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The Office (UK)

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The Office (UK)	comment	British Mockumentary Work Com (2001-2003) in the style of a fly on the wall, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.The main setting is the administrative office for the Slough branch of paper supplies company Wernham Hogg, presided over by Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist David Brent (Gervais). His Number Two, Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), is an unpleasant, pathetic loser with a military obsession. The most sympathetic character is Tim Canterbury (Martin Freeman), the witty clerk whose friendship with receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis) borders on the romantic. The series was met with great critical acclaim and won several awards, hailed for its original style and subtle, insightful humour.The series is a mockumentary: the characters are very aware of the cameras being on them, all the time. Brent in particular is given to preening and showing off for the camera, and Gareth explicitly notes that he's only behaving a certain way because "they're filming".Inspired the highly successful, far longer-running, and more well-known American adaptation of the series. Also highly successful is the German remake Stromberg, wherein the main protagonist Bernd Stromberg (the German version of David Brent) works for an insurance company. It has also inspired French (Le Bureau), French-Canadian (La Job), Chilean (La Ofis), Israeli (HaMisrad), Swedish (Kontoret) and Polish (The Office PL) remakes, as well as still in-development Chinese and Finnish versions.Has a follow-up film that specifically follows Gervais' character, David Brent: Life on the Road.Came twenty-fifth in Britains Best Sitcom.
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The Office (UK) / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
The Office (UK) / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Gareth, Neil and Jennifer all get a promotion over the course of the series. Tim is offered one but turns it down. Brent is offered one too, but fails the medical.
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The Office (UK) / int_11af4e0e	type	Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle
The Office (UK) / int_11af4e0e	comment	"Training" features the Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle as a team-building exercise. Most of the employees arrive at the correct solution note Chicken across, empty boat back; fox or grain across, chicken back; grain or fox across, empty boat back; chicken across, but Gareth first frustrates Tim by suggesting solutions in no way within the parameters of the puzzle note Like "the farmer should just drown the fox" or "get his wife to hold the chicken", and then interrupts the explanation of the solution to read a laundry list of the problems he has with the premise.
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The Office (UK) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Office (UK) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Stephen Merchant has a small part as Gareth's mate Oggy.
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The Office (UK) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Office (UK) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: David dares Neil and Jennifer to sack him. A few minutes later they do exactly that.
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The Office (UK) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Office (UK) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The U.S. DVD release of the first series had a glossary explaining British slang and cultural references.
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The Office (UK) / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
The Office (UK) / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Neil to David. Although the latter would never admit it, Neil enjoys the social and professional success that Brent craves.
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The Office (UK) / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
The Office (UK) / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The "Training" episode ends with David singing and playing "Handbags and Gladrags".
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The Office (UK) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Office (UK) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: When David takes part in a "celebrity" blind date at a night club, he's joined by Real Life minor celebs Howard Brown note known as the "extra man" after appearing in a few (at the time) well-known adverts for the Halifax building society and Paul "Bubble" Ferguson note a former Big Brother contestant .
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The Office (UK) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Office (UK) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Anton, Jeff Lamp, Pete Gibbons. Neil in series one.
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The Office (UK) / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Office (UK) / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Keith, who does not show emotion even when being insulted to his face.
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The Office (UK) / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
The Office (UK) / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Keith is a man of very few words.
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The Office (UK) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Office (UK) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: One of the themes of the series was the soul-destroying nature of working in an office for a paycheck and largely watching your dreams die horribly slow and painful deaths. Talented artist/receptionist Dawn wanting to be an artist, but stuck working a dead-end job with a deadbeat lover who constantly belittles her talent, because he doesn't want her to give up the paycheck that supports the two. Tim, who has dreams of going to university to study psychology, ends up abandoning them when he gets promoted. Even more alarming is in his rationalization to Dawn, he starts using management speak that is very similar to how David talks. Keith says his job is just a stopgap and he wants to get into music. David says he could have been successful in music, but gave it up for his job at Wernham-Hogg. When he actually tries to start a musical career, it doesn't go well. Apparently the people who actually enjoy their mundane jobs are talentless hacks.
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The Office (UK) / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Office (UK) / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of the Work Com. When the cameras are on him, David Brent attempts to be the funny, charismatic sitcom boss, and he constantly (and desperately) compares himself to great comedians, but it's incredibly obvious he's just an ordinary bloke working in a mundane office where people just want to do their jobs and collect a paycheque.
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The Office (UK) / int_26e7f210	type	This Is My Side
The Office (UK) / int_26e7f210	comment	This Is My Side: In the first episode of the first series, Gareth slides a ruler between his desk and Tim's, to move things overlapping from Tim's desk. He says "One word, two syllables: demarcation". Later, in the same episode, Tim makes a pile of box files between their desks, so that he does not have to look at Gareth.
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The Office (UK) / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
The Office (UK) / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: The rest of the office: Keith, Emma, Jamie, Sheila, Ralph, Ben.
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The Office (UK) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Office (UK) / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: David is absolutely convinced that he's the life of the office and is a world-class musician, philosopher, and stand-up comedian. Everyone else he comes into contact with thinks differently. He does however seem to be at least partially aware that he isn't as great as he thinks he is, given how he reacts to people pointing it out, or otherwise not treating him as he feels he deserves. For example, when he tried giving Tim career advice which was rejected out of hand, he grew quite agitated, angry, and dismissive. Many of David's own illusions about himself are, of course, stripped away by the end of Series Two.
