The Office - S2E2 'Appraisals'
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That Jay’s dad in the warehouse?
John Warren
2025-08-10 15:22:46 +0000 UTCThe main brewery in Swindon is Arkell’s 😉
Adam Druett
2025-08-08 18:49:43 +0000 UTCI had to do one of these "answer the question, 1) definitely 2) possibly 3) no 4) not at all" type things each year at my previous workplace. I used to answer one negatively, the next one positively, and just continue that. I think they got wise after the third year.
Ian Warren
2025-08-01 23:43:48 +0000 UTCI am new to your Patreon but not your channel…Just want to say thank you Mike and Jess…you guys make my day!
Stephanie Pedley
2025-07-30 19:25:38 +0000 UTCLoved the reaction. I've said it before, but it should be said again, easily the best reaction channel on the 'net.
Jamie
2025-06-29 18:25:59 +0000 UTCSo if I'm worried I might lose my phone that makes me jealous?
Megatron
2025-06-29 13:26:59 +0000 UTCJealousy = a fear of losing something you care for. Envy = a desire to possess something you do not have. It's such a simple distinction to learn, it constantly surprises me how often people describe someone as jealous when they mean envious.
OrdinaryDave
2025-06-27 01:28:47 +0000 UTCAt the end. No spoilers.
Mat
2025-06-26 23:20:29 +0000 UTCThat scene with Keith is notable because it's one of the few times Brent actually comes across as professional.
Captain Cardboard
2025-06-26 20:00:27 +0000 UTCDetectorists is (in my opinion) the best television series ever recorded. But I think the humour is maybe too subtly British for some. Like the anti seasickness pills Toni tries to give Lance are called "Herl-Ovadec" 😂 "Yes we do!!"
Simon Crockford
2025-06-26 09:19:09 +0000 UTCI can't wait for episode 5 and *THE* most iconic, meme-worthy scene ever. 😂
Simon Crockford
2025-06-26 09:15:02 +0000 UTCI was thinking the same thing haha
Brent Monaghan
2025-06-26 06:13:19 +0000 UTCToo much skin for the workplace! Haha - come to NZ that is pretty modest
SimonNZ
2025-06-26 03:54:46 +0000 UTCThe fucking poem🤣.
Gary
2025-06-26 03:49:24 +0000 UTCPlease watch the outtakes, they are hilarious. Also need derek reactions soooon 😍
Mark E
2025-06-25 20:14:26 +0000 UTCMike, you need a collection of false 'taches in case of shaving accidents in the future.
Fordy7169
2025-06-25 19:14:05 +0000 UTCSpat laughing at Mike at about 20:10, amazing timing
Daz Parker
2025-06-25 13:36:20 +0000 UTCCould I make a recommendation for your lengthy list. Detectorists - written and performed by Mackenzie Crook (Gareth) If only to see a better side to him. I think this comedy lasted three seasons.
Jason Bonner
2025-06-25 13:35:38 +0000 UTCWhen you guys get to the end of this show you should definitely check out the outtakes/bloopers... the scene in this episode with Tim's appraisal broke the record I think
Scott Hughes
2025-06-25 13:05:13 +0000 UTCyou not been to many pubs then,lol. There's always a tab open when i visit with my grandparents
Jamie Derry
2025-06-25 12:04:16 +0000 UTCI love seeing mikes pain, he literally can’t keep his eyes on the most uncomfortable and awkward moments, this is what makes the show such genius, keep up the great work guys.
Matthew Mansfield
2025-06-25 10:47:50 +0000 UTCSmashin!
Theloyalmuppet
2025-06-25 01:10:40 +0000 UTCThis is my first time watching The Office and I absolutely love it
Rayne (Roxie)
2025-06-25 00:13:38 +0000 UTCRIP Ewan MacIntosh (Keith)
Gavlarr
2025-06-24 23:52:34 +0000 UTCyou two are the best. Love ya both. The trilogy episodes after this season are good and the david brent film sequel I hope you watch after :)
Demceez
2025-06-24 23:25:19 +0000 UTCThere are no tabs in pubs. You pay at the bar when you get your stuff.
