Many Americans in some way or another will instinctually understand the humor that is being played here in my opinion. These jokes all involve something American as well as ignorance that this “oddball” Michael shows. That’s why I think that any American who comes across this clip on youtube can find this humorous. It’s playing on the basic knowledge that Americans should be expected to have, and makes fun of it.
The content of this video provides a prime example of Michael Scott leads the show in a direction heading toward a really funny place. In this particular clip he is talking about a fund raising event, yet the whole office isn’t really quite sure who they are donating to. Subsequently, jokes can be placed here, and they are with Toby and Michael arguing, as well as Jim enticing Michael in a pronunciation of the Afghan race.
The clip was altered just by cropping it out of the whole episode. The before and after of the clip being questioned isn’t really that important. The whole scene is its own segment of humor, and the scenes before it are different aspects. It’s not like a story where you really have to know background about characters or anything. Michael Scott is so stand out-ish; I think anyone can understand the dynamics of his character after the first sentence he says.
I also believe that you will have the same reaction to the clip even if you watched it on the TV or on the LCD. There is no reason for the experience to be different. The television has shows that are for entertainment, and the computer can also be a source of entertainment. If you are looking for entertainment, there should be no qualms where you are. If this clip was a source of information, I also believe that the medium isn’t too important. I think the only important difference between watching it on the internet and the T.V. is that the internet can have a community buildup around anything on the internet, whereas TV it is much harder.
For example, on this clip, you can see the comments below the clip. If you were searching for clips of the office, you would probably have known about it, and not clicked randomly and got to The Office. All these people searched for the office, and all experience the clip. Now they can talk about the funny, the characters, and the drama. There is an active discussion going on at any time basically. This is not something the TV can do. They can also link to more clips, and network The Office even more. However, if a visitor, such as my self, just wanted to find a clip and watch it, the interaction stops there. I was just fortunate enough to have a medium provide it for me.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Post 3
Sometimes I can't bare to watch Micheal Scott (played by Steve Carell) in the show "The Office" say some of the things he says. I have to walk away and come back in a second because I'm way too embarassed for him, even though he seems oblivious in the show. In my opinion he is the focal point of the show. His personality is comedic in itself, but also allows the other characters in the show to play off him for more humor.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Post 2
Who, what, when, where, and why? And who? Are the questions I’m going to be asking and answering for you in this five-hundred word post.
First is who are we going to evaluate. http://www.luelinks.net/ is what I eluded to in the previous post. The story begins in a community on the website where my cute little asian self who liked videogames of the age of 10 and 11 went to get cheats. I stumbled upon a “social” board, which differentiates from the video-game discussions by having more general kinds of topics. (I don’t even remember how I got to lue, (which stands for Life, the Universe, and Everything) For the first time in my life I saw a large community of most likely introverted people posted on a message board and had fun (in my puppy-dogged eyes). I immediately started sulking, not posting but reading the hundreds of posts posted every minute. Never for a second was I not amused by reading the forums. This lue was a personality to me, an organism that was made a collected number of social inept people with a great chance of having their gene's quest for eternal life through reproduction totally eradicated.
In regards to the second question in the first sentence, lue is a community board that uses a medium of message boards that allows many to communicate on www.gamefaqs.com. Note gamefaqs lue and luelinks are not alike! But they are kin.
When? When I was 10 or 11 to get cheats for my video games.