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The Office (UK) / int_2916334d	type	It's What I Do
The Office (UK) / int_2916334d	comment	It's What I Do: David says this in the first episode of the second series, soon after he has told the "black man's cock" joke, when the Swindon intake have not grasped that they're supposed to laugh at everything he says.
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The Office (UK) / int_2989316a	type	The Illegal
The Office (UK) / int_2989316a	comment	The Illegal: Lee and Dawn's stay in the US between series 2 and the Christmas specials is not entirely legal. Having entered the country to visit Lee's sister, they wind up staying three years on a 90-day visa, working odd jobs for money under the table since they don't have work permits. On the other hand, the sister isn't charging rent and Lee thinks that this leaves them not too badly off.
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The Office (UK) / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
The Office (UK) / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: David gives belittling nicknames to people, but when he finds out the staff have nicknamed him Mr Toad and Bluto, he gives them a lecture about nicknames being hurtful. He gets called out on it by one of the guys in the office. Moments later, Brent then suggests that they should at least start by picking on Keith, who also happens to be overweight and wears glasses as well. David's attitude to the mocked up porno picture of him changes when he finds out it was his "best mate" Chris Finch who did it. He once again gets called out on it. David complains that one of his blind dates is less attractive than she was in her photo. She later mentions that he also sent an unrepresentative photo of himself.
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The Office (UK) / int_2f2e3cfe	type	Interrogation by Vandalism
The Office (UK) / int_2f2e3cfe	comment	Interrogation by Vandalism: Played for laughs. When Gareth is extremely possessive of his stapler, and has labelled it "Garet", Tim seizes it and dangles it out of the office window.
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The Office (UK) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Office (UK) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Averted; according to Tim in the Christmas Special, his nan reckons that Dawn made the right choice by sticking with Lee. Later played straight by Keith when he tells Tim that Dawn coming back for the Christmas party probably represents the last chance he (Tim) will have of getting together with Dawn.
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The Office (UK) / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
The Office (UK) / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Gareth certainly thinks so: There's a callback to this in a deleted scene where Dawn and Rachel torment Gareth by pretending to be lesbians.
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The Office (UK) / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
The Office (UK) / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Tim gives Gareth one, just to wind him up.
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The Office (UK) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Office (UK) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Finchy does this to Brent a lot. The Dog Bites Back in the final episode. David reduces Dawn to tears when he pretends to fire her in the first episode.
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The Office (UK) / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
The Office (UK) / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Tim's birthday sees him repeatedly insulted by Chris Finch, cheated of the victory his quiz team earned, stripped of one of his shoes which is thrown over the office building, and left walking home alone shoeless after everyone else has gone.
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The Office (UK) / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
The Office (UK) / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: The tech support guy, Simon, is convinced that Bruce Lee's death was a cover-up to allow him to go Deep Cover Agent and bust up the Triads. Gareth, of course, believes him.
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The Office (UK) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Office (UK) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Prior to the office quiz night, Gareth cringes at the memory of what happened at the last one, when David went to great lengths to disprove the answer to a question about Mr. Spock note specifically, the question asked what species Spock is, the answer being Vulcan ... only for Brent to go home and get a book about Star Trek which showed that Spock is actually half-Vulcan, half-Human.
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The Office (UK) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Office (UK) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Might as well be called Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The TV Show. David Brent constantly mugs for the camera and spouts one liners like he's a witty, plays-by-his-own-rules sitcom boss, but everybody just reacts to him with confusion, embarrassment, and occasionally disgust. In one of his very first scenes, he jokes to Dawn that every man in the office wishes they could wake up "at the crack of Dawn" and then doubles over laughing at his own tasteless joke while Dawn is just irritated and insulted.
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The Office (UK) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Office (UK) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: To make up for manhandling him the previous day, Lee gives Tim a wrapped bottle-shaped gift.
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The Office (UK) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Office (UK) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Gareth claims to have had loads in other offices, but his interactions with women throughout the series suggest this is a case of Blatant Lies.
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The Office (UK) / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The Office (UK) / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Mocked in an after-the-fact (out of character) documentary. Dawn and Tim's actors think the two characters will go on to a happy life together, only to be shot down by Ricky Gervais, who basically says, 'Only if it's funny.'
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The Office (UK) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Office (UK) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: David Brent's music, and particularly his cover of "If You Don't Know Me By Now".
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The Office (UK) / int_425d74f4	type	Shutting Up Now
The Office (UK) / int_425d74f4	comment	Shutting Up Now: Finch, who usually has an endless supply of witty ripostes, is reduced to stunned silence when Brent puts him in his place for insulting his date. Brent's problem is he never knows when to do this, so he just keeps digging.
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The Office (UK) / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
The Office (UK) / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Done by David. During an exercise on how not to deal with an irate customer, when acting as the customer he shouts "I think there's been a rape!" and says to always get attention, and when acting as the manager, has the other person say his room number, then states his hotel doesn't go up to that floor and that some complaints will be fake.
