've enjoyed every minute of it. I'm still not sure if you're even seeing any of my comments (I think TH-cam has hidden me or something, because I write long thoughtful paragraphs and nothing I write ever gets a reply or even a thumbs up) but hopefully you see this one: You are awesome, and I appreciate the depth you brought to the discussion of a remake of a British Comedy that could have gone the disappointing route of The IT Crowd and Red Dwarf but somehow found a way to make it its own thing.
About the Phyllis mini statue, the joke is Stanley never saw her legs because he was sitting directly across from her. Obviously he saw her legs at some point but he did not see them all the time.
For Kevin, while definitely unrealistic, it is not impossible. Technically the bar either owes him $16,000 worth of drinks or owes the customers who bought him a drink $16,000. And while likely unenforceable, there are plenty of bars that are worth less than $100,000. So it is conceivable that making Kevin a partner, making him work part time and having a local celebrity as an employee and owner, made more sense financially than paying out $16,000 in drinks to one guy.
Dwight’s car is a challenger. Not a charger. Love the episode 👍🏻
You did a good job with this series
How do I say good bye to The Office? I never do🤣🤣 It’s helpful knowing that if I ever suffer from severe dementia, all my nurse will have to do is put on ANY. SINGLE. EPISODE. of The Office, and I’ll quite right down.
Been watching since the start thank u for my definative guide of the office cant wait for community
I feel like Toby’s happy ending was when everyone wanted him to go to the after party.
this is really some of my favorite content, your editing and writing and the way you word things i love these videos so much and thank you
even watching this a second time, the way you say genuine....loooool.
hyped for the next series!
The end of an era :( So sad I had money issues and couldn't keep it up on Patreon, wanted my name on the end credits. Congratulations!! Best of lucks with the next series, I'll stay around for whatever Office content comes around !
Kudos to your commitment!!!
I’ve been watching since you had 200 subs. Love your channel bro.
"I joined a show in the final season and everyone was so clickish"
Dakota, you have the name of a state and of course it was clickish, they were like nine years into being a click 😂
Congratulations!!!
The last two video guides so so good
This was really well put together. What a ride.
Thank you for all your hard work on this series, Chris. Im looking forward to what you're going to do with Community.
Its perfect!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you 🙏!
Time to start from the top again!
Thanks for the journey Chris ❤️ Looking forward to Office Field Guide 2.0 🤣
Oh my god it’s happening, everyone stay calm, just stay calm… STAY FUCKING CALM
Id like to think that Poor Richards made Kevin a partner for some publicity, rather than Kevin's reasoning.
I want to watch it but it means the feild guides are over 😢
Its not the end, just a new beginning 😢
Ive put off watching this video for so long cause I just didn't want this series to end. But i gotta.
NEW MULVERINE JUST DROPPED!
Yay Community!!!!!!!!!!
Great choice!
🎶 goodbye Toby, it's been nice, hope you found your, paradise 🎶 congrats on finally beating the copyright troll
Mulverine is the greatest youtuber ever change my mind
It has been one hell of a journey
IT'S TIME
YouTobey sucks, but The Office Retrospective is amazing! Thanks so much for all this work you've done, can't wait to see the community episodes!
Only complaint for the field guide, it’s a 2013 Dodge Challenger not charger
So was the office all along Dwight’s Story, In my opinion he has the most significant character development and interest in the hole series
This is honestly still a mixed bag for me. Love everything with Creed, the deleted Cold Open is terrific, I like some of the payoffs, and its a sweet ending set of interviews but there are just too many issues for me. Tobys payoff sucks. It makes no sense since they established he was corporate and not under regional management's jurisdiction and while everyone else gets a happy ending despite their crimes and crappy actions, his payoff is....Nelly still being a douche and getting invited to the party?? I hate Ryan and Kelly still and the payoff isn't funny even as cringe.
At what point were we ever rooting for Nellie? And the fact that Nellie,Pete and David Wallace were at the reunion but Micheal wasn't made me angrier than it should have. And the idea that everyone besides Creed isn't in jail or at least under indictment after all their crimes and offenses always takes me out of anything funny or emotional in the episode. But man I love Andy's last line and the last shot. After a long stretch of mixed bag tv, this ain't the worse. I've absolutely loved your series more than I ever liked the show and I can't wait for Community Field Guide!
I think the joke is that Stanley was too used to birds to do a full humab
Community is streets ahead
You should do arrested development after Community!
I can’t believe you finished. That’s what she said!
I just can't track with the love people have for Michael Scott's reveal. There was zero set up in the episode or, frankly, the last two seasons of the office. He's mentioned like once or twice since he left the show and other than that, the show has completely forgotten about him and all of a sudden he's just there. The excuse that the episode needed to not focus on Michael too much doesn't mean that there needed to be no focus on Michael.
