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Office Space

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Office Space	comment	Heeeeey, Troper. What's happening? Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and describe ''Office Space'' here. If you could get that done by Monday, that'd be greeeeeaaaat. Mmkay?A 1999 black comedy written and directed by Mike Judge, his first live-action project, self-adapted from his "Milton" animated shorts on Saturday Night Live. The cast includes Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, and Gary Cole.The film centers around Initech, a soul-crushingly inane software company presided over by Bill Lumbergh (Cole), a soul-crushingly inane boss obsessed with TPS Reports — a soul-crushingly inane bit of paperwork — who is slowly driving employee Peter Gibbons (Livingston) out of his mind.Then Peter gets de-stressed by a dose of hypnotherapy and stops caring about his job — not that he wants to quit, or feels that he should stop showing up; he just doesn't care. Soon after that, some outside consultants interview him, trying to find people to lay off. But instead of puffing up his importance to avoid getting the pink slip, Peter tells them exactly how the bloated bureaucracy of the company stops him (and others like him) from ever doing anything. The consultants, of course, take this as sheer brilliance.Peter is fast-tracked for a promotion but also discovers that two of his only friends, Michael (David Herman) and Samir (Ajay Naidu), are going to be getting the axe. When he shares the news, the three decide to do the only logical thing — rob the company. They come up with A Simple Plan involving a subtle computer virus, but fail to notice a few very important details, and soon everything starts to spiral out of control.Got a mobile, Idle Game adaptation in March of 2017 called Office Space: Idle Profits. You play as a new intern at Initech just as Peter, Michael, and Samir start their Penny Shaving scheme, having you install the virus in the system. Help the virus spread and rake in more and more pennies while working your way through the events of the film. Available on iOS, Android and Steam.Not to be confused with either versions of The Office, a much more lighthearted comedic take on office work.
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Office Space / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Office Space / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: An uncredited Mike Judge plays Joanna's passive-aggressive boss- noticeably, when he tells Joanna they need to talk about her flair, he sounds almost exactly like Mr. Van Driessen.
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Office Space / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
Office Space / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: Lumbergh and his infuriating car, with the tags MYPRSCHE (My Porsche). It is incredibly satisfying to watch his car get towed (he parked in a handicap space) and watch the entire back bumper ripped completely off.
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Office Space / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Office Space / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: A few from earlier versions of the script: When Peter gets back to his apartment, he's wearing workout clothes, a t-shirt and shorts; this was a remnant of a scene where he went jogging with Anne. And look closely in the Initech parking lot, there's a red car in the space next to Lumbergh's; that was supposed to be Dom Portwood's car, as he was supposed to drive up next to him.
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Office Space / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Office Space / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The printer beatdown was played like gangsters beating some hapless fool. Note how Peter doesn't actually get involved (as he's The Don in this scenario), he merely hands the bat to Samir and Michael.
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Office Space / int_159e16f1	type	Misplaced a Decimal Point
Office Space / int_159e16f1	comment	Misplaced a Decimal Point: The cause of the plan's failure was Michael misplacing a decimal point, apparently. Instead of siphoning off a couple hundred thousand dollars over several years, which would be easily overlooked with a company that does business with a bank, it does that over a couple of days and raising plenty of red flags. He claims that he always makes these kind of mistakes. Also doubles as an Historical In-Joke: the Y2K bug itself was essentially due to leaving off decimal points.
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Office Space / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Office Space / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Michael's interview with the Bobs gets off to a good start, when they become excited that he shares his name with one of their favorite singers, and he responds by politely pretending to also be a fan... until he subtly lets it slip that he actually doesn't want to be associated with the singer. Unfortunately for him, the twin consultants are not only huge Michael Bolton fans but conclude that he's a Professional Butt-Kisser for leading them into thinking he was also a fan. They get him laid off as a result, despite the fact that he's technically one of Initech's best and most valuable programmers.
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Office Space / int_171261c1	type	Enmity with an Object
Office Space / int_171261c1	comment	Enmity with an Object: The three main characters (especially Michael) have a very antagonistic relationship with a fax/copy machine. They end up dragging it into an abandoned field and demolishing it with a baseball bat.
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Office Space / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Office Space / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: In the movie it's never revealed what the "TPS" in TPS Reports stands for. But in the DVD extras it's revealed that it stands for "Totally Pointless Shit" and it's a reference to all the pointless, tedious paperwork that office workers have to deal with. In reality, it stands for "Testing Procedure Specification" and is used extensively in high-end, IEEE compliant software and electrical engineering firms - like Initech. And would most likely be completely useless to Lumbergh, since he's not involved with QA. Which only further demonstrates what a Jerkass Lumbergh is.
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Office Space / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Office Space / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: "Well, technically, it did work." Instead of siphoning off undetectable, small percentages of Initech's money transfers into the protagonists' bank accounts, Michael's virus is off by a decimal place or two, dumping amounts sure to be noticed.
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Office Space / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Office Space / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: The trio setting their Penny Shaving scheme into effect after Michael and Samir get fired. Also, Milton burning Initech after one slight too many.
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Office Space / int_1d3e44f5	type	Artifact of Attraction
Office Space / int_1d3e44f5	comment	Artifact of Attraction: The Red Stapler.
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Office Space / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
Office Space / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: Samir, caught in traffic in the opening. He gives the impression of having not quite mastered English-language swearing: "This is a f-fuck!"
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Office Space / int_1f83dc62	type	Named Like My Name
Office Space / int_1f83dc62	comment	Named Like My Name: Michael Bolton, who loathes sharing a name with the singer. "Why should I have to change my name? He's the one that sucks!"
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Office Space / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Office Space / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Subverted: The hypnotist dies before snapping his fingers, suggesting that Peter will return to normal after hearing a snap. This never happens, and he stays in his relaxed state until the effect wears off on its own.
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Office Space / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Office Space / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Of the "Milton" animated shorts Mike Judge did for MTV's Liquid Television in the early 1990s, from which the characters of Milton and Lumbergh (who was unnamed at the time) were taken. The bit where Milton's stapler is taken away was lifted wholesale from the first short, and dialogue from the last two shorts (Milton being moved to the basement and being asked to take care of the cockroaches, respectively) was also used. For those who remember these shorts, it is ridiculously satisfying to see Milton finally burn down the building (and, in a deleted scene, kill Lumbergh) after having promised to do both for almost a decade.
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Office Space / int_2533afde	type	Static Electricity
Office Space / int_2533afde	comment	Static Electricity: Peter gets a static shock from the door handle every day when he comes into work, and has grown to dread it. One way he illustrates his new in-control self is that he walks into work, borrows a power screwdriver from a maintenance worker and casually removes the handle.
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Office Space / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Office Space / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Played for Laughs, but also awesome, when Peter, Michael and Samir give one of these, in slow motion, with a baseball bat, to the accompaniment of the Geto Boys, to...a malfunctioning printer.
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Office Space / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Office Space / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: "Yeah, Hi, it's Bill Lumbergh â€¦" He also has a habit of sighing as if really tired when requesting incredibly annoying things to do. And ends all his requests with "...yeah, that would be great/terrific." Lawrence has something like that too, man.
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Office Space / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Office Space / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: During Peter's meeting with the Bobs, the whiteboard has a complicated flow chart titled "Planning to Plan."
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Office Space / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Office Space / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Averted, more or less. The therapist feels greater and greater distress while talking to Peter until he keels over.
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Office Space / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Office Space / int_2a090d00	comment	The money-making scheme is an acknowledged nod to Superman III.