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The Office (UK) / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
The Office (UK) / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: David embodies this. There are some hints that he was previously a good sales rep, which presumably led to his promotion to a job for which he was wholly unsuitable.
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The Office (UK) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Office (UK) / int_47fea76b	comment	In Chris Finch's first scene, he shows himself to be a bully and a jerk who treats Brent as a Butt-Monkey.
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The Office (UK) / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
The Office (UK) / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: David clearly resents Neil's easy charm and popularity, not to mention his promotion over David (especially stinging as it was actually David who was first choice for said promotion ... only he failed the medical) and of course, Neil's eventual firing of him. He's outright asked if he resents Neil in the Christmas special, and denies it. By the end of the series, Neil seems to resent David as well â€“ the understated, not-entirely-unjustified contempt for a man whose antics he's clearly had enough of.
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The Office (UK) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Office (UK) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Series two ended with David being sacked and Dawn leaving after rejecting Tim. The Christmas specials gave them more of a Happy Ending with David finding love and Tim and Dawn finally getting together.
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The Office (UK) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Office (UK) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: David to Finch, in the Christmas episode. It's very well-deserved.
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The Office (UK) / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
The Office (UK) / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Chris Finch is an obnoxious, arrogant and sexist bully, and not particularly attractive, yet he is seen to be reasonably successful with women. Keith is a less dislikable example as he's seen dancing with more than one woman at the various office parties. Even Gareth sometimes falls into this category, although the women he meets at Chasers are not exactly picky.
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The Office (UK) / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
The Office (UK) / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Sarcasm is completely lost on Gareth.
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The Office (UK) / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Office (UK) / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: In the first episode of series one, David hires a new forklift driver. In the final episode of series one, David fires the same man.
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The Office (UK) / int_54bb2c63	type	The Alleged Boss
The Office (UK) / int_54bb2c63	comment	David thinks he is, but he's really The Alleged Boss. He goes into Bad Boss territory when he accepts a promotion knowing it will mean most of the staff losing their jobs.
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The Office (UK) / int_57918465	type	Seven Minute Lull
The Office (UK) / int_57918465	comment	Seven Minute Lull: David gets caught in the middle of a (lame) dirty joke in the Seven Minute Lull at the end of "The Party."
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The Office (UK) / int_5a310772	type	Standard Office Setting
The Office (UK) / int_5a310772	comment	Standard Office Setting: The series is set in a small regional branch office of a large corporation, which shows off the range of this setting: there's a receptionist desk at the front, open space with a bunch of desks in the middle, and private office with a door for the office manager.
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The Office (UK) / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Office (UK) / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: David begs Neil and Jennifer not to make him redundant.
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The Office (UK) / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
The Office (UK) / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: In the Comic Relief episode, a group of them gang up on Ben and pull down his trousers and underwear. Being a documentary, the offending images are pixelated.
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The Office (UK) / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Office (UK) / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: Gareth's reaction when he finds that Tim has pranked him by putting his stapler in a jelly for what we're told is the third time.
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The Office (UK) / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Office (UK) / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Lee spots Tim getting a bit too close to Dawn and immediately shoves him against the wall. In another scene Lee threatens him for asking Dawn out. It takes Tim a while to realise he's just joking this time.
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The Office (UK) / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Office (UK) / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Fourteen episodes (two six-episode seasons and a concluding two-part Christmas Special). Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant felt that as it is supposed to be a 'fly on the wall' documentary (rather than a work-com) it would stretch belief that the crew are still there months or years later. This is the biggest difference between it and the American version.
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The Office (UK) / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The Office (UK) / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: The one in Gareth and David's joke about the black man's cock ("bigger than the bread bin").
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The Office (UK) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Office (UK) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: David assures Jennifer that the news about the proposed merger with Swindon (and possible redundancies) will not leave the room. In the next scene everyone is discussing it. Having just been reprimanded by Jennifer for telling a racist joke, David jokes with a group of employees about smoking weed. Cut to him being reprimanded by Jennifer again.
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The Office (UK) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Office (UK) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While it may have seemed mean to ban David from the office, Neil was correct that as an ex-employee, there was no good reason for David to just keep turning up for a chat and disrupting the staff at work.
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The Office (UK) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Office (UK) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Slough has two definitions, depending on the reading. Both of them quite aptly describe the Wernham Hogg office: First, as pronounced in the show (to rhyme with "now"), it means a bog, a morass, or a place of despair, referring to how David runs the place. Second, read with an "f" at the end, it means to cast off or shed, or something that has been shed like a snake's skin, referring to the threat of redundancy hanging over the office and David's final fate.
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The Office (UK) / int_6c833efe	type	Jerks Use Body Spray
The Office (UK) / int_6c833efe	comment	Jerks Use Body Spray: When David Brent affects a contrived cool-guy persona for a motivational speaking gig, he changes shirts in front of his bemused client and hoses himself down with body spray, catching his Beleaguered Assistant in the face. He isn't hired back.
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The Office (UK) / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Office (UK) / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Near the end of the Christmas Episode, David, Tim, and Gareth are having their first friendly conversation of the entire series; their dialogue suggests David has just posed the Doctor's Son puzzle to Tim and Gareth, who are both stumped.