Where? Gamefaqs.com then luelinks.net
Why? Here we go… Why is there a luelinks with a message board and a gamefaqs message board that is called lue? Well, I loved to lurk to lue’s mumblings on gamefaqs because it was comedic to me. They had a charm, strange mix of elitism and wit in every single post. Stuff you wouldn’t say to your best friend you would openely say here to the collective conscious of lue. For a twelve year old I was grossly entertained yet horrified by pictures of things like tubse, goatgirl, and pains. I encrypted that message!, don’t bother looking for them (even though they are very old and very well known by now)
They performed group things like raid a girl in heaven’s blogspot. (Terrible, terrible, and terrible I know, but in my opinion it was funny) Bolder and more courageous lue grew, but eventually the father of the site cut them down. He didn’t allow anymore people to get on to lue except the people who registered. In reality it made them feel more bonded and more as an organism. During that time a Llama made a site called luelinks for the luesers. It was used as a code, since you couldn’t link to offensive combat, you would post a luelink code, and then go to luelinks from the gamefaqs site and put in code and get linked. Nifty. Eventually luelinks got it’s own message board, and then the split happened. More people liked luelinks because it didn’t have the nazirules of gamefaqs that resulted from a merger with cnet. (????) People started getting banned from the lue on gamefaqs, and since they couldn’t get back to lue because the man didn’t’ allow anyone to register for gamefaqs lue they went to luelinks. I got banned, I said I was twelve when I was seventeen (I KNOW ITS SAD), and you can’t be under 13. So I went to luelinks and now I’m sticking with it.
It’s sad to say but I grew up with it. I never had much of a life compared to the “ghost life” (I say ghost because I hardly even communicated, just read everyone elses) of lue. I learned all the lingo, I recognized the famous luesers (hard to explain, and kind of makes me feel a little low explaining that), and went through all the transformation.
You can pay to get in to luelinks kind of, if you know someone in there and pay them $20 dollars to them. (This kind of made me feel like luelinks is exclusive)
Who is luelinks? It’s a friend who I like to listen to talk and likes the information he gives me.
First is who are we going to evaluate. http://www.luelinks.net/ is what I eluded to in the previous post. The story begins in a community on the website where my cute little asian self who liked videogames of the age of 10 and 11 went to get cheats. I stumbled upon a “social” board, which differentiates from the video-game discussions by having more general kinds of topics. (I don’t even remember how I got to lue, (which stands for Life, the Universe, and Everything) For the first time in my life I saw a large community of most likely introverted people posted on a message board and had fun (in my puppy-dogged eyes). I immediately started sulking, not posting but reading the hundreds of posts posted every minute. Never for a second was I not amused by reading the forums. This lue was a personality to me, an organism that was made a collected number of social inept people with a great chance of having their gene's quest for eternal life through reproduction totally eradicated.
In regards to the second question in the first sentence, lue is a community board that uses a medium of message boards that allows many to communicate on www.gamefaqs.com. Note gamefaqs lue and luelinks are not alike! But they are kin.
When? When I was 10 or 11 to get cheats for my video games.
Where? Gamefaqs.com then luelinks.net
Why? Here we go… Why is there a luelinks with a message board and a gamefaqs message board that is called lue? Well, I loved to lurk to lue’s mumblings on gamefaqs because it was comedic to me. They had a charm, strange mix of elitism and wit in every single post. Stuff you wouldn’t say to your best friend you would openely say here to the collective conscious of lue. For a twelve year old I was grossly entertained yet horrified by pictures of things like tubse, goatgirl, and pains. I encrypted that message!, don’t bother looking for them (even though they are very old and very well known by now)
They performed group things like raid a girl in heaven’s blogspot. (Terrible, terrible, and terrible I know, but in my opinion it was funny) Bolder and more courageous lue grew, but eventually the father of the site cut them down. He didn’t allow anymore people to get on to lue except the people who registered. In reality it made them feel more bonded and more as an organism. During that time a Llama made a site called luelinks for the luesers. It was used as a code, since you couldn’t link to offensive combat, you would post a luelink code, and then go to luelinks from the gamefaqs site and put in code and get linked. Nifty. Eventually luelinks got it’s own message board, and then the split happened. More people liked luelinks because it didn’t have the nazirules of gamefaqs that resulted from a merger with cnet. (????) People started getting banned from the lue on gamefaqs, and since they couldn’t get back to lue because the man didn’t’ allow anyone to register for gamefaqs lue they went to luelinks. I got banned, I said I was twelve when I was seventeen (I KNOW ITS SAD), and you can’t be under 13. So I went to luelinks and now I’m sticking with it.
