I actually worked close to that opening freeway shot of rush hour traffic. It's the intersection of the dallas north tollway and IH635. Traffic on 635 is notoriously the worst traffic in all of DFW. I had to deal with it every day. First time i saw the movie.....it put me in a bad place from the beginning.
Just 2 weeks ago (pre-corona) I had the same experience but with one of those mobile handicap scooters. I couldn't believe it. I nearly shook the steering wheel the same way. Then I remembered this movie and laughed, so it's all good!
Matt Damon is an great actor but I really cant imagine how office space will turn out if he was casted instead, Ron Livingston nailed his role too perfectly!
This movie came out when I was 24 and so perfectly nailed the setting for useless, entry level jobs. Cube farm was exactly like my first job, down to the color scheme and glass doors to the offices of the (thousands of) vice presidents. Like Peter said they paid me just enough not to quit and I worked just hard enough to not get fired.
@@apurugganan staring at your desk for an hour is completely accurate too. Counting dots in the ceiling tiles. When we figured out the admin password and unlocked solitaire that was the highlight of my 5 months there.
@@dalethelander3781 I got the end cubicle at the far end of the row in exchange for taking on a new responsibility that I was able to whittle down to half an hour per week. Small price to pay. No one could see my screen so I could alt-tab if someone walked up. I got really good at solitare and pinball.
I work in a bank corp office, and all of this says so much. Our office is a former call center office so LOW cubes (with NO PRIVACY) as far as the eye can see. Lots of middle management types. All to do low level, low pay, grindingly dull stuff on a daily basis. 🙄
A lot of that is because of who the movie pokes fun at. Corporate America is a large percentage of the country. When I first started working in an office I recommended the movie to many people there, most came back and said the movie wasn't funny. Then it hit me: if you don't like the movie - IT'S ABOUT YOU.
You didn't give Gary Cole his props. He is a versitle actor who can do any role. Lumberg is an iconic character that Cole made delightfully loathsome. Everybody on the planet has a Lumburg in their life.
The face that Michael Bolton makes when he's sitting down after that woman waves at him during the virus scene is a face that I adopted and have used my whole life since that movie came out.
I about die laughing when I see Peter's nightmare sequence with a bare chested Lumberg holding a cup of coffee in one hand and Jennifer Anniston's leg in the other.
I saw this in the cinema, when I was a software engineer working in a cubicle, and was literally stunned that no-one else seemed to have seen it, and that it did so poorly. It's not like there weren't many of us living that cubicle life! Pure gold.
They spent the marketing budget on Jennifer. The movie is perfection - right down to the logo - square peg round hole. (ty to my sister noticing it immediately)
Mike Judge is the master of making monotonous conformity into deep comedic commentaries that age better than wine. This and King of the Hill are truly masterpiece shows that challenge the status quo through non-abrasive comedy. He represents creativity in a world of distractions.
Gary Cole played lead in the Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade shortly before filming Office Space, and his character wore an "Earthforce Academy" prop ring that Cole like so much, he kept it, and wore it as Lumbergh in Office Space.
@@carbine090909 It was a clusterfuck. TNT executives meddled in the series, they insisted that new costumes be made after six episodes had already been shot and those episodes be held as the last six shown out of thirteen. Joe Straczynski got fed up and called it quits.
Office Space is a perfect movie. Saw it everyday for a month over a winter break in college. I can honestly say it solidified my understanding that the office is not for me.
"They sent him a copy of the original British version with some reviews that praised the show for succeeding in capturing the everyday work environment where the movie failed to do so" Which is funny since Office Space does a much, *much* better job of capturing the everyday work environment than either the British or American versions of The Office ever did.
Definitely agree. There's a massive difference between an office where you can see everyone, and one where you are an insignificant body in a vast sea of despair. Office Space takes the win on that one.
I saw it at a theatre when it first came out. One of those decisions you make and find out later it was one of the best in your life. Balanced out by going to Showgirls. Brain. Bleach.
As a long-term office drone, I cannot endorse Office Space more than to say along with Terry Gilliam's Brazil, it sums up the soul-sucking feeling of office life extremely accurately. Who hasn't wanted to beat the crap out of a malfunctioning printer? I know I have.
I like Office Space better than The Office because it's more realistic. You have crude, dark humor, your have profanity, you have people genuinely not giving a shit about their jobs in the most relatable ways. Whereas in The Office, with the ever-lovable Jim and Pam, it's like everything is coated in a family friendly filter that leaves a void in my stomach. I liked The Office in the 2000s, and not even as much as Scrubs. Office Space, however, only gets more entertaining AND funny as I get older. Truly the king of the office job played out in a comedy.