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The Office (UK) / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
The Office (UK) / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: Three years after being fired (and after suing the company for unfair dismissal), David still regularly shows up at Wernham Hogg. Gareth politely hints that he shouldn't really keep turning up unannounced, but David is oblivious.
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The Office (UK) / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
The Office (UK) / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Deliberately invoked by Tim and Dawn when they wind up Gareth. He thinks they're talking about military affairs, but they're actually insinuating that he's gay.
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The Office (UK) / int_73c8cdc0	type	Agree to Disagree
The Office (UK) / int_73c8cdc0	comment	Agree to Disagree: David's attempt at this in "Motivation" is quickly shot down by Neil:
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The Office (UK) / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Office (UK) / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: David's secretary between series one and two.
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The Office (UK) / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
The Office (UK) / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: David Brent headbutting his new receptionist.
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The Office (UK) / int_7a368a80	type	Comic Role Play
The Office (UK) / int_7a368a80	comment	Comic Role Play: The training episode! "See, I fazed you."
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The Office (UK) / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
The Office (UK) / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Kick The Son Of A Bitch when they're down more like. Neil subtly does this to David a few times in the Christmas episodes. He keeps reminding David that he said he'd be bringing a woman to the party, knowing how slim David's chances are of actually finding a date. Note the Stunned Silence from Neil and Finch when David does bring along an attractive woman.
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The Office (UK) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Office (UK) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Simon delivers a great one to Tim:
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The Office (UK) / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Office (UK) / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Ali G is mentioned more than one, with Keith even dressing up as him in the Comic Relief episode. Martin Freeman (who plays Tim) played one of Ali's friends in the Ali G movie.
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The Office (UK) / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
The Office (UK) / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Lee and Dawn. Although they're engaged, Lee is never shown being nice to Dawn, and is instead seen being horrible to her on several occasions. Word of God concedes this, admitting that they had originally intended to make the Tim / Dawn / Lee triangle to be more of a match of equals, but since Tim by default ended up getting more screen-time he couldn't help becoming more likeable.
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The Office (UK) / int_7fd142ef	type	Shared Universe
The Office (UK) / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: David Brent goes on to appear in two episodes of The Office (US), placing both shows in the same continuity. The same goes for the 2016 film David Brent: Life on the Road.
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The Office (UK) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Office (UK) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Gareth is first seen creeping up on Tim, whacking him over the head with a newspaper and yelling "whasssup", establishing his irritating character. In Chris Finch's first scene, he shows himself to be a bully and a jerk who treats Brent as a Butt-Monkey.
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The Office (UK) / int_805b13e	type	Wacky Marriage Proposal
The Office (UK) / int_805b13e	comment	Wacky Marriage Proposal: Lee's proposal to Dawn was done by way of a small piece in a newspaper.
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The Office (UK) / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
The Office (UK) / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: David Brent walks a fine line, as he is so pathetic that it becomes increasingly difficult not to sympathise him. By the Christmas Special, he's almost in woobie territory.
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The Office (UK) / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
The Office (UK) / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Gareth to Rachel. It's a mark of his self delusion that he can't understand why a girl like her would prefer Tim.
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The Office (UK) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Office (UK) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: When we first see Dawn and Lee in Florida, she's holding a baby, which would presumably end any chance of romance with Tim. But she then mentions that it's Lee's sister's baby, who she looks after.
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The Office (UK) / int_88aa2bb9	type	Sucks at Dancing
The Office (UK) / int_88aa2bb9	comment	Sucks at Dancing: David, with his cringe-makingly memorable attempt at sexy dance moves in the Comic Relief episode, which boil down to spasmodic and random arm movements, grunting, and gyrating. It really has to be seen to be believed.
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The Office (UK) / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
The Office (UK) / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Sheila clearly fancies Oliver, which he regards with equal parts bewilderment and horror. David to his new secretary.
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The Office (UK) / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Office (UK) / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: In the final few episodes David loses his job, then finds out the motivational speakers won't be using his services again. He's reduced to begging Jennifer and Neil not to fire him. It gets even worse in the Christmas specials when he goes on a few disastrous blind dates and is reduced to making degrading personal appearances in seedy nightclubs. Finally he gets banned from the office and the Christmas dinner. He can't even persuade anyone to go out for a drink until Tim takes pity on him.
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The Office (UK) / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
The Office (UK) / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Tim's role is partly this. He's not quite the Only Sane Man, but he is the one we're supposed to identify with.
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The Office (UK) / int_8eb654e4	type	Firing Day
The Office (UK) / int_8eb654e4	comment	Firing Day: In the first season finale, Alex, a new warehouse recruit, is made redundant by Brent. It's established in the first episode that Brent hired him because he took a liking to him despite him being unsuitable, so this is one of the few times we see him behaving like a proper boss.
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The Office (UK) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Office (UK) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: No one can say Gareth doesn't deserve to be on the wrong end of Tim's pranks.
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The Office (UK) / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
The Office (UK) / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Tim passes over the chance to take David's job and suggests that Neil give it to Gareth instead. Gareth never learns of this and the tone of their relationship never changes, but this moment of kindness says a lot about Tim's character. Lee reveals to Gareth that Dawn and Tim are making fun of him by reviving their game of tricking him into saying double entendres that make him sound like he's talking about gay sex. Gareth turns the tables by calmly calling them pathetic and walking off, leaving them looking very sheepish.
