How hard did he carry the show?

The office lost its soul when he left

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Hot takes mcgee over here

I stopped watching when he left and skipped until the last episode only because he returned. This is how much he carried the entire show.

If Jim had left it would have felt equally empty. Dwight too. It's not that any of them carried the show its just that the dynamic was an important part of it. Buffy The Vampire Slayer was really good about maintaining the dynamic.

Same here user. Why did he quit anyway?

For me The Office gets bad after Season 3, it's not the same anymore

Why didn't it work as well with Andy?

it would've lost it's soul any way, he just left before the flanderization could take full effect.
look at how kevin just goes from some boring guy to a full on retard

^ I thought Andy brought a lot

because they stopped writing for andy and just tried to make him Micheal Scott pt 2

Because right when they actually figured out how to write for him and not Mini Micheal Scott he went to film Hangover part 2 and the writers got assblasted over it and decided to screw his character beyond salvation

If I'm not mistaken he wanted to spend time with his kids which doesn't make sense because he did some movies after leaving the show. There must be something else.

Movies take much less time.

He just couldn't fill the role. Some swap outs work or are even better, like when they swapped cordelia for Spike on Buffy, but this was an obvious trade downward. Andy's character was never good to begin with, and trying to magically change him to michael scott just didn't work.

Movies aren't a year round job. Most actors do their filming over a month or two and then you're done. Do one movie a year and you make more than you do in a season of TV when you are Steve Carell. Plus he was likely already doing movies while doing the office making him too busy. Even doing three movies a year is less work than doing a TV show full time, especially since we know the episodes had a lot of unused footage and takes and such.

he wanted to stay, the higher ups at NBC didnt want him to. when his contract was up they didnt bother renewing him.

>when his contract was up they didnt bother renewing him.
What? Why? In what world does this make sense?

Probably felt they were paying him too much

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For me it was half way through episode one haha I beat you

That actor sucks in everything

imagine getting even remotely invested in the shitty american knockoff of a perfectly executed british original. like analyzing a cargo cult and trying to pinpoint when it "got bad".

this show exists to normalize frumpy dumpy office women and the empty drama of their work life, all but begging them to project onto Pam. who do you think was keeping it alive on streaming services forever?

9 >>> 8 >>>>>>>>> 2-7 > 1
I hate Michael Scott so goddamn much.

s/normalize/elevate/

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Robert California was pretty based though.

both Jim and Dwight could have left and Michael still would have carried the show

So edgy

doubt.

How is it edgy? He’s one of the few characters I’ve come across with absolutely no strengths. He’s bad at everything, but not even in a villain way, he’s even bad at being bad. It’s like they wanted every negative human trait all in one character at once.

Also Steve Carrell just isn’t funny to me.

rumor= he didnt want to leave but showrunners wanted to try ed helms as the lead.