Pulling the Plug

It is coming close to happening. It is always sad when these days come when I am about ready to pull the plug on an old friend. Heroes, you made me weep when I cut you off and deleted you from my DVR. Pushing Daisies? Not long after I cut you out of my life did ABC cut you out of everybodies lives. There was always one show however that i could tune into each and every Thursday night and be guranteed laugh, entertainment and a bucketload of quotes to impress my friends with on the coming weekend, that show was of course you, The Office. What wonderful times we had, you and I, laughing at Michael Scotts bumbling ways, Dwight Shrutes outrageous behavior, and the general antics and mayhem of the superb supporting cast. Your laughs based off of general office place mayhem were clever on both the high and lowbrow forms, you were in a word, superb.

That is why it is so saddening to see where you are now. Stepping further and further into the realm of dramedy, neglecting the characters and story quirks that made you so interesting while you focus on lame relationship stories that you ask the audience to take seriously. Remember the Toby/Michael squabbles? Only a throwaway line or two in todays shows. Remember when you brought Ryan back? I do, but nobody else does since he hasnt been seen on camera in weeks. Remember when Michael was just a goofy clutz, who you could count on for laughs? Now he is crying over a broken heart. Rememebr when Andy Bernard was the goofiest guy in The Office? Now he is getting into serious fights with Dwight over Angela.

The bottom line is the The Office, I dont watch you for relationship drama. There are hundreds of other shows and movies that do that with a cast far more suited for that type of thing. You guys are supposed to be comedians, its supposed to be a comedy show yet week after week the serious storylines take more and more precedance while the comedy storylines become the "B" story. In short, you have become like every other lame sitcom on network television.

You are on life support The Office, the prognosis is not good. Two weeks maybe. If we dont see some signifigant improvemenet I'm afraid I may have to pull the plug. It will be best for both of us, I need to start the grieving process and move on in life without you and I think we need to end your suffering. Dieing like this is just no way to go out.