It has strengths that the original doesn’t have, it has much more heart to it and it’s way less cynical (especially after season 1). It’s just a matter of preference. If you want a very dry, ironic version you go for the British one and if you want something that makes life actually look worth living you go for the US one.
Not just the UK. I'm a New Zealander and was in my late teens/early twenties in the late 1990s and early 2000's. I worked in offices like this as a temp during University break and in my first 3 graduate roles. This show really hit close to the bone for me, the entire cramped and pastel-coloured office environment and the fact you're spending time with people whom with you have nothing in common. The bullying and cliques and social hierarchies. Middle management being incompetent or mediocre and who're very insecure & immature people who've been elevated because they're safe & little threat to their superiors, and who lack any spine and try to avoid any responsibility/ugly tasks and try to make themselves popular yet try to assert authority by trying to impress people. The "team leader" who is just the middle manager's little lickspittle who does their dirty work and spies. The fact that most of the people working there don't deep-down really want to be there and may even hate their jobs but are trapped there because of necessity and/or needing to maintain their "Status" of having a "respectable job". The breakdown between the old male-dominated chauvinism of pre-1990's offices and the new political correctness and people always crossing the line and needing to be disciplined. Older people who were passed over for management being mortified at the prospect of losing their job. So many events that were portrayed in this show actually happened in workplaces I held positions in. Thankfully most office workplace environments have improved since, I wonder if this show and its US version were a catalyst for it?
@@danieleyre8913 I started my career at 16 in an office in 1998. Worked there till I was 19 in 2001. What you said is amazing and exactly how it was. I would add they also showed the “lad culture” well. Boys in offices wearing brown loafers with a black suit. “Oi oi savaloy! Going to horrible bars after and getting so pissed you end up with huge regret over the weekend. Lads who were deeply affected by lock stock and two smoking barrels and had nicknames for their silly little “crew” and perhaps t shirts with “kavos lads holiday 1999” on them. Them were the days!
@@RaferJeffersonIII Oh yeah we got some of that horrid “lad culture” here too. Not so much from “lock, stock & two smoking barrels” (decent film tbh), but more from mix of the vile music that was coming out from the UK at the time like Robbie Williams.
"To stop discussing how to get into the mindset of a wolf" Followed by Gareths face, looking like that's the most important thing in the world to discuss I love this 😂😂
Pretty sure he was behind more of the humour we enjoy than Gervais - After Life and Derek and clear examples of Ricky without Merchant and neither show hits the same, After Life is especially shit.
@maxpaynless7505 Thank you. After Life sucks. Ricky making a vanity project about what a good guy he is for loving his gf so much, using characters as a vehicle to deliver monologues he thinks are poignant or something.
After spending one or two decades at work, you understand Gareth is the perfect composite portrait of several office delusional freaks you met, combined into one. As a character, he's frighteningly realistic, and Mackenzie Crook brought him to life with an equally frightening surgical authenticity.
@@lifegoals9528 I don’t understand your comment…. Neither was the rest of the cast. It’s a different show. Like saying Harry Potter wasn’t in it either. So what?
glad they cut these, they were venturing in to the office us territory, in that they weren't believable. One of the main selling points of the Office uk for me was that it was almost mistakable for a real documentary at first glance. It was discreet.
Exactly my thinking. Having watched the series multiple times I hadn't seen these but they were right to cut them out as I can see how alot of these clips don't fit into the whole 'real documentary' feel. Honestly shows how great the series is that they cut the right things out, they knew what they were after. Masterpiece.
timothy790110 well they wouldn’t know they cut into us office because it was before us office was made so us version at this time wasn’t a version...yet.
@@lntari haha you didn't get his point. He mentioned the US version just to point out the fact that the UK version was more believable so by saying that they were venturing into the US version he was just saying that that one is less believable and more clearly a comedy, parody or mockumentary whatever lol
Best programme ever made,never ever gets old and it just gets funnier each time u watch it as there's so many layers to it and u pick up more everytime
@@distinctloafer Personally I don't find the US version funny or subtle in ways the UK version is. Different styles of humour, I guess. It's also a lot easier to identify with the characters in the UK version as characters who I've worked with in the past- in so many ways.