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Office Space / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Office Space / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Averted. While the actual hacking scene has buildup with tense music and badass poses, when the time comes it's just a matter of using a floppy drive and waiting. Even the characters feel it's a little anticlimactic.
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Office Space / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Office Space / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Tom's belief that he was going to be fired. Since he apparently spent more time worrying about getting fired than preparing for the interview that he knew was coming, he was already a bundle of frayed nerves by the time he was in front of the Bobs, and falls apart after just a couple questions that really shouldn't have been that hard to answer. As a result, the Bobs assume he has no useful job there, and can him.
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Office Space / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Office Space / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: In a Freeze-Frame Bonus, according to Lumbergh's employee records, he has a BS in Physics from MIT.
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Office Space / int_313598b7	type	Millennium Bug
Office Space / int_313598b7	comment	Millennium Bug: Initech's main project is fixing the "Year 2000 Problem." The benign depiction — just a date code error that needs correcting — is possibly the most realistic in fiction (the movie was filmed before the media made everyone begin to panic about it). Though certain applications could have dangerous consequences if incorrect data was entered, it mostly involved a lot of boring software upgrades, and wasn't nearly as apocalyptic as media hype made it sound. Peter uses it as a justification for the scheme: the company will be so busy with the problem that they wouldn't notice the money that goes missing.
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Office Space / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Office Space / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Milton told you he loves that stapler. When Lumbergh doesn't listen, he burns down the building, just like he said he would.
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Office Space / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Office Space / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: The Bobs are more than a bit heartless about firing people, but most people cheer when they start dressing down Lumbergh after getting an inkling about his ineptitude as a manager, and when he badmouths Peter. Milton burns down Initech, but after all the abuse he got, it's meant to be cathartic.
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Office Space / int_33cddf79	type	Penny Shaving
Office Space / int_33cddf79	comment	Penny Shaving: As revenge for Michael and Samir being fired, the three protagonists develop a virus which is supposed to shave pennies off every transaction the company does. Due to a bug it shaves significantly more than they wanted.
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Office Space / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Office Space / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Whenever you might start to think that Lumbergh is just a guy trying to do his job in a company that happens to be bogged down with stupid and inane policies, he starts kicking Milton around for no apparent reason other than because he can. When he finds out that Milton technically doesn't have a job at Initech, he gets even worse, seemingly going out of his way to think of new ways to demean the guy while deliberately withholding the information that Milton's "missing" paycheck doesn't exist and never will again, cementing for the audience that he's every bit the soulless monster his employees consider him to be. Eventually, Milton decides being moved to the basement and asked to take care of the cockroach problem is "the last straw" and follows through with his arson threats. Lumbergh taking his stapler on the way out probably was a bad idea. Technically, Lumbergh's following the Bobs' advice on how to deal with Milton. This doesn't explain his seeming dedication to it.
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Office Space / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Office Space / int_364b9be6	comment	Joanna's boss at Chotchkie's wants her to "express herself" by wearing more flair to conform to the restaurant's motif. She then promptly expresses herself.
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Office Space / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
Office Space / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: "Michael â€¦ Bolton? Any relation to the pop singer?"
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Office Space / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Office Space / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Played with since it's completely unintentional on Peter's part - he just genuinely doesn't care enough about his job to worry about the possibility of getting fired - and in fact the realization that he's put this trope into practice while his more Properly Paranoid friends are getting fired is what brings him out of his Hypno Fool state.
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Office Space / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Office Space / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: While Lumbergh is at worst a Mean Boss to Peter, he's downright abusive to Milton; forcing him to move his desk at least three times a week, not even telling him he was laid off, and generally treating him like garbage.
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Office Space / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Office Space / int_3fca462c	comment	Peter at least happens upon this on accident. After realizing what he did wrong, he does write up a letter fessing up to the crime, with the embezzled money included, slipping it through Lumbergh's door. Deus ex Machina simply happened with the aforementioned Milton setting fire to Initech and taking the money Peter left on the floor. It's up to the audience whether or not the deleted (and thus probably non-canon) scene where Peter discovers that he escaped white-collar hell only to enter a very similar blue-collar hell is an acceptably karmic result of his actions.
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Office Space / int_40febb0d	type	A Side Order of Romance
Office Space / int_40febb0d	comment	A Side Order of Romance: The protagonist meets cute waitress Joanna at a nearby restaurant but is too awkward and self-conscious to ask her out. Later on, after re-examining his life, he goes there again with a newfound confidence and asks her out to lunch, and the two become a couple soon afterwards.
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Office Space / int_42eb0460	type	Going Postal
Office Space / int_42eb0460	comment	Going Postal: Milton finally gets his revenge, although he uses fire rather than guns. When Peter, Michael, and Samir go out for coffee, Peter complains about work and mimes firing a machine gun. Later Michael, surprised by Peter casually arriving at work, half-jokingly says he thought Peter was going to "come in and start shooting!"
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Office Space / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Office Space / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Samir not knowing how to properly curse in English is played for laughs throughout the film.
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Office Space / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Office Space / int_47fea76b	comment	Milton was laid off five years prior and nobody ever told him about it, but through a payroll glitch he kept getting a regular paycheck and kept returning to work as though it were normal. At least until the Bobs fixed the glitch without telling Milton.
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Office Space / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
Office Space / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: In Peter's nightmare, Lumbergh is having sex with Joanna while holding a cup of coffee, and then he turns to the camera and says, "Oh, hello Peter. What's happening? Uh, could you give me those TPS reports ASAP? Mmmkay?"
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Office Space / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Office Space / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Fraud, embezzlement, and arson have never been so funny. Lampshaded by Joanna when she tells Peter off for thinking he's entitled to engage in antisocial behavior just because he doesn't like his job. Milton. Burning down the building, murdering Lumbergh in a deleted scene, and at the end threatening to poison the entire resort by putting strychnine in the guacamole because they got his drink order wrong. This is all Played for Laughs.
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Office Space / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Office Space / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: At the end of the movie, Milton has found his way to a Mexican resort with the money Peter left in Lumbergh's office, but he still isn't happy and can be heard threatening to poison the guacamole, have the resort shut down, and take his business to another resort. All because they got his drink order wrong.
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Office Space / int_524f397c	type	Madden Into Misanthropy
Office Space / int_524f397c	comment	Madden Into Misanthropy: Peter gets so fed up with his job that he stops caring. When it still doesn't end, he decides that he's in the moral right even as he plans to steal money from Initech.
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Office Space / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Office Space / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: In trying to defend the importance of his job, Tom says with an increasingly panicked and loud voice, "I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that?? What the hell is wrong with you people?!"
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Office Space / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Office Space / int_537dd8fe	comment	The Bobs also have moments of this. They're Affably Evil hatchet men who will casually joke about the people they're firing, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company. They also surprisingly avert The Peter Principle by recognizing that Peter being upfront and honest about his problems with Initech would make him a good manager.
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Office Space / int_564d1b2a	type	Kitschy Themed Restaurant
Office Space / int_564d1b2a	comment	Kitschy Themed Restaurant: Chotchkie's is very obviously inspired by TGI Friday's.
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Office Space / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
Office Space / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: When Lawrence tells Peter about his desire to do "two chicks at the same time," look at how he is holding his bottle of beerâ€¦
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Office Space / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Office Space / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Peter takes great offense to his obnoxious coworker Drew's suggestion that Joanna "gets around," which kicks off her and Peter's argument and the Foe Cooties subplot.
