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I'm mostly hoping the same. For example:
Same thing is happening on Parks and Rec with Andy. You can tell some of that "late season" vibe is creeping in on the show.
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Jim fucked up, right? (The Office)
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I'm mostly hoping the same. For example:
Same thing is happening on Parks and Rec with Andy. You can tell some of that "late season" vibe is creeping in on the show.
Paper Sparrow
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Pam and Jim suffered from bad writing in the last few seasons. They were at their best in the first four. (Season two is the best season)
spindashing
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I think he did ok....
Picture related.
Goddamn
I totally agree that Karen was a better choice.
But I like to think that the Office writers chose to go satirical and have Jim and Pam stick together to remind viewers that anyone no matter how much you like them can become a super boring married couple. Jim and Pam are super likable, then after they marry, both characters lose their personality. Using this train of thought helps me respect the last seasons a little more than I did at first.
But I like to think that the Office writers chose to go satirical and have Jim and Pam stick together to remind viewers that anyone no matter how much you like them can become a super boring married couple. Jim and Pam are super likable, then after they marry, both characters lose their personality. Using this train of thought helps me respect the last seasons a little more than I did at first.
Oh yeah. And we have a character far worse than the office has ever had now with fucking Craig.
They aren't sisters though.
Crumpet Trumpet
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Jim and Pam are equally annoying as fuck and deserve each other
Queen Karen is above iT
Queen Karen is above iT
Oh? Could've swore they were, gonna edit that post.
Exploratory
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Wow this thread exists. The dude loved happily ever after with the woman he loved had kids etc. And she can look fine as hell sometimes.
I mean Amy Adams is just a better looking version of the same woman but looks aren't all that matters here.
I mean Amy Adams is just a better looking version of the same woman but looks aren't all that matters here.
We're underestimating the power of a good sense of humor. That's where Pam was superior and ultimately what mattered most to Jim. Karen didn't make Jim laugh. She'd rather encourage him to grow up than join in on a joke. Jim didn't need to grow up, he just needed something to give a shit about. If he had married Karen he would have ended up like Stanley.
Bad writing last two seasons not withstanding, Jim and Pam were pretty consistent in that regard.
Bad writing last two seasons not withstanding, Jim and Pam were pretty consistent in that regard.
triplestation
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Fuck Jim
I fantasize about the lawyer guy losing it and beating Jim to death with his bare hands in the storage room
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I fantasize about the lawyer guy losing it and beating Jim to death with his bare hands in the storage room
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Honestly, I think that's a bit harsh. However, Pam is superior in every category.
Hobbestetrician
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Because the show utterly failed to show them as more than an office crush/friend situation. They got together and immediately formed the most sexless, boring relationship on television. They had absolutely no sexual chemistry and, up until the very end, were very instrumental in allowing each other to fail over and over again. Karen actually pushed Jim professionally but he didn't want any of that and settled. Their bond was over nothing more than their sanctimonious contempt towards their coworkers.
They lost me as a couple when they would whine and whine and whine about being apart when Pam was in art school despite it really only being a summer thing and only a 3 hour drive apart. And she didn't want to be apart from him anymore so she fucking dropped out when she failed a class like the worthless loser they made her character. My (now) wife and I lived further apart for 4 YEARS (one of them while I had cancer) so forgive me if their failure to hear each other on the phone while doing laundry one day offended me. Their relationship is not more precious than mine.
Seriously, she was a receptionist, a terrible salesman, capable of only 'motel room art' because her inability to throw any passion into anything, and became a shrew of a wife when her husband actually did try to better their lives. The show did her so dirty. But, as someone else mentioned, the show pretty much did everyone dirty by the end.
And their wedding episode was terrible.
Fuck Jim and Pam, they deserve to live in mediocrity with each other.
<3 Jenna Fischer, though
It's weird the show spent the whole time having Jim and Pam as the ONE TRUE ROMANCE, but the actual show just proved that they really were only together because they worked together and were around each other. As soon as they were in a different environment, they found people that they matched up with better. The show should have taken that route.
RedNumberFive
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Jim and Pam were both insufferable. They deserved each other.
Deadly Joker
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On second thought...
Hobbestetrician
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Didn't even fucking spoof it, just copied it earnestly.
Conrad Link
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F**k Karen, marry Pam.
I feel like that would have been the more organic one as well.
Jim and Pam thing felt forced after awhile. Like a petty high school couple type of forced. The karen thing would have been alot better imo
crazy monkey
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pam has better boobs.
Deadly Joker
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Haha. Kevin said the same thing in season 3. Pam has better boobs but Karen has a prettier face. But Pam's face is pretty too. Then Jim told him to think about it some more and get back to him. But he never did.
sixteen-bit
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Rashida Jones is good looking
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CharminUltra
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Probably an unpopular opinion: if I had been in Jim's place, I'd have put more effort in trying to date the hot girl from the first season AKA Amy Adams.
You mean the one who was an idiot and wasn't compatible with Jim at all? Yeah, good idea.
That's part of what makes the relationship work for the show.
Pam is kind of pathetic, never really achieving anything despite going out of her way to do so on multiple occasions. And she obviously takes it hard. Jim floats along, takes nothing seriously, and has the greatest successes in the series.
I hate thinking of Jim as the audience surrogate, but it's obviously a huge potion of the writing.
Pam is kind of pathetic, never really achieving anything despite going out of her way to do so on multiple occasions. And she obviously takes it hard. Jim floats along, takes nothing seriously, and has the greatest successes in the series.
I hate thinking of Jim as the audience surrogate, but it's obviously a huge potion of the writing.
Khalifa Jayy
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I'm gonna get some hot Rashida Jones pics all up in here and change all your minds. You watch.
Ultimadrago
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These are exactly my thoughts on it all.
Resident4t.
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Pam is easily the better choice. Second choice is Amy Adams like some people have mentioned.
Laieon
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That's a funny way to spell Creed.
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