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The Office (UK) / int_99301367	type	Trust-Building Blunder
The Office (UK) / int_99301367	comment	Trust-Building Blunder: Every time David tries one of these it backfires horribly.
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The Office (UK) / int_9bc66bb1	type	Belated Happy Ending
The Office (UK) / int_9bc66bb1	comment	Belated Happy Ending: Tim and Dawn in the Christmas Special.
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The Office (UK) / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Office (UK) / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: David thinks he is, but he's really The Alleged Boss. He goes into Bad Boss territory when he accepts a promotion knowing it will mean most of the staff losing their jobs. Jennifer, who shows incredible patience when dealing with David, even when he openly lies to her about sacking someone and she gets insulted by the guys in the warehouse. Neil, by contrast, is much sterner and quickly grows weary of David's antics. Although he is arguably an example due to being cross with David for not paying his staff.
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The Office (UK) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Office (UK) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Tim and Dawn are having a laugh at Brent's latest faux pas, when Lee spots them getting a little too physical for his liking. He pins Tim up against a wall, then storms off with Dawn running after him. The episode ends with Tim sitting at his desk in stunned silence.
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The Office (UK) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Office (UK) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Keith. Gervais and Merchant liked the deadpan persona that Ewan MacIntosh created, so they gave him more lines and used him as Mr. Exposition.
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The Office (UK) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Office (UK) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Chris Finch's prank - photoshopping Brent's face onto some porn - goes unpunished. Which diminishes Brent's authority in the office, as he was adamant that, when found, the culprit would be punished - only to change his mind when it's revealed that his "best mate" was responsible.
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The Office (UK) / int_a7066c8c	type	Bad News, Irrelevant News
The Office (UK) / int_a7066c8c	comment	Bad News, Irrelevant News: Trope Namer. The bad news is the Slough branch is being closed. The good news is that David's been promoted. The staff don't see it this way, describing it as "bad news and irrelevant news".
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The Office (UK) / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
The Office (UK) / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Gareth is a particularly repulsive hence spot-on example. Contrast this with his American counterpart Dwight, who is apparently quite the Kavorka Man. Although Gareth did score with a married woman in Chasers. David Brent also, particularly with his new secretary in Series 1 and when he's too drunk to pull Lindsay.
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The Office (UK) / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
The Office (UK) / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: One of the central themes of the show is that you spend far more time with your coworkers than you do with your actual friends, family and loved ones. Tim lampshades this in the last episode, saying your work-mates are just people you share the same bit of carpet with for most of the week. Several characters also embody this trope, most notably David Brent (who tries so hard to be everybody's friend in spite of how unlikeable he is for the most part), and Chris Finch (who probably knows nobody really likes him, but doesn't really care).
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The Office (UK) / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
The Office (UK) / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: "Because fanny means your arse over there. (Beat) Not your minge."
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The Office (UK) / int_a9904570	type	Intra-Franchise Crossover
The Office (UK) / int_a9904570	comment	Intra-Franchise Crossover: David Brent has made a couple of guest appearances on the American version.
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The Office (UK) / int_ab67853d	type	In Da Club
The Office (UK) / int_ab67853d	comment	In Da Club: Deconstructed in the last ten or so minutes of "New Girl". Chasers is revealed to be a tacky, seedy place in which apart from the music, is no fun at all unless you are completely drunk.
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The Office (UK) / int_ab89e132	type	Men Are Uncultured
The Office (UK) / int_ab89e132	comment	Men Are Uncultured: Mainly played straight, as most of the men are boorish and ignorant. Finch sneers at Ricky for being university-educated. The warehouse guys are even worse. When we first see them, they're watching a video of two dogs having sex. Averted by Ricky, who knows a lot about Dostoevsky, and Tim, who claims to like ballet, Proust and Alain Delon. Lampshaded by Tim:
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The Office (UK) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Office (UK) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Used intentionally (and hilariously).
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The Office (UK) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Office (UK) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Tim whenever Lee is around.
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The Office (UK) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Office (UK) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Tim is the most consistent example, David has his moments where he's actually witty when not performing for the camera. Finchy is a Deconstructed, meaner example.
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The Office (UK) / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Office (UK) / int_afc6df04	comment	Tim passes over the chance to take David's job and suggests that Neil give it to Gareth instead. Gareth never learns of this and the tone of their relationship never changes, but this moment of kindness says a lot about Tim's character.
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The Office (UK) / int_b3fda903	type	Touch of Death
The Office (UK) / int_b3fda903	comment	Touch of Death: In a deleted scene, Simon the IT engineer claims Bruce Lee could burst every blood vessel in a person's body merely by touching them on the chest, but says he would never try it on a person "just in case". Gareth suggests they "test it out on stray cats".
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The Office (UK) / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
The Office (UK) / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: David knowingly hires a forklift driver who hasn't passed his forklift driver's test. He also lies about the man being health and safety trained.
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The Office (UK) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Office (UK) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Dawn, Lee and Tim. Rachel, Tim and Gareth (in Gareth's mind at least)
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The Office (UK) / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Office (UK) / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Averted. Gareth resolves to be a much harsher and more unforgiving boss than David, but despite his somewhat neurotic personality, proves himself to be a rather standard office boss.
