Get on the bus (3)

Rant over. In other news, Lilo and Stitch is brilliant and all should see it. The sleazy media type with the initials “JL” who tries it on with any piece of ass he sees was revealed as not me, but John Leslie. I knew it all along; any devotee of popbitch.com would have heard of “Swordsman John”, whose catchphrase in work was “here’s one I made earlier” but outside of work was “tits or face?” Girls, recoil in horror. For Bewildered Americans, John Leslie is a Scottish TV presenter who used to be Catherine Zeta Jones’ boyfriend til she went to America, pretended to be Spanish instead of Welsh and married Michael “The V-Neck” Douglas. John Leslie was revealed as the alleged rapist of another popular television personality and now he’s lost his job. Everyone saw “awww” and move on to the next paragraph, where more deserved “awww”-ing awaits.

The Office is over. I got a fright in the paper yesterday when I saw “last in series” beside it. It’s pure genius. You can overcome the cringe factor through prolonged exposure, but for an office-bound workling like me, David Brent is Alan Partridge and Nelson Mandela all rolled into one. I love the mannerisms, the *bears top teeth over bottom lip, entwines fingers together* sheer lunacy of the characters. Critics say David Brent is a cartoon nasty character at times, but Ricky Gervais at the end of the episode was genius, pleading for his job. Tim suddenly jumping out of his chair and walking to Dawn to put an end to the months of a “will they won’t they” that makes Ross and Rachel look like something out of a crap sitcom with David Spade. The brilliant one-liners from minor characters, the extremely effective “talking heads” interviews sprinkled in between the scenes, the brilliance of making a comedy based on a Reality TV documentary of a real-life office. I love the way it never shows you the foot hitting the sand, but instead just shows you the footprint and lets you make your own mind up. Very deep, amn’t I?

Maybe it’s all because I fancy Dawn, so everything around her shines.

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