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Office Space / int_589243b5	type	Never Say That Again
Office Space / int_589243b5	comment	Never Say That Again:
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Office Space / int_5a310772	type	Standard Office Setting
Office Space / int_5a310772	comment	Standard Office Setting: The film offers a comedic look at just how soul-crushing such an environment can be. Short cubicle walls make it easy for managers to lean over at any time to make unreasonable demands, and make it impossible to escape noise made by other workers.
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Office Space / int_5a6bf62f	type	Happiness in Minimum Wage
Office Space / int_5a6bf62f	comment	Happiness in Minimum Wage: At the end of the film, Peter quits his Soul-Crushing Desk Job so he can spend his days as a construction worker just like his neighbor Lawrence. Although, considering construction work usually pays about the same, if not more than mid-level office work, this is a lot closer to The Simple Life is Simple. After all, Lawrence is living in the exact same conditions Peter is.
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Office Space / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Office Space / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: When Anne admits that she was cheating on Peter during their breakup, she proclaims it so loudly it causes Peter's answering machine to vibrate.
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Office Space / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Office Space / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Played straight with Lumbergh, averted for Michael and Tom.
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Office Space / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Office Space / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Peter gets the best hypnotherapy of his life, right as his therapist has a heart attack. He remains in a catatonic trance as everyone around him is panicking about the guy dying in front of them.
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Office Space / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
Office Space / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: Chotchkie's, the casual dining restaurant where Joanna works as a waitress, is based on T.G.I. Friday's.
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Office Space / int_66e9e858	type	That Satisfying "Crunch!"
Office Space / int_66e9e858	comment	That Satisfying "Crunch!": Trope inspiration. Michael beats the faulty printer to a pulp with his bare hands. The whole sequence is set to entirely appropriate music.
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Office Space / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Office Space / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Joanna asks Peter what he and the guys were celebrating last night, and he says he can't talk about it. Really, he can't. Cut to the two in the car, where Peter is spilling the beans.
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Office Space / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Office Space / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Bill Lumbergh is a Pointy-Haired Boss par excellence, but he rightly points out that Peter, the main character, is a shitty worker who isn't getting anything done, doesn't follow instructions, and seems to be trying to get fired. The Bobs also have moments of this. They're Affably Evil hatchet men who will casually joke about the people they're firing, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company. They also surprisingly avert The Peter Principle by recognizing that Peter being upfront and honest about his problems with Initech would make him a good manager.
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Office Space / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Office Space / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Apparently, pieces of flair are to the manager of a Kitschy Themed Restaurant. Also, heaven forbid you missed the memo on the new cover sheets for TPS reports...
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Office Space / int_6e5c03dc	type	Parking Payback
Office Space / int_6e5c03dc	comment	Parking Payback: The rear bumper of Lumbergh's Porsche is ripped off after he parks in the disabled space.
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Office Space / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Office Space / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Milton gets the money from Peter's botched scheme and is on the beach... except that he is also miserable there, courtesy of the Jerkass staff of the hotel he's at. The movie cuts to credits while Milton is mumbling a threat to poison the hotel's guacamole supply. A deleted scene that extends the epilogue has the foreman supervising Peter's cleanup of Initech come up to Peter and talk/act exactly like Lumbergh. As a result Peter, who had just apparently discovered a line of works that makes him feel happy, becomes depressed again.
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Office Space / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Office Space / int_6f83b232	comment	Wish-Fulfillment: Most of the film. What would happen if you just stopped giving a crap and did what you felt like? Why, you'd get a promotion!
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Office Space / int_70d18002	type	Inventor of the Mundane
Office Space / int_70d18002	comment	Inventor of the Mundane: Tom Smykowski uses the settlement from a car accident to fund the invention of his "Jump to Conclusions" mat ("Have a problem? Just take out the mat and jump to a conclusion!").
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Office Space / int_7188489c	type	Let the Past Burn
Office Space / int_7188489c	comment	Let the Past Burn: Milton burns down the Initech building in revenge for the company's shabby treatment of him, in the process destroying Peter's letter of confession about embezzling money from the company. Everyone just assumes the arsonist was also the embezzler (and he does end up with the money in any case), and Peter gets off scot-free... and finds a new job in the field of construction, where one of his projects is cleaning up the remains of the building.
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Office Space / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Office Space / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Just to hammer home how callous the Bobs are, they screw up Samir's last name, and instead of trying to keep pronouncing "Nagheenanajar", they go with "Notgonnaworkhere anymore" and laugh.
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Office Space / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Office Space / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Aside from Lumbergh's office being unlocked, most tech companies take some fairly basic precautions for keeping their internal networks safe, such as alerting security whenever a floppy drive is accessed, having multiple people tracking new code additions to major systems (like financial transfers), and keeping a log of all employee access to the networks (especially if layoffs are about to be announced). Then again, security costs money, yo... have you seen how low our profits are? It is most likely that Michael's "virus" is a separate process that's not part of the actual Initech credit union software — that way, it won't appear as an addition to the code base and can't be spotted by other developers. It'd also explain Samir's role, as it's implied he has to modify the mainframe deployment script to load Michael's code without triggering any security protocols.
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Office Space / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Office Space / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Jennifer Aniston is all over the back of the DVD cover, even though she only has a small role.
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Office Space / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Office Space / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Steve, the Initrode employee turned magazine salesman, as well as Tom's lawyer are the only African-American characters in the entire film, and the only other non-white character is Samir.
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Office Space / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Office Space / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Discussed: "Watch out for your corn-hole, buddy." "If we get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No-no-no. We're going to federal pound me in the ass prison."
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Office Space / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Office Space / int_762b9223	comment	Milton. Burning down the building, murdering Lumbergh in a deleted scene, and at the end threatening to poison the entire resort by putting strychnine in the guacamole because they got his drink order wrong. This is all Played for Laughs.
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Office Space / int_7679475	type	Bungled Hypnotism
Office Space / int_7679475	comment	Bungled Hypnotism: The plot of the movie is kicked off by the main character visiting a hypnotherapist in an attempt to remove some of the stress his job is causing him, only for the hypnotist to suffer a heart attack halfway through, leaving him in a lazy, carefree trance that no longer takes his job or life seriously. He gradually gets over it during the course of the film.
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Office Space / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
Office Space / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Or they'll set the building on fire after being forced to move to the basement and find out they've been fired and are no longer receiving paychecks due to a payroll glitch being corrected...
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Office Space / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Office Space / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Oh god, where to begin? Milton is repeatedly told to move his desk farther and farther away from the window. Every time he introduces himself, Michael Bolton gets asked, "Is that your real name?" Peter has enough to become a professional phrase catcher: "Did you get the memo?" "Somebody's got a case of the Mondays!" "I get that feeling too."
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Office Space / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Office Space / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Anne's phone call to Peter; he hangs up before she can say anything more than "bull."
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Office Space / int_7b405f5b	type	Percussive Therapy
Office Space / int_7b405f5b	comment	Percussive Therapy: Peter, Michael and Samir take the printer into a field and smash it to pieces with their feet and a baseball bat. Michael really gets into it, having to be pulled away when he starts punching the printer parts.
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Office Space / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Office Space / int_7b6e47a5	comment	The Bobs have one too. When Lumbergh objects to the idea of Peter being promoted because of his attitude, the Bobs rightfully point out that Peter's attitude is primarily a result of the company's structure and mismanagement making him dis-motivated. And when Lumbergh complains that Peter hasn't been handling the TPS reports properly, they ask how much time Lumbergh actually spends reviewing them. Before that, Tom freaking out, being unable to explain his job properly, and flipping out at the reviewers for what should be typical feedback doesn't do him any favors in the "is useful" department.
