#The office season 1 episode 1 uk full#
I was at university and Brentlemania was in full swing. I really started to notice the impact The Office was having on popular culture around five years after it came out. It's that mock-boastful way you sometimes hear when people start discussing plans for a night out. Obviously people said "big time" before Ricky Gervais but now everyone says it like Gervais. The intonations, the one word sentences and phrases like "big time". When you grow up with something you love it starts to rub off on you. For people like me, who were only just teenagers, it's a lot more than that. In the 1960s, it would have been a ragged copy of Catch-22.įor people old enough to have worked in an office when the first episode aired in the summer of 2001, The Office is simply a very funny and influential sitcom. It's the next item on a traveller's list behind those musky blue towels and eight unopened packets of condoms because, well, there is no more ubiquitous piece of popular culture than a BBC2 mockumentary about a provincial paper merchant. Not only have I come across – and watched – The Office box set on a coach in Thailand, I've also seen it played by young-ish travellers in a restaurant in India and at a hostel in continental Europe. The Office is a television programme that people actually take with them when they go on holiday.
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