The Office: Your favorite Character?

[knights68]

ok, who is the favorite on the DBR? We need to have an official DBR Off Topic Forum pick, in case anyone asks us in the future.

Here are the nominees.....

Michael Scott Regional Manager of the Scranton Branch of Dunder Mifflin
Dwight Schrute Assistant (to the) Regional Manager
Jim Halpert Sales Representative
Pam Beesly Receptionist
Ryan Howard Temporary Worker

Accounting
Angela Martin Accounting Supervisor
Oscar Martinez Accountant
Kevin Malone Accountant
Sales
Stanley Hudson Sales Representative
Phyllis Lapin Sales Representative
Andy Bernard Regional Director in Charge of Sales, Stamford
Karen Filippelli Sales Representative, Stamford

"Others" include:

Product Oversight
Meredith Palmer Supplier Relations Representative
Kelly Kapoor Customer Service Representative
Creed Bratton Quality Assurance Officer
Warehouse
Roy Anderson Dock Worker
Darryl Philbin Warehouse Supervisor
Corporate
Jan Levinson-Gould Vice-President of Regional Sales
Toby Flenderson Human Resources Representative (Scranton)

H/T to JE

[wiscodevil]

David Brent
Tim Canterbury
Gareth Keenan

from the original (and better!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)

[hc5duke]

David Brent
Tim Canterbury
Gareth Keenan

from the original (and better!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)

wrong - after season 1 I agreed with you, but season 2 and 3 of the US office is clearly more clever than the UK one. Season 4 kinda sucks, so if you ask me again in a couple weeks I might have to agree with you again... :-p

At some point I would like to watch the German, French, and Canadian Offices...

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I really like Andy (yes, because he's so annoying), but I guess Dwight is still my favorite. All of a sudden I want to buy an '87 Thunderbird and drink some beet juice

[elvis14]

I voted Jim and Pam, they are just too much fun. Half of why I like them so much are the looks they give the camera and/or each other when someone does something goofy.

Couldn't care less about the UK version.

[blazindw]

I voted Jim and Pam, they are just too much fun. Half of why I like them so much are the looks they give the camera and/or each other when someone does something goofy.

Couldn't care less about the UK version.

I totally agree. When Michael announced that he had "drove [his] car into a @!#$!@ lake", Jim's look had me literally crying laughing.

[snowdenscold]

"Toby! Yeah!"

[DevilAlumna]

The battles between Dwight and Jim are epic and should become part of office culture lore to be passed down from new hire to new hire at the water coolers across America.

[hc5duke]

The battles between Dwight and Jim are epic and should become part of office culture lore to be passed down from new hire to new hire at the water coolers across America.

And studies have shown that more information gets passed through water-cooler gossip than through official memos.

[billybreen]

I believe Jim's title is out of date. Isn't he the real assistant regional manager now?

[hc5duke]

I believe Jim's title is out of date. Isn't he the real assistant regional manager now?

and Karen is now a regional Manager at Utica (yuk), and whatever Ryan is now

[Bostondevil]

"Toby! Yeah!"

Toby! I look forward to the Toby moments every week.

[knights68]

I like Dwight. He's crazy, paranoid, delussional and smarmy, among his other quealities. What more do you need in an archnemesis?

[JasonEvans]

There will never, ever be enough votes for Stanley!!!

--Jason "http://ticklebooth.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/theoffice2.jpg" Evans

[mapei]

That photo is hilarious!

[DukeUsul]

Oh Pam, Pammy, McPamerson...... so many reasons to pick her......

[Lord Ash]

Dwight got my vote, tho Darryl is a close second, followed of course by Michael Scott.

[lmb]

He probably has the least funny and least creative lines, but he delivers them so well. His facial expressions and vocal tone make the lines.

I loved when they went to the lake and Michael told Stanley to get in the back of the bus. I think all he said was, "What did you say?", but it was enough to have me in tears. Love him!

[DevilAlumna]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrantonicity

Actually, I think I'd prefer Scrantonicity II. :D

[DukeUsul]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrantonicity

Actually, I think I'd prefer Scrantonicity II. :D

DevilAlumna, I recently picked up this tee:

http://www.snorgtees.com/scrantonicity-p-383.html?osCsid=857e72519a15b585699315a9bcb0905d

It's subtle, a lot of people don't even get where it came from. But I get knowing looks from true fans.

[Master Shake]

I voted Jim and Pam, they are just too much fun. Half of why I like them so much are the looks they give the camera and/or each other when someone does something goofy.

Couldn't care less about the UK version.

Too bad, because it's great. Crushes the US one. The US one has gotten away from a realistic documentary looknfeel and is falling into sitcommery. The UK one didn't do that until the Xmas special.

[snowdenscold]

DevilAlumna, I recently picked up this tee:

http://www.snorgtees.com/scrantonicity-p-383.html?osCsid=857e72519a15b585699315a9bcb0905d

It's subtle, a lot of people don't even get where it came from. But I get knowing looks from true fans.

I don't know if this joke has been used before The Office - but I think this is a good conversation starter as well:
http://www.snorgtees.com/updog-p-435.html

[DevilAlumna]

I don't know if this joke has been used before The Office - but I think this is a good conversation starter as well:
http://www.snorgtees.com/updog-p-435.html

Gosh, that looks like a dickfer.

[hc5duke]

I don't know if this joke has been used before The Office - but I think this is a good conversation starter as well:
http://www.snorgtees.com/updog-p-435.html

pretty sure that joke's been around before. another popular one i remember is in the south park movie, "zee mole" asks stan and kyle if they brought a butfore.

[snowdenscold]

pretty sure that joke's been around before. another popular one i remember is in the south park movie, "zee mole" asks stan and kyle if they brought a butfore.

Yeah I definitely know the whole theme of "What's a _____?", just curious if "updog" had specifically been used. I would assume probably but you never know.

[Rich]

Bought my wife an official Dwight Schrute bobble-head for her birthday. We still giggle about it as it sits on the shelf over our computer.

[Lord Ash]

A Dwight BOBBLEHEAD? What on earth is a Dwight... oh. Yeah.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2732/dwightrw4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

And yes, that is an Albert Einstein action figure. And amazingly, I am not what one would consider a nerd. Hard to believe, I know, given my two computer buddies.

[hc5duke]

A Dwight BOBBLEHEAD? What on earth is a Dwight... oh. Yeah.

And yes, that is an Albert Einstein action figure. And amazingly, I am not what one would consider a nerd. Hard to believe, I know, given my two computer buddies.

Here's my Dwigt bobbl... action figure.
http://www.choibean.com/random/20071114dwigt.jpg

Yes I had all those altoids, since February...

[Lord Ash]

Dude, this is like one of those pictures of a picture within a picture... vaguely Colbert-esque.

Oh, and you must have VERY fresh breath. Those things would take the paint off a car.

[billybreen]

Yeah I definitely know the whole theme of "What's a _____?", just curious if "updog" had specifically been used. I would assume probably but you never know.

Yeah, I saw Lance Armstrong use that on one of his teammates in a pre-TDF documentary series on Discovery a year or two before its appearance in the office. Worked like a charm for him. Failed miserably for me. When Michael Scott was fumbling around with it, it was _way_ too close to home :)