So I started writing a post about Fox News, got three paragraphs in, and then realized that probably nobody cares.  So instead I decided to write about something else near and dear to me that nobody cares about:

The Office sucks.

I declared the downfall of the show at the beginning of the 4th season when Pam and Jim started dating.  There’s no question that season 4, 5 and now 6 have been nowhere near as good as the first three seasons

See, in the British office, the “Pam” and “Jim” characters (Dawn and Tim) didn’t end up together until the very last episode (the Christmas Special) and quite literally, the very end of the very last episode.

The American Office has slowly morphed into Friends in an office setting.

Here’s a list of characters that have had relationships with each other that I can think of:

Michael and Jan

Michael and Holly

Angela and Dwight

Angela and Andy

Ryan and Kelly

Kelly and Darryl

Jim and Karen

Jim and Pam

Pam and Roy (which was setup the same as the British Office, or as Ricky Gervais calls it, “The Office”)

And though I don’t really count it, now Michael is dating Pam’s mom.

Look, I get it, it’s a tv show and they need plots and storylines and what not.  But that is NINE, NINE inter-office relationships.  That is fucking ridiculous and it’s fucking stupid and honestly, I think it’s lazy writing to use inter-office relationships as a bailout to creating stories.

Part of what made the British office great (as well as the first couple seasons of the American office) was that it was really about the monotony of working at a paper company as well as David Brent being the most unaware jackass on the planet.  They created stories unrelated to characters fucking each other.  Now it seems, that’s all the show is about.  If I wanted to watch a show like this, well I’d probably kill myself first because I’d be a fucking moron.

And here’s one more gripe – where the fuck did Jim’s office come from?  He gets promoted, and then all of a sudden, a new office exists, just for him!  It’s as if all viewers are supposed to forget the last five seasons.  Did they build this, just for him?  If so, wouldn’t that have been a pretty large project?  If it already existed, how come I never saw it before?  Fucking stupid.

Fuck you Office.

The sad part is, despite it’s now crappiness, it is still better than nearly everything else on television not called South Park or It’s Always Sunny.