Jul 28, 2016 Ricky Gervais created the characters and the plot into the original UK Office, unfortunately the show only carried on for a few years as Ricky explained "I didn't want to repeat myself, or water it down, so I just left it as it was, and I've never regretted that really. I miss it, but I've never regretted.". I really enjoyed the original UK Office, although only 14 episodes in total, the dry, awkward British humour is extremely hard to beat. Now the Americans come along and remake an original UK tv show which usually ends awful (the inbetweeners) to name one, as the British humour doesn't really translate to funny American television. Surprisingly both shows were a huge hit (credit to Ricky for thinking the character up in his spare time) and Michael Scott was born. Which version of the office do you like more? I get the poll may be slightly in favour of the Americans since this forum is largely dominated by the US, but i'm gonna add one anyway @Ordinary Joel and @Loyalty are both fans i seem to remember! Explain your reasoning rather than just saying 'its better'
Jul 28, 2016 Steve Carrel could be the main char of a movie but is such a boring person he'd feel like an extra to me.
Jul 28, 2016 I just started watching this [US] for the first time this week after I just got Netflix... finally. I get weird deja vu seeing Michael Scott after all these months of MS/Akio... it's like I'm watching him on TV s----s a mind f---
Jul 28, 2016 the US is more commercial and yea i luckily watched the us version before MS was a thing
Jul 28, 2016 michael scott is one of the best characters of all time and the US version is so much funnier than the UK version it isn't even fair. that being siad, it went on at LEAST 4 seasons too long
Jul 28, 2016 what makes it better though plus michael scott is the exact same character as david brent so that makes no sense
Jul 28, 2016 UK version was clever, reminded me of the 'the thick of it', the US version had a more playful tone to it
Jul 28, 2016 if i was embarrassed by that i wouldnt have posted it how are you even still breathing you f---ing mongoiloid
Jul 28, 2016 because the channel was made specifically for that video, i'm not a youtuber you f---ing r----- why would the sub count matter to me