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The Office (UK) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Office (UK) / int_bc00493f	comment	Finch, who usually has an endless supply of witty ripostes, is reduced to stunned silence when Brent puts him in his place for insulting his date.
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The Office (UK) / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
The Office (UK) / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: Brent becomes a hero when he saves a number of redundancies at the Slough branch by not taking a promotion. But it was only because he was never actually offered the job as he failed the medical. He takes the credit anyway.
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The Office (UK) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Office (UK) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Aiding the realism of the show's mockumentary format, characters in the 2003 Christmas specials (which take place long after the initial two seasons were shot and aired) are aware that The Office exists in-universe and comment on events from previous episodes based on what was broadcast on the BBC (i.e. the episodes as we, the real-world viewers, saw them), with David taking particular ire at how awfully he comes across in the aired footage.
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The Office (UK) / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Office (UK) / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Rachel does not reappear in the Christmas specials.
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The Office (UK) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Office (UK) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: David gets one at the end of series 2 when it seems there's a chance Neil and Jennifer will reconsider his redundancy. We learn in the Christmas special that he still lost his job.
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The Office (UK) / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
The Office (UK) / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: It's almost physically painful to watch at times. A standout example is the second season premiere, where David follows an effortlessly funny introduction from his new boss, Neil, with an incredibly desperate comedy routine based on obscure inside jokes about other employees in the corporation. And despite nobody responding to the jokes, not even the one guy present who actually knows the employees being joked about, he just continues to double down on the schtick until he eventually just sits down in frustration. There's also the lame motivational speech and the disastrous dance.
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The Office (UK) / int_c63dede5	type	Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
The Office (UK) / int_c63dede5	comment	Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: David plays this game with Ricky when they talk about Dostoevsky. He keeps returning with more facts that he's obviously just looked up, only for Ricky to keep out-doing him with even more information. David just gives up in the end.
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The Office (UK) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Office (UK) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A few. David and Finch's quiz team is called The Dead Parrots. When the name is announced, they repeat lines from that sketch. For the Comic Relief episode, Keith dresses up as Ali G. Also in the Comic Relief episode, Neil and Rachel's dance routine is straight out of Saturday Night Fever, with costumes (white suit and black shirt for him, red maxi-dress for her) to match. This is immediately followed by David, who describes his dancing as a fusion of Flashdance and "MC Hammer shit" before launching into a routine that truly leaves everyone speechless. For his celebrity appearance in a nightclub during the Christmas Special, David dresses up as Austin Powers. The series ends with David showing that he actually can get people to laugh by doing a Frank Spencer impersonation.
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The Office (UK) / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
The Office (UK) / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: David has a habit of giving often insulting nicknames to people. He calls Malcolm, a bald older employee, "Kojak". However, he doesn't take it well when he finds out the staff have nicknamed him "Bluto" and "Mr. Toad".
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The Office (UK) / int_cb8880a5	type	Soul-Crushing Desk Job
The Office (UK) / int_cb8880a5	comment	Soul-Crushing Desk Job: Most of the office, but Tim in particular.
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The Office (UK) / int_cc7a0386	type	Dating Service Disaster
The Office (UK) / int_cc7a0386	comment	Dating Service Disaster: David has a few in the Christmas special.
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The Office (UK) / int_ceb79d4	type	Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle
The Office (UK) / int_ceb79d4	comment	Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle: "Training" features the Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle as a team-building exercise. Most of the employees arrive at the correct solution note Chicken across, empty boat back; fox or grain across, chicken back; grain or fox across, empty boat back; chicken across, but Gareth first frustrates Tim by suggesting solutions in no way within the parameters of the puzzle note Like "the farmer should just drown the fox" or "get his wife to hold the chicken", and then interrupts the explanation of the solution to read a laundry list of the problems he has with the premise. Near the end of the Christmas Episode, David, Tim, and Gareth are having their first friendly conversation of the entire series; their dialogue suggests David has just posed the Doctor's Son puzzle to Tim and Gareth, who are both stumped.
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The Office (UK) / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
The Office (UK) / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: David Brent fancies himself as the kind of easy-going 'cool' boss people watch on the telly, and he self-consciously references other people's jokes and attempts to set 'a vibe' to get both his staff and the viewers to like him. But, since real life doesn't have a screenwriter creating a tone and vision, the predictable happens when he painfully learns that that kind of stuff won't fly in 'real' life.
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The Office (UK) / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
The Office (UK) / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: David warns the men in the office to keep away from Donna, as she's the daughter of his best friends. It doesn't deter Ricky though.
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The Office (UK) / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
The Office (UK) / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Gareth to David. His attitude to David changes noticeably once he becomes the boss.
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The Office (UK) / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Office (UK) / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism:
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The Office (UK) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Office (UK) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: While waiting outside for his final date to arrive, David spots an obese woman walking towards him and assumes it's her. To his relief, she's there to meet someone else.
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The Office (UK) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Office (UK) / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: David seems to have some sales skills, but he's a terrible boss. He's extremely self-centered and spends most of his energy trying to get his employees to think he's cool rather than manage the office properly. Gervais responded to criticisms that Brent would never reach a management position with a retort that a brief look around any kind of corporate-style organization (including The BBC) would reveal that major positions were being filled by people who were even worse than Brent.