It would have been interesting to see what Mike Judge could do with the premise. I like the US Office, but it really is pretty brainless middle of the road dogshit.
I respect your view, but I didn't see any kind of filter on the Office, it's kind of the point. Michael as the "what not to do" kind of boss. Just look at the shit he says, way worse than Lunberg, however maybe not as close to reality. Still would like to see a Mike Judge show based on his movie. With plenty of 90s gangsta rap ;)
TPS Reports were used in the horror video game F.E.A.R. When going through offices in the game all the paper laying around says "TPS Report" on the top.
They also got a small nod in the closed superhero mmorpg 'City of Heroes' where human-android replicants talk about needing to get their T.P.S. reports.
Loved Office Space, but unfair to compare. Office Space was 90 minutes long, but "The Office" kept up that quality of comedy for over 7,000 minutes over 9 years.
@@kdogg6781 Compared to other sitcoms, The Office, seasons 1-7, were a 10/10. Seasons 8 and 9, though, I would rate a solid 8/10. Even though Michael Scott was obviously vital, it is a slight to the incredible ensemble cast of The Office to dismiss those two seasons.
#8... The line where Milton refers to the squirrels outside his window as "married" (his idiosyncratic way of saying they were fucking) was improvised by Stephen Root on the spur of the moment. It totally cracked up the entire crew and that was the take they used in the film.
I remember I was a senior in high school when this movie came out in theaters in limited release. I was curious about it and decided on a whim to check it out. Ended up loving it of course and tried to get all my friends to see it, whereas 1 girl actually did. I call myself an OG Office Space fan bc i was ranting about how cool it was long before it was cool.
Funny thing, Office Space didn't even enter my radar until about 18 months ago when clips came up on my recommended. I dug the clips, and eventually rented the movie online. It reminded me of the many corporate restructurings and layoffs that took place at the Dallas office of a Texas-based bank I worked for.
I can’t believe he got this made and all the actors fully embraced the vision and after all it didn’t do well. Only later did it receive the respect due. This is how art gets made
In the 90's I worked at an engineering company in Houston and one of the managers was the spitting image of Lumberg. He had the 80's haircut, wore suspenders with a belt, and the white-collar shirts just like Bill. Love this movie!! So funny.
Office Space is the film equivalent to fine wine. The longer you work a job, especially a job you hate, and even better a corporate job, you can relate to different parts of this film in different ways. For instance, I always thought the printer murder scene was funny… but didn’t understand it until I worked a job with terrible technology that negatively impacted me.. and was also something my company didn’t care to ever fix. I literally said I would murder these technological devices if I could.. then I instantly thought of this scene and BUSTED out laughing. It was a completely different experience the next time I watched this movie. Also, I ended up getting move to a new department where both of my bosses were named “Bob”. Everyone called them “the two Bobs”.
When I first saw the movie, I just assumed that Jennifer Aniston was friends with the producer or director or something so they convinced her to do what seemed like a low-budget-no-stars movie for scale, sort of as a favor. I had no idea she was a plant from the studio.
We have TPS forms at work-no relation to the film. We, unfortunately, have many other absurd and soul crushing traits depicted in the film. I get by with a dry and cutting sense of humor. I've been told in two separate yearly evaluations, by two different managers, that people sometimes have trouble figuring out if what I just said to them is true. Always, leave them guessing.
I had a Lumberg boss in a small firm. He turned an open plan environment into a grey hellscape - the cubicle walls were 7feet high, you couldn't even stand up to look at or talk to a colleague. There was also the kitchenette that was through the women's toilet door - it's as weird and awkward as it sounded. The Lumberg wouldn't use it, but he told us it was not a problem.
"Every day is worse than the day before. That means that every time you see me, it is literally the worst day of my life." "Whoa. That's fucked up." So true.
I thought "Office Space" captured the '90s office world quite well, albeit a specific segment. It rings most true to people who worked in tech from the late 80s to early 2000s. Which, not coincidentally, is precisely where I spent most of my career. :-)
I had a new supervisor years ago who started a productivity study. He was a book worm, and never saw Office Space. So, my coworkers and I submitted our daily work activity on a TPS form. He asked what is a TPS? I replied Time Productivity Survey. He tried to impress the manager the form was his own original idea. Tip: If a manager has a red Swingline stapler, think twice.
