Office Space Movie Reaction!! | First Time Watching

My first time watching Office Space (1999)
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This was a brilliantly paced movie with such a satisfying ending! I hope you enjoyed my Office Space movie reaction & commentary
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Original Movie: Office Space (1999)

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[@Cifer77]

Fun Fact: The studio wanted to remove the Gangster Rap, but Mike Judge had to fight for it, because he thought it was integral to these characters.

[@0okamino]

Why? Because, damn, it feels good.

[@docsavage8640]

Wouldn't have changed anything

[@Jiff321]

@@docsavage8640it’s pretty important to Michaels character but also has a ton of cursing so it probably pushed it to R rating lol

[@mohammedashian8094]

@@0okaminoto be a gangster 😎

[@BigGator5]

"Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you: Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?" "No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man." Fun Fact: In real life, TGI Fridays stopped requiring its waitstaff to wear "flair" because of this movie. What Script Fact: The "P.C. Load Letter" scene was not scripted. David Herman had more lines to say to Ron Livingston, but he was interrupted by the printer jamming and didn't understand what the error message meant. Legal Eagle Fact: The plot of stealing money from their company by collecting fractions of a cent from other accounts and depositing them in a personal account, is called the "salami technique" in computer crime terminology. Superman III (1983) had a similar subplot. I Believe You Have My Stapler Fact: The iconic red stapler coveted by Milton (Stephen Root) was created for the film by the prop department. They needed a bright enough color to be seen on film and chose red. After the film was released, Swingline began to receive requests from customers for red staplers. Having stopped offering red several years before, they made the decision to start offering the color once more. Art Imitates Life Fact: Milton (Stephen Root) was actually based on a former co-worker that Mike Judge had worked with during his days as an engineer. One day, Judge went to the co-worker and asked him how he was doing. The co-worker began talking about how he was going to quit his job because he had been forced to move his desk around too many times. Orlando Jones based his character on his niece. According to Jones, his little niece would sell Girl Scouts cookies door-to-door with a poor attitude.

[@t0dd000]

I have one of those staplers.

[@Fluer-de-Lis]

I love Orlando Jones story.

[@BigGator5]

vickivale83 ...Orlando Jones is an underrated actor. His turn in the Time Machine (2002) specifically is seriously underappreciated. In a fair and just universe, he would be a super star. Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍

[@stefanconradsson]

The most important thing is that printers are evil. Everyone must know that. Cheers 🍺

[@ianp1986]

I love this film. Lawrence is amazing. His deadpan “2 chicks at the same time” gets me every time

[@jeffl9167]

I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I love your attitude and therefore love watching movies with you. Thank you for making these and please continue to do so.

[@LA_HA]

jeffl: I just found out about this channel after seeing he reacted to Amalie and after scrolling through part of his viewing list, I'll definitely watch more of his stuff. He watches things I want more people to react to, including older movies. And he's great personality wise so far, as well

[@LordVolkov]

I love the small characters of Office Space. The Bobs, Lundberg (Gary Cole's deadpan kills me), Lawrence (Dietrich Bader is always hilarious), the Schlotsky's manager (played by director Mike Judge), and of course Milton. "I'll burn this place to the ground..." Stephen Root is a chameleon and is so funny as Milton, just mumbling his way through life.

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

It is actually Bill Lumbergh, which is a derivative of limberger cheese. lol

[@laurenherda2415]

Mike Judge is ao underrated, he created Beavis and Butthead and it still makes me laugh at 41 yrs old 😂 I never worked at an office but everyone I know who has says how accurate this is haha

[@JRSiebz]

Idiocracy

[@wackyvorlon]

I believe you have my stapler.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

I don’t even need a stapler, but I wanna buy that one all the same 😅

[@RichardJohnson-GW]

This is such a classic movie. Anyone who has worked...well, anywhere...can find something to relate to in this. Milton was played by Stephen Root. Root is a great actor - lots of good roles for him over the years. He's frequently a quirky character (News Radio, Justified, etc.) I know you've got a lot of requests and are hip deep in other series, but one to put in the back of your mind if you have future bandwidth is The Man in the High Castle. It's an "alternate history" series with some sci-fi aspects...and, Stephen Root is in it. :)

[@CasualNerdReactions]

So true! There’s so many classic moments in this movie! Thanks for the suggestion.

