Office Fans React to Peacock’s The Paper

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Sponsors for today’s episode includes Thrive Market. Go to ThriveMarket.com/RVC to get 30% off your first order and a free $60 gift. ______ Join us for the Wellness Collective, October 21st or 22nd: https://www.wellnesscollectiveevent.com/shop ______ Hang out with Emily at the Cultivate Homestead Retreat October 31st and November 1st: https://www.cultivatehomesteadretreat.com/buy-tickets In this episode of The Really Very Crunchy Podcast, Jason and Emily share their review of the new Peacock TV show The Paper. As lifelong Office fans, they discuss how the series measures up, what works comedically, and where it fits in the current landscape of television. They also talk about the state of the sitcom in today’s world, how streaming has changed the way shows are made and watched, and why capturing the magic of a classic workplace comedy is so difficult. 00:00 Jason’s Solo? 01:06 TV used to be an event. 06:41 Sitcoms inspire us. 08:16 The Paper (The Office Spinoff) 11:00 Language in sitcoms… 12:39 Streaming is a problem… 15:03 Reviews said what?! 17:08 No buzz anymore… 19:55 We’ve lived a lot of sitcom moments. 22:34 The one where our bikes were stolen… 28:42 Boystown - The Sitcom 30:43 City Council Meetings - Basically Parks & Rec 34:39 We made a sitcom. 36:42 Thank YOU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the really, very crunchy podcast bonus episode.
0:08.5	We all, you know, we're getting some great feedback on the bonus episodes.
0:12.8	Are we, at what point are we just a two a week podcast versus this is a bonus?
0:19.0	I feel like we are allowed to just drop it. This one whenever.
0:23.4	And the Wednesday one is the Wednesday one. But this one is a maybe it's a Monday. Maybe it's a
0:29.0	Friday. Could be a Saturday. Someday you never know. It's a bonus. You know, you went so,
0:34.6	you went quiet for almost 30 full seconds there.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:39.4	People might have thought they were getting their solo episode.
0:42.6	Oh.
0:43.0	Not yet.
0:44.6	Maybe one day.
0:45.6	I can step out.
0:46.6	No.
0:48.3	Actually, I probably could do this one by myself.
0:50.9	I feel so passionate about the subject matter.
0:53.8	I could just listen and only barely input.
0:57.0	No, please input.
0:58.1	This is a conversation between you and me.
1:01.2	Emily, and I don't know how many people in our podcast world can resonate with this.
1:09.4	We were huge fans, and still are. You know, not that we just watch it,
1:13.9	you know, regularly or anything like that, but we were huge fans of the sitcom, The Office.
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