I listened to an interview with Mike Judge on the Nerdist (now called 1D10T) podcast where he told a slightly different version of the red stapler story than what this video says (although the general themes are still the same). Mike Judge first went to a company that I believe was called the Boston Stapler company asking them for a red stapler for the movie, but the company didn’t want to partake in the sponsorship deal. Judge then went to Swingliner and asked if he could use their staplers for the movie. Swingliner didn’t have a red stapler at the time but said that he could use their brand, so they either produced a one-off batch of red ones (or the crew painted one red as the video states, I can’t remember which it was) and they used it for the movie. After the movie came out the company really did get so many calls for this non-existent red stapler that they started producing one right away. To this day, the red stapler is still the highest selling product for Swingliner!
What is it with Mike Judge and making amazing movies that no one sees until they are out on DVD, and then realize how brilliant they are? We really do live in Idiocracy....
My wife and I actually lived in Austin when they were filming a scene from the movie!! It was the scene where Jennifer and Peter were in the car that was on metric blvd..the marroon blur in the scene going by is my car!!
Not to mention Hot Topic sold t-shirts and other memorabilia. This movie flopped originally but found a huge audience later. It's my favorite comedy. A masterpiece from Mike Judge.
A couple years after the movie came out and was becoming a cult classic, I worked for a company whos initials were TPS. So I had printed off a copy of the TPS cover sheet and had it on my partition wall. :D AND I bought one of the red staplers for my current job.
Its amazing that Mike judge created two cult classics, beavis and butthead, king of the hill and silicon valley. Silicon valley is very much similar to office space if you haven't seen it.
I literally worked at a cubicle job when Office Space came out. Then shortly thereafter was a server at a chain restaurant just like Fridays. I could identify with everything in that movie. Later I had another office job that actually had 2 efficiency experts come in. My boss actually called them the Bobs, despite it being a man and woman. Needless to say, many quotes from the movie are part of the everyday lexicon in most offices.
5:33 Greg Daniels did not produce Office Space, it's not credited on his Wikipedia, his IMDb nor the credits of the film. He did co-created King of the Hill with Mike Judge, which was probably how he discovered about NBC's proposing Judge to create an Americanization of The Office.
I actually worked at a law firm where a J.D. grad who didnt pass the bar was moved around like Milton. The first time they moved him, I was new and found it funny/ironic. 3 moves later I realized how disrespectful it was lol
Title mishap, we had a case of the... Thursdays?
Please cover the Simpsons movie 2007
You always do this. You always mess up some mundane detail.
CineFix go with Brittany Yates idea and do the Simpsons movie
7 things you (probably) didn't know about Hudson Hawk....do it!
@@SlyMaelstrom just like your parents
"I understand you've been missing a lot of work"
"I wouldn't say I've been missing it Bob"
Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam??
That think's lucky i'm not armed
piece of chit
I posted this clip at the Facebook page of a foreign English school that teaches students English word play jokes. They loved it.
LOL!!! I got fired from a job for too many absences once.
Correction - Bob says "looks like" not "I understand".
@@dwoodog Wait....you didn’t come often enough, so to punish you, they told you not to come again? Ironic
The traffic scene at the beginning of the movie is the most relatable thing of any movie ever made.
I actually worked close to that opening freeway shot of rush hour traffic. It's the intersection of the dallas north tollway and IH635. Traffic on 635 is notoriously the worst traffic in all of DFW. I had to deal with it every day. First time i saw the movie.....it put me in a bad place from the beginning.
When the guy with the walker was moving faster than his car was one of funniest things I have ever seen.
That Seen in the trailer is what sold me on the movie.
I got my pistol point n cocked ready to lay shots till I see yo monkey ass drop
- Geto Boys
Just 2 weeks ago (pre-corona) I had the same experience but with one of those mobile handicap scooters. I couldn't believe it. I nearly shook the steering wheel the same way. Then I remembered this movie and laughed, so it's all good!
Matt Damon is an great actor but I really cant imagine how office space will turn out if he was casted instead, Ron Livingston nailed his role too perfectly!
This movie came out when I was 24 and so perfectly nailed the setting for useless, entry level jobs. Cube farm was exactly like my first job, down to the color scheme and glass doors to the offices of the (thousands of) vice presidents. Like Peter said they paid me just enough not to quit and I worked just hard enough to not get fired.
Kpk33x Altogether I work a total of 15 minutes per week, tops...
@@apurugganan staring at your desk for an hour is completely accurate too. Counting dots in the ceiling tiles. When we figured out the admin password and unlocked solitaire that was the highlight of my 5 months there.