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Office Space / int_7bd657f	type	White Collar Worker
Office Space / int_7bd657f	comment	White Collar Worker: The characters are mostly computer programmers. In the end, though, Peter gets a blue collar job doing construction with Lawrence (cleaning up the burnt wreckage of Initech) and is much happier. A deleted scene has the foreman come up to Peter at the end and talk/act exactly like Lumbergh, making Peter miserable again.
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Office Space / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Office Space / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Office buildings, at least. And resort buildings too.
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Office Space / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
Office Space / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: After Joanna (rightly) calls Peter a petty criminal, he clumsily retorts with "That may be... but at least I never slept with Lumbergh!"
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Office Space / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Office Space / int_805deb6e	comment	Peter's (ex-)girlfriend Anne faces no consequences for triggering the events of the movie (sans of course Milton burning the place), or cheating on Peter.
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Office Space / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Office Space / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Michael is distraught that he's being let go, that Peter is getting promoted despite his slacking off, and that he told the Bobs he liked Michael Bolton's music.
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Office Space / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
Office Space / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: Hilariously subverted with Michael Bolton listening to bad-ass rap music in his car and then almost wetting himself when a street vendor approaches.
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Office Space / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
Office Space / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: Michael thinks "occupational hypnotherapist" sounds more cheesy than professional.
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Office Space / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Office Space / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Averted, but only by a few subtle on-screen cues. Initech is implied to be in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. For more experienced viewers, you'll be able to spot all the Texas references peppered throughout- Lawrence mentions he's working on a new McDonalds in the town of Las Colinas, Lawrence's boat has Texas registration, and when Peter and Joanna discuss watching Kung Fu (1972), they reference "channel 39", which did show a lot of Westerns back in the day. Outside of that, casual viewers wouldn't know, as they don't make any explicit locational references, likely because it's unimportant to the story, and all the license plates seen on cars are generic ones with US flags on them.
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Office Space / int_86408bad	type	First Rule of the Yard
Office Space / int_86408bad	comment	First Rule of the Yard: "Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. Now, a minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. You see, the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right. Why do you ask, anyway?"
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Office Space / int_874201dc	type	Inside Job
Office Space / int_874201dc	comment	Inside Job: Peter recruits Michael and Samir in a scheme to electronically rob Initech.
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Office Space / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Office Space / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: This movie is an extremely accurate portrayal of what it's like to work in a cubicle farm. Ask people you know who do this kind of work if they've seen anyone who looks, dresses, and talks exactly like Lumbergh. You'll hear "yes" quite a bit. It's also accurate in the disconnects between management and actual employees. Job security is determined by matters other than competence at the job, layoffs in the name of efficiency actually cost efficiency, and the bosses use manipulative methods to try to drive employees to quit rather than firing them (thus the company won't have to pay severance). Samir being the shoved-around foreigner trying to scrape by on contract work happened then and happened now, especially with the explosion of South and East Asians working in the tech industry since the dot-com bubble.
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Office Space / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Office Space / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Peter's hypnosis results in a massive and entirely deserved one for Lumbergh. Lumbergh has his authority undermined and disrespected by Peter, get grilled by the Bobs for his terrible management and has his car destroyed by a tow truck after parking in a handicapped space. If you count one deleted scene as canon he dies in the fire set by Milton, whom he had gone out of his way to abuse and bully.
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Office Space / int_8a0fc1a4	type	I Knew It!
Office Space / int_8a0fc1a4	comment	I Knew It!: In-universe: Peter's coworker Tom Smykowski fears he's gonna get laid off for sure. And he was right. He's going to kill himself, then seeing his wife makes him decide otherwise â€¦ then he's hit by a drunk driver and the settlement money means he's set for life. Peter suspects his girlfriend Anne is cheating on him. She calls and tells him he embarrassed her for just sitting there while the psychiatrist was on the floor. When Peter hangs up on her, she calls again, more pissed off, and tells him he's a real loser and breaks up with him. She ends her call saying she was cheating on him. Peter, still hypnotized, doesn't give a damn.
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Office Space / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Office Space / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Lumbergh's Porsche. Given the timeframe, it's likely this was meant to represent Lumbergh as a dick, given how the brand was favored by 80s yuppies; when he parks in a handicapped spot, the tow truck rips the back bumper off. It's also in contrast to everyone else, who either drive economy cars (Peter's Toyota, Michael's Eagle, etc.) or, in Milton's case, take public transit.
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Office Space / int_8ac2fe0d	type	Trope Namers
Office Space / int_8ac2fe0d	comment	This song was used to great effect to show how much Peter hated Initech.
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Office Space / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
Office Space / int_8c55e307	comment	Ultimate Job Security: Parodied extensively. Peter is a crappy worker who by his own admission "works just hard enough not to get fired." What happens when (due to his hypnosis) he goofs off even more and plays Tetris in front of his manager? He gets promoted. Lumbergh seems to be such a lousy manager that it's a wonder he was never held to account for it until the events of the movie when the Bobs end up potentially putting him on the chopping block. Milton was laid off five years prior and nobody ever told him about it, but through a payroll glitch he kept getting a regular paycheck and kept returning to work as though it were normal. At least until the Bobs fixed the glitch without telling Milton.
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Office Space / int_8c5b8f0b	type	Salaryman
Office Space / int_8c5b8f0b	comment	Salaryman/Workaholic: The three main characters. Peter far less so on the latter.
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Office Space / int_8eb654e4	type	Firing Day
Office Space / int_8eb654e4	comment	Firing Day: The main plot is kicked off when Peter learns that Michael and Samir are going to be fired (and he's going to be promoted). It's particularly frustrating because Peter has recently been slacking off while Michael and Samir have been dutifully plugging away at their jobs, and there have been Outside Consultants interviewing all of the employees to see who is worth keeping. They decide to take preemptive revenge against the company by installing a computer virus to undetectably siphon off money from electronic transactions.
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Office Space / int_8ebaf445	type	If I Were a Rich Man
Office Space / int_8ebaf445	comment	If I Were a Rich Man: Peter has two discussions (first with Michael and Samir and then with Lawrence) to this effect. Michael thinks the question is "bullshit to begin with... there'd be no janitors because nobody would clean shit up if they had a million dollars", while Samir muses about how he would invest his money in low-risk mutual funds and securities to set himself up for life. Lawrence comes to the conclusion that he'd do "two chicks at the same time." Peter would "sit on [his] ass and do nothing" (besides two chicks at the same time, of course).
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Office Space / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Office Space / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The printer. Lumbergh, if you consider a certain deleted scene to be canon. The building itself, from the door handle that always shocks Peter to the cubicle walls to the inane corporate slogans, all of which he gleefully vandalizes in the "Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangster" segment. Then Milton burns it all down, and Peter happily cleans out the ashes.
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Office Space / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Office Space / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: When dealing with the Bobs, Peter unwittingly secures his own job, but is horrified to find out many of his friends are about to lose theirs. He's well aware that each of the friends so affected is more productive than he is and he's the one who's actually wanted to leave. At no point, however, does he seem to make the final connection that for all that he hated working at Initech, the people laid off are the ones the company seriously abused. He does come to realize how in the wrong he was, and tries to do right by returning the money and leaving a confession.
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Office Space / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Office Space / int_90e31482	comment	It is incredibly satisfying to watch his car get towed (he parked in a handicap space) and watch the entire back bumper ripped completely off.