@@distinctloafer strongly disagree. The US show is entertaining but it’s does what most US sitcoms do and goes too hard on the love story, making it cheesy and cringy. Jim and Pam are fucking annoying 99% of the time.
The 'Who Cares Win's segment is a brilliant bit of writing. They had to perfectly capture that level of cringe of low-budget late-80's/early-90's training videos in way that's entertaining and satirical in its own right, but still had to keep up just the right amount of believability to exist within the universe of The Office's own brand of authentic-cringeworthy satire. There's multiple levels of complexity going on here and would've taken an incredible level of balance to work as well as it did in the final show. I'm genuinely blown away by the writing in this series.
It was perfection- especially the image of the burning money with terrible sound effects, terrible 80's muzak and forced corny gags which were so much a feature of those kind of workplace training videos.
Gareth Keenan's top 5 albums: 1. Animal Noises 2. Predator Noises 3. Lecture on Health and Plants 4. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill 5. Something about the Tides
6:48 After John Betjeman’s death in 1984, his daughter suggested that he was always slightly embarrassed about his infamous Slough poem, or at least the harshness of it when Luftwaffe bombs actually started impacting that urban landscape a mere few years later. Betjeman was really rallying against desecration and modernization in general, but you could not tell that to the residents hiding in air raid shelters or witnessing destruction all around them.
Hopefully you are of an age where the little period references mean something. Even if not its still utterly amazing. (Nice shirt, thanks ciro citerrio.)
My favourite is Brent's pride in his school art assignment. It's exactly the sort of thing people do at school, so believable he'd still be really proud of it.
I know some of those scenes weren't relevant to the storyline. But all those scenes had me in stitches. How they sorted through this and managed to leave them out. Shows how funny the series was.
Gervais is genius, each character is played by the perfect actor for that role, the casting was spot on! The characters individual stories So many unbelievably funny bits, i love how gervais plays brent, its comedy genius Guaranteed to make u laugh if you need a pick me up!
@Mr Spitsworth Agreed, Gervais needs someone else to stop him drifting into mawkish sentimentality/self aggrandisement (Afterlife) or just utter shite like Derek
@@104ist calm down bro, your taking credit for uploading a dvd extra your nothing special either, your not going to gain subs by being a dick to people in your comments
I play free love highway in my car randomly to see if I hear from my passengers or it goes over their heads like a logit piece of music. Such a great show. 🇨🇦
Stumbling across videos like this for the first time is why I fucking love youtube (the platform). I'm a massive UK Office fan, this was amazing. And also, can we all agree that Hot Love Highway or what ever it's called is an absolute banger?
Should've kept a few of those in, genuinely funny, although I fully understand the time constraints. Loved The Office, comedy classic imo. Hard to believe the first series was first shown 20 years ago now.
I love and watch The Office over and over and over again… I can relate to some scenes…one in particular when David calls Dawn into his office to “fire her” for stealing post it notes…and made her cry…. Reminds me of a situation in the early 90’s, where I was called in a managers office and made to apologise to the workshop foreman (I don’t recall what it was, but I do recall how it made me feel) it was a wind up, they all laughed at me….I left the office in tears and ran to the toilet…😢 No apologies were made to me….Managers wouldn’t get away with that behaviour today….
I don't trust people who think the US version is better than the original
yeah same lol
Amen
Well they're morons
It has strengths that the original doesn’t have, it has much more heart to it and it’s way less cynical (especially after season 1). It’s just a matter of preference. If you want a very dry, ironic version you go for the British one and if you want something that makes life actually look worth living you go for the US one.
Only Americans would think that the US office is better.
The British version is a masterpiece.
"For a man with such great musical talent, David Brent is refreshingly laid back."
Brent mused.
The Office got me through some dark times in the past. I've watched it back to back about 100+ times. It never gets old for me. Period.
No one cares
@@screenwatcherfindlay6027 Yet you cared enough to reply to my comment, troll. Get back under your rock 🪨
@@screenwatcherfindlay6027 savage🤣😂
I'm with you there.