@@kpk33x In order to accomplish that, you have to walk a fine line and know when and how not to cross it one way or the other.
@@dalethelander3781 I got the end cubicle at the far end of the row in exchange for taking on a new responsibility that I was able to whittle down to half an hour per week. Small price to pay. No one could see my screen so I could alt-tab if someone walked up. I got really good at solitare and pinball.
I work in a bank corp office, and all of this says so much. Our office is a former call center office so LOW cubes (with NO PRIVACY) as far as the eye can see. Lots of middle management types. All to do low level, low pay, grindingly dull stuff on a daily basis. 🙄
Still one of the most underrated movies of the 90’s
Maybe when it came out, but it has a cult following. It did very well on dvd. Kinda like Shawshank Redemption.
David agreed
It's the Caddyshack of the corporate world.
TPS wow
A lot of that is because of who the movie pokes fun at. Corporate America is a large percentage of the country.
When I first started working in an office I recommended the movie to many people there, most came back and said the movie wasn't funny.
Then it hit me: if you don't like the movie - IT'S ABOUT YOU.
You didn't give Gary Cole his props. He is a versitle actor who can do any role. Lumberg is an iconic character that Cole made delightfully loathsome. Everybody on the planet has a Lumburg in their life.
My first boss was Lumberg. Any time he talked it's all I could think about and I'd just walk away laughing.
He also says if you’re not first you’re last
It still blows my mind that Lumberg is Harvey Birdman.
@@DoctorAutopsy and Mike Brady, father of the Brady Bunch. and Reese Bobby, the alcoholic father of Ricky Bobby in Talledega Nights.
And he’s Harvey Birdman!
I'm so glad Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn didn't get the part.
That would have been Office Crashers
He also killed in Napoleon Dynamite.
But Vince vaughn was awesome in Clay Pigeons.
Me too. I love Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn but they would've been terrible for the characters and it would undermined the movie as a whole
I think Vince Vaughn would of done great but this movie came out perfect 😉
The face that Michael Bolton makes when he's sitting down after that woman waves at him during the virus scene is a face that I adopted and have used my whole life since that movie came out.
Me too LOL!
One of my fave scenes of any movie
Tru dat
That face Bolton makes may be my favorite part of the entire movie.
Me too
I about die laughing when I see Peter's nightmare sequence with a bare chested Lumberg holding a cup of coffee in one hand and Jennifer Anniston's leg in the other.
Brett DeLong They should have made it that Lumberg, those cowards
I’m sure that was a body double leg, not actually Ms Anniston
@@melissacarmona8199 ew, why?
I just watched this movie the other night and in my own opinion, honestly, office space is one of the best comedy films ever made. Super relatable
Big ups to Stephen Root for such an awesome Milton performance
wasnt he in no country for old men?
He was great in Netflix’s “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” in the second vignette, as a bank teller getting robbed by James Franco. “Pan shot!”
@@abbyboyone And NewsRadio and a lot of other great roles too.
@@joemckim1183 "O Brother, Where Art Thou"
@@jennymacallan9071 One of my favorite comedies of all time. George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson were all perfect together.
A friend of mine saw this movie and quit his job the next day. He followed his dream and everything turned out great.
I have a similar plan, but I have to find a hypnotherapist first...
@@apurugganan Not just any hypnotherapist. An OCCUPATIONAL hypnotherapist.
@@nunyabidness117with heart problems.
You never mentioned the fact that Joanna's boss is, in fact, played by Mike Judge.
I didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out.
Yeah, that's what I thought
Whoa....I've been a fan of this movie for almost 20 years and I never knew Jen's boss was Mike Judge the whole time. #mindblown
Well there’s 3 people we can’t torture on trivia night 5:31
Everyone knows that.
I saw this in the cinema, when I was a software engineer working in a cubicle, and was literally stunned that no-one else seemed to have seen it, and that it did so poorly. It's not like there weren't many of us living that cubicle life! Pure gold.
It's like The Wizard of Oz and The Princess Bride. It took a while for enough people to understand how awesome they were.
They spent the marketing budget on Jennifer. The movie is perfection - right down to the logo - square peg round hole. (ty to my sister noticing it immediately)
Not one single actor was misscast. It is perfect, a piece of art.
As a former TGIFriday's employee; starting in 2006.. I just want to say thank you. I heard nightmares about the flair and I'm glad it went away :)
Yeah bunch of Bullshit for sure
TGI2006
Madonna probably liked it though. She had a hit song about "expressing yourself".
What's amazing is how the broad themes of this movie still hold up, even if the technology does not. It belongs in the Library of Congress.