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Office Space / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Office Space / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Peter eventually comes to realize what he did was wrong with the embezzlement and that other people everywhere have jobs they hate, but do them anyway. The point he realizes this is when even his laid-back neighbor Lawrence doesn't want to hang with him.
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Office Space / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Office Space / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Lumbergh, in a very passive-aggressive cares-for-the-corporation way. He's never outright nasty (except to Milton), even when assigning more soul-crushing work that goes nowhere.
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Office Space / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Office Space / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Parodied with Michael.
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Office Space / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Office Space / int_95cb7004	comment	Only Sane Employee: Michael, Samir, and Peter all know more about how to be productive than their bosses do, and get constantly frustrated by all the bureaucracy and politics.
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Office Space / int_96181ea7	type	Loads and Loads of Loading
Office Space / int_96181ea7	comment	Loads and Loads of Loading: When Peter tries to get out of the office early on a Friday so he can avoid Lumbergh telling him to work on Saturday, he saves his work first. It takes an infuriatingly long time to do so, thus thwarting his plan.
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Office Space / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Office Space / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Peter's girlfriend who forces him to see the hypnotherapist and later chews him out for turning into a Hypno Fool, all the while telling him not to blame the hypnotherapy session.
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Office Space / int_9a91603e	type	Atrocious Alias
Office Space / int_9a91603e	comment	Atrocious Alias: Played twice with Samir Nagheenanajar note Naga...naga....not gonna work here anymore! and, of course, Michael Bolton:
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Office Space / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Office Space / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: If you take Milton's â€¦ Milton's s-s-stapler he'll, he'll, he could â€¦ he'll set the building on fire.
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Office Space / int_9dc2ee3d	type	Ceiling Banger
Office Space / int_9dc2ee3d	comment	Ceiling Banger: Peter and Lawrence's apartment walls are not very thick. Which leads to a Brick Joke later on.
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Office Space / int_a03522c4	type	Boss's Unfavorite Employee
Office Space / int_a03522c4	comment	Boss's Unfavorite Employee: Lumbergh makes Milton move his desk three times a week and takes his stapler for no reason. When Milton is laid off, Lumbergh doesn't tell him; instead he cuts off his paycheck, moves him to the basement, and makes him hunt cockroaches.
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Office Space / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Office Space / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: Bill Lumbergh, a passive-aggressive Smug Snake who always speaks in measured tones, comes up with silly ways of motivating employees (i.e., "Hawaiian Shirt Day"), and uses a lot of stereotypical corporate euphemisms and buzzwords, which for a manager is often Truth in Television. He might genuinely believe that never raising your voice is all it takes to be considered "nice" by the rules of divine judgment.
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Office Space / int_a201dad2	type	Passive-Aggressive Kombat
Office Space / int_a201dad2	comment	Passive-Aggressive Kombat: A running theme about what makes modern employment so unbearable is that pretty much all of the bosses have got this down pat; they want to assert their authority over the people who they manage in any way possible yet are also conflict-adverse, so resort to passive-aggressively badgering and wheedling and "suggesting" their employees into doing what they want while pretending they have some sort of choice about it when clearly they don't. This turns out to be far more insufferable than if they just came out and told their employees what to do.
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Office Space / int_a280f130	type	Take This Job and Shove It
Office Space / int_a280f130	comment	Take This Job and Shove It: Joanna quits after delivering an epic rant to her passive-aggressive boss and flipping him off.
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Office Space / int_a298fc2	type	Inhuman Resources
Office Space / int_a298fc2	comment	Inhuman Resources: The Bobs are the Hatchet Man variety.
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Office Space / int_a34e512f	type	Foe Cooties
Office Space / int_a34e512f	comment	Foe Cooties: Peter is horrified when he mistakenly thinks that Joanna had had sex with his boss, Bill Lumbergh, before meeting him.
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Office Space / int_a44cd048	type	Meet the New Boss
Office Space / int_a44cd048	comment	Meet the New Boss: A deleted scene has the foreman supervising Peter's cleanup of Initech come up to Peter and talk/act exactly like Lumbergh, making Peter miserable again.
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Office Space / int_a49914aa	type	Bowdlerization
Office Space / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: The redubs of swearing for network TV are truly terrible. They say "deep slime" instead of "deep shit" and "pound me into ash" instead of "pound me in the ass". "Cock gobblers" is reworked into the totally nonsensical "hobgoblins." And Samir's incoherent swearing ("This is a fuck!") is changed into the equally incoherent "This is a suck!" On Comedy Central, swearing is muted out, and the profanity in the rap songs are played backwards, creating very obvious skips in the beat.
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Office Space / int_a5eeea11	type	Professional Slacker
Office Space / int_a5eeea11	comment	Inverted with Peter himself. The Bobs mistake his Professional Slacker status as self-effacing honesty.
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Office Space / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Office Space / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The stapler is used as motivation for Milton in the film, but it doesn't see much use as a stapler.
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Office Space / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Office Space / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: All of the protagonists in that they get away with their attempted crime (although they also lose the money), but most notably Milton. He gets sick of his job and burns the place down, in the process finding thousands of dollars lying on the floor and escaping to a tropical resort. Subverted somewhat in that he seems to be equally miserable when he gets there. Or maybe Milton was Initech's (or just Lumbergh's) karma. Their treatment of him was downright illegal. A deleted scene reveals Lumbergh died in the fire. Whether this is canon is unknown. Peter at least happens upon this on accident. After realizing what he did wrong, he does write up a letter fessing up to the crime, with the embezzled money included, slipping it through Lumbergh's door. Deus ex Machina simply happened with the aforementioned Milton setting fire to Initech and taking the money Peter left on the floor. It's up to the audience whether or not the deleted (and thus probably non-canon) scene where Peter discovers that he escaped white-collar hell only to enter a very similar blue-collar hell is an acceptably karmic result of his actions. Nina. She deliberately engineers the cake-passing, including breaking her own rule, to ensure it's Milton who doesn't get any (for the second time in a row). Nothing bad ever happens to her, unless you count her workplace being destroyed. Lumbergh seemingly gets off, too. While it's easy to think of him as simply a Jerkass, he's still partly responsible for Initech losing the better part of a million dollars, even aside from the arson almost certainly starting in his office. Considering how loathed he was, his ultimate fate should have been of some interest. There is a scene that shows what happened to him, but it was cut. Peter's (ex-)girlfriend Anne faces no consequences for triggering the events of the movie (sans of course Milton burning the place), or cheating on Peter.
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Office Space / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Office Space / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The magazine salesman who pretends to be a former crack addict to elicit sympathy. Peter, Michael, and Samir start asking him questions about money laundering, and he finally admits that he's not a former crack addict and used to be a computer programmer until he was laid off (although he now makes more money selling magazines). He then blackmails Peter into buying 40 subscriptions to Vibe because he knows about their plan to steal. Inverted with Peter himself. The Bobs mistake his Professional Slacker status as self-effacing honesty.
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Office Space / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
Office Space / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: The main cast are shown next to a clip of their characters. Most of the clips are silent but a handful use alternate takes of their lines.
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Office Space / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Office Space / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: This movie about lame, mostly white office drones is soundtracked entirely with hardcore gangsta rap.
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Office Space / int_ac92aad1	type	White-Collar Crime
Office Space / int_ac92aad1	comment	White-Collar Crime: The second half of the movie revolves around an attempt at it, though the protagonists aren't very good at it (they look up money laundering in the dictionary for starters), which is lampshaded by Michael:
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Office Space / int_afe5728	type	Promotion, Not Punishment
Office Space / int_afe5728	comment	Promotion, Not Punishment: Instead of getting sacked, when Peter tells the truth about how pointless and unsatisfying his job is the consultant put him on the promotion fast-track.