@@Therealderry433 Hardly savage trolling people, get a life mate.
This series immortalizes late 1990s early 2000s UK.
Not just the UK.
I'm a New Zealander and was in my late teens/early twenties in the late 1990s and early 2000's. I worked in offices like this as a temp during University break and in my first 3 graduate roles.
This show really hit close to the bone for me, the entire cramped and pastel-coloured office environment and the fact you're spending time with people whom with you have nothing in common. The bullying and cliques and social hierarchies. Middle management being incompetent or mediocre and who're very insecure & immature people who've been elevated because they're safe & little threat to their superiors, and who lack any spine and try to avoid any responsibility/ugly tasks and try to make themselves popular yet try to assert authority by trying to impress people. The "team leader" who is just the middle manager's little lickspittle who does their dirty work and spies. The fact that most of the people working there don't deep-down really want to be there and may even hate their jobs but are trapped there because of necessity and/or needing to maintain their "Status" of having a "respectable job". The breakdown between the old male-dominated chauvinism of pre-1990's offices and the new political correctness and people always crossing the line and needing to be disciplined. Older people who were passed over for management being mortified at the prospect of losing their job.
So many events that were portrayed in this show actually happened in workplaces I held positions in. Thankfully most office workplace environments have improved since, I wonder if this show and its US version were a catalyst for it?
@@danieleyre8913 Maybe Daniel
@@danieleyre8913 I started my career at 16 in an office in 1998. Worked there till I was 19 in 2001. What you said is amazing and exactly how it was. I would add they also showed the “lad culture” well. Boys in offices wearing brown loafers with a black suit. “Oi oi savaloy! Going to horrible bars after and getting so pissed you end up with huge regret over the weekend.
Lads who were deeply affected by lock stock and two smoking barrels and had nicknames for their silly little “crew” and perhaps t shirts with “kavos lads holiday 1999” on them.
Them were the days!
@@RaferJeffersonIII Oh yeah we got some of that horrid “lad culture” here too. Not so much from “lock, stock & two smoking barrels” (decent film tbh), but more from mix of the vile music that was coming out from the UK at the time like Robbie Williams.
@@danieleyre8913 yep. Robbie Williams who tried pretending he was Frank Sinatra and then disappeared into insignificance
Boring isn't just staying in watching The Office deleted scenes with your life? Not for me, I like it...
*bites into a scotch egg*
❤
"To stop discussing how to get into the mindset of a wolf"
Followed by Gareths face, looking like that's the most important thing in the world to discuss
I love this 😂😂
“She’s Deeeadddd”
“She’s not dead” 😂😂
That smug "Doesn't he like girls?" promptly followed by the slightly embarrassed "I'm not...". Brilliant.
“Let’s shift some units..bloody hell”
Possibly the greatest quote ever, but for the office its a throaway
Antiestablishmentarianism.
Just get off my back….. about it……alright
cant believe they ditched this!
Merchant never gets enough credit
He's excellent in Hello Ladies.
Pretty sure he was behind more of the humour we enjoy than Gervais - After Life and Derek and clear examples of Ricky without Merchant and neither show hits the same, After Life is especially shit.
@maxpaynless7505 Thank you. After Life sucks. Ricky making a vanity project about what a good guy he is for loving his gf so much, using characters as a vehicle to deliver monologues he thinks are poignant or something.
"Let's have a go, let's shift some bloody units if that's what you want, for christ sake. Just get off my back" 😂😂
Mackenzie Crook was brilliant in this show, he found the perfect line of stupidity between believable and unbelievable.
He wasn't in the US version, Dwight was really amazing in that.
After spending one or two decades at work, you understand Gareth is the perfect composite portrait of several office delusional freaks you met, combined into one. As a character, he's frighteningly realistic, and Mackenzie Crook brought him to life with an equally frightening surgical authenticity.
@@lifegoals9528 he wasn't ?
@@lifegoals9528 Ofc he wasn't , it was an entirely different show
@@lifegoals9528 I don’t understand your comment…. Neither was the rest of the cast. It’s a different show. Like saying Harry Potter wasn’t in it either. So what?
