I think a lot of the material was written in 1998. There's even....not quite a "pilot" - I'd call it more of a prototype that I've seen on youtube, not sure if it's still available. It mostly focuses on Brent, the temp and Dawn (only Dawn's played by someone else) and that whole "fake firing" scene is done. There's some voiceover narration too which would be more consistent with a docu-soap. Flat Eric, the George Michael jokes, the fact that Dawn's talking about school re-unions (by the time it aired I think friends re-united would have been fairly popular) and as already stated, the outdated technology, plus docu-soaps were everywhere in 1998. By 2001 they were being replaced by reality shows (big brother being out the year before). The only thing in the show to suggest it's more recent is the music when they're in the club.

posted 4 years ago in The Office (2003)

there was always something about Neil that didn't seem right but I couldn't put my finger on it - so thank you! His friendship with Finchy, joining in with the lewd jokes etc was inconsistent with what we see of Neil the rest of the time. There's a similar thread on here about Trudy being a contradictory character at times too. I get that they wanted to show him to be everything Brent wanted to be though - maybe they could have had Finchy be so respectful of Neil that he behaved around him and would chastise Brent for not doing the same.

posted 4 years ago in The Office (2003)

It takes place in the same episode in which Daniel's mom visits. In fact, I think it's the scene immediately before/after Johnny tells his side of things that Daniel gets called out on saying he got pushed down a cliff when it was really a hill. So I think they were showing that, over the years, both characters have exaggerated or twisted the things that happened to them

posted 4 years ago in Cobra Kai (2018)

Don't forget a music scholarship for Lea Thompson too!

posted 4 years ago in All the Right Moves (1983)