It's only a small thing, but the whole thing about Dwight firing Jim and Pam so they get severance is really dumb. David Wallace has a long-standing relationship with Jim. And Dunder-Mifflin is a relative small company at this point. He's going to want to know why Dwight would fire probably the best salesman in the office (now that Dwight is manager not full-time salesman).
2:52 *Dodge Challenger
They moved to austin or boston?
Why do I feel like crying?
hello there IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE COMMUNITY SERIES
Wait... there are other timelines ?
I don’t know why you’d have to encapsulate 9 years of characters (I don’t remember your phrasing) into one finale. You just have to conclude their narratives. Right?
toby has freed y’all from the dungeon!!
Bald man with beards and glasses all look exactly the same
It's not humility from Oscar. While he was right that state senator
The painting would not get vandalized. It was ridiculous that someone from your own company would climb up on a cherry picker and take such an action even in universe the first time. The challenge was interesting. They story of someone vandalizing Pam's mural. I just don't buy that story. No one touching Pammy's prettiest art.
You are really salty and seething here...did you reflect on wasting your life on a sitcom perhaps?
I know if you’re a diehard fan of the office, maybe you don’t see the show critically (realistically). Because this is a horribly-horribly written episode of television. Why would Pam paint a mural of the office workers in the warehouse without including the warehouse workers? It’s no wonder someone defaced it. And in order to make Pam seem like the innocent, good girl in that dynamic with the warehouse guy, they had to make the warehouse guy physically attack her in the parking lot. Otherwise, she would’ve come off looking horrible, especially when it’s revealed that she was painting a picture of the office workers only. It’s pretty condescending to go down to the warehouse and paint that horrible (horrible) mural on such a huge part of their workspace. Look at Jim. He’s barely recognizable aside from where he’s sitting. Why would she paint herself with her paint set and brush? It’s so cringe and self-involved. That’s one example of why people don’t like Pam, everything I’ve just mentioned and plenty more examples like them. BTW, Jim is just as unlikable to me. They are both so lazy, entitled, dishonest, even to each other, and disruptive to other working class, people in their workspace. I mean, how many times did Jim lie to Pam‘s face without giving it a second thought or ever second-guessing himself in the future? Sometimes he seem to do it because he thought it was protecting her from something but often it was just him being a pretty horrible person. And now Pam can just secretly sell their house and assume Jim will be able to Jim-it back (return) to his stupid company, a company that didn’t have to struggle one bit in order to start working with some of the best athletes of all time? Remember when Jim tried to participate in a conference call at his desk at a different job and while walking around the office of that different job? How does that person casually sleepwalk into better and better things? Why would that company be so desperate to retain Jim as an employee? How does he not know to find a quiet place to take that call? So Pam won’t let him go to Philly? Is that why he was taking the meeting over the phone? That doesn’t explain why he couldn’t have gone home on his lunch break and taken the call in silence or even found an empty office in that huge building that seems to only have two businesses and taken the call there. That reminds me of the time Daryl decided to shoot a hoop at the end of an interview that he had already horribly bombed. Who in his right mind would shoot a basketball at a hoop that looks fake and is mounted over a fish tank in a conference room after a job interview? Even if he hadn’t messed up the fish tank, what if he just missed the shot? Who is hiring these people? How are they climbing ladders? Why would Darrell ask Val to be part of a family picture with him and his daughter, when she still dating her ex-boyfriend and his daughter doesn’t know who she is? Who is riding the show? Why would the writers ever think the audience would relate with that decision? Also, why would Michael Scott come to the wedding without Holly? It’s the wedding of his best friend. What reason could she possibly have for not being there? I could list examples like these examples all day, but for some reason, it’s absolutely impossible to make a comment as longer than one sentence in this TH-cam app. Remember that time Jim wrote a book about garden parties and Dwight somehow found it on Amazon and followed it to a T just a couple weeks later? Who comes up with these ideas? He could’ve just sent Dwight a fake email from an account that looked like it belonged to Robert California asking for very specific things to happen during the party? It would’ve taken him 20 minutes. Remember that time Pam stood up in the office and asked everyone to stop eating certain foods because of her pregnancy? Jesus Christ.
Why would Pam say Jim doesn’t work at the office anymore? He just quit and didn’t tell his clients? That’s nice of him to make sure they’ll never work with Dunder Mifflin/any of Dwight’s sales team again.
And Dwight? We’re supposed to believe that he fired two long-term employees who just were in his wedding that day even though those employees probably had no ongoing documentation that would lead to that sort of immediate termination without cause? The first issue is that it makes Dwight look like an idiot when his character is supposed to be highly intelligent. The second issue is that the three of them can be sued for fraud. The third issue is that he would definitely get fired for doing that. It’s so much worse than anything. Michael Scott did.
WTF is a Midwest goodbye?