the first episode back was the highest rated episode because everybody had spent weeks doing nothing but watching the office on their video ipods. and this was astounding to the people at nbc. these are high school and college kids watching the show in droves and they ve never set foot in an office. and eventually, i realized, okay, well this is because this is their experience in school. everything dwight does annoys me. did you get your tickets? to what? the gun show. you know, they re put at a desk next to another kid who they may or may not like. that must be what they re identifying with. i manage my department and i ve been doing that for several years now and god, i ve learned a lot of life lessons along the way. your department s just you, right? yes, jim, but i m not easy to manage. it was the biggest sitcom on
i m just wondering weren t you dismissing some of the staff. did you intend to fire me, too? especially me. i would have been happy to go on doing mary tyler show for an eighth year because i loved the job so much, but mary and grant and mary tyler moore enterprises decided to end the show while it was still good. did television station where mary works is bought out. every is is fired. i think we all need some kleenex. there s some on mary s desk. how do we leave this room? we were saying goodbye to the show and to each other it s a long long way to tip
here we go. wake up. out of the slide. leslie knop was very optimistic, but she really had big ambitions, which was big for comedy. we did it! i like to tell people get onboard and buckle up because my ride is going to be a big one. leslie knope is stopping for no one. we thought it was important for the main character to be a woman because we wanted it to be a show about a trailblazer in many ways. excuse me, ma am. do you mind if i borrow your hat? i just want to throw it up in the air victoriously. it was a realistic work at a fictional version of an experience we ve all had because there were people of all different shapes and sizes and ethnicities all mingling together. you have qualified for the chris traeger management training seminar. can you get me out of it? yes. normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, i d choose to do nothing.
no. the original intent was mostly for it to take place in the workplace. three, two, one, zero. well, we did it. what? what did we do? we wasted a whole day. audiences were used to the big family sitcoms of the time and didn t really take to the dick van dyke show at the first. they were going to kanlsle it at the end of the season. mary had grant tinker who was a cbs executive on the dick van dyke show. grant tinker helped save the show by pushing mary tyler moore to the fore front. well, for instance, i think you look very nice without your hair? these shows that straddled home and workplace almost always result in something tasty. i m not saying this because i m in trouble but goodness knows, i am. what do you suggest i do with
don t make any sudden moves. i didn t do anything. it is a remarkable achievement to take a social issue that is so serious, something like racial profiling, and not only find the humor in it but find the humanity in it. i was right outside my home. i can t believe this. nothing like that has ever happened to me, and i ve done some pretty suspicious things in the street. hey, hey, there, what are you doing? i m just playing a prank on my buddy. sounds fun. carry on. after the re-election of president obama, there is no longer much room for hope in politics as much as there was division, which meant it was the perfect time for a show like veep. i cannot [ bleep ] believe how terrible you are at your job. what are you, running on a platform of higher taxes and episiotomies? if a bomb went off in that white house, i wouldn t care. those are the worst people on earth. where were you, by the way? where were you? you said you had it covered. no, i didn t have it c