The show will not survive without him. I wont watch it without him.

 

Exactly. The show is basically written around the crazy antics he does. Maybe they should just call it a series. Its had a good run.

 

I still wanna bone jenna fischer so I'll continue to watch...but I won't like it!...as much :hump:

 

^ wow...

about Steve leaving, i read the rumor a while back, sad to see its true. Guess he want's to do movies. Maybe Ricky takes over? Doubt it but it would be interesting

 

The Office should probably just end after next season (the show probably should end next season anyway since the show isn't nearly as good as it was in the earlier seasons and after all a show going 7 years is hard to stay fresh and good). Let Michael and Holly end up together and Michael going off to head the corporate offices for Jo. They can wrap up the other characters storylines by having Jim take over Michael's spot and live happily ever after with Pam and their baby. Have Dwight and Angela get back together with her telling him she's pregnant at the end. Have Andy and Erin start to date again. Is it cheesy, obvious and cliche? Yeah of course but I'd rather everyone have a happy ending than the show going on without Michael and we're forced to watch someone else come in and try to be Michael. I mean Steve Carrell is The Office, you wouldn't replace Ed O'Neil or Jerry Seinfeld in their shows. Just let the show end on a somewhat high note.

 

I've heard that's a really funny show, just haven't gotten around to catching an episode yet.

 

I agree, and if continues i think thats how they will wright Michael out

 

I think he is leaving at the right time.How many office related situations and jokes can you drum up.It becomes stale IMO.

 

I agree,they should just end the series with Michael leaving. The past season was already losing steam and becoming kind of redundant. I can only see the show going further downhill without Carell,he was like the tape holding up a box that is falling apart. I just can't see anyone carrying the main character credit like Steve the rest seem only good as supporting characters. And I just hope they don't make the owner of Sabre(Kathy Bates) the main character.

 

If they didn't do this... it'd be like That 70's Show and trying to go a full season without Eric... that turned out great.... not.

 

Yes exactly,I forgot about That 70s show. Season 8 was horrible without Eric, great example for what happens when a show tries to go on without the main character. As I mentioned earlier if they try to make the owner of Sabre(Kathy Bates) the main character that would be like when they tried to replace Eric and Kelso with Randy.

 

Wonder how they'll kill Michael off...

 

If Ricky Gervais takes over that show will be just as good, if not better.

 

Do you think he'd do that though?

I think a great ending to the series could be Michael leaving and announcing the new manager and it turning out to be Ricky Gervais' character walking through the door in a quick cameo smiling and then the camera goes to black thus ending the series. I think that would be a cool way to go out and a nice nod to the original series.

 

if Danny McBride quits Eastbown & Down to do the Office I will be extremely pissed!!! :angry:

 

Ted Mcginley should replace Carell

 

Never could get into the office because I found Steve's character to be wincing bad. It was actually uncomfortable to watch.

 

Black? Is black better than gold?

Isn't there only going to be 1 more season of The Office? I guess it doesn't really matter who replaces Steve.

 

Rhys Darby on FotC is absolutely hysterical. I love the heck out of Steve Carrell and his being Michael Scott but if Darby was to 'take his place' on the show, I'd be okay with it.

I didn't like this past season though. Sure Jenna Fischer is hot in real life but on the show I find her too annoying now to care. It all went downhill for me once her and Jim got married/were parents. I always enjoyed the will they/won't they aspect of getting together though of course it couldn't stay that way forever.

I don't like the Kathy Bates character or the other dillweed who was brought on (who I heard is going to be a show regular this season).

 

Not sure if he'd need to quit or not...

 

Well a lot of the writers from Seasons 1 to 4/5 left the show to work on Parks & Rec so that could be one of the reasons for the drop off. But any show after the 4th or 5th season usually starts to see a drop in quality. I mean how much can you do in a comedy trying to keep things fresh and funny? It's hard. I'd be really surprised if the show made it to season 10, especially with Steve Carrell leaving.

The Jim/Pam characters do stink now that they're finally together. A big aspect (and good storylines) of the early stuff in the show was getting Jim and Pam together. Once they got together they lost their charm, I mean neither character was really funny the past season and were pretty annoying at times as well. Their characters could have (and maybe should have) been written off after they got married/had the baby. Jim could have taken a better job somewhere to be able to support the family while Pam stayed home to be with the baby etc.

The show should have put more focus on Andy/Erin (especially since Ed Helms is starting to catch on as an actor) but I really think turning Erin into a psycho was a strange storyline, especially the weird stuff with her brother. Even Dwight had crappy storylines this year. Only Kevin and Andy really stood out as MVPs of the last season as being consistently funny and they can't focus on Kevin too much or he'd get boring quickly.

He probably would have to quit Eastbound and might be forced too in his contract with The Office. Filming of The Office usually starts in the middle of the summer and wraps up by the end of March/beginning of April. So McBride would have maybe at most 3 months to film 8 to 12 episodes of Eastbound. Not sure how long it takes to film but it would seem like a lot on his plate, not even factoring in any movies he might be doing as well. I can't really think of another actor off the top of my head that was the star of two TV shows filming at the same time. It just seems like it would be a lot of work, especially trying to keep both shows at the highest quality. It's not like Eastbound could focus on another character for an episode of two.

 

thats when I leave watching the Office...and start watching the Orafice......

 

Erin being nuts definitely made little sense. First they make it seem like the Nard Dog likes dudes, then they try and keep their 'relationship' on the DL, now they break them up because she's bat****.

I also didn't like having Andy be interested in Angela. I hate Angela with a passion (which I guess is the point). She has no redeeming qualities whatsoever so to make someone interested in her enough to talk about marriage? **** that IMO

 

I have no problem with Erin being nuts (after all isn't everyone on that show nuts to some degree?) but I just think they went a little overboard with her backstory. It just seemed too forced and too unnatural. I mean having her have a break down at the restaurant because she found out Andy was engaged to Angela was a bit weird.

I actually like Angela because she's such a witch. She's different than any of the other cast members. And thought the Andy/Angela/Dwight storyline was pretty funny. It showed that Andy had a heart and wasn't just an annoying co-worker (which he was up until that point) and it gave us a lot of fun Dwight/Andy scenes which are always a plus.

The only character on the show I don't like is Phyllis. Phyllis' character is simply annoying now that she started to act less like a concerned mother/grandmother/friend and more like someone that has one too many opinions and thinks way too highly of themselves. In short she just acts like she's better than everyone else. And her only interesting recent storyline of Bob Vance possibly cheating on her was dropped very quickly with no other explaination. I was expecting to see Dwight use his spy skills trying to see if he could dig up any dirt on Bob.

I'm also not a big Stanley fan but I can deal with him more than Phyllis even if I don't find him funny at all.

 

If that actually happens, they’ll need to have his character reference a neighbor who sells shoes.

 

Filming of an episode is probably a long process simply because 90% of the show is in 'The Office' where all the characters need to be in the background. It's not like a regular TV show where characters come and go and there are different sets and the characters aren't in every scene. So even if Angela or Oscar have zero lines in an episode they still have to pretend to do things in the background. But hey the actors should at least all be thankful that all the computers work and are hooked up to the internet so they can pass time.

Yeah I'm not a huge fan of Kathy Bates either (wish David Wallace, Stringer Bell and/or Jan were still around). Hopefully she's just in one or two episodes this year getting Michael back together with Holly.

I'm really not a Jim or Pam fan anymore, they weren't fun last season.

 

I'm sure she'll be back.

 

I read she's back as Michael's love interest again

 

Spoiler

Yeah I did too but I didn't want to spoil it for people that didn't know yet.