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Office Space / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Office Space / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Milton, who endures bullying and mistreatment from all sides at his job...until The Dog Bites Back.
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Office Space / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Office Space / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The Bobs aren't nice guys, but they are genuinely astonished by Initech's inefficient bureaucracy. They also end up giving their usual treatment to Lumbergh after getting an inkling of how poorly he operates the company. Anne is a completely despicable person, but when the therapist blithely tells Peter that how much he hates his job is "messed up" even she looks put out.
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Office Space / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Office Space / int_b707726f	comment	Having more than one person to handle downsizing. May double as Hypocritical Humor.
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Office Space / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Office Space / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Anne would have had good reason to chew out Peter over him being so blasÃ© about Dr. Swanson's death, except that she's noticeably more pissed that he embarrassed her in front of friends than she is about him calmly walking out to his car while a man was dying in front of them.
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Office Space / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Office Space / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Peter was in a very modern, technical, moderately prestigious job that he utterly hated, but felt compelled to stay with it because of anything from the salary to the time he invested to earn those skills. By the end of the film he has taken a menial labor job, with presumably less money, but feels infinitely happier getting out of a cubicle and doing something physical with notable results.
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Office Space / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Office Space / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Milton really loves that stapler. Also, Michael's last name is Bolton. He doesn't care for the singer. The printer. PC Load Letter? Fuck! Even in the future nothing works! Do not talk to Joanna about her flair. And don't tell Peter that he has a case of the Mondays. Though according to Lawrence, Peter's reaction could be a lot worse.
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Office Space / int_bd9f9111	type	Strawman Has a Point
Office Space / int_bd9f9111	comment	Strawman Has a Point: invoked As much of a soulless, corrupt bully as Lumbergh is, when it comes to his treatment of Peter, he kind of has a point. Peter admits to the Bobs that he always shows up late, zones out at his desk, goofs off, and rarely ever gets any actual work done. Given how production-oriented being a software engineer is, this likely means his co-workers have been forced to pick up the slack. The Bobs have one too. When Lumbergh objects to the idea of Peter being promoted because of his attitude, the Bobs rightfully point out that Peter's attitude is primarily a result of the company's structure and mismanagement making him dis-motivated. And when Lumbergh complains that Peter hasn't been handling the TPS reports properly, they ask how much time Lumbergh actually spends reviewing them. Before that, Tom freaking out, being unable to explain his job properly, and flipping out at the reviewers for what should be typical feedback doesn't do him any favors in the "is useful" department.
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Office Space / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Office Space / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Joanna, according to Peter's obnoxious officemate Drew. Corroborated by Michael. More than implied with Anne. When Peter shares his suspicions that she's cheating on him with his friends, they all say "Yea, I know what you mean", implying that either they themselves have slept with her, or know someone who did.
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Office Space / int_c1fc400f	type	Smack on the Back
Office Space / int_c1fc400f	comment	Smack on the Back: Dom Portwood is shown to love these despite Peter's obvious discomfort. Peter gives him a taste of his own medicine after his hypnosis.
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Office Space / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Office Space / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Michael, one of the two self-proclaimed best programmers at Initech (the other being Samir) crafts a virus to siphon off fractions of a cent from every financial transaction by Initech. His code is missing a decimal place or two causing the virus to steal a very large amount of money. He later admits he is always messing up some mundane detail like this. Makes you wonder how good he actually is. Having more than one person to handle downsizing. May double as Hypocritical Humor.
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Office Space / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Office Space / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Michael is described by himself and Peter as one of Initechâ€™s best programmers, however, his virus has a fairly substantial bug that causes a massive over-withdrawal of funds, due, in his estimation, to â€œsome mundane detailâ€� that admits he misses frequently, so who knows if heâ€™s actually a good programmer or if Peter just likes him. Of course, considering how inefficient Initech is, he really could be the best they've got, while still being mediocre overall.
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Office Space / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Office Space / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Milton gets off scot-free from setting Initech on fire (and in a deleted scene, killing Lumbergh as collateral damage) and goes to live it up on the beach with the stolen money. Unfortunately, the hotel staff are an equal kind of passive-aggressive assholes that make his life miserable there. As well, a deleted scene from the epilogue showcased that Peter just sacrificed his white-collar job hell (which he explicitly described as "every day is the worst day of my life, because every day feels worse than the last one" before getting hypnotized) for a blue-collar hell, complete with a near-perfect clone of his old boss, just after telling his friends that he felt content.
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Office Space / int_c6fb9ebc	type	Piss-Take Rap
Office Space / int_c6fb9ebc	comment	Piss-Take Rap: Samir reciting the first line of "Still" by Geto Boys, the song that was just playing during the printer smashing scene.
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Office Space / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Office Space / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The money-making scheme is an acknowledged nod to Superman III. Bill Lumbergh wears an Earthforce Academy graduation ring. Actor Gary Cole kept it from his previous role in Crusade.
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Office Space / int_c795a58b	type	In-Universe Catharsis
Office Space / int_c795a58b	comment	In-Universe Catharsis: The boys, after all the shit they'd been put through, after pulling off their heist so far without a hitch, and after finally being able to walk away from the hellhole of a job they were in, steal the malfunctioning printer and beat the everloving shit out of it.
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Office Space / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Office Space / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: After being insisted on wearing more flair by her boss repeatedly, even (for some really stupid reason only known to his passive-aggressive self) reminding her of the bands Jewish people wore during the Holocaust to try to encourage her, Joanna finally has had enough and not only does she delivers a Take This Job and Shove It rant, but she presents him the perfect "flair" for her to "express herself": she flips off the whole restaurant. Milton finally has enough after Lumbergh tells him to take care of Initech's cockroach problem. As in makes good on his constant promising to set the whole damn building on fire. It should be noted that, judging by his attempts to get his paycheck and his mutterings at the end, Milton's real rage-breaking point was finding out he'd been fired and they hadn't bothered telling him. Of course we all know that the real reason was the stapler.
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Office Space / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Office Space / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: The morning after Peter, Michael, and Samir celebrate having put their plan into action, Joanna remarks on the mess and wonders what the celebration was about, Peter replying that he's not at liberty to talk about it. Cut to Peter telling her everything.
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Office Space / int_c90bcc4d	type	Piecemeal Funds Transfer
Office Space / int_c90bcc4d	comment	Piecemeal Funds Transfer: Due to a misplaced decimal point, the program in that film accumulated over $300,000 in its first few days —far more than expected, and a large enough amount to be quickly noticed.
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Office Space / int_ca4e05a4	type	Peace & Love Incorporated
Office Space / int_ca4e05a4	comment	Peace & Love Incorporated: Initech portrays itself this way, but the inner working show it's not so rosy. To a lesser extent, Chotchkie's also seems to see itself this way (what with the emphasis on flair) but then the apparent best employee is a Jerkass and the manager is just as passive-aggressive and ineffectual as Lumbergh.
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Office Space / int_cb8880a5	type	Soul-Crushing Desk Job
Office Space / int_cb8880a5	comment	Soul-Crushing Desk Job: The plot is all about our main character Peter Gibbons and his friends working a dead-end job at the Initech software company under Bill Lumberg, a Mean Boss obsessed with TPS reports. When their jobs are threatened because the bosses have decided to downsize, they hatch a Stealing from the Till scheme. However, no one gets it worse than Milton, an extremely introverted person who is hounded by Lumbergh throughout the film before Going Postal and burning down Initech. Peter decides to quit his job and live a happier life as a construction worker.
