The Office Season 1 DVD Box Set
The Office DVD Box Sets
Season 1
Airing between March 24 and April 26, 2005 season one originally debuted as a midseason replacement for Committed. The Office carried over plot conceptions from the former British comedy series created by Ricky Gervais. However, only the pilot episode was a direct version of one of the UK episodes.
The debut season introduced the main characters, and established the general plot as a would be documentary crew records the escapades of the employees of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, a fabricated underachieving paper company located in Scranton, PA.
Beginning with Michael Scott (Steve Carell), regional manager of the Scranton branch office, he tries to persuade the camera that he leads over a fun, happy, and well-run office. In the meantime, sales representative Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) finds ways to demoralize his disliked cube-mate, the intolerable Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson); receptionist Pam Beasly (Jenna Fischer) attempts to deal with Michael's thoughtlessness and blunders; and the temp Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) takes on a disbelieved spectator role as all of this happens around him.
Episodes for season one includes:
1 "Pilot”
The premiere episode is an introduction of characters and the plot of a possible company downsizing. Michael tries to unconvincingly explain to the staff that there is no worry and Jim starts off the pranks on Dwight by putting his stapler in a jell-o mold.
2 "Diversity Day"
Complaints of Michael’s impression of a Chris Rock routine cause the office to undergo diversity training. Oblivious to the fact that he was the reason for the corporate presentation, he resists the professional and decides to put on his own interpretation seminar of what diversity means to him.
3 "Health Care”
Jan Levinson-Gould, Corporate Manager, assigns the task of choosing the staff’s health care plan to Michael. He, wanting to avoid work and possible confrontation about his choice, re-assigns the task to stickler Dwight Schrute. Dwight analyzes the plans and reduces the benefit package to almost nothing. Jim locks Dwight in the conference room until he can come up with a reasonable solution. Dwight calls Jan for permission to fire Jim for his actions. Then she finds out that Michael shrugged off the assignment to Dwight.
4 "The Alliance”
Downsizing is still on the table and Michael tries to take the staff’s mind off of it by creating a morale boost birthday party for Merideth even though her birthday is a month away. Dwight inquires Jim about forming an alliance to thwart off possible job elimination. Jim accepts the invitation and sees an opportunity to maximize messing with Dwight in the process.
5 "Basketball"
Losers work on Saturday is the premise of the office vs. warehouse basketball game. Tension builds between Jim and Roy because Roy senses Jim’s interest in his fiancée, Pam. Michael causes the warehouse win and then tells the office they don’t have to come in on Saturday.
6 "HotGirl"
An attractive purse salesperson comes into the office to sell her purses. Michael, smitten by her, spends a $1000 sales bonus on an espresso machine to impress her. Jim gives her a ride home and goes out for drinks with her after work apparently sparking the jealously of Pam.
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Description
In this hilarious and faster-paced adaptation of the popular British comedy series, Steve Carell is Michael Scott, the egotistical, insensitive and almost supernaturally incompetent regional manager of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company. Michael sees himself as the office funnyman, a fount of business wisdom and his employees' cool friend. He has no clue that his staff merely tolerates his inappropriate behavior because he signs their paychecks. Michael acts as the obnoxious tour guide for an omni-present documentary crew who unflinchingly capture his many shortcomings along with Dunder Mifflin's petty workplace politics, simmering romances and side-splittingly awkward moments.
The British sitcom The Office has the most devoted following this side of Monty Python, so an American remake seemed doomed. Amazingly, the remake actually finds its own enjoyable version of the original's uncanny comedy of embarrassment. Office manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell, The Daily Show, The 40 Year-Old Virgin) believes he's the beloved leader of the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of a paper products company--but his relentless and painfully forced efforts at comedy creep out everyone around him, including paranoid Dwight (Rainn Wilson, who had a memorable recurring role on Six Feet Under), nervous receptionist Pam (Jenna Fischer, LolliLove), and aimless salesman Jim (John Krasinski, A New Wave), who's smitten with the already engaged Pam. The pilot episode suffers from closely replicating the British pilot, but after that The Office finds its own footing, turning diversity training, an office birthday party, and a basketball game into excruciating yet hypnotically funny rituals of humiliation. Carell, though clearly talented, can't match Ricky Gervais' unique performance as the aggressively needy British manager (it's hard to imagine that anyone could); as a result, the supporting roles become more prominent, and Wilson, Fischer, and Krasinski quickly create a rapport that matches and may even exceed that of their British counterparts. Be sure to watch the deleted scenes; remarkably, they're as good as the material that made it on the air in this six-episode season. --Bret Fetzer
DVD Information
Binding: DVDAspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
Manufacturer: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Original Release Date: 2005-03-24
Actors:
- Steve Carell
- John Krasinski
- Jenna Fischer
- Rainn Wilson
- B.J. Novak
Reviews
I have to say that I love "The Office" and silly me didn't watch it from the beginning and I'm sorry I didn't! It's great to see Steve Carrell with less hair (shock!) and looking a bit more, um, sleazy. From Diversity Day to the Handbag Girl, this is a great beginning. I can't wait to get the remaining seasons.
I ordered this series a month ago, I received in the mail a completely different movie addressed to someone in connecticut ( I live in Louisiana) I then payed out of my own pocket to mail it to the address on the slip. I contacted the seller and they said they would work on getting me my product. Then yesterday I sent an email to see what was going on and they told me they have confirmation of delivery a month ago. So now I have to reexplain what happened to what I am assuming is a different employee.
The first season of The Office is a mere six episodes long, but don't let the brevity of this season dissuade you from purchasing it (just wait 'til it goes on sale). If you've never seen the beginning of The Office then this season on DVD is crucial as it sets up the relationships between Dwight and Jim, Michael and his employees, and to some extent Jim and Pam (although their developing relationship doesn't really take center stage 'til later seasons). The six episodes featured on this DVD are hysterical and something I watch again and again, at least once every couple months. Due to its high replay value I definitely recommend purchasing this season on DVD. It's also one that has been loaned to friends several times so they can all see how The Office started and while you might be thinking, "Why would I buy this when TBS shows reruns of The Office all the time?" you should buy it because they don't often air Season One episodes, and they don't necessarily show the episodes in order and I really think The Office, with its inside jokes and awkward relationships, is really best watched in order. Happy viewing!
This is a funny show. If you've ever worked in an office, you will relate to it, perhaps a little more than you want to admit! :) If you are a fan of the UK version, you will recognize some of the first episodes. That was interesting to me, since there are subtle differences that tailor each for its audience. Great cast of "unknown" actors. Some really funny characters that, again, are not too far from the people you'd see in a real office.
The first season of THE OFFICE consisted of only a few episodes (this is a one DVD "set") but they were hilarious. The show was shot in "documentary style", and it follows the work and lives of the Scranton, Pennsylvania employees of a printing company, Dunder Mifflin. Except for the beet-farming German-American character, Dwight Schrute, the characters seemed like real people. (Dwight was portrayed as too crazy to be real from the start.) The head of the office, Michael Scott, was portrayed as quirky but not as the total idiot that he would become in the following seasons. It was laugh out loud funny, with healthy doses of politically incorrect humor. In the second season, more characters were developed into "too crazy to be believable", and it devolved into a soap opera. There were less laughs and, too often, the viewer is left thinking, "This is just too stupid." During it's first season, THE OFFICE was the best show on television since at least the late 1980s. (Not that that's saying much.)
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