"remember the japanese sniper" "he's back?" lmao
Lol.
Holy shit this is gold!
I must have watched every episode a hundred times so at 28 minutes long this is almost like an episode I've never seen
hahahahahahahaha yesss
"Mr Keenan, have ooh, you what.....huh, no I was, errr"
just been laughing for 10 mins at that...perfect from Gervais
20:36 I love how Dawn casually plays with his tie. It's so sweet and such a sign of affection for him...
@ The Jovial Brit. Ah, but is it really though...?
“Got a lot on my mind. Women Troubles”
“Well go home if you’re not well!” 😆
The fact that they did free love freeway in 4 takes is absolutely incredible.
glad they cut these, they were venturing in to the office us territory, in that they weren't believable. One of the main selling points of the Office uk for me was that it was almost mistakable for a real documentary at first glance. It was discreet.
Exactly my thinking. Having watched the series multiple times I hadn't seen these but they were right to cut them out as I can see how alot of these clips don't fit into the whole 'real documentary' feel. Honestly shows how great the series is that they cut the right things out, they knew what they were after. Masterpiece.
timothy790110 well they wouldn’t know they cut into us office because it was before us office was made so us version at this time wasn’t a version...yet.
@@lntari haha you didn't get his point. He mentioned the US version just to point out the fact that the UK version was more believable so by saying that they were venturing into the US version he was just saying that that one is less believable and more clearly a comedy, parody or mockumentary whatever lol
Yep definitely.
@dogs aren't dangerous It's an example. Just because the US Office hadn't existed yet doesn't make what he's saying wrong.
This series will never be beaten IMO. It's always my go to series when I need a laugh.
Police and firefighters show up almost immediately.
Yeah? Against karate?
Great show but I have to put the Larry Sanders show as the best sitcom of all time.
@@shannongrate3438 Larry Sanders show are little slugs, they're little slugs with no personality
TV show - the sopranos
Best programme ever made,never ever gets old and it just gets funnier each time u watch it as there's so many layers to it and u pick up more everytime
When the whistle blows is better
I love everything about the office uk
Mackenzie Crook is such a good actor.
PsyMongazoid looks like Nelly Furtado... ‘cept not as annoying...
PsyMongazoid Not really
@Cool Waters oooh you're hard, showing off cause. ....
Ashley Bray let’s agree to disagree
@@go1666 No! Let's agree that you agree with me :-)
american here.... british shows destroy ours. The Office is sublime perfection.
Do Americans understand this type of humour?
@@boxinglegend3060 The American one is better and more complete, but UK one is greater and more historically/culturally significant.
@@distinctloafer Personally I don't find the US version funny or subtle in ways the UK version is. Different styles of humour, I guess. It's also a lot easier to identify with the characters in the UK version as characters who I've worked with in the past- in so many ways.
@@distinctloafer strongly disagree. The US show is entertaining but it’s does what most US sitcoms do and goes too hard on the love story, making it cheesy and cringy. Jim and Pam are fucking annoying 99% of the time.
@@chrisayres8460 The show have more than just Jim and Pam, you gotta zoom out.
One of THE best shows ever made.
The 'Who Cares Win's segment is a brilliant bit of writing. They had to perfectly capture that level of cringe of low-budget late-80's/early-90's training videos in way that's entertaining and satirical in its own right, but still had to keep up just the right amount of believability to exist within the universe of The Office's own brand of authentic-cringeworthy satire. There's multiple levels of complexity going on here and would've taken an incredible level of balance to work as well as it did in the final show. I'm genuinely blown away by the writing in this series.
It was perfection- especially the image of the burning money with terrible sound effects, terrible 80's muzak and forced corny gags which were so much a feature of those kind of workplace training videos.
Great assessment. I wonder if Gervais/Merchant directed this video or got someone else in to do it.
Don't be blue Peter...
@@tintomara6209 quick as a flash...
Gareth Keenan's top 5 albums:
1. Animal Noises
2. Predator Noises
3. Lecture on Health and Plants
4. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
5. Something about the Tides
...and coincidentally, also his top ten!
