To me Diangelo means: "you were lucky for having Michael. It could be much worse."

Sad to see the "I understand nothing" transition being the only mention of Michael now

I think the real decline wasn’t until the start of next season. It seems like the writers had a few ideas of a Michaeless office to start with.

A bad boss is what led me to watching the show. Someone quoted Michael's "don't ever do anything..." bit, explained him to me in reference to our boss. Started watching and never looked back, and I work for myself now.🤣

I like when you can tell actors have colds, feels real to me

Really like this analysis. Yes, the hallmark of a bad boss is one who leads with fear, uncertainty, and pitting co-workers against each other. But to do this in the first episode without Carrell? Not smart. But not a series killer. DeAngelo is just one of many missteps The Office will make over the next few seasons.

I think it was interesting the way that they contrasted Deangelo's actual blatant sexism with Michael's more subtle sexism where he acts like he wants to be their best friend and he treasures them but in real life, belittles them and insults them.

I didnt realize how damaging a hoop could be!

I just found your videos a week or two ago and I can’t believe I already caught up!😭 great videos 👍🏽

Thanks for making this

Hope you enjoyed your Christmas. Great video

Love your videos man!

Finally you are back. Welcome back

The office didn’t sink over night but this episode poked a hole in the boat. It’s not bad but it’s where the realization of how much different the show was going to be from then on and not as many were interested

when you keep saying the Inners and the Outers it sounds like a video on the Expanse :)

This is the only episode what I literally sleep watching lol

Episodes like this make me wish Goodbye Michael was the series finale.

Am I one of the few who really enjoys season 8&9? Sure they’re weird but I love them.

If they wanted to do one more season with this cast, including michael (as boss) they could do it. Dunder Mifflin is in danger of closing it's doors, the world has moved forward without them as peoples use of paper is at an all time low, David Wallace has one last crack at revitalizing Dunder Mifflin by bringing back the person who gave them record breaking numbers, Michael Scott.

I liked will ferrell and enjoyed the office till season 8. I find it hard to go thru season 9.

Thank you

This episode speaks to the fact of work... You could have a boss that is cringe inducing and you might think it's bad. But right after that you can have a boss who's just plain awful.

Yes! New video!

I will never understand how Will Ferrell was so huge in America. His comedy was: be loud.

I enjoyed the office until the end. Michael was great, but the show was funny after him as well

Don't you understand Sir? Michael Scott was only pretending to be a office manager, When his Real Job was shown to us right in our faces. They have hid it right in plain sight......Michael's True job was A TRUE SECRET AGENT JUST LIKE IN THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT! Right under our noses. Not to mention Michael was always married to his real estate agent, from the time he was hired by Ed Truck. Who's also an agent and did NOT die in a motorcycle accident, he's alive and well he works at Area 52 Near Nevada and California.

I'm so lucky I'm a complete noob when it comes to basketball hahah

This was one of my least favorite episodes. D'Angelo is too weird and I'm not sure why the writers wrote him in - what was the point?

Where is that Pam Beagsley scene from?

The only thing I liked about Nellie was the TexasPoonTappa troll bit on Andy. Hilarious...

It's been two days and no one has told Mulverine how swole he is? FFS.

I just watched the episode before your field guide, and I was certain that DiAngelo was juggling with just imaginary balls. Did you add animated juggling balls? Or did I miss something?

i mean, honestly. if they didn’t make him a sexiest he would have been a good replacement. now i doubt Will had the time but say he did. he really could have been fantastic. maybe im biased too Will Ferrell. but i didn’t dislike him too much. or Will Arnett.

The problem with modern entertainment trying to critique sexisim is that a lot of modern media tells and never rrally show people being sexist.we just have to take their word for it. They actually show sexism in the office.

Why does KZfaq have you as “Milverine”

Solidify everybody’s fears…?

I don't think this episode is disliked merely for being the first without Michael. To me, it's the start of that murky, oddly mean-spirited tone that persisted into season 8.

I don’t know why people take TV ratings seriously. The last DeAngelo episode is amazing and most people I ask say they love it. Same goes for lots of low rated episodes.

Chris, thank you for the great video. I’ve watched all of your field guides and have enjoyed them all very much. In this Field Guide, I get the vibe that you’re disinterested and merely reading from your script - I get you always have a script. But the pace of your speech pattern is so fast it is unusual. I believe it is due to the lousy episode and not you. Am I correct?

Lower the mic lol

Ferrell’s a pretty unfunny guy, with practically nothing but junk in his resume. His character here was all over the place in his few episodes, so if there were any plans to keep him, who knows what might have been. A good episode though, and a good review

I never really cared for Ferrell And when He was shoe-horned into the office I Totally lost my enthusiasm for Will Ferrell, He was Doggy poo

When Jim said that he liked Dangelo because he was good at his job, I knew that could never trust Jim again

I am not sure why people, male or female, be insulted by this statements of sexism. This is a show. Deangelo is sexist, but he is a fictional character. Why would people be insulted by these deeper meaning? This is a deeper meaning of a show. It is not real life. Yes, sexist can exist both ways in real life. Doesn't matter here.

You do not really help against the Pam hate when you put stuff like "Thanks Mom" after a valid point of hers.

I have an observation/hypothesis on Ferrel's participation in the series as Deangelo, and this episode gives me the opportunity to point it. First, personally, as long as it's not too prominent and doesn't affect objectively the panorama for anyone (and fortunately most of the time it really doesn't), I couldn't care less about what we are used to call nowadays "sexism" or any "ism". They can say what they want, but we all have bias. And most of them are stupid. It's not the subject the turn off here. This episode is hard to like because the subject of sexism and it's potential negative density are not adequately deflated through efficient jokes at all, but through a sort of undercooked absurd humour, rushed. Will Ferrell is a funny man when left sufficient space to create characters, improvise actions, dialogues and reactions, as we can see in his interviews with Conan, Letterman, etc. But when corseted into a "fully written character", like in his movies or right here with Deangelo Vickers, he seems to lost an important part of his ability for comedy. In this episode this fully formed character creates a tension bubble with this plot about sexism that never really explodes in it's totality, but when Ferrel returns as a mumbling and completely incoherent mess from the hospital he makes 2 actors break their characters ON camera. The show he puts as a front to hide his "nothingess" is itself nothing, in a bad way. Just when Ferrel stops being completely Deangelo he becomes a show, someone who draws the attention of the staff. While this may make sense plot-wise for the writers, we are left with an episode lead mostly by a very bland character, whose actor only can let his authentic comedic qualities shine in the last 20 seconds or so, never to be seen again. Because of that I think Ferrel was the wrong actor for this role. Someone like Jim Carrey would have been excellent.

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For me the Office fell apart when Davis Wallace was fired. When the lady with the dogs and the tall guy (Gabe) came in… I did loose interest

Farrell was great and only Hope to keep the show going without Michael Scott.