It’s sad to say but I grew up with it. I never had much of a life compared to the “ghost life” (I say ghost because I hardly even communicated, just read everyone elses) of lue. I learned all the lingo, I recognized the famous luesers (hard to explain, and kind of makes me feel a little low explaining that), and went through all the transformation.
You can pay to get in to luelinks kind of, if you know someone in there and pay them $20 dollars to them. (This kind of made me feel like luelinks is exclusive)
Who is luelinks? It’s a friend who I like to listen to talk and likes the information he gives me.
Post 1
Okay, so you’ve just finished typing www.luelinks.net in to your web browser and take a sip of your monster energy drink. The first thing that you cannot escape from is noticing the red tinted background at a subconscious level and a conscious level in those first bars at the bottom right corner. (Which indicates how complete the page is, so you probably have only ¼ of the page done, but you can see the colors. Personally, the color came off to me as an average bold scheme. ) The hyperlinks on the page are just the titles of some internet news article that are “a little fresh” as I would say. Maybe they are scientific breakthroughs, pop psychology, or just text like Biggest Russian Spammer Got Killed, which is enough of a justification to put those pesky ads on the right hand so the owner can make a little extra cash to fund the bandwidth hog behind the log in screen.
Of course you can see the medium is a website with interesting stuff with an average bold color scheme. BUT, with a log-in screen…..
“How are we going to get in?” is what you could be thinking. I’m a member, duh! Ok, typing in password…. And now for the log-in. Hmm I did it reverse. Voila! I’m in and I’m taken to a light blue sky vanilla color scheme, (which is the default, you can change it to whatever color you want using the codes like #FFFFFF(white) and #99CC00(color of leaves in spring)). Ah so as a member I take a look at the poll to the right, usually posted six months earlier.
I’m going to get to the jest of the game I’m playing between me and the word count. This site is a sub genre of the information sites with the regards is that it is a cumulative link site, and by links I mean links to anything regarded to anything that is on the net. Is it an ambiguous claim? Yes. Also I think it’s kind of biased because I use this site.
Luelinks is basically a site where a very private place of about 10000 members (More explanation in Post 2), has accumulated about half a 139000 links. Some examples of links in my favorites is Legend of Hidden Temple Episodes, Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory, and Sign up for a Tree!
The interface is composed of simplicity. At the top of the screen in luelinks you have a simple toolbar that directs you to over 10 areas of the site that only takes up 1/30th of the screen. Then the stuff is in the rest of that fraction to equal one.
This site is a comrade that has been around since I was a child. Looking back on this post, if I was to take the username and password in my saved password internet thingy and delete it, it would be beneficial to my life. But right now it is the only medium in which I can experience social interactions in my life!
Of course you can see the medium is a website with interesting stuff with an average bold color scheme. BUT, with a log-in screen…..
“How are we going to get in?” is what you could be thinking. I’m a member, duh! Ok, typing in password…. And now for the log-in. Hmm I did it reverse. Voila! I’m in and I’m taken to a light blue sky vanilla color scheme, (which is the default, you can change it to whatever color you want using the codes like #FFFFFF(white) and #99CC00(color of leaves in spring)). Ah so as a member I take a look at the poll to the right, usually posted six months earlier.
I’m going to get to the jest of the game I’m playing between me and the word count. This site is a sub genre of the information sites with the regards is that it is a cumulative link site, and by links I mean links to anything regarded to anything that is on the net. Is it an ambiguous claim? Yes. Also I think it’s kind of biased because I use this site.
Luelinks is basically a site where a very private place of about 10000 members (More explanation in Post 2), has accumulated about half a 139000 links. Some examples of links in my favorites is Legend of Hidden Temple Episodes, Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory, and Sign up for a Tree!
The interface is composed of simplicity. At the top of the screen in luelinks you have a simple toolbar that directs you to over 10 areas of the site that only takes up 1/30th of the screen. Then the stuff is in the rest of that fraction to equal one.
This site is a comrade that has been around since I was a child. Looking back on this post, if I was to take the username and password in my saved password internet thingy and delete it, it would be beneficial to my life. But right now it is the only medium in which I can experience social interactions in my life!
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