He would love the bbc sound effects record that was featured in Father Ted
@@davidmorrissey5075 omg he would
Ha, so ironic.
7:25 "oh he's havin' a go at tinned fruit now" hahaha, almost spat my tea!
6:48 After John Betjeman’s death in 1984, his daughter suggested that he was always slightly embarrassed about his infamous Slough poem, or at least the harshness of it when Luftwaffe bombs actually started impacting that urban landscape a mere few years later. Betjeman was really rallying against desecration and modernization in general, but you could not tell that to the residents hiding in air raid shelters or witnessing destruction all around them.
"In life, never be afraid of moving forward slowly. Only be afraid of standing still."
David Brent dropping pearls of wisdom
Not actually a bad saying.
@@ajaxtelamonian5134 yes indeed.
I had never seen The Office until last week and binged the whole thing, better late than never.
You lucky bastard. I wish I could relive seeing it for the first time.
Hopefully you are of an age where the little period references mean something. Even if not its still utterly amazing. (Nice shirt, thanks ciro citerrio.)
The delivery of 'over-rated' at the end of the Betjeman scene is uncoachable perfection.
Dawn is an absolute fox
This shows how well Merchant/Gervais managed Gareth as a character as all his deleted scenes made him far too cartoony
I can see the bike scene for sure. But him discussing his women troubles I think was well done.
@@thankyoujodi yeh that scene should have been kept imo
I don't think it does.
Nah some of these lines are so good "in not afraid to tread where eagles dare" lol
My favourite is Brent's pride in his school art assignment. It's exactly the sort of thing people do at school, so believable he'd still be really proud of it.
I know some of those scenes weren't relevant to the storyline. But all those scenes had me in stitches. How they sorted through this and managed to leave them out. Shows how funny the series was.
Can't believe this was over 20 years ago wow.
this is pure gold. The UK version is a T bone steak from Hawksmoor, the USA version is sandwich meat from aldi thats about to go out of date
The Americans tried to produce copycat versions of Brit shows etc. All failed. Monty Python really pissed them off .
Good analogy 👏
Crap analogy
🤣 I'm American and fully agree. We have our own funny humor too, but nothin beats the Brit's humor!
The training video bit is so accurate it reminds me of what i used to have to watch as a YT in the Co-op back in the 90’s
A great example why British humour is the best!
I just discovered Makenzie Crook's brilliant show "The Detectorists". He is a great writer. It's well worth a watch.
Those scenes where David Brent discussed art, and Dawn and Tim discuss Gareth's drawing, made me feel like a kid again. Great stuff Ricky and Steve.
I've still got all eps recorded off sky and love how there's always a subtle moment I missed an think I can't believe I missed that. Love it
the Slough poem was tremendous... and true
Gervais is genius, each character is played by the perfect actor for that role, the casting was spot on! The characters individual stories So many unbelievably funny bits, i love how gervais plays brent, its comedy genius
Guaranteed to make u laugh if you need a pick me up!
@Mr Spitsworth Agreed, Gervais needs someone else to stop him drifting into mawkish sentimentality/self aggrandisement (Afterlife) or just utter shite like Derek
He's just playing himself?
"2, stop telling Tim how I'd catch and skin a rabbit if I was blinded".
Can’t believe they cut the “nice breaasts” line that had me in stitches.
You've done an unreal job with this video
What this? Aww just someone telling me what a superb job I'm doing....
*It's not a competition Gareth!*
@@MSV19801 sshut up
@@MSV19801 yeah well what have you ever done? Nothing, so.... god you try something and.....
@@104ist calm down bro, your taking credit for uploading a dvd extra your nothing special either, your not going to gain subs by being a dick to people in your comments
‘You coming in?’