Humor out of soul crushing grinds has probably been a staple (ha) of human existence since the agricultural revolution began thousands of years ago.
NShores The movie is genius.
Mike Judge is the master of making monotonous conformity into deep comedic commentaries that age better than wine. This and King of the Hill are truly masterpiece shows that challenge the status quo through non-abrasive comedy. He represents creativity in a world of distractions.
HIGH SCHOOL - "this movie sucks"
Work in an office - "OFFICE SPACE IS A PROPHECY OF DOOM, everything in it came true :("
Your profile image made me think I had a smudge on my screen.
Nailed it lol
People were saying when they were younger it was just a funny movie, but when they got older it became a documentary 🤭 lol
@@jaypritchett6846 Was about to reference the same thing. Really makes sense now in the stage of life I'm in. That and "Clerks".
One interesting fact about the movie, Peter and Lawrence live in the Morning wood Apartment Complex.
Oh My! :-)
Jeremy Atkins Good catch I think the term is a staple even in Beavis n Butthead lol
He said wood...
One of the most underrated movies ever
Gary Cole played lead in the Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade shortly before filming Office Space, and his character wore an "Earthforce Academy" prop ring that Cole like so much, he kept it, and wore it as Lumbergh in Office Space.
THERE'S A B5 SPINOFF????
Very interesting. I would like to nominate this fact as the 8th thing we did not know about Office Space.
@@carbine090909 It was a clusterfuck. TNT executives meddled in the series, they insisted that new costumes be made after six episodes had already been shot and those episodes be held as the last six shown out of thirteen. Joe Straczynski got fed up and called it quits.
Office Space is a perfect movie. Saw it everyday for a month over a winter break in college. I can honestly say it solidified my understanding that the office is not for me.
2 chicks at the same time man
Fuckin A
Now, what would you do?
...Besides two chicks at the same time?
That's it? That's what you'd do?
@J Dial Look at my cousin. He's broke, don't do jack shit.
'Not all chicks dig dudes with money'.
'Well the kind of chicks that double up on a dude like me do'
My dad was actually the one who took the cake away from Milton. He’s in the film in passing as an Easter Egg over 40 times.
Thank him for his service, will you?
He made Milton burn down the fucking building 😂😂
Your dad made the ending of the movie then
Love this movie. It should almost be mandatory for any 2nd year Business student to watch in University.
People were saying when they were younger it was just a funny movie, but when they got older it became a documentary 🤭 lol
I was an accounting student back in the day and my teacher did not know this movie nor why I had a red swingline stapler with me for homework.
"They sent him a copy of the original British version with some reviews that praised the show for succeeding in capturing the everyday work environment where the movie failed to do so"
Which is funny since Office Space does a much, *much* better job of capturing the everyday work environment than either the British or American versions of The Office ever did.
Let's just hope Mike sent back the crap with fresh fish guts on it.
Definitely agree. There's a massive difference between an office where you can see everyone, and one where you are an insignificant body in a vast sea of despair. Office Space takes the win on that one.
This is my favorite movie ever, I rented it like 25 times when I was in eight and ninth grade and showed it to anyone I knew with a pulse.
Hahaha, I feel this. Same thing. It's still my favorite movie
I saw it at a theatre when it first came out. One of those decisions you make and find out later it was one of the best in your life.
Balanced out by going to Showgirls. Brain. Bleach.
As a long-term office drone, I cannot endorse Office Space more than to say along with Terry Gilliam's Brazil, it sums up the soul-sucking feeling of office life extremely accurately. Who hasn't wanted to beat the crap out of a malfunctioning printer? I know I have.
The lorax Glad to know OS compares to Brazil- i thought so, too! Upvoted =)
Mal what?
@@rnreajr9184 Malfunctioning - not working correctly :)
My"Mal what?" comment was a reference to Wallace and Gromit's "A Close Shave" episode. Too obscure?
@@rnreajr9184 It's a long time since I saw ACS - went right over my head :)
How could you not post this on a Monday?
We were too busy with TPS reports.
@Boco Corwin No. This is clearly a case of the Thursdays. It's similar to a case of the Mondays except it's a Thursday.
Sounds like you're gonna have a bad case of the mundays.
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@@dats3 Is that related to Arthur Dent? He never could get the hang of Thursdays.
I like Office Space better than The Office because it's more realistic. You have crude, dark humor, your have profanity, you have people genuinely not giving a shit about their jobs in the most relatable ways.