[@StarkRG]

Jimmy James! The man so nice, they named him twice.

[@zammmerjammer]

Can I recommend "Clock Watchers"? It's like the female version of Office Space... except it came out first and I'm a little annoyed that it seems like everyone has forgotten about it. 😢 Great cast -- Toni Colette, Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, and Alanna Ubach.😊

[@the-NightStar]

Actually the money Milton got for the resort at the end was Peter's "apology money" that he slipped under the door of the same office Milton walked into, right before he burned the building. It's implied he saw those, realized he was rich, took them, then burned the place.

[@Groose1972]

It is more than implied, if you listen to Milton's mumblings at the end he says,"I can take my traveler's checks to a competing resort"

[@Dej24601]

Agreed!

[@jeffl9167]

You have absolutely no proof that Milton stole one red cent from that place and I for one will not stand by and let you besmirch his good name by implying he's a thief. I say good day to you, sir.

[@lordwalker71]

The company that made the red stapler actually didn’t make one before the movie came out but there was a huge demand for a red one after this movie came out so they made one. Jennifer’s boss is played by the director Mike judge.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

This movie is so embedded in tech culture now you can’t find a company without a real TPS report somewhere. We had a really horrid system that we recently retired, everyone hated it. For the retirement party I took an old HP Laser printer and we staged “Ain’t it good to be a gangster” event at one of the team parties. I have a red Swingline stapler, autographed by Stephen Root too. :-)

[@jimhsfbay]

The ‘Jump to Conclusions’ mat did indeed get made! We bought one for our start up office…had the works…the mat, tps cover sheets, red swingline stapler…don’t remember what else was in it.

[@poolhall9632]

For those of us that entered the corporate workforce in the late 90s and early 2000s, this movie is a cautionary tale😅 *fuck'n eh*

[@jasonm8017]

I’m not entirely sure this movie didn’t have a major impact on my professional career. No regrets

[@nickcangemi]

You’re right that it used to be on tv all the time back in the day, but it was Comedy Central, not TBS/TNT.

[@Marant2327]

I love this movie and love spotting my apartment when they're fighting in the car. 😁

[@Cifer77]

We should all strive to be like Peter post hypnotism

[@CasualNerdReactions]

It would be an interesting world, and I wouldn't be mad about it ☺️👏

[@Notsosweetstevia]

Milton only actually never received ONE paycheck. Like the Bobs said, he had been getting paid by a glitch. So the corrected the glitch. But he had been getting paid the whole time.

[@WolfHreda]

Lawrence is a real one.

[@LordVolkov]

F-in A man.

[@barowt]

A ringtone of her repeating Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking.. Would be wicked.

[@poolhall9632]

Morning alarm 😅

[@kevinaweber6517]

Cant believe the printer scene is not here

[@TheGreenGrower618]

I've been completely burnt out at my job before except I went the alcohol route instead of the embezzlement one. The latter probably would have done me less harm than the 5 year bender I went on.

[@m.hreels9822]

This is a great movie Milton is my favorite character of all time

[@GirlWithAnOpinion]

I worked at T.G.I.Friday's and HATED "Flair".

[@0okamino]

It always seems to be that sort of thing that someone once did of their own volition. Wearing the buttons was their own thing, and people thought it was cute and charming. Then corporate has to get ahold of it, and turn it into some soulless policy for some company koolaid saturated managers to push on everyone, ending up stripping away the special meaning it had to begin with.

[@t0dd000]

Yes! This! Next on the list of comedies that few reactors react to: Best In Show.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

I actually have a best in show (full movie) reaction on Patreon as an exclusive. It might make it to KZbin one day, it was truly hilarious!

[@t0dd000]

​​@@CasualNerdReactionsWould love to see it come here. Here's an additional suggestion: Gary Cole, who played Lumberg in this film, played a perfect Mr. Brady in the Brady Bunch film, which is also an unexpectedly brilliant comedy. :)

[@cardboardbelt]

If you liked this, give The Apartment (1960) a look. It has a lot in common with Office Space, but I'd say it's even better, winning Best Picture at the Oscars that year and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

[@TheNativeEngine]

That's the only romance movie Iike. They're so charming.