‘No’
I play free love highway in my car randomly to see if I hear from my passengers or it goes over their heads like a logit piece of music. Such a great show. 🇨🇦
She's not dead 🤣
Ricky recorded a studio version of Free Love Freeway with Noel Gallagher, and it actually kind of rocks lol
13:02 Tim almost says "Mackenzie"
Well spotted. Same scene at 13:30, Tim with the ruler whilst looking at Gareth's nether region. FAF!!
sounds like he says "but can I have one like that do you think" to me
@@jnbr7520 I'm talking just before that, he says "Mac-"
Can't believe they didn't use some of these scenes. Especially the "are you gonna get changed" one 😆
Time is finite. You would have had to lose something that was in
RIP Keith 😢
Stumbling across videos like this for the first time is why I fucking love youtube (the platform). I'm a massive UK Office fan, this was amazing. And also, can we all agree that Hot Love Highway or what ever it's called is an absolute banger?
Brilliant! Really good selection.
Thanks so much for uploading this. Golden!
Keith is the best. Such an underrated character
Make your excuse and leave, I'm gonna move in 🦾🦾
Thats just his job though…..
I love the disco scenes, even the deleted ones
"Jelly or any gelatin-based pudding product." They should have kept that one in.
27:12 This is gold!
He’s thrown a kettle over the pub - what have you done?
radius one won a quiz ?
Even though he’s a twat, you can’t help but love David Brent ❤️
Every workplace has a David Brent 😂
Gold! Thanks for the upload, Kid.
That ‘kid’ sounded offensive kid
Just brilliant. What a laugh they had doing this.
Excellent video, cheers
This was great, thanks
David Brent saved my life
You must remember to thank him.
@@mattd2275 trust, encourage, reward, satisfaction
1:28 Gareth actually trying to get into the mindset of a wolf 😂
"Mr. Keenan! Have. ooh. you... what... Huh? No's err... oh, awada'wass, don't wanna do. What, erm. Are you gonna get changed?"
Haha brilliant! He says nothing and everything all at the same time, I love it!
Yeah but I was -
Good...
That part so should have been left in.
This is like an extra episode ✋😃👍
this was great
Thanks for this bro.
Subbed for unseen footage nice vid
"Peter Purves" ... not, in fact, a joke, yet in this context, wonderfully silly.
This was so innovative.
It's a shame they cut that first scene, it's gold haha
How amazing is Gareth?! Love these scenes
this is gold
Brent's face when Gareth asks him if he's going into the toilet with him.
This is too good
Good editing to leave this stuff out
thanks for uploading...right, thats lunch!
This is the best TV show ever! Bar none!
David’s face when Gareth asks if he’s coming into the toilet 😂😂😂
I usually just leave the room when someone says the US version is better
"That's fine, that's just two mates being sorry through physicality"
Should've kept a few of those in, genuinely funny, although I fully understand the time constraints. Loved The Office, comedy classic imo. Hard to believe the first series was first shown 20 years ago now.
Amazing
Best series ever.
it's not a competition Gareth!
paddym27 it bloody is!
NICE BREAAASTS!
I love and watch The Office over and over and over again… I can relate to some scenes…one in particular when David calls Dawn into his office to “fire her” for stealing post it notes…and made her cry….
Reminds me of a situation in the early 90’s, where I was called in a managers office and made to apologise to the workshop foreman (I don’t recall what it was, but I do recall how it made me feel) it was a wind up, they all laughed at me….I left the office in tears and ran to the toilet…😢
No apologies were made to me….Managers wouldn’t get away with that behaviour today….
LMAO
No idea how anyone could be so mean to a cute little fairy. 😔
The first deleted scene makes David look like he is actually a good boss lol
The thing is apparently he actually is a good boss but the playing up to the cameras is what got him fired 😩 he couldn’t help it
I'm a huggggeee the office fan and I'de never seen these before. Thank you so much!!!!
Yeah me too I've never seen then. where were they from??
What the heck, I actually commented on my own post a year later.
How would I know which one I was?
@@shaunj66 What's that Shaun? I don't understand your comment
@@elfinzilla it’s a Karl pilkington quote lol
The Office was comedy genius. Up there with Fawlty Towers 😀👌
“maybe try it on a stray cat” LOL
'Who cares wins' ...a classic
The greatest.
brilliant.... still makes me laugh just as much today. in the same class as Fawlty towers and Only Fools in terms of comedy gold.
Awesome!
Working out what to leave in and leave out must have been incredibly hard, most of these scenes were hilarious
Under weaknesses.. You've put eczema...