Whereas in The Office, with the ever-lovable Jim and Pam, it's like everything is coated in a family friendly filter that leaves a void in my stomach. I liked The Office in the 2000s, and not even as much as Scrubs. Office Space, however, only gets more entertaining AND funny as I get older. Truly the king of the office job played out in a comedy.
Movie vs. TV. Worse, American Movie vs. American TV. (I think the humor of "soul crushing grinds" is harder to appreciate when young.)
Yeah, because The Office doesn't have ANY crude or dark humor.
Both made me equally not want to be in a office setting. Love them both as well.
It would have been interesting to see what Mike Judge could do with the premise. I like the US Office, but it really is pretty brainless middle of the road dogshit.
I respect your view, but I didn't see any kind of filter on the Office, it's kind of the point. Michael as the "what not to do" kind of boss. Just look at the shit he says, way worse than Lunberg, however maybe not as close to reality.
Still would like to see a Mike Judge show based on his movie. With plenty of 90s gangsta rap ;)
Stephen Root is a genius for all the different kinds of roles he has played convincingly. I love that guy.
TPS Reports were used in the horror video game F.E.A.R. When going through offices in the game all the paper laying around says "TPS Report" on the top.
They also got a small nod in the closed superhero mmorpg 'City of Heroes' where human-android replicants talk about needing to get their T.P.S. reports.
...and at least one HP commercial/ad.
It's official...TPS reports are new the 3rd Most Important Thing in the Universe!
It's been twenty years and in that time Gary Cole has aged about five years.
Same for Jennifer Anniston!
One of my favorite movies of all time. I could watch this movie over and over again and never get tired of watching it.
I prefer Office Space over The Office.
Why not both
Loved Office Space, but unfair to compare. Office Space was 90 minutes long, but "The Office" kept up that quality of comedy for over 7,000 minutes over 9 years.
UK Office is superior.
@@georgewodicka4839 i wouldn't say they kept up the quality... bye bye michael scott???.. bye bye audience.
@@kdogg6781 Compared to other sitcoms, The Office, seasons 1-7, were a 10/10. Seasons 8 and 9, though, I would rate a solid 8/10. Even though Michael Scott was obviously vital, it is a slight to the incredible ensemble cast of The Office to dismiss those two seasons.
Damn it feels good to be a gangster....
,, SURE DOES
Accounts payable, Nina speaking, JUST a moment.... I love this movie and is a must see for all office workers!
LOL!!
Luv it
Just me Yes,but did you name yours?
#8... The line where Milton refers to the squirrels outside his window as "married" (his idiosyncratic way of saying they were fucking) was improvised by Stephen Root on the spur of the moment. It totally cracked up the entire crew and that was the take they used in the film.
Christine Mills ... Thanks for the info, very sexy mamasita👍🏼😎
"Merry'" not "married".
I remember I was a senior in high school when this movie came out in theaters in limited release. I was curious about it and decided on a whim to check it out. Ended up loving it of course and tried to get all my friends to see it, whereas 1 girl actually did. I call myself an OG Office Space fan bc i was ranting about how cool it was long before it was cool.
Funny thing, Office Space didn't even enter my radar until about 18 months ago when clips came up on my recommended. I dug the clips, and eventually rented the movie online. It reminded me of the many corporate restructurings and layoffs that took place at the Dallas office of a Texas-based bank I worked for.
At one company I worked at, a copy of office space was unofficially lent to every new starter as part of their induction
I can’t believe he got this made and all the actors fully embraced the vision and after all it didn’t do well. Only later did it receive the respect due. This is how art gets made
Timeless classic...the more you work in corporate world though, the more you realize this is a dark comedy.
I don't know. The longer I worked in the corporate world, the more I saw it as a documentary.
In the 90's I worked at an engineering company in Houston and one of the managers was the spitting image of Lumberg. He had the 80's haircut, wore suspenders with a belt, and the white-collar shirts just like Bill. Love this movie!! So funny.
Second. Funny thing is that I came across the DVD in the $3.74 bargain bin at Wal-Mart an hour ago
7th*
I still on the DVD since I brought it 15yrs ago
In California we have tons of second hand dvd stores. .50 cents for me
@@SexyButCurious And Jennifer Aniston still looks like she hadn't aged a day since!