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Office Space / int_cbe6f71c	type	Slower Than a Snail
Office Space / int_cbe6f71c	comment	Slower Than a Snail: During the opening scene, Peter is stuck in traffic and an old man with a walker is moving faster than he is.
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Office Space / int_cdb45c07	type	No Sense of Personal Space
Office Space / int_cdb45c07	comment	No Sense of Personal Space: Dom Portwood, the other manager with the most screen time behind Lumbergh, has a habit of delivering heavy-handed claps to the back regardless of Peter's comfort level. Peter returns the favor when he stops caring about work.
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Office Space / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Office Space / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: both the scene in which they install the virus while Down For Whatever by Ice Cube plays, and especially the scene in which they destroy the printer with Still from the Geto Boys playing.
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Office Space / int_d1726c18	type	What, Exactly, Is His Job?
Office Space / int_d1726c18	comment	What, Exactly, Is His Job?: "What exactly would you say... you do here?" Tom's interview with the Bobs does not go well. And of course they find out that Milton doesn't even have a job at Initech. Though Milton didn't know that.
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Office Space / int_d3427bf9	type	PerpetualTourist
Office Space / int_d3427bf9	comment	Perpetual Tourist: Milton.
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Office Space / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Office Space / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Initech's hiring the Bobs. That piece of advice to "avoid confrontation" by deliberately not telling Milton that he was fired didn't work out too well, did it? Not to mention the implication that the Bobs are going to get Lumbergh canned too.
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Office Space / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Office Space / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Joanna gives one of these to Peter late in the film, informing him that it's not okay to commit embezzlement just because you hate your job.
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Office Space / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
Office Space / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Peter's ex-girlfriend Anne, between suggesting he go to a hypnotist and then calling it bull when he ends up as a Hypno Fool, and admitting to cheating on him.
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Office Space / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Office Space / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Peter's candid "I don't give a damn if you fire me" attitude straight to the faces of the people who could cost him his job. If he'd been less over-the-top, Peter could have been canned on the spot. In fact, his incredible honesty about his lack of work ethic actually gets him promoted by the Bobs. Played with since it's completely unintentional on Peter's part - he just genuinely doesn't care enough about his job to worry about the possibility of getting fired - and in fact the realization that he's put this trope into practice while his more Properly Paranoid friends are getting fired is what brings him out of his Hypno Fool state.
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Office Space / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
Office Space / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: This part of typical office culture is touched on briefly. During a few office-wide meetings you can see one employee standing near the front obnoxiously nodding overenthusiastically with every word Lumbergh says.
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Office Space / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Office Space / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Given Initech's size and the emphasis on each supervisor getting a TPS report, as well as the relative age differences between management and employees, it's implied that the management team takes the fairly common approach of promoting from within the facility. It's also implied to be Peter's reward for hitting it off with the Bobs.
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Office Space / int_d9563969	type	Failed Attempt at Drama
Office Space / int_d9563969	comment	Failed Attempt at Drama: Peter has an argument with Joanna, and screams "Say hello to Lumbergh for me!!" as she stomps off. It would probably be more effective if she hadn't slammed the car door in the middle of it, making his parting jab barely audible.
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Office Space / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Office Space / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Lumbergh's secretary seems to realize Milton is about to go postal on Initech, and beats a hasty retreat out of the building.
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Office Space / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Office Space / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Lumbergh. Aside from being an abusive asshole, he also is clearly incompetent in his role, wasting his employees' time on speeches and reports that he doesn't really even read. It's also stated that the employees have been forced to work overtime just to meet their deadlines; if Initech really was efficient, the employees wouldn't need to do overtime. Dom Portwood's a more benign version. He's far less of a slimy prick than Lumbergh but his role as a "manager" seems to just be going around the office repeating what Lumbergh has already told people without providing any actual direction or leadership. The Bobs don't do their jobs very well. Despite being "efficiency experts," they fire productive employees and keep lazy ones. Joanna's boss is no better, too obsessed with the whole "employees must wear flair" detail to bother about other things, such as the fact the employee he considers good because of this being an utter asshole otherwise.
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Office Space / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Office Space / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Bobs are a downplayed version of this. They do go about firing people in a heartless matter, even advising Lumbergh to passive-aggressively torment Milton instead of confronting him about his lack of employment. But they are willing to give the employees a chance to explain their jobs, and when Peter speaks candidly with them about Initech's problems, they not only push for Peter's promotion, they start grilling Lumbergh about his incompetence.
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Office Space / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Office Space / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Milton. "I could set the building on fire."
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Office Space / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
Office Space / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Michael's excessive swearing was David Herman's way of preventing 20th Century Fox from giving the movie a PG-13 as they'd hoped.
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Office Space / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Office Space / int_dfe57573	comment	Also doubles as an Historical In-Joke: the Y2K bug itself was essentially due to leaving off decimal points.
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Office Space / int_e0b6edec	type	OnlySaneWoman
Office Space / int_e0b6edec	comment	Only Sane Woman: Joanna is the only character who doesn't have a character flaw, annoying trait, or who conducts morally questionable acts.
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Office Space / int_e42e91b4	type	Godwin's Law
Office Space / int_e42e91b4	comment	Godwin's Law: When Peter tells Joanna how wrong it is that she is forced to wear pieces of flair for her job, he compares them to the Stars of David that the Nazis forced the Jews to wear.
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Office Space / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Office Space / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Bill Lumbergh is the vice president of Initech and the obnoxious Mean Boss of Peter Gibbons. Not only is Lumbergh utterly incompetent at keeping his employees motivated, but he is also a passive-aggressive bully who makes a habit of routinely abusing Milton Waddams without even bothering to inform him that he was fired years ago. He's also not above petty acts of cruelty, like parking in the handicapped space when Peter takes his reserved parking spot. The constant mistreatment of his employees makes it satisfying to watch him get his comeuppance time and again.
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Office Space / int_e6defce9	type	Bad News in a Good Way
Office Space / int_e6defce9	comment	Bad News in a Good Way: Lumbergh: "I almost forgot: Um, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too. We, um, lost some people this week and we need to sort of play catch-up. Thaaaanks."
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Office Space / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Office Space / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During his interview with the Bobs, Peter is not only completely relaxed and casual (whereas everyone else has been understandably tense), but is utterly open about his shortcomings and completely candid about how much he slacks off. This total change of pace in comparison to his fellow employees, along with his completely candid, realistic interpretation of his role in the company, surprises and intrigues the Bobs. It even leads to the interview becoming more questions of why Peter and other employees like him might not be motivated to do anything productive in the first place, rather than slating him to be laid off.
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Office Space / int_e975738d	type	Forgettable Character
Office Space / int_e975738d	comment	Forgettable Character: Milton is a mousy office drone who is so inconspicuous that several years before the movie he was actually fired from the company, and everybody forgot to tell him about it. He continued to work there with no employment file because a glitch in the payroll system continued to send him a monthly salary, which nobody noticed either. Well, Lumbergh noticed; he just didn't bother to tell Milton because he wanted to screw with him. Lumbergh finally gets what's coming to him, though.
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Office Space / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Office Space / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When the two Bobs discuss who they're going to fire:
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Office Space / int_ea2c8da6	type	Watch the Paint Job
Office Space / int_ea2c8da6	comment	Watch the Paint Job: The Laser-Guided Karma for Lumbergh parking his Porsche in a handicapped space is its bumper being ripped off by an inept towtruck driver.
