gappy
Sunday 2nd April 2023 12:28pm [Edited]
Oxford
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HOFBRAU:You know what, they'd never make The Office today.
PAULANER: Oh, God, no. As if they'd make The Office today.
HOFBRAU:Can you imagine it, though. Going to the BBC, and describing the show, all the characters, all the non-PC jokes, what in hell's name would they say?
PAULANER:They'd say, that sounds an awful lot like The Office.
HOFBRAU:But if you asked whether they'd make it.
PAULANER:They'd say, we already did.
HOFBRAU:Yeah, they'd say, we already did.
PAULANER:And they'd say, then later, somebody else also did.
HOFBRAU:They'd probably say that too.
PAULANER:But what they forget, is that the Office was award-winning and boundary-pushing.
HOFBRAU:But nowadays nobody wants to make boundary-pushing shows. Twice.
PAULANER:Three times.
HOFBRAU:Three times, I meant. What's wrong with pushing boundaries all of a sudden?
PAULANER:Even if they've already been pushed.
HOFBRAU:I mean, you can push a boundary from both sides.
PAULANER:Great point. Stupid BBC.
HOFBRAU:Yeah, idiots. So...do you want to, maybe, try to make The Office ourselves and put it on YouTube?
PAULANER:No time, really. I've got to work on my novel.
HOFBRAU:How's that going?
PAULANER:Not bad. Err, how do you spell Boromir?