[@lynnie6633]

The annoying boss (Lumbergh) is played by Gary Cole. He has been in many, many TV shows, and also true crime movies where he plays serial killers. He's fantastic!

[@TheNativeEngine]

How many serial killers has he played?

[@lynnie6633]

He has played Dr Jeffrey MacDonald, Colonel Russell Williams, and one more that I simply cannot remember. He is a prolific actor, for sure.@@TheNativeEngine

[@kosh6612]

Love this movie. Quite frankly I think it played a HUGE role in the changing of workplaces. When it came out, it just resonated and I don't think any company wanted to be seen in a similar light. It's freaky how much of this I could relate to, all the way down to arguments over a radio that someone got permission to have because someone else did... sigh. I have a file for the TPS cover sheet already on a USB.. next time I'm at Officeworks (like Staples), I fully intend to leave a stack printed on the printer for someone to find and have a chuckle (hopefully)

[@d4mdcykey]

Easily one of the most relatable films to us common-folk that has ever been made; even if you've never worked in an office of cubicles most of us have worked somewhere that has all these same...annoyances. Mike Judge generally flies under the radar but that dude has made some extremely funny and relevant entertainment for many many years.

[@stevensauer8539]

I was in a cubicle for a couple of decades, and I had a red Swingline stapler at my desk. If anyone had taken my stapler, I don't know what I would have done....

[@greenpeasuit]

The character of Milton first appeared as a number of animated shorts on the Mtv series Liquid Television. Although Steven Root looked nothing like the cartoon character, he nailed the impersonation. Such a fiverse and talented actor. RIP

[@jeffl9167]

Why "RIP"? Stephen is very much alive and well.

[@tempsitch5632]

@@jeffl9167He’s great in Barry and as one of the perfect cast members of the best sitcom ever, NewsRadio.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

8:30 Tom's problem is that he's doing a lousy job of explaining... his job to the Bobs. When a customer approaches Initech with "I want software to [insert business stuff here]", and Tom's job is to translate that into the spec that programmers work from. Kind of like how you'd get an architect to draw up plans for a new house, rather than going straight to contractors and just "yeah, like, 4 bedrooms, a garage, you know, big house."

[@danrudnick5252]

Every 8th grader should have to watch Office Space and Waiting for accurate depictions of the work force.

[@mchllwoods]

You do know the guy who played Milton and Lumberg were in Dodgeball: An Underdog Story?

[@Tr0nzoid]

What is funny about this movie is how getting a manual labor job is seen as a relief. It might be for a couple of weeks. They can be just as full of counterproductive mismanagement, aggravations with incompetent co-workers, along with the likelihood of no climate control.

[@unusual686]

Always be sure to place cover sheets on your TPS reports.

[@eshuorishas9987]

FYI, I had the jump to conclusions mat. You could buy an office space kit back then and get a red stapler (swingline didn’t make one then) an innatech cup and the mat.

[@bethscott4330]

Mike Judge plays Jennifer Aniston’s boss.

[@3DJapan]

This actually started as a short animation about Milton.

[@tempsitch5632]

Other way around.

[@msmrsro]

The restaurant Manager giving Jen a hard time about her flair is played by Mike Judge, the writer.

[@ethanholgate2512]

My dad has worked in an office his whole life and says this movie is extremely accurate 😂

[@gregorygant4242]

Very funny movie . I can totally relate I worked in an office cubicle for like 3 years, hated every minute of it !

[@CharlesVanNoland]

"If they take my stapler, then I'll, I'll, I'm going to set the building on fire." - Stephen Root killed the role of Milton. I've never met anyone named Milton, except maybe a dog. My middle name is Milton, technically. It was my first name on my birth certificate. I hope I don't set any buildings on fire or it will just be super depressing.

[@zaneba7056]

I see, you have success don't let it cost you the good old casual nerd reactions be genuine man. I love this movie so much just be yourself with a nicer studio.

[@TheNativeEngine]

8:27 I think it's been shone that customer service is important, the only problem is there wasn't integration between the departments. If a customer rep knows the general info they can better report to the other departments.