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Office Space / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Office Space / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Lumbergh seemingly gets off, too. While it's easy to think of him as simply a Jerkass, he's still partly responsible for Initech losing the better part of a million dollars, even aside from the arson almost certainly starting in his office. Considering how loathed he was, his ultimate fate should have been of some interest. There is a scene that shows what happened to him, but it was cut.
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Office Space / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	To a lesser extent, Chotchkie's also seems to see itself this way (what with the emphasis on flair) but then the apparent best employee is a Jerkass and the manager is just as passive-aggressive and ineffectual as Lumbergh.
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Office Space / int_ec1ec2dc	type	Non-Protagonist Resolver
Office Space / int_ec1ec2dc	comment	Non-Protagonist Resolver: Milton of all people ends up saving Peter, Samir and Michael.
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Office Space / int_ecc8b108	type	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
Office Space / int_ecc8b108	comment	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: This song was used to great effect to show how much Peter hated Initech. Subverted when Peter and his friends have to deal with the fallout of their crime, and Michael Bolton rants about "stupid neanderthal Mafia guys [being] so good at crime, when smart guys like us can suck so badly at it."
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Office Space / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Office Space / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: When Peter and Joanna are about to have their first kiss, we hear this through Peter's wall: Subverted in the very next scene, where Peter, Joanna, and Lawrence all go fishing together.
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Office Space / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Office Space / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted with the consultants, both named Bob. There's also a second, unseen character with the last name "Lumbergh": a Ron Lumbergh who Joanna actually slept with. Peter initially thinks the Lumbergh she slept with was Bill. And there is another (real-life) Michael Bolton as well.
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Office Space / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
Office Space / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: the hypnotherapist dies mid-job.
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Office Space / int_f197c220	type	Burger Fool
Office Space / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: Are you wearing your flair today?
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Office Space / int_f5ab45cb	type	Incompetence, Inc.
Office Space / int_f5ab45cb	comment	Incompetence, Inc.: Initech is badly run, with redundant bosses and paperwork, efficiency "experts" who promote lazy employees and sack diligent ones, supervisors who take time out of their day to torment employees, and no security worth any notice. It's not even all that clear what Initech actually does, aside from dealing with the oncoming Y2K problem.
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Office Space / int_f63acc9c	type	The Dilbert Principle
Office Space / int_f63acc9c	comment	The Dilbert Principle: The two Bobs think Peter's a great candidate for the management track, while they want to fire two of the most competent workers. Of course, when you consider that Peter was the one who was actually upfront with them about the company's inefficiencies and the problems that result from them, it makes sense that they would see him as someone who was manager material.
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Office Space / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Office Space / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After Milton burns the building down, Peter gets a job he genuinely enjoys in construction. Milton also finds the embezzled money and escapes to a tropical paradise. Subverted because they both managed to escape well-deserved punishment for embezzlement and arson, respectively, albeit accidentally in the former's case. Also subverted by the fact that Milton doesn't seem to be enjoying his tropical paradise that much, as people continue to ignore him and he fusses over the details of his drink order.
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Office Space / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Office Space / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Peter is reminded about the missing cover sheet on his TPS report by no less than five people (Lumbergh, Portwood, an unknown character on the phone, Michael, and Samir). It is implied that he was also reminded by at least five other bosses who were unknown. Also doubles as Fridge Horror. Also, the pronunciation of Nagheenanajar and Michael's namesake. Samir doesn't quite get how English swearing works, his very first line being "Mother shitter son of a...ass," and later giving us stuff like "This is a fuck." Milton mutters a few times that he wishes to set the building on fire while he's rambling. He makes good on his promise in the final act.
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Office Space / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Office Space / int_fb3576b2	comment	Eventually, Milton decides being moved to the basement and asked to take care of the cockroach problem is "the last straw" and follows through with his arson threats. Lumbergh taking his stapler on the way out probably was a bad idea.
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Office Space / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Office Space / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: It's the Office Space "Case of the Mondays" Fun Kit! Comes with lots and lots of flair, TPS reports, and a Jump to Conclusions mat! Though seeing how it's supposed to seem like the kind of stupid-ass thing Initech would do, that's pretty much the point. A minor Running Gag early on is various characters missing the point of the "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" exercise, talking about what they would do with the money rather than what they would do with their lives when money is no longer a concern. Subverted when Peter explains his plan to Joanna. Joanna calls him out on his attempts to make embezzlement sound okay, leading to the flustered Peter acting like he didn't explain himself well.
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Office Space / int_fd76df83	type	Artistic License â€“ Economics
Office Space / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: The original plan of siphoning off the fractions of cents from transactions would immediately be noticed. The financial world deals with "fractions of a cent" all the time, and while a single transaction would probably slip by unnoticed, all the transactions suddenly returning exact change (for lack of a better term) would very quickly add up to enough money to trigger a warning.
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Office Space / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Office Space / int_fe0330fb	comment	Which leads to a Brick Joke later on.
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Office Space / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Office Space / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Joanna rants that Peter has become a "penny-stealing â€¦ wannabe criminal â€¦ man!"
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Office Space / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Office Space / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: The unnamed temp who jokes with Michael about his name and Peter about having "a case of the Mondays" clearly means no harm and is just trying to be personable, yet she manages to effortlessly push both of their buttons anyway. Subverted by Lumbergh. He seems to initially just be wedged too far up his own ass to realize how much of a passive-aggressive jerk he is, but his escalating mistreatment of Milton shows him to be a deliberately cruel Bad Boss even when there's no real gain from doing so.
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Office Space / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: While the Bobs are somewhat callous hatchetmen, when Peter impresses them with his candor, they actually seek to give him a promotion and grill Lumbergh when he badmouths Peter.
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Office Space	hasFeature	Madden Into Misanthropy / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Mean Boss / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Meet the New Boss / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Millennium Bug / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Misplaced a Decimal Point / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Moving the Goalposts / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Named After Somebody Famous / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Named Like My Name / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Never Heard That One Before / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Non-Protagonist Resolver / int_38edabf0
Office	seeAlso	Office Space
Office Space	hasFeature	Out of Job, into the Plot / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Parking Payback / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Parking Problems / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Passive-Aggressive Kombat / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Peace & Love Incorporated / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Penny Shaving / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Percussive Therapy / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Phrase Catcher / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Piecemeal Funds Transfer / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Piss-Take Rap / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Playing Games at Work / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Pointy-Haired Boss / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Pummeling the Corpse / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Rant-Inducing Slight / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Salaryman / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Seemingly Profound Fool / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Short-Distance Phone Call / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	"Shut Up" Kiss / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Slower Than a Snail / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Soul-Crushing Desk Job / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Standard Office Setting / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Static Electricity / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Stealing the Handicapped Spot / int_38edabf0
T.G.I.O'ChiliBee's	seeAlso	Office Space
Office Space	hasFeature	Take This Job and Shove It / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	That Satisfying "Crunch!" / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	The Catchphrase Catches On / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	The Dilbert Principle / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	The Quiet One / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	The Thing That Would Not Leave / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	The Unpronounceable / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Throw the Dog a Bone / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Tropical Epilogue / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Ultimate Job Security / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Unfortunate Names / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Unintentionally Notorious Crime / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Visual Innuendo / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	What, Exactly, Is His Job? / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	White-Collar Crime / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	White Collar Worker / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Workaholic / int_38edabf0
officespace	sameAs	Office Space
Office Space	hasFeature	Almost Famous Name / int_38edabf0
Office Space	hasFeature	Hypno Fool / int_38edabf0

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