Not anymore. The Penguins, Blackhawks, Red Wings, and a few others have spent the last 10 or 15 years proving that if you always have the puck, the other team won’t score. When was the last time the best goalie won the Stanley Cup? Hasek was not the Dominator anymore when he won it with Detroit. Price and Lundquist…

That’s what she said

I’ve been re-watching The Office recently and you are spot on. For a majority of Michael’s arc, The Office was supposed to be an uncomfortable place to be. Most of these people just wanted to work, but Michael would constantly bring in his emotional issues, Dwight would always push the authoritarian angle and Jim…

But with regards to the other people largely ignoring the crap the women took...it was another time. And by another time I mean longer than about 3 months ago. Look around your office (I’m assuming you work in an office, but you know what I’m getting at) and tell me how many people you know who are actually going to…

Off topic slightly...Upon rewatching, I couldn’t shake this thought:

Guess you didn’t get the memo in 2015; context doesn’t matter anymore.

How many more iterations of “this thing everyone likes is PROBLEMATIC” will society tolerate before it gets old? Five, six thousand?

Exactly. He’s the guy who did the offensive Indian accent to Kelly Kapoor, outed Oscar to the office and forced an unwanted kiss on him, and routinely had to be told to not do any Chris Rock standup bits. He was always “wrong” and was indeed punished for many of his actions (so many speakers sent to run the office…

Should’ve ended when Michael left. Him getting on the plane should’ve been the last shot.

How dare you enjoy something when it CLEARLY OFFENDS MY WOKE-ASS BAE SENSIBILITIES.

Correct. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the show, but Michael was always supposed to be more pitied than admired. He was a buffoon who thought he was a “cool” guy.

alternative headline, “GQ Finally Gets Joke.”

I think you guys shoukd just stop watching films and tv because you do nothing but suck the fucking joy out of life with horseshit like this.

Well I think the “What am I supposed to do, not send hilarious emails?” is more satire than anything else. The audience is supposed to say “No, Michael. You’re not supposed to do that anymore.” So it’s less like Amos and Andy, which was more about “Heh. Negros.” and more like All In The Family. You aren’t supposed to…

I quit watching regularly sometime around the Jim/Pam engagement, but every once in a while I’d tune in to see how the show was progressing and in the last few seasons it did seem to me that the show was asking us to view Michael and even Dwight sympathetically, which always seemed like a surefire sign that it had…

“Maybe Michael Scott isn’t quite the doofy, lovable lug we remember.”

Who the fuck ever thought that?  

No he wasn’t but he was a good(if over the top, especially in later seasons) representation of a certain type of person that I know I at least have worked with in the past.

The work environment being toxic was an intended part of the show. It was never meant to make the audience feel comfortable.

Why take the effort to put things into historical context when you can sneer at them for free profit?

I enjoy seeing how they satirize the real Silicon Valley, but yeah, the Pied Piper story is played out.