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The Office (UK) / int_de33eff9	type	Embarrassing Browser History
The Office (UK) / int_de33eff9	comment	Embarrassing Browser History: In "Work Experience", a pornographic image with David's face is circulated across the office. After a prolonged hunt to find the perpetrator, David accuses Tim, who then reveals that it was actually Finch, and explains it is quite easy to trace the search history of anyone using an office computer. David then asks nervously if anyone knows how to delete a browser history.
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The Office (UK) / int_e13cafe	type	Office Romance
The Office (UK) / int_e13cafe	comment	Office Romance: A few. Donna and Ricky in the first series. As both characters get Put on a Bus after that, we don't know how it panned out. Dawn and Lee, although they work in different departments. Tim and Rachel in the second series, although it's clearly a case of Tim settling for Rachel because Dawn's engaged to Lee, and he eventually ends it. The biggie, though, is Tim and Dawn, whose UST is evident throughout the show. They finally get it on in the finale after Dawn comes to her senses and dumps Lee. Gareth claims to have had loads in other offices, but his interactions with women throughout the series suggest this is a case of Blatant Lies. In series one, David hires a pretty young secretary apparently in hopes of having one of these, but it doesn't go to plan. Accidentally headbutting her probably didn't help. Finch and Trudy, although it's more a case of casual sex (in the car park, no less) as opposed to a relationship.
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The Office (UK) / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
The Office (UK) / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: Brent. He has to be the centre of attention, has an immature sense of humour, and never takes responsibility for anything. He reacts to being reprimanded by Neil the way a petulant schoolboy would.
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The Office (UK) / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
The Office (UK) / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: David accuses the BBC of doing this to the show itself throughout 2003 Christmas specials, claiming that there was a great deal of footage featuring him being a Benevolent Boss and genuinely likable person, only to be cut in favour of the material that made him look comically incompetent. This being David Brent, it's clear that he's lying through his teeth.
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The Office (UK) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Office (UK) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Chris Finch has zero redeeming qualities. Following that, Lee is a terrible boyfriend. Tim's pregnant co-worker Ann is also very rude and self-absorbed. Neil was apparently meant to be this but is less hateable than Chris. Downplayed with the warehouse workers in the end. They're pigs, but seeing them tell off Anne the obnoxious pregnant woman makes them almost admirable.
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The Office (UK) / int_e85976d4	type	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
The Office (UK) / int_e85976d4	comment	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Brent does this a lot. He tells a mildly homophobic joke in front of Neil, only to then realise that Neil might be gay (he isn't, as it turns out) and trips over himself trying to explain why that would be alright. He ends up giving him a lecture about safe gay sex.
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The Office (UK) / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Office (UK) / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: During the celebrity dating show, Bubble is the Id (making rude innuendo and tongue-in-cheek chauvinistic remarks), Howard Brown is the Superego (the refined, well-spoken accountant), and David Brent is the Ego (or rather, he constantly tries to be both the Id and the Superego depending on which he thinks will make him more popular).
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The Office (UK) / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
The Office (UK) / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Tim and David both do it constantly.
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The Office (UK) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Office (UK) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Chris Finch and Lee. Neil is also a bit of this, albeit more subtly. Brent also qualifies despite the more sympathetic aspects of the character. This is the guy who tried to throw his staff under the bus for a promotion and then lied that he turned it down (when in fact he failed a medical) to make them think he was a hero.
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The Office (UK) / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
The Office (UK) / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: David Brent. The bulk of the series paints him as a Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist, yet the Series 2 finale and ensuing Christmas specials reveal that he's actually a very lonely and frustrated man.
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The Office (UK) / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
The Office (UK) / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Gareth to David. Made more explicit in a deleted scene in which Gareth comes in to commiserate with David for being made redundant, but it's clear he just wants to know if he has a chance of getting David's job. He quickly loses respect for David once he becomes manager and purposely embarrasses him in the Christmas special.
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The Office (UK) / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
The Office (UK) / int_f09afb0	comment	Brent's problem is he never knows when to do this, so he just keeps digging.
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The Office (UK) / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Office (UK) / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The series is a savage deconstruction of the Work Com, and its "zany" boss and "quirky" co-workers. Nowadays, the most popular example of that genre would be its own American version. So, effectively, this show is a deconstruction of its own remake and the American WorkComs that followed in its wake, a fly-on-the-wall documentary showing how irritating and obnoxious working for Michael Scott and his ilk would be in real life.
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The Office (UK) / int_f392ffd9	type	Prank Gone Too Far
The Office (UK) / int_f392ffd9	comment	Prank Gone Too Far: In the pilot episode, David makes a prank out of pretending to fire Dawn the secretary and gets defensive when she bursts into tears. The scene cements him as a thoughtless Pointy-Haired Boss with a hugely inflated opinion of his own sense of humour.
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The Office (UK) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Office (UK) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Anne for Gareth in the Christmas special. After Gareth gets promoted, Tim gets another obnoxious, pedantic and irritating person to share his desk with. There's even a passing resemblance.
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The Office (UK) / int_f5ab45cb	type	Incompetence, Inc.