Mat
2025-06-24 22:39:50 +0000 UTCJays dad at 17:15 😂😂
Jamie Mccauley
2025-06-24 22:05:52 +0000 UTCMan, this show is still so funny after all this time 😂 Great stuff as always! I also wondered if I might add a music recommendation for sometime. Sabaton made a powerful song about the Christmas Truce, and seeing as you guys mentioned knowing about it I thought you might appreciate it 👍🏻 https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU?si=f7OxmDKXWkzrnpYk
Steve with a beard
2025-06-24 21:14:21 +0000 UTCThose first two Hole LPs were proper classics, weren’t they?
Charlie
2025-06-24 20:26:52 +0000 UTCThe new girl reminds me of Courtney love
Erica
2025-06-24 20:15:23 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, as always. Love you two.
Leo
2025-06-24 20:08:49 +0000 UTCyou guys should consider peep show. Another great show
jamestoni
2025-06-24 20:06:28 +0000 UTCI saw an interview with a lad with cerebral palsy in school and this actually happened to him recently and it was an actual fire. Luckily he was ok but he was terrified
Erica
2025-06-24 19:45:15 +0000 UTCMackenzie Crook had to get married with that hairstyle 🤣
Jude
2025-06-24 19:42:10 +0000 UTCYou absolutely nailed it with that comment, David just want to be liked.
Andrè
2025-06-24 19:26:37 +0000 UTCI love the US Office but this one is so much more real
Ducactus
2025-06-24 19:26:28 +0000 UTCYeah the outtakes are hilarious.
Karl shields
2025-06-24 19:25:08 +0000 UTCThe bloopers/outtakes from each season are very funny
Rob Brown
2025-06-24 18:50:02 +0000 UTCMcKenzie Crook Is phenomenal. I had the DVDs when I was younger. The commentary by Ricky and Stephen points out all the brilliant stuff he does in the background. He WAS Gareth
iAmScott
2025-06-24 18:48:25 +0000 UTCOoooh Jess has got a “recipe” for the hats. Love me. Love me. Pathetic
David Honour
2025-06-24 18:16:54 +0000 UTCMike shocked at the lunchtime drink..... haha trust me that's pretty standard over here
Gem Lou
2025-06-24 18:12:08 +0000 UTCThe majority of the outtakes for this season is from this episode. I hope you get to react to that at the end
Stewart Hainey
2025-06-24 17:54:56 +0000 UTCYeah I find it interesting how much my perspective differs from theirs. I just see Neil as the typical office boot licker/fake. Maybe it’s working in an office for years that’s done that. Where’s Brent is a knob, but he’s still a harmless one, just wants to be everyone’s mate and wants everyone to find him funny, probably because he’s not got much else in his life.
DG
2025-06-24 17:52:26 +0000 UTCYep, the outtakes are possibly funnier than the show
Dave Henshall
2025-06-24 17:47:08 +0000 UTCJess’s laugh is outstanding 😂😂😂
DG
2025-06-24 17:44:55 +0000 UTCDavid is cringey and doesn't help himself but the Swindon lot are so, so antisocial and rude and make no effort whatsoever. They don't know David and could at least humour his attempts to build a rapport with them. He goes about it in a clumsy way but it's David I feel sorry for in this episode as they have all the conversational skills of a Chocolate Orange and a negative attitude to boot. (We pay for our drinks (and food) at the bar in the UK at most pubs, so there would have been no tab to pay.) David *was* out of order with Neil. Completely in the wrong there. But his well-intentioned team bonding lunch drink was met with mute, rude ignoramuses and it upset him - he took that upset out on Neil. Yes, by the by, he is threatened by Neil's effortless charisma but he was wound up when he had his little hissy fit and I can see why. Lying afterwards about what Neil actually said to him? Yes, he's a complete knob there. He isn't a psycho; he's just so desperate to be as effortlessly likeable as Neil, and when his poor attempts backfire, he doubles down as a way to shake off the humiliation and save face. He's more vain than he is narcissistic as I think, deep down, he has low self esteem. His incessant hunger for approbation confirms that for me. Of course, he'd *never* admit that though.
