I never watched The Office; if I hadn't known going in that it was an Office pastiche, I would have had no idea what they were doing. My main complaint was that, unless they were looking at the camera, it was hard to tell when they were on camera in their world, and when it was just, y'know, the usual fourth-wall cameras. Actually, my main complaint was that they wouldn't have known what was really going on if the documentary maker hadn't just happened to be there at the same time. But there were some good moments.

I really enjoyed it.

I JUST got the Rockford Files reference, from reading Rogers' blog. "Joe Meeker" sounded so familiar but I couldn't place it. (Rockford had an alter ego named Jimmy Joe Meeker. Like Sam Axe has Chuck Finley.)

I have not watched more than ten minutes of The Office. Never liked it. But as soon as I walked past the clip in the editing bay I went "The Office?" and John nodded. It's that much a thing in my head.

That said, I liked this week's ep. I liked the conceit of them trying to do their thing under constant supervision as that slowly became complicit supervision. I liked seeing them even more try and get into normal people roles. I really liked the big not-bad guy. And I always love a little bit of confessional.

What was incomprehensible about the plot? I thought it was extra super spare because they weren't paying attention to anything. Someone was doing something weird...printing counterfeit money...and then the episode ended. My criticism would be that the plot was too simple, and there was only one scammy trick thing beyond their very presence. Not much happened. It was all character, no heist.

I loved the character bits enough to override the light plot. And ita !, you hit it. It is pretty much no heist.

About the only character beat I kinda missed seeing was Hardison being jealous/protecting Parker from the skeevy documentary dude. But I guess he was too into his conflict with Eliot.

Jimmy Joe Meeker is Rockford's backslapping cowboy alter ego...I missed that that was the alias. I thought the episode was funny, but not as exciting as usual.

What was incomprehensible about the plot? I thought it was extra super spare because they weren't paying attention to anything. Someone was doing something weird...printing counterfeit money...and then the episode ended.

I guess that was what was incomprehensible? Perhaps I am not being precise with language? It was hard to care or comprehend because they weren't paying attention to (or caring about) anything. You pretty much hit the nail on the head of what I thought about it, but I didn't like it and you did. Heh.

SOA: This show is so very fucked up!

I know!

I know!

I was saying that there was no believable way to keep Clay on the show, but, once again, I was wrong.