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You know, I’ve been trying to write this darn “Star Wars Clone Wars” movie review/television show preview thingy for the past three weeks now.
Last week, Bob Saget got in the way and now, now I’ve gotten my hands on the Season Four DVD of “The Office.”
The writing’s on the wall: Take a seat, Clones, you’re being pushed again.
Like any loyal “Office” fan, once getting a new season of the show on DVD, you entrench yourself in your home and watch back-to-back episodes of the best prime-time comedy ever.
“Office” fans will soon be able to relax, as Season Four will finally hit shelves next week.
It’s a never-ending cycle: watch new season premiere; jubilation; hit the message boards; wait for next episode; watch new episode; hit the message boards; repeat; season finale; joy and sadness; hit the message boards; depressed because of long wait for next season; wait; announcement of past-season DVD release date; euphoria; hit the message boards; wait; announcement of new season air date; orgasmic joy; hit the message boards; wait; past-season DVD releases; crap pants; run over slow shoppers at the 24-hour big-box chain store to get new season; watch all episodes one after the other; pass out into bucket of popcorn and Mr. Pibb; write column; wait for new season to air; repeat.
All the waiting leaves me twitchy and tired. The only thing that properly soothes the jitters of waiting are nonstop “that’s what she said” jokes. But I recently took a workplace sexual harassment online training thing, and I can’t do that anymore.
However, being a member of the powerful and influential media elite, all I had to do was reset our perceived left-wing agenda from “elect only democrats” to “get Chris Quinn DVD of new ‘Office’ season before it hits stores,” and sure enough, here it is.
“The Office” Season Four DVD is the perfect combination of what’s shown on the box and what you remember of the episodes from when they originally aired.
The back of the box says it all: There are deleted scenes, episode commentaries, bloopers and some other stuff. I’ve watched every single second of the actual episodes, twice.
Actually, I’m not sure why I get all nerval about waiting for the DVDs because I hardly ever watch the extras anyway. DVD extras are like self-love: not as good as the real thing but if you have nothing else to do, go for it.
Maybe it’s something about the pretty box. Or perhaps it is being able to point it out to company “Look, see there, I own that. I had the foresight to buy this cool thing I saw on TV, and now I display it. Don’t you wish you could line up your DVDs in a similar way against your wall?”
The deal is, if you love “The Office,” go buy this. If you don’t, wait for syndication. But if waiting for the DVD to release is too hard because it’s too long, then that’s what she said.
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