Ash Jeffries
2025-06-24 17:37:29 +0000 UTCAs mean as it came across with leaving the woman in the wheelchair on the stairs, I believe that is what to actually do in tall buildings. I know in the college I went to, that was about 4 floors, and on the stairs there was a designated square on the stairs to leave disabled people. Then a firefighter or whatever would retrieve them. I guess , as mean as it may come across, it's to not slow people down as shown here. I know in a real emergency I was told at college by the head of health and safety that they had some kinda fancy chair that had like skis on that you can put people in to get them fast down the stairs. Of course here though it was used for comical effect to show Brent's character
Danny
2025-06-24 17:34:42 +0000 UTCYou guys probably already noticed but one of the warehouse workers (Taffy) is Jay’s dad from The Inbetweeners, who despite being the most common sounding Englander ever, was actually born in New Mexico!
DG
2025-06-24 17:21:07 +0000 UTCnah. neil is an office muppet middle manager bollock
Super Hans
2025-06-24 17:19:35 +0000 UTCTheres 2 Christmas specials, a part 1 and part 2 sort of thing. And there is a pre pilot from the 90s which is like episode 1 but also lot different to the real episode 1 years later. Worth seeing, let's you see how far the show came. I can send you that. I used have it up on YouTube
Danny
2025-06-24 17:17:08 +0000 UTCAs much as I have enjoyed the US Office during a few watch throughs. They handled the inappropriate aspect well. But the level of cringe that this delivers is truly incomparable. The way they make you actually feel uncomfortable in your own skin at times is brilliant. Comedy maybe shouldn't make you feel like you need to literally get it off you. Like being swarmed by bugs. 🤣
Death Lego
2025-06-24 17:16:56 +0000 UTCyup! i'm not 100% but i think it started being normalized in the UK "modern professional culture" from politics.... there's certain pubs in london where you can go at lunch/early afternoon - after big gov announcements - and you can very predictably expect to see the gov officials there celebrating the announcements with a midday drink!
James West
2025-06-24 17:16:45 +0000 UTCLoved the intro, about the hats etc, so chirpy, you guys are great
na plz
2025-06-24 17:05:47 +0000 UTC👌
Adam G
2025-06-24 16:59:32 +0000 UTCLunchtime drinks aren't that uncommon in the UK. Specially in the early 2000s. My understanding is the US doesn't really do this.
Zr0w3n
2025-06-24 16:52:11 +0000 UTCCan you forget about everything else and just react to one of these every day please? a) Very much so b) to some extent c) not at all d) dont know
mwdoom
2025-06-24 16:52:04 +0000 UTCYou don’t have a tab in the UK (except in rare circumstances) you pay for everything up front
Kieran B
2025-06-24 16:49:41 +0000 UTCToo much skin for the workplace definitely highlights a cultural difference, they’re definitely leaning that way for her character but I don’t think what’s she’s wearing would be seen as out of place here; you have to remember that US culture has much more of a puritan influence with that sort of thing, this office could very much be a real office in every way - especially in 1999/2000; there’s nothing really that makes it stand out as artificial or made for TV, which is why it was so effective. It was plausibly a documentary about a real office, obviously Keith and Gareth push that a bit as characters but as you said they’re both people we know
Kieran B
2025-06-24 16:44:41 +0000 UTCKeith has the right approach to pointless appraisals: just stonewall them until they leave you alone. I too am attached to the intro. I grew up near Slough and was a kid when this series aired so this is my Slough, all those buildings and the big roundabout and the yellow Bee Line buses like the one coming out of the bus station were familiar places and things for me and they’re all gone now. One of my friends is of the view that the bus station should’ve been designated a heritage asset and should never have been demolished.