[@MetastaticMaladies]

Such an all time classic film, captures the soul crushing world of office work or well, working in general. Love it

[@0okamino]

Yeah, hi. I see you _did_ get that memo. Great reaction for the weekend, thaaaanks. 😄

[@claymccoy]

One of the jobs I used to work, I had to move to at least three different cubicles in one year.

[@lachielvaher9168]

You should do the David Duchovny Movie, Evolution.. if you think this movie is funny, that one may kill you :D

[@MrGpschmidt]

Sadly and painfully fucking accurate depiction of corporate life - and hysterically funny. Mike Judge plays Aniston's a-hole boss too.

[@robwalsh9843]

Everyone in this movie nails their performance.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

One of the funniest films ever!! When it became available on TV my kids and I watched it over and over and over. Soooo funny. Plus the filming locations except the beach shots were shot in Dallas and Austin. The opening scenes are in Dallas and I've driven on that road and seen all those buildings. It was hilarious to see the traffic. Yeah, it could be that bad sometimes. Oh, and I've been in IT since the early 80's so yeah more meaning to the film. ROTFLMAO Glad to see you react to it and enjoy it so much. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe. Have a wonderful Christmas, or any other way you celebrate!!

[@jilmarychastainclowers6712]

Trivia: Swingline was no longer making a red stapler so the movie people got a black one and painted it red. Then after the movie, EVERYBODY wanted a Red Swingline stapler so Swinglinne began making them agian. Of so I heard.

[@robertbunting3117]

top ten most favorite comedy. it's actually based off a couple cartoon shorts called 'Milton' mike judge did for snl a few years previous

[@aaronwolf3587]

For this time period it’s this movie and The Big Lebowski that really set the bar for the kind of humor that really resonates with me. Love these characters ✌️

[@jennifermorris6848]

I have bosses who actually speak with that cadence - Yeah, I’m gonna need . . .

[@mikemath9508]

i do 4 flairs. two are normal, two are pain in the ass.

[@freddymo3339]

"Watch out for your corn-hole, Bud."

[@DrFeelgood1127]

The money Milton got at the end was the money peter stole and put in an envelope with his confession under the boss's door.

[@jennifergrove2368]

Unrelated: Are you going to do the "Barbie" movie? :) And "Oppenheimer"?

[@CasualNerdReactions]

No, I failed to resist watching them in the theater 😅

[@wendydarling5790]

"I know this is crime, but I feel inspired." 🤣

[@Rebel8MAC]

Such a classic. So enjoyable and relatable. 👌🏻 love it

[@sallyatticum]

Life in 1990s Austin....

[@highstimulation2497]

did you seriously not show the printer scene???????????

[@TheNativeEngine]

Nice outro music.

[@yodieyuh]

Good ups.

[@CathleenMJennings80]

I saw an opening credit last night where the Production Designer named Michael Bolton LITERALLY last night and thought of this movie! coincidence!

[@Dej24601]

When Milton walks in Lumberg’s office, he steps on the envelope that Peter slid under the door. Since it was filled with Traveler’s Checks, it was like an envelope filled with cash, so I assume he took that $300 K + and went on vacation with it.

[@mledda621]

I love this movie! So funny😂

[@menolikey_]

Oh snap. Here we go fam

[@CasualNerdReactions]

unrelated, but I just actually read your username and 10/10 🙌

[@ghostsurfer23]

I'm 30 years old, and I only saw this movie a few years ago. I was surprised by how much it spoke to me. Ever since my early 20s I've been disillusioned by the idea of "work", that because I didn't choose the perfect path in university and get lucky with opportunities, I'm just going to have to keep doing an awful job for the rest of my life in order to be able to live and afford the occasional nice thing for myself. I still feel gross about it. This movie, though, gave me hope that there is a way to find that balance, even if it's difficult. I've been working in an Escape Room for the past two years. The pay isn't great, but I generally enjoy the work and it's kept me sane. I can't stay there forever, but I'm grateful that it's given me that peace of mind for so long.

[@t0dd000]

Every time I hear Trump say, "the banks love me! No one got hurt!" I hear Aniston's voice saying "How is that not stealing?" Heh.

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

The banks approved the loans. derp

[@t0dd000]

@@libertyresearch-iu4fy Keep googling.

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

Bonus points for you knowing Johnny C from Scrubs!