Wednesday, November 08, 2006

The Office on NBC has done something incredible. It has taken a show I loved, redone it, and made it into something I love equally as much. Think about how nearly impossible that task is to do.

Imagine you go to a restaurant and order Filet Mignon, that cook then gives his recipe to another cook at another restaurant and you go and order it again, what are the chances that it tastes as good as the first time? close to impossible.

Imagine your favorite band records the best song you have ever heard, then they give their notes and lyrics to another band and that band records the song again and you love it just as much. (I know what you are thinking there are versions of cover songs you like better than the original... but that is liking better. In the cover song debate one always wins out)

Add to the degree of difficulty that arguably The Office is top 5 television writing examples ever.

Ten years from now we will look back at the show with wonder.

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