Charlie
2025-06-24 16:40:25 +0000 UTCA lunch time drink at the pub at this time was still not uncommon although it was starting to go, but before this it was absolutely the norm. It is still a thing now occasionally, we’re allowed 1 pint / glass of wine if it’s someone’s birthday or they’re leaving or something. I tend not to though but we always have a pub lunch on those occasions.
Kieran B
2025-06-24 16:39:31 +0000 UTCWho does the RegenerationNation TV appraisals?
Thomas
2025-06-24 16:34:34 +0000 UTCDawn isn’t a product in the UK but I bet that’s how Pam got her name in the US production
Kieran B
2025-06-24 16:33:10 +0000 UTCMike you NEED to listen to the David Brent album. It's hilarious, and the songs are brilliant. With different lyrics some of them could be hit songs.
Steve Small
2025-06-24 16:32:55 +0000 UTCIt's James Bond and Miss Moneypenyy. Still rocking the hats 🤗
Josh Read
2025-06-24 16:25:51 +0000 UTC'Ooh love me' is still a classic line 20 years later!
bobby g
2025-06-24 16:24:14 +0000 UTCYou need to watch the outtakes when you’ve finished the series - and please watch the specials straight after s2 if you can 🙏
Kieran B
2025-06-24 16:23:28 +0000 UTCMy productivity has gone through the floor since I signed up to these.
Static CentreHalf
2025-06-24 16:22:55 +0000 UTCThey're awesome
Steve Small
2025-06-24 16:21:27 +0000 UTCGreat reaction as always and Rip Keith.. such a funny character/actor.
Andy Gore
2025-06-24 16:20:32 +0000 UTCWe don't have tabs in pubs, just in restaurants. You pay when you order. Also, there's no table service for drinks. You go to the bar, ask for a pint of something. Wait for it to be poured. Pay. Take it back to your table.
Steve Small
2025-06-24 16:18:51 +0000 UTCThe thing with Tim and Dawn is that with the format they really are being filmed by a documentary crew and that impacts how both of them behave and why they’re so hesitant - whereas with the US Office although that was theoretically the case, it really wasn’t a factor the vast majority of the time so they all behave like sitcom characters. And that’s not a dig at it, they’re just very different shows
Kieran B
2025-06-24 16:18:48 +0000 UTCLose the hats it's not a good look 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dango247
2025-06-24 16:18:23 +0000 UTCIt's great watching these back through your eyes, it reminds me how funny I found the show first time I saw it years ago.. although the cringe level never gets less intense. That poem.
James Aston
2025-06-24 16:17:31 +0000 UTCI think Brent is misunderstood and people don't give him a chance. In the pub he's trying. They are being complete twats, though. They are making no effort to help him out. He's having to think of things to say so they aren't all sat in silence and they aren't even pretending to be polite. The fact he's just bought them all a drink shows he's trying, not one of them even said thank you. That Swindon lot are little slugs.
Steve Small
2025-06-24 16:13:17 +0000 UTCYou're completely right about the US characters. They're like caricatures. Funny, and great characters, but not believable.
Steve Small
2025-06-24 16:03:03 +0000 UTCHehe Jess I like the reference to Ryan George who does Pitch Meeting on YouTube 🙂
Rob G
2025-06-24 15:56:13 +0000 UTCThe way he tries to go out of his way to not be racist is the funniest part. Making the connection between black people and smoking weed, saying his favourite actor is a black guy to get accepted. It's top quality writing.
Keg
2025-06-24 15:44:12 +0000 UTCCunk AND the Office!! Today has been a good day!!
Sinclair Brechin 🏴
2025-06-24 15:36:32 +0000 UTCSuperb. Last hour at work sorted.
Paul Archibald
2025-06-24 15:36:28 +0000 UTCWhat are the options?
Thomas
2025-06-24 15:35:20 +0000 UTCGet in!
Steve Small
2025-06-24 15:35:11 +0000 UTC
