Movies Of 1999: ‘Office Space’

Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Is this movie a documentary? Maybe a horror film? Welcome back to Nerdette Recaps with Peter Sagal! It’s the podcast where we rewatch movies from 1999 and dissect them like the intense nerds we are.

Today, it’s all about Office Space, a workplace comedy from Mike Judge that has firmly … (“I believe you have my stapler”) ... wedged itself … (“Hello Peter. What’s happening.”) … into the cultural lexicon … (“Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!”).

The film stars Ron Livingston as a corporate drone who, thanks to a surprise hypnotherapy accident, becomes gifted with the sudden ability to not give a damn. It also features Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Ajay Naidu and David Herman.

Listen as Peter, Tricia and Greta revisit the film, revisit what it was like going into an office building and play some patriarchy jingles modified for William Shakespeare.

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0:13.8	slash donut. From W be easy Chicago this is nerdette Recaps. I'm Greta Johnson.
0:23.5	I'm Tricia Mobita and joining us as always is Peter Sekel.
0:26.5	Yeah, hi, I'm gonna like not have any jingles today okay that's great thank you.
0:34.0	Today we are recapping off this space as our final movie from 1999
0:40.0	it's from Mike Judge it stars Jennifer Aniston for some reason and also Ron Livingston and Gary Cole and a Jane Ido and David Herman
0:50.1	So Peter last week you mentioned you have seen it before.
0:53.2	I had, yes.
0:54.2	I saw it.
0:55.7	I'm going to guess sometime in the mid 2000s because if you did any research into this movie,
1:00.9	you found out that it was a flop on release.
1:03.0	Nobody went and see it and then it became this weird cult hit on video, which weirdly was the
1:08.1	same thing that happened to Mike Judge's other big feature, Idiocracy.
1:12.2	Idiocracy wasn't even released.
1:14.7	They wouldn't release it.
1:16.5	And then they put it out on video and it became this enormous cultural icon and big hit.
1:20.3	Same thing with this movie.
1:21.2	So I saw it after it had become a big hit.
1:23.2	And apparently it aired on Comedy Central a lot and people were discovering it accidentally
1:28.2	on Comedy Central for years and that kind of helped its virality.
1:30.9	Vorality, I like it.
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