The Office (UK) / int_f5ab45cb	comment	Incompetence, Inc.: Wernham Hogg does not come across as a particularly well-run company, to say the least.
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The Office (UK) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Office (UK) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: David eventually manages to find love and Tim & Dawn eventually manage to get together, both in the series finale, but only after spending years going through the soul-crushing hell of the uncompromisingly rigid white-collar office workplace (with David additionally losing his job and facing constant public humiliation in the process of trying to regain his footing).
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The Office (UK) / int_f8e52439	type	Birthday Episode
The Office (UK) / int_f8e52439	comment	Birthday Episode: The quiz night in series one happens to take place on Tim's birthday. In series two, the whole office has a party to celebrate Trudy's birthday.
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The Office (UK) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Office (UK) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Keith says something grossly inappropriate, before taking a huge bite from a scotch egg. Gareth forgetting the "to the" in his job title: Dawn and Tim tricking Gareth into saying double entendres that make him sound like heâ€™s discussing gay sex.
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The Office (UK) / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
The Office (UK) / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Lee, coming between Tim and Dawn. Rachel in the second series.
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The Office (UK) / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
The Office (UK) / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: David Brent is constantly doing this, as part of his chronically misfiring sense of humour. He explains other peoples' jokes too, apparently just to prove that he gets it. In one instance, where he explains a misunderstanding involving Peter Purves (best known as the presenter for Blue Peter between 1967 and 1978 and the actor for Doctor Who companion Steven Taylor) in an instructional video, it's actually helpful for US viewers. On the other hand, David gets mad at Gareth for explaining his jokes (mostly for making explicit David's innuendos which weren't true).
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The Office (UK) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Office (UK) / int_fb3576b2	comment	Finchy does this to Brent a lot. The Dog Bites Back in the final episode.
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The Office (UK) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Office (UK) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Given the nature of the series, it happens with alarming regularity. David reads John Betjeman's "Slough" at the end of "New Girl". In "Training", Gareth somehow misses the point of every single exercise the instructor puts the staff through.
The Office (UK) / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
The Office (UK) / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Office (UK) / int_fbd285b7
The Office (UK) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Office (UK) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: David standing up for Gareth when Donna insults him in "The New Girl." David also tries to cheer Gareth up when he makes him cry in the Season 1 finale. Tim agreeing to go out for a drink with David when everyone else shuns him in the Christmas special. At the end of the Christmas Special, David finally managed to make everyone laugh by doing an impersonation of Frank Spencer.
The Office (UK) / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
The Office (UK) / int_ff7f34c5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Office (UK) / int_ff7f34c5
The Office (UK) / int_name	type	ItemName
The Office (UK) / int_name	comment
The Office (UK) / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The Office (UK) / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Office (UK) / int_name
The Office (UK) / int_name	itemName	The Office (UK)

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The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Adaptation Drift / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	all lowercase letters / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	And That's Terrible / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Angry White Man / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Bad Impressionists / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Bad News in a Good Way / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Bad News, Irrelevant News / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Benevolent Boss / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Black Best Friend / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Blade-of-Grass Cut / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	British Humour / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Cast Full of Writers / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Comic Role Play / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Confession Cam / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Cringe Comedy / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Cutting the Electronic Leash / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Dance-Off / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Dating Service Disaster / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_82439e7c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Disposable FiancÃ© / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Driving Song / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Drunk with Power / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Dyeing for Your Art / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Embarrassing Browser History / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Escalating War / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Feigning Intelligence / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	For the Funnyz / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Freudian Excuse Denial / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Spanish / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	In Da Club / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Incompetence, Inc. / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Interrogation by Vandalism / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Irony as She Is Cast / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	It's What I Do / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Jerks Use Body Spray / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Jitter Cam / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Last-Minute Hookup / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Lower Half Reveal / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Manipulative Editing / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Named Like My Name / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Non-Promotion / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That / int_82439e5c
Office	seeAlso	The Office (UK)
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Oh, No... Not Again! / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Pointy-Haired Boss / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Prank Gone Too Far / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Reality Has No Soundtrack / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Rearrange the Song / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Romantic False Lead / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Separated by a Common Language / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Seven Minute Lull / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Shared Universe / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Short-Lived, Big Impact / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Silent Conversation / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Sneaky Departure / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Sore Loser / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Spoofing Spoofiness / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Standard Office Setting / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Sucks at Dancing / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Territorial Comic Relief / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	That's What She Said / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Alleged Boss / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Dilbert Principle / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Illegal / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Law of Conservation of Detail / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Men First / int_82439e5c
TheOffice	seeAlso	The Office (UK)
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Place / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	The Prankster / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	This Is My Side / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Token Black Friend / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Twin Threesome Fantasy / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Two First Names / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Two Words: I Can't Count / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	What Does She See in Him? / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	White Collar Worker / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Work Com / int_82439e5c
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Yes-Man / int_82439e5c
The Office (US)	seeAlso	The Office (UK)
The Office (US)	seeAlso	The Office (UK)
The Office (US)	seeAlso	The Office (UK)
TheOfficeUk	sameAs	The Office (UK)
Battleground	seeAlso	The Office (UK)
The Office (UK)	hasFeature	Good News, Bad News / int_82439e5c

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