I woulda bought 5 copies if I'd seen it at that price
Office Space is the film equivalent to fine wine. The longer you work a job, especially a job you hate, and even better a corporate job, you can relate to different parts of this film in different ways. For instance, I always thought the printer murder scene was funny… but didn’t understand it until I worked a job with terrible technology that negatively impacted me.. and was also something my company didn’t care to ever fix. I literally said I would murder these technological devices if I could.. then I instantly thought of this scene and BUSTED out laughing. It was a completely different experience the next time I watched this movie. Also, I ended up getting move to a new department where both of my bosses were named “Bob”. Everyone called them “the two Bobs”.
Not now Lumberg, I've got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple minutes.
Clint Knuckler ...they called me at home 🤣
It’s not a half day or anything like that...
While Peter is playing Tetris on the work computer 🤣
I thought TPS stood for "This Place Sucks."
I thought it stood for "Totally Pointless Shit".
I like those acronyms better! :)
Office Space! Been waiting for this one forever!
Our trivia league name is PC Load Letter.
I am Tammy Sue sorry but WTF does that even mean?? =) Let me buy the shirt (or jersey or whatever schwag u have...)
It’s the 🖨 error message they got all the time. That’s why they hated that printer and eventually “gangstered” it in the field.
@@IAmSweetPea I know; their response *always* began with WTF
Super cool name ;-)
Not TPS reports?
How could u not mention that mike judge played the chachkis manager?
Because everybody knows that
@@Megadrevil1 I didnt
The word tchotchke, which the restaurant is named after, is basically defined as a worthless trinket, like the flair they wear.
I believe you have my stapler...
ᴵ ᵇᵉˡᶦᵉᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵐʸ ˢᵗᵃᵖˡᵉʳ...
That's ok. We fixed the glitch. Guess what you won't have. XD
I’m the only one in my office with a red stapler....i dare a bih to take my ish..
RDJ 134 Never touch another mans Stapler!
I could set the building on fire....
When I first saw the movie, I just assumed that Jennifer Aniston was friends with the producer or director or something so they convinced her to do what seemed like a low-budget-no-stars movie for scale, sort of as a favor. I had no idea she was a plant from the studio.
Absolutely no mention of the fact that Joanna's manager was played by Mike Judge himself.
We have TPS forms at work-no relation to the film. We, unfortunately, have many other absurd and soul crushing traits depicted in the film. I get by with a dry and cutting sense of humor. I've been told in two separate yearly evaluations, by two different managers, that people sometimes have trouble figuring out if what I just said to them is true.
Always, leave them guessing.
Every individual scene of Office Space is a winner and is quote-worthy.
Michel Bolton went with flow like a wise man.
Steven Root is one of our best character actors and will always have a job.
This Movie helped me get through my finals. I thank Mike Judge, and this movie and the actors/actresses for helping me of the stresses of High School.
My only real motivation is not to make a mistake, so I don't have to hear it from five different bosses.
I had a Lumberg boss in a small firm. He turned an open plan environment into a grey hellscape - the cubicle walls were 7feet high, you couldn't even stand up to look at or talk to a colleague. There was also the kitchenette that was through the women's toilet door - it's as weird and awkward as it sounded. The Lumberg wouldn't use it, but he told us it was not a problem.
It’s been months since I’ve seen a really good list from you guys. Wouldn’t mind seeing those once a week
i just watched this movie about two hours ago, when i saw this on my notification it freaked the living shit out of me
Where'd you find the movie?
yah your phone is listening
musta been tokin'
"Every day is worse than the day before. That means that every time you see me, it is literally the worst day of my life."
"Whoa. That's fucked up."
So true.
One of the best comedies ever made and still relevant.
I thought "Office Space" captured the '90s office world quite well, albeit a specific segment. It rings most true to people who worked in tech from the late 80s to early 2000s. Which, not coincidentally, is precisely where I spent most of my career. :-)
For others, it rings way too close to reality ( layoffs with consultants like the Bobs) that was part of the IT landscape back then
4:05 it's a lot funnier that it's a different Lumbergh.
More minimalist title this time. I like it.
Coolbillion nvm
what did it first say?
Im gonna need you to file that TPS report by yesterday, Mmm-kay.
And we're going to need you on Sunday as well, mmkay?
It's amazing how accurately this movie portrays office life in a big company. Also, for some reason, I have always really liked Samir's tie 2:47
I had a new supervisor years ago who started a productivity study. He was a book worm, and never saw Office Space. So, my coworkers and I submitted our daily work activity on a TPS form. He asked what is a TPS? I replied Time Productivity Survey. He tried to impress the manager the form was his own original idea. Tip: If a manager has a red Swingline stapler, think twice.
That is one of the coolest movies I have ever seen in my lífe.
You should do this for Idiocracy
AKA the prequel to Trump's America.
