anyone else a fan? i love this show. best thing on tv now that arrested development has been cancelled...
what's your favorite episode?
mine was the take your child to work day episode.

i just started watching the american version at the end of this season.
i feel like i've missed so much and by that i mean all the hours i could have spent laughing at steve carrell and swooning over john krasinski.

I love that show. It actually makes me lol!

My favorite episode? It's so hard to pick. Anytime Jim is messing with Dwight is fine with me!

john krasinksi is really cute.

I'm so glad this show is living up to the BBC version.

My friend got me into this, we watch it while waiting for Monty Python to come on (PBS). So random!!!! So hilarious!!! I fucking love it.

i'm obsessed with the UK Office.
no shit - i've seen every episode at least five times. it's fucking genius.

I've never seen the UK one, but the US one.... BEST show in a long time. I've loved it ever since it first started. And the season finale..... Pam and that guy (sorry I forgot his name) FINALLY got together!!! I've seriously been waitinggg for that to happen for the last two years.

the office is my favourite show. hands down. while i absolutely LOVE the bbc version, i definitely think the nbc version is better. i think my favourite episode is diversity day. wow, having to choose was hard.

Why the fuck does the US always have to make their own versions of UK shows?

The UK Office is brilliant, no one can touch that.

I LOVE the US office.

The US Office is dumbed down and kind of lame. I feel like it should have canned laughter. They can make better stuff than that.

The UK one is great. I'm not saying that because I'm British, because the shows I like are mostly American blah blah blah asnid;oed-=4£.

Honestly, though? I've seen it a few times and it makes me cringe a little. I do love the UK version.

I'll give it another try.

you mean why did the creators of the uk version - stephen merchant and rick gervais - decide to do an american version?

they're both executive producers of the us version. so yeah, in a sense they're touching themselves.

On the flip side, I honestly can't picture a U.S. version of "Extras". I don't think they could find an American Ricky Gervais for that role. The "U.S." Office however, is brilliant. I adore the American characters. I don't see the canned laughter thing at all. I've worked in plenty of offices in my millions of years of roaming this earth and they capture it brilliantly. (almost too well!) I just pray that this show never jumps the shark. That would be a shame.

i've never seen the u.k. one. i'd like to.

I've never seen the UK one either.

I LOVE the US 'The Office' it's hysterical....but an understated hysterical.

I love it....I thought the show started out slow, but had a real turn around point when the men of the office got sent down to the wherehouse so the women could have a 'womens meeting' and how the wherehouse was basically trashed by the idiot Michael....I was dying....that's my favorite episode so far.....

Even though i like Steve Carell a lot, i don't really think he substitutes Gervais here either - i think the american version worked because they balanced the humor well between all the other characters, so doesn't rely so much on one person.
But the one thing that bothers me - i loved Dawn and Tim, but i just can't seem to care enough for Jim and Pam somehow...

the US one is based in my hometown
scranton pa
hjaha

Really. I find that incredibly surprising, because I heard that the US one sucks.

I really liked the UK one. The best episode was the team training one, with David Brent on guitar.
I can quote the whole thing. The best scene is when he's talking about 'Texas'. Hehe.