@@grantwelsh7594 No, the prequel to OUR America. Trump is merely a very, very bad symptom of our stupidity.
@@grantwelsh7594 That is such an ignorant comment.
@Paul Boccuti explain?
@Paul Boccuti do you drink Gatorade because it has electrolytes? It's what plants crave.
I listened to an interview with Mike Judge on the Nerdist (now called 1D10T) podcast where he told a slightly different version of the red stapler story than what this video says (although the general themes are still the same). Mike Judge first went to a company that I believe was called the Boston Stapler company asking them for a red stapler for the movie, but the company didn’t want to partake in the sponsorship deal. Judge then went to Swingliner and asked if he could use their staplers for the movie. Swingliner didn’t have a red stapler at the time but said that he could use their brand, so they either produced a one-off batch of red ones (or the crew painted one red as the video states, I can’t remember which it was) and they used it for the movie. After the movie came out the company really did get so many calls for this non-existent red stapler that they started producing one right away. To this day, the red stapler is still the highest selling product for Swingliner!
That would make more sense. If Boston Stapler refused to do a product placement, why would he help them out.
I saw it in the theater. It wasn't me that contributed to the initial financial failure.
In The Office series 1 episode 6, David Brent mentions a Pete Gibbons. When Pete Gibbons left Wernham Hogg his going away gift was a photocopier.
Timeless classic with perfect casting.
What is it with Mike Judge and making amazing movies that no one sees until they are out on DVD, and then realize how brilliant they are?
We really do live in Idiocracy....
My wife and I actually lived in Austin when they were filming a scene from the movie!! It was the scene where Jennifer and Peter were in the car that was on metric blvd..the marroon blur in the scene going by is my car!!
PC Load Letter is officially the most frustrating and cryptic error message. Always comes up when I'm trying print important handouts for a meeting.
Not to mention Hot Topic sold t-shirts and other memorabilia. This movie flopped originally but found a huge audience later. It's my favorite comedy. A masterpiece from Mike Judge.
I grew up with this, I Love this movie! Thank you for doing an episode on Office Space 😊
Totally relatable film to many many people, made on the cheap, cult classic, overall badass movie. Cheers 📣
A couple years after the movie came out and was becoming a cult classic, I worked for a company whos initials were TPS. So I had printed off a copy of the TPS cover sheet and had it on my partition wall. :D AND I bought one of the red staplers for my current job.
Narrator absolutely nailed the Lumberg voice in the intro. Well done!
A jump to conclusions mat.
“That is the worst idea I have ever heard in my life, Tom.”
Yes, it is horrible, this idea.
Yea that would be greeeeeeat...
Its amazing that Mike judge created two cult classics, beavis and butthead, king of the hill and silicon valley. Silicon valley is very much similar to office space if you haven't seen it.
I literally worked at a cubicle job when Office Space came out. Then shortly thereafter was a server at a chain restaurant just like Fridays. I could identify with everything in that movie. Later I had another office job that actually had 2 efficiency experts come in. My boss actually called them the Bobs, despite it being a man and woman. Needless to say, many quotes from the movie are part of the everyday lexicon in most offices.
how can there be a paper jam when there is no paper jam
jacksrandomadventures happens every day of my life lol
PC Load Letter?!
5:33 Greg Daniels did not produce Office Space, it's not credited on his Wikipedia, his IMDb nor the credits of the film. He did co-created King of the Hill with Mike Judge, which was probably how he discovered about NBC's proposing Judge to create an Americanization of The Office.
As a teen, I laughed from my heart every time watching this movie just to end up in the same soul sucking environment. I can't be the only one.
One of my all-time faves. Better than a Netflix binge if you ask me.
7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About *My Stapler*
It's a Swingline
And it's Red
*Red Stapler*
Looking at my red Swingline stapler sitting on my desk as I watch this... :D
I believe you have my stapler.
I always wished they made a follow up where the three same guys started a small business like a coffee house franchise or something.
I still laugh when I listen to Still by the Geto Boyz. The song that plays when they're beating up the fax machine. 😁
"I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up money laundering in a dictionary.”
Thank you for reminding me to rewatch this :D
I actually worked at a law firm where a J.D. grad who didnt pass the bar was moved around like Milton.
The first time they moved him, I was new and found it funny/ironic. 3 moves later I realized how disrespectful it was lol
Was he moved to the basement? Did he threaten to set the building on fire?
@@MisterMikeTexas lol nah he eventually passed the bar and bounced like